The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great W...
Eugene RoganIn The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict...
Hellcats: The Epic Story of World War...
Peter SasgenThe incredible true story of nine Hellcat submarines assigned to penetrate the dense minefields protecting the sea of Japan. In 1945-with no knowledge of the development of the atomic bomb- American submarine commanders, desperate to ...
Ministers at War: Winston Churchill a...
Jonathan Schneer[Read by Matthew Brenher]In May 1940, with France on the verge of defeat, Britain alone stood in the path of the Nazi military juggernaut. Survival seemed to hinge on the leadership of Winston Churchill, whom the king reluctantly appo...
There are few moments in military history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted ...
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events leading up to World War I in a narrative the Chicago Tribune praised as "more dramatic than fiction."
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events leading up to World War I in a narrative the Chicago Tribune praised as "more dramatic than fiction."
Iwo Jima: World War II Veterans Remem...
Larry SmithThe men who fought and survived the deadliest battle of the Pacific come to life in this powerful oral history.
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 ...
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
Max HastingsFrom one of our finest military historians comes a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty...
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...
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pa...
William Raymond ManchesterThe book in which one of the most celebrated biographer/historians of our time looks back at his own early life and gives us a remarkable account of World War II in the Pacific, of what it looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and,...
To Kingdom Come: An Epic Saga of Surv...
Robert J. MrazekThe breathtaking, never-before-told, true story of a historic air force bombing mission in 1943 Germany.