Military

John Brown is a common name, but the John Brown who masterminded the failed raid at Harpers Ferry was anything but common. His failed efforts have left an imprint upon our history, and his story still swirls in controversy. Was he a madman who felt his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645361206Author Khawaja AzimuddinFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLCWeight(grams)...

The diary of David Watson, who rose through the officer ranks to command one of the four divisions in the Great War, is an exceptional document that details with candid insight the responsibilities of senior command and shows the talent required to rise...

Not even old enough to drink, Corporal Savannah Cannon is a young enlisted United States Marine deployed to support Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan in 2010. As a tactical data networking specialist, she is sent away from everyone she knows and...

General Creighton Abrams has been called the greatest American general since Ulysses S. Grant, yet at the time this book was first published in 1992, he was little known by most Americans. For more than four decades, in three wars and in challenging...

"Better to fight for something than live for nothing." - General George S. PattonIt is 75 years since the end of WW II and the strange, mysterious death of General George S. Patton, but as in life, Patton sets off a storm of controversy.The Tragedy of...

Most Americans familiar with General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing know him as the commander of American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during the latter days of World War I. But Pershing was in his late fifties by then. Pershing's military...

Ernie Coleman survived the worst open-sea defeat in US Navy history. But he paid a price and buried the horrific memories for decades. In the manner of Mitch Albom's highly successful Tuesdays with Morrie, 22 Minutes is a searing account of a survivor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988592381Author Brent CouttsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250872449Author Chelsea ManningFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

SUMMER, 1974 - Six teenaged boys died and fifty-four were injured in an explosion on a Canadian Forces Base in Valcartier, Quebec. A live grenade inadvertently made its way into a box of dud ammunition, and its pin was pulled during a lecture on...

"I am not going to let my blindness build a brick wall around me. I'd give my eyes one hundred times again to have the chance to do what I have done, and what I can still do."- Brad Snyder speaking with First Lady Michelle ObamaOn the night Osama bin...

Born in rural Illinois, Ken Kays was a country boy who flunked out of college and wound up serving as a medic in the Vietnam War. On May 7, 1970, after only 17 days in Vietnam and one day after joining a new platoon, the young medic found himself in a...

Michael Crescenz grew up in one of Philadelphia's booming post-war Catholic neighbourhoods, distinguishing himself early on as a leader, brother and friend who fearlessly rose to the defense of others in need. The second of six sons born to a World War...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062951335Author Ray LambertFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 377gDimensions(mm)...

With his parting words "I shall return," General Douglas MacArthur sealed the fate of the last American forces on Bataan. Yet one young Army Captain named Russell Volckmann refused to surrender. He disappeared into the jungles of north Luzon where he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254820Author Anthony MollFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Mad Creek BooksPublisher Mad Creek BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm...

George Crook was one of the most prominent military figures of the late-nineteenth-century Indian Wars. Yet today his name is largely unrecognized despite the important role he played in such pivotal events in western history as the Custer fight at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806137469Author Ronald G MachoianFormat HardbackPage Count 388Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 680g

During the last decades of the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Walter Pater and others changed the nature of thought concerning the human body and the physical environment that had shaped it. In response, the 1890s saw the...

This book explores the memorializing practices of American veterans of the Vietnam War at several of the most significant contemporary sites of memory in the United States and Vietnam. These sites include veterans' memoirs, museum exhibits, replicas of...

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...

Truman and MacArthur offers an objective and comprehensive account of the very public confrontation between a sitting president and a well-known general over the military's role in the conduct of foreign policy. In November 1950, with the army of the...

Over the last few decades, as the United States has become embroiled in foreign war after foreign war, some of the most vocal activists for peace have been veterans. These veterans for peace come from all different races, classes, regions, and...

A Canadian medical officer and prisoner of war returns from the Second World War a hero - and a very different man.In August 1941, John Reid, a young Canadian doctor, volunteered to join the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps with four friends from...

This is the story of the career of the author's mysterious great uncle Raymond de Candolle, who had apparently disappeared into the bowels of London, at the turn of the twentieth century. It begins when he joins a group of enterprising bankers, engineers...

"...Ray Davis was a hardened combat veteran. This was brought home to me one day while visiting a remote Army firebase in the jungle south of Khe Sanh. As the two of us strode along the jungle pathway, Davis suddenly stopped and peered intently into the...

Taking a novel approach to the military history of the post-Civil War West, distinguished historian Robert M. Utley examines the careers of seven military leaders who served as major generals for the Union in the Civil War, then as brigadier generals in...

Churchill examines the influential career of Winston Churchill, British Prime Minster during the Second World War and from 1951-55. It discusses his early career as Secretary of State for War and Air and Chancellor of the Exchequer, Churchill as Warlord,...

Harry L. Gill, of Fredericton, New Brunswick, enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940 at the age of 18. During his short but adventure-filled career, he flew a Hurricane fighter bomber over France, England, and India and was awarded the...

Lachlan McIntosh (1728-1806) was a prominent Georgia planter, patriarch of his Highland Scots clan in America, and the ranking general from Georgia in the Continental army. Often, however, he is known simply as the man who, in a duel, mortally wounded...

In 1896, an illiterate, fifteen-year-old Afro-Cuban field hand joined the rebel army fighting for Cuba's independence. Though poor and uneducated, Ricardo Batrell believed in the promise of Cuba Libre, the vision of a democratic and egalitarian nation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228835738Author J Ralph de CosteFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 980gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

"Like the A-10 aircraft she flew in combat, retired colonel and fighter pilot Martha McSally is a gritty individual who loves our Air Force and personified its core values of excellence, integrity, and service before self, while standing up to make...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937868284Author Maurice J JacquesFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Quadrant Books(r)Publisher Quadrant Books(r)Weight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Over a long and varied career, Major-General William Beatson earned a fine reputation as a leader of irregular cavalry in the nineteenth century. He trained many future commanders of the Victorian army, saw action in Spain and British India, and rode...

In the spring of 1940 Canada sent hundreds of highly trained volunteers to serve in Britain's Royal Air Force as it began a concerted bombing campaign against Germany. Nearly half of them were killed or captured within a year. This is the story of one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681340524Author Professor James WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

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 story...

In 1998 Teresa Fazio signed up for the Marine Corps' ROTC program to pay her way through MIT. After the United States was attacked on September 11, 2001, leading to the War on Terror, she graduated with a physics degree into a very different world, owing...