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Out of Weakness: Healing the Wounds That Drive Us to War

by Andrew Schmookler

“A wide-ranging and deeply thoughtful meditation on the psychological sources of the danger to humanity created by the advent of weapons of mass destruction. It draws on a vast range of sources including psychology,...


FULTON'S STEAM FRIGATE: The Secret Weapon to End the War of 1812-

by Howard Chapelle

On December 24, 1813, Robert Fulton invited a group of friends to his home in New York City. The War of 1812 was in its second year, and the economic effect of the British naval blockade was crushing the fragile...


On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War

by Harry G. Summers

Summer's inspired analysis of America's war in Vietnam answers the most pressing questions remaining from that terrible conflict more than a decade before Robert McNamara's painful admissions.


RULE BRITANNIA: The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

by J. R. Hutchinson

The press-gang. An unmitigated evil, or the savior of a nation? You decide. Impressment was nothing new for the Royal Navy. It had been used as early as 1664 as a way of obtaining crews for warships. In many...


Flag of the Prophet: The Story of the Muslim Corsairs

by E. Hamilton Currey

You know about the fleets of Britain, France, Spain, and America; but did you know that some of the most formidable naval forces in history were not European at all? As the 16th Century opened, the moors had...


Washington's Wolfpack: The Navy Before There Was A Navy

by Stanton Maclay Edgar

Historians tell us that the United States Navy was founded on October 13, 1775. But was it? In the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, the government employed a total 70 warships, carrying 1,800 guns and...


Now That You Asked: Nelson's Navy

by John Masefield

The Perfect Nautical Q & A Reference Book 170 Specific Questions and Answers Have you ever wondered what it would be like to go back in time? Now you can via the Now That You Asked... series of books from Fireship...


NAVAL EVOLUTIONS: A Memoir

by Sir Howard Douglas

One of the most revolutionary tactics in naval warfare was developed in the 18th Century, and was called "Breaking the Line." The Royal Navy used it to win fleet engagements ranging from the Battle of the Saints,...


A World for the Taking: The Ships of the Honourable East India Company

by E. Keble Chatterton

It was a time when one of the most powerful rulers in the world wasn't a government-it was a corporation. It's official name was ""The Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies."" Some simply...


American Generalship: Character Is Everything: The Art of Command

by Edgar Puryear

America's top military leaders are scrutinized as Puryear ponders what prepared our generals for the terrible responsibilities they bore during World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War and on to today.


Brave Battalion: The Remarkable Saga of the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) in the First World War

by Mark Zuehlke

An Excerpt From Brave Battalion.

The company was completely bunched in front of the wire. Some men threw bombs toward the German trench while others tried to beat down the wooden stakes supporting the wire with...


Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945

by Richard Overy

In the course of human history there has probably been no more terrible place than Eastern Europe in 1941-45.    Estimates of total Soviet military and civilian deaths in the period now stand at more than...


Defense of Hill 781: An Allegory of Modern Mechanized Combat

by James R. Mcdonough

In the tradition of the humorous classic Defense of Duffer's Drift, our hero's escape lies in completing a successful mission.


Anglo-Zulu War, 1879

by Jr., Harold E. Raugh

Anglo-Zulu War, 1879: A Selected Bibliography is a research guide and tool for identifying obscure publications and source materials in order to encourage continued original and thought-provoking contributions...


Conquer or Die!: Wellington's Veterans and the Liberation of the New World

by Ben Hughes

In 1815, just after the battle of Waterloo, over 6,000 British volunteers sailed across the Atlantic to aid Simon Bolivar in his liberation of Gran Columbia from her Spanish oppressors. The expeditions were...


M1 Abrams vs T-72 Ural: Operation Desert Storm 1991

by Steven Zaloga & Jim Laurier

The Gulf War bore witness to a number of deadly encounters between these two great adversaries. Heavily armored, highly mobile and capable of killing at over 2500m the M1 Abrams is, to this day, a veritable...


A Company of Heroes: Personal Memories about the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left Us

by Marcus Brotherton

THE "MUST-READ"* BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENTARY FOR PUBLIC TELEVISION

After the Band of Brothers went home, they never forgot the lessons of war...

After chronicling the personal stories of...


Last Men Out: The True Story of America's Heroic Final Hours in Vietnam

by Bob Drury & Tom Clavin

The monsoon winds swirling up from the South China Sea had doubled in magnitude as Marine Staff Sergeant Mike Sullivan stood on the roof of the American Embassy, watching North Vietnamese artillery pound Saigon’s...


The Routledge Handbook of Transatlantic Security

by Jussi Hanhimäki & Georges-Henri Soutou

This new Handbook provides readers with the tools to understand the evolution of transatlantic security from the Cold War era to the early 21st century.


Conflict, Security and the Reshaping of Society

by Alessandro Dal Lago & Salvatore

This book is an examination of the effect of contemporary wars (such as the 'War on Terror') on civil life at a global level.