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Blackhorse Riders: A Desperate Last Stand, an Extraordinary Rescue Mission, and the Vietnam Battle America Forgot by Philip Keith Publisher Comments Documents the daring March 1970 campaign by the famed Blackhorse Regiment to rescue an infantry unit that had become surrounded and outnumbered by Northern Vietnamese forces, describing the contributions of Captain John Poindexter and the 30-year effort... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Our Bravest Young Men by Corinne Mcconnell Brul Publisher Comments This is one volume of a two-volume book. This novel is a political statement set within a story in the Vietnam War. The purpose of this book is to entertain, To educate and to give a message about the Vietnam War. The author has kept historical accuracy... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Google eBooks - Electronic
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World's End by Upton Sinclair Publisher Comments World's End is the first in an eleven book series written by Upton Sinclair in 1940. The Protagonist is Lanny Budd, the American son of a millionaire munitions salesman, Robbie Budd. Lanny's mother, Beauty, is the American daughter of a Baptist minister... (read more) Your price: $12.75 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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War Is A Lie by David Christopher Naylor Swanson Publisher Comments War Is A Lie is a thorough refutation of every major argument used to justify wars, drawing on evidence from numerous past wars, with a focus on those wars that have been most widely defended as just and good.... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $9.62 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill Publisher Comments The first volume of Churchill's Noble-Prize winning six-part chronicle of World War II. THE GATHERING STORM depicts the rise of Hitler and the indifference of the leaders of the European democracies to the clouds of the gathering storm. Churchill... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $7.09 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy by Paul R. Pillar Publisher Comments Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy is an essential guide to more effective coordination between conventional foreign policy and efforts to prevent terrorist attacks and activities. This paperback edition includes a new, extensive, and provocative post-9... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $20.37 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Their Finest Hour by Winston Churchill Publisher Comments The second volume of Churchill's Nobel-Prize winning six-part chronicle of World War II. Their "finest hour" refers to Britain that struggled alone to survive overwhelming German advantage; detailed reconstruction of the bombing of London, the Battle of... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $7.09 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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In the Shadow of the Battleship: Considering the Cruisers of World War II by Richard Worth Publisher Comments Participating in almost every major sea battle in World War II, cruisers found themselves pressed into a myriad of roles. They escorted battle lines, guarded convoys, patrolled oceans--even acted as mini-battleships, going toe-to-toe with dreadnoughts... (read more) List Price $7.37 Your price: $6.54 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Closing the Ring by Winston Churchill Publisher Comments The fifth volume of Churchill's Nobel-Prize winning six-part chronicle of World War II. The fate of the Allies turn with the Normandy invasion after Hitler's defeat at Stalingrad. For the first time, the end of the war with an Allied victory seems... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $7.09 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 CST 1941 by Evan Mawdsley Publisher Comments In far-flung locations around the globe, an unparalleled sequence of international events took place between December 1 and December 12, 1941. In this riveting book, historian Evan Mawdsley explores how the story unfolded. He demonstrates how these... (read more) Your price: $30.00 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Centuries of Service: The U.S. Army, 1775-2005 by David W. Hogan Publisher Comments This authoritative publications examines the Army's role in internal improvements, natural disaster relief, economic assistance, domestic order, and a host of other contingencies.... (read more) List Price $3.99 Your price: $3.54 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell Publisher Comments The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.83 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945 by Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman Publisher Comments An eyewitness account of the campaigns of the Eastern Front during World War II draws on the firsthand reporting of a special correspondent for The Red Star, the Red Army's newspaper, documenting the savage battles, the siege of Stalingrad, the great... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Day of the Barbarians by Alessandro Barbero Publisher Comments On August 9, 378 AD, at Adrianople in the Roman province of Thrace (now western Turkey), the Roman Empire began to fall. Two years earlier, an unforeseen flood of refugees from the East Germanic tribe known as the Goths had arrived at the Empire's... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $11.09 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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To Train the Fleet of War by Albert Nofi Publisher Comments To Train the Fleet for War: The U.S. Navy Fleet Problems, 19231940,by Professor Albert A. Nofi, examines in detail, making extensive use of the Naval War College archives, each of the U.S. Navy's twenty-one "fleet problems" conducted between World Wars I... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Shade it Black by Jessica Goodell Publisher Comments How do fallen service men and women get from Fallujah to the flag-covered coffins returned home? And what does their recovery tell us about the nature of modern warfare or ourselves? These questions are the focus of Jessica Goodell's story, 'Shade it... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $10.64 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Grand Alliance by Winston Churchill Publisher Comments The third volume of Churchill's Nobel-Prize winning six-part chronicle of World War II. Hitler's ruthless shepherding of German military strength and threats lead to the formation of the Allies in the face of war. Churchill incorporates contemporary... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $7.09 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Hinge of Fate by Winston Churchill Publisher Comments The fourth volume of Churchill's Nobel-Prize winning six-part chronicle of World War II. Civilization itself seems at stake in these early months of American intervention and the fall of France. Churchill, wartime Prime Minister through this period... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $7.09 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder Publisher Comments Describes how fourteen million people were murdered by Hitler's and Stalin's regimes in the area between Germany and Russia during the time when both men were in power and examines the motives and methods behind the mass murders.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Triumph and Tragedy by Winston Churchill Publisher Comments The end of World War II, the crushing of Germany and the devastating bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.and the entrance into an uneasy and clouded peace as Churchill is dismissed from his office and the Allies embark upon a tragic, misguided and atomic... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $7.09 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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