Potomac Books
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Small But Important Riots: The Cavalry Battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville
$36.95 Add to cartNamed a Top Ten Book of 2023 by Civil War Books and Authors
June 1863. The American Civil War was two years old, and the U.S. Army in Virginia was in chaos. Reeling after the recent defeat at Chancel- Author: O’Neill, Robert F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640125477
- Language: English
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Delivered Under Fire: Absalom Markland and Freedom’s Mail
$36.95 Add to cartDuring the Civil War his movements from battlefield to battlefield were followed in the North and in the South nearly as closely as those of generals, though he was not in the military. After the war,… [more below]
- Author: Hooper, Candice Shy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640124489
- Language: English
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Bourbon Justice: How Whiskey Law Shaped America
$34.95 Add to cart“This admirable book will be a valuable addition for any whiskey enthusiast, but it will also be a fine read for anyone with a serious interest in American history.”–Susan Reigler, Leo Weekly
Bourbon
- Author: Haara, Brian F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1640120858
- 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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Hannibal: The Military Biography of Rome’s Greatest Enemy
$39.95 Read moreThe Romans’ destruction of Carthage after the Third Punic War erased any Carthaginian historical record of Hannibal’s life. What we know of him comes exclusively from Roman historians who had every in… [more below]
- Author: Gabriel, Richard A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1597976865
- Language: English
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Israel vs. Iran: The Shadow War
$34.95 Add to cartThe shadow war between Israel and Iran has been raging for more than three decades, ever since the Iranian revolution of 1979 ushered in a fundamentalist regime whose sworn enemies have consistently i… [more below]
- Author: Katz, Yaakov
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1597976687
- Language: English
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Pattons: A Personal History of an American Family
$11.95 Add to cartThe Pattons is an exceptional portrait of the famous military family, eloquently written by the grandson of its most illustrious member, George S. Patton. Washington Post critic Jonathan Yardley calle… [more below]
- Series: Warriors (Potomac Books)
- Author: Patton, Robert H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1574886908
- Language: English
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God’s Samurai: Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor
$24.95 Add to cartGod’s Samurai is the unusual story of Mitsuo Fuchida, the career aviator who led the attack on Pearl Harbor and participated in most of the fiercest battles of the Pacific war. A valuable record of ma… [more below]
- Series: Warriors
- Author: Prange, Gordon W.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1574886959
- Language: English
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Molyvos: A Greek Village’s Heroic Response to the Global Refugee Crisis
$36.95 Add to cartMolyvos, a small seaside village once home to fishermen and shepherds but now a popular summer vacation destination, sits on the northern shore of the Greek island of Lesvos along a four-mile-wide str… [more below]
- Author: Webb, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640125701
- Language: English
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Bourbon and Bullets: True Stories of Whiskey, War, and Military Service
$26.95 Add to cartAmerican soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines carried whiskey at Yorktown, Gettysburg, Manila, and Da Nang. It bolstered their courage, calmed their nerves, and treated their maladies. As a serious … [more below]
- Author: Tramazzo, John C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1640124284
- Language: English
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Following the Drum: Women at the Valley Forge Encampment
$21.95 Add to cartFriday, December 19, 1777, dawned cold and windy. Fourteen thousand Continental Army soldiers tramped from dawn to dusk along the rutted Pennsylvania roads from Gulph Mills to Valley Forge, the site o… [more below]
- Author: Loane, Nancy K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1640123091
- Language: English
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Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg
$34.95 Add to cartGen. David McMurtrie Gregg (1833-1917) was one of the ablest and most successful commanders of cavalry in any Civil War army. Pennsylvania-born, West Point-educated, and deeply experienced in cavalry … [more below]
- Author: Longacre, Edward G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1640124292
- Language: English
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There I Go Again: How I Came to Be Mr. Feeny, John Adams, Dr. Craig, Kitt, and Many Others
$36.95 Add to cart“Bill Daniels is the personification of the humor, the humility, the humanity, and the dignity of the acting profession. Read his book.” –Warren Beatty
There I Go Again is a celebrity memoir like no o
- Author: Daniels, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1612348521
- Language: English
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The Disappeared: Remnants of a Dirty War
$39.95 Add to cartThe Disappeared tells the extraordinary saga of Argentina’s attempt to right the wrongs of an unspeakably dark past. Using a recent human rights trial as his lens, Sam Ferguson addresses two central q… [more below]
- Author: Ferguson, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640121528
- Language: English
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War at the Speed of Light: Directed-Energy Weapons and the Future of Twenty-First-Century Warfare
$29.95 Add to cartWar at the Speed of Light describes the revolutionary and ever-increasing role of directed-energy weapons (such as laser, microwave, electromagnetic pulse, and cyberspace weapons) in warfare. Louis A…. [more below]
- Author: Del Monte, Louis a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 164012330X
- Language: English
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Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey
$34.95 Add to cartBest All-Time Booze Book, Eater.com2013
GOLD Winner for Women Studies, ForeWord Reviews 2014
Silver, Independent Publisher Award in Women’s Issues
Finalist, Spirited AwardsShortly after graduating from t
- Author: Minnick, Fred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1612345646
- Language: English
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Weaver on Strategy: The Classic Work on the Art of Managing a Baseball Team
$21.95 Add to cartDuring his career as the manager of the Baltimore Orioles, Earl Weaver was called “baseball’s resident genius.” His distinctive style of managing helped his teams finish first or second thirteen times… [more below]
- Author: Weaver, Earl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: May 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1574884247
- Language: English
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In Pursuit of Liberty: Coming of Age in the American Revolution
$21.95 Add to cartThe voices of the children and teenagers who witnessed the colonies’ transformation to an independent nation have seldom been heard. This historical account of the American Revolution tells the story … [more below]
- Author: Werner, Emmy E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1597972681
- Language: English
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Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution, Updated Edition
$29.95 Add to cartA wide-ranging, comprehensive look at Russia and its leader . . . well written, well reported, and well organized.—The New York Times
With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself
- Author: Baker, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1597971227
- Language: English
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Pick Up Your Own Brass: Leadership the FBI Way
$24.95 Add to cartIn FBI terms, leaders who pick up their own brass casings at the firing range are more effective than those who expect someone else to do it for them. To those at the bureau, this small action speaks … [more below]
- Author: McChesney, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1597976830
- Language: English
