Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...

Veterans eBooks

If you like Veterans eBooks, then you'll love these top picks.
Showing 49 - 72 of 759 Results
Skip side bar filters
  • After the Reich

    The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation

    The shocking history of the brutal occupation of Germany after the Second World WarWhen the Third Reich collapsed in 1945, Germany was a nation in tatters, in many places literally flattened by bombs. In the ensuing occupation, hundreds of thousands of women were raped. Hundreds of thousands of Germans and German-speakers died in the course of brutal deportations from Eastern Europe. By the end of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Normandy

    The Real Story

    “It was the [allied armies’] valor, their endurance, and their ability to adapt that won the battle of Normandy and launched the liberation of Western Europe.”—from Normandy: The Real StoryFor decades, it’s been the conventional wisdom that “brute force” alone beat the German army at Normandy. Now a definitive new history, coauthored by a highly decorated field commander, proves otherwise. Using ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Lonely Soldier

    The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq

    The Lonely Soldier--the inspiration for the documentary The Invisible War--vividly tells the stories of five women who fought in Iraq between 2003 and 2006--and of the challenges they faced while fighting a war painfully alone.More American women have fought and died in Iraq than in any war since World War Two, yet as soldiers they are still painfully alone. In Iraq, only one in ten troops is a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Devil's Birthday

    The Bridges to Arnhem 1944

    A WWII veteran combines firsthand immediacy with perceptive analysis in this vividly detailed history of the Battle of Arnhem.The Allied effort the liberate the Netherlands faced a brutal setback at the Battle of Arnham, where the men of the 1st British Airborne Division showed unsurpassed valor in the face of overwhelming opposition. The dramatic defeat, immortalized in the famous film A Bridge ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After the War Zone

    A Practical Guide for Returning Troops and Their Families

    From the Director and Associate Director of the VA's National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: a highly practical, user-friendly guide that answering all conceivable questions about returning from war--for veterans and familiesTwo experts from the VA National Center for PTSD provide an essential resource for service members, their spouses, families, and communities, sharing what troops ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • We Who Are Alive and Remain

    Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers

    **From Marcus Brotherton, co-author of Call of Duty, comes a new collection of untold stories from the Band of Brothers.Look for the Band of Brothers miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix!**They were the men of the now-legendary Easy Company. After almost two years of hard training, they parachuted into Normandy on D-Day and, later, Operation Market Garden. They fought their way through ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Taking Command

    General J. Lawton Collins From Guadalcanal to Utah Beach and Victory in Europe

    "The crux of the fighting was the place I headed for." -General J. Lawton CollinsKnown as "the GI's general" and "Lightning Joe," General J. Lawton Collins played no less than a global part in the Allied victory of World War II.Here, for the first time, is the story of an American hero and patriot- a man who earned the admiration of the grunts with whom he shared foxholes and the respect of the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A More Unbending Battle

    The Harlem Hellfighter's Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home

    by Peter Nelson ...
    The night broke open in a storm of explosions and fire. The sound of shells whizzing overhead, screeching through the night like wounded pheasants, was terrifying. When the shells exploded prematurely overhead, a rain of shrapnel fell on the men below -- better than when the shells exploded in the trenches . . .In A More Unbending Battle, journalist and author Pete Nelson chronicles the little ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The GI Bill

    The New Deal for Veterans

    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    On rare occasions in American history, Congress enacts a measure so astute, so far-reaching, so revolutionary, it enters the language as a metaphor. The Marshall Plan comes to mind, as does the Civil Rights Act. But perhaps none resonates in the American imagination like the G.I. Bill. In a brilliant addition to Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments in American History series, historians Glenn C. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • American Commando

    Evans Carlson, His WWII Marine Raiders and America's First Special Forces Mission

    by John Wukovits ...
    Before the Green Berets...Before the Navy SEALs...Before the Army Rangers...There was the Long Patrol.November 1942: in the hellish combat zone of Guadalcanal, one man would make history.Lt. Col. Evans Carlson was considered a maverick by many of his comrades-and an outright traitor by others. He spent years observing guerrilla tactics all over the world, and knew that those tactics could be used ... Read more

    $10.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • The Regulars

    The American Army, 1898–1941

    In 1898 the American Regular Army was a small frontier constabulary engaged in skirmishes with Indians and protesting workers. Forty-three years later, in 1941, it was a large modern army ready to wage global war against the Germans and the Japanese. In this definitive social history of America's standing army, military historian Edward Coffman tells how that critical transformation was ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • World War II Reflections

    An Oral History of Pennsylvania's Veterans

    by Brian Lockman ...
    Gripping firsthand accounts. Then-and-now photos of the veterans. Maps and sidebars highlighting battles, units, and equipment. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Triquet's Cross

    A Study of Military Heroism

    One of only thirteen members of the Canadian Armed Forces to be awarded the highest military honour during the war, Triquet was later pressured to resign from the force due to the overwhelming public and political expectations that the award entailed. The role of hero did not suit Triquet and weighed heavily on him and his family. MacFarlane shows how Triquet's story was changed by those who ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The American GI in Europe in World War II: The March to D-Day

    Firsthand accounts and contextual narrative chronicling the U.S. war effort before D-Day. Sidebars on patrols, service troops, the replacement system, Rangers, and more. Based on interviews with more than 200 veterans. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Heart of a Patriot

    How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove

    by Max Cleland ...
    By the time he had reached middle age, Max Cleland thought he had nothing to live for. Vietnam had left him a triple amputee. He had lost his seat in the U.S. Senate, and in the grip of depression he had lost his fiancée, too. But instead of giving up, Cleland discovered that he has what it takes to survive: the heart of a patriot.Doctors did not give Cleland much hope when he returned from ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • War Stories

    by Gary Kulik ...
    War stories are mostly innocent fables and understood as such by both the teller and the hearer. However, they have long been used for political and national purposes, and those about the war in Vietnam were no exception, as painfully evidenced in the 2004 presidential campaign. John Kerry campaigned as a war hero. His opponents cast him as a liar and a traitor and their 'war story' prevailed. ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

  • Jake Wardrop's Diary

    A Tank Regiment Sergeant's Story

    by George Forty ...
    The personal story of a British tank sergeant's war, from the fall of France in 1940, through the bloody campaigns against Rommel's forces in North Africa, the hard-fought drive up Italy, D-Day and the battles for France and the low countries, and the invasion of the German heartland itself. George Forty, himself a veteran of the Korean War, uses Jake Wardrop's war diary as the basis for this ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Heart of a Soldier

    From Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart comes the extraordinary story of American hero Rick Rescorla, Morgan Stanley security director and a veteran of Vietnam and the British colonial wars in Rhodesia, who lost his life on September 11.When Rick Rescorla got home from Vietnam, he tried to put combat and death behind him, but he never could entirely. From the day he joined the British Army to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment

    The Military Career of Charles Young

    Army Historical Foundation's 2010 Distinguished Writing Award, finalist, biography category"A valuable read for anyone with an interest in the final years of the frontier Army, American imperialism, African-Americans in military service, and American military history in general."—A.A. Nofi, Strategypage.comAn unheralded military hero, Charles Young (1864–1922) was the third black graduate of West ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • From Baghdad to America

    Life Lessons from a Dog Named Lava

    by Jay Kopelman ...
    Lieutenant Colonel Jay Kopelman won the hearts of readers everywhere with his moving story of adopting an abandoned puppy named Lava from a hellish corner of Iraq. He opened the door for other soldiers to bring dogs home, and in From Baghdad to America, Kopelman once again leads the pack with his observations on the emotional repercussions of war.Here, for the first time, Kopelman holds nothing ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Long Gray Line

    The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966

    The New York Times bestseller about West Point's Class of 1966, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Rick Atkinson."A story of epic proportions [and] an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction."—The Boston GlobeA classic of its kind, The Long Gray Line is the twenty-five-year saga of the West Point class of 1966. With a novelist's eye for detail, Rick Atkinson (author of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How We Are Changed by War

    A Study of Letters and Diaries from Colonial Conflicts to Operation Iraqi Freedom

    by D.C. Gill ...
    The prolonged conflict in Iraq has shown us war’s transformative effect. Civilians rivet themselves to events happening halfway around the world, while young soldiers return home from battlefields, coping with the memories of those events.How We Are Changed by War examines our sense of ourselves through the medium of diaries and wartime correspondence, beginning with the colonists of the early ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Achilles in Vietnam

    Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character

    An original and groundbreaking examination of the psychological devastation of war through the lens of Homer’s Iliad in this “compassionate book [that] deserves a place in the lasting literature of the Vietnam War” (The New York Times).In this moving and dazzlingly creative book, Dr. Jonathan Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Freedom's Heroes

    The Military Heritage of Rostraver

    There is no available information at this time. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD