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Lava Dawgs
2014
NON-FICTIONAn infantry battalion of Marines from Hawaii, find themselves deployed to fight in the biggest, urban battle since the Vietnam War. The city of Fallujah, in al-Anbar Province, Iraq, has been hijacked ...
Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000-1500
2002
NON-FICTIONHow were medieval navies organised, and how did powerful rulers use them? This fascinating account brings vividly to life the dangers and difficulties of medieval seafaring.
The Brassey's Book of Naval Blunders
2000
NON-FICTIONA fascinating catalog of naval incompetence throughout history, from Roman times to the Gulf War
An Encyclopedia of Naval History
1999
NON-FICTIONAn Encyclopedia of Naval History provides both the structure and details of the evolution of naval history over the last five centuries. A fascinating and functional research tool, it contains more th...
The Naval Miscellany
2017
NON-FICTIONBrian Vale is a naval historian with degrees from Keele and King’s College London. A life-long member of the Society for Nautical Research and the Navy Records Society, he has long specialised in Angl...
Military and Naval Recognition Book - A Handbook on the Organisation, Insignia of Rank, and Customs of the Service of the Worlds Important Armies and
2009
NON-FICTIONThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. ...
The Iron Cavalry
1998
NON-FICTIONPlacing the reader inside yesterday's mechanical beasts as well as today's sophisticated, night-seeing machines, "The Iron Cavalry" shows how armies throughout the world have utilized tanks, retaliate...
Enlisted Naval Aviation Pilots
2002
MEMOIRThe early 1890s through the late 1920s saw an explosion in serious long fiction by women in the United States. Considering a wide range of authors--African American, Asian American, white American, an...
Our Man In Havana
2001
FICTIONWormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts.His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he s tempte...
The Killer Angels
1974
FICTIONPulitzer Prize-winning historical novel depicting the Battle of Gettysburg from multiple perspectives.
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
2013
NON-FICTIONDeeply researched modern account of the three-day battle that decided the Civil War.
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
1988
NON-FICTIONPulitzer Prize-winning single-volume history of the Civil War era. The standard work on the causes, course, and consequences of the conflict.
The Civil War: A Narrative
1958
NON-FICTIONFoote's monumental three-volume narrative history of the Civil War, combining scholarly rigor with the storytelling power of a novelist.
The Red Badge of Courage
1855
MILITARY HISTORYThe Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, w...
The War of the Worlds
MILITARY HISTORYThe ultimate science fiction classic: for more than one hundred years, this compelling tale of the Martian invasion of Earth has enthralled readers with a combination of imagination and incisive comme...
Homage to Catalonia
1938
MILITARY HISTORY[Homage to Catalonia][1] is [George Orwell][2]'s account of his experiences fighting in the 'Spanish Civil War'. Alongside many British workers, trades unionists, and socialists keen to help the Spani...
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1940
MILITARY HISTORYHigh in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mo...
Tao te Ching
1842
MILITARY HISTORY"Within ancient Chinese, a sole character possesses a broad, and sometimes contradictory, range of meanings. Moreover, the Tao Te Ching is rife with terms and expressions that have no exact counterpar...
Catch-22
1961
MILITARY HISTORY*Catch-22* is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is t...