OCTOBER WAR: DOCTRINE AND TACTICS IN THE YOM KIPPUR CONFLICT
A Moving River of Tears
1992
NON-FICTIONThis volume surveys the Russian effort throughout the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries to unite Russian and Finnish literature. The book discusses various contacts, meetings, disag...
A History of War in 100 Battles
2014
NON-FICTIONBeginning with the fall of Troy in 1200 BC and ending with the invasion of Baghdad in 2003, renowned military historian Richard Overy's newest work looks at the history of warfare through the lens of ...
Wars of the Cold War
2004
NON-FICTIONThough the words, Cold War, refer to a period of specific international tension it is also true that the wars, conflicts and armed disputes of the period were most often influenced by, and even create...
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, ...
Hue 1968
2017
NON-FICTIONGripping account of the bloodiest battle of the Tet Offensive and the Vietnam War's turning point.
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...
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
1992
NON-FICTIONDefinitive account of the Battle of Ia Drang Valley in 1965, the first major engagement between US forces and the NVA.
The Things They Carried
1990
FICTIONLandmark work of fiction-as-memoir about American soldiers in Vietnam. One of the most acclaimed war novels of the 20th century.
Dispatches
1977
MEMOIRIconic New Journalism account of the Vietnam War by a war correspondent. Its prose style influenced an entire generation of war writing.
The Battle for the Falklands
1983
NON-FICTION"Must be read by all our military people and anyone who wants to find out what really happened on the Falkland Islands." -James M. Gavin
The Great Swindle
2016
NON-FICTIONWinner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt, a timeless story of how war transforms lives in unexpected and often tragic ways as seen through the eyes of three World War I vets The year is 1918, the war o...
The Fire Fighter
2002
NON-FICTIONSebastian Faulks meets Robert Harris in a wonderfully evocative and thrilling first novel about a firefighter in London at the height of the Blitz. Autumn, 1940, and the Luftwaffe is firebombing Londo...
Haig's Medical Officer
2013
NON-FICTIONEugene (Micky) Ryan was born in Ireland and studied medicine at Cork and Edinburgh. After a period of private practice in London he was commissioned into the RAMC in 1901 and saw active service in Sou...
Sharpe's Prey
2011
NON-FICTIONThe heroic Richard Sharpe finds himself (after victory in "Sharpe's Trafalgar") in Denmark, where he is fighting once again to keep the treacherous French troops at bay.
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
2018
NON-FICTIONIn 1940s Italy, teenager Pino Lella joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps and falls for a beautiful widow, he also becomes the personal driver of one of the Third Reich's mos...
The Strangled Queen
2013
NON-FICTION'This was the original game of thrones' George R.R. Martin The King is dead. Long live the King. Philip IV is dead and his great kingdom is in disarray. It seems the fatal curse of the Templars is pla...
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 Jakarta Method
2020
MILITARY HISTORYIn this bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins builds on his incisive reporting for the Washington Post, using recently declassified documents, archival research and eye-witness testimony ...
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]
1900
MILITARY HISTORYContains: - [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262421W/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes) [Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_i...
The Caine mutiny
1951
MILITARY HISTORYWinner of the Pulitzer Prize this atmospheric novel tells the story in flashback of a mutiny aboard a United States minesweeper during WW2. The murky events of the mutiny emerge during a court-martial...