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Patton
A Genius for War
by Carlo D'Este
Patton: A Genius for War is a full-fledged portrait of an extraordinary American that reveals the complex and contradictory personality that lay behind the swashbuckling and brash facade. According to Publishers Weekly , the result is "a major biography of a major American military figure." "This massive work is biography at its very best. Literate and meaty, incisive and balanced, detailed without being... (more)
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Once a Warrior King: Memories of an Officer in Vietnam
by David Donovan
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Challenge of Command (West Point Military History Series)
by Roger H. Nye
An insightful combat-arms officer, Colonel Nye has produced a one-of-a-kind tool for the professional officer who intends to master his profession. A handbook for mentors as well as junior officers, this work guides the reader through the major aspects of command: developing a professional vision and being a tactician, warrior, moral arbiter, strategist, and mentor. Each topic includes a thought-provoking essay... (more)
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Five Years to Freedom
The True Story of a Vietnam POW
by James N. Rowe
When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive. In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beri-beri, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling psychological and physical torment. He experienced the loneliness and frustration of watching his friends die. And he struggled every day to maintain faith in himself as a... (more)
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The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education (Penguin USA)
by Craig M. Mullaney
A West Point grad, Rhodes Scholar, and Army Ranger recounts his unique education and struggles with the hard lessons that only war can teach. One haunting afternoon on Losano Ridge in Afghanistan, U.S. Army Captain Craig Mullaney and his infantry platoon were caught in a deadly firefight with Al Qaeda fighters, when a message came over the radio: one of his soldiers had been killed by the enemy. Mullaney’s... (more)
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Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command
by S. L. Marshall
"This is one of the great volumes on fighting published since World War II and should be required reading for every staff officer as well as every combat officer of the arms which fight on the ground. It deserves a place among the really great volumes on combat and command". Military Affairs
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War for Profit: Book 0
Armor Academy Space Cadet
by Jed Fisher
The prequel novella for the three novels of the War for Profit trilogy.Two millennia in the future it’s graduation day at the Ostwind Armor Academy on the planet Ostreich. Follow the actions of Cadet Galen Raper as he gets his final out-brief and transcripts, graduates, has a graduation party and then goes to find a job the next day. (8100 words)
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Starship Troopers
by Robert A. Heinlein
In one of Robert Heinlein's most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe - and into battle with the Terran Mobile infantry against mankind's most alarming enemy!
American Military Heritage: U.S. ArmyWilliam W. Hartzog
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American Military Heritage: U.S. Army
by William W. Hartzog
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Citizen Soldiers
The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany - June 7, 1944 to May 7, 1945
by Stephen E. Ambrose
In this riveting account, historian Stephen Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war, from the high command down to the ordinary soldier, drawing on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany,... (more)
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Death Ground: Today's American Infantry in Battle
by Daniel P. Bolger
“An informative and thought-provoking history of recent infantry operations with reasoned glimpses of its possible future.” –DR. SHAWN WHETSTONE Military Heritage “This is <Colonel Bolger’s> most significant work to date, important both for students of the contemporary U.S. Army and for general readers– even those normally uninterested in military affairs. Bolger documents the infantry’s change over... (more)
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Closing With the Enemy: How Gis Fought the War in Europe, 1944-1945 (Modern War Studies)
by Michael D. Doubler
Closing with the Enemy picks up where D-Day leaves off. From Normandy through the "breakout" in France to the German army's last gasp in the Battle of the Bulge, Doubler deals with the deadly business of war-closing with the enemy, fighting and winning battles, taking and holding territory. His study provides a provocative reassessment of how American GIs accomplished these dangerous and costly tasks. Doubler... (more)
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Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War
by Margaret R. Higonnet, Ellen Newbold La Motte, Mary Borden
Ellen N. La Motte (1873-1961) and Mary Borden (1886-1968) are two of the best known American nurses who wrote about their experiences working in the same field hospital on the Western Front during World War I. La Motte's The Backwash of War (1916) and Borden's The Forbidden Zone (1929) present in powerful, vivid, and often haunting prose each woman's acute observations of the stark realities of battle and the... (more)
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Another kind of war story: Army nurses look back to Vietnam
by Barb Deardorff
This is a book about war written by nurses. It is a book of anger and sadness and of the lessons learned, the lives lost and the need to move on. It is a collection of memories and stories, of thoughts and feelings. It is about good and bad times, then and now, about fantasy and reality, backflashes and nightmares and about the healing process of telling and rememebering. It is a powerful view into a jarring and... (more)
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The Soldier's Load and the Mobility of a Nation
by S. L. A Marshall
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Feast of Bones
by Daniel P. Bolger
Bolger, an officer in the U.S. Army and author of two studies of contemporary military affairs, makes an outstanding fiction debut with this military procedural. Captain Dimitri Donskov of the desantniks , the Soviet Army's elite air-assault forces, moves from a domestic training ground to Grenada to Afghanistan, learning the craft of war as practi c ed in modern Russia and discovering the limitations of Soviet... (more)
Two Hundred and Twenty-Five Years of Service, The United States Army, 1775-2000 (008-029-00357-1)David W Hogan
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Two Hundred and Twenty-Five Years of Service, The United States Army, 1775-2000 (008-029-00357-1)
by David W Hogan
Examines the full range of the United States Army's contributions to the nation during the period from its beginning in 1775 to the present.
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Carnage and Culture
Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power
by Victor Davis Hanson
Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times--from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive--Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world. Looking beyond popular explanations such as geography or superior technology, Hanson argues... (more)
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In The Company Of Heroes
by Steven Hartov, Michael J. Durant
Piloting a U.S.Army Special Operations Blackhawk over Somalia, Michael Durant was shot down with a rocket-propelled grenade on October 3, 1993. With devastating injuries, he was taken prisoner by a Somali warlord. With revealing insight and emotion, he tells the story of what he saw, how he survived, and the courage and heroism that only soldiers under fire could ever know.
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Company Commander
The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II
by Charles B. MacDonald
As a newly commissioned Captain of a veteran Army regiment, MacDonald's first combat was war at its most hellish-the Battle of the Bulge.