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C.S.S. Shenandoah: The Memoirs of Lieutenant Commanding James I. Waddell

by James D. Horan

The last shot of the Civil War was fired, not on an obscure battlefield, but in the ice-locked Sea of Okhotsk off Siberia seven months after Lee’s surrender.

The last armed Confederate cruiser was the C.S.S....


Desperate Sons

by Les Standiford

A groundbreaking narrative—a historical political thriller—that explores the role of the Sons of Liberty in the American Revolution.

More than two hundred years ago, a group of British colonists in America...


The Sea Was Always There

by Joseph Callo

The Sea Was Always There is one man's story about learning from the sea. It includes the joy, pain, victory, defeat, surprises, and humor involved in the process. The narrative spans areas of the globe extending...


One Soldier and Hitler, 1918: The Story of Henry Tandey VC DCM MM

by David Johnson

This is a book about two men. The first is Henry Tandey, an ordinary man, born and brought up in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, who displayed extraordinary courage to emerge from the First World War as the most...


Watching a Nation Die: With the UN in Somalia 1994

by Richard Granville McDonald

Poems and reports by the Chief Military Spokesman for the United Nations Mission in Somalia in 1994


Michael Collins: A Life

by James Mackay

The most charismatic figure to emerge during the struggles for the independence of Ireland was undoubtedly Michael Collins. This remarkable biography, which draws on much hitherto unpublished material, charts...


Zumwalt

by Larry Berman

Admiral Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Jr., the charismatic chief of naval operations (CNO) and "the navy's most popular leader since WWII" (Time), was a man who embodied honor, courage, and commitment. In a career spanning...


Viper Pilot

by Dan Hampton

151 combat missions

21 hard kills on surface-to-air-missile sites

4 Distinguished Flying Crosses with Valor

1 Purple Heart

Sure to rank as one of the greatest aviation memoirs ever written, Viper Pilot is an Air...


The Other Side of the Trench

by Garry Willmott

This story deserves to be told. Garry Willmott creates graphic and quite horrifying insights into unseen and 'unsung' aspects of World War 1, where so many Australian, Canadian, British, New Zealander, American...


Pompey Elliott

by Ross McMullin

Updated to include a foreword by Les Carlyon, this comprehensive, rich biography of the great Australian general vividly examines Elliott's origins and youth, his peacetime careers as a lawyer and politician,...


The Tartan Pimpernel

by was born at Bowmore, Isla Donald Caskie

Donald Caskie was a minister of the Scots Kirk in Paris at the time of German invasion of France in 1940. Although he had the opportunity to flee, Caskie stayed behind to help establish a network of safe houses...


Into the Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War

by Bing West & Dakota Meyer

“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”—President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony

In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol...


The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 2013

by Tom Reiss

Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo – a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings to life the forgotten hero who inspired such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo...


Don Jose: An American Soldier's Courage and Faith in Japanese Captivity

by Ezequiel L. Ortiz & James A. McClure

In 1941 the Japanese invaded the Philippines with overwhelming force and forced the surrender of American troops at Bataan and Corregidor. Prisoners of war were subjected to brutal captivity and thousands did...


Alonzo's War: Letters from a Young Civil War Soldier

by Mary Searing O'Shaughnessy

The book details the everyday life of a private and gives an up-close account of what the details of a battle mean to a man participating in it as opposed to learning about generals’ battle plans and the movement...


Chin Up, Head Down: A Mother's Journey of Madness and Grief

by Helena Tym

On 2nd June 2009, two men knocked on our door, bringing with them the news that our nineteen-year-old son, Cyrus, had been killed that morning by an IED while serving with 2 Rifles in Afghanistan. Our family...


Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History

by John Fabian Witt

Winner of the Bancroft Prize

A New York Times Notable Book

In the fateful closing days of 1862, three weeks before Emancipation, the administration of Abraham Lincoln commissioned a code setting forth the laws...


Orde Wingate

by Jon Diamond & Peter Dennis

Orde Wingate rose to fame by creating the Chindits in Burma in 1943. He is an extremely important figure in military history, and deserves just as much attention as Alanbrooke, Montgomery, and Auchinleck. Unlike...


Stalking the Vietcong: Inside Operation Phoenix: A Personal Account

by Stuart Herrington

In a gripping memoir that reads like a spy novel, one man recounts his personal experience with Operation Phoenix, the program created to destroy the Vietcong’s shadow government, which thrived in the rural...


Fighting Blind: On assignment in war-torn Iraq

by Shane Horsburgh & Jason K Foster

Fast-paced, gripping and real, a former SWAT team leader and Commando trainer, shares his life story - an intense sometimes humorous account of a remarkable life.