Military history

This book explores the experiences of a range of women from the early days of 1914, through the big events of the war on the Eastern Front.

Death in war matters.

The stakes for George Gordon Meade could not have been higher.

Abraham Lincoln knew if the Union could cut off shipping to and from New Orleans, the largest exporting port in the world, and control the Mississippi River, it would be a mortal blow to the Confederate economy.

Alongside war, there has always been diplomacy; alongside the warlord, the diplomat seeking a nonmilitary solution.

The true story that inspired the feature film Bridge of Spies In this new edition of his classic 1970 memoir about the notorious U-2 incident, pilot Francis Gary Powers reveals the full story of what actually happened in the most sensational espionage case in Cold War history.

Men in reserve focuses on working class civilian men who, as a result of working in reserved occupations, were exempt from enlistment in the armed forces.

This study tells the story of the strategic nuclear forces deployed to England by the United States from the late 1940s, and details the secret agreement made to launch atomic strikes against the USSR.

Wanting War is the first comprehensive analysis of the often contradictory reasons why President George W.

The post-9/11 world has witnessed a rebirth of irregular and asymmetrical warfare, which, in turn, has led to an increase in conflicts between conventional armies and non-state armed groups.

Did you know that a soldier's armor has historic lessons to tell, too?

It has been more than a century since the American conquest and subsequent annexation of the Philippines.

Initiated in 1950, this 2007 edition is the latest in a classic series of books of the same title.

An inspiring first-hand account by military aviation pioneer Richard Kirkland recounts how he and a handful of daring helicopter pilots revolutionized battlefield medical evacuation and blazed the trail for modern air-evac flying.

Submarines had a vital, if often unheralded, role in the superpower navies during the Cold War.

Haunted Victory: The American Crusade to Destroy Saddam and Impose Democracy on Iraq explores the dynamic trajectory of beliefs, actions, and their consequences in what will forever be debated as among the most controversial and costly operations in U.

The relationship between drugs and today's wars has grown more noticeable since the end of the Cold War and will likely gather strength in this era of increased globalization.

For many in the West, North Korea is a secretive, reclusive, and enigmatic country, a rogue state that threatens the world with its nuclear program and ballistic missiles.

A thoroughly updated revision of the first comprehensive overview of intelligence designed for both the student and the general reader, Silent Warfare is an insider’s guide to a shadowy, often misunderstood world.

The legendary "e;Fighting 69th"e; took part in five major engagements during World War I.

During the Iraq War, coauthor Capt.

The Isles of Scilly, five inhabited islands 24 miles west of Land's End, were of low priority to the War Department when the First World War was declared.

Louis Trezevant Wigfall was a violent, mercurial man.

Wounds and disease were as devastating on the battlefields of the ancient world as they are today.

We Die Alone recounts one of the most exciting escape stories to emerge from the challenges and miseries of World War II.

War stories are mostly innocent fables and understood as such by both the teller and the hearer.

September 1940.

Is any war a “good war”?

So who really started the war?

The Maps of Spotsylvania through Cold Harbor continues Bradley M.

On October 23, 1983, nearly simultaneous suicide truck bombings killed 241 U.

This is a huge history book for fifth graders because of the topics discussed here.

***Selected for the 2010 Chief of the United States Air Force's Reading List***This one-volume anthology provides a comprehensive analysis of the role that air power has played in military conflicts over the past century.

Helicopter pilots in Vietnam kidded one another about being nothing but glorified bus drivers.

A Free Man of Color and His Hotel weaves the story of a uniquely successful black businessman into the burgeoning post-Civil War political struggle that pitted the federal government against the states' desire to remain autonomous.

The military adventure that George W.

Beginning with the Communist Saur Revolution of 1978 and continuing through Gen.

The American Civil War was caused by so many inequalities.

It is only in the past two decades that English-speaking scholars have fully breached European language barriers, permitting a comprehensive reexamination of the Napoleonic Wars beyond the limitations of English-, French-, and German-dependent works.

The spirit of Christmas was strong between the soldiers fighting in 1914.

"e;Chick does a good job of portraying [General Beauregard] as the first real hero of the Confederacy, who at times proved his own worst enemy.

During histhirty-eight-year career as a military officer, Henry Clay Merriam received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Civil War, rose to prominence in the Western army, and exerted significant influence on the American West by establishing military posts, protecting rail lines, and maintaining an uneasy peace between settlers and Indians.

Understanding the role of combat in the Iraq war is essential for both the American people and the U.

Introduced in 1998 by the Department of Defense, the concept of information operations (IO) proposed to revolutionize the ways in which warfare, diplomacy, and business were conducted.

"e;Focuses on the extensive contributions to the pyrrhic Confederate victory at Chickamauga made by the brave Lone Star State soldiers.

"e;A comprehensive, eminently readable, lavishly illustrated, and historically accurate account"e; of this important yet overlooked Civil War battle (Civil War News).

In 1941 photographer Croswell Bowen joined American Field Service volunteer ambulance drivers and served alongside the British Eighth Army during World War II.

This seminal work on modern terrorism is the one book to read in order to truly understand the reasons why radical Muslims such as Osama bin Laden and his followers have declared war on America and the West.

In New York City in 1939, neither eighteen-year-old Jack "e;Jake"e; Jacobson nor his comrade Murray "e;Duke"e; Davison had any intention of joining the military.

Inspired by the old African proverb: When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground, high-school student Morgan Reilly sought to preserve as many Maine libraries as he could by interviewing men and women from Maine who served in World War II and preserving their stories.