Military / War
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Civil War Stories: 40 of the Greatest Tales about the War Between the States
$19.95 Add to cartBetween the first shots fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, the nation was irrevocably changed, as were the lives of the soldiers and … [more below]
- Series: Jumbo Story Collections
- Author: Underwood, Lamar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1493060848
- Language: English
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Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
$21.99 Add to cart“The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.” –H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion)
- Author: McMaster, H. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0060929081
- Language: English
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist)
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – An “extraordinary … profoundly moving” history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on suc… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Civil War Library
- Author: Faust, Drew Gilpin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0375703837
- Language: English
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Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes “a masterwork of history” (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, … [more below]
- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1501116231
- Language: English
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The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
$18.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.
FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR(R)… [more below]- Author: Fox, Margalit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1984853856
- Language: English
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Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
$35.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – In this “beautifully written and superbly researched dual biography” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham “paints a powerful portr… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0375505008
- Language: English
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Gettysburg
$21.99 Add to cartA comprehensive history of the Battle of Gettysburg by one of today’s leading historians.
The greatest of all Civil War campaigns, Gettysburg was the turning point of the turning point in our nation’s … [more below]
- Author: Sears, Stephen W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 623
- Publish Date: November 03 2004
- ISBN10: 0618485384
- Language: English
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Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War
$49.95 Add to cartFinalist for the American Battlefield Trust Book Prize
The fraught relationship between Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan is well known, so much so that many scholars rarely question the standard n- Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
- Author: Rable, George C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179779
- Language: English
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The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War
$18.99 Add to cart“Bascomb has unearthed a remarkable piece of hidden history, and told it perfectly. The story brims with adventure, suspense, daring, and heroism.”
–David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of… [more below]- Author: Bascomb, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0358118220
- Language: English
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The Art of War
$15.95 Add to cartThe most prestigious and influential book on strategy and dealing with conflict, beautifully translated for clear, accessible reading.
In the words of Sun Tzu, “To win without fighting is best.” This- Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
- Author: Sun-Tzu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1611806976
- Language: English
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The Marines of Montford Point: America’s First Black Marines
$24.00 Add to cartWith an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps–the last all-white branch of the U.S. military–was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African … [more below]
- Author: McLaurin, Melton A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0807861766
- Language: English
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The Art of War
$9.99 Read moreThe Art of War by general and philosopher Sun Tzu is an influential book of strategy that has found applications in countless situations beyond the war room.
More than 2,000 years old, this classic o… [more below]- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Tzu, Sun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1435171624
- Language: English
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Those Devils in Baggy Pants
$22.95 Add to cartThose Devils in Baggy Pants was originally published in 1951 by Ross S. Carter, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division during WWII. Carter, one of the three surviving members of his original platoon a
- Author: Fraley, David Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1954978219
- Language: English
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The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
$26.99 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson’s acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II It is the twentieth century’s unrivaled- Series: Liberation Trilogy #3
- Author: Atkinson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 1250037816
- Language: English
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Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia’s Bloody War and Ukraine’s Fight for Survival
$18.00 Read moreNew York Times bestselling author of Collusion and The Snowden Files Luke Harding’s personal, frontline reporting on Russia’s harrowing invasion of Ukraine, the biggest news event of the year and an i… [more below]
- Author: Harding, Luke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0593685172
- Language: English
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Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE – From America’s “forgotten war” in Korea comes an unforgettable tale of courage by the author of A Higher Call.
“In the spirit of Unbroken and- Author: Makos, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0804176604
- Language: English
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The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West, Revised Edition
$26.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1967, William H. Leckie’s The Buffalo Soldiers was the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African American units in the conquest of the West. Decades later, … [more below]
- Author: Leckie, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0806138408
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
$39.99 Add to cartWe are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant
- Author: Sinha, Manisha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1631498444
- Language: English
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All Present and Accounted For: The 1972 Alaska Grounding of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis and the Heroic Efforts that Saved the Ship
$19.95 Add to cartIt was late November–one of the coldest periods to be on a ship near Alaska. The Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis had run aground during a severe storm and was taking on water. The engine room flooded, disa
- Author: Craig, Steven J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: November 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1555719643
- Language: English
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On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864
$44.95 Add to cartWith On to Petersburg, Gordon C. Rhea completes his much-lauded history of the Overland Campaign, a series of Civil War battles fought between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in southeaste
- Author: Rhea, Gordon C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 468
- Publish Date: September 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0807167479
- Language: English
