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  • Lincoln vs. Davis

    The War of the Presidents

    by Nigel Hamilton ...
    From the New York Times bestselling presidential biographer comes the greatest untold story of the Civil War: how two American presidents faced off as the fate of the nation hung in the balance—and how Abraham Lincoln came to embrace emancipation as the last, best chance to save the Union.Of all the books written on Abraham Lincoln, there has been one surprising gap: the drama of how the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Eisenhower

    A Soldier's Life

    by Carlo D'Este ...
    The acclaimed biographer presents an intimate and comprehensive portrait of the legendary president and WWII general: “An excellent book.” —The Washington Post Book WorldBorn into hardscrabble poverty in rural Kansas, the son of stern pacifists, Dwight David Eisenhower graduated from high school more likely to teach history than to make it. Yet he went on to become one of America’s most important ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Winter Soldiers

    The Battle for Trenton and Princeton

    by Richard M. Ketchum ...
    The author of Decisive Day chronicles two pivotal battles in the Revolutionary War and the adversity faced by American troops.The Winter Soldiers is the story of a small band of men held together by George Washington in the face of disaster and hopelessness, desperately needing at least one victory to salvage both cause and country.In the fall of 1776 the British delivered a crushing blow to the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Crucible of Hell

    The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945

    by Saul David ...
    From the award-winning historian, Saul David, the riveting narrative of the heroic US troops, bonded by the brotherhood and sacrifice of war, who overcame enormous casualties to pull off the toughest invasion of WWII's Pacific Theater -- and the Japanese forces who fought with tragic desperation to stop them.With Allied forces sweeping across Europe and into Germany in the spring of 1945, one ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Area 51

    An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base

    by Annie Jacobsen ...
    This "compellingly hard-hitting" bestseller from a Pulitzer Prize finalist gives readers the complete untold story of the top-secret military base for the first time (New York Times).It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government — ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • In the Blood

    How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army

    by Charles Barber ...
    The "high-stakes" true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joined forces to create a once‑in‑a‑generation lifesaving product: "S****uspenseful storytelling helps us see and feel the struggle and frustration, the sweat and tears . . . Inspiring” (Robert Kolker, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road).At the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, dramatized ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Blood of Heroes

    The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo--and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation

    by James Donovan ...
    On February 23, 1836, a large Mexican army led by dictator Santa Anna reached San Antonio and laid siege to about 175 Texas rebels holed up in the Alamo. The Texans refused to surrender for nearly two weeks until almost 2,000 Mexican troops unleashed a final assault. The defenders fought valiantly-for their lives and for a free and independent Texas-but in the end, they were all slaughtered. Their ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Forgotten Allies

    The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution

    by Joseph T. Glatthaar, James Kirby Martin ...
    “A vividly revealing chronicle of the Oneidas’ thankless role in the American Revolution.” —Chris Patsilelis, Houston ChronicleCombining compelling narrative and grand historical sweep, Forgotten Allies offers a vivid account of the Oneida Indians, forgotten heroes of the American Revolution who risked their homeland, their culture, and their lives to join in a war that gave birth to a new nation ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Yankee Stranger

    by Elswyth Thane ...
    LOVE AND WARCabot Murray first came to Williamsburg, Virginia, in the tense autumn of 1860. He was looked upon with suspicion because he was a Yankee. Then Cabot met redheaded Eden Day.Theirs was a wild, blind young love at first sight. Whispering in her hair, what did it matter that he was a Northerner and she from the South…But then came the Civil War. With the tide of battle Cabot returned as ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vietnam

    An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

    by Max Hastings ...
    An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • America Goes to War

    A Social History of the Continental Army

    by Charles Patrick Neimeyer ...
    Series series The American Social Experience
    A unique and revealing analysis of the diverse body that made up the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.One of the images Americans hold most dear is that of the drum-beating, fire-eating Yankee Doodle Dandy rebel, overpowering his British adversaries through sheer grit and determination. The myth of the classless, independence-minded farmer or hard-working artisan-turned ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • America's Victories

    Why America Wins Wars and Why They Will Win the War on Terror

    by Larry Schweikart ...
    In America's Victories, Professor Larry Schweikart restores the truth about our amazing military heritage. Just as he did in his acclaimed previous book, A Patriot's History of the United States, Professor Schweikart cuts through the distortions passed along by academia and the media ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bloody Spring

    Forty Days that Sealed the Confederacy's Fate

    by Joseph Wheelan ...
    For forty crucial days they fought a bloody struggle. When it was over, the Civil War's tide had turned.In the spring of 1864, Virginia remained unbroken, its armies having repelled Northern armies for more than two years. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had defeated the campaigns of four Union generals, and Lee's veterans were confident they could crush the Union offensive this spring, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story Of Baby Doe Tabor

    by Caroline Bancroft ...
    This is a fascinating autobiography of Baby Doe Tabor, the second wife of pioneer Colorado businessman Horace Tabor, whose rags-to-riches and back to rags again story made her a well-known figure in her own day, and at one time hailed as the “best dressed woman in the West.”It was during Baby Doe’s final years of her life living in a shack on the site of the Matchless Mine, enduring great poverty, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The American Way of War

    How Bush's Wars Became Obama's

    by Tom Engelhardt ...
    Series series TomDispatch Books
    The creator of TomDispatch.com “tackles our military fetish . . . He takes on our war-possessed world with clear-eyed, penetrating precision” (Mother Jones).Tom Engelhardt, creator of the website TomDispatch.com, takes a scalpel to the American urge to dominate the globe. Tracing developments from 9/11 to present day, this is an unforgettable anatomy of a disaster that is yet to end.Since 2001, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Come Fly the World

    The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

    by Julia Cooke ...
    Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men–era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted upRequired to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, ajet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be between 5′3" and 5′9", between 105 and 140 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Ideology And The Fall Of Empires: The Decline Of The Spanish Empire And Its Comparison To Current American Strategy

    by Major Enrique Gomariz Devesa ...
    Sometimes, the ideology that formed the basis for founding an empire can become the cause of its fall. The decline of the Spanish Empire is a clear example of how ideology may both adversely influence national grand strategies and trigger processes of decline of an empire. The strong religious conviction of the Habsburgs was a fundamental factor in defining an imperial strategy that did not ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Sniper

    The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

    by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Jim DeFelice ...
    The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie.“An amazingly detailed account of fighting in Iraq--a humanizing, brave story that’s extremely readable.” — PATRICIA CORNWELL, New York Times Book Review**"Jaw-dropping...Undeniably riveting." *—***RICHARD ROEPER, Chicago Sun-Time... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Last of the Blue and Gray

    Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery That Outlived the Civil War

    by Richard A. Serrano ...
    Richard Serrano, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, pens a story of two veterans. In the late 1950s, as America prepared for the Civil War centennial, two very old men lay dying. Albert Woolson, 109 years old, slipped in and out of a coma at a Duluth, Minnesota, hospital, his memories as a Yankee drummer boy slowly dimming. Walter Williams, at 117 blind and deaf and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Reluctant Rebels

    The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861

    by Kenneth W. Noe ...
    Series series Civil War America
    After the feverish mobilization of secession had faded, why did Southern men join the Confederate army? Kenneth Noe examines the motives and subsequent performance of "later enlisters." He offers a nuanced view of men who have often been cast as less patriotic and less committed to the cause, rekindling the debate over who these later enlistees were, why they joined, and why they stayed and fought ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Nine Days in May

    The Battles of the 4th Infantry Division on the Cambodian Border, 1967

    by Warren K. Wilkins ...
    Moving through the jungle near the Cambodian border on May 18, 1967, a company of American infantry observed three North Vietnamese Army regulars, AK-47s slung over their shoulders, walking down a well-worn trail in the rugged Central Highlands. Startled by shouts of “Lai day, lai day” (“Come here, come here”), the three men dropped their packs and fled. The company commander, a young lieutenant, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Inferno: The Fall of Japan 1945

    by Ronald Henkoff ...
    Inferno is the compelling story of the U.S. atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the ensuing death and destruction that led to the end of World War II. The events that culminated in the fall of Japan - which forever changed the course of diplomacy, geopolitics, and warfare in the twentieth century - are vividly recreated through dramatic first-hand accounts of the major participants ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rough Riders

    Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill

    by Mark Lee Gardner ...
    THE AWARD-WINNING, NEW DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT AND THE ROUGH RIDERS**"Thrilling. ... A CLASSIC." —True WestWINNER: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award; New Mexico-Arizona Book Award; and Colorado Book AwardThe now-legendary Rough Riders were a volunteer regiment recruited in 1898 to help drive the Spaniards out of Cuba. Drawn from America’s southwestern territories ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Harry Pfanz Gettysburg Trilogy, Omnibus E-book

    Includes Gettysburg: The First Day; Gettysburg: The Second Day; and Gettysburg: Culp’s Hill and Cemetery Hill

    by Harry W. Pfanz ...
    Series series Civil War America
    Available for the first time as an Omnibus Ebook edition, this three-volume set is the acclaimed full account of the three days at Gettysburg, by the noted historian Harry Pfanz.First Day:For good reason, the second and third days of the Battle of Gettysburg have received the lion's share of attention from historians. With this book, however, the critical first day's fighting finally receives its ... Read more

    $67.99 USD