Military history

The fascinating biography of the man who laid the foundation for the CIA.

The history of the sword, the author writes in his introduction, is the history of humanity.

War Is a Racket is the title of two works, a speech and a booklet, by retired US Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient Smedley Darlington Butler.

An indispensable guide to right living from a Founding Father.

From the Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasures to the XM320 grenade launcher, this comprehensive guide profiles nearly every weapon currently in use by the U.

The emotional true story of a family separated by war.

A New York Times Best Seller!

Boarding an airplane strikes at least a small sense of fear into most people.

Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War is an entertaining look at the Civil War stories that don’t get told, and the misadventures you haven’t read about in history books.

Military demolitions are the destruction by fire, water, explosive, and mechanical means of areas, structures, facilities, or materials to accomplish a military objective.

Here for the first time in one place is everything you need to know about modern military combat.

Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber enlisted in the French army at the outset of World War II and quickly rose to the rank of lieutenant.

Frank Blaichman was sixteen years old when the war broke out.

The New York Times Bestseller by the Author of A Man Called IntrepidIdeal for fans of Nancy Wake, Virginia Hall, The Last Goodnight by Howard Blum, The Woman Who Smashed Codes, The Wolves at the Door by Judith Pearson, and similar worksShares the story of Vera Atkins, legendary spy and holder of the Legion of HonorWritten by William Stevenson, the only person whom she trusted to write her biographyShe was stunning.

As World War II wound down and it became increasingly clear that the Allies would emerge victorious, Albert Einstein invited three close friendsall titans of contemporary science and philosophyto his home at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey, to discuss what they loved bestscience and philosophy.

Loet Velmans was seventeen when the Germans invaded Holland.

Of American and German parentage, Ernst Hanfstaengl graduated from Harvard and ran the family business in New York for a dozen years before returning to Germany in 1921.

More than a half-century after Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a Berlin bunker, the dictators legacy and influence lives on, precisely as he predicted before putting the gun to his head.

';We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfectunion .

The words of the ancient Chinese sages are as timeless as they are wise.

To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams.

To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams.

To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams.

To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams.

To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams.

This handbook reveals the techniques and tactics that make the U.

The Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) has sent U.

What if Stalin had signed with the West in 1939?

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Fought over the course of four years, the Civil War pitted countrymen against countrymen, North versus South, friend against friend, and brother against brother.

Carl von Clausewitzs theories of war have influenced generations of military leaders and policy makers throughout the Western world.

With more than 58,000 casualties and 300,000 wounded, at a cost of more than $130 billion, the Vietnam War became one of the most divisive conflicts in American history.

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This handbook is perfect for those interested in joining the army as well as for those who merely want to learn how to shoot combat pistols.

The Dirlewanger Brigade was an anti-partisan unit of the Nazi army, reporting directly to Heinrich Himmler.

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In 1908 at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty.

Everyone knows that members of the U.

The sniper is a battlefield threat second to none.

There are various Ways.

This is the most important book ever written about warfare and conflict.

Black Rebellion, a fascinating account of five slave insurrections, among them the story of the Maroons, escaped slaves in the West Indies and South America who successfully resisted larger British armies while living an independent existence for generations in the mountains and jungles of Jamaica and Surinam; of Gabriel Prosser, who recruited about 1,000 fellow slaves in 1800 to launch a rebellion throughout Virginia; of Denmark Vesey, an ex-slave, seaman, and artisan, fluent in several languages, who conspired in 1822 to kill the white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, and take over the city; and of the revolutionary mystic Nat Turner, who in 1831 organized and led the most successful and dramatic slave revolt in North America.

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The United States is embroiled in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistanwars that seem as far from Americans' understanding as they are distant from our shores.

A Traveller's Guide to D-Day and the Battle for Normandy covers the period from June to August 1944 when the Allies stormed ashore, fought their way through the bocage country of Normandy, and eventually broke out through the Avranches gap.

FOLLOWING THE DOUGHBOY FROM THE HOME FRONT TO THE WESTERN FRONTAND MAPPING THE MANY MEMORIALS BUILT IN HIS HONOR It has now been a century since World War I began, but America's role in this colossal struggle has been largely forgotten on both sides of the Atlantic.

This unique encyclopedia provides detailed entries for everything you ever wanted to know about D-Day, the invasion of Normandy.

He's the worst Nazi war criminal you've never heard ofSidekick to SS Chief Heinrich Himmler and supervisor of Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, General Hans Kammler was responsible for the construction of Hitler's slave labor sites and concentration camps.

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