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The multi-million-copy bestseller that coined the phrase for tragic American blunders abroad. First published in 1958, The Ugly American became a runaway national bestseller for its slashing expos of American arrogance, incompetence, and corruption in Southeast Asia. Based on fact, the book's eye-opening stories and sketches drew a devastating picture of how the United States was losing the struggle with... (more)

Fighter Wing. A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing.

Schindler's List

by Thomas Keneally

Winner of the Booker Prize Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who, confronted with the horror of the extermination camps, gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300 Jews from the gas chambers. Working with the actual testimony of Schindler's... (more)

The Battle for the Falklands

by Max Hastings, Simon Hastings, Max and Jenkins

"Must be read by all our military people and anyone who wants to find out what really happened on the Falkland Islands." —James M. Gavin .

The Guns of August

by Barbara Tuchman

"More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research." CHICAGO TRIBUNE Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense... (more)

Falkenberg's Legion

by Jerry Pournelle

Blood Feuds (War World)

by S. M. Stirling, Susan Shwartz

Forced into savagery by nuclear weapons and divided among themselves by feuds, the human inhabitants of Haven are helpless before the onslaught of gene-designed demons who fight like computers.

DEATH'S HEAD REBELLION (WARWORLD 2) (War World II)

DEATH'S HEAD REBELLION (WARWORLD 2) (War World II)

by Pournelle

The Burning Eye (Warworld, Book 1)

by John F. Carr, Roland Green

SAURON DOMINIUM (WARWORLD 3) (War World, No. 3)Jerry Pournelle, John F. Carr

SAURON DOMINIUM (WARWORLD 3) (War World, No. 3)

by Jerry Pournelle, John F. Carr

BLOOD VENGEANCE (War World)

by S. M. Stirling, Susan Shwartz

Three hundred years after the Saurons arrived on Haven and wiped out all technology save their own, one woman unites the many tribes of Haven to overthrow the Sauron overlords.

Blood and Iron: There Will Be War (There Will Be War)

Blood and Iron: There Will Be War (There Will Be War)

by Jerry Pournelle

There Will Be War, #04: Day of the TyrantJerry Pournelle

There Will Be War, #04: Day of the Tyrant

by Jerry Pournelle

Invasion (Warworld 4)

by Pournelle

Escaping near destruction of their battle-demon species, the genetically engineered Saurons seek refuge on Haven, a dumping ground for the criminals of the CoDominium, whose population has been shaped by centuries of violence.

1968: The Year That Rocked the World

by Mark Kurlansky

To some, 1968 was the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy assassinations; the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Prague Spring; the antiwar movement and the Tet Offensive; Black Power; the generation gap; avant-garde theater; the upsurge of the women’s movement; and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. In... (more)

Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond (Vintage Departures)

Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond (Vintage Departures)

by Robert D. Kaplan

A fascinating, unprecedented first-hand look at the soldiers on the front lines on the Global War on Terror. Plunging deep into midst of some of the hottest conflicts on the globe, Robert D. Kaplan takes us through mud and jungle, desert and dirt to the men and women on the ground who are leading the charge against threats to American security. These soldiers, fighting in thick Colombian jungles or on dusty... (more)

Sharpe's Adventure: Book 12

Sharpe's Battle

The Battle of Fuentes de Onoro, May 1811

by Bernard Cornwell

As Napoleon threatens to crush Britain on the battlefield, Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe leads a ragtag army to exact personal revenge against a French general known for his acts of terror. Sharpe's Battle takes Richard Sharpe and his company back to the spring of 1811 and one of the most bitter battles of the Peninsular War, a battle on which all British hopes of victory in Spain will depend. Sharpe is given... (more)

Sharpe's Devil: Chile 1820 (Sharpe's Adventures)

Sharpe's Adventures: Book 21

Sharpe's Devil: Chile 1820 (Sharpe's Adventures)

by Bernard Cornwell

An honored veteran of the Napolenic Wars, Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe is drawn into a deadly battle, both on land and on the high seas. The year is 1820, and military hero Richard Sharpe has quietly passed the years since the Battle of Waterloo as a farmer. Suddenly, his peaceful retirement is disturbed when he and the intrepid Patrick Harper are called to the Spanish colony of Chile to find Don Blas Vivar, an old... (more)

Son of the Morning Star

by Evan S. Connell

Stunning photographs of the famed battle at Little Bighorn highlight this impressive volume containing a vivid non-fiction narrative of General Custer's last battle.

Making the Corps

by Thomas E. Ricks

Making the Corps visits the front lines of boot camp, Parris Island, South Carolina. Here, old values are stripped away and new, Marine Corps values are forged. Acclaimed military journalist Thomas E. Ricks follows these men from their hometowns, through boot camp, and into their first year as Marines. As three fierce drill instructors fight a battle for the hearts and minds of this unforgettable group of young... (more)

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by William J. Lederer

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by Max Hastings, Simon Hastings, Max and Jenkins

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by Jerry Pournelle

by S. M. Stirling, Susan Shwartz

by Pournelle

by John F. Carr, Roland Green

by Jerry Pournelle, John F. Carr

by S. M. Stirling, Susan Shwartz

by Jerry Pournelle

by Jerry Pournelle

by Pournelle

by Mark Kurlansky

by Robert D. Kaplan

The Battle of Fuentes de Onoro, May 1811

by Bernard Cornwell

by Bernard Cornwell

by Evan S. Connell

by Thomas E. Ricks