Warfare and defence

On 14 June 1800 Napoleon Bonaparte fought his first battle as French head of state at Marengo in northern Italy.

This volume chronicles aerial combat of the Korean War through both historical narrative and the personal accounts of Allied airmen and POWs.

Reading this book is like eating cashews,proclaimed one reviewer.

This book is a riveting account told in ten big chapters of the young RAF crews who flew Lancasters in RAF Bomber Command from 1942 to the end of the war in Europe in April 1945.

For Rich Bishop, reporting to basic training for the US Navy was reminiscent of Dorothy leaving Kansas and ending up in Oz.

This sentimental book is a diary of a brother sent to Vietnam in 1968.

Written by men who flew the missions and gathered together the recollections of their comrades, this is an account of the political, social, cultural, technical and combat context of an extraordinary side of the Vietnam conflict.

After 9/11, controversy had stirred when news broke that the U.

Milk Run: A Gunner's Tale is the true story of William E.

Meredith Duran returns with another witty, humorous and smart romance.

About ReflectionsReflections is a memoir of the Vietnam War.

In this short, compelling memoir that will appeal to both general readers and fellow scientists, Harry S.

The Civil War resulted from the insistence of Southern firebrands that the 1820 restrictions on where slavery could be practiced in the Western territories of the USA be removed.

A blow-by-blow eye-witness account of the British Pacific Fleets participation in the invasion of Okinawa and the attacks on the Japanese homeland.

In this follow up book to 21st Century Camp Follower Jim heads BACK TO AFGHANISTAN.

Alan Whicker is quite simply a legend.

For author Virginia Kiernan, February 2003 is a month, though more than ten years past, that remains vivid in her memory.

Jarhead Jerry describes the life of a boy who chose to become a United States Marine.

Born in India in 1937, Michael Fosss childhood was spent between the cold, grey austerity of Britain under threat, and the brightly lit and teeming vitality of wartime India.

The Great Rat Race for Europe: Stories of the 357th Fighter Group (Sortie One) tells the true stories of the Yoxford Boys of the 357th Fighter Group; arguably the best Army Air Force fighter group in the European Theater during World War Two.

James S.

A detailed history of the brief 1980s conflict between the UK and Argentina, from the author of The First Day on the Somme.

The letters of John Max Staniforth are among the most perceptive, graphic and evocative personal records of a soldiers life to have come down to us from the Great War.

I wanted to change my life so I joined the military during a time when gays were not welcomed.

What next?

Napoleonic War scholar Martin R.

This book consists of fifteen cartoons inspired by an 1866 Harpers Weekly article about the hypothetical length of the Thirty Years War at different periods in time and extending into the future when both sides had developed the ultimate weapons to end all wars.

Iraq, fall 2007.

This vivid WWII memoir recounts the exploits of a 4th Queen’s Own Hussar through the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theatre of combat.

This story is about my journey from a little girl in Afghanistan to fleeing to the united states and returning back to Afghanistan as an Afghan interpreter/cultural advisor to the U.

Holding Hands Under the Nuclear Umbrella is the story of a young woman who shares the mid-twentieth century practice of school drills to respond to a nuclear attack on America with a young man who later becomes her husband and, with him as a career army officer, joins the army families committed to protecting their country.

On July 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings 'MJ' Hegar was shot down while on a Medevac mission on her third tour in Afghanistan.

Ever wonder what it takes to become an air traffi c controller?

The Redcatcher Express is the author's Vietnam War memoirs.

This is my second book.

Why are some battles remembered more than others?

These are the writings from the journals of Sgt.

This Air Force Colonels Memoir is a collection of stories about people whom he has known, worked with and flew with during his span of 80 plus years.

Dark Blue Down South is a historical novel about the Germans of the Central Texas Hill Country and other Texans who chose to fight for the North in the Civil War.