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Rescue Mission To Save Bat 21 Bravo tells the largest, longest, and most complex combat search and rescue of the Vietnam War comes. In the Easter Offensive's killing ground south of the DMZ, one EB‑66 navigator was stranded behind tens of thousands of North Vietnamese troops. This book follows, in forensic detail and human depth, the eleven‑day operation that bent an entire air campaign around the promise that no man left behind.Drawing on official U.S. Air Force h...

When A B-52 Fell from the Sky is a military aviation history book based on the true story of the 1961 Yuba City crash, when a B-52 Stratofortress carrying nuclear weapons crashed during the Cold War, nearly triggering a nuclear catastrophe.On March 14, 1961, a fully armed United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress carrying two thermonuclear bombs began what should have been a routine Strategic Air Command mission. More than twenty...

Operation Eagle Claw: The failed US hostage rescue mission in Iran tells the full, cinematic story of one of the most consequential nights in U.S. military history, the night eight American servicemen died on an Iranian salt flat before a single enemy soldier had been encountered, and the night that forced the United States to rebuild how it fights its most dangerous wars.On November 4, 1979, Iranian student militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and seized 66 American diplom...

She's too sweet to ruin—but I must.The Onyx Brotherhood offers me everything: money, resources, and the chance to pursue my research outside of the law. The ancient secret society shapes the world, but there's a dark price to join.All Brothers must choose a Ward.A captive woman to own, punish, and train to perfect submission. If I refuse or she fails to perform at my initiation ceremony, I'm dead.Eve is sweet, naive, and addictive. My obsess...

Operation Paperclip (Operation Overcast) is a classified American program that turned Nazi war criminals into national heroes, and buried the evidence for forty years.In April 1945, American soldiers liberated the concentration camps and found thousands of corpses. In the same weeks, other Americans were moving through the ruins of the Third Reich with a different mission. They were not looking for survivors. They were looking for scientists.More t...

Broken Arrow at Thule Air Base is a gripping Cold War nuclear history that exposes how a single burning cushion aboard a B 52 almost rewrote the balance of power at the top of the world. Drawing on declassified U.S. and Danish documents, weapons reports, and decades of scientific studies, this book follows the full arc of the 1968 Thule Air Base B 52 crash from a routine Hard Head patrol to a political scandal that erupted nearly thirty years later. It shows how a near dis...

The Son Tay Raid and the POW rescue mission during the Vietnam war is one of modern POW special operations. The mission had codenames Operation Ivory Coast and Operation Kingpin. This book takes readers inside the planning rooms, the mock compound at Eglin, the cockpits over Laos, and the prison courtyard at Son Tay to show how a raid that rescued no prisoners still changed the way America fights and cares for its own.Built on official Army and Air Force histories, declassified pla...

Operation Osoaviakhim is the Cold War secret history that changes what you think you know about the Space Race, the nuclear arms race, and the world you are living in right now.On October 22, 1946, at three in the morning, thousands of German scientists and their families woke to fists hammering on their doors across the Soviet occupation zone of Germany. Armed soldiers were in the hallways. Families were given one hour to pack. Telephone lines had been cut. Public transportation h...

Cold War history buried the truth for thirty-one years. On a freezing February night in 1950, a massive Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber staggered across the dark sky over Canada's Pacific coast, crippled by icing, fire, and failing engines. Somewhere over the cold waters of the Pacific, its crew made a decision that would remain classified for decades. They jettisoned a nuclear weapon into the sea below and then fought to keep the dying aircraft in the air long enough for the crew to surviv...

1966 Palomares hydrogen bomb accident, the day four thermonuclear weapons fell from a clear blue Spanish sky and turned one forgotten farming village into the most dangerous square mile of the Cold War. This book drops you into the cockpit of the doomed B-52, the cramped belly of the KC-135 tanker, the tomato fields dusted with invisible plutonium, and the classified conference rooms in Washington and Madrid where men in suits tried to bury what really happened. You are not reading a dry s...

In the years leading up to the Second World War, the fiendish "Sonderstaffel," the Nazi Special Squadron, uses fringe science, the occult, and the supernatural to create super weapons and monster soldiers in Hitler's evil quest for world domination. To protect the nation and the world from these unnatural threats is a unique task force made up of highly- skilled military and civilian daredevils, code name: Intrepid.CNI Classified, Volume 2. Seven action-packed adventures from seven...

This wide-ranging anthology gathers autobiographical testimony and biographical narrative to examine Native American leadership, resistance, adaptation, and historical memory. Moving between translated or mediated life writing, nineteenth-century popular biography, political reminiscence, and culturally inflected self-representation, it reveals how Indigenous lives were recorded, interpreted, and contested in print. Accounts of warfare, diplomacy, removal, education, and survival give the ...