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  • At First Light

    A True World War II Story of a Hero, His Bravery, and an Amazing Horse

    Winner of The Page Turner Non-Fiction Book Award, The Page Turner Golden Author Award, and The Page Turner Best Book Award in True StoriesWhat makes 2nd Lieutenant Phil Larimore’s story special is what happened in World War II’s closing days and the people—and horses—he interacted with in this Forrest Gump-like tale that is emotional, heartbreaking, and inspiring.Growing up in the 1930s in Memphis ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • My Year in Iraq

    The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope

    "BAGHDAD WAS BURNING."With these words, Ambassador L. Paul "Jerry" Bremer begins his gripping memoir of fourteen danger-filled months as America's proconsul in Iraq. My Year in Iraq is the only senior insider's perspective on the crucial period following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime. In vivid, dramatic detail, Bremer reveals the previously hidden struggles among Iraqi politicians and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • We Dropped The A-Bomb

    The amazing story of the crew of the B-29 bomber The Great Artiste, who flew in both missions that dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Written by noted novelist and script writer Merle Miller and the radio operator of the B-29 Abe Sptizer, it is a fascinating first-hand account of the end of World War II and the beginning of the Nuclear Age.“None of us knew for sure what the “gimmick” ... Read more

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  • The Memoirs of Doctor Felix Kersten

    Translated by Dr. Ernst Morwitz ...
    This book, first published in English translation in 1947, is the fascinating autobiography of Dr. Felix Kersten, a Russian-born Finnish osteopath who tended to Heinrich Himmler in Germany during World War II and who contended he had obtained some amelioration of treatment of Jews and others. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Miracle at Attu

    The Rescue of CG-1600

    by Bill Peterson ...
    A Miracle at Attu: The Rescue of CG-1600 is an historic nonfiction account documenting the phenomenal rescue of nine survivors from a U. S. Coast Guard HC-130H that crashed on a logistics mission to the remote Coast Guard Long Range Navigation Station on Attu Island Alaska. Be prepared as you are transported back in time to a cold isolated mountain on Attu for a truly remarkable rescue. It is an ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Strafvollzugslager Der SS- Und Polizei

    Himmler’s Wartime Institutions for the Detention of Waffen-SS and Polizei Criminals

    Strafvollzugslager der SS- und Polizei: Himmler’s Wartime Institutions for the Detention of Waffen-SS and Polizei Criminals is a book that the SS Leader, Heinrich Himmler, would not have wished written. Preferring that this corner of SS history remained forever in the shadows, in unprecedented detail, this study illuminates the reasons why Waffen-SS and policemen were imprisoned in purpose-built ... Read more

    $9.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Enemy in Sight

    The Royal Navy and Merchant Marine 1940-1942

    Enemy in Sight, first published in 1943, is an authoritative book on the activities of the British Royal Navy and Merchant Marine in the 1940-1942 period of World War Two. Author Stanley Rogers describes all the naval battles of that time, including the sinking of the formidable German battleship Bismarck, the history of the aircraft carrier Illustrious, the capture of a German U-Boat, the Dunkirk ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Men Against Fire

    The Problem of Battle Command

    S.L.A. "Slam" Marshall was a veteran of World War I and a combat historian during World War II. He startled the military and civilian world in 1947 by announcing that, in an average infantry company, no more than one in four soldiers actually fired their weapons while in contact with the enemy. His contention was based on interviews he conducted immediately after combat in both the European and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Aces In Combat

    by Eric Hammel ...
    Aces In CombatThe American Aces SpeakEric HammelAdding to his acclaimed in-the-cockpit series, The American Aces Speak, combat historian Eric Hammel comes through with yet another engrossing collection of first-person accounts by American fighter aces serving in World War II and the Korean War.As in the other four volumes, Aces In Combat is a highly charged excursion into life and death in the air ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Into Dust and Fire

    Five Young Americans Who Went First to Fight the Nazi Army

    by Rachel S. Cox ...
    “A moving, beautifully-written tale… Rachel Cox has produced a masterpiece of storytelling, infused with romance, danger, adventure, humor, and heartbreaking loss. It is, hands down, the best description of the transformation of untested young men into soldiers that I have ever read.” — Lynne Olson, New York Times Bestselling Author of Last Hope IslandThe untold story of five young American ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Swinging The Sledgehammer: The Combat Effectiveness Of German Heavy Tank Battalions In World War II

    This thesis is a historical analysis of the combat effectiveness of the German schwere Panzer-Abteilung or Heavy Tank Battalions during World War II. During the course of World War II, the German Army developed heavy tank battalions to fulfill the concept of breaking through enemy defenses so faster, lighter mechanized forces could exploit the rupture. These heavy tank battalions had several ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Into the Storm

    A Study in Command

    Series Book 1 - Commander Series
    In his brilliant, bestselling novels, Tom Clancy has explored the most timely military and security issues of our generation. Now he takes readers deep into the operational art of war with this insightful look at one of the greatest American military triumphs since World War II: the Gulf War. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • A Dog With A Destiny: Smoky

    by Isabel George ...
    An inspiring and heart-warming short story of canine devotion and bravery.Smoky, a baseball-size mass of brown fur, was found in a foxhole in the depths of the New Guinea jungle in the middle of the Second World War. The soldier who found her took the Yorkshire Terrier pup back to base and sold her to Bill, the US serviceman who would adopt her, for three Australian dollars.It was the start of a ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Valley Forge

    The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Heart of Everything That Is return with “a thorough, nuanced, and enthralling account” (The Wall Street Journal) about one of the most inspiring—and underappreciated—chapters in American history: the Continental Army’s six-month transformation in Valley Forge.In December 1777, some 12,000 members of America’s Continental Army stagger into a small ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Holocaust!

    The Shocking Story of the Boston Cocoanut Grove Fire

    First published in November 1959, this is the bestselling account of the fire at The Cocoanut Grove, a premier nightclub during the post-Prohibition 1930s and 1940s in Boston, Massachusetts, on the night of November 28, 1942.It was the scene of the deadliest nightclub fire in history, killing 492 people and injuring hundreds more. The scale of the tragedy shocked the nation and briefly replaced ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yankee Stranger

    by Elswyth Thane ...
    LOVE AND WARCabot Murray first came to Williamsburg, Virginia, in the tense autumn of 1860. He was looked upon with suspicion because he was a Yankee. Then Cabot met redheaded Eden Day.Theirs was a wild, blind young love at first sight. Whispering in her hair, what did it matter that he was a Northerner and she from the South…But then came the Civil War. With the tide of battle Cabot returned as ... Read more

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  • Assignment to Berlin

    By the man who succeeded William L. Shirer as the Berlin correspondent of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Assignment to Berlin by U.S. journalist and author Harry W. Flannery, first published in 1942, covers Germany in the crucial year 1941.Packed with lively incident, shrewd comment and startling information, it brings the story of life in Hitler’s domain up to the eve of America’s entry into ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best of American Heritage: World War I

    Here, from some of America's greatest historians and generals - among them, John Steele Gordon, General George C. Kinney, and John Lukacs - is the story of U.S. involvement in World War I. War is both intimate and sprawling, and this collection includes panoramic perspectives as well as personal reflections that show the heart, soul, and courage of American soldiers. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Patriot's Creed

    Inspiration and Advice for Living a Heroic Life

    by Kris Paronto ...
    Army Ranger and bestselling author Kris Paronto reveals the values and creed shared by special forces for self-improvement and living a purposeful life.When Kris Paronto began talking with civilians about his experiences fighting the terrorist attack on the US State Department Special Mission Compound in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012, he was surprised at how often people told him that the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Battles & Leaders of the Civil War: The Confederate Retreat from Gettysburg (Illustrated Edition)

    Despite having no military training, John D. Imboden (1823-1895) became a well regarded cavalry officer and partisan fighter during the Civil War, distinguishing himself in Stonewall Jacksons famous Valley Campaign in 1862. In the Gettysburg Campaign, Imboden's brigade of cavalry guarded the Army of Northern Virginias rear during the invasion into Pennsylvania and guarded wagon trains during the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Embrace the Suck

    Members of America’s armed forces have their own distinctive language: milspeak. Especially since WWII, soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines have invented and adapted their own slang vocabularies, creating a colorful insider’s lingo of bureaucratic buzzwords, acronyms, mock jargon, dark humor, and outright profanity. Milspeak gives a unique and touching insight into military life from basic ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • A Savage War

    A Military History of the Civil War

    How the Civil War changed the face of warThe Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced the same uncertainties and vagaries of chance that have vexed ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Self-Inflicted Wound: Allied Defeat In Crete, May 1941

    The Germans appeared unstoppable during the early stages of World War II. Inexperienced Allied forces were willing to fight, but the sentiment was the Germans were too powerful. Defeat became a forgone conclusion. To defend at all costs no longer appeared viable. Withdrawal and evacuation seemed almost commonplace in Allied strategy.Great Britain and Germany identified early in the war the ... Read more

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  • Victory at Yorktown

    The Campaign That Won the Revolution

    From "the finest historian of the American Revolution" (Douglas Brinkley) comes Richard M. Ketchum's Victory at Yorktown, the definitive account of the battle and unlikely triumph that led to American independence.In 1780, during the Revolutionary War, George Washington's army lay idle for want of supplies, food, and money. All hope seemed lost until a powerful French force landed at Newport in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD