BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL
British forces took Breed's Hill from American defenders, 1775. Though a British victory, it showed the colonists could fight professional soldiers.
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 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...
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 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.
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 ...
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...
Treasure Island
1880
MILITARY HISTORYTraditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — as see...
The Spanish Civil War
1982
NON-FICTIONBest-selling author of Stalingrad. A comprehensive history of one of the most fiercely fought ideological wars of modern times. Now in new, updated and corrected edition.
Fortress Malta
2013
NON-FICTIONThe extraordinary drama of Malta's WWII victory against impossible odds told through the eyes of the people who were there. In March and April 1942, more explosives were dropped on the tiny Mediterran...
The Wars of Spanish American Independence, 1809-29
2013
NON-FICTION"In 1808, Napoleon Bonaparte treacherously outmaneuvered the corrupt Spanish Bourbons and installed his brother Joseph as King of Spain, igniting the flames of war across the Iberian Peninsula. Far ac...
The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
2003
NON-FICTION"The Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870 when Bismarck engineered a war with the French Second Empire under Napoleon III. This was part of his wider political strategy of uniting Prussia with the so...
Naval Warfare, 1815-1914
2001
NON-FICTIONThis book looks at the transition of wooden sailing fleets to the modern steel navy. It details the technological breakthroughs that brought about this change - steampower, armour, artillery and torpe...