Specific wars and campaigns

In February 1971, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) launched an incursion into Laos in an attempt to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail and destroy North Vietnamese Army (NVA) base areas along the border.

Few figures in modern French history have aroused more controversy than Marshal Philippe Petain, who rose from obscurity to great fame in the First World War only to fall into infamy during the dark days of Nazi occupation in World War II.

A detailed history and analysis of the most controversial amphibious operation in the Pacific during WWII: the Battle for Peleliu.

This sixtieth-anniversary edition of the 1943 classic returns to print the exciting story of a U.

Hailed as one of the finest examples of aviation research, this comprehensive 1984 study presents a detailed and scrupulously accurate operational history of carrier-based air warfare.

Finalist, 2021 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards As historian David W.

A compilation of information presented in United States Army World War II training manuals and tactical documents.

A complete history of naval combat in the Mediterranean and North African campaigns throughout WWII.

Largely responsible for crushing Japanese airpower wherever the American fast carrier force sailed, the Grumman F6F Hellcat was considered the most important Allied aircraft in the Pacific during 1943 and 1944.

Growing up near the Sabine, journalist Wes Ferguson, like most East Texans, steered clear of its murky, debris-filled waters, where alligators lived in the backwater sloughs and an occasional body was pulled from some out-of-the-way crossing.

Tom Reilly idolized his older brother, Ron.

Detailed analysis of WWII operations undertaken by Germany's armed forces on the Eastern Front, with illustrative case studies, maps, and diagrams.

A fully illustrated account of the Soviet offensive in the Baltics and the desperate German attempts to hold back the Red Army.

A career in the U.

A German perspective of D-Day, written by an Army Corps intelligence officer in Normandy when the Allies invaded, published in English for the first time.

Fought under the cover of elaborate deceptions and ruthless lies, the deadly intelligence operations of World War II produced victories and defeats that were often as important as any reached on the battlefield.

In 1914, journalist and mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart traveled to Europe alone to cover World War I for the Saturday EveningPost.

World War II had many superlatives, but none like Operation Torch-a series of simultaneous amphibious landings, audacious commando and paratroop assaults, and the Atlantic's biggest naval battle, fought across a two thousand mile span of coastline in French North Africa.

This is the most comprehensive, English-language study of the German Imperial Navy's battlecruisers that served in the First World War.

The Medal of Honor recipient chronicles his life and military career in this memoir while also sharing his thoughts on leadership.

The British Army's Special Air Service is one of the world's premier special operations units.

In a wartime Navy of giant carriers and battleships, tiny wooden subchasers did not command much attention.

First-person accounts chronicling the 3/7 Marines engaging in intense street-by-street fighting to put down an uprising in Iraq in April 2004.

Pocket manuals bring together a wealth of information from a wide variety of training manuals and tactical documents.

Fallujah Redux is the first book about the Fallujah Awakening written by Operation Iraqi Freedom military veterans who served there, providing a comprehensive account of the turning of Fallujah away from the al-Qaeda insurgency in 2007.

Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn had no idea of what they would discover when they set out for Hong Kong, China, and Burma in 1941.

A "e;fascinating and informative"e; reassessment of the underappreciated Confederate general's achievements and ahead-of-his-time military strategy (Midwest Book Review).

A military journalist shines a light on the unsung heroism and contributions of enlisted combat reporters in the Vietnam War in these revealing interviews.

This is a superb survey of the fierce naval struggles, from 1939 up to the invasion of the Norway in April 1940.

Oliver P.

A comprehensive account of the development of American aircraft carriers up to and during World War II.

When the U.

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"e;The authors do a good job using the diaries, interviews, and books written by group members to convey a vivid-sometimes too vivid-picture of war at its most elemental.

Coauthor Erich Friedrich won the Iron Cross fighting the Soviets.

A detailed summary of all types of Diamond T vehicles used by the U.

Surviving Twice is the story of five Vietnamese Amerasians born during the Vietnam War to American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers.

Rise of the War Machines: The Birth of Precision Bombing in World War II examines the rise of autonomy in air warfare from the inception of powered flight through the first phase of the Combined Bomber Offensive in World War II.

The first English translation of a German account of the attempt to relieve the Nazis' Sixth Army at Stalingrad during World War II.

The untold story of US Special Forces in Laos, one of the longest secret wars of the Cold War-by a military historian and Special Forces veteran.

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The Civil War is often considered a "e;soldiers' war,"e; but Life in Jefferson Davis' Navy acknowledges the legacy of service of the officers and sailors of the Confederate States Navy.

The Battle Digest summary includes all the key aspects of the campaign and battle, including maps, images, and lessons learned.

The Battle Digest summary includes all the key aspects of the campaign and battle, including maps, images, and lessons learned.

Learning War examines the U.

Within this fascinating new book, Barbara Morrill analyses the journal writings of Etty Hillesum, a young Jewish woman in the 1940s, as she began analysis with a Jungian oriented practitioner in 1941.

Few American presidents have exercised their constitutional authority as commander in chief with more determination than Franklin D.

Less than five years after naval aviation led the forces that defeated Imperial Japan that very organization was in serious trouble.

"e;Ludlow Beamish's famous history of the K.

The Spanish Civil War left a legacy of destruction, resentment and deep ideological divisions in a country that was attempting to recover from economic stagnation and social inequality.