True war and combat stories

A fundamental reassessment of German politics and strategy during the First World War and why it was that Germany lost.

A fundamental reassessment of German politics and strategy during the First World War and why it was that Germany lost.

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZEWITH A FOREWORD FROM MARGARET ATWOOD'This book would always have been important evidence that the Ukraine people were suffering criminal attack.

War and American Literature examines representations of war throughout American literary history.

War and American Literature examines representations of war throughout American literary history.

The inspiring story of 162 US paratroopers, dropped hopelessly off target, and the French villagers who assisted and supported them.

One man, his piano and their miraculous survival.

I COMMANDED AND FOUGHT WITH 2 PARA AT THE BATTLE OF GOOSE GREEN.

In his quest for military glory, Benito Mussolini sent the Italian Eighth Army to the Eastern Front to help fight the Russians, only to have his forces routed within little more than a month of the launch of the Soviet counteroffensives of the winter of 1942-1943.

Timothy Lomperis knows the Vietnam War, both as a soldier and as a scholar.

Best known for leading the construction of the Panama Canal, George W.

Discover the truth behind one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of World War II.

This richly detailed account reveals how Sir Ralph Abercromby's strategy restored the honour of the British army and averted disaster for the Empire.

This is the story of D-Day, told through the voices of over 1,000 survivors.

The harrowing story based on George Herbert Hill's experience of the Battle of St Quentin during the First World War.

"e;We live together under the thick canopy, each searching for the other; the same leeches and mosquitoes that feed on our blood feed on his blood.

This memoir relates the author's experiences during his year-long tour of duty in the early days of American involvement in Vietnam.

As a member of a distinguished South Carolina family, Matthew Calbraith Butler led a most interesting life.

Colonel William Winthrop singularly was the most influential person in developing the military law of the United States.

From February 2005 to March 2006, Navy trauma surgeon Zsolt Stockinger served on a forward operating base in Iraq's Sunni Triangle, where he treated more than a thousand casualties and performed hundreds of surgeries.

In this Marine combat memoir, Steve Johnson recounts his service in Vietnam from April 1967 to May 1968.

Of all the American divisions in World War I, the 4th Brigade of Marines, Second Division (Regular Army), A.

In the spring of 1950, 17-year-old South Korean high school senior Won Moo Hurh dreamed of studying law at Seoul National University after graduation.

The author enlisted in the Marine Corps at 17, with dreams of becoming a hero.

"e;Lost in action,"e; a term used to account for soldiers last seen in combat but not identified as killed or captured, was applied to the author for years following his capture by Japanese in the Philippines after the fall of Bataan.

On December 8, 1941, Japanese troops methodically took over the U.

Faced with a 1-A draft classification after graduation from college in the spring of 1968, the author decided to control his own destiny by volunteering for the draft.

From 1969 to 1974 Ehrhart was just Passing Time.

In 1982, John Newman, curator of the Vietnam War Literature Collection at Colorado State University, said of W.

This thoughtful memoir recounts one man's transformation from a glory-seeking, gung-ho Kansas teenager to a weary, twice-wounded grunt who had volunteered for a second tour of duty.

When Confederate Major General J.

After receiving his draft notice on March 5, 1941, 21-year old Alex Kunevicius harbored dreams of joining George Patton's First Armored Division.

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This memoir relates the author's experiences during his year-long tour of duty in the early days of American involvement in Vietnam.

Drafted in October 1968, John A.

The thirty-year period that marked the advent of the supersonic jet in military aviation was a particularly dangerous one for fighter pilots.

In January 1943, not long after his nineteenth birthday, Ralph Sirianni was drafted for active duty by the U.

What Americans call the Vietnam War actually began in December 1946 with a struggle between the communists and the French for possession of the country--but Vietnam's strategic position in southeast Asia inevitably led to the involvement of other countries.

"e;We live together under the thick canopy, each searching for the other; the same leeches and mosquitoes that feed on our blood feed on his blood.

In this vividly honest memoir, author Michael Uhl details his experiences in Vietnam as first lieutenant of a counterintelligence team attached to the 11th Infantry.

This diary focuses intensely on Col.

This memoir is a record of what Jensen calls the luckiest and greatest adventure of his life.

Captain Glenn F.

On Friday, August 7, 1942, at 1300, after a furious cannonading by the Navy fighting vessels slamming salvo after salvo into the shores, 36-year-old Marine Sergeant Abraham Felber jumped from a Higgins boat onto Beach Red in the first-wave assault on the deadly jungle island of Guadalcanal.

A college graduate at 16 and a founder of the Sigma Chi fraternity, Caldwell entered the Confederate Army as an artillery lieutenant.

Joseph J.

Capturing the chaotic nature of the U.

Chronicling the growth of a recruit from boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, to a seasoned troop leader, this memoir also relates the experiences of the 200 marines in A Company, First Battalion, Second Marines, as they engaged in island warfare in the South Pacific at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian.