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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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The Mask of Command
by John Keegan
In this incisive analysis of generals, John Keegan examines the meaning of heroism as represented by Alexander the Great, Wellington, Grant, and Hitler, and argues that generalship, like warfare itself, is a cultural activity that has, through the years, required a change in the very nature of leadership. 16 pages of photos.
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The Gamble
General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008
by Thomas E. Ricks
Fiasco , Thomas E. Ricks’s #1 New York Times bestseller, transformed the political dialogue on the war in Iraq— The Gamble is the next news breaking installment Thomas E. Ricks uses hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with top officers in Iraq and extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to document the inside story of the Iraq War since late 2005 as only he can, examining the events that took place as... (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 Soldier's Load and the Mobility of a Nation
by S. L. A. Marshall
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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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Once An Eagle
by Anton Myrer
Once An Eagle is the story of one special man, a soldier named Sam Damon, and his adversary over a lifetime, fellow officer Courtney Massengale. Damon is a professional who puts duty, honor, and the men he commands above self interest. Massengale, however, brilliantly advances by making the right connections behind the lines and in Washington's corridors of power. Beginning in the French countryside during the... (more)
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Gates of Fire
An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
by Steven Pressfield
Thousands of years ago, Herodotus and Plutarch immortalized Spartan society in their histories; but today, little is left of the ancient city or the social structure of this momentous culture. One of the few antiquarian marks of the civilization that has survived lies scores of miles away from Sparta, at a narrow Greek mountain pass called Thermopylae. It was there that three hundred of Sparta's finest warriors... (more)
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The Face of Battle
A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
by John Keegan
Although he has never fought in a war the author creates a realistic picture of the fears, pressures, and mechanics of fighting a battle, emphasizing three particular campaigns.
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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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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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More Generals in Gray
by Bruce S. Allardice
In this masterpiece of research, a splendid supplement to Ezra J. Warner’s Generals in Gray, Bruce S. Allardice brings to light a neglected class of officers: the Confederacy’s "other" generals—men who attained their rank outside the usual avenue of appointment by President Jefferson Davis and who had been virtually forgotten as a consequence. Explaining that the process of becoming a general was fraught with... (more)
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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.
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Infantry Attacks
by Erwin Rommel
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel exerted an almost hypnotic influence not only over his own troops but also over the Allied soldiers of the Eighth Army in the Second World War. Even when the legend surrounding his invincibility was overturned at El Alamein, the aura surrounding Rommel himself remained unsullied. As a leader of a small unit in the First World War, he proved himself an aggressive and versatile commander,... (more)
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The defense of Duffer's Drift (FMFRP)
by Ernest Dunlop Swinton
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of... (more)
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Defense of Hill 781: An Allegory of Modern Mechanized Combat
by James R. McDonough
In the tradition of the humorous classic Defense of Duffer's Drift, our hero's escape lies in completing a successful mission.
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We Band of Angels
The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
by Elizabeth Norman
Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as a "grippingly told" story of "power and relevance," here is the true, untold account of the first American women to prove their mettle under combat conditions. Later, during three years of brutal captivity at the hands of the Japanese, they also demonstrated their ability to survive. Filled with the thoughts and impressions of the women who lived it, "every page of... (more)
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And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
by Evelyn Monahan
In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as U.S. Army nurses. When the war began, some of them had so little idea of what to expect that they packed party dresses; but the reality of service quickly caught up with them, whether they waded through the water in the historic landings on North African and Normandy beaches, or worked around the clock in hospital tents on the... (more)
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We Were Soldiers Once...and Young
Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
by Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway
Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The Commandant's choice for 1993 was We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young . In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were... (more)

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