Stalin's Secret Agents: The Subversio...
M. Stanton EvansMost Americans have grown accustomed to accept the version of history that the Soviets were our noble allies and took the brunt of the casualties during World War II. But after decades of research by veteran journalist M. Stanton Evan...
The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and t...
William Geroux"Vividly drawn and emotionally gripping."—Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the BoatOne of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast...
The Vanquished: Why the First World W...
Robert GerwarthIn The Vanquished, a highly original and gripping work of history, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western Front that proved so ruinous ...
Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of t...
J. R. HaleNoted archaeologist John R. Hale presents a stirring history of the world's first dominant navy and the towering empire it built.
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Chris HedgesAs a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war he...
The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New His...
William I. HitchcockAmericans are justly proud of the role the United States played in liberating Europe from Nazi tyranny. For many years, we have celebrated the courage of the Allied soldiers, sailors, and aircrews who defeated Hitler's regime and rest...
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty a...
Adam HochschildAward-winning author Adam Hochschild explores the First World War with a particular focus on the conflict between the critics and the supporters of the war.
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of th...
David HoffmanThis riveting narrative history of the end of the arms race sheds new light on the frightening last chapters of the Cold War and the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today. During the Cold W...
The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at T...
James HornfischerTimed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, here is an unprecedented account of the extraordinary World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and mark...
Abundance of Valor: Resistance, Liber...
Will IrwinRetired U.S. Special Forces colonel Will Irwin presents a brutally honest and truly inspiring account of the World War II operation known as "Market Garden," a high-risk Allied invasion of enemy territory and the largest air...
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret Hi...
Annie Jacobsen*The USA Today bestseller*Surprise... your target.Kill... your enemy.Vanish... without a trace.From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units.When diplomacy fails, and war is unwis...
Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower...
Jonathan W. JordanThe true story of the friendship--and rivalry--among the greatest American generals of World War II. Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower, General George S. Patton, and General Omar N. Bradley engineered the Allied conquest t...
The Liberator: One World War II Soldi...
Alex KershawThe true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War: the battlefield odyssey of a maverick U.S. Army officer and his infantry unit as they fought for over five hundred days to liberate Europe - f...
Vienna 1814: How the Conquerors of Na...
David KingThe Napoleonic Wars had torn Europe apart, and the peace conference of 1814 was to be held in the continent's grandest city: Vienna. Everyone had an agenda in the postwar world, and spy networks, bitter hatreds, illicit affairs, and t...
D-Day with the Screaming Eagles
George KoskimakiIn the predawn darkness of D-Day, an elite fighting force struck the first blows against Hitler's Fortress Europe. Braving a hail of enemy gunfire and mortars, bold invaders from the sky descended into the hedgerow country and swarmed...
Strong Men Armed: The United States M...
Robert LeckieA classic, firsthand account of the U.S. Marines' relentless drive from Guadalcanal to Okinawa during World War II.
A Higher Calling: An Incredible True ...
Adam Makos[Read by Robertson Dean] The story of two enemy fighter pilots who met in the skies in the midst of a bloody war. Four days before Christmas in 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its contro...
Voices of the Pacific: Untold Stories...
Adam Makos[MP3CD audiobook format in Vinyl case.] True stories of heroism and honor as told by such World War II veterans as Sid Phillips, R. V. Burgin, and Chuck Tatum - and their marine buddies from the legendary First Marine Division Chronic...
They Marched Into Sunlight : War and ...
David MaranissMaraniss...is a writer with a masterly sense of narrative pace. Moving between the campus at Madison and the jungles of Vietnam, with side trips to Hanoi and Washington, the tale unfolds with a magisterial sweep that recaptures the wa...
The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled ...
Kati MartonTraces the early twentieth century journey of nine men from Budapest who fled fascism and anti-Semitism to seek sanctuary in America, where they made pivotal contributions to such causes as the development of the atomic bomb, the crea...
Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Por...
Jon MeachamNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history's towering leaders Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of "the Greatest Gene...
Although most people associate the term D-day with the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, it is military code for the beginning of any offensive operation. In the Pacific theater during World War II there were more than one hundred D-...
b[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]/b [**Revised, expanded, and updated from the original text by Henry Steele Commager] Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written w...
Pacific Payback: The Carrier Aviators...
Stephen L. MooreSunday, December 7, 1941, dawned clear and bright over the Pacific. But for the Dauntless dive-bomber crews of the USS Enterprise returning to their home base on Oahu, it was a morning from hell. Flying directly into the Japanese am...
Deathride: Hitler vs. Stalin---the Ea...
John MosierJohn Mosier presents a revisionist retelling of the war on the Eastern Front. Although the Eastern Front was the biggest and most important theater in World War II, it is not well known in the United States, as no American troops part...
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the A...
Liza MundyNATIONAL BESTSELLER"Prodigiously researched and engrossing."---New York Times Book Review "Fascinating.... Addictively readable."---Boston Globe"Code Girls reveals a hidden army of female cryptographers, whose...
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of t...
Michael NormanIn the tradition of All Quiet on the Western Front and Hiroshima, this major new work about World War II exposes the myths of military heroism as shallow and inadequate, and makes clear that war causes suffering for people on all side...
American Heroes: On the Homefront
Oliver NorthCombat-decorated Marine Oliver North delivers a riveting firsthand account of the extraordinary young American volunteers—the best and bravest of their generation—who stepped forward to defend us from radical Islamic terror. For m...
The Brenner Assignment: The Untold St...
Patrick K. O'DonnellLike a scene from Where Eagles Dare, a small team of American special operatives parachutes into Italy, landing under the noses of thousands of German troops. Their orders: link up with local partisans in the mountains and sabotage th...
No Hero: The Evolution of a Navy SEAL...
Mark OwenThe second book by former Navy SEAL Mark Owen, following his multimillion-copy classic about the bin Laden mission No Easy Day, in which he tells the stories from his career that were most personal to him and that made him the operat...