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  • Lone Survivor

    The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10

    Follow along a Navy SEAL's firsthand account of American heroism during a secret military operation in Afghanistan in this true story of survival and difficult choices.On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Area 51

    An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base

    This "compellingly hard-hitting" bestseller from a Pulitzer Prize finalist gives readers the complete untold story of the top-secret military base for the first time (New York Times).It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government — ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $3.99 USD

  • Lost in Shangri-La

    A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

    “A lost world, man-eating tribesmen, lush andimpenetrable jungles, stranded American fliers (one of them a dame withgreat gams, for heaven's sake), a startling rescue mission. . . . This is atrue story made in heaven for a writer as talented as Mitchell Zuckoff. Whew—what an utterly compelling and deeplysatisfying read!" —Simon Winchester, author of AtlanticAward-winning former Boston Globe ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Band of Brothers

    E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

    Stephen E. Ambrose’s classic New York Times bestseller and inspiration for the acclaimed HBO series about Easy Company, the ordinary men who became the World War II’s most extraordinary soldiers at the frontlines of the war's most critical moments. Featuring a foreword from Tom Hanks.They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942, drawn to Airborne by the $50 monthly bonus and a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • How to Hide an Empire

    A History of the Greater United States

    Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago TribuneA Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff PickA pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empireWe are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. But ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • George Washington's Secret Six

    The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution

    *Now with a new afterword containing never-before-seen research on the identity of the spy ring’s most secret member, Agent 355“This is my kind of history book. Get ready. Here’s the action.” —BRAD MELTZER, bestselling author of The Fifth Assassin and host of DecodedWhen George Washington beat a hasty retreat from New York City in August 1776, many thought the American Revolution might soon be ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • 13 Hours

    The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi

    The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi.13 Hours presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team of six American security operators fought to repel ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Neptune's Inferno

    The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

    “A literary tour de force that is destined to become one of the . . . definitive works about the battle for Guadalcanal . . . [James D.] Hornfischer deftly captures the essence of the most pivotal naval campaign of the Pacific war.”—San Antonio Express-NewsThe Battle of Guadalcanal has long been heralded as a Marine victory. Now, with his powerful portrait of the Navy’s sacrifice, James D. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

    The Forgotten War That Changed American History

    “Another blockbuster! Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates reads like an edge-of-your-seat, page-turning thriller. You will love this book and also wonder why so few people know this story. No one captures the danger, intrigue, and drama of the American Revolution and its aftermath like Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger.” —Brad ThorThis is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Bunker Hill

    A City, A Siege, A Revolution

    Series Book 1 - The American Revolution Series
    The bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Mayflower, and In the Hurricane's Eye tells the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution, in this "masterpiece of narrative and perspective." (Boston Globe)**In the opening volume of his acclaimed American Revolution series, Nathaniel Philbrick turns his keen eye to pre-Revolutionary Boston and the spark that ignited the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • NUKED: I Was A Guinea Pig For The U.S. Army

    In 1956, the United States detonated 17 H-bombs in the South Pacific, including the two deadliest explosions ever to occur anywhere on our planet—before or since.The 1,612 soldiers stationed at the headquarters island (including me, a draftee) were sent there to “observe” this nuclear test series, named Operation Redwing. Wearing only T-shirts and shorts and without Radsuits, high density goggles ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Pacific

    by Hugh Ambrose ...
    **The New York Times bestselling official companion book to the Emmy® Award-winning HBO® miniseries.Look for The Pacific miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix!**Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Guns at Last Light

    The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945

    by Rick Atkinson ...
    Series Book 3 - The Liberation Trilogy
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War IIIt is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted how the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Civil War: A Narrative

    Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

    by Shelby Foote ...
    Series series Vintage Civil War Library
    This first volume of Shelby Foote's classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Davis’s farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody battlefields of Antietam and Perryville, as the full, horrible scope of America’s great war becomes clear. Exhaustively researched and masterfully written, Foote’s epic account of the Civil War unfolds like a classic novel.Includes maps throughout ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • An Army at Dawn

    The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy

    by Rick Atkinson ...
    Series Book 1 - The Liberation Trilogy
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North Africa.The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Horse Soldiers

    The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan

    by Doug Stanton ...
    Now a major motion picture from Jerry Bruckheimer starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon!“A thrilling action ride of a book” (The New York Times Book Review)—the New York Times bestselling, true-life account of a US Special Forces team deployed to dangerous, war-ridden Afghanistan in the weeks following 9/11.In the weeks following the attacks of September 11, a small band of Special Forces ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Frozen in Time

    An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II, from Mitchell Zuckoff, the author of New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-LaOn November 5, 1942, a US cargo plane slammed into the Greenland Ice Cap. Four days later, the B-17 assigned to the search-and-rescue mission became lost in a blinding storm and also crashe ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Last Stand

    Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

    "An engrossing and tautly written account of a critical chapter in American history." --Los Angeles TimesNathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Hurricane's Eye, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mayflower, and Valiant Ambition, is a historian with a unique ability to bring history to life. The Last Stand is Philbrick's monumental reappraisal of the epochal clash at the Little Bighorn in 1876 that gave birth ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Day of Battle

    The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944

    by Rick Atkinson ...
    Series Book 2 - The Liberation Trilogy
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and ItalyIn An Army at Dawn—winner of the Pulitzer Prize—Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The British Are Coming

    The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

    by Rick Atkinson ...
    Series Book 1 - The Revolution Trilogy
    Winner of the George Washington PrizeWinner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American HistoryWinner of the Excellence in American History Book AwardWinner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book AwardFrom the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American RevolutionRick Atkinson, author ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Legacy of Ashes

    The History of the CIA

    by Tim Weiner ...
    With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • The History Buff's Guide to the Civil War

    The best, the worst, the largest, and the most lethal top ten rankings of the Civil War

    Series series History Buff's Guides
    Do You Think You Know the Civil War?The History Buff's Guide to the Civil War clears the powder smoke surrounding the war that changed America forever. The perfect guide for anyone looking for great history facts like:What were the best, the worst, the largest, and the most lethal aspects of the conflict?What are the top ten causes?The bloodiest battles?With over thirty annotated top ten lists and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942

    by Ian W. Toll ...
    Series Book 1 - The Pacific War Trilogy
    “Both a serious work of history . . . and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative.”—San Francisco ChronicleOn the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 1812

    The War of 1812

    In June 1812 the still-infant United States had the audacity to declare war on the British Empire. Fought between creaking sailing ships and armies often led by bumbling generals, the ensuing conflict featured a tit-for-tat "You burned our capital, so we'll burn yours" and a legendary battle unknowingly fought after the signing of a peace treaty.During the course of the war, the young American ... Read more

    $12.99 USD