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Battling Buzzards
Convinced by 1943 that the assault upon Nazi-held Europe would yield swiftly to elite troops, the U.S. Army created parachute regimental combat teams. Drawing on daring volunteers …
Crisis in the Pacific
On December 8, 1941, one day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Air Force struck the Philippines in the first blow of a devastating invasion. With an undersupplied …
A Blood-Dimmed Tide
The Bulge was, for America, the bloodiest battle of the war. Here, in this compelling narrative, that shocking story is retold with intensity and verve by a first-rate writer and …
The Right To Fight
From the birth of the United States, African American men and women have fought and died in defence of a nation that has often denied them many fundamental rights of citizenship. …
June 6, 1944
In the spring of 1944, 120,000 Allied soldiers crossed the English Channel in the most ambitious invasion force ever assembled. Rangers, paratroopers, infantry, and armored …
Semper Fi in the Sky
`Captures the drama of aerial combat in the Pacific as never before . . . A riveting account, by a master craftsman, of the exploits of the heroic Marine Corps airmen of World War …
Wings of Gold
Allen and Battling Buzzards*First-hand reports of air strikes and dogfights over the PacificFrom critically acclaimed military historian Gerald Astor comes Wings of Gold, the first …
The Jungle War: Mavericks, Marauders, and Madmen i n the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II
Praise FOR Gerald Astor ""No one does oral history better than Gerald Astor. . . . Great reading.""-Stephen Ambrose on The Mighty Eighth ""Gerald Astor has proven himself a master. …
The Right to Fight
From the opening shots in the American Revolution, Bunker's Hill and the struggle to wrest independence from Britain, to Hamburger Hill and the emergence of fully integrated units, …
Presidents at War
The Korean War, the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lebanon, El Salvador, Grenada, Iran-Contra, Nicaragua, Panama, the Gulf War, Somalia, Kosovo, …