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World War I and the Origins of U.S. Military Intelligence
Scarecrow Press 2012; US$ 64.99In World War I and the Origins of U.S. Military Intelligence , military historian James L. Gilbert provides an authoritative overview of the birth of modern Army intelligence. Following the natural division of the intelligence war, which was fought on both the home front and overseas, Gilbert traces the development and use of intelligence and... more...
The Oxford Handbook of Warfare in the Classical World
Oxford University Press, USA 2012; US$ 169.99War lay at the heart of much of life in the classical world, from conflicts between tribes or states to internal or civil wars. Battles were resolved by face-to-face encounters--violent and bloody for the participants--and thus war was a very personal experience. Nevertheless, warfare and its conduct often had significant economic, social, or political... more...
Anzacs in the Middle East
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 48.00Provides an exploration of the experiences of soldiers who fought in the Middle East during World War II. more...
Monte Cassino
Oxford University Press, USA 2013; US$ 21.99The most horrific battles of World War II ring in the popular memory: Stalingrad, the Bulge, Iwo Jima, to name a few. Monte Cassino should stand among them. Waged deep in the Italian mountains beneath a medieval monastery, it was an astonishingly brutal encounter, grinding up ten armies in conditions as bad as the Eastern Front at its worst. Now the... more...
Greek Warfare
ABC-CLIO 2012; US$ 58.00This book brings together reference material and primary-source documents concerning the most important people, places, events, and technologies of Classical Greek warfare in one easy-to-use volume?an invaluable resource for students, educators, and general readers interested in this compelling subject. more...
Extraordinary Circumstances
Indiana University Press 2001; US$ 29.99The first campaign in the Civil War in which Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia, the Seven Days Battles were fought southeast of the Confederate capital of Richmond in the summer of 1862. Lee and his fellow officers, including "Stonewall" Jackson, James Longstreet, A. P. Hill, and D. H. Hill, pushed George B. McClellan?s Army of the Potomac... more...
The Proud Bastards
Pocket Books 2004; US$ 8.99In 1967, a young E. Michael Helms boarded a bus to the legendary grounds of Parris Island, where mere boys were forged into hardened Marines -- and sent to the jungles of Vietnam. It was the first stop on a journey that would forever change him -- and by its end, he would be awarded the Purple Heart Medal, Combat Action Ribbon, Presidential Unit Citation,... more...
Ripples of Battle
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2004; US$ 15.95The effects of war refuse to remain local: they persist through the centuries, sometimes in unlikely ways far removed from the military arena. In Ripples of Battle , the acclaimed historian Victor Davis Hanson weaves wide-ranging military and cultural history with his unparalleled gift for battle narrative as he illuminates the centrality of war... more...
The Coldest Winter
Hyperion 2007; US$ 13.95David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book for the Vietnam War. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivalled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another dark corner in our history: the Korean War. The Coldest Winter is a successor to The Best and the Brightest,... more...
Recon Scout
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 7.99HE LIVED ON THE ABYSS OF DEATH AS A RECON SCOUT IN WORLD WAR II. From Africa?s Sahara Desert, where he met Churchill, to the plains of Tunisia, where he served under Patton, Fred Salter executed daring nightly solo missions, risking his life to gather the vital intelligence the U.S. Army desperately needed. After the battlefields of Sicily came the... more...









