Military / War
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Harlem’s Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I
$21.95 Add to cartWhen the United States entered World War I in 1917, thousands of African-American men volunteered to fight for a country that granted them only limited civil rights. Many from New York City joined the… [more below]
- Author: Harris, Stephen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 301
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574886355
- Language: English
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The Worst President–The Story of James Buchanan
$16.95 Add to cartJust 24 hours after former President James Buchanan died on June 1, 1868, the Chicago Tribune rejoiced: “This desolate old man has gone to his grave. No son or daughter is doomed to acknowledge an anc
- Author: Boulard, Garry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: March 23 2015
- ISBN10: 1491759615
- Language: English
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The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War
$18.99 Add to cartSELECTED BY MILITARY TIMES AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * SELECTED BY THE SOCIETY OF MIDLAND AUTHORS’ AS THE BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
The New York Times bestselling author of In Harm’s Way and- Author: Stanton, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1476761949
- Language: English
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The Darkest Summer
$24.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed, dramatic story of the first three months of the Korean War, when outnumbered and outgunned Marines and GIs executed two of the greatest military operations in history and saved South Ko… [more below]
- Author: Sloan, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1416571752
- Language: English
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East Florida in the Revolutionary Era, 1763-1785
$25.95 Add to cartIn 1763 Great Britain organized the colony of East Florida, which formed the entirety of what is now the state of Florida east of the Apalachicola River. Today, the history of East Florida is seldom s
- Author: Kotlik, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1588385027
- Language: English
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Backbone: History, Traditions, and Leadership Lessons of Marine Corps NCOs
$18.95 Add to cartNoncommissioned officers stand as the backbone of the United States Marine Corps. The Corps is among the most lasting institutions in America, though few understand what makes it so strong and how tha… [more below]
- Author: Dye, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: January 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0989798380
- Language: English
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Napoleon’s Marshals
$18.95 Add to cartThe masterful saga of Bonaparte’s twenty-six military Marshals by Napoleonic authority Delderfield is set against the dramatic backdrop of the French Revolution, Napoleon’s rise and his conquests, and… [more below]
- Author: Delderfield, Ronald Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0815412134
- Language: English
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Lakota and Cheyenne: Indian Views of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877
$21.95 Add to cartThe Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 is memorable to most Americans because of Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer’s last stand at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. But to the Lakotas (Western Sioux) and… [more below]
- Author: Greene, Jerome a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0806132450
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Generals
$17.95 Add to cartIn Lincoln’s Generals, Gabor S. Boritt and a team of distinguished historians examine the interaction between Abraham Lincoln and his five key Civil War generals: McClellan, Hooker, Meade, Sherman, an… [more below]
- Author: Boritt, Gabor S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803234546
- Language: English
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The General and the Jaguar: Pershing’s Hunt for Pancho Villa: A True Story of Revolution and Revenge
$26.95 Add to cartOn the cold, dark night of March 9, 1916, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa–el jaguar–and his band of marauders crossed the border and raided the tiny town of Columbus, New Mexico. It was a vicious… [more below]
- Author: Welsome, Eileen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0803222246
- Language: English
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The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth
$24.99 Add to cartThe Civil War’s single-shot, muzzle-loading musket revolutionized warfare-or so we’ve been told for years. Noted historian Earl J. Hess forcefully challenges that claim, offering a new, clear-eyed, an… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Hess, Earl J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 11 2016
- ISBN10: 0700623833
- Language: English
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Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive That Changed the World
$18.99 Add to cartWhen Chinese alchemists fashioned the first manmade explosion sometime during the tenth century, no one could have foreseen its full revolutionary potential. Invented to frighten evil spirits rather t… [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0465037224
- Language: English
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What If? II: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
$27.00 Add to cartWhat if Lincoln didn’t abolish slavery? What if an assassin succeeded in killing FDR in 1933? This volume presents 25 intriguing “what if…” scenarios by some of today’s greatest historical minds-inc… [more below]
- Series: What If Essays
- Author: Cowley, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 042518613X
- Language: English
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The New York Times Disunion: A History of the Civil War
$40.99 Add to cartBetween 2011 and 2015, the Opinion section of The New York Times published Disunion, a series marking the long string of anniversaries around the Civil War, the most destructive, and most defining, co… [more below]
- Author: Widmer, Edward L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0190621834
- Language: English
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Indestructible: The Unforgettable Memoir of a Marine Hero at the Battle of Iwo Jima
$18.99 Add to cartMedal of Honor recipient Jack H. Lucas’s classic memoir of his heroics at the Battle of Iwo Jima–with a foreword by Bob Dole and reissued to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the battle in 2020.
O- Author: Lucas, Jack H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 62795627
- Language: English
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Why We Lost: A General’s Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
$15.95 Add to cart“Why We Lost is neither a memoir nor a window into private meetings and secret discussions. It is a 500-page history . . . filled with heartfelt stories of soldiers and Marines in firefights and close
- Author: Bolger, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0544570413
- Language: English
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How They Won the War in the Pacific: Nimitz and His Admirals
$24.95 Add to cartMore than 80 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, this is the classic book about the principal architects of victory in the Pacific during World War II.
- Author: Hoyt, Edwin P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493071955
- Language: English
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Saving My Enemy: How Two WWII Soldiers Fought Against Each Other and Later Forged a Friendship That Saved Their Lives
$18.99 Read moreTwo soliders of World War II, one American, a member of the Easy Company “Band of Brothers,” and one a German, fight in the Battle of the Bulge, then meet decades later and help deliver one another fr… [more below]
- Series: World War II Collection
- Author: Welch, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1684513030
- Language: English
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Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson
$56.98 Add to cartWinner: Albert Castel Book Award
Winner: Tennessee History Book Award Winner: Emerging Civil War Book Award Winner: Douglas Southall Freeman History Award When General Ulysses S. Grant targeted Forts- Series: Modern War Studies
- Author: Smith, Timothy B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 526
- Publish Date: October 29 2021
- ISBN10: 0700633162
- Language: English
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Peace and Friendship: An Alternative History of the American West
$34.99 Add to cartA new understanding of how the West came to be
For over 35 years, the dominant histories of the American West have been narratives of horrific conflicts. Framed in terms of empire building, these hist- Author: Aron, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 019762278X
- Language: English
