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History - Military - United States
From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award
Finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and
the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
"War hath determined us ..." - John Milton, Paradise Lost
Toward the beginning of Places and Names, Elliot Ackerman sits in a refugee camp in southern Turkey, across the table from a man named Abu Hassar, who fought for Al Qaeda in Iraq, and whose connections to the Islamic State are murky.
"War hath determined us ..." - John Milton, Paradise Lost
Toward the beginning of Places and Names, Elliot Ackerman sits in a refugee camp in southern Turkey, across the table from a man named Abu Hassar, who fought for Al Qaeda in Iraq, and whose connections to the Islamic State are murky.
The New York Times bestselling author of The
Liberator and Avenue of Spies returns with an utterly
immersive, adrenaline-driven account of D-Day combat.
Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows the remarkable men who carried out D-Day’s most perilous missions.
Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows the remarkable men who carried out D-Day’s most perilous missions.
A groundbreaking revisionist history of the last days of the
Vietnam War that reveals the acts of American heroism that saved
more than one hundred thousand South Vietnamese from communist
revenge
In 1973 U.S. participation in the Vietnam War ended in a cease-fire and a withdrawal that included promises by President Nixon to assist the South in the event of invasion by the North.
In 1973 U.S. participation in the Vietnam War ended in a cease-fire and a withdrawal that included promises by President Nixon to assist the South in the event of invasion by the North.
From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking
and often surprising saga of America’s wartime chief
executives
Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory.
Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory.
"Superb...A masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing and
arresting detail...This war story — the fight to break
out of a frozen hell near the Chosin
Reservoir — has been told many times before. But
Sides tells it exceedingly well, with fresh research, gritty scenes
and cinematic sweep.
“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.
Another history pageturner from the authors of the #1
bestsellers George Washington's Secret Six and
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.
The War of 1812 saw America threatened on every side. Encouraged by the British, Indian tribes attacked settlers in the West, while the Royal Navy terrorized the coasts.
The War of 1812 saw America threatened on every side. Encouraged by the British, Indian tribes attacked settlers in the West, while the Royal Navy terrorized the coasts.
From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil
War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others. a vivid,
uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America
apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be
aired in September 2017.
An incredible true tale of espionage and engineering set at the
height of the Cold War—a mix between The Hunt for
Red October and Argo—about how the CIA, the U.S.
Navy, and America’s most eccentric mogul spent six years
and nearly a billion dollars to steal the nuclear-armed Soviet
submarine K-129 after it had sunk to the bottom of the Pacific
Ocean; all while the Russians were watching.
The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and
technology for nearly sixty years.
Founded in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik, the agency’s original mission was to create “the unimagined weapons of the future.
Founded in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik, the agency’s original mission was to create “the unimagined weapons of the future.
Most history-minded Americans have discussed the Vietnam War,
becoming familiar, at the very least, with the names of such
pivotal events as the Siege of Khe Sanh, the Tet Offensive, and the
Fall of Saigon. But to grasp the full impact of this agonizing
conflict, the human costs of an infernal war that raged for ten
years and took more than 58,000 American lives, one must hear about
it from the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who experienced the
fighting and endured.
With a Foreword by Bill O’Reilly, here is the incredible
memoir of a former Marine who returns to combat in Iraq and
Afghanistan three decades after leaving the Corps.
Terry McGowan had been a beat cop, a Marine captain, and a Special Agent for the FBI before retiring at the age of fifty.
Terry McGowan had been a beat cop, a Marine captain, and a Special Agent for the FBI before retiring at the age of fifty.
