Military

Tomas Young's War is the tragic yet life-affirming story of a paralysed Iraq War veteran who spent his last 10 years battling heroically with his injuries, while courageously speaking against America's wars before his death in 2014. Based on hours of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596290280Author Jonathan DemboFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint History Press (SC)Publisher History Press (SC)Weight(grams) 785g

This biographical history tells the story of an American family in conflict and four brothers' attempts to regain the prestigious position their family once held. Loaded with never-before-published photos and little-known facts, this probing character...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478720881Author Clay LiftoFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 181g

Hideko was ten years old when the atomic bomb devastated her home in Hiroshima. In this eloquent and moving narrative, Hideko recalls her life before the bomb, the explosion itself, and the influence of that trauma upon her subsequent life in Japan and...

'The bravest thing God ever made,' said a British officer of the insubordinate Aussies at Gallipoli. And before the Normandy invasion, Field Marshal Montgomery's chief of staff remarked, 'I only wish we had the Australian 9th Division with us this...

General Maxwell Taylor served at the nerve centers of US military policy and Cold War strategy and experienced firsthand the wars in Korea and Vietnam, as well as crises in Berlin and Cuba. Along the way he became an adversary of President Dwight D...

The word conquer has changed meaning for Bryan Anderson. As a U.S. Army Sergeant in Iraq, it meant taking down the enemy. After becoming Iraq’s fourth triple amputee from a roadside explosive, what he had to conquer got a bit more personal. On October...

What made Ulysses S. Grant tick? Perhaps the greatest general of the Civil War, Grant won impressive victories and established a brilliant military career. His single-minded approach to command was coupled with the ability to adapt to the kind of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451417985Author Tanya BiankFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint New American LibraryPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063040588Author Henry LangrehrFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

As World War II recedes from living memory, there remain untold stories of important behind-the-scenes operatives who provided vital support to the leaders celebrated in historical accounts. Colonel Truman Smith is one of the most compelling figures from...

Serpents of War, the memoir of Pennsylvanian Major Harry Dravo Parkin, is a rare account of World War I as seen from the perspective of a battalion commander. As a mid-level officer responsible for the lives and welfare of over a thousand men, Parkin...

Italian history is not widely read but the period under Mussolini's shadow is both interesting and relevant to understanding the wheeling and dealings of the 1930s and into WWII. Through sheer nepotism Galeazzo Ciano married Mussolini's daughter and...

War exposes the divide between who we think we are and how we behave in extreme situations. Sheri Snively, who served as a Quaker chaplain with the U.S. Navy, has crafted a vivid, unsettling, and ultimately hopeful personal account of the effects of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400075645Author Karen DeYoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 692gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 155mm...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932595321Author Tyler E. BoudreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 285g

Best known for his role in helping to establish the Singapore Armed Forces Commando Formation and as the unit's first commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel (Retired) Clarence Tan was born on his family's rubber plantation, just ten months before the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925773422Author Philip Owen AytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint The Text Publishing CompanyPublisher Text Publishing

Brooke King has been asked over and over by interviewers what it's like to be a woman in combat, but the answer she gives is never exactly what the public wants to know. The answer they are seeking lies in the gory details of war-the sex, death,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619025516Author Angela RickettsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 355g

Major General James A. Ulio helped win World War II, though his war was fought from the desk. As adjutant-general throughout the war years, many American families would have recognized his name from one of nearly 900,000 telegrams he signed - all of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608685998Author Tom VossFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

In 1932, the worst year of the Great Depression, more than twenty thousand mostly homeless World War I veterans trekked to the nation's capital to petition Congress to grant them early payment of a promised bonus. The Hoover Administration and the local...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837910601Author Robert E. LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Chaplin BooksPublisher Andrews UK Limited

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Field Marshal Erwin Rommel exerted an almost hypnotic influence not only over his own troops but also over the Allied soldiers of the Eighth Army in the Second World War. Even when the legend surrounding his invincibility was overturned at El Alamein,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780897168151Author John R. GillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Peanut Butter Publishing,U.S.Publisher Peanut Butter Publishing,U.S.Weight(grams) 266g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853036463Author Rodney GouttmanFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co...

In 1952, Queen Elizabeth ascended to the throne and became the Sovereign Head of the Armed Forces. In the sixty years of her reign so far, there have been thousands of conscripts and regular service personnel who have served under her Colours all over...

This book is the first in a new series profiling the Knight's Cross holders of the Wehrmacht in World War II. Concise biographies, rare photographs of personalities, aircraft, and award documents cover not only known soldiers and airmen, but lesser known...

This is the fourth and final book in the complete series on the life of Rommel's former Chief-of-Staff Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein. Bayerlein faced obstacles in attempting to get his life back to normal after six years of fighting and two years as a...

On 10 December 1941, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Prince of Wales was sunk by Japanese bombers in the South China Sea. Amongst the several hundred men who went down with her was her Captain, John Leach, who had fought against frightful odds and to the...

Under the blazing Iraqi sun in the summer of 2007, Shannon Meehan, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, ordered a strike that would take the lives of innocent Iraqi civilians. He thought he was doing the right thing. He thought he was protecting his men. He...

This book is a poignant story of a small-town boy, who stumbled into a lifelong flying career spanning 38 years as a pilot. Now at 99, Captain Ho Weng Toh, one of the last few remaining Flying Tigers, recalls the many events that shaped his life. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897142257Author Liane FaulderFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Brindle and Glass Publishing, LtdPublisher Brindle and Glass Publishing,...

The Final Flight of Maggie's Drawers is the true story of Joe Maloney, a B-24 tail gunner during WWII. HIs story unfolds as he describes, in detail, life in the military, from living in a tent city to countless bombing runs over Nazi-held Europe.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681623146Author David W. IrvinFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint TurnerPublisher Turner

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610350051Author Janice StevensFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co IncWeight(grams) 654g