The popular conception of the Vietnam War focuses on the ground warthe soldiers and grunts who humped along jungle trails and fought the Vietcong face to facebut an important part of the war was waged in the skies over Southeast Asia, and indeed many of the war's most well-known figures were pilots, from John McCain and James Stockdale to the unknown men who unleashed napalm hell and who carried out Curtis LeMay's ';bomb them into the Stone Age' doctrine, Lyndon Johnson's Rolling Thunder, and Richard Nixon's Linebacker.
The popular conception of the Vietnam War focuses on the ground warthe soldiers and grunts who humped along jungle trails and fought the Vietcong face to facebut an important part of the war was waged in the skies over Southeast Asia, and indeed many of the war's most well-known figures were pilots, from John McCain and James Stockdale to the unknown men who unleashed napalm hell and who carried out Curtis LeMay's ';bomb them into the Stone Age' doctrine, Lyndon Johnson's Rolling Thunder, and Richard Nixon's Linebacker.
Winner of the Women's Prize for Non-FictionThe Sunday Times Bestseller The Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Observer and Economist Book of the YearA sweeping and immersive history of modern Afghanistan the first book from one of the world s leading war correspondents.
The untold history of a top-secret operation in the run-up to D-Day in which American flyers and Allied spies carried out some of the most daring cloak-and-dagger operations of World War II.
It was a miracle three years in the making, a testimony to American fortitude and ingenuityand perhaps the key to why the United States won a war that after Pearl Harbor seemed hopeless.
USCG Cutter Eagle not only carries a complex and compelling history but also remains a vital training platform, shaping generations of Coast Guard leaders while representing the United States on the global stage.
After the Battle of the Bulgewhich had begun with a German attack that American intelligence failed to anticipatethe Office of Strategic Service (OSS), forerunner of the CIA, revamped its intelligence operations in Europe.
After the Battle of the Bulgewhich had begun with a German attack that American intelligence failed to anticipatethe Office of Strategic Service (OSS), forerunner of the CIA, revamped its intelligence operations in Europe.
Eighty feet long, built of layered mahogany and powered by three monstrous 1500-horsepower V-12 engines, the US Navy's Patrol Torpedo (PT) boats screamed across the water at over forty knots.
They dropped from the skies, roared over the hedgerows, and turned the tide of historythis is the untold story of the airmen who helped liberate France.
At 18 years of age, Theodore Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, hired as a junior at Harvard and put to work at Los Alamos in 1944.
At 18 years of age, Theodore Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, hired as a junior at Harvard and put to work at Los Alamos in 1944.
From the War for Independence to the War on Terror, American military intelligence has often failed, costing needless casualties and squandering money and materiel as well as prestige and all too often it has failed to learn from its mistakes.
The rough-and-tumble life of Special Forces vet and Sixties pop star Barry SadlerThe top Billboard Hot 100 single of 1966 wasn't ';Paint It Black' or ';Yellow Submarine'--it was ';The Ballad of the Green Berets,' a hyper-patriotic tribute to the men of the Special Forces by Vietnam vet Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler.
From the War for Independence to the War on Terror, American military intelligence has often failed, costing needless casualties and squandering money and materiel as well as prestige and all too often it has failed to learn from its mistakes.
These are the stories Vietnam vets tell over beers at Legion halls and VFW postsstories of young men tangled up in the chaos of landing zones and nameless jungle hills, in the boredom of base camps, in the confusion of a controversial war.
These are the stories Vietnam vets tell over beers at Legion halls and VFW postsstories of young men tangled up in the chaos of landing zones and nameless jungle hills, in the boredom of base camps, in the confusion of a controversial war.
The rough-and-tumble life of Special Forces vet and Sixties pop star Barry SadlerThe top Billboard Hot 100 single of 1966 wasn't ';Paint It Black' or ';Yellow Submarine'--it was ';The Ballad of the Green Berets,' a hyper-patriotic tribute to the men of the Special Forces by Vietnam vet Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler.
Panzers Forward collects photos of all varieties of German armor, from the smaller tanks of the early war to the gigantic Tigers that came later, on all frontsNorth Africa, Sicily and Italy, France, and of course the Eastern Front.
The latest entry in Stackpole's Battle Briefings Series covers the Vietnam War, from its roots in the French war through the evacuation of the embassy.
The latest entry in Stackpole's Battle Briefings Series covers the Vietnam War, from its roots in the French war through the evacuation of the embassy.
Die nichtpolizeiliche Gefahrenabwehr stellt ein Gesamtsystem aus Zivilschutz, Katastrophenschutz und alltäglicher Gefahrenabwehr dar, das durch das Zusammenwirken von Ehrenamt und Hauptamt in Feuerwehren und anerkannten Hilfsorganisationen getragen wird.
'Phillips O'Brien is one of the keenest observers of modern strategy, and his new book takes a deep historical look at the evolution of warfare and its implications for conflicts like the ongoing one in Ukraine' Francis Fukuyama--------------------War and power are two of the most-widely discussed issues in all of human history, and yet they are, time and again, misunderstood often disastrously so.
Good strategic assessment does not guarantee success in international relations, but bad strategic assessment dramatically increases the risk of disastrous failure.
A newly discovered firsthand account of the Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath from one of the survivors a lost classic that brings unprecedented immediacy to our understanding of this world-changing event.
German Panzer ace Michael Wittmann was by far the most famous tank commander on any side in World War II, destroying 138 enemy tanks and 132 anti-tank guns with his Tiger.
