Potomac Books
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In Search of the Romanovs: A Family’s Quest to Solve One of History’s Most Brutal Crimes
$39.95 Add to cartIn 1918 a famed general of the Russian White Army battled through the Red Army to save Emperor Nicholas II–but he arrived too late. The Romanovs had already been murdered.
In this thrilling true-lif- Author: Sarandinaki, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1640121560
- Language: English
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Always Faithful: A Memoir of the Marine Dogs of WWII
$21.95 Add to cartAs a twenty-three-year-old veterinarian, William W. Putney joined the Marine Corps at the height of World War II. He commanded the Third Dog Platoon during the battle for Guam and later served as chie… [more below]
- Author: Putney, William W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 157488719X
- Language: English
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Snake Pilot: Flying the Cobra Attack Helicopter in Vietnam
$19.95 Add to cartZahn reconstructed his year of combat in Vietnam with surprising detail, capturing the cockiness, angst, and attitude of the naive nineteen-year-old 1st Cavalry Division attack helicopter pilot of 197
- Author: Zahn, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574886118
- Language: English
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From Chernobyl with Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union
$21.95 Add to cart2019 Foreword Indies Award, Gold
In the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the late twentieth century was a time of unprecedented hope for dem
2020 Independent Book Publishers Awards, Bronze Medal- Author: Cengel, Katya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640125728
- Language: English
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Monumental Controversies: Mount Rushmore, Four Presidents, and the Quest for National Unity
$32.95 Add to cartIn recent years the United States has witnessed major controversies surrounding past American presidents, monuments, and sites. Consider Mount Rushmore, which features the heads of the nation’s most r… [more below]
- Author: Senie, Harriet F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640124993
- Language: English
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The Investigator: Demons of the Balkan War
$29.95 Add to cartThe war that broke out in the former Yugoslavia at the end of the twentieth century unleashed unspeakable acts of violence committed against defenseless civilians, including a grizzly mass murder at a… [more below]
- Author: Dzuro, VladimÃr
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1640121951
- Language: English
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Fall of the Double Eagle: The Battle for Galicia and the Demise of Austria-Hungary
$34.95 Add to cart“[A] must-read for students of history and historians alike.”—Washington Book Review
Although southern Poland and western Ukraine are not often thought of in terms of decisive battles in World War I,
- Author: Schindler, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1612347657
- Language: English
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Spymaster’s Prism: The Fight Against Russian Aggression
$26.95 Add to cartSpymaster’s Prism is a prescient study of our unending struggle with Russia and its intelligence agencies’ relentless effort to undermine our national security. Replete with the most salient spy stori… [more below]
- Author: Devine, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640126015
- Language: English
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Cold War Radio: The Russian Broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
$34.95 Add to cartCold War Radio is a fascinating look at how the United States waged the Cold War through the international broadcasting of Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). Mark G. … [more below]
- Author: Pomar, Mark G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1640125140
- Language: English
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Cartography: Navigating a Year in Iraq
$19.95 Add to cartCartography describes Katherine Schifani’s time deployed in Iraq as a counterterrorism advisor with U.S. Special Forces in 2011. It is the story of one woman mapping the terra incognita of Iraq with q… [more below]
- Author: Schifani, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1640124500
- Language: English
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Disaster on the Spanish Main: The Tragic British-American Expedition to the West Indies During the War of Jenkins’ Ear
$29.95 Add to cart2023 Silver Medal in History from the Military Writers Society of America
Disaster on the Spanish Main unveils and illuminates an overlooked yet remarkable episode of European and American military hi- Author: Chapman, Craig S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1640124314
- Language: English
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Such Splendid Prisons: Diplomatic Detainment in America During World War II
$44.95 Add to cart2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Silver Medal Winner
In the chaotic days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Roosevelt administrati
2020-21 Reader Views Literary Awards Bronze Medal Winner- Author: Solomon, Harvey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 01 2020
- ISBN10: 164012084X
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s American Dream: Clashing Political Perspectives
$39.95 Add to cartDespite the voluminous literature on the central figure in American history, no other book in the field of political science compares to Lincoln’s American Dream. It addresses comprehensively the over… [more below]
- Author: Deutsch, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574885898
- Language: English
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Quagmire: Personal Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan
$22.95 Add to cartIn Quagmire you’ll find a range of voices–men and women, military and civilian–and a range of perspectives from the homeland, the combat zone, and war’s aftermath. These personal responses to war in… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1640124527
- Language: English
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Hammer of the Gods: The Thule Society and the Birth of Nazism
$45.00 Add to cartPublic interest in Adolf Hitler and all aspects of the Third Reich continues to grow as new generations ponder the moral questions surrounding Nazi Germany and its historical legacy. One aspect of Naz… [more below]
- Author: Luhrssen, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: February 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1597978574
- Language: English
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Scipio Africanus: Rome’s Greatest General
$36.95 Add to cartThe world often misunderstands its greatest men while neglecting others entirely. Scipio Africanus, surely the greatest general that Rome produced, suffered both these fates. Today scholars celebrate … [more below]
- Author: Gabriel, Richard A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1597972053
- Language: English
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Harlem’s Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I
$21.95 Add to cartWhen the United States entered World War I in 1917, thousands of African-American men volunteered to fight for a country that granted them only limited civil rights. Many from New York City joined the… [more below]
- Author: Harris, Stephen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 301
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574886355
- Language: English
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Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back
$24.95 Add to cartKatya Cengel met San Tran Croucher when San was seventy-five years old and living in California, having miraculously survived the Cambodian genocide with her three daughters, Sithy, Sithea, and Jennif… [more below]
- Author: Cengel, Katya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 164012571X
- Language: English
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Glenn Miller Declassified
$29.95 Add to cartOn December 15, 1944, Maj. Alton Glenn Miller, commanding officer of the Army Air Force Band (Special), boarded a plane in England bound for France with Lt. Col. Norman Francis Baessell. Somewhere ove
- Author: Spragg, Dennis M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1640123083
- Language: English
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My Hitch in Hell: The Bataan Death March, New Edition
$19.95 Add to cartCaptured by the Japanese after the fall of Bataan, Lester I. Tenney was one of the very few who would survive the legendary Death March and three and a half years in Japanese prison camps. With an und… [more below]
- Series: Memories of War
- Author: Tenney, Lester I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1640121129
- Language: English
