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Into the Fire
A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
Written by Dakota Meyer and Bing West
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $16.00
“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”—President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony
In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing from entrenched positions, the... Read more >
A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
Written by Dakota Meyer and Bing West
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $16.00
“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”—President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony
In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing from entrenched positions, the... Read more >
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Dreadful
The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns
Written by David Margolick
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $28.95
American author John Horne Burns (1916–1953) led a brief and controversial life, and as a writer, transformed many of his darkest experiences into literature. Burns was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Andover and Harvard, and went on to teach English at the Loomis School, a boarding school for boys in Windsor... Read more >
The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns
Written by David Margolick
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $28.95
American author John Horne Burns (1916–1953) led a brief and controversial life, and as a writer, transformed many of his darkest experiences into literature. Burns was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Andover and Harvard, and went on to teach English at the Loomis School, a boarding school for boys in Windsor... Read more >
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Dreadful
The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns
Written by David Margolick
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $22.99
American author John Horne Burns (1916–1953) led a brief and controversial life, and as a writer, transformed many of his darkest experiences into literature. Burns was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Andover and Harvard, and went on to teach English at the Loomis School, a boarding school for boys in Windsor... Read more >
The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns
Written by David Margolick
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $22.99
American author John Horne Burns (1916–1953) led a brief and controversial life, and as a writer, transformed many of his darkest experiences into literature. Burns was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Andover and Harvard, and went on to teach English at the Loomis School, a boarding school for boys in Windsor... Read more >
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Fearless
The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown
Written by Eric Blehm
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $14.99
The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown
Written by Eric Blehm
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $14.99
Fearless takes you deep into SEAL Team SIX, straight to the heart of one of its most legendary operators.
“As a rule, we don’t endorse books or movies or anything regarding the command where I work—and Adam Brown worked—but as the author writes in Fearless, ‘you have to know the rules, so...
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Moment of Battle
The Twenty Clashes That Changed the World
Written by Jim Lacey and Williamson Murray
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $30.00
Two modern masters of military history make their case for the twenty most pivotal battles of all time, in a riveting trip through the ages to those moments when the fate of the world hung in the balance.
In the grand tradition of Edward Creasy’s classic Fifteen Decisive Battles of... Read more >
The Twenty Clashes That Changed the World
Written by Jim Lacey and Williamson Murray
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $30.00
Two modern masters of military history make their case for the twenty most pivotal battles of all time, in a riveting trip through the ages to those moments when the fate of the world hung in the balance.
In the grand tradition of Edward Creasy’s classic Fifteen Decisive Battles of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Moment of Battle
The Twenty Clashes That Changed the World
Written by Jim Lacey and Williamson Murray
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $14.99
Two modern masters of military history make their case for the twenty most pivotal battles of all time, in a riveting trip through the ages to those moments when the fate of the world hung in the balance.
In the grand tradition of Edward Creasy’s classic Fifteen Decisive Battles of... Read more >
The Twenty Clashes That Changed the World
Written by Jim Lacey and Williamson Murray
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $14.99
Two modern masters of military history make their case for the twenty most pivotal battles of all time, in a riveting trip through the ages to those moments when the fate of the world hung in the balance.
In the grand tradition of Edward Creasy’s classic Fifteen Decisive Battles of... Read more >
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The Tunnels of Cu Chi
A Harrowing Account of America's Tunnel Rats in the Underground Battlefields of Vietnam
Written by Tom Mangold
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2013
Price: $7.99
At the height of the Vietnam conflict, a complex system of secret underground tunnels sprawled from Cu Chi Province to the edge of Saigon. In these burrows, the Viet Cong cached their weapons, tended their wounded, and prepared to strike. They had only one enemy: U.S. soldiers small and wiry enough... Read more >
A Harrowing Account of America's Tunnel Rats in the Underground Battlefields of Vietnam
Written by Tom Mangold
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2013
Price: $7.99
At the height of the Vietnam conflict, a complex system of secret underground tunnels sprawled from Cu Chi Province to the edge of Saigon. In these burrows, the Viet Cong cached their weapons, tended their wounded, and prepared to strike. They had only one enemy: U.S. soldiers small and wiry enough... Read more >
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Cronkite's War
His World War II Letters Home
Written by Walter Cronkite, IV and Maurice Isserman
Foreword by Tom Brokaw
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $28.00
A giant in American journalism in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation" reveals his World War II experiences in this National Geographic book. Walter Cronkite, an obscure 23-year-old United Press wire service reporter, married Betsy Maxwell on March 30, 1940, following a four-year courtship. She proved to be the love of... Read more >
His World War II Letters Home
Written by Walter Cronkite, IV and Maurice Isserman
Foreword by Tom Brokaw
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $28.00
A giant in American journalism in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation" reveals his World War II experiences in this National Geographic book. Walter Cronkite, an obscure 23-year-old United Press wire service reporter, married Betsy Maxwell on March 30, 1940, following a four-year courtship. She proved to be the love of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Cronkite's War
His World War II Letters Home
Written by Walter Cronkite, IV and Maurice Isserman
Foreword by Tom Brokaw
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $28.00
A giant in American journalism in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation" reveals his World War II experiences in this National Geographic book. Walter Cronkite, an obscure 23-year-old United Press wire service reporter, married Betsy Maxwell on March 30, 1940, following a four-year courtship. She proved to be the love of... Read more >
His World War II Letters Home
Written by Walter Cronkite, IV and Maurice Isserman
Foreword by Tom Brokaw
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $28.00
A giant in American journalism in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation" reveals his World War II experiences in this National Geographic book. Walter Cronkite, an obscure 23-year-old United Press wire service reporter, married Betsy Maxwell on March 30, 1940, following a four-year courtship. She proved to be the love of... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Eisenhower in War and Peace
Written by Jean Edward Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 976 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $20.00
Written by Jean Edward Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 976 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $20.00
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Christian Science Monitor • St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Magisterial.”—The New York Times
In this extraordinary volume, Jean Edward Smith presents a portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America’s thirty-fourth president...
The Souvenir
A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War
Written by Louise Steinman
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $12.99
Louise Steinman’s American childhood in the fifties was bound by one unequivocal condition: “Never mention the war to your father.” That silence sustained itself until the fateful day Steinman opened an old ammunition box left behind after her parents’ death. In it she discovered nearly 500 letters her father had written... Read more >
A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War
Written by Louise Steinman
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $12.99
Louise Steinman’s American childhood in the fifties was bound by one unequivocal condition: “Never mention the war to your father.” That silence sustained itself until the fateful day Steinman opened an old ammunition box left behind after her parents’ death. In it she discovered nearly 500 letters her father had written... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Citizen Sherman
A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman
Written by Michael Fellman
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2013
Price: $11.99
Bright, compulsively articulate, famous, loved, hated, and deeply troubled, William T. Sherman was perhaps one of the most compelling personalities in American history. This groundbreaking, in-depth portrait of this significant Civil War figure reveals much about Sherman--and about the concept of manliness in his culture.
NOTE: This edition does not include... Read more >
A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman
Written by Michael Fellman
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2013
Price: $11.99
Bright, compulsively articulate, famous, loved, hated, and deeply troubled, William T. Sherman was perhaps one of the most compelling personalities in American history. This groundbreaking, in-depth portrait of this significant Civil War figure reveals much about Sherman--and about the concept of manliness in his culture.
NOTE: This edition does not include... Read more >
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Another River, Another Town
A Teenage Tank Gunner Comes of Age in Combat--1945
Written by John P. Irwin
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2013
Price: $11.99
Many narrative accounts of men in combat during World War II have conveyed the horrors and emotions of warfare. However, not many reveal in such an intimate way the struggle of innocent youth to adapt to the primitive code of “kill or be killed,” to transform from lads into combat soldiers.
... Read more >
A Teenage Tank Gunner Comes of Age in Combat--1945
Written by John P. Irwin
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2013
Price: $11.99
Many narrative accounts of men in combat during World War II have conveyed the horrors and emotions of warfare. However, not many reveal in such an intimate way the struggle of innocent youth to adapt to the primitive code of “kill or be killed,” to transform from lads into combat soldiers.
... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Lone Samurai
The Life of Miyamoto Musashi
Written by William Scott Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $16.95
Miyamoto Musashi (1584‒1645) was the legendary samurai known throughout the world as a master swordsman, spiritual seeker, and author of the classic book on strategy, the Book of Five Rings. Over 350 years after his death, Musashi and his legacy still fascinate us and continue to inspire artists, authors, and filmmakers... Read more >
The Life of Miyamoto Musashi
Written by William Scott Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $16.95
Miyamoto Musashi (1584‒1645) was the legendary samurai known throughout the world as a master swordsman, spiritual seeker, and author of the classic book on strategy, the Book of Five Rings. Over 350 years after his death, Musashi and his legacy still fascinate us and continue to inspire artists, authors, and filmmakers... Read more >
Bloods
Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History
Written by Wallace Terry
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2013
Price: $7.99
"Simply the most powerful and moving book that has emerged on this topic." UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
The national bestseller that tells the truth of about Vietnam from the black soldiers' perspective. An oral history unlike any other, BLOODS features twenty black men who tell the story of how members of their race... Read more >
Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History
Written by Wallace Terry
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2013
Price: $7.99
"Simply the most powerful and moving book that has emerged on this topic." UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
The national bestseller that tells the truth of about Vietnam from the black soldiers' perspective. An oral history unlike any other, BLOODS features twenty black men who tell the story of how members of their race... Read more >
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The Devil Soldier
The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China
Written by Caleb Carr
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2012
Price: $12.99
A courageous leader who became the first American mandarin, Frederick Townsend Ward won crucial victories for the Emperor of China during the Taiping Rebellion, history's bloodiest civil war. Carr's skills as historian and storyteller come to the fore in this thrilling account of the kind of adventurer the world no longer... Read more >
The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China
Written by Caleb Carr
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2012
Price: $12.99
A courageous leader who became the first American mandarin, Frederick Townsend Ward won crucial victories for the Emperor of China during the Taiping Rebellion, history's bloodiest civil war. Carr's skills as historian and storyteller come to the fore in this thrilling account of the kind of adventurer the world no longer... Read more >
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C.S.S. Shenandoah
The Memoirs of Lieutenant Commanding James I. Waddell
Written by James D. Horan
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: November 7, 2012
Price: $9.99
The last shot of the Civil War was fired, not on an obscure battlefield, but in the ice-locked Sea of Okhotsk off Siberia seven months after Lee’s surrender.
The last armed Confederate cruiser was the C.S.S. Shenandoah, a beautiful but dangerous vessel which scattered and burned the New Bedford whaling fleet in... Read more >
The Memoirs of Lieutenant Commanding James I. Waddell
Written by James D. Horan
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: November 7, 2012
Price: $9.99
The last shot of the Civil War was fired, not on an obscure battlefield, but in the ice-locked Sea of Okhotsk off Siberia seven months after Lee’s surrender.
The last armed Confederate cruiser was the C.S.S. Shenandoah, a beautiful but dangerous vessel which scattered and burned the New Bedford whaling fleet in... Read more >
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Soul Repair
Recovering from Moral Injury after War
Written by Rita Nakashima Brock and Gabriella Lettini
Format: Hardcover, 174 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $24.95
The first book to explore the idea and effect of moral injury on veterans, their families, and their communities
Although veterans make up only 7 percent of the U.S. population, they account for an alarming 20 percent of all suicides. And though treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder has undoubtedly alleviated suffering and... Read more >
Recovering from Moral Injury after War
Written by Rita Nakashima Brock and Gabriella Lettini
Format: Hardcover, 174 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $24.95
The first book to explore the idea and effect of moral injury on veterans, their families, and their communities
Although veterans make up only 7 percent of the U.S. population, they account for an alarming 20 percent of all suicides. And though treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder has undoubtedly alleviated suffering and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Soul Repair
Recovering from Moral Injury after War
Written by Rita Nakashima Brock and Gabriella Lettini
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $24.95
The first book to explore the idea and effect of moral injury on veterans, their families, and their communities
Although veterans make up only 7 percent of the U.S. population, they account for an alarming 20 percent of all suicides. And though treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder has undoubtedly alleviated suffering and... Read more >
Recovering from Moral Injury after War
Written by Rita Nakashima Brock and Gabriella Lettini
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $24.95
The first book to explore the idea and effect of moral injury on veterans, their families, and their communities
Although veterans make up only 7 percent of the U.S. population, they account for an alarming 20 percent of all suicides. And though treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder has undoubtedly alleviated suffering and... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Orde Wingate
Written by Jon Diamond
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $7.95
Orde Wingate rose to fame by creating the Chindits in Burma in 1943. He is an extremely important figure in military history, and deserves just as much attention as Alanbrooke, Montgomery, and Auchinleck. Unlike them, however, he always operated outside the accepted etiquette and the formal chain of command. He was... Read more >
Written by Jon Diamond
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $7.95
Orde Wingate rose to fame by creating the Chindits in Burma in 1943. He is an extremely important figure in military history, and deserves just as much attention as Alanbrooke, Montgomery, and Auchinleck. Unlike them, however, he always operated outside the accepted etiquette and the formal chain of command. He was... Read more >
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Into the Fire
A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
Written by Dakota Meyer and Bing West
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $27.00
“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”—President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony
In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing from entrenched positions, the... Read more >
A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
Written by Dakota Meyer and Bing West
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $27.00
“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”—President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony
In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing from entrenched positions, the... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Into the Fire
A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
Written by Dakota Meyer and Bing West
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $13.99
“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”—President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony
In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing from entrenched positions, the... Read more >
A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
Written by Dakota Meyer and Bing West
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $13.99
“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”—President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony
In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing from entrenched positions, the... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Into the Fire
A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
Written by Dakota Meyer and Bing West
Read by Zach McLarty
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $35.00
“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”—President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony
In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing from entrenched positions, the... Read more >
A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
Written by Dakota Meyer and Bing West
Read by Zach McLarty
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $35.00
“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”—President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony
In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing from entrenched positions, the... Read more >
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Into the Fire
A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
Written by Dakota Meyer and Bing West
Read by Zach McLarty
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $20.00
“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”—President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony
In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing from entrenched positions, the... Read more >
A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
Written by Dakota Meyer and Bing West
Read by Zach McLarty
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $20.00
“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”—President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony
In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing from entrenched positions, the... Read more >
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Stalking the Vietcong
Inside Operation Phoenix: A Personal Account
Written by Stuart Herrington
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 22, 2012
Price: $7.99
In a gripping memoir that reads like a spy novel, one man recounts his personal experience with Operation Phoenix, the program created to destroy the Vietcong’s shadow government, which thrived in the rural communities of South Vietnam.
Stuart A. Herrington was an American intelligence advisor assigned to root out the enemy in... Read more >
Inside Operation Phoenix: A Personal Account
Written by Stuart Herrington
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 22, 2012
Price: $7.99
In a gripping memoir that reads like a spy novel, one man recounts his personal experience with Operation Phoenix, the program created to destroy the Vietcong’s shadow government, which thrived in the rural communities of South Vietnam.
Stuart A. Herrington was an American intelligence advisor assigned to root out the enemy in... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
