Presidio Press imprint: 129 books
Hamburger Hill
The Brutal Battle for Dong Ap Bia: May 11-20, 1969
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
The battle for Ap Bia Mountain (Hill 937), was one of the fiercest of the entire Vietnam War. On May 10, 1969, Army, Marine Corps, and ARVN forces kicked off Operation Apache Snow. It was finally time to clean out the notorious A Shau Valley. The next day, elements of the 101st Airborne Division,...
Death Valley
The Summer Offensive, I Corps, August 1969
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
From a dedicated chronicler of the Vietnam War comes a vivid, insightful, grunt-level campaign history set against the backdrop of the troop withdrawal and the upheavals in American society.
“The sounds and smells of the battlefield almost leap out from the printed page.”—Maj. Gen....
Semper Fi in the Sky
The Marine Air Battles of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Here, one of America’s most popular military historians re-creates, using their own moving and powerful voices, the true stories of the U.S. Marine pilots who flew the Allies to victory in World War II. These riveting accounts recreate conflicts ranging from the Marines’ gallant defense of Wake...
Death Ground
Today's American Infantry in Battle
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“An informative and thought-provoking history of recent infantry operations with reasoned glimpses of its possible future.”
–DR. SHAWN WHETSTONE
Military Heritage
“This is [Colonel Bolger’s] most significant work to date, important both for students of the contemporary U.S. Army and...
by George Nafziger
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2009
“An impressive source book on the conflict, high on information and data.”—Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research
September 7, 1812, is by itself one of the most cataclysmic days in the history of war: 74,000 casualties at the Battle of Borodino. And this was well before...
Master of Airpower
General Carl A. Spatz
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
“A valuable and long-overdue biography of one of America’s greatest soldiers.”—Parameters
The story of Gen. Carl “Tooey” Spaatz’s life is more than a biography of one of America’s great military leaders. It is a history of the development of airpower, and a fascinating, inside look...
by Mike Wright
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
“Zeroes in on the interesting, irreverent, long-ignored tidbits that shape behavior in all conflicts and important periods of history.”—The Denver Post
What made the founding fathers so great (or were they?). And don’t forget the founding mothers. We have intrigue and skullduggery...
Five Years to Freedom
The True Story of a Vietnam POW
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive.
In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beri-beri, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling psychological and physical torment. He experienced the...
Letters from Vietnam
Voices of War
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“No heroes, everyone did their part, and everyone was scared to death.”
They are the words of soldier Mark W. Harms in 1968, summing up his combat experience during the Vietnam War. His stunning letter home is just one of hundreds featured in this unforgettable collection, Letters from...
Lost in Translation
Vietnam: A Combat Advisor's Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
In September 1962, when Martin Dockery landed in Saigon, he was a young, determined, idealistic U.S. Army first lieutenant convinced of America’s imminent victory in Vietnam. While most of the twelve thousand U.S. military advisors in-country at the time filled support positions in Saigon and other...
War in the Pacific
From Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Historian Harry Gailey offers a fresh one-volume treatment of the vast Pacific theater in World War II, examining in detail the performance of Japanese and Allied naval, air, and land forces in every major military operation. The War in the Pacific begins with an examination of events leading up to...
MacArthur's Victory
The War in New Guinea, 1943-1944
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A GREAT WARRIOR AT THE PEAK OF HIS POWERS
In March 1942, General Douglas MacArthur faced an enemy who, in the space of a few months, captured Malaya, Burma, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, and, from their base at Raubaul in New Britain, threaten Australia. Upon his retreat to Australia,...
Bloody Ridge
The Battle that Saved Guadalcanal
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
The Japanese called it the centipede. The northern part of Lunga Ridge, a narrow grass-covered rise that looked like an insect from the air, overlooked a coastal plain. In the center of that plain was Henderson Field, the vital home of the Cactus Air Force and the prize of the Guadalcanal campaign....
Firefight
Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Amid all the stories of tragedy and heroism on September 11, there is one tale that has yet to be told–the gripping account of ordinary men and women braving the inferno at the Pentagon to rescue friends and co-workers, save the nation’s military headquarters, and defend their country.
Pentagon...