Military

Selected in 2005 by the Army to be the first airborne reconnaissance squadron, 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, better known as 5-73 CAV, was formed from 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. The members of the squadron were hand-selected...

As historian David W. Bright noted in Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, "No other historical experience in America has given rise to such a massive collection of personal narrative 'literature' written by ordinary people." This "massive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594163890Author Donald C PfanzFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616209964Author Jerad W AlexanderFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Algonquin Books (division of Workman)Publisher Algonquin Books (division of...

Unconventional warfare tactics can have a considerable effect on the outcome of any war. During World War II, the United States government developed and employed two new methods of fighting. The first was the development of 'paratroop' units, as they...

"Poignant . . . Well worth the read." -Wall Street Journal In December 1944, Frank Sisson deployed to Europe as part of General George S. Patton's famed Third Army. Over the next six months, as the war in Europe raged, Sisson would participate...

Truscott was one of the really tough generals,"" soldier-cartoonist Bill Mauldin of the 45th Infantry Division once wrote. ""He could have eaten a ham like Patton for breakfast any morning and picked his teeth with the man's pearl-handled pistols."" Not...

Although not nearly as well known as other U.S. Army senior commanders, General Mark Clark is one of the four men - along with Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley - who historian Martin Blumenson called "the essential quartet of American leaders who achieved...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446583220Author Jerry BoykinFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Warner Books IncPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471264361Author Edward L. FlemingFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561641192Author Elinor De WireFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

Jeb Stuart, leader of the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia, earned the admiration of his enemies during the first three years of the Civil War. Famed for his daring ride around McClellan during the Peninsula Campaign, and his raid behind Union...

"An American hero...finally gets her due in this riveting narrative. You will absolutely love Florence Finch: her grit, her compassion, her fight. This isn't just history; she is a woman for our times." -KEITH O'BRIEN, the New York Times bestselling...

Warfighter is the story of Col. Jesse L. Johnson, US Army (Ret.), one of the most decorated living Americans. His 40-year Army career spans the intense years of Vietnam, the 1980 Delta Force Eagle Claw mission in the Arabian desert, Operation Desert...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851248424Author Jo VellacottFormat PaperbackPage Count 339Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628323Author Hans-Georg EismannFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The Iraq War's only living Medal of Honor recipient reveals the untold story of the remarkable brotherhood behind one of the war's legendary acts of valor In 2004, he stormed an enemy stronghold to save his platoon. Fourteen years later, his unit...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143038665Author Roy Blount, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 152gDimensions(mm) 181mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992973155Author Richard GlassFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shakspeare EditorialPublisher Shakspeare EditorialWeight(grams) 327g

A gripping personal account of success and failure in Iraq during the crucial first year after the fall of the Ba'athist regime This compelling book presents an unparalleled record of what happened after U.S. forces seized Baghdad in the spring of 2003...

In the late summer of 1942, more than ten thousand members of the First Marine Division held a tenuous toehold on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal. As American marines battled Japanese forces for control of the island, they were joined by war...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986118821Author E P RoseFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Studio on 41Publisher Studio on 41Weight(grams) 630g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857065582Author G E MittonFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 240g

On September 15, 1944, the U.S. First Marine Division landed on a small island in the Central Pacific called Peleliu as a prelude to the liberation of the Philippines. Among the first wave of Marines that hit the beach that day was 22-year-old George...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755211371Author Matthew StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 538g

Alec Guinness won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of the dogmatic but brittle commanding officer in David Lean's film "The Bridge on the River Kwai". While a brilliant performance, it owed more to fiction than fact, as the man who actually commanded...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995488212Author Ruaraidh HillearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Skirinish PublishingPublisher Skirinish Publishing

There is no more vivid and poignant account than one at first hand, and Editor Ian Hawkins has drawn together numerous stories from those men who served on the 'B' class destroyers and others, weaving them seamlessly together using excerpts from books,...

When he died in 1946, Flight Lieutenant Jack Mossop left behind a widow and child, a chest full of medals, and a diary. He was 25 years old. The diary gave tantalising glimpses of his career; sixty years on, his son has uncovered the truth. It is the...

National Geographic brings you the story of a stray dog who eventually became affectionately known as Sergeant Stubby the most famous war dog of World War I. Beloved award-winning author and library darling Ann Bausum brings her friendly writing style...

Winner of the Costa Biography Award What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's...

'Quite simply, this is one of the greatest, most riveting books of war letters I have ever read.' Stephen E. Ambrose on War LettersIn 2001 Andrew Carroll authored the US top ten bestseller, War Letters - a unique compilation of extraordinary...

Lofty Large has known the exhilaration of victory and the terrible despondency of defeat, the satisfaction of seeing his enemies go down and the horrific stinging crash of bullets smashing into his own body. In Soldier Against the Odds he discusses the...

Born into a working-class family in London in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade at nineteen, was sent to the Middle East and saw action in Palestine. Following service in the western desert and at the battle of Alamein, he joined the...

When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, millions of lives changed in an instant. Millions of people were suddenly on the move. In this great flow of people was a reporter from the north of Scotland. Jen Stout left Moscow abruptly, ending up on a border...

This book is Black Hawk Down meets Enemy at the Gates meets Band of Brothers, and all true. It is the story of what happens when careless Western politicians assume that we live in the ‘end of history’ and it turns out that the Great Game is back, uglier...

Herbert Kenny, an army dispatch rider, was the first ally to push open the gates at Belsen Concentration Camp, in April 1945.He kept his story from the world until a chance correspondence with a trainee journalist brought it to light. Now, forty years...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916556379Author Diana Mara HenryFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Chiselbury PublishingPublisher Chiselbury Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310370116Author Carlyle S. HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint ZondervanPublisher Zondervan

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645720904Author April CaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Republic Book PublishersPublisher Republic Book Publishers