TWILIGHT STRUGGLE
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
1981
MEMOIROne of the most powerful firsthand accounts of combat ever written. A U.S. Marine's unsparing memoir of the Pacific island-hopping campaign.
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
2011
NON-FICTIONDefinitive account of the brutal naval campaign for Guadalcanal, covering six major sea battles fought in Iron Bottom Sound.
Guadalcanal Diary
1943
MEMOIRWar correspondent's firsthand diary of the Marines' desperate first weeks on Guadalcanal — one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of WWII Pacific combat.
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
1980
MEMOIRManchester revisits the Pacific battlefields of his youth, weaving personal memoir with historical narrative across Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, and Okinawa.
The Pacific War
2010
NON-FICTIONOffers an introduction to the Pacific War, including such topics as the opening amphibious operations and Japanese naval strategy after Midway.
The Turning Points in the Pacific
2014
NON-FICTION*Includes pictures *Includes soldiers' accounts of the fighting *Includes bibliographies for further reading Although not as well-remembered as D-Day or even the attack at Pearl Harbor that preceded i...
Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs
1997
NON-FICTIONControversial argument that the Vietnam War was lost as much by deception and institutional failures at the top of the U.S. military and government as by battlefield failure.
Hue 1968
2017
NON-FICTIONGripping account of the bloodiest battle of the Tet Offensive and the Vietnam War's turning point.
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.
Canada's post-cold-war military blues and it's lessons for Australia
2000
MILITARY HISTORYEveryday Lives in China's Cold War Military-Industrial Complex
2022
MILITARY HISTORY
A framework for precision conventional strike in post-Cold War military strategy
1996
MILITARY HISTORYPrecision conventional strike (PCS) is the practice of attacking selected targets with sufficient accuracy for high probability of kill and low collateral damage. Today's PCS weapons were developed fo...
Nothing to Write Home about - a Fictionalized Memoir of Cold War Military Service
2015
MILITARY HISTORYRough Draft
2019
MILITARY HISTORY"America's inequitable system of draft deferments during the Vietnam War was the direct outgrowth of military manpower policies designed to fight the Cold War at home"--
Inferno: The World at War, 1939–1945
2011
NON-FICTIONGlobal history of WWII told through the testimonies of hundreds of ordinary soldiers and civilians from every theater and every major nation.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
1960
NON-FICTIONClassic history of Nazi Germany from its origins through its destruction, by a journalist who lived in Berlin and witnessed events firsthand.