Presidio Press imprint: 129 books
Low Level Hell
A Scout Pilot in the Big Red One
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
The aeroscouts of the 1st Infantry Division had three words emblazoned on their unit patch: Low Level Hell. It was then and continues today as the perfect concise definition of what these intrepid aviators experienced as they ranged the skies of Vietnam from the Cambodian border to the Iron Triangle....
Masters of the Art
A Fighting Marine's Memoir of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
No punches are pulled in this gripping account of Vietnam combat through the eyes of a highly decorated Marine helicopter crewman and door gunner with more than three hundred missions under his belt.
In 1968, U.S. Marine Ronald Winter flew some of the toughest missions of the Vietnam War, from...
A Perfect Hell
The True Story of the Black Devils, the Forefathers of the Special Forces
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
It’s 1942 and Hitler’s armies stand astride Europe like a colossus. Germany is winning on every front. This is the story of how one of the world’s first commando units, put together for the invasion of Norway, helped turn the tide in Italy.
1942. When the British generals recommend an...
Eyes Behind the Lines
L Company Rangers in Vietnam, 1969
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
In mid-December 1968, after recovering from wounds susatined in a murderous mission, Gary Linderer returned to Phu Bai to comlpete his tour of duty as a LRP. His job was to find the enmy, observe him, or kill him--all the while behind enemy lines, where success could be as dangerous as discovery.
by Mike Wright
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
Packed with personal anecdotes and details you won’t find anywhere else, this is the secret history of World War II.
“A fast-moving overview stuffed with interesting factoids and historical tidbits . . . Casual readers will find themselves carried along, and hardened military buffs will...
by Charles Gadd
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Charles Gadd served in Vietnam in late 1967 and 1968 and had experiences very similar to what most enlisted men endured. He describes the mud, blood, leeches, loss of friends, and low morale due to constant harassment by guerrillas. The author, a squad leader with the 101st Airborne, was wounded twice...
Visions From a Foxhole
A Rifleman in Patton's Ghost Corps
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
An absolutely harrowing first-person account of the 94th Infantry Division’s bold campaign to break through Hitler’s “impregnable” Siegfried line at the end of World War II
Eighteen-year-old William Foley was afraid the war would be over before he got there, but the rifleman was sent...
by Don Ericson, John L. Rotundo
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
They were the biggest Ranger company in Vietnam, and the best. For eighteen months, John L. Rotundo and Don Ericson braved the test of war at its most bloody and most raw, specializing in ambushing the enemy and fighting jungle guerillas using their own tactics. From the undiluted high of a "contact"...
With the Old Breed
At Peleliu and Okinawa
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
“Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific—the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary—into terms we mortals can grasp.”—Tom Hanks
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Blackjack-33
With Special Forces in the Viet Cong Forbidden Zone
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
“You have to react instinctively. In this game there’s no second place, only the quick and the dead.”
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In Vietnam, Mobile Guerrilla Force conducted unconventional operations against the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army. Armed with silencer-equipped MK-II British Sten guns, M-16s, M-79s,...
The Deadly Brotherhood
The American Combat Soldier in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In his book Men Against Fire, [historian S. L. A.] Marshall asserted that only 15 to 25 percent of American soldiers ever fired their weapons in combat in World War II. . . .
Shooting at the enemy made a man part of the “team,” or “brotherhood.” There were, of course, many times when soldiers...
Don't Bunch Up
One Marine's Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Captain William Van Zanten was one of the “Magnificent Bastards” of the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, in 1966–a year when any day could bring death or dismemberment from a Bouncing Betty or a punji stake, a firefight or a sniper bullet. He and his men faced B-52-sized mosquitoes, rain, heat, disease,...
Gunner's Glory
Untold Stories of Marine Machine Gunners
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
They were warriors, trained to fight,
dedicated to their country,
and determined to win.
At Guadalcanal, the Marine Corps’ machine gunners took everything the Japanese could throw at them in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II; their position was so hopeless that at one point they...
A Sense of Duty
My Father, My American Journey
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A memoir by a former Vietnamese refugee who became a U.S. Marine, Quang Pham’s A Sense of Duty is an affecting story of fate, hope, and the aftermath of the most divisive war the United States has ever fought. This heartfelt salute to the spirit of America is also the account of the author’s...