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  • The Wise Men

    Six Friends and the World They Made

    This “engrossing narrative” examines the six American statesmen who rebuilt the world after WWII—with a new introduction by the authors (The New York Times).Blending personal biography and geopolitical history*, Wise Men* introduces six close friends who used their power and influence to shape the role their country would play in the dangerous years following the Second World War. They were the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The War Below

    The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan

    by James Scott ...
    A “beautifully researched and masterfully told” account of the US submarine force that helped win World War II in the Pacific (New York Times–bestselling author Alex Kershaw).Focusing on the unique stories of three of the war’s top submarines—Silversides, Drum, and Tang—The War Below vividly re-creates the camaraderie, exhilaration, and fear of the brave volunteers who took the fight to the enemy ... Read more

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  • The Brink

    President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983

    by Marc Ambinder ...
    “An informative and often enthralling book…in the appealing style of Tom Clancy” (Kirkus Reviews) about the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union.What happened in 1983 to make the Soviet Union so afraid of a potential nuclear strike from the United States that they sent mobile ICBMs (intercontinental ... Read more

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  • Making the Corps

    The bestselling, compelling insider’s account of the Marine Corps from the lives of the men of Platoon 3086—their training at Parris Island, their fierce camaraderie, and the unique code of honor that defines them.The United States Marine Corps, with its proud tradition of excellence in combat, its hallowed rituals, and its unbending code of honor, is part of the fabric of American myth. Making ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • 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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  • Call Sign Chaos

    Learning to Lead

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis—the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time—and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine.“A four-star general’s five-star memoir.”—The Wall Street JournalCall Sign Chaos is the account of Jim Mattis’s ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Gettysburg

    The greatest of all Civil War campaigns, Gettysburg was the turning point of the turning point in our nation’s history. Volumes have been written about this momentous three-day battle, but recent histories have tended to focus on the particulars rather than the big picture: on the generals or on single days of battle—even on single charges—or on the daily lives of the soldiers. In Gettysburg Sears ... Read more

    $16.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • War in a Time of Peace

    Bush, Clinton, and the Generals

    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam chronicles Washington politics and foreign policy in post Cold War America.Evoking the internal conflicts, unchecked egos, and power struggles within the White House, the State Department, and the military, Halberstam shows how the decisions of men who served in the Vietnam War, and those who did not, have shaped America's role in global events. ... Read more

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  • 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

  • Bloody Spring

    Forty Days that Sealed the Confederacy's Fate

    For forty crucial days they fought a bloody struggle. When it was over, the Civil War's tide had turned.In the spring of 1864, Virginia remained unbroken, its armies having repelled Northern armies for more than two years. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had defeated the campaigns of four Union generals, and Lee's veterans were confident they could crush the Union offensive this spring, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Sickles at Gettysburg

    The Controversial Civil War General Who Committed Murder, Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared Himself the Hero of Gettysburg

    “Sickles is as dividing a figure in Civil War history as there is. In his masterful work . . . Hessler . . . puts him out there with all his wrinkles” (Confederate Book Review).Winner of the Robert E. Lee Civil War Roundtable of Central New Jersey’s Bachelder-Coddington Literary AwardWinner of the Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable’s Distinguished Book AwardBy licensed battlefield guide James Hessler ... Read more

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  • Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story Of Baby Doe Tabor

    This is a fascinating autobiography of Baby Doe Tabor, the second wife of pioneer Colorado businessman Horace Tabor, whose rags-to-riches and back to rags again story made her a well-known figure in her own day, and at one time hailed as the “best dressed woman in the West.”It was during Baby Doe’s final years of her life living in a shack on the site of the Matchless Mine, enduring great poverty, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Victors

    Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II

    New York Times Bestseller: The prize-winning historian’s definitive, “riveting” account of the eleven months from D-Day to Germany’s surrender (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).From America’s preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, this is the definitive telling of the war in Europe from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, on May 7, 1945. This authoritative narrative account is drawn by the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Last of the Blue and Gray

    Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery That Outlived the Civil War

    Richard Serrano, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, pens a story of two veterans. In the late 1950s, as America prepared for the Civil War centennial, two very old men lay dying. Albert Woolson, 109 years old, slipped in and out of a coma at a Duluth, Minnesota, hospital, his memories as a Yankee drummer boy slowly dimming. Walter Williams, at 117 blind and deaf and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Reluctant Rebels

    The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861

    Series series Civil War America
    After the feverish mobilization of secession had faded, why did Southern men join the Confederate army? Kenneth Noe examines the motives and subsequent performance of "later enlisters." He offers a nuanced view of men who have often been cast as less patriotic and less committed to the cause, rekindling the debate over who these later enlistees were, why they joined, and why they stayed and fought ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Nine Days in May

    The Battles of the 4th Infantry Division on the Cambodian Border, 1967

    Moving through the jungle near the Cambodian border on May 18, 1967, a company of American infantry observed three North Vietnamese Army regulars, AK-47s slung over their shoulders, walking down a well-worn trail in the rugged Central Highlands. Startled by shouts of “Lai day, lai day” (“Come here, come here”), the three men dropped their packs and fled. The company commander, a young lieutenant, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Conquest Of Okinawa: An Account Of The Sixth Marine Division

    Contains numerous maps.One of a series of monographs prepared by the Historical Division that deals with the activities of Marine Corps units in World War II, this monograph is the work of Captain Carleton. While on Okinawa he lived with the men of the Sixth Marine Division, watched them fight and listened to their accounts of the action. He was with the Twenty Ninth Marines on Motobu Peninsula, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Island Infernos

    The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944

    In Fire and Fortitude—winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History—John C. McManus presented a riveting account of the US Army's fledgling fight in the Pacific following Pearl Harbor. Now, in Island Infernos, he explores the Army’s dogged pursuit of Japanese forces, island by island, throughout 1944, a year that would bring America ever closer to victory or defeat.“A feat of prodigious ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Carrier

    by Tom Clancy ...
    Series Book 6 - Tom Clancy's Military Referenc
    They are floating cities with crews of thousands. They are the linchpins of any military strategy, for they provide what has become the key to every battle fought since World War I: air superiority. The mere presence of a U.S. naval carrier in a region is an automatic display of strength that sends a message no potential enemy can ignore. Now, Tom Clancy welcomes you aboard for a detailed look at ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • God Save Benedict Arnold

    The True Story of America's Most Hated Man

    by Jack Kelly ...
    "Vivid." —The Wall Street Journal"A dazzling addition to the history of the American Revolution." ―Kirkus Review (starred)"Finally... a full and fascinating portrait of a true hero of the American Revolution, until he was visited by villainy. A riveting read." ―Tom Clavin, New York Times bestselling author of Follow Me to HellBenedict Arnold committed treason— for more than two ce... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • To the End of the Earth

    The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945

    From the liberation of the Philippines to the Japanese surrender, the final volume of John C. McManus's trilogy on the US Army in the Pacific War“Brilliant [and] riveting… a truly great book.”—Gen. David Petraeus • “Triumphant [and] compelling.”—Richard Frank • “McManus is one of the best—if not the best—World War II historians working today.”—World War II magazineThe dawn of 1945 finds a US Army ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Last of the Doughboys

    The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War

    by Richard Rubin ...
    “Before the Greatest Generation, there was the Forgotten Generation of World War I . . . wonderfully engaging” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).“Richard Rubin has done something that will never be possible for anyone to do again. His interviews with the last American World War I veterans—who have all since died—bring to vivid life a cataclysm that changed our world forever but that remains ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Brutal Reckoning

    Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South

    by Peter Cozzens ...
    The story of the pivotal struggle between the Creek Indians and an insatiable, young United States for control over the Deep South—from the acclaimed historian and prize-winning author of The Earth is WeepingThe Creek War is one of the most tragic episodes in American history, leading to the greatest loss of Native American life on what is now U.S. soil. What began as a vicious internal conflict ... Read more

    $13.99 USD