Military history

Named a "e;Notable Naval Book of 2012"e; by Proceedings magazine, Pirate Alley is now available in paperback.

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

China's rise on the world's oceans is attracting wide attention and may ultimately restructure the global balance of power during the course of the 21st century.

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.

The year 1982 was a desperate time for the U.

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.

The books in the Essential Bibliographies series include an essay by a noted scholar on the important historiographical issues and a pertinent bibliography for a particular period or theme in military history.

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.

PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION: "e;Millen reminds me of Erwin Rommel, George Patton, and Dwight Eisenhower, who also put their concentration as junior officers on the small units.

Intrigued by the mystique and challenge of the Marine Corps, eighteen-year-old Wesley Fox enlisted in the summer of 1950, shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War.

Nicholas Murray's The Rocky Road to the Great War examines the evolution of field fortification theory and practice between 1877 and 1914.

In this easy-to-use reference, Naval Academy English professor Nancy Prothro Arbuthnot tells the stories behind sixty of the Academy's monuments and memorials.

Tom Reilly idolized his older brother, Ron.

During the Spanish Civil War, foreign military officers wrote highly elaborate reports of their experiences at the front.

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.

Americans have been almost constantly at war since 1917.

Although the United States plays a leading role in the development of technology, particularly that used by militaries around the world, 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.

This collection of biographical essays delves into the careers of thirteen colorful naval leaders who guided the U.

As the literature on military-media relations grows, it is informed by antagonism either from journalists who report on wars or from ex-soldiers in their memoirs.

During World War II, navies developed low-visibility camouflage for their ships on both vertical and horizontal surfaces.

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.

The period between 1775 and 1815 could be called the "e;critical period"e; of American foreign relations.

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.

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Great friendship existed between the United States and Imperial Russia during the nineteenth century.

A concise history of warfare between Ancient Middle Eastern cultures in the age of the Old Testament using archaeology and evidence from the Bible.

Gradually evolving from sailing frigates, the first modern cruiser is not easy to define, but this book starts with the earliest steam paddle warships, covers the evolution of screw-driven frigates, corvettes and sloops, and then the succeeding iron, composite and steel-hulled classes down to the last armoured cruisers.

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.

Their stories needed to be told.

In 1803, at the age of fourteen, Robert Hay joined the Royal Navy and spent the next eight years at sea.

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.

"e;Casemate has a long history of publishing high quality military history non-fiction.

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