Tales End Press: 27 books
Life of Tom Horn
Government Scout and Interpreter
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
On November 20th, 1903, the cowboy Tom Horn was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for the murder of a fourteen-year-old boy. His trial was almost certainly influenced by sensationalistic “Yellow” journalism and the bitter cattle range wars of the day, and remains controversial even...
by Herbert W. McBride
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
More than 70 years after it was first published, this book is still one of the all-time clazzics on the art of military marksmanship, and is required reading at the U.S. Marine Corps Sniper School. The author grew up learning to shoot in the backwoods of Indiana, and went on to compete nationally...
Sniping in France
With Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Major Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard was an explorer and adventurer who revolutionized the training of British Army snipers during the First World War. In this richly-detailed book, he explains his constant efforts to improve sniping standards, which finally resulted in the First...
by G. L. Cheesman
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
A clazzic work of military history, this was the first systematic study of the auxiliary soldiers who fought alongside the Roman legions. Using evidence ranging from their gravestones to the discharge papers that eventually granted them citizenship, Cheesman traces the evolution of the “barbarian”...
Alexander
A History of the Origin and Growth of the Art Of War from the Earliest Times to the Battle of Ipsus, B.C. 301, With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of the Great Macedonian
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
A clazzic history of one of the world's greatest military commanders. At the age of 20, Alexander the Great inherited the near-bankrupt kingdom of Macedonia and its small but revolutionary army, built around an unbreakable infantry phalanx and a shock cavalry force. In just ten years, he led this...
Co. Aytch
A Side Show of the Big Show
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Samuel R. Watkins enlisted in the Confederate army in 1861, joining a company of 120 men. When the American Civil War ended four years later, he was one of only seven survivors from Company H. They had fought in every major action of the Army of Tennessee, from Shiloh to Nashville. In “Co. Aytch”...
by Georges Thenault, Walter Duranty
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
The Lafayette Escadrille was a legendary fighter squadron of the French Air Service in World War I. It was founded in 1916 as the Escadrille Américaine, around a core group of brave young American pilots who had volunteered to fight for France. Their well-publicized exploits helped tip American...
by John Masefield
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
The Gallipoli campaign of World War I was a bold strategic move to capture the Ottoman Turkish capital of Istanbul, but things began to go wrong from the very start. Allied troops found the landing beaches heavily defended, and the fighting soon stalemated into a brutal battle of attrition...
The Other Side of the Mountain
Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
This book tells the story of the Soviet-Afghan war in the words of the Mujahideen guerrillas themselves. For ten years the Mujahideen fought a military superpower that had invaded their homeland. Outnumbered and outgunned, they used clazzic guerrilla tactics to gradually wear down and finally defeat...
by United States Marine Corps
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Before there was such a term as “low-intensity conflict,” the U.S. Marine Corps were already past masters of the art. This manual encapsulates all their learnings and experiences of what we now know as military peacekeeping and counter-insurgency operations. It covers every aspect of the problem,...
by John D. Billings, Charles W. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
One of the most important memoirs of the American Civil War, this is also one of the few to describe what life was really like for the common soldier. The author, a Union veteran of the Army of the Potomac, tells of how the men enlisted or were conscripted; how they lived in camp and on the march;...
Small Wars
Their Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
This is the original manual for “small wars,” now known variously as guerrilla warfare, asymmetric combat, and low-intensity conflict. It was first published in 1896 as an analysis and how-to guide for the British Army as it fought to expand the boundaries of the British Empire. Its...
by John Bernard Walker
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Published three months after the sinking of the Titanic, this is the rarest and the most learned of the early books on the disaster. In it, the crusading editor of the Scientific American magazine shows that passenger safety had been repeatedly sacrificed in the competition for luxury and speed between...
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