Wars & Conflicts
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Revolutionary Roads: Searching for the War That Made America Independent…and All the Places It Could Have Gone Terribly Wrong
$32.00 Read moreIn the ride-along tradition of Sarah Vowell, Tony Horwitz and Bill Bryson, this insightful history revisits the pivotal figures and key turning points of the American Revolutionary War.
Revolutionary- Author: Thompson, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1455565156
- Language: English
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To Conquer and to Keep – Suchet and the War for Eastern Spain, 1809-1814: Volume 1 – 1809-1811
$59.95 Read moreFully details the Battle of Sagunto and Siege of Tarragona, as well as in-depth information on Suchet’s campaigns, the only single work to do so in full, vivid detail.
Napoleon once famously remarked ‘… [more below]
- Series: From Reason to Revolution
- Author: Kim, Yuhan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: November 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1915070473
- Language: English
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M60 Tank: Us Cold War Mbt
$24.99 Read moreThe M60 was the primary battle tank deployed by the US military from 1960 until it was phased out and replaced with the M1 Abrams during/after Operation Desert Storm. More than 10,000 examples were pr… [more below]
- Series: Legends of Warfare: Ground #36
- Author: Doyle, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0764367811
- Language: English
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Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
$25.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – In this “beautifully written and superbly researched dual biography” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham “paints a powerful portr… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 0812972821
- Language: English
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The Ghost Tattoo
$28.00 Read moreWINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR BEST HOLOCAUST MEMOIR
A powerful, profoundly moving Holocaust memoir from a rarely told perspective, this is the story of a family coming to terms with its- Author: Bernard, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0806542586
- Language: English
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Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968
$49.99 Read moreTriumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968 is the long-awaited sequel to the immensely influential Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965. Like its predecessor, this book overturns the convent… [more below]
- Author: Moyar, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 732
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1641772972
- Language: English
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Syrian Gulag: Inside Assad’s Prison System
$35.00 Read moreAn estimated 300,000 people have been detained or have died in prison since the Syrian uprising broke out. Syrians can be arrested for liking a post on Facebook or for the political activities of a di
- Author: Baker, Jaber
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0755650204
- Language: English
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The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity
$20.00 Add to cartBANCROFF PRIZE WINNER – King Philip’s War, the excruciating racial war–colonists against Indigenous peoples–that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in Am… [more below]
- Author: Lepore, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 27 1999
- ISBN10: 0375702628
- Language: English
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Kissinger’s Betrayal: How America Lost the Vietnam War
$32.95 Read more“Kissinger’s Betrayal is arguably the most important single source published in decades for understanding why America went to war in Vietnam, why doing so was important, and what went wrong and ultima
- Author: Young, Stephen B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1637553595
- Language: English
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The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II
$0.00 Read moreIan Buruma’s spellbinding account of three near-mythic figures–a Dutch fixer, a Manchu princess, and Himmler’s masseur–who may have been con artists and collaborators under Japanese and German rule,… [more below]
- Author: Buruma, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0593296648
- Language: English
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A Thousand Places Left Behind: One Soldier’s Account of Jungle Warfare in WWII Burma
$28.00 Read moreBorn and raised in Mississippi, Peter K. Lutken, Jr. (1920-2014) joined the army in 1941 and was assigned to the Coast Artillery. Originally sent to India to guard airfields, he was reassigned to the … [more below]
- Author: Lutken, Peter K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1496845145
- Language: English
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To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941-42
$40.00 Read moreA ground-breaking history of one of the greatest ever sieges. Masterfully brought to life by a leading expert using original Russian and German source material.
‘[An] excellent account.’ – Richard Ove- Author: Buttar, Prit
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1472856554
- Language: English
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MacArthur Reconsidered: General Douglas MacArthur as a Wartime Commander
$29.95 Read moreJames Ellman digs deep, connects the dots, and concludes that General Douglas MacArthur was decidedly not a military genius.
One of America’s most controversial generals, Douglas MacArthur’s rise throu
- Author: Ellman, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 081177158X
- Language: English
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Shōkaku-Class Aircraft Carriers: In the Imperial Japanese Navy During World War II
$24.99 Read moreThe aircraft carriers of the Shōkaku class are generally regarded as being the most-successful carriers designed by the Imperial Japanese Navy. They became operational just prior to the Pearl Har… [more below]
- Series: Legends of Warfare: Naval #27
- Author: Lengerer, Hans
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764366513
- Language: English
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When Washington Burned: The British Invasion of the Capital and a Nation’s Rise from the Ashes
$29.95 Read moreAn insightful re-examination of one of the most dangerous moments in US history, the British assault on Washington, DC
Perhaps no other single day in US history was as threatening to the survival of th
- Author: Watson, Robert P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 164712350X
- Language: English
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Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World’s Largest Sea Battle
$30.00 Read moreA fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War, and one that saw the Imperial Ja
- Author: Stille, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1472851757
- Language: English
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An Honorable Exit
$23.99 Read moreA Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker
From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a piercing account of the lesser-known conflict preceding the Vietnam War that dealt a fatal blow to French- Author: Vuillard, Éric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 163542352X
- Language: English
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The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam
$35.00 Read moreThe moving story of how a small group of people–including two Vietnam veterans–forced the U.S. government to take responsibility for the ongoing horrors–agent orange and unexploded munitions–infli… [more below]
- Author: Black, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0593534107
- Language: English
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Great American World War II Stories
$22.95 Add to cartPainstakingly selected from the most moving battle accounts written about American heroism and breathtaking courage during the largest war in the world history, this breathtaking anthology brings read
- Series: Lyons Press Classics
- Author: McCarthy, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1493081462
- Language: English
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Final Engagement: A Marine’s Last Mission and the Surrender of Afghanistan
$28.99 Read moreThrough a deadly last showdown beside Afghan forces fighting the Taliban, Marine Corps veteran Christopher Izant illustrates the impossible conditions and strategic blunders that disillusioned a gener
- Author: Izant, Christopher L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1635768721
- Language: English
