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Dave Brown with three of the book's Montford Pointers. Platoon Sergeant Charles Foreman, First Sergeant Jack McDowell, and Ambassador Ted Britton at the Twelfth Montford Point Marines Day on August 26, 2021Shoulders to Stand On: Marine Corps Heroes from 1942 takes a historic look at racism in the Marine Corps initially under the leadership of the Corps' Commandant in WW II who stated in 1941, "It is my unwavering intention to tell the General Board up front that, if it ever was a question of having a Marine Corps of 5,000 Whites or 250,000 Negroes, I would rather have the Whites.

Under martial law during World War II, Hawai'i was located at the intersection of home front and war front. In Settler Militarism, Juliet Nebolon shows how settler colonialism and militarization simultaneously perpetuated, legitimated, and concealed one another in wartime Hawai'i for the...

The story of one of the most brilliant, flamboyant and historically important men who ever lived. From the very beginning, Caesar's story makes dazzling reading. In his late teens he narrowly avoided execution for opposing the military dictator Sulla. He was decorated for valour in battle...

When President Roosevelt called for the country to be the great "Arsenal of Democracy," Detroit helped turn the tide against fascism with its industrial might. Locals were committed to the cause, putting careers and personal ambitions on hold. Factories were retooled from the ground up. Industrialist Henry Ford, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, aviator Charles Lindbergh, legendary boxer Joe Louis, future baseball Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg and the real-life Rosie the Riveters all helped drive the city that was "forging thunderbolts" for the front lines.

Between May 1944 and his return home in November 1945, Roy wrote letters almost daily to Carmela from the Pacific. As he wrote to Carmela, “One of the things that will keep us together in spirit will be the letters. We must keep them flowing in an unbroken chain.” On one hand, they are indeed love letters; on the other hand, they are historic documents. In writing Roy & Carmela, Mark Brown, Roy and Carmela’s youngest son, put together a history of the U.S. war against Japan from Roy’s unique perspective in Saipan.

My Year in Vietnam takes Phillip I. Elkins, a.k.a. Señor Felipe, from getting on the plane to Vietnam and the shock of arrival in Vietnam and seeing the cargo hold of the plane being loaded with GIs in caskets. From there he is assigned to his unit, at first in Saigon, where he meets some of the locals and gets involved with them. Then he’s sent up into the Central Highlands with the 1st Cavalry Division as a preventive medicine specialist under a Sergeant Sidell, who hates draftees, which of course, is what Elkins is.

Roger Lockshier enlisted in the US Army in April 1966. After completing Airborne (Paratrooper) Jump Training at Fort Benning GA, he was assigned to Aviation Battalion 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell Kentucky, December 1966. In December of 1967 the 101st Airborne Division was transferred to Viet Nam. Lockshier was a Crewchief / Doorgunner with the 101st Airborne's Black Angels Huey Helicopter Gunships assigned to provide combat support to the 101st Airborne and 5th Special Forces MACVSOG. He returned to the States in December of 1968.

An “Army of Werewolves” and the greatest manhunt in history . . . After Hitler’s suicide, American intelligence feared that surviving Third Reich leaders were plotting a comeback with hidden weapons, rocket programs, and their Führer’s final testament. Bestselling historian Charles...

Former President Carter introduces this gripping first-person narrative that provides significant details about six headline stories not previously revealed. Captivating experiences from my unique childhood, attending boarding school at the age of seven, escaping the 1964 Congo rebellion as a refugee, and being inducted into the Masai tribe in Kenya, jump start the book. Human-interest vignettes punctuate fascinating accounts of developing the Predator drone, conducting the 2003 scud hunt in Iraq, and accompanying Senator Obama to Africa in 2006.

Indispensable para conocer la historia de Europa desde finales de la segunda guerra mundial hasta la actualidad. Después de los horrores de la primera mitad del siglo XX, que Ian Kershaw describió en su libro anterior como un «descenso a los infiernos», los años de 1950 a 2017 trajeron paz...

Una historia de Europa desde la primera guerra mundial hasta nuestros días. Ian Kershaw, uno de los más prestigiosos historiadores actuales, revive la historia de Europa desde la primera guerra mundial hasta nuestros días, partiendo del relato de las décadas de violencia en que el continente...

In late July 1861, Lieutenant Colonel John Baylor and 258 Texas cavalrymen thundered into the small village of Mesilla, tucked along the Rio Grande River in the New Mexico Territory. They skirmished with U.S. Regulars seeking to retake the town and quickly forced them to retreat. It was a small victory that fueled visions of something much larger.

The war instinct is part of human nature, but the means to fight war depend on technology. Alex Roland traces the co-evolution of technology and warfare from the Stone Age to the age of cyberwar, describing the inventions that changed the direction of warfare throughout history: from fortified...

The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the Chinese Civil War as separate events misrepresents their overlapping connections and causes. The Chinese Civil War precipitated a long regional war between China and Japan that...

When the name Guadalcanal is mentioned, most picture Marines desperately fighting in the dense jungles and the United States Navy in dramatic surface battles. That story, though true, tells only part of the campaign. Less well known is the role played by the United States Army. While the Marines...

Under the Red Flag and Beyond: The History of the Soviet Submarine Programme by Hugh Ravenscroft is a deeply researched and compelling exploration of one of the most secretive and strategically vital elements of modern military power. This book moves beyond the familiar narrative of technological progress and instead uncovers the political, industrial, and human forces that shaped over a century of Soviet and Russian undersea warfare.

Los servicios especiales de Rusia y su lucha por la dominación mundial La Rusia de Putin no es un Estado, es una organización mafiosa Vladimir Putin es el dirigente ruso más longevo después de Stalin, figura en la que se refleja para alcanzar los 30 años en el poder: Putin prevé ser...

De la guerra civil española a la toma del Capitolio. La obra que desentraña qué conduce al peor de los conflictos Con el mundo al borde del caos, ¿podemos predecir qué países sufrirán una guerra civil? Basándose en investigaciones y lecciones de más de 20 países, Walter identifica...

En un imponente castillo gótico situado en la cima de una colina, en el corazón de la Alemania nazi, un variopinto grupo de oficia les aliados pasó la segunda guerra mundial intentando escapar de sus captores nazis. Durante cuatro años estos prisioneros pusieron a prueba los muros de Colditz...

La segunda guerra mundial contada por los soldados Estas cartas de soldados alemanes, seleccionadas entre las que se guardan en el Deutsche Dienststelle de Berlín, nos ofrecen el testimonio directo de quienes lucharon en los diversos frentes, de Francia a la Unión Soviética, durante cerca de...