Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of W...
Hampton SidesOn January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous...
The Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocra...
Marc WortmanIn this fascinating yet little-known chapter of World War I history, journalist Marc Wortman provides a group portrait of young men of privilege--with names like Rockefeller and Morgan--who served in the U.S. Navy Air Reserve, flying ...
Operatives, Spies, And Saboteurs: The...
Patrick K. O'DonnellThe battles of World War II were won not only by the soldiers on the front lines, and not only by the generals and admirals, but also by the shadow warriors whose work is captured for the first time in Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs...
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Ok...
Eugene SledgeIn his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed 'one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war.' John Keegan referred to it in The Second World War as 'one of the most arresting documents in war literature.' And...
Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the...
John KeeganA study on the influence of intelligence on war operations examines a series of historical wartime events to delineate the strategies and outcomes of each while linking the function of their intelligence operations, refuting perceptio...
The Freedom Line: The Brave Men and W...
Peter EisnerThe Freedom Line unfolds a surprising history of World War II, telling the gripping story of the men and women who risked their lives to save Allied airmen trapped behind enemy lines.When twenty-year-old American pilot Robert Grimes w...
The Face of Battle: A Study of Aginco...
John KeeganWhat is it like to be in battle? John Keegan, a senior instructor at Sandhurst, the British Military Academy, speaks for soldiers who were present in the fray. For examples, Keegan selects Agincourt in 1415, Waterloo in 1815, and th...
On the eve of World War II, the Squalus, America's newest submarine, plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Miraculously, thirty-three crew members still survived. While their loved ones waited in unbearable tension on shore, ...
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memo...
Dick WintersIn war, great commanders lead soldiers into hell to do the impossible. They were called the Easy Company-but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of Brothers, they suffered huge casualties while liberating Eu...
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and...
Michael R. BeschlossA New York Times bestseller, The Conquerors reveals how Franklin Roosevelt's and Harry Truman's private struggles with their aides and Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin affected the unfolding of the Holocaust and the fate of vanquis...
No Room for Error: The Covert Operati...
John T. CarneyWhen the U.S. Air Force decided to create an elite "special Tactics" team in the late 1970s to work with special-operations forces, John T. Carney was the man they turned to. Since then Carney and the U.S. Air Force Special...
One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle f...
John WukovitsIn November 1943, the men of the 2nd Marine Division watched as bombardments destroyed the Japanese defenses on an islet in the Tarawa atoll. But when the Marines landed, the Japanese poured out of their protective bunkers and began o...
Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Deci...
Stephen E. AmbroseIn a narrative of steady fascination, Ambrose describes the political and military consequences behind General Dwight Eisenhower's decision to halt at the Elbe River and leave Berlin to the Red Army in the final months of World War II...
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily ...
Rick Atkinson"A triumph of narrative history, elegantly written, thick with unforgettable description and rooted in the sight and sounds of battle."—The New York TimesIn An Army at Dawn—winner of the Pulitzer Prize—Rick Atkinson pr...
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Sto...
Adam MakosFour days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a 21-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly, a sleek, dark sh...
Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and ...
Michael SallahAt the outset of the Vietnam War, the Army created an experimental fighting unit that became known as 'Tiger Force.' The Tigers were to be made up of the cream of the crop-the very best and bravest soldiers the American military could...
An Album of Memories: Personal Histor...
Tom Brokaw"I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences....The stories and the lessons have emerged from long-forgotten letters home, from reunions of old buddies and outfits, from unpublished d...
The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic M...
James CampbellA harrowing portrait of a largely forgotten campaign that pushed one battalion to the limits of human suffering.Despite their lack of jungle training, the 32nd Division's "Ghost Mountain Boys" were assigned the most grueling...
Raid on the Sun: Inside Israel's secr...
Rodger W. ClaireDiscusses Iraq's initial steps toward creating an atomic bomb and the secret plan by Israeli air force commander David Ivry to launch an air strike on Iraq's reactor in defiance of its U.S. and European allies, recounting the dramatic...
Death Traps: The Survival of an Ameri...
Belton Y. Cooper“Cooper saw more of the war than most junior officers, and he writes about it better than almost anyone. . . . His stories are vivid, enlightening, full of life—and of pain, sorrow, horror, and triumph.”—STEPHE...
IIt's America's boot camp, 88 days of drills, inspections, rifle practices, war games, grueling physical exercise and a regimen that separates the men from the boys...Boot is an insider's account, told by a former Marine and veteran j...
No Simple Victory: World War II in Eu...
Norman DaviesIn this groundbreaking work, Davies offers a clear-eyed reappraisal of World War II, untangling and setting right the disparate claims made by America, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union in order to get at the startling truth...
How to Lose a War: More Foolish Plans...
Bill FawcettThis is a followup to 'How to Lose a Battle', more military blunder miscellany, from Ancient Greece to modern-day, including such ill-fated plans as; Xerxes' defeat in Greece at Marathon; Alexander's invasion of India; Napoloeon's occ...
Medic!: How I Fought World War II wit...
Robert "Doc Joe" FranklinLt. Gen. George S. Patton remarked that the "45th Infantry Division is one of the best, if not the best division that the American army has ever produced." Such praise, however, came at a steep price, for the 45th saw some o...
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty a...
Adam Hochschild"This is the kind of investigatory history Hochschild pulls off like no one else . . . Hochschild is a master at chronicling how prevailing cultural opinion is formed and, less frequently, how it's challenged." — Maureen Corrigan, N...
The acclaimed author of The Face of Battle examines centures of conflict in a variety of diverse societies and cultures. 'Keegan is at once the most readable and the most original of living military historians . . . A History of Warfa...
The Bedford Boys: One American Town's...
Alex KershawJune 6, 1944: Nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia--population just 3,000 in 1944--died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day. They were part of Company A of the 116th Regiment of the 29th Division, and the first wave of American soldi...
The Longest Winter: The Battle of the...
Alex KershawOn the morning of December 16, 1944, eighteen men of the Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon attached to the 99th Infantry Division found themselves directly in the path of the main thrust of Hitler's massive Ardennes offensive. D...
The Duel: The Eighty-Day Struggle
John LukacsThis is a day-by-day account of the eighty-day struggle in 1940 between Hitler—poised on the edge of absolute victory—and Churchill—threatened by imminent invasion and defeat.
Double Cross: The True Story of the D...
Ben MacintyreOn June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. A stunning military accomplishment, it was also a masterpiece of trickery. Operation Fortitude, which...