Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power upon History (1660-1783) w as one of the most influential books on military strategy in the first half of the 20th century. A core text in the naval war colleges of the United S tates, Britain, and Japan, Mahan's book shaped doctrine for the conduct of war at sea. Adams uses Mahan's ideas to discuss the great Pacific sea battl es of World War II and to consider how well they withstood the test of actu al combat. Reexamining the conduct of war in the Pacific from a single anal ytic viewpoint leads to some surprising conclusions about the Japanese... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Collected here for the first time are fifteen essays that span over 100 yea rs of American history--and the remarkable thirty-year career of America's foremost historian and New York Times bestselling author of D-Day, Undaunte d Courage, and Citizen Soldiers. Stephen E. Ambrose's vivid and compelling essays take you to the heart of America's wars, from Grant's stunning Fourth of July victory at Vicksburg, to Nixon's surprise Christmas bombing of Hanoi... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Dwight D. Eisenhower's public image was that of a wide-grinning Daddy Warbu cks who preferred the golf course over the cabinet room. He was perceived a s a military bureaucrat who never held a combat command. A Republican sandw iched between two Democratic administrations, he lacked the political vigor of his predecessor Harry S. Truman and the star quality of his successor J FK. Yet behind the placid image he was a sly fox who ran the most efficient ... View More...
The seventh volume in the Panzerwrecks series covers the Eastern Front with 120 rare and unpublished photos sourced from Russian and Eastern Europe an d presented in large landscape format. View More...
This is the second volume of Panzerwrecks dealing solely with German armor on the Russian Front from 1944-45. Photos are printed in large, landscape f ormat, usually one to a page, and have detailed captions describing the 'wh o,' 'what,' 'when,' and 'where' for each image. Subject matter includes Hun garian and Bulgarian armor in addition to the usual Panther, Tigers and Pan zer IVs. Self-propelled guns, StuGs and SPWs round out the book. View More...
Using a new system of underwater exploration technology, the author and his team have located the Bismarck off the Atlantic coast of France. In a firs t person account of his work, the author recounts the history of the German warship. The author's previous books include "Exploring the Titanic" View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? From a preeminent presidential historian comes a "superb and important" (The New York Times Book Review) saga of America's wartime chief executives "Fascinating and heartbreaking . . . timely . . . Beschloss's broad scope l ets you draw important crosscutting lessons about presidential leadership." --Bill Gates Widely acclaimed and ten years in the making, Michael Beschloss's President s of War is an intimate and irresistib... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Now you don't need to be a soldier to experience the thrill of the front in one of the toughest vehicles ever designed! Hunker down for adventure with The Encyclopedia of Tanks and Armored Fighting Vehicles. ? This big, illustrated volume examines all of the significant tanks and ar mored vehicles of the world, from the very first tanks of World War One to modern combat engineer vehicles. ? Divided into three easy-to-use sections, you're sure to find ... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "A truly thrilling expose of the previously unknown Nazi assassination plot that could have changed history." - Edward Jay Epstein, New York Times bes tselling author of The Assassination Chronicles The New York Times bestselling author returns with a tale as riveting and s uspenseful as any thriller: the true story of the Nazi plot to kill the lea ders of the United States, Great Britain, and the U.S.S.R. during World War II. The mission: to kill the... View More...
This 27th installment in the popular LOCK ON series focuses on the Soviet S ukhoi Su-22 M3 Fitter in Hungarian service. Famed for its tangle over the G ulf of Sidra with USN F-14 Tomcats(the first swing-wing vs. Swing wing aeri al engagement), this brutish aircraft serves with the air forces of many of the ex-Soviet client states of eastern Europe and the middle east. Beautif ul full color photography provides a rare glimpse at such details as cockpi ts, landing gear, avionics, armament, external stores, engine, access panel s, ejection seat, pilots, and much more. This book belongs in the col... View More...
A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILL FULLY IGNORED For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But fo r the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence and secret materia ls from both here and abroad, including an archive of captured North Korean documents, Bruce Cumings reveals the war as it was actually fought. He des cribes its origin as a civil war, preordained long before the first shots w ere fired in June 1950 by lingering fury over Japan's oc... View More...
The riveting untold story of the Marine missions that led to free elections in Afghanistan. In late June 2005, media reports recounted the tragic story of nineteen U.S . military soldiers and Marines who died at the hands of Ahmad Shah-and the lone survivor who was rescued-in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan. The harrowing events of Operation Red Wings marked the beginning of an impo rtant-yet widely misreported-chapter in the Global War on Terror. Victory Point reveals the complete and untold story of Operation Red Wings, and the follow-up mission, Operation Whalers. It is the story no... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This is a book for anyone wanting: - to join the SAS - to know in detail about its legendary training - to understand more about what life might be like in this elite formation SAS selection is one of the toughest military courses in the world. It invo lves physical training one would expect to find in an Olympic athlete. It e ntails stretching the mind to the varied new techniques the SAS soldier mus t learn, such as weapons, survival, escape parachu... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
The fourth book in the "Living History" series on WWII, LANCASTER is filled with full-color photos of historical reenactors working with restored Lanc asters and archival photos of the plane that became known as one of the fin est heavy bombers to fight in the epic air battles of WWII. 58 color photos , 47 b&w photos and illustrations. View More...
On the battlefield, a soldier's best friends are his gun and his gear-becau se his life depends on them. But what will it take to fight and survive on the battlefields of tomorrow? What will those combat arenas consist of, and where will they be? And what will our nation's fighting men and women carr y with them into battle? This is a compendium of the weapons of war that may accompany our soldiers in the near and far future, as well as an insightful look at the soldier, sailor, and airman of today and tomorrow. All manner of military hardware is covered, as well as information about cutting-e... View More...
