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by Darrel Whitcomb
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
When his electronic warfare plane, call sign Bat 21, was shot down on 2 April 1972, fifty-three-year-old Air Force navigator Iceal "Gene" Hambleton parachuted into the middle of a North Vietnamese invasion force and set off the biggest and most controversial air rescue effort of the Vietnam War. After...
Becton
Autobiography of a Soldier and Public Servant
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This autobiography highlights Lt. Gen. Becton's remarkable career and reveals the influences that contributed to his success. It reflects on his youth in the suburban Philadelphia area, his parental and family influences, and his almost forty years of service in the U.S. Army and in subsequent civilian...
Gunbird Driver
A Marine Huey Pilot's War in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Gunbird Driver is a memoir of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a young pilot flying an armed UH-1E's in Marine Observation Squadron 6. The book provides information about the missions, operations, and the living conditions at Ky Ha, and about the fellow Marines with whom he served. It also...
Brown Water, Black Berets
Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
The men of the U.S. Navy's brown-water force played a vital but often overlooked role in the Vietnam War. Known for their black berets and limitless courage, they maneuvered their aging, makeshift craft along shallow coastal waters and twisting inland waterways to search out the enemy. In this moving...
by Karl-Heinz Frieser
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Here, for the first time in English, is an illuminating new German perspective on the decisive Blitzkrieg campaign of 1940. Karl-Heinz Frieser's account provides the definitive explanation for Germany's startling success and the equally surprising and rapid military collapse of France and Britain...
Twilight Warriors
Covert Air Operations Against the USSR
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
From the start of the Cold War to the fall of Saigon, from the Congo to Tibet, from the Bay of Pigs to North Vietnam and Nicaragua, here is a comprehensive overview of U.S. air-supported covert operations against the Soviet bloc. Twilight Warriors brings a sense of continuity to the shifting, shadowy...
Warrior's Rage
The Great Tank Battle of 73 Easting
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
On 26 February 1991, cavalry troops of “Cougar Squadron,” the 2nd Squadron of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, charged out of a sandstorm during Operation Desert Storm and caught Iraq’s Republican Guard Corps in the open desert along the North-South grid line of a military map referred to as the...
Iraq in Turmoil
Historical Perspectives of Dr. Ali al-Wardi, From the Ottoman Empire to King Feisal
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
This is a unique collection of essays highlighting Iraq’s social, political and military history from a purely Iraqi perspective. Dr. Ali al-Wardi (1913-1995) attended the American University of Beirut in 1943 and then traveled to the United States to attain his Masters and Doctorate degrees in Sociology...
by Edwin Howard Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
A Marine who wielded both pen and sword in a long, distinguished career captures the heroism and horror of the early days of the Korean War in this gripping novel. As a young man--with his own experiences in the war still vivid in his mind--Simmons wrote of the complex gamut of emotions and experiences...
"A" Force
The Origins of British Deception in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
June 1940. The Italians declared war on the British. Completely unprepared for war, the British had only 35,000 troops to defend Egypt. Opposing them, the Italian army in Libya numbered at least 215,000; in East Africa, the Italians could muster another 200,000 men against a meager 19,000 British and...
Through the Wheat
The U.S. Marines in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
U.S. Marine participation in World War I is known as a defining moment in the Marine Corps' great history. It is a story of exceptional heroism and significant operational achievements, along with lessons learned the hard way. The Marines entered World War I as a small force of seagoing light infantry...
In Final Defense of the Reich
The Destruction of the 6th SS Mountain Division "Nord"
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
In April 1945 the American 71st Infantry Division exacted the final vestiges of life from the Reich's 6th SS Mountain Division in central Germany. On Easter weekend, the bypassed German division fought to the very end as they were first surrounded and then destroyed as a fighting force. Rusiecki argues...
First to Fight
An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Marine general Victor "Brute" Krulak offers here a riveting insider's chronicle of U.S. Marines - their fights on the battlefield and off, and their extraordinary esprit de corps. He not only takes a close look at the Marine experience during World War II, Korea, and Vietnam - wars in which Krulak was...
A Call to Arms
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Call To Arms is the fourth novel in the award-winning historical / nautical fiction series from William C. Hammond. Along with the other novels in the Cutler Family Chronicles most recently For Love of Country and The Power and the Glory it features the epic saga of the seafaring Cutler family...