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Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War by Charles Brace Flood Publisher Comments They were both prewar failures—Grant, forced to resign from the Regular Army because of his drinking, and Sherman, holding four different jobs, including a much-loved position at a southern military academy—in the years before the firing on... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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MacArthur Strikes Back: Decision at Buna, New Guinea 1942-1943 by Harry A Gailey Publisher Comments MacArthur at Buna is the first book-length treatment of this vitally important campaign.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Nco Guide, 8th Edition (NCO Guide) by Csm Robert S. Rush Publisher Comments The NCO Guide has been published continuously since 1948 and updated frequently by highly knowledgeable and experienced senior noncommissioned officers. It has grown in reputation as the key source of professional information for NCOs, who have come to... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Patton: Legendary World War II Commander (Military Profiles) by Martin Blumenson Publisher Comments Shortly after World War II, when the Allies interrogated Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, the senior commander who opposed the Allied invasion of France, they asked him to rate the skills of his opponents. He is reputed to have said, Patton, he was your... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hero of Aliwal: The Campaigns of Sir Harry Smith in India, 1843-1846, During the Gwalior War & the First Sikh War by James Humphries Publisher Comments The fate of Empires in the balance - the experience of battle - the moment of triumph for one man The days when young Harry Smith wore the green jacket of the 95th-Wellington's famous riflemen-campaigning in Spain against Napoleon's French with his... (read more) List Price $20.25 Your price: $6.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Tank Wars Central Front: NATO Vs. Warsaw Pact by Steven J Zaloga Publisher Comments In the late 1980s, with the Intermediate Nuclear Force Treaty in effect, public attention turned to discussions of conventional weapons in Europe, particularly tanks. Though the importance of tanks had dimished since their heyday in the Second World War,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Making of the Roman Army: From Republic to Empire by Lawrence Keppie Publisher Comments The Making of the Roman Army explores how a small citizen militia guarding a village on the banks of the Tiber evolved into the professional Roman army. Lawrence Keppie pays particular attention to the transitional period between Republic and Empire... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hitler's Italian Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940-1943 by Macgregor Knox Publisher Comments This book explains why the Italian armed forces and Fascist regime were so remarkably ineffectual at an activity-war-that was central to their existence. Italy's economic fragility, Mussolini's strategic-ideological fantasies, and Hitler's failure in the... (read more) List Price $72.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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U-Boat Offensive, 1914-1945 by V E Tarrant Book News Annotation A thorough examination of the u-boat menace in both world wars. Both times England was almost defeated by the effective use of submarines. The rise and fall of the u-boats is well chronicled with many illustrations. Acidic paper. Annotation c. Book... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $9.98 Used - Hardcover
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Thucydides' War Narrative: A Structural Study by Carolyn J Dewald Publisher Comments This analysis of Thucydides's History argues that the narrative structure changes very substantially after book v, and that these changes in structure reflect changes in Thucydides' own understandig of the nature of the Peloponnesian War. A substantial... (read more) List Price $74.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The D-Day Companion: Leading Historians Explore History's Greatest Amphibious Assault by Jane Penrose Publisher Comments Published to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Normandy Landings, ' The D-Day Companion' book brings together the perspectives and opinions of leading military historians from both sides of the Atlantic. Operation Overlord saw the Allied Generals... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Path to Victory: The Mediterranean Theater in World War II by Douglas Porch Publisher Comments The Mediterranean theater in World War II has long been overlooked by historians who believe it was little more than a string of small-scale battles--sideshows that were of minor importance in a war whose outcome was decided in the clashes of mammoth... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division by Bing West Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-274).... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam by Martin Windrow Publisher Comments In December 1953 the French army occupying Vietnam challenged the elusive Vietnamese army to engage in a decisive battle. When French paratroopers landed in the jungle on the border between Vietnam and Laos, the Vietnamese quickly isolated the French... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 by Michael R Beschloss Publisher Comments Based on thousands of pages of newly opened documents and detailed notes by the highest-level players, this acclaimed book reveals how FDR and Truman's private struggles with their allies and aides affected the unfolding of the Holocaust and the fate of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Devil's Device: Robert Whitehead and the History of the Torpedo by Edwyn Gray Synopsis The story of the invention of the self-propelled torpedo in 1870 and how it revolutionized naval weaponry and naval tactics.... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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History of Military Aviation by Bill Gunston Synopsis More than 180 photographs tell the story of how the best airforces developed, and their winning strategies--including the Nazis' devastating Blitzkrieg tactic. All the groundbreaking planes past and present receive close coverage; so do those wars where... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Liverpool Vcs by James Murphy Publisher Comments In Liverpool local heroes tend to be drawn from football or the music business or from the period when the city was one of Britain's greatest ports. Although it has produced many military heroes, only double VC winner Noel Chavasse has had the... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $20.00 Used - Hardcover
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Echo of Battle (08 Edition) by Brian Mcallister Linn Publisher Comments Based on exhaustive research and interviews, this work provides an unprecedented reinterpretation of how the U.S. Army has waged war in the past and how it is meeting the new challenges of tomorrow.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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It Doesn't Take a Hero by H Norm Schwarzkopf Publisher Comments Rarely in public life does a figure emerge of such compelling leadership and personal charisma as to capture an entire nation's--indeed, the world's--imagination. Such a man is General Schwarzkopf, Commander of the Allied Forces in the Persian Gulf... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Mass Market
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