Military / War
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The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters
$16.98 Add to cartMore than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had “uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, a
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01, 2017
- ISBN10: 0190658533
- Language: English
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War and Technology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreThe war instinct is part of human nature, but the means to fight war depend on technology. Alex Roland traces the co-evolution of technology and warfare from the Stone Age to the age of cyberwar, desc… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Roland, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0190605383
- Language: English
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World War II at Sea: A Global History
$40.99 Add to cartAuthor of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune, (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison A… [more below]
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: May 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0190243678
- Language: English
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A Legacy in Brick and Stone: American Coast Defense Forts of the Third System, 1816-1867
$64.95 Add to cartA Legacy in Brick and Stone by John Weaver II
The definitive history of the American Third System of Fortifications that defended our coastline for more than half of century, these architectural wonder
- Author: Weaver, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: July 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1732391610
- Language: English
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Blood of Noble Men: The Alamo Siege & Battle
$24.95 Add to cartThe Alamo and its defenders, according to historian Stephen L. Hardin, “transcended mere history; both entered the realm of myth.” Indeed, the siege and battle of the Alamo serves today as a definitio
- Author: Huffines, Alan C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: August 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1681790750
- Language: English
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December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World
$22.99 Add to cartIn the days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, America was largely focused on the war in Europe, but when planes dropped out of a clear blue sky and bombed the American naval base and aerial targets i
- Author: Shirley, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 159555582X
- Language: English
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
$18.95 Add to cartTed W. Lawson’s classic Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo appears in an enhanced reprint edition on the sixtieth anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on Japan. “One of the worst feelings about that time,” Ted W.
- Series: Brassey’s Aviation Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Lawson, Ted W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1574885545
- Language: English
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Prodigal Soldiers: How the Generation of Officers Born of Vietnam Revolutionized the American Style of War
$29.95 Add to cartDocumenting the transformation of the U.S. military from Vietnam to the Gulf War, a history of a generation of officers examines changing ideas about war, ending the draft, reducing racial tensions,
- Series: How the Generation of Officers Born of Vietnam Revolutionize
- Author: Kitfield, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: June 01 1997
- ISBN10: 157488123X
- Language: English
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Cannae: Hannibal’s Greatest Victory
$18.99 Add to cartFrom an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, the definitive history of Rome’s most devastating defeat August 2, 216 BC was one of history’s bloodiest single days of fighting. On a narrow plain nea
- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1541699254
- Language: English
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The Shield and the Sword
$19.99 Add to cartAn authoritative history of the Knights of St. John, from Jerusalem to Malta, told by the bestselling author of The Great Siege.
Known by many names through their centuries-long career, The Knights H- Author: Bradford, Ernle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 19 2014
- ISBN10: 1497637961
- Language: English
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The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey
$20.99 Add to cartA fascinating and authoritative narrative history of the V-22 Osprey, revealing the inside story of the most controversial piece of military hardware ever developed for the U.S. Marine Corps.
When the- Author: Whittle, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 17 2011
- ISBN10: 1416562966
- Language: English
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Stranded in the Sky: The Untold Story of Pan Am Luxury Airliners Trapped on the Day of Infamy
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Taking Mr. Exxon and The Death of an Heir comes the untold story of four luxury airliners trapped in the Pacific Ocean on and after the Day of Infamy.
In the first week of December 1… [more below]
- Author: Jett, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1684429366
- Language: English
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Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land: How Christianity Has Advanced Freedom and Equality for All Americans
$18.00 Read moreProclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land demonstrates that Christianity is responsible for advancing liberty and equality for all Americans.
Scholars and popular authors regularly claim that Christian- Author: Hall, Mark David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1637587236
- Language: English
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Arthur and Lilly: The Girl and the Holocaust Survivor
$22.95 Read moreWhat do a 75-year-old Los Angeles based rocket engineer and an eleven-year-old schoolgirl from Austria have in common? Not much at first glance, but Arthur and Lilly influenced each other’s lives in a
- Author: Maier, Lilly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1955047308
- Language: English
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Ukraine between war and peace
$32.04 Add to cartHas the US strategy reached an impasse? What is the Russian conduct of military operations? When will the Ukrainian counter-offensive take place? Does Western weaponry really make a difference in Ukra… [more below]
- Author: Baud, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 2315010829
- Language: English
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Day of Infamy, 60th Anniversary: The Classic Account of the Bombing of Pearl Harbor
$19.99 Add to cartA special 60th anniversary edition of the bestselling re-creation of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, by the author of A Night to Remember.
Sunday, December 7, 1941, was, as President Roosevelt sa- Author: Lord, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0805068031
- Language: English
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Shiloh: Conquer or Perish
$32.99 Add to cartRichard B. Harwell Award
Tennessee History Book Award Doughlas Southall Freeman Award A critical moment in the Civil War, the Battle of Shiloh has been the subject of many books. However, none has tol- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Smith, Timothy B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 606
- Publish Date: October 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0700623477
- Language: English
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Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942
$27.99 Add to cartFor Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht replaced brilliant victories and huge territorial gains with stalemates… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Citino, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 22 2007
- ISBN10: 0700617914
- Language: English
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From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition…..
$28.99 Add to cartIn this classic account of the American revolution, Pauline Maier traces the step-by-step process through which the extra-legal institutions of the colonial resistance movement assumed authority from … [more below]
- Author: Maier, Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0393308251
- Language: English
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Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine: The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign
$20.99 Add to cartFought amid rocks and trees, in thick blinding smoke, and under exceedingly stressful conditions, the battle for the southern slope of Little Round Top on July 2, 1863 stands among the most famous and… [more below]
- Author: Desjardin, Thomas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0195382315
- Language: English
