Military / War
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A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962
$22.95 Read moreThe Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on F… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Horne, Alistair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 1590172183
- Language: English
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My Dearest Lilla: Letters Home from Civil War General Jacob D. Cox
$29.95 Add to cartJacob D. Cox experienced more facets of the Civil War than most officers: by land and sea, in both Western and Eastern Theaters, among the inner political circles of Ohio and Washington, DC, in territ… [more below]
- Series: Voices of the Civil War
- Author: Schmiel, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 162190797X
- Language: English
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The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913
$32.95 Read more“In this groundbreaking study, author John L. Hopkins deftly examines the reunion through the lens of the veterans within the context of society, politics, and the national mood at the time.” — Scott… [more below]
- Author: Hopkins, John L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216842
- Language: English
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The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945
$24.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of what drove the Germans to fight — and keep fighting — for a lost cause in World War II
In The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary … [more below]- Author: Stargardt, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 0465094899
- Language: English
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The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park: The Secret Intelligence Station That Helped Defeat the Nazis
$12.99 Add to cart‘Turing writes on codebreaking with understandable authority and compelling panache.‘
– Michael Smith, bestselling author of Station X.
At Bletchley Park, some of Britain’s most talented mathematician- Author: Turing, John Dermot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1838576509
- Language: English
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Dispatches: Introduction by Robert Stone
$28.00 Add to cartWritten on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977.
From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches m
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
- Author: Herr, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 17 2009
- ISBN10: 0307270807
- Language: English
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Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War
$40.99 Add to cart“The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril,” wrote Winston Churchill in his monumental history of World War Two. Churchill’s fears were well-placed-the casualty
- Author: Dimbleby, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0190495855
- Language: English
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Waterloo: June 18, 1815: The Battle for Modern Europe
$13.99 Add to cartJune 18, 1815, was one of the most momentous days in world history, marking the end of twenty-two years of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. On the bloody battlefield of Waterloo, the Emperor
- Series: Making History
- Author: Roberts, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0060762152
- Language: English
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Nez Perce Summer, 1877: The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis
$31.95 Add to cartNez Perce Summer, 1877 tells the story of a people’s epic struggle to survive spiritually, culturally, and physically in the face of unrelenting military force. Written by one of the foremost experts … [more below]
- Author: Greene, Jerome a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 578
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496232666
- Language: English
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The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer. When Abraham Lincoln assumed the presidency in 1861, the United States’ constitu- Author: Feldman, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 125085878X
- Language: English
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A History of War: From Ancient Warfare to the Global Conflicts of the 21st Century
$12.99 Read moreWritten with both authority and accessibility, A History of War provides a fascinating overview of warfare and how it has shaped our world.
From the Theban Wars of Ancient Greece to the modern wars of- Series: Sirius Military History
- Author: McNab, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1398814989
- Language: English
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First Over There
$21.99 Add to cartThe riveting true story of America’s first modern military battle, its first military victory during World War One, and its first steps onto the world stage
At first light on Tuesday, May 28th, 1918,- Author: Davenport, Matthew J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 1250843499
- Language: English
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A Shau: Crucible of the Vietnam War
$39.95 Add to cartNestled in Vietnam’s Thua Thien Province, west of the city of Hue, and bordering Laos, the narrow 40-kilometer long A Shau Valley, situated between densely forested mountain ranges, witnessed prolonge
- Author: Phillips, Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 542
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1642280445
- Language: English
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The Barrier and Javelin: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies, February to June 1942
$28.95 Add to cartThe second part of H. P. Willmott’s three-volume history of the war in the Pacific, this work tells how Japan arrived at a situation in which war with the United States was the only means of ensuring … [more below]
- Author: Willmott, H. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1591149495
- Language: English
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War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War
$18.99 Add to cartA “marvelous” (Sports Illustrated) portrait of the three men whose lives were forever changed by WWI-era Boston and the Spanish flu: baseball star Babe Ruth, symphony conductor Karl Muck, and Harvard … [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1541672682
- Language: English
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Moral Imperative: 1972, Combat Rescue, and the End of America’s War in Vietnam
$27.99 Add to cartIn 1972, America was completing its withdrawal from the long and divisive war in Vietnam. Air power covered the departure of ground forces, and search and rescue teams from all services and Air Americ… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies
- Author: Whitcomb, Darrel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0700630066
- Language: English
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We Marched Through Hell: A Rural High School’s Service in the Vietnam War and Life in its Aftermath
$29.95 Add to cartThere is so much more to the Vietnam War than just the war itself. The Vietnam War was a complicated mixture of events and characters that eventually affected our lives, our country, and our history i
- Author: Schultz, Steven D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: February 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1977221548
- Language: English
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American Military History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartSince the first English settlers landed at Jamestown with the legacy of centuries of European warfare in tow, the military has been an omnipresent part of America. In American Military History: A Very… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Glatthaar, Joseph T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 29 2020
- ISBN10: 0199859256
- Language: English
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Forgotten Battlefield of the First Texas Revolution: The First Battle of Medina August 18, 1813
$19.95 Add to cartThe biggest, bloodiest battle ever fought on Texas soil took place in a sandy valley in Atascosa County near the Medina River in 1813, twenty-three years before the battles of the Alamo, Goliad, and S… [more below]
- Author: Schwarz, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 1986
- ISBN10: 1940130999
- Language: English
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Reflections on LZ Albany: The Agony of Vietnam
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: Lawrence, James T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 29 2013
- ISBN10: 1937565866
- Language: English
