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Tales of a Cold War Submariner
Though Dan Summitt retired from the U.S Navy years ago, he still regrets not receiving clearance to fill a submarine missile tube with thirty-five thousand pounds of wet grits and …
Greenland's Icy Fury
Stationed at a lonely wind-pounded outpost in an isolated backwater of World War II, the nineteen men of the Greenland Ice Cap Detachment were charged with erecting a …
Red Wings Over the Yalu
The Korean conflict was a pivotal event in China's modern military History, constituting an important experience for the newly formed People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), …
CROSSWINDS
Who lost the war in Vietnam? Popular mythology has blamed politicians, the press, or Jane Fonda and the antiwar movement. Crosswinds, a riveting and incisive analysis by a former …
A Good Idea of Hell
Echoing from the mountainous Vosges front of World War I come the rare accounts of an elite French foot soldier - a chasseur a pied. Robert Pellissier, born in France in 1882, had …
The Antique Drums of War
Why is war, with all its terror and destruction, so seemingly attractive to humankind? "The Antique Drums of War" provides a deeply thoughtful and provocative consideration of the …
Australia's Vietnam War
Comparatively little is known about Australia's experience in Vietnam - its motives for entering the conflict, national support for Australia's role there, how the nation dealt …
The Undetected Enemy
The French Indo-China War of 1946-54 was one of the longest and bloodiest conflicts of the twentieth century. The French had attempted to reinstate their colonial rule over the …
Combat Loaded
The first authoritative history of any of the more than 350 attack transports or attack cargo ships of World War II, ""Combat Loaded: Across the Pacific on the USS Tate"" contains …
The American Home Guard
Since colonial times Americans have used the militia to maintain order during both war and peacetime. Barry M. Stentiford tells the story of these militia units - variously called …
The Pentagon's Battle for the American Mind
The U.S. military has historically believed itself to be the institution best suited to develop the character, spiritual values, and patriotism of American youth. Here, author Lori …