THE LAST KING OF AMERICA
To America
2002
NON-FICTIONCompleted shortly before Ambrose's untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation's history through the eyes of one of the twentieth century's most influential historians. Ambrose ro...
America and the Future of War
2017
NON-FICTIONWilliamson Murray examines the past to shed light on the present and future challenges between war and peace. The author offers a historical perspective to show that armed conflict between organized p...
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 Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950–1953
1987
NON-FICTIONThe most comprehensive operational history of the Korean War, based on thousands of interviews and classified documents.
Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma
1992
MEMOIRCelebrated memoir by the author of Flashman about his service as a private soldier fighting Japanese forces in Burma in 1944–45. Gritty, funny, and deeply human.
Berlin
2007
MEMOIRThe Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality. The result was the most...
Going to the Wars
2000
MEMOIRMax Hastings grew up with romantic dreams of a life amongst warriors. But after his failure as a parachute soldier in Cyprus in 1963, he became a journalist instead. Before he was 30 he had reported c...
All Hell Let Loose
2011
MEMOIRA magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of p...
Taught to Kill
2011
MEMOIRBy mid-1944, the U.S. Army was facing a critical shortage of the most important commodity in any war, the common foot soldier. Higher-than-expected casualties during the liberation of France had force...
Jacob L. Devers
2015
MEMOIRGeneral Jacob L. "Jake" Devers (1897--1979) was one of only two officers -- the other was Omar C. Bradley -- to command an army group during the decisive campaigns of 1944--1945 that liberated Europe ...
Masters and Commanders
2008
MEMOIRHow far did personality affect the grand strategy of the Second World War? Award-winning historian Andrew Roberts lays bare the four political masters and military commanders of the Western Allies - F...
Napoleon
2014
MEMOIR"First published in Great Britain by Allan Lane"--Title page verso.
Churchill
2018
MEMOIRTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, ECONOMIST, DAILY TELEGRAPH, EVENING STANDARD, OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written' Domi...
Napoleon and Wellington
2001
MEMOIRExplores the relationship between the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington prior to and in the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, the most decisive battle of the nineteenth c...
Eisenhower
2014
MEMOIRStephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, most objective rendering yet of ...
Voices of D-Day
1994
MEMOIRIn 1983 the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans began a project to record the recollections of as many people as possible -- civilians as well as soldiers -- who were involved in one of...
Moment of Battle
2013
MEMOIRPresents the twenty most crucial battles of all time, explaining how each conflict represents a historical epoch that triggered profound transformations and significantly shaped the development of the...
Holy Fox
2011
MEMOIREdward Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax, was a church-going, fox-hunting aristocrat, but it was his political guile that earned him Churchill's nickname 'The Holy Fox'. As Viceroy of India, his deal with Ga...
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.
Panzer Battles
1956
MEMOIRMemoir of a senior German staff officer covering tank operations on all fronts, with detailed analysis of armored doctrine and tactics.