1939: Countdown to War by Richard OveryPaperback176 Pages2010 A brilliantly concise narrative of the days leading to the outbreak of history's greatest conflagration, 1939 takes readers hour by hour through the nail-biting decisions that determined the...

A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hopeby Tom BrokawHardcover240 Pages20155¾ x 8½ inches From Tom Brokaw, the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, comes a powerful memoir of a year of dramatic change—a year spent battling...

Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American Historyby Craig L. SymondsPaperback400 Pages From thunderous broadsides traded between wooden sailing ships on Lake Erie, to the carrier battles of World War II, to the devastating high-tech action...

Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destructionby Lynne OlsonHardcoverFebruary 2023448 PagesThe remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient...

For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States of America By: Allan R. Millett and Peter MaslowskiPaperback720 Pages Called "the preeminent survey of American military history" by Russell F. Weigley, America's foremost military...

On the Corps: USMC Wisdom from the Pages of Leatherneck, Marines Corps Gazette, and ProceedingsLt. Col. Charles P. Neimeyer USMC (Ret.)Hardcover 280 pages 2008 The purpose of this anthology is to serve as a ready resource of material that defines the...

Projecting Empire: Imperialism and Popular Cinemaby James Chapman and Nicholas CullPaperback256 PagesJuly 2009Popular cinema is saturated with images and narratives of empire. With "Projecting Empire", Chapman and Cull have written the first major study...

Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by Ty SeiduleHardcover304 Pages2021 "Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency." --Ron ChernowIn a forceful but humane...

Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II by Keith LowePaperback496 Pages2013 The end of World War II in Europe is remembered as a time when cheering crowds filled the streets, but the reality was quite different. Across Europe,...

Saving Freudby Andrew NagorskiHardcover352 Pages2022 A dramatic true story about Sigmund Freud’s last-minute escape to London following the German annexation of Austria and the group of friends who made it possible.In March 1938, German soldiers...

Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror By James Scott and Jack Carr Hardcover 464 Pages 2024 The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that...

The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Fron Lines by Kara Dixon VuicHardcoverFeb 2019392 Pages The story of the intrepid young women who volunteered to help and entertain American servicemen fighting overseas, from World War I through the...

The Internationalists: How A Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro Hardcover 608 Pages 2017 A bold and provocative history of the men who fought to outlaw war and how an often overlooked treaty signed in 1928...

The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America by Michael S. Neiberg  (Author) Hardcover 320 Pages 2016   When war broke out in Europe in August of 1914, it seemed, to observers in the United States, the height of...

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers By: Paul Kennedy Paperback 704 Pages About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the five centuries since...

The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940- 1941: The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl HarborBy: Paul Dickson416 pagesJuly 2020 The dramatic, untold story of how the American Army was mobilized from scattered outposts two years...

The Unknowns: The Untold Story of America’s Unknown Soldier and WWI’s Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home Patrick K. O'Donnell Hardcover 288 Pages 2018 The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is sacred ground at Arlington National Cemetery...

Vintage Wedding: Simple Ideas for Creating a Romantic Vintage Wedding (Vintage Living) by Daniela TurudichPaperback176 Pages2013 Returning to print in an expanded edition, this informative guide to planning a period wedding provides brides and wedding...