Military - United States
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Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base
$23.99 Add to cartThis “compellingly hard-hitting” bestseller from a Pulitzer Prize finalist gives readers the complete untold story of the top-secret military base for the first time (New York Times).
It is the most- Author: Jacobsen, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 01, 2012
- ISBN10: 0316202304
- Language: English
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Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior
$20.00 Read moreAn unprecedented view of Green Beret training, drawn from the year Dick Couch spent at Special Forces training facilities with the Army’s most elite soldiers.
In combating terror, America can no longe- Author: Couch, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0307339394
- Language: English
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God Forgives, Brothers Don’t: The Long March of Military Education and the Making of American Manhood
$29.00 Read moreIn the tradition of Sebastian Junger’s Tribe and Chris Hedges’s classic War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, a powerful investigation into the fraught history and ominous future of military education… [more below]
- Author: Craven, Jasper
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1668087197
- Language: English
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The Making of the American Mind: The Story of Our Declaration of Independence
$32.99 Read moreThomas Jefferson called the Declaration of Independence “an expression of the American mind.” Not merely a document, the Declaration is the common creed of our civic life, and it inspires the shared p… [more below]
- Author: Spalding, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1641774878
- Language: English
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The State and the Soldier: A History of Civil-Military Relations in the United States
$29.95 Add to cartAmerica’s Founding Fathers feared that a standing army would be a permanent political danger, yet the U.S. military has in the 250 years since become a bulwark of democracy. Kori Schake explains why i… [more below]
- Author: Schake, Kori
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 253
- Publish Date: October 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1509570535
- Language: English
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The Free and the Dead: The Untold Story of the Black Seminole Chief, the Indigenous Rebel, and America’s Forgotten War
$30.00 Add to cartThe page-turning and revelatory true story of America’s disastrous 1835 attack on the Seminoles in pre-statehood Florida, and the two men–a Black American and a renowned Indigenous warrior–who fough… [more below]
- Author: Holmes, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1668050617
- Language: English
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Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen
$30.00 Add to cartNPR investigative journalist and the daughter of a Tuskegee Airman, Cheryl W. Thompson explores the stories of the 27 Tuskegee Airmen – the Black pilots who fought for America in WWII – who went missi… [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Cheryl W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1496750772
- Language: English
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Until the Last Gun Is Silent: A Story of Patriotism, the Vietnam War, and the Fight to Save America’s Soul
$32.00 Add to cartThe untold story of the Black patriots–from soldiers in combat to peace protesters–who ended the Vietnam War and defended the soul of American democracy, from a pre-eminent civil rights historian an… [more below]
- Author: Delmont, Matthew F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0593655877
- Language: English
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Hazardous Duty
$21.99 Add to cartThe author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller About Face, Colonel David H. Hackworth is one of America’s most decorated soldiers, having served at the end of World War II, and in Korea and V
- Author: Hackworth, David H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0380727420
- Language: English
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The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America Into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home
$30.00 Add to cartA hard-hitting investigation into how the Pentagon’s runaway spending embroils America in foreign wars, squanders its wealth, and enriches a privileged elite
America spends nearly a trillion dollars- Author: Hartung, William D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1645030636
- Language: English
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Rise to Command: Black Military Officers’ Stories of Survival and Leadership from World War II Through the Cold War
$32.99 Add to cartAn intimate view of the triumphs and challenges experienced by Black officers in the twentieth century.
Rise to Command is a social history told in the words of seventeen Black military officers who gr
- Author: Hampton, Isaac W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0700638822
- Language: English
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The Battle of Fallen Timbers: A Change of Worlds
$24.99 Add to cartAuthor Dave Westrick shares the forgotten stories of the defenders, invaders and all the people caught in the middle. On a hot, humid August morning in 1794, an army representing fifteen quarreling st
- Author: Westrick, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1467159697
- Language: English
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Alive Day: Finding Hope and Purpose after Losing Everything
$22.99 Add to cartHow long does it take to burn to death?
This question raced through Sam Brown’s mind as he burned alive alongside a dirt road in Afghanistan. At 24, he was pursuing his lifelong ambition of serving in
- Author: Brown, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: September 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1544546017
- Language: English
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Midnight in Ironbottom Sound: The Harrowing WWII Story of Heroism in the Shark-Infested Waters of Guadalcanal
$32.99 Add to cartA captivating World War II narrative of an untold story in the Pacific theater
In the heart of the Pacific, where the tides of World War II surged, lies a tale of heroism on the high seas–a tale bro- Author: Avriett, Carole Engle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1510781595
- Language: English
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Calm in the Chaos: True Tales from Elite U.S. Navy Aviation Rescue Swimmers
$29.95 Add to cartFrom an elite Navy rescue swimmer comes this insider perspective on what it takes to survive some of the most dangerous situations imaginable — and how the lessons learned can help overcome other mom
- Author: Dickinson, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1493078534
- Language: English
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The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of Darpa, America’s Top-Secret Military Research Agency
$24.99 Add to cartDiscover the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, in this Pulitzer Prize finalist from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51.
No one has ever writte… [more below]- Author: Jacobsen, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0316371661
- Language: English
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PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy
$18.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary World War II story of shipwreck and survival that paved John F. Kennedy’s path to power – hailed as a “breathtaking account” by James Patterson, “masterfully written” by historian Do
- Author: Doyle, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0062346598
- Language: English
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Gettysburg: The Tide Turns: An Oral History
$32.00 Add to cartThe definitive oral history of the battle that turned the tide of the Civil War that combines vivid first-hand accounts with rich historical narrative.
In late June of 1863, one month after his victor- Author: Chadwick, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368256
- Language: English
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The Big Book of Civil War Sites: From Fort Sumter to Appomattox, a Visitor’s Guide to the History, Personalities, and Places of America’s Battlefields
$34.95 Add to cartThe definitive travel reference for America’s most famous–and infamous–Civil War battle sites!
With The Big Book of Civil War Sites, history-focused travelers finally have ready access to in-depth an
- Author: Bradford, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493072021
- Language: English
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Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How Us Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments
$37.50 Add to cartA vivid tour of US military efforts to understand, survive, and command harsh environments worldwide–and beyond.
Deserts, the Arctic, outer space–these extreme environments are often seen as inhosp- Author: Heefner, Gretchen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0226831590
- Language: English
