Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Sto...
Doug StantonThe New York Times bestselling "spellbinding true-life story" (USA TODAY) of a United States Special Forces team deployed to the war-ravaged Afghanistan mountains in the weeks immediately following 9/11, overcoming great odd...
Soldier Dogs: The Untold Story of Ame...
Maria GoodavageA leading reporter offers a tour of military working dogs' extraordinary training, heroic accomplishments, and the lasting impacts they have on those who work with them.People all over the world have been riveted by the story of Cairo...
Area 51: An Uncensored History of Ame...
Annie JacobsenArea 51It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government-but Area 51 ...
The Generals: American Military Comma...
Thomas E. RicksAn epic history of the decline of American military leadership-from the #1 bestselling author of Fiasco Thomas E. Ricks has made a close study of America's military leaders for three decades, and in TheGenerals, he chronicles the wide...
On Desperate Ground: The Epic Story o...
Hampton Sides"Superb...A masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing and arresting detail...This war story — the fight to break out of a frozen hell near the Chosin Reservoir — has been told many times before. But Sides tells it exceeding...
Places and Names: On War, Revolution,...
Elliot AckermanFrom a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. "War hath determined us..." - John Mi...
America's War for the Greater Middle ...
Andrew J. BacevichLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A searing reassessment of U.S. military policy in the Middle East over the past four decades from retired army colonel and New York Times bestselling author Andrew J. Bacevich From the end o...
The New American Militarism: How Amer...
Andrew J. BacevichIn this provocative book, Andrew Bacevich warns of a dangerous dual obsession that has taken hold of Americans, both conservatives and liberals alike. It is a marriage of militarism and utopian ideology, of unprecedented military migh...
MILSPEAK: Slang for military jargon, troop idioms, and Pentagonese. The perfect gift for anyone who is in the military, veterans, or who plans to serve.Don't be like a pig looking at a wristwatch.* With Milspeak, you'll know just what...
Wasted Valor: The Confederate Dead at...
Gregory CocoHundreds of firsthand accounts describing the gruesome appearance of the sprawling and horrific Gettysburg battlefield meticulously describe the true cost of Civil War combat. Greg Coco, the legendary expert on Gettysburg’s dead...
Shock Factor: American Snipers in the...
Jack CoughlinFrom the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Shooter, comes a riveting narrative of how snipers have changed the course of America's war on al Qaida in the Middle East and Africa.Retired Marine sniper Jack Coughlin (Shoote...
The Hidden History of America at War:...
Kenneth C. DavisMulti-million-copy bestselling historian Kenneth C. Davis sets his sights on war stories in The Hidden History of America at War. In prose that will remind you of "the best teacher you ever had" (People Magazine), Davis brin...
The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in...
Yochi DreazenThe unforgettable story of a military family that lost two sons—one to suicide and one in combat—and channeled their grief into fighting the armed forces’ suicide epidemic.Major General Mark Graham was a decorated two-star offic...
War Dogs: Tales of Canine Heroism, Hi...
Rebecca FrankelIn War Dogs, Rebecca Frankel offers a riveting mix of on-the-ground reporting her own hands-on experiences in the military working dog world, and a look at the science of dogs' special abilities―from their amazing noses and powerful...
America and Iran: A History, 1720 to ...
John GhazvinianA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A hugely ambitious, “delightfully readable, genuinely informative” portrait (The New York Times) of the two-centuries-long entwined histories of Iran and America&m...
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, an...
Amy S. GreenbergOften forgotten and overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided the nation, paved the way for the Civil War a generation later, and launched the career of Abra...
The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Mars...
Winston GroomCelebrated historian Winston Groom tells the intertwined and uniquely American tales of George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall - from the World War I battle that shaped them to their greatest victory: leading the allies...
Autumn of the Black Snake: George Was...
William HogelandThe forgotten story of how the U.S. Army was created to fight a crucial Indian warWhen the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, the newly independent United States savored its victory and hoped for a great future. And yet the republic soo...
While You Were Sleeping: Pearls of Wi...
Eric HollisterThe U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College (CGSC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas is one of the most important institutions of higher learning for Army officers, and has been for well over 100 years. Here, mid-career officers obt...
Alamo of the Revolution: Benedict Arn...
Jerald P. HurwitzBefore the British surrendered at Yorktown, Benedict Arnold led 1,800 British troops on a punitive expedition to destroy the American privateer base in New London. The result was a bloody assault by the British on Fort Griswold and th...
Phenomena: The Secret History of the ...
Annie JacobsenThe definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena, from the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain and international bestseller Area 51. This is a book about a team of...
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored H...
Annie JacobsenNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Pulitzer Prize Finalist and the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51No one has ever written the history of the Defense...
A Great Place to Have a War: America ...
Joshua KurlantzickThe untold story of how America's secret war in Laos in the 1960s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy.January, 1961: Laos, a tiny nation few Americ...
The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of...
Cate LineberryA #1 Wall Street Journal e-book bestseller! "THE SECRET RESCUE combines all of the elements that draw us to WWII stories: the daring of The Guns of Navarone, the suspense of The Great Escape, and the bravery reminiscent of Ill Me...
Indestructible: The Unforgettable Mem...
Jack H. LucasMedal of Honor recipient Jack H. Lucas's classic memoir of his heroics at the Battle of Iwo Jima--with a foreword by Bob Dole and reissued to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the battle in 2020. On February 20, 1945, the second ...
The Civil War has ended, but Ellen Slater Reed now has to confront not only the loss of her husband in battle and the challenges of aging but also vast and disturbing changes in the country: the bitter struggle over Reconstruction, in...
To Hazard All: A Guide to the Marylan...
Robert Orrison"The present seems to be the most propitious time since the commencement of the war for the Confederate Army to enter Maryland," wrote Robert E. Lee following his army's stunning success at Second Manassas.Confederate armies...
Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geog...
Trevor PaglenWelcome to a top-level clearance world that doesn't exist...Now with updated material for the paperback edition. This is the adventurous, insightful, and often chilling story of a road trip through a shadow nation of state secrets, ...
I Could Tell You But Then You Would H...
Trevor PaglenUpdated with New Information and Additional Patches They're on the shoulders of all military personnel: patches showing what a soldier's unit does. But what if that's top secret? "A glimpse of [the Pentagon's] dark world thro...
On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arli...
Robert M. PooleCreated at the end of the Civil War, Arlington National Cemetery has become a part of the landscape as fixed in the national imagination as the White House or the Capitol building. The mansion at Arlington's heart, and the rolling hil...