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Hell's Belle: From a B-17 to Stalag 17B; Based on the Memoirs of William E. Rasmussen

by Randall L. Rasmussen

It was December 3, 1943, and American warplanes were on assignment over Nazi Germany. Sergeant William Rasmussen was the ball turret gunner on the Hell's Belle, a B-17 heavy bomber. During one of its missions,...


Until Tuesday

by Luis Carlos Montalvan

“We aren’t just service dog and master;

Tuesday and I are also best friends. Kindred souls. Brothers.

Whatever you want to call it. We weren’t made for each other,

but we turned out to be exactly what...


One Perfect Op

by Dennis Chalker & Kevin Dockery

No elite military commando unit since the darkest days of Korea and Vietnam has a more storied history than the U.S. Navy SEALs, a stealth fighting force legendary for its abilities to wage covert war on sea,...


GOD DOES NOT FORGET: The Story of a Boer War Commando

by Deneys Reitz

""One of the greatest war books ever written."" ""A vivid, unforgettable picture of mobile guerrilla warfare."" In 1899 a 17 year old boy by the name of Dennys Reitz volunteered to fight for his country, South...


My Detachment: A Memoir

by Tracy Kidder

My Detachment is a war story like none you have ever read before, an unromanticized portrait of a young man coming of age in the controversial war that defined a generation. In an astonishingly honest, comic,...


How Private George W. Peck Single-handedly Won The Civil War

by George W. Peck

A humorous book about the Civil War? Most people would contend that there was very little about the Civil War that was funny. George W. Peck would disagree; and he should know-he was IN the Civil War. Who but...


OVERLOOKED HERO: A Portrait of Sir Sidney Smith

by Joseph Hepburn Parsons

Lost for almost 100 years. An engaging portrait of the man who is arguably the greatest Admiral of the Napoleonic Wars-Sir Sidney Smith. Everyone knows the two greatest heroes and the two greatest battles of...


The Lady Tars: The Autobiographies of Hannah Snell, Mary Lacy and Mary Talbot

by Hannah, Talbot, Mary Anne and Lac Snell

Out of Print for over 200 Years, the original text of three of the most remarkable naval biographies ever written. We know that women served as sailors in the Royal Navy as early as 1650. Unfortunately, what...


FORTUNE'S FAVORITE: Sir Charles Douglas and the Breaking of the Line

by Christopher J. Valin

When you think of the great heroes of the 18th Century Royal Navy, you would probably think of Horatio Nelson, possibly Sir Sidney Smith; but would the name Sir Charles Douglas spring to mind? If it doesn't-it...


Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America

by David Wise

Spy tells, for the first time, the full, authoritative story of how FBI agent Robert Hanssen, code name grayday, spied for Russia for twenty-two years in what has been called the “worst intelligence disaster...


Six Who Dared: The Lives of Six Great Soldiers of Fortune

by Richard Harding Davis

Six Who Dared outlines the lives of six of the most daring, most outrageous, most endearing soldiers of fortune in history. William Walker: If comfortable careers in law, medicine and the church bore you, perhaps...


Lady Rebel: The Story of Loreta Velazsquez

by Loreta Velazsquez

Wife • Mother • Combat Officer • Confederate Spy. One of the most remarkable figures of the Civil War: Loreta Velazsquez. Take a Confederate officer who recruits 236 men in four days, who fought in the...


Thirty Years from Home: A Seaman's View of the War of 1812

by Samuel Leech

Suppose you had a sailor who served honorably and well in two different navies-that were on opposite sides of the same war-and then wrote a book about it? Samuel Leech was once a young sailor in the Royal Navy....


Bonaparte in Egypt

by J. Christopher Herold

The French expedition to Egypt, which Bonaparte launched in 1798, was one of the most exciting, harrowing, futile, and yet most fruitful adventures in modern times. Although the expedition was doomed, and almost...


Keeping the Promise

by Elliott E Donna

Forty years have passed since the so-called women's movement claimed to liberate women from preconceived notions of what it means to be female - and the results are in. The latest statistics show that as women...


Two Wars: One Hero's Fight on Two Fronts--Abroad and Within

by Nate Self

Former army ranger Nate Self, a hero from the Robert's Ridge rescue in Afghanistan, tells his whole story-from the pulse-pounding battle in the mountains of Afghanistan to the high-stakes battle he has waged...


A Bloody Picnic

by Alan Weeks

One of the crucial factors that kept Tommy going on the Western Front was his ability to see what was comic in the horror, deprivation and discomfort of trench warfare - an attitude which blossomed further in...


We Died with our Boots Clean

by Kenneth McAlpine

At the age of seventeen, Kenneth McAlpine ran away from Repton school to join Churchill's new elite special force, the Royal Marine Commandos. As the youngest member of the youngest commando force, after three...


Sangin  A Glance Through Afghan Eyes

by Toby Woodbridge

As a British Army Officer in the Corps of Royal Engineers Toby Woodbridge twice deployed to Afghanistan's Helmand Province, and spent a total of eight months in the notorious District of Sangin. Employed as...


Noble Warrior

by James E. Livingston & Colin D. Heaton

New addition to the "Commandant of the Marine Reading List, 2011"

 

Major General James E. Livingston received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his role as an infantry company commander at Dai Do, Vietnam,...