Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the...
Adam HochschildNew York Times bestseller "Excellent and involving . . . What makes [Hochschild's] book so intimate and moving is its human scale." —Dwight Garner, New York Times "Full of telling details and vignettes that capture great human dram...
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern Wa...
Mark BowdenAlready a classic of war reporting and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden’s brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3,...
Suleiman the Magnificent, the most powerful ruler in the world, was determined to conquer Europe. Only one thing stood in his way: a dot of an island in the Mediterranean called Malta, occupied by the Knights of St. John, the cream of...
The Victory with No Name: The Native ...
Colin G. CallowayIn 1791, General Arthur St. Clair led the United States army in a campaign to destroy a complex of Indian villages at the Maumee River in northwestern Ohio. Almost within reach of their objective, St. Clair's 1,400 men were attacked b...
Originally published in 1900, The Great Boer War is a nonfiction account of the Boer War fought in South Africa between the British army and Dutch settlers known as Boers. The book was published in sixteen editions during the prosecut...
Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volu...
Robert Gandt"Reads like a World War II thriller, only better because every word is true.… One of the great untold stories of history. Robert Gandt has brought it vividly, unforgettably to life." ―Steven Pressfield, best-selling auth...
Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia'...
Luke HardingIn a damning, inspiring, and breathtaking narrative of what is likely to be a turning point for Europe-and the world-Guardian correspondent and New York Times bestselling author Luke Harding reports firsthand on the Russian invasion o...
When the Irish Invaded Canada: The In...
Christopher Klein"Christopher Klein's fresh telling of this story is an important landmark in both Irish and American history." —James M. McPherson Just over a year after Robert E. Lee relinquished his sword, a band of Union and Con...
Army bands do more than just march and play. They live and they breathe and they take their music seriously. Over 54 years, the 298th Army Band and its various designations came to the fore, played the gigs, and made history. Beginnin...
Bisia & Isham: The Countess & the P.O...
Toni ReavisOn Valentine's Day 1945, two soldiers met in a small café in Lublin, Poland. She was a Polish countess, fighting for her nation's doomed freedom. He was an escaped American POW, searching for a U.S. mission. Neither spoke the oth...
War from the Ground Up: Twenty-First ...
Emile SimpsonAs a British infantry officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles Emile Simpson completed three tours of Southern Afghanistan. Drawing on that experience, and on a range of revealing case studies ranging from Nepal to Borneo, War From The Grou...
What's it like to reach out and touch history in the moment, to peel back the layers of hyperbole and political deception for yourself as a simple soldier? Try the Philippine-American War, sometimes referred to as "the first Viet...
The Civil War of 1812: American Citiz...
Alan TaylorIn this vivid narrative, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Alan Taylor tells the riveting story of a war that redefined North America. In the early nineteenth century, Britons and Americans renewed their struggle over the legacy of ...
Official army register of the volunte...
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Roster of attendants at federal milit...
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Through the Perilous Fight: From the ...
Steve VogelIn a rousing account of one of the critical turning points in American history, Through the Perilous Fight tells the gripping story of the burning of Washington and the improbable last stand at Baltimore that helped save the nation an...
Superguns 1854-1991: Extreme Artiller...
Steven J. ZalogaEver since the mid-19th Century, national militaries have sought to create monster artillery pieces, designed to shatter armies, cities, and fortresses and their morale. Starting with William Armstrong's "Monster Gun" Superg...
The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies a...
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