On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arli...
Robert M. PooleOn Hallowed Ground is the long and storied history of Arlington National Cemetery. Created during the turmoil of the Civil War, Arlington's story reflects much of America's own over the past century and a half. The mansion at its hear...
On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arli...
Robert M. PooleCreated toward the end of our greatest national crucible, the Civil War, Arlington Cemetery — as revealed in On Hallowed Ground — reflects much of America's history over the past century and a half. The mansion at its heart, and t...
Red November: Inside the Secret U.S.-...
W. Craig ReedFew know how close the world has come to annihilation better than the warriors who served America during the Cold War. Now, in this riveting new history, W. Craig Reed provides an eye-opening, pulse-pounding account of the underwater ...
The Generals: American Military Comma...
Thomas E. RicksFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fiasco and The Gamble comes an epic history of the decline of American military leadership from World War II to Iraq. History has been kinder to the American generals of World War II --...
The Generals: American Military Comma...
Thomas E. Ricksb[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]/b From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fiasco and The Gamble comes an epic history of the decline of American military leadership from World War II to Iraq. History has been kinder ...
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great W...
Eugene RoganIn The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict...
Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Ric...
John F. RossThe sensational true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying aceAt the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies—the car and airplane—took the nation's imagination by storm as they burst, like comets, into ...
Hellcats: The Epic Story of World War...
Peter SasgenThe incredible true story of nine Hellcat submarines assigned to penetrate the dense minefields protecting the sea of Japan. In 1945-with no knowledge of the development of the atomic bomb- American submarine commanders, desperate to ...
Ministers at War: Winston Churchill a...
Jonathan Schneer[Read by Matthew Brenher]In May 1940, with France on the verge of defeat, Britain alone stood in the path of the Nazi military juggernaut. Survival seemed to hinge on the leadership of Winston Churchill, whom the king reluctantly appo...
For Love of Country: What Our Veteran...
Howard SchultzA celebration of the extraordinary courage, dedication, and sacrifice of this generation of American veterans on the battlefield and their equally valuable contributions on the home front. Because so few of us now serve in the militar...
God's Battalions: The Case for the Cr...
Rodney StarkIn God's Battalions, distinguished scholar Rodney Stark reviews the history of the seven major Crusades from 1095 to 1291 and puts forth a controversial argument that the Crusades were a justified war waged against Muslim terror and a...
The Golden Thirteen: Recollections of...
Paul StillwellThis book profiles the courageous and groundbreaking Golden Thirteen---the U.S. Navy's first African American officers on active duty---who recall in their own words how each maintained his dignity, pride, and humor in the face of pre...
There are few moments in military history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted ...
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events leading up to World War I in a narrative the Chicago Tribune praised as "more dramatic than fiction."
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events leading up to World War I in a narrative the Chicago Tribune praised as "more dramatic than fiction."
When FBI Agent David Stafford finds himself on the Bureau's 'out' list for publicly blowing the whistle on a corrupt colleague, he receives a low-profile assignment to investigate an Atlanta military base, where someone is suspected o...
When two of his American employees were held hostage in a heavily guarded prison fortress in Iran, one man took matters into his own hands: American businessman H. Ross Perot. His team consisted of a group of volunteers from the execu...
109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer a...
Jennet ConantTraces the story of the physicists and their families who lived in the then-secret city of Los Alamos during the invention of the atomic bomb, years during which they lied to outsiders about their daily existences and endured harsh li...
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...
To Kingdom Come: An Epic Saga of Surv...
Robert J. MrazekThe breathtaking, never-before-told, true story of a historic air force bombing mission in 1943 Germany.
The Operator: Firing the Shots that K...
Robert O'NeillA stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping account, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's awe-inspiring four-hundred-mission career, which included his involvement in attempts to rescue ...
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
Max HastingsFrom one of our finest military historians comes a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty...