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  • Command

    Inside the Oval Office with Three Presidents, and the Wartime Decisions That Changed the World

    by Brett McGurk ...
    From one of the only senior national security officials to serve under Presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump, a riveting diplomatic memoir of America at war, and an exclusive insider's look at how successive presidents made life-and-death decisions under pressure.As commanders-in-chief, modern American presidents have obtained nearly unchecked powers of awesome reach and consequence. Yet, the exercise ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • D-Day Fleet 1944, American Sector

    The US Navy's Western Task Force

    Series Book 9 - Fleet
    A fully illustrated study of how the US-led half of the Normandy invasion fleet was composed, commanded, and how it fought, from D-Day until the fall of Cherbourg.The D-Day landings and their aftermath were among the most complex and important naval operations in history. With the target beaches divided into two areas of responsibility – one US-commanded, one British – this armada launched a month ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Hamburger Hill 1969

    Operation Apache Snow in the A Shau Valley

    Series Book 409 - Campaign
    A highly illustrated, authoritative exploration of Operation Apache Snow, including the infamous Battle of Hamburger Hill (Ap Bia Mountain), one of the most significant and well-known actions in the Vietnam War.Operation Apache Snow was the result of a renewed Free World effort in early 1969 to neutralize the North Vietnamese forces in the A Shau, a 45km-long valley located in the southwestern ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • World War II Close Air Support Tactics

    Series Book 254 - Elite
    In this illustrated study, an acknowledged expert charts the development of close air support and battlefield air interdiction in theory and practice during World War II.In World War I the use of aircraft to support ground operations was in its infancy, and it was only after the start of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 that close air support (CAS) and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Philippines 1944

    Third Fleet's first victory over Japanese land-based airpower

    Series Book 50 - Air Campaign
    The US Navy's 1944 Philippines raids were the first time naval aircraft had challenged and beaten a land-based air force. With artwork and rare photos, this is the first book to study them.During September 1944, the US Navy's Task Force 38 launched a series of huge airstrikes against Japanese forces in the Philippines. Seventeen carriers, wielding over 1,000 combat aircraft, made up the most ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Tanks in the Philippines 1944–45

    The biggest armored clashes of the Pacific War

    Series Book 334 - New Vanguard
    The first book to examine the Japanese and American tank forces in the Philippines campaigns, which saw the biggest armored clashes of the Pacific War.The Philippines saw the most extensive tank combat of any single theater in the Pacific War. In this book, armor expert Steven J. Zaloga explains the capabilities of the tank forces involved and how they fought.He explains how while the first tank ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Son Tay 1970

    The Operation Ivory Coast POW rescue mission

    Series Book 60 - Raid
    A superbly illustrated account of one of the key milestones in the development of modern US Special Operations Forces, the hugely complex POW rescue at Son Tay.On November 21, 1970, a meticulously prepared force of US Special Forces in HH-53 helicopters, supported by more than a hundred combat aircraft, raided the POW camp at Son Tay, North Vietnam, just 23 miles west of Hanoi, seeking 61 American ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Lincoln vs. Davis

    The War of the Presidents

    From renowned biographer Nigel Hamilton, author of the epic FDR at War trilogy and the bestselling JFK: Reckless Youth, comes the greatest untold story of the Civil War: how two American presidents faced off as the fate of the nation hung in the balance — and how Abraham Lincoln came to embrace emancipation as the last, best chance to save the Union.Of all the books written on Abraham Lincoln, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Warships in the Komandorski Islands 1943

    The USN and IJN fight the last pure surface battle

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 333 - New Vanguard
    With ship profiles and original artwork, this study explores the warships that fought World War II's last pure surface battle, the battle itself, and why the outnumbered US Navy prevailed.The Battle of the Komandorski Islands was unique among World War II naval battles. It was the last daytime naval surface battle of World War II where aircraft played no role, and saw a squadron of US Navy ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Union Army 1861–65 (3)

    Midwestern and Western States

    by Ron Field ...
    Series Book 559 - Men-at-Arms
    This book describes and illustrates the uniforms and personal equipment of the troops fielded by the Midwestern and Western states that fought for the Union during the Civil War.During the American Civil War, the United States Army, pitted against the forces of the fledgling Confederacy, fought to defend and preserve the Union during five long years of bitter conflict. As the war continued into ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Farthest Valley

    Escaping the Chinese Trap at Chosin Reservoir 1950

    A history of the legendary extraction of the Fifth and Seventh Marines from a Chinese trap, told for the first time using Chinese sources.Knee-deep in snow, and under a leaden sky, American Marines thousands of miles from home watched more snow settle onto the frozen ground, glittering in the fading light. Suddenly, the still Korean night roared to life with the sound of Chinese mortar fire. The ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Japanese Combined Fleet 1942–43

    Guadalcanal to the Solomons Campaign

    by Mark Stille ...
    Series Book 8 - Fleet
    A superbly illustrated account of the Japanese Navy during the fierce battles of Guadalcanal and the Solomons, explaining how and why it fought as it did.Contrary to myth, the Imperial Japanese Navy was not a shattered force after its defeat at Midway. In this book, Pacific War expert Mark Stille examines the IJN's Combined Fleet during the Guadalcanal and Solomons campaigns, when it was ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Midway

    The Pacific War’s Most Famous Battle

    by Mark Stille ...
    A detailed re-examination of Midway, one of the most significant battles in the Pacific Theater of World War II.In April 1942, the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy was at the zenith of its power. It had struck a severe blow against the US Navy at Pearl Harbor in December 1941, before spearheading the Japanese advance through Southeast Asia and rampaging across the South Pacific. Only a ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind

    A panoramic account of the most devastating battle of the Civil War, and its far-reaching consequences for American society and culture.The Battle of Antietam, which took place on September 17, 1862, remains the single bloodiest day in America’s history. As a turning point in the Civil War, the narrow Union victory was the key catalyst for Lincoln to issue his Emancipation Proclamation.Yet ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • The Village of Ben Suc

    With a new introduction by Wallace Shawn, a classic work of war reportage that describes, with unblinking vision, the systematic leveling of a Vietnamese village by American troops.Ben Suc was a relatively prosperous farming village thirty miles from Saigon, on the edge of the Iron Triangle, the formidable Vietcong stronghold. It had been “pacified” many times, but because of security leaks no ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Battle of Gettysburg 1863 (3)

    The Third Day

    by Timothy Orr ...
    Series Book 403 - Campaign
    An authoritative and superbly illustrated exploration of the events of July 3, 1863, incorporating new interpretations that have arisen in the past two decades.The third day of the Battle of Gettysburg was the most dramatic of the three. Among the iconic clashes that took place was the 12,500-man attack known as Pickett's Charge, General Lee's last assault at Gettysburg in which his soldiers ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Midway-Class Aircraft Carriers 1945–92

    by Mark Stille ...
    Series Book 331 - New Vanguard
    The Midway-class were the US Navy's biggest carriers built during World War II. Superbly illustrated, this explains how they became the backbone of the Cold War fleet.Entering service in September 1945, the Midway-class aircraft carrier was the US Navy's ultimate World War II-era design, and these would be its frontline carriers as the Cold War dawned. A fine design and one big enough to accept ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Most Honorable Son

    A Forgotten Hero's Fight Against Fascism and Hate During World War II

    by Gregg Jones ...
    The first comprehensive biography of unjustly forgotten war hero Ben Kuroki, a Japanese American farm boy from Nebraska who flew fifty-eight combat missions, fighting the Axis powers during World War II and battled racism, injustice, and prejudice on the home front.Ben Kuroki was a twenty-four-year-old Japanese American farm boy whose heritage was never a problem in remote Nebraska—until Pearl ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • British Lend-Lease Warships 1940–45

    The Royal Navy's American-built destroyers and frigates

    by Angus Konstam ...
    Series Book 330 - New Vanguard
    An illustrated history of the American-built destroyers and frigates supplied to the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease, which played a crucial role in Britain's war in the Atlantic.As U-boat attacks on Britain's vital sea lanes increased in ferocity, and Royal Navy warship losses mounted, the United States passed the Lend-Lease Act, the cornerstone of America's wartime role as armourer to the Allies ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • US Navy Pacific Fleet 1941

    America's mighty last battleship fleet

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 7 - Fleet
    The first book to examine the battleship-led 1941 Pacific Fleet as it was intended to fight. Packed with illustrations, this study explains how the US Navy saw the approaching war unfolding.When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the Pacific Fleet was the most powerful in the US Navy. It was still dominated by battleships, but since the late 1930s had been developing naval aviation and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Chrome Dome 1960–68

    The B-52s' high-stakes Cold War nuclear operation

    Series Book 46 - Air Campaign
    In 1960, SAC's B-52s began a nonstop, eight-year, nuclear-armed patrol. Fully illustrated, this study explains how one of the Cold War's most challenging operations was conceived and flown.Operation Chrome Dome was Strategic Air Command's unprecedented nuclear deterrence operation, a hugely elaborate and costly response to the perceived nuclear missile threat from the Soviet Union.In this book, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Turning The Tide

    The USAAF in North Africa and Sicily

    Packed with personal accounts of the action, this is a vivid narrative history of the often-overlooked USAAF campaign in North Africa and Sicily in World War II.In 1942, the Western Allies needed to take the offensive against the Axis to relieve pressure on the Soviet Union. With planning for a cross-Channel invasion beset by logistical and operational difficulties, in May 1942 President Roosevelt ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • US Marine vs Japanese Soldier

    Saipan, Guam, and Peleliu, 1944

    by Gregg Adams ...
    Series Book 77 - Combat
    Fully illustrated, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops fighting in three bloody battles of World War II in the Pacific.In June 1944, the United States military launched an offensive against the Japanese forces holding the Mariana Islands and Palau. The US Marine Corps played a vital role in this campaign alongside Army and Navy forces, while their Japanese opponents mounted a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Operation Allied Force 1999

    NATO's airpower victory in Kosovo

    Series Book 45 - Air Campaign
    A focused, illustrated history and analysis of perhaps the most complete air power victory in modern times, NATO's war against Serbian forces over Kosovo.On the night of March 24, 1999, NATO forces began military action to stop Serbia's campaign of repression during the Kosovo War. Initially planned to be a 72-hour operation, it took 78 days of sustained air warfare for Operation Allied Force to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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