Military forces and sectors

With exclusive interviews, a Signal Corps veteran tells the full story of how cryptography helped defeat the Axis powers, at Bletchley Park and beyond.

The thrilling true story of the daring double agents who thwarted Hitler's spy machine in Britain and turned the tide of World War II.

A gripping biography of Admiral Nelson, Napoleonic War hero and one of Britain's greatest naval tacticians.

Ten major wars and two hundred minor actions comprise the history of the United States Marine Corps, and parallel the history of America itself.

The author of A Return to Glory constructs a compellingly detailed and panoramic history of the fateful day that ushered the United States into WWII.

As World War II recedes further into the past, still each year hundreds of new books are published about some aspect of this global conflict.

This book is, simultaneously, a biography of Admiral Herbert Victor Wiley and a history of the U.

SS-168the USS Nautiluswas the flagship of Submarine Division 12 operating out of Pearl Harbor throughout World War II.

THE LAST SURVIVOR is the incredible story of a man who survived three concentration camps and a major maritime disaster at the end of WW II.

By the time the war clouds of Europe and Asia spilled onto the shores of the United States, the allied military found itself outmanned, outgunned and out flown.

Barbed Wire University tells the extraordinary tale of Winston Churchill's internment of some of the most gifted Jewish refugee writers, professors, artists, and painters of their generation in a camp on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea.

The ocean is one of the few untamed places on earthunpredictable and unsympathetic to the lives lost there.

From an historian and columnist in Leatherneck and Armor magazines, this is the exciting, personal account of a Marine fighter squadron in the South Pacific during the critical days of 1943 when the tide turned against the Japanese.

Operation Tidal Wave tells the story of the bloodiest air battle in the history of war.

In The Greatest Stories Never Told: Special Ops, attorney and author Larry Yadon has written some of the greatest tales about special forces and operations not twice- or thrice-told tales, but the ones you haven't heard before.

Ernie Coleman survived the worst open-sea defeat in US Navy history.

September 1962: On a moonless night over the raging Atlantic Ocean, a thousand miles from land, the engines of Flying Tiger flight 923 to Germany burst into flames, one by one.

A brutal siege.

The 25 Most Influential Aircraft of All Time conveys the fascinating progression of flying technology from flimsy wood-and-fabric biplanes to thunderous supersonic wonders.

In The Greatest Sniper Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about snipers that capture readers imaginations, meticulously culled from books, magazines, movies, and elsewhere.

In The Greatest Special Ops Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about Special Operations that capture readers imaginations, meticulously culled from books, magazines, movies, and elsewhere.

In thirty-five chapters, The Greatest Air Aces Stories Ever Told covers many of the leading American and British Commonwealth fighter aces of WW I and II, together with a few bomber crews whose gallantry made a substantial contribution to the end of WW II.

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Heroism and valor in the sky!

Author Lena Sisco, a former Department of Defense Military Interrogator and U.

Midair is a true account of one of the most remarkable tales of survival in the history of aviation a midair collision at 30,000 feet by two bomb-laden B-52s over a category 5 super typhoon above the South China Sea during the outset of the Vietnam War.

Monday, June 5, had long been planned for launching D-day, the start of the campaign to liberate Nazi-held Western Europe.

Celebrate the Legacy of the MarinesBehind one of the most celebrated military branches in America are the often little-known actions of its brave warriors.

The long-standing need to explore the myth of "e;imperial defense"e; is at last answered by Dr.

From a small militia organization the Canadian air force had grown by 1945 into one of the country's three major autonomous military services.

Some 40 per cent of RCAF aircrew who served overseas during the Second World War did so in RACF squadrons.

The first of three volumes of the Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force, this book provides the definitive story of Canadian airmen in World War I and, moreover, a revisionist account of the war in the air.

The Royal Canadian Navy is best known for its role in the defence of convoys against attacks by U-boats, particularly those in the mid-Atlantic from 1941--1943.

In a stretch of the North Atlantic known as the Black Pit, far from land-based air cover, escorted convoys travelling the main trade routes between Newfoundland and Ireland were regularly besieged by marauding U-boats in classical naval confrontations.

From its eighteenth-century roots in exploration and trade, to the major conflicts of the First and Second World Wars, through to current roles in multinational operations with United Nations and NATO forces, Canada's navy - now celebrating its one hundredth anniversary - has been an expression of Canadian nationhood and a catalyst in the complex process of national unity.

From its eighteenth-century roots in exploration and trade, to the major conflicts of the First and Second World Wars, through to current roles in multinational operations with United Nations and NATO forces, Canada's navy - now celebrating its one hundredth anniversary - has been an expression of Canadian nationhood and a catalyst in the complex process of national unity.

From its eighteenth-century roots in exploration and trade, to the major conflicts of the First and Second World Wars, through to current roles in multinational operations with United Nations and NATO forces, Canada's navy - now celebrating its one hundredth anniversary - has been an expression of Canadian nationhood and a catalyst in the complex process of national unity.

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In this unprecedented series exploring the big story of the Battle of Britain, renowned historian Dilip Sarkar investigates the wider context and intimate details of the epic aerial conflict in the summer of 1940 from all sides.

The Midway-class were the US Navy's biggest carriers built during World War II.

Almost forgotten in the haze of events that followed Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the summer of 1945 witnessed an intense public debate over how best to end the war against Japan.

"e;Ellsberg's writings chronicled his experiences and attitudes on the topic of marine salvage in a manner which has no equal in naval literature.

The little-known WWII story of the salvage engineers whose daring and heroism helped the Allies win back North Africa, by the author of The Far Shore.

A Navy admiral's firsthand account of the Allied salvage operation that played a key role in recovering North Africa from the Nazis during World War II.

The man who led the salvage efforts to raise a sunken US Navy submarine recounts the mission in a tale "e;that will surely rank among the epics of the sea"e; (The Philadelphia Inquirer).

A minute-by-minute account of the morning that brought America into World War II, by the New York Times-bestselling authors of At Dawn We Slept.

The New York Times-bestselling authors of Miracle at Midway delve into the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII in "e;a superb work of history"e; (Albuquerque Journal Magazine).

New York Times bestseller: The true story of the WWII naval battle portrayed in the Roland Emmerich film is "e;something special among war histories"e; (Chicago Sun-Times).

World War I was Britain's last moment as the world's naval superpower, and its Grand Fleet was then the most powerful ever seen.

This biography completes a trilogy on the three Navy fighter pilots-Jimmie Thach, Butch O'Hare, and Jimmy Flatley-who developed sweeping changes in aerial combat tactics during World War II.