Military forces and sectors Books

Five Wars:  A Soldier’s Journey to Peace is a memoir and compilation of short stories that connects the experiences of a 29-year Army veteran of two tours in Iraq, and one each in Afghanistan and Bosnia with his most dangerous war of coming...

B.R.A.N.D. Before Your Resumé is the first book written by a military veteran (turned marketing professional and entrepreneur) for service members and military veterans to craft their AUTHENTIC personal branding. Student veterans, military spouses,...

This book presents the original proposal for the Convair Class VF Convoy Fighter of 1950, which led to the XFY-1 Pogo turboprop tailsitter naval aircraft. It was one of five submissions to the US Navy's Convoy Fighter competition, which called for...

I write in the first person, and this book follows my adventure across Iraq with the USMC and into England. I’ve served in 2 Para and 22 SAS. I’ve worked as a military adviser and as a photojournalist. I’ve survived eight wars...

Civil War Navies 1855-1883 is the second in the five-volume US Navy Warships encyclopedia set. This valuable reference lists the ships of the U.S. Navy and Confederate Navy during the Civil War and the years immediately following - a significant...

This new book examines the development of Soviet thinking on the operational employment of their Air Force from 1918 to 1945, using Soviet theoretical writings and contemporary analyses of combat actions.

A sharp analysis of Greek naval history in the 1910s, a time when the importance of its geographic position and its navy increased greatly. It explains the causes of these developments and their consequences for Greek...

One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. How does one handle hearing the words 'You have breast cancer?'Not All Warriors Carry Guns is a compelling story of one woman's battle to become her own warrior in life;...

The Battle of the Huertgen Forest, first published in 1963 and written by Official Department of the Army Historian Charles B. MacDonald, recounts the story of one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. In September 1944, three months after the...

Admiral Halsey's Story, first published in 1947, is the gripping autobiographical account by William F. Halsey (1882-1959), legendary commander of the U.S. Third Fleet during World War II. The book covers Halsey's life and career, with detailed...

Taylor Forsberg wants to fight the establishment during the 1960s.Or does he?A self-described "perfect little cherub" in junior high, encounters there begin his internal conflict with the powers that be. It continues to grow over time, ranging over the...

This book began as a poem I wrote while my husband was deployed through his first child's first year. He struggled as he missed his son's first words, first foods, first steps, and first birthday. While only seeing his son's little world through...

Millions of military and first responder wives face unique demands and challenges that leave them feeling like they have no identity beyond supporting their husbands' service. These silent supporters, who suffer from above-average spousal dissatisfaction...

Ya marg Ya zindagi.Life or death.Born to poverty and facing starvation in his remote Afghan village, eighteen-year-old Yousuf Sediq travels across Taliban territory to apply for a job as an interpreter with the U.S., though he knows little English. After...

'Two Up' is a collection of aviation anecdotes and photographs covering five decades and going back to the brothers' early fascination with aircraft in the sixties. It includes a wealth of insider information from two brothers who spent their...

Excerpt from the introduction: "In the late nineteenth century, the French Jeune École, or "new school," of naval thinking promoted a commerce-raiding strategy for the weaker naval power to defeat the dominant naval power. France provided the vocabulary...

First published in 1999, this book is an institutional history of flight training by the predecessor organizations of the United States Air Force. The U.S. Army purchased its first airplane, built and successfully flown by Orville and Wilbur Wright, in...

From the foreword: "As our nation and our Navy shift their focus away from the land wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that have so dominated our internal conversations for more than a decade and pivot toward the Asia-Pacific region, it is most appropriate...

This is a full color reprint of the official and restricted training manual issued in November 1944. With photographs and line drawings throughout.

High quality reprint of book issued in May 1944. Illustrated with photos. technical drawings.From the preface: "Improvements in naval ordnance and fire control methods have been so numerous and comprehensive since the opening of hostilities that the need...

FULL COLOR publications with many photographs and maps. First published in 2006.

From the introduction: "This handbook provides the tactics, techniques, and procedures that may be applied by small unit leaders engaged in counterinsurgency. It is principally focused at the company and below. It describes the nature of insurgency and...

Originally published in 1983. Illustrated with many maps and photographs. Presents the United States Air Force's use of one form of air power, tactical airlift aviation, in the changing limited warfare situation in Vietnam. Covers the period from the...

The haunting poetry of The Ghosts of Babylon is as near to the crucible of war as you can get without wearing Kevlar and camouflage.Every war triggers the question—what’s war like? The Ghosts of Babylon offers eyewitness accounts of warriors...

Modern international criminal law typically traces its origins to the twentieth-century Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, excluding the slave trade and abolition. Yet, as this book shows, the slave trade and abolition resound in international criminal law...

Slaves, convicts, indentured immigrants, and unfree seamen have traveled the world's oceans at many times and places throughout human history. Across the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, this bondage took divergent forms and exhibited...

In the shadowed heart of Africa's Tigray region of Ethiopia, a dire genocidal war unfolds, shrouded in a "Tsunami of Lies" that threatens to drown the world's understanding of the truth. In this unflinching exploration, the book embarks on "Tigray's...

A vivid and detailed account of life aboard a British man-of-war during the age of sail. Drawing on personal experience and historical documents, the author paints a picture of a world both fascinating and brutal, where discipline and order are...

This book provides a rare and fascinating glimpse into the workings of a court-martial in the early 19th century. Molloy, a British naval officer, was tried and acquitted of charges related to his conduct during a mission to the Caribbean. The minutes of...

This historical account of the Battle of Manila provides a vivid narrative of the clash between American and Spanish forces during the Spanish-American War. Irensky's description of the battle's key events and players offers an engaging and informative...

L'amiral Bouvet a mené plusieurs campagnes au cours de sa vie, dont beaucoup sont restées méconnues jusqu'à présent. Dans cet ouvrage, Pierre Bouvet retrace les principales batailles et conquêtes de l'amiral, révélant ainsi les secrets de l'un des plus...

Este libro detalla la campaña naval que llevó a cabo Estados Unidos en las Filipinas durante la Guerra Hispano-Estadounidense en 1898. Escrito por el historiador Guillermo GarcíaParreño y López, esta obra es una crónica detallada de una de las batallas...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

The Rush Bagot Agreement is the oldest arms limitation agreement in the world. It originated in the aftermath of the War of 1812 when both Great Britain and the United States feared a descent into a naval arms race on the Great Lakes of North America...

In 1987 the author purchased a box of early glass slides. Therewas no explanation as to their origin or content. He was busyso he put them in his loft and forgot them. Thirty years laterin 2017 when he retired he re-discovered them. He found thatthey...

This new book brings together Britain's leading naval historians and analysts to present a comprehensive investigation of British naval thinking and what has made it so distinctive over the last three centuries, from the sailing ship era to the current...

When gays had to be closeted, ships were the only places where homosexual men could not only be out but also camp. And on some liners to the sun and the New World, queens and butches had a ball. They sashayed and minced their way across the world's...

Donald Stoker's book examines British and French involvement from 1919 to 1939 in the creation and development of the naval forces of Poland, Finland and the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

This book analyses the US drone attacks against terrorists in Pakistan to assess whether the 'pre-emptive' use of combat drones to kill terrorists is ever legally justified. Exploring the doctrinal discourse of pre-emption vis-à-vis the US drone attacks...

November 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast, a scattered crew of Army airmen cut themselves loose from their parachutes only to be met by loincloth-wearing natives silently materializing out of...

The top MiG-killers of Operation Desert Storm.August 1990: Iraqi forces under the command of Saddam Hussein invaded the tiny emirate of Kuwait. Within hours, the Kuwaiti defenses collapsed under the onslaught of the Iraqi Army. In response, the US...

When Stephen Ganzberger enlisted in the U.S. Navy at the outset of World War II, he never imagined what would await him and his shipmates in the Pacific Islands, as they journeyed aboard a newly-designed ship called a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI)...

This is the story of the Blue Baron, born Carlo Luigi Amedeo Winspeare Guicciardi and his active participation in the Second World War as a pilot officer in the Regia Aeronautica. But let us take two steps back. Carlo Winspeare, son of Edoardo and Clara...

Nell'estate 1941 la situazione sulle rotte tra l'Italia e la Libia era divenuta drammatica per gli attacchi degli aerei e dei sommergibili britannici. Poiché gli italiani non riuscivano a fermare il salasso di affondamento delle loro navi con i...