Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq By: John C. McManusPaperback528 Pages John C. McManus covers six decades of warfare in which the courage of American troops proved the crucial difference between victory...

Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle By: Richard B. FrankPaperback816 Pages A history of the battle at Guadalcanal draws on first-time translations of official Japanese defense accounts and declassified U.S. radio intelligence to...

Inferno: The Fiery Destruction of Hamburg, 1943by Keith LowePaperbackApril 2009448 PagesIn the summer of 1943, British and American bombers launched an attack on the German city of Hamburg that was unlike anything the world had ever seen. For ten days...

Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944 by John C. McManusHardback656 pages2021 In Fire and Fortitude—winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History—John C. McManus presented a riveting account of the US Army's...

A fresh biography of heavyweight champion Joe Louis that probes race, fame, and American culture during the 1930s–1940s. Roberts explores Louis’s athletic achievements, wartime symbolism, and complicated relationship to politics and public...

Learning War: The Evolution of Fighting Doctrine in the U.S. Navy, 1898–1945by Trent Hone Paperback432 Pages2018 Learning War examines the U.S. Navy's doctrinal development from 1898-1945 and explains why the Navy in that era was so successful as...