THE TIDE AT SUNRISE: THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR, 1904-1905
The Battle of Prokhorovka
2019
NON-FICTIONThe Battle of Kursk was one of the defining moments of World War II. In July 1943, German forces under Erich von Manstein--one of Germany’s best generals--launched a massive attack in an offensive cod...
Battle Tales from Burma
2006
NON-FICTIONJohn Randle served with the greatly respected Baluch Regiment of the former Indian Army right through the fiercely fought Burma Campaign, winning an MC on the way yet, when VJ Day dawned, he was only ...
India, Pakistan, and the United States
1997
NON-FICTIONIn India, Pakistan, and the United States. Dr. Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli points out that the end of the Cold War and the rise of a new generation of Indians and Pakistanis willing to break with the past a...
The Streets of Babylon
2008
FICTIONIn this romp of a crime novel, Euthanasia Bondeson searches London for her missing companion.
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, ...
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...
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.
This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History
1963
NON-FICTIONClassic examination of the Korean War that focuses on the experience of the infantry soldier and the failures of American military preparedness.
The Sharp End: The Fighting Man in World War II
1980
NON-FICTIONClassic examination of what combat was actually like for the ordinary infantryman in WWII — covering fear, exhaustion, morale, and the gulf between official narratives and soldier reality.
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.
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 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.
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.