Military / War
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Old Cane Springs
$29.95 Add to cartJohn Cabell Chenault lived with his family in Madison County, Kentucky, during the Civil War. Later in his life he recounted his experiences in a manuscript, forming the basis of this book, which was,
- Author: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 07 2023
- ISBN10: 194898654X
- Language: English
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Luck or Miracle: A World War II POW’s Survival Story
$34.95 Add to cart“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” – Nelson Mandela
Jim Bollich, a 102-year-old World War II soldier, offers a first-person account of courage, fortitude and the will to su
- Author: Bollich, Reginald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: October 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1615997784
- Language: English
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Raising the Fleet
$28.00 Read moreOne of the greatest maritime salvage operations in US history took place for three years after the devastating attack by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Raising the Fleet follows the… [more below]
- Author: Arroyo, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0878426841
- Language: English
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The Bomb
$13.95 Add to cartHoward Zinn’s personal, historical, and political views on the significance of the US bombings of Royan and Hiroshima.
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0872865096
- Language: English
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Voices of the Buffalo Soldier: Records, Reports, and Recollections of Military Life and Service in the West
$24.95 Add to cartThe Buffalo Soldiers were African Americans who served in the Regular Army between the Civil War and World War I and fought in some of the most difficult wars against western Indians. Examining their
- Author: Schubert, Frank N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 16 2009
- ISBN10: 0826323103
- Language: English
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The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China: A History
$21.99 Add to cartA concise history of an uprising that took down a three-hundred-year-old dynasty and united the great powers.
The year is 1900, and Western empires are locked in entanglements across the globe. The B- Author: Silbey, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0809030756
- Language: English
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Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher
$29.95 Add to cartP>The only comprehensive account of the Battle of Fort Fisher and the basis for the television documentary Confederate Goliath, Rod Gragg’s award-winning book chronicles in detail one of the most dram
- Author: Gragg, Rod
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 15, 2006
- ISBN10: 0807131520
- Language: English
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To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13–25, 1864
$49.95 Add to cartWith his third book, To the North Anna River, Gordon Rhea resumes his spectacular narrative of the initial campaign between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in the spring of 1864. May 13 to 25, a p
- Series: Jules and Frances Landry Award
- Author: Rhea, Gordon C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0807125350
- Language: English
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Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign, 1941-1945
$25.99 Add to cartSea of Thunder is a taut, fast-paced, suspenseful narrative of the Pacific War that culminates in the battle of Leyte Gulf, the greatest naval battle ever fought.Told from both the American and Japane
- Author: Thomas, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 0743252225
- Language: English
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Vietnam Reflection: The Untold Story of the Holley Boys
$22.95 Add to cartEight boys from the rural community of Holley, New York, died fighting in Vietnam. All went to the same high school where the average graduating class consisted of just 30 students. This is believ
- Author: Keene, Michael T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0692794379
- Language: English
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Warriors and Fools: How America’s Leaders Lost the Vietnam War and Why It Still Matters
$45.00 Add to cartWarriors and Fools is not just another book about the Vietnam War. It is different from most. Unlike some others, the author is a veteran of that conflict, and a retired military officer with nearly t
- Author: Rothmann, Harry E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: August 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0692165495
- Language: English
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Commander in Chief: Fdr’s Battle with Churchill, 1943
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Nigel Hamilton’s acclaimed World War II saga, the astonishing story of FDR’s yearlong, defining battle with Churchill in 1943, as the war raged in Africa and Italy.
1943 was the year of Allied mil… [more below]
- Series: FDR at War #2
- Author: Hamilton, Nigel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0544944461
- Language: English
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Abandoned in Hell: The Fight for Vietnam’s Firebase Kate
$18.00 Add to cartAn astonishing memoir of military courage at a remote outpost during the Vietnam War
“A riveting, dead-true account in the tradition of Black Hawk Down and We Were Soldiers Once…and Young.”–Steven- Author: Albracht, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0451468090
- Language: English
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The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
$18.95 Add to cartThe “settling” of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a histor… [more below]
- Author: Limerick, Patricia Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0393304973
- Language: English
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Stalking the Red Bear: The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine’s Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union
$24.00 Add to cartThrilling submarine espionage and an inside look at the U.S. Navy’s “silent service”
Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commandi- Author: Sasgen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0312605536
- Language: English
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The War of the Austrian Succession
$32.00 Add to cartReed S. Browning explores the often-changing war aims of the major belligerents-Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, Piedmont-Sardinia, and Spain-and links diplomatic and military events to the po… [more below]
- Author: Browning, Reed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0312125615
- Language: English
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Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge
$22.00 Add to cartThe prizewinning historian and bestselling author of D-Day, Stalingrad, and The Battle of Arnhem reconstructs the Battle of the Bulge in this riveting new account
On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched- Author: Beevor, Antony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0143109863
- Language: English
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History Lover’s Guide to Charleston
$43.99 Add to cartFounded in 1670, Charleston is among the oldest cities in the nation and site of some of the most pivotal events in American history. Explore the city and discover the Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon… [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Downey, Christopher Byrd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: May 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1540252027
- Language: English
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The Art of War
$18.00 Add to cartThe Art of War, by the Chinese general and philosopher Sun Tzu, is one of the most influential books of military strategy ever written. This hardcover edition is packaged distinctively with a beautif… [more below]
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Tzu, Sun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1435172531
- Language: English
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Northwest Epic
$29.95 Add to cartThis is a story about 1,500 miles of gravel road. Quickly built by the U.S. Army over an unmapped stretch of the Canadian Rockies in the tense aftermath of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, the Alask… [more below]
- Author: Twichell, Heath
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1684920183
- Language: English
