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A Military History of Canada
Written by Desmond Morton
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $26.99
Updated to 2007, including Canada’s war on terrorism.
Is Canada really “a peaceable kingdom” with “an unmilitary people”? Nonsense, says Desmond Morton. This is a country that has been shaped, divided, and transformed by war — there is no greater influence in Canadian history, recent or remote.
From the shrewd tactics of... Read more >
Written by Desmond Morton
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $26.99
Updated to 2007, including Canada’s war on terrorism.
Is Canada really “a peaceable kingdom” with “an unmilitary people”? Nonsense, says Desmond Morton. This is a country that has been shaped, divided, and transformed by war — there is no greater influence in Canadian history, recent or remote.
From the shrewd tactics of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The British-Indian Army, 1860-1914
Written by Peter Duckers
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $12.95
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Written by Peter Duckers
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $12.95
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Discovering English County Regiments
Written by Ian F.W. Beckett
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $19.95
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Written by Ian F.W. Beckett
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $19.95
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Roman Forts in Britain
Written by David J. Breeze
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $13.95
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Written by David J. Breeze
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $13.95
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Siege Mines and Underground Warfare
Written by Kenneth Wiggins
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $13.95
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Written by Kenneth Wiggins
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $13.95
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The Victorian Soldier
Written by David Nalson
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $11.95
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Written by David Nalson
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $11.95
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The Utility of Force
The Art of War in the Modern World
Written by Rupert Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $15.95
From a highly decorated general, a brilliant new way of understanding war and its role in the twenty-first century.
Drawing on his vast experience as a commander during the first Gulf War, and in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Northern Ireland, General Rupert Smith gives us a probing analysis of modern war. He demonstrates... Read more >
The Art of War in the Modern World
Written by Rupert Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $15.95
From a highly decorated general, a brilliant new way of understanding war and its role in the twenty-first century.
Drawing on his vast experience as a commander during the first Gulf War, and in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Northern Ireland, General Rupert Smith gives us a probing analysis of modern war. He demonstrates... Read more >
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At the Abyss
An Insider's History of the Cold War
Written by Thomas Reed
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
“The Cold War . . . was a fight to the death,” notes Thomas C. Reed, “fought with bayonets, napalm, and high-tech weaponry of every sort—save one. It was not fought with nuclear weapons.” With global powers now engaged in cataclysmic encounters, there is no more important time for this essential... Read more >
An Insider's History of the Cold War
Written by Thomas Reed
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
“The Cold War . . . was a fight to the death,” notes Thomas C. Reed, “fought with bayonets, napalm, and high-tech weaponry of every sort—save one. It was not fought with nuclear weapons.” With global powers now engaged in cataclysmic encounters, there is no more important time for this essential... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Down South
One Tour in Vietnam
Written by William Hardwick
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $7.99
“I was always happy to see first light.
By first light it was over . . . for a while.”
–from Down South
There were a lot of ways to get killed in Vietnam. You could get “zapped,” “dinged,” “burned,” “popped,” “smoked,” or “wasted.” Marine 2nd Lt. William H. Hardwick was familiar with all... Read more >
One Tour in Vietnam
Written by William Hardwick
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $7.99
“I was always happy to see first light.
By first light it was over . . . for a while.”
–from Down South
There were a lot of ways to get killed in Vietnam. You could get “zapped,” “dinged,” “burned,” “popped,” “smoked,” or “wasted.” Marine 2nd Lt. William H. Hardwick was familiar with all... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
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The Guts to Try
The Untiold Story of the Iran Hostage Rescue Mission by the On-Scene Desert Comm ander
Written by Colonel James H. Kyle and John Robert Eidson
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $6.99
From one of the highest ranking officers on the ground in Iran comes a no-holds-barred look at America’s brave mission against terrorism
Colonel James H. Kyle was involved in every stage of the Iran hostage rescue operation. As Desert-1 Commander, he alone bore responsibility for the courageous mission. Now Colonel Kyle spares... Read more >
The Untiold Story of the Iran Hostage Rescue Mission by the On-Scene Desert Comm ander
Written by Colonel James H. Kyle and John Robert Eidson
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $6.99
From one of the highest ranking officers on the ground in Iran comes a no-holds-barred look at America’s brave mission against terrorism
Colonel James H. Kyle was involved in every stage of the Iran hostage rescue operation. As Desert-1 Commander, he alone bore responsibility for the courageous mission. Now Colonel Kyle spares... Read more >
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Mercenaries
Soldiers of Fortune, from Ancient Greece to Today#s Private Military Companies
Written by Col. Michael Lee Lanning
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $7.99
SOLDIERS OF $$
Privateers, contract killers, corporate warriors. Contract soldiers go by many names, but they all have one thing in common: They fight for money and plunder rather than liberty, God, or country. Now acclaimed author and war vet Michael Lee Lanning traces the compelling history of these fighting machines–from the... Read more >
Soldiers of Fortune, from Ancient Greece to Today#s Private Military Companies
Written by Col. Michael Lee Lanning
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $7.99
SOLDIERS OF $$
Privateers, contract killers, corporate warriors. Contract soldiers go by many names, but they all have one thing in common: They fight for money and plunder rather than liberty, God, or country. Now acclaimed author and war vet Michael Lee Lanning traces the compelling history of these fighting machines–from the... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
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No Room for Error
The Story Behind the USAF Special Tactics Unit
Written by Col. John T. Carney and Benjamin F. Schemmer
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $7.99
“John Carney is one of the few heroes I have.”
–LT. COL. L. H. “BUCKY” BURRUSS, USA (Ret.)
Founding member and Deputy Commander of Delta Force
When the U.S. Air Force decided to create an elite “special tactics” team in the late 1970s to work in conjunction with special-operations forces combating terrorists and... Read more >
The Story Behind the USAF Special Tactics Unit
Written by Col. John T. Carney and Benjamin F. Schemmer
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $7.99
“John Carney is one of the few heroes I have.”
–LT. COL. L. H. “BUCKY” BURRUSS, USA (Ret.)
Founding member and Deputy Commander of Delta Force
When the U.S. Air Force decided to create an elite “special tactics” team in the late 1970s to work in conjunction with special-operations forces combating terrorists and... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
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Thermopylae
The Battle That Changed the World
Written by Paul Cartledge
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $16.00
In 480 B.C., the mighty Persian king Xerxes led a massive force to the narrow mountain pass called Thermopylae, anticipating no significant resistance in his bid to conquer Greece. But the Greeks, led by Leonidas and a small army of Spartan warriors, took the battle to the Persians and nearly halted... Read more >
The Battle That Changed the World
Written by Paul Cartledge
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $16.00
In 480 B.C., the mighty Persian king Xerxes led a massive force to the narrow mountain pass called Thermopylae, anticipating no significant resistance in his bid to conquer Greece. But the Greeks, led by Leonidas and a small army of Spartan warriors, took the battle to the Persians and nearly halted... Read more >
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A Military History of Canada
Written by Desmond Morton
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2007
Price: $26.99
Updated to 2007, including Canada’s war on terrorism.
Is Canada really “a peaceable kingdom” with “an unmilitary people”? Nonsense, says Desmond Morton. This is a country that has been shaped, divided, and transformed by war — there is no greater influence in Canadian history, recent or remote.
From the shrewd tactics of... Read more >
Written by Desmond Morton
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2007
Price: $26.99
Updated to 2007, including Canada’s war on terrorism.
Is Canada really “a peaceable kingdom” with “an unmilitary people”? Nonsense, says Desmond Morton. This is a country that has been shaped, divided, and transformed by war — there is no greater influence in Canadian history, recent or remote.
From the shrewd tactics of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Cobra II
The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
Written by Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor
Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
On Sale: February 27, 2007
Price: $16.00
Written by the chief military correspondent of the New York Times and a prominent retired Marine general, this is the definitive account of the invasion of Iraq.
A stunning work of investigative journalism, Cobra II describes in riveting detail how the American rush to Baghdad provided the opportunity for the virulent insurgency... Read more >
The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
Written by Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor
Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
On Sale: February 27, 2007
Price: $16.00
Written by the chief military correspondent of the New York Times and a prominent retired Marine general, this is the definitive account of the invasion of Iraq.
A stunning work of investigative journalism, Cobra II describes in riveting detail how the American rush to Baghdad provided the opportunity for the virulent insurgency... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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The Utility of Force
The Art of War in the Modern World
Written by Rupert Smith
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $30.00
“War no longer exists,” writes General Sir Rupert Smith, powerfully reminding us that the clash of mass national armies—the system of war since Napoleon—will never occur again. Instead, he argues in this timely book, we must be prepared to adapt tactics to each conflict, or lose the ability to protect ourselves... Read more >
The Art of War in the Modern World
Written by Rupert Smith
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $30.00
“War no longer exists,” writes General Sir Rupert Smith, powerfully reminding us that the clash of mass national armies—the system of war since Napoleon—will never occur again. Instead, he argues in this timely book, we must be prepared to adapt tactics to each conflict, or lose the ability to protect ourselves... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Utility of Force
Written by Rupert Smith
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $15.95
From a highly decorated general, a brilliant new way of understanding war and its role in the twenty-first century.
Drawing on his vast experience as a commander during the first Gulf War, and in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Northern Ireland, General Rupert Smith gives us a probing analysis of modern war. He demonstrates... Read more >
Written by Rupert Smith
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $15.95
From a highly decorated general, a brilliant new way of understanding war and its role in the twenty-first century.
Drawing on his vast experience as a commander during the first Gulf War, and in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Northern Ireland, General Rupert Smith gives us a probing analysis of modern war. He demonstrates... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Oath Betrayed
Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror
Written by Steven Miles
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 27, 2006
Price: $23.95
“If law be the bedrock of civil society, it can no more undergird torture than it could support slavery or genocide.”
–from the Introduction
The graphic photographs of U.S. military personnel grinning over abused Arab and Muslim prisoners shocked the world community. That the United States was systematically torturing inmates at prisons run... Read more >
Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror
Written by Steven Miles
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 27, 2006
Price: $23.95
“If law be the bedrock of civil society, it can no more undergird torture than it could support slavery or genocide.”
–from the Introduction
The graphic photographs of U.S. military personnel grinning over abused Arab and Muslim prisoners shocked the world community. That the United States was systematically torturing inmates at prisons run... Read more >
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Mercenaries
Soldiers of Fortune, from Ancient Greece to Today#s Private Military Companies
Written by Col. Michael Lee Lanning
Format: Paperback, 296 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2005
Price: $7.99
SOLDIERS OF $$
Privateers, contract killers, corporate warriors. Contract soldiers go by many names, but they all have one thing in common: They fight for money and plunder rather than liberty, God, or country. Now acclaimed author and war vet Michael Lee Lanning traces the compelling history of these fighting machines–from the... Read more >
Soldiers of Fortune, from Ancient Greece to Today#s Private Military Companies
Written by Col. Michael Lee Lanning
Format: Paperback, 296 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2005
Price: $7.99
SOLDIERS OF $$
Privateers, contract killers, corporate warriors. Contract soldiers go by many names, but they all have one thing in common: They fight for money and plunder rather than liberty, God, or country. Now acclaimed author and war vet Michael Lee Lanning traces the compelling history of these fighting machines–from the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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At the Abyss
An Insider's History of the Cold War
Written by Thomas Reed
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2005
Price: $14.95
“The Cold War . . . was a fight to the death,” notes Thomas C. Reed, “fought with bayonets, napalm, and high-tech weaponry of every sort—save one. It was not fought with nuclear weapons.” With global powers now engaged in cataclysmic encounters, there is no more important time for this essential... Read more >
An Insider's History of the Cold War
Written by Thomas Reed
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2005
Price: $14.95
“The Cold War . . . was a fight to the death,” notes Thomas C. Reed, “fought with bayonets, napalm, and high-tech weaponry of every sort—save one. It was not fought with nuclear weapons.” With global powers now engaged in cataclysmic encounters, there is no more important time for this essential... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Bent's Fort
Written by David S. Lavender
Read by Michael Prichard
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 11, 2005
Price: $25.00
Read more >
Written by David S. Lavender
Read by Michael Prichard
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 11, 2005
Price: $25.00
Read more >
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Down South
One Tour in Vietnam
Written by William Hardwick
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 3, 2004
Price: $7.99
“I was always happy to see first light.
By first light it was over . . . for a while.”
–from Down South
There were a lot of ways to get killed in Vietnam. You could get “zapped,” “dinged,” “burned,” “popped,” “smoked,” or “wasted.” Marine 2nd Lt. William H. Hardwick was familiar with all... Read more >
One Tour in Vietnam
Written by William Hardwick
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 3, 2004
Price: $7.99
“I was always happy to see first light.
By first light it was over . . . for a while.”
–from Down South
There were a lot of ways to get killed in Vietnam. You could get “zapped,” “dinged,” “burned,” “popped,” “smoked,” or “wasted.” Marine 2nd Lt. William H. Hardwick was familiar with all... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Absolutely American
Four Years at West Point
Written by David Lipsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $14.95
As David Lipsky follows a future generation of army officers from their proving grounds to their barracks, he reveals the range of emotions and desires that propels these men and women forward. From the cadet who struggles with every facet of West Point life to those who are decidedly huah, Lipsky... Read more >
Four Years at West Point
Written by David Lipsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $14.95
As David Lipsky follows a future generation of army officers from their proving grounds to their barracks, he reveals the range of emotions and desires that propels these men and women forward. From the cadet who struggles with every facet of West Point life to those who are decidedly huah, Lipsky... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download.
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No Room for Error
The Story Behind the USAF Special Tactics Unit
Written by Col. John T. Carney and Benjamin F. Schemmer
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2003
Price: $7.99
“John Carney is one of the few heroes I have.”
–LT. COL. L. H. “BUCKY” BURRUSS, USA (Ret.)
Founding member and Deputy Commander of Delta Force
When the U.S. Air Force decided to create an elite “special tactics” team in the late 1970s to work in conjunction with special-operations forces combating terrorists and... Read more >
The Story Behind the USAF Special Tactics Unit
Written by Col. John T. Carney and Benjamin F. Schemmer
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2003
Price: $7.99
“John Carney is one of the few heroes I have.”
–LT. COL. L. H. “BUCKY” BURRUSS, USA (Ret.)
Founding member and Deputy Commander of Delta Force
When the U.S. Air Force decided to create an elite “special tactics” team in the late 1970s to work in conjunction with special-operations forces combating terrorists and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Afghanistan
A Russian Soldier's Story
Written by Vladislav Tamarov
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2001
Price: $19.95
Read more >
A Russian Soldier's Story
Written by Vladislav Tamarov
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2001
Price: $19.95
Read more >
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