Military Science
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The Day the Sun Rose Twice: The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945
$21.95 Add to cartWinner of the Western History Association’s Robert G. Athearn Award for outstanding book on the twentieth-century American West
Just before dawn on July 16, 1945, the world’s first nuclear bomb was det
- Series: Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945
- Author: Szasz, Ferenc Morton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: July 05 1984
- ISBN10: 082630768X
- Language: English
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The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security
$17.95 Read moreThe ideas of US Air Force Colonel John Boyd have transformed American military policy and practice. A first-rate fighter pilot and a self-taught scholar, he wrote the first manual on jet aerial combat
- Author: Hammond, Grant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 17, 2004
- ISBN10: 158834178X
- Language: English
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Soldiers Unknown
$29.95 Read moreThe Klamath River, 1918. The native Yurok people of Northern California have been untouched by the savage world war raging in Europe–until now. Three cousins are called to serve a nation that has giv… [more below]
- Author: Lowry, Chag
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1942279280
- Language: English
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On Guerilla Warfare
$8.95 Add to cartThe first documented, systematic study of guerrilla warfare, Mao Tse-tung’s 1937 text remains the definitive guide to orchestrating revolution in developing countries. Based on Mao’s own experiences i… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science
- Author: Tse-Tung, Mao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0486443760
- Language: English
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Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
$17.99 Add to cartONE of THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS of the YEAR * A VANITY FAIR and TOWN & COUNTRY BEST BOOK of the YEAR *
New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous Am- Author: Blume, Lesley M. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1982128534
- Language: English
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The Art of War: Bilingual Chinese and English Text (the Complete Edition)
$9.95 Add to cartSun Tzu’s The Art of War is still one of the world’s most influential treatises on strategic thought. Applicable everywhere from the boardroom to the bedroom, from the playing field to the battlefield… [more below]
- Author: Tzu, Sun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0804848203
- Language: English
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Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea’s Nuclear Program
$40.00 Add to cartNorth Korea remains a puzzle to Americans. How did this country–one of the most isolated in the world and in the policy cross hairs of every U.S. administration during the past 30 years–progress fro
- Author: Hecker, Siegfried S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1503634450
- Language: English
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Spy Ships: One Hundred Years of Intelligence Collection by Ships and Submarines
$34.95 Add to cartAlmost from the first days of seafaring, men have used ships for “spying” and intelligence collection. Since early in the twentieth century, with the technological advancements of radio and radar, the… [more below]
- Author: Polmar, Norman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640124756
- Language: English
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U.S. Army Special Forces Guide to Unconventional Warfare: Devices and Techniques for Incendiaries
$12.95 Read moreThe official manual from the United States, meant for novices and experienced soldiers. Describes ways to use tannerite, aluminum powder, thermite, fuse cords, fuse igniters, and more in unconventiona… [more below]
- Author: U S Department of the Army
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1616080094
- Language: English
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U.S. Army Explosives and Demolitions Handbook
$12.95 Add to cartMilitary demolitions are the destruction by fire, water, explosive, and mechanical means of areas, structures, facilities, or materials to accomplish a military objective. The U.S. Army Explosives and… [more below]
- Series: US Army Survival
- Author: U S Department of the Army
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1616080086
- Language: English
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The Art of War
$9.95 Add to cartCompiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world today, as eagerly stud… [more below]
- Series: Shambhala Pocket Classics
- Author: Sun-Tzu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 07 1991
- ISBN10: 0877735379
- Language: English
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The Art of War: Complete Text and Commentaries
$34.95 Read moreSun Tzu’s Art of War, compiled more than two thousand years ago, is a study of the anatomy of organizations in conflict. It is perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the worl… [more below]
- Author: Cleary, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 474
- Publish Date: June 10 2003
- ISBN10: 1590300548
- Language: English
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The Face of Battle
$18.00 Add to cart
The Face of Battle is military history from
John Keegan’s groundbreaking portrayal of the common soldier in the heat of battle — a masterpiece that explores the physical and mental aspects of warfare- Author: Keegan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: January 27 1983
- ISBN10: 0140048979
- Language: English
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The New Rules of War: How America Can Win–Against Russia, China, and Other Threats
$18.99 Add to cart“Stunning. Sean McFate is a new Sun Tzu.” -Admiral James Stavridis (retired), former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO
An Economist Book of the Year 2019
Some of the principles of warfare are ancient, ot
- Author: McFate, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0062843591
- Language: English
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Assignment: Pentagon: How to Excel in a Bureaucracy
$29.95 Add to cartSelected for the 2019 Commandant’s Professional Reading List, Assignment: Pentagon takes the reader on an insider’s tour of the Pentagon, describing how the headquarters for the world’s largest multin… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Maj Gen Perry M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1640123563
- Language: English
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Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942
$22.99 Add to cart“An eye-level view of mortal danger set against a major inflection point during World War II.” — Wall Street Journal
Now in paperback, renowned historian Max Hastings recreates one of the most thrilli
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0062980149
- Language: English
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On War
$15.00 Add to cart‘War is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to our will’
Writing at the time of Napoleon’s greatest campaigns, Prussian soldier and writer Carl von Clausewitz created this landmark trea- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Clausewitz, Carl Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: November 18 1982
- ISBN10: 0140444270
- Language: English
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How to Make War: A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Warfare in the Twenty-First Century
$22.99 Add to cartAn indispensable guide to how wars are fought, James F. Dunnigan’s classic text has been enormously popular with citizens, professional soldiers, and journalists alike. Now, it’s been revised to inclu
- Author: Dunnigan, James F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 006009012X
- Language: English
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Black Cats and Dumbos: WWII’s Fighting PBYs
$18.95 Add to cartThe colorful, humorous, and sometimes miraculous story of the U.S. Navy’s ugly-duckling seaplane the Catalina Patrol Bomber, in the words of those who flew her.
- Author: Crocker, Mel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 5, 2002
- ISBN10: 0971290105
- Language: English
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Nuclear War: A Scenario
$30.00 Add to cartThe INSTANT New York Times bestseller
Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller “In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a vivid picture of what could happen if our nuclear guardians fail…Te- Author: Jacobsen, Annie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 26, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593476093
- Language: English
