Wars & Conflicts
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A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962
$22.95 Read moreThe Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on F… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Horne, Alistair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 1590172183
- Language: English
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The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945
$24.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of what drove the Germans to fight — and keep fighting — for a lost cause in World War II
In The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary … [more below]- Author: Stargardt, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 0465094899
- Language: English
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The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park: The Secret Intelligence Station That Helped Defeat the Nazis
$12.99 Add to cart‘Turing writes on codebreaking with understandable authority and compelling panache.‘
– Michael Smith, bestselling author of Station X.
At Bletchley Park, some of Britain’s most talented mathematician- Author: Turing, John Dermot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1838576509
- Language: English
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Dispatches: Introduction by Robert Stone
$28.00 Read moreWritten on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977.
From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches m
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
- Author: Herr, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 17 2009
- ISBN10: 0307270807
- Language: English
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Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
$30.00 Add to cart“Monumental.” —The New York Times Book Review
Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict- Author: Kotkin, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1184
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0143132156
- Language: English
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Holler: A Poet Among Patriots
$28.00 Read moreA tour de force of prose style, Holler is poet Danielle Chapman’s moving and provocative portrait of her Southern, military childhood — and an unflinching reckoning with what such an inheritance mean
- Author: Chapman, Danielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War
$40.99 Add to cart“The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril,” wrote Winston Churchill in his monumental history of World War Two. Churchill’s fears were well-placed-the casualty
- Author: Dimbleby, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0190495855
- Language: English
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American Sniper: Memorial Edition
$29.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.
From 199
- Author: Kyle, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0062297872
- Language: English
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Waterloo: June 18, 1815: The Battle for Modern Europe
$13.99 Add to cartJune 18, 1815, was one of the most momentous days in world history, marking the end of twenty-two years of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. On the bloody battlefield of Waterloo, the Emperor
- Series: Making History
- Author: Roberts, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0060762152
- Language: English
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This Is Not Who We Are: America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue
$31.00 Add to cartThis Is Not Who We Are examines America’s struggle to be good once it became an undisputed superpower. A unique and compelling insight into how a country’s humanity affects us all, this book is for lo… [more below]
- Author: Shore, Zachary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: January 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1009203444
- Language: English
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Cease Fire! Cease Fire!: Councilman Chuck, A Hero(in) Addiction
$28.00 Add to cartCouncilman Chuck (as he likes to be referred to) was the youngest (at 28) of the five black candidates in Richmond, Virginia who were elected to the first black majority City Council in 1977. In the f
- Author: Richardson, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0998167215
- Language: English
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First Over There
$21.99 Add to cartThe riveting true story of America’s first modern military battle, its first military victory during World War One, and its first steps onto the world stage
At first light on Tuesday, May 28th, 1918,- Author: Davenport, Matthew J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 1250843499
- Language: English
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A Shau: Crucible of the Vietnam War
$39.95 Add to cartNestled in Vietnam’s Thua Thien Province, west of the city of Hue, and bordering Laos, the narrow 40-kilometer long A Shau Valley, situated between densely forested mountain ranges, witnessed prolonge
- Author: Phillips, Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 542
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1642280445
- Language: English
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The Barrier and Javelin: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies, February to June 1942
$28.95 Add to cartThe second part of H. P. Willmott’s three-volume history of the war in the Pacific, this work tells how Japan arrived at a situation in which war with the United States was the only means of ensuring … [more below]
- Author: Willmott, H. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1591149495
- Language: English
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War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War
$18.99 Add to cartA “marvelous” (Sports Illustrated) portrait of the three men whose lives were forever changed by WWI-era Boston and the Spanish flu: baseball star Babe Ruth, symphony conductor Karl Muck, and Harvard … [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1541672682
- Language: English
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Moral Imperative: 1972, Combat Rescue, and the End of America’s War in Vietnam
$27.99 Add to cartIn 1972, America was completing its withdrawal from the long and divisive war in Vietnam. Air power covered the departure of ground forces, and search and rescue teams from all services and Air Americ… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies
- Author: Whitcomb, Darrel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0700630066
- Language: English
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We Marched Through Hell: A Rural High School’s Service in the Vietnam War and Life in its Aftermath
$29.95 Add to cartThere is so much more to the Vietnam War than just the war itself. The Vietnam War was a complicated mixture of events and characters that eventually affected our lives, our country, and our history i
- Author: Schultz, Steven D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: February 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1977221548
- Language: English
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Reflections on LZ Albany: The Agony of Vietnam
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: Lawrence, James T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 29 2013
- ISBN10: 1937565866
- Language: English
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Patton’s Forward Observers: History of the 7th Field Artillery Observation Battalion, XX Corps, Third Army
$23.95 Add to cartPatton Forward Observers is a story told by a unique collection of highly trained artillery observers who fought every step of the war with Patton’s famed Third Army. We remember Patton today only thr… [more below]
- Author: Rieth, John K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: July 13 2004
- ISBN10: 1883911621
- Language: English
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Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms
$19.95 Add to cartChronicling the underappreciated black tradition of bearing arms for self-defense, law professor Nicholas Johnson presents an array of examples reaching back to the pre-Civil War era that demonstrate … [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 161614839X
- Language: English
