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.
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.
Three Faces of Antifascism: Narrative of Resistance in Post-War Italian Political Culture tells the story of intertwining of Italian history, the antifascist paradigm, and the memory of the Resistance and the Shoah.
Three Faces of Antifascism: Narrative of Resistance in Post-War Italian Political Culture tells the story of intertwining of Italian history, the antifascist paradigm, and the memory of the Resistance and the Shoah.
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.
First serious examination of the curious demise of Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler that also investigates an extraordinary web of secret deals and international intrigue.
Julius Evola and the Radical Right examines the ideas and influence of Italian thinker Julius Evola (1898-1974), an increasingly popular author within the far right and the esoteric milieu alike.
Julius Evola and the Radical Right examines the ideas and influence of Italian thinker Julius Evola (1898-1974), an increasingly popular author within the far right and the esoteric milieu alike.
From the end of World War II in 1945 until the drawdown in 2019, about two million British military personnel and their families were stationed in northwestern Germany.
From the end of World War II in 1945 until the drawdown in 2019, about two million British military personnel and their families were stationed in northwestern Germany.
This new volume edited by two significant scholars of Italian history and politics offers students and scholars a sweeping overview of the modern history of a country that has played a crucial role in the history of Europe over the past two centuries.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe remarkable story of the real 'Dad's Army' in wartime Britain, from the bestselling historian of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park'Impeccably researched and deliciously entertaining, Dad's Army shines a bright searchlight on to an organization dismissed for far too long as humorously incompetent' Giles Milton, author of The Stalin AffairWith the threat of invasion from Hitler's forces looming large in 1940, British men of all ages and backgrounds assembled under the banner of the Home Guard.
Exactly a century ago, intelligence agencies across Europe first became aware of a fanatical German nationalist whose political party was rapidly gathering momentum.
Exactly a century ago, intelligence agencies across Europe first became aware of a fanatical German nationalist whose political party was rapidly gathering momentum.
This new volume edited by two significant scholars of Italian history and politics offers students and scholars a sweeping overview of the modern history of a country that has played a crucial role in the history of Europe over the past two centuries.
On the night of August 67, 1943, six American destroyers steamed into Vella Gulf two hundred miles northwest of Guadalcanal and laid an ambush for the Japanese destroyers that nightly ferried reinforcements into the Solomon Islands.
This volume presents twelve studies, written between 2007 and 2023, which examine the conduct of war in Carolingian East Francia and Ottonian Germany from the mid-ninth to the early eleventh century.
This volume presents twelve studies, written between 2007 and 2023, which examine the conduct of war in Carolingian East Francia and Ottonian Germany from the mid-ninth to the early eleventh century.
