ARMORED KNIGHTS: GUDERIAN CROSSES THE DESNA 1941
Shadow on the White House
1993
NON-FICTIONHarry Truman's administration began searching for an American response to the clash in Indochina between Frech colonialism and Vietminh communism in 1945. Thirty years and five administrations later, ...
Agincourt: A New History
2005
NON-FICTIONThe definitive modern account of Agincourt, drawing on English and French sources to reconstruct the battle and debunk centuries of myth.
Azincourt
2008
FICTIONCornwell's masterful novel follows an English archer through the brutal Agincourt campaign — mud, terror, and the long-bow's devastating power.
The Forgotten War: America in Korea 1950-1953
1987
NON-FICTIONThe most exhaustive single-volume history of the Korean War, covering every major campaign from the Pusan Perimeter to the armistice.
The Prince
1515
MILITARY HISTORYThe Prince (Italian: Il Principe [il ˈprintʃipe]; Latin: De Principatibus) is a 16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli as an instruction...
Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England
2005
NON-FICTIONThe definitive modern account of the Battle of Agincourt, combining close reading of contemporary sources with analysis of the armies, terrain, and tactics that produced Henry V's famous victory.
House to House: An Epic Memoir of War
2007
MEMOIRFirst-person account of urban combat in Fallujah in November 2004 by a decorated Army staff sergeant. The most visceral account of close-quarters combat in the Iraq War.
Agincourt
2009
FICTION"The greatest writer of historical adventures today" (Washington Post) tackles his richest, most thrilling subject yet—the heroic tale of Agincourt. Young Nicholas Hook is dogged by a cursed past—haun...
The Face of Battle
1976
NON-FICTIONLandmark study examining three battles — Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme — from the perspective of the ordinary soldier, asking what combat is actually like for those who must endure it.
The Port Chicago 50
2017
NON-FICTIONPresents an account of the 1944 civil rights protest involving hundreds of African-American Navy servicemen who were unjustly charged with mutiny for refusing to work in unsafe conditions after the de...
Slapton Sands
2004
NON-FICTIONIt's 1976 and American student Alice Bourne has come to Slapton Sands on the south Devon coast to research an event that took place 32 years earlier, a catastrophe which claimed the lives of almost 1,...
Lee Takes Command
1984
NON-FICTIONWhen General Robert E. Lee took command of the Confederate forces defending Richmond in June of 1862, he was famous yet little known. How Lee's background and training prepared him for his supreme tri...
Clara Barton's Civil War
2018
NON-FICTIONThrough Battle Dispatches, Letters, and Other Records, Discovering the Wartime Service of America's Most Famous Nurse "I always tried to succor the wounded until medical aid and supplies could come up...
Shadows in the Fire
2015
NON-FICTIONWise beyond her years, Miss Francine is a twelve-year-old slave girl in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War. She endures the hardships of bondage as well as the odd...
Legacy of Discord
2002
NON-FICTIONProbing interviews with leading participants in, and critical observers of, the Vietnam War
The Blood of Flowers
2007
FICTIONA dazzling debut novel about a young woman in 17th-century Persia whose gift as a rug designer transforms her life.
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
1984
NON-FICTIONA landmark work that recounts the Crusades entirely from the perspective of the Arab chroniclers who lived through them.
