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In 1941, the fire of war met the iron of duty, and a generation of heroes was born. Iron and Fire is the newly discovered World War II memoir of Bruce McCandless—a Medal of Honor recipient, career naval officer, and firsthand witness to the United States Navy's most punishing campaigns in the...

A timely book for unstable times, Frenchman Flat recounts the science, politics, and human experience of those who developed nuclear weapons, suffered the consequences of their testing, and fought for and against arms control between the 1940s and 1990s. The throughline of this vast, complex...

READ BY THE AUTHOR An explosive memoir by the most senior U.S. Intelligence Official to investigate unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and non-human intelligent life For over thirty-two years, Jay Stratton served the U.S. on the battlefield and as a senior member of the National Intelligence...

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...

“Exceptional…This is a much-needed reframing of what catalyzes civil strife.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review What can Americans learn about our divided country today from the Civil War that divided us in the past? Connor Williams’s The Confederacy Myth answers that question with a...

From the acclaimed author of Children of Ash and Elm, an intimate, continent-spanning human journey through the Viking world. For centuries, Vikings have been stereotyped as brutish and violent pillagers. But now, based on the latest archaeological research, preeminent scholar Neil Price reveals...

Ein ungeschönter Insiderbericht aus Russlands härtester Strafkolonie. Als Andrei Pivovarov im Mai 2021 in einem Flugzeug von St. Petersburg nach Warschau verhaftet wird, beginnt ein dreijähriger Weg durch Untersuchungshaft, soziale Isolation und Schikane. »Inside Russia« ist der ergreifende Bericht eines russischen Politikers, der sich für Demokratie und Menschenrechte einsetzte und zum Staatsfeind wurde.

Bloomsbury presents Courage Can Save Us, written and read by Rye Barcott. From a U.S. Marine and co-founder of With Honor, and written ahead of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, comes the story of principled veterans who work across party lines to shape our nation and...

Brought to you by Penguin. 1804, immediately after his coronation as Emperor, Napoleon created the Marshalate, the supreme martial rank of the empire. Over the next decade, he elevated to it some of his most outstanding generals, who played leading roles in his extraordinary campaigns –...

'A majestic survey... Here are the military doctrines, weapons, luck and leadership that forged our world' DAN SNOW 'Elegantly crafted... and written with an eye for telling detail' JONATHAN DIMBLEBY 'Gripping, thoughtful and extremely timely' PATRICK BISHOP For centuries, battles have...

Bloomsbury presents Case Green: The Birth of the Wehrmacht by Robert Forczyk, read by Martin Handley. This fascinating new study from renowned historian Robert Forczyk tells the story of the Wehrmacht from its birth in 1935 through to the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938. Adolf Hitler...

A compelling history of the savage combat that turned a single forested ridge into the scene of a disappointing attack, a humiliating surrender, and a final grinding victory. In the bitterly cold forests along Germany’s western frontier, the 8-mile ridge of the Schnee Eifel became the unlikely...

From the bestselling author of The Templars and Powers and Thrones, Dan Jones returns with Castles: a gripping history of the world told through over three thousand years of iconic strongholds. Castles have been built to defend humanity for millennia – from the walls of Troy and the desert...

What can we learn from ten wars that have changed world history? A ridiculously funny new book for grownups from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of A History of Britain in Ten Enemies. War: what is it good for? Absolutely something, surely, or we wouldn't keep doing it. Throughout the...

1918 ist der Krieg zu Ende, aber die Welt findet keinen Frieden. Alle Gewissheiten sind ins Wanken geraten, und so geht der Kampf weiter: zwischen Linken und Rechten, Konservativen und Modernisten, Arbeitern und Unternehmern. Nach seinem Bestseller »Der taumelnde Kontinent« über Europas Jahre vor dem 1. Weltkrieg führt Philipp Blom die Geschichte nun weiter bis ins Jahr 1938 und erweitert den Horizont bis in die USA.

Soldier, spy, scout, saboteur, and French Resistance leader in the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe--the untold story of Marine legend Pete Ortiz. Major Pierre “Pete” Ortiz was a Manhattan-born and Paris-educated polymath fluent in five languages. An adventuresome French Foreign Legion veteran...

A fresh, unforgettable, and deeply personal true story of World War II, the Holocaust, and the Third Reich that brings to light the vile Nazi policy under which Germans with Jewish ancestry were persecuted and condemned to death—including two young children from an ordinary working-class...

The last volume of Prit Buttar's best-selling series on the Eastern Front in World War I in paperback. At the beginning of 1917, the three empires fighting on the Eastern Front were reaching their breaking points, but none was closer than Russia. After the February Revolution, Russia’s ability...

Wer gehörte zum innersten Kreis um Hitler? Welche Funktion erfüllte dieser Hofstaat? Und wie beeinflusste er das Geschichtsbild nach 1945? Auf der Grundlage bisher unbekannter Quellen erforscht Heike Görtemaker Hitlers privates Umfeld und zeigt, wie sein Kreis ihn zu dem machte, der er war. Ihr Buch rückt bis in die nächste Nähe zu Hitler vor und ist zugleich eine brillante Dekonstruktion des Führermythos. Sein innerer Kreis, die Berghof-Gesellschaft, war sein privater Rückzugsraum.

In this second of two impressive volumes, Prussian solider and officer Karl Knoblauch describes his military career during the final stages of the Second World War. This volume picks up where the first book left off, with Knoblauch's experiences as an officer in the 1st Fallschirm-Panzer...