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by Terry D. Turchie, Ted Spain, Col. USA(Ret)
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
This is an important book, because it gives us the unvarnished account of one brigade commander and his tour of duty in Baghdad during the tumultuous first year of the American occupation, wrote Tom Ricks in the Foreword. From it the reader will learn much about what went wrong in Iraq, and also what...
Beyond Shock and Awe
Warfare in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
**From one of the twelve founding members of Delta Force, a collection of commentary on the future of war. **
In Beyond Shock and Awe, media commentator Eric Haney—a founding member of Delta Force and author of Inside Delta Force—along with other noted military analysts and award-nominated...
Air Operations in Israel's War Against Hezbollah
Learning from Lebanon and Getting It Right in Gaza
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Examines the inconclusive results of the Israeli Defense Forces' operation in Lebanon after Hezbollah abducted two Israeli soldiers in 2006, which many believe represents a "failure of air power." The author demonstrates that this is an oversimplification of a more complex reality and contrasts the...
The Bombers and the Bombed
Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
The ultimate history of the Allied bombing campaigns in World War II
Technology shapes the nature of all wars, and the Second World War hinged on a most unpredictable weapon: the bomb. Day and night, Britain and the United States unleashed massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize occupied...
Firepower in Limited War
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
“Bar none, the best book on fire support in the English language and one of the most accessible works on tactics I have ever read.”—Bruce Gudmundsson, author of On Artillery
The military of the United States is the world's strongest. Our armed forces are equipped with weapons of remarkable...
Gustavus Adolphus
A History of the Art of War from Its Revival After the Middle Ages to the End of the Spanish Succession War, With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of the Great Swede
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
A grand sweeping military history of the “pike and shot” era, with a particular emphasis on the Thirty Years’ War in Europe (1618–1648). Originally published in two volumes, the first covers the life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and known as “The Lion of the North” by his many...
by Edward H. Bonekemper III
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
What makes the Civil War so fascinating is that it presents an endless number of "what if" scenarios—moments when the outcome of the war (and therefore world history) hinged on a single small mistake or omission. In this book, Civil War historian Edward Bonekemper highlights the ten biggest Civil...
Dark December
The Full Account of the Battle of the Bulge
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
The Battle of the Bulge, first published in 1947 as Dark December, is a detailed account of the German Army's last major offensive of World War II.
Presented from both Allied and German viewpoints, the book examines events leading up to the offensive, the massive engagement of German forces against...
The Fredericksburg Campaign
Winter War on the Rappahannock
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
The battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862 involved hundreds of thousands of men; produced staggering, unequal casualties (13,000 Federal soldiers compared to 4,500 Confederates); ruined the career of Ambrose E. Burnside; embarrassed Abraham Lincoln; and distinguished Robert E. Lee as...
Plataea 479 BC
The most glorious victory ever seen
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Plataea was one of the biggest and most important land battles of pre-20th century history. Close to 100,000 hoplite and light-armed Greeks took on an even larger barbarian army that included elite Asian cavalry and infantry, and troops from as far away as India, with thousands of Greek hoplites and...
The Myth of the Great War
A New Military History Of World War 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Based on previously unused French and German sources, this challenging and controversial new analysis of the war on the Western front from 1914 to 1918 reveals how and why the Germans won the major battles with one-half to one-third fewer casualties than the Allies, and how American troops in 1918 saved the Allies from defeat and a negotiated peace with the Germans.
by Peter Hofschröer
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Written by an expert on the Prussian army of the Napoleonic era, this is a fascinating insight into the 18th-century evolution of the Prussian forces into the war-winning troops of the final battles against Napoleon. Using contemporary materials including drill regulations, instructions, staff and...
Cataclysm
General Hap Arnold and the Defeat of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
In Cataclysm, Herman S. Wolk examines the thinking and leadership of General Henry H. (Hap) Arnold, Commanding General, Army Air Forces (AAF), during World War II. Specifically, Wolk concentrates on Arnolds role in crafting the weapons, organization, and command of the strategic bombing offensive against...
Normandy
The Real Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
“It was the [allied armies’] valor, their endurance, and their ability to adapt that won the battle of Normandy and launched the liberation of Western Europe.”
—from Normandy: The Real Story
For decades, it’s been the conventional wisdom that “brute force” alone beat the German...