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Pathfinder
Orion 2012; Not AvailableNine men. 2,000 enemies. No back-up. No air support. No rescue. No chance... more...
The Life of General Francis Marion
ReadHowYouWant 2006; US$ 3.99This work chronicles the life of General Marion who fought for American independence. The work dwells on the bravery of the soldiers and the rough times that prevailed then. In the most flowery and eloquent language, Weems has presented the great heroes of American history. A truly inspiring work! more...
Bringing It All Back Home
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013; US$ 27.99A collection of heartrending oral histories that topples assumptions about the people who served in Vietnam The Vietnam War was a defining event for a generation of Americans. But for years, misguided and sometimes demeaning clichés about its veterans have proliferated widely. Philip F. Napoli?s Bringing It All Back Home strips away the myths... more...
C.S.S. Shenandoah
Crown Publishing Group 2012; US$ 9.99The last shot of the Civil War was fired, not on an obscure battlefield, but in the ice-locked Sea of Okhotsk off Siberia seven months after Lee?s surrender. The last armed Confederate cruiser was the C.S.S. Shenandoah, a beautiful but dangerous vessel which scattered and burned the New Bedford whaling fleet in Arctic waters. She was the last cruiser... more...
Our Country, Right or Wrong
Tom Doherty Associates 2007; US$ 8.99Blazing sea fights and undercurrents of intrigue: these are among the compelling ingredients of a biography that brings to life the most illustrious and formidable figure of the United States Navy. His name is carried by more than two dozen towns and cities. Here at last is a full exploration of Stephen Decatur's complex character. Reckless in youth,... more...
Straight Life
Canongate Books 2013; US$ 15.82Art Pepper (1925 - 1982) was described as the greatest alto-sexophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. But Straight Life is much more than a jazz book ? it is oneof the most explosive, yet one of the most lyrical, of all autobiographies, narrated on tape to his wife Laurie. Pepper refuses to tiptoe round many of the unpalatable episodes of... more...
Inside the Crosshairs
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 7.99"The American sniper could be regarded as the greatest all-around rifleman the world has ever known. . . ." At the start of the war in Vietnam, the United States had no snipers; by the end of the war, Marine and army precision marksmen had killed more than 10,000 NVA and VC soldiers--the equivalent of an entire division--at the cost of under 20,000... more...
Soldier for a Summer
Hachette Books Ireland 2013; US$ 32.88Housam 'Sam' Najjair was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Libyan father. In June 2011, as Libya was being torn apart by civil war, when he was just thirty-two years old, he left Ireland on a one-way ticket to Tunisia, crossing into war-torn Libya, to join the uprising against the dictator Gaddafi. A Soldier for a Summer charts his journey -... more...
Washington the Soldier
Digital Scanning, Inc. 2001; US$ 4.95Henry B. Carrington reviews the military career of General George Washington, tracing his life and military ascendancy from the militias of Virginia to the victory over Cornwallis at Yorktown. He presents us with an in-depth discussion of what Washington accomplished against such great odds with ?neither the troops, resources and knowledge, nor the... more...
Warrior Soul
Random House Publishing Group 2003; US$ 7.99?Since the first navy frogmen crawled onto the beaches of Normandy, no SEAL has ever surrendered,? writes Chuck Pfarrer. ?No SEAL has ever been captured, and not one teammate or body has ever been left in the field. This legacy of valor is unmatched in modern warfare.? Warrior Soul is a book about the warrior spirit, and it takes the reader all... more...









