Military

Thomas E. Alexander was among 20,000 military service personnel ordered into the Strategic Air Command, formed in 1946 as US military and political leaders began to understand the growing nuclear threat posed by Stalin's USSR. Alexander served for a...

This is the personal account of an army infantry platoon leader and commanding officer in the central highlands of Vietnam during 1967 and 1968 when he was 21 years old. These were the two bloodiest years of the war, a time when the army employed search...

James Longstreet stood with Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the great triumvirate of the Army of Northern Virginia. He fought from First Manassas through Appomattox and served as Lee's senior subordinate for most of that time. In this classic...

On August 31, 1915, a Texas posse lynched five "horse thieves." One of them, it turned out, was General Pascual Orozco Jr., military hero of the Mexican Revolution. Was he a desperado or a hero? Orozco's death proved as controversial as his...

Unlike the flashy and self-promoting George Armstrong Custer, Civil War veteran and Indian fighter Ranald Slidell Mackenzie is not well known today. In the late nineteenth century, however, Mackenzie ranked among the best known and most effective of a...

United States Army surgeon John H. Grindlay served in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II in 1941-1944. Drawing on his unpublished war diary and letters, this book sheds new light on the conduct of battlefield medicine in the tropics and...

Zumwalt is a compelling portrait of the controversial military man who is widely regarded as the founder of the modern U.S. Navy, Admiral Elmo Russell ""Bud"" Zumwalt. Chief of Naval Operations during the decades-long Cold War crisis,...

In 1864, George D. Prentice, veteran editor of the pro - Union ""Louisville Daily Journal"" created the persona of Sue Mundy, a Civil War guerilla who was in actuality a young man named Marcellus Jerome Clarke. This volume offers an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861514486Author Fred OldenburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 300g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861514844Author Athol E. VarleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Memoirs PublishingWeight(grams) 400g

A talented field commander, Union General Philip Kearny began his career as a lieutenant with the 1st U.S. Dragoons. He studied cavalry tactics in France and fought with the Chasseurs d'Afrique in Algeria, where his fearlessness earned him the nickname...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988589117Author Ltc (Ret) Richard a VargusFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Red Engine PressPublisher Red Engine PressWeight(grams) 413g

Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov (1856-1929) was a key figure in late Imperial Russia, and one of its foremost soldiers. At the outbreak of World War I, his cousin, Tsar Nicholas II, appointed him Supreme Commander of the Russian Army. From 1914 to...

Tracing the intersecting lives of a Confederate plantation owner and a free black Union soldier, Barbara L. Bellows' Two Charlestonians at War offers a poignant allegory of the fraught, interdependent relationship between wartime enemies in the Civil War...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393338355Author Tom PhilpottFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 721g

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Soon after the United States entered World War II, American ground and air forces were on their way to the European theater of operations. Among that offensive buildup was the 15th Air Force, consisting of four-engine heavy bombers - the B-17 and B-24 -...

These letters chronicle the wartime courtship of a Confederate soldier and the woman he loved-a sister-in-law of Abraham Lincoln. It is a relative rarity for the correspondence of both writers in Civil War letter collections to survive, as they have here...

These letters chronicle the wartime courtship of a Confederate soldier and the woman he loved-a sister-in-law of Abraham Lincoln. It is a relative rarity for the correspondence of both writers in Civil War letter collections to survive, as they have here...

A new collection of Bill Ehrhart's essays, 25 of them written between 2002 and 2011 on subjects ranging from the failures of American policymakers during the Vietnam War to life in 21st century Vietnam, from the trenches of the Western Front to the...

David McCampbell was the leader of the most successful naval air group in combat in World War II. An unequalled naval aviator, McCampbell shot down a total of 34 Japanese aircraft across numerous battles. Eventually awarded the Medal of Honor, he...

Discharged in 1959 after one year at the U.S. Naval Academy because of a progressive left ear hearing loss, I went on to college and medical school. In 1965, my draft board notified me that upon completion of internship in 1967 I would be drafted despite...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999693810Author Cheri WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Aignos Publishing - An Imprint of Savant Books andPublisher Aignos Publishing - An...

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Veteran journalist and author Sherry Robinson presents readers with the first full biography of New Mexico's first territorial governor, James Silas Calhoun. Robinson explores Calhoun's early life in Georgia and his military service in the Mexican War...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780968135389Author Margaret Claire HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Library and Archives CanadaPublisher Library and Archives...

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In recent years there has been a renewed interest in Civil War sharpshooters. Now there is a new perspective on the subject in the story of Major William E. Simmons (1839-1931), with emphasis on his experiences as an infantry officer in the Army of...

From the Kentucky Campaign to Tullahoma, Chickamauga to Missionary Ridge, junior officer Joshua K. Callaway took part in some of the most critical campaigns of the Civil War. His twice-weekly letters home, written between April 1862 and November 1863,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615651217Author J Jackson OwensbyFormat PaperbackImprint Argus Enterprises International, IncorporatedPublisher Argus Enterprises International,...