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University of Massachusetts Press, June 2021. Trade Paperback. The late historian Marilyn B. Young, a preeminent voice on the history of U.S. military conflict, spent her career reassessing the nature of American global power, its influence on domestic culture and politics, and the consequences felt by those on the receiving.....
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Basic Books, September 2025. Trade Paperback. An Instant New York Times Bestseller A major military historian explains how and why some societies chose to destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time. "A profound book." --Wall Street Journal War can settle disputes, topple.....
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, 1988. Paperback.
Penguin Books, January 2010. Trade Paperback. James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum of struggle and success. In "Godas Trombones," one of his most celebrated works, inspirational sermons of.....
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Thames & Hudson, August 2022. Trade Paperback. Cannae and Agincourt, Waterloo and Gettysburg, Stalingrad and Midway, this compact volume collects the most influential battles and conflicts in history. Covering the past twenty-five centuries, editor Jeremy Black analyzes the effects these events have had on the development of states and civilizations.....
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Woodrow Wilson Center Press, March 1992. Trade Paperback. During America's Civil War, accounts of the Battle of Bull Run reached New York within 24 hours. During the Gulf War, reports took three or four days - sometimes two weeks - just to get from the front lines to the nearby.....
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W. W. Norton, May 2006. Hardcover. A volume of true training stories by young Marines who served in World War II, Iraq, and other wars from the past sixty years reveals the brutal or exacting techniques employed during their training, in an account that shares additional historical information about the.....
Trade Paperback. Signed, 1st Edition. Signed, 1st Edition.
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Viking Adult, August 2005. Hardcover. On October 21, 1805, as Britain's Royal Navy under the command of Horatio Nelson clashed with Napoleon's forces in an epic sea battle off the coast of Spain, the fate of Europe hung in the balance. Though the cost was high-and Nelson himself was killed-the.....
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Viking Adult, May 2001. Hardcover. At War at Sea is a fascinating account of the most important naval conflicts of the twentieth century. The book begins with a gripping account of one of the most decisive battles in history, the 1905 Battle of Tsushima, between the Japanese and the Russians.....
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Harper Perennial, April 2016. Trade Paperback. From Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, comes the story of a unique team of warriors -- women who could not be Army Rangers and Navy SEALS in their own right, but who answered.....
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University of Oklahoma Press, April 2000. Hardcover. The image of the famous "last stand" of the Seventh U.S. Calvary under General George Armstrong Custer has metamorphosed into myth. We picture the solitary Custer standing upright to the end, his troops formed into groups of wounded and dying men around him.....
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Random House, March 2021. Hardcover. COLBY AWARD WINNER - "One of the most important books to come out of the Afghanistan war."--Foreign Policy "A saga of courage and futility, of valor and error and heartbreak."--Rick Atkinson, author of the Liberation Trilogy and The British Are Coming Of the many battlefields.....
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Ivan R. Dee, February 1998. Paperback. The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was a volcanic event in American foreign relations and arguably the most perilous moment in world history. For thirteen days, as the United States and the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of nuclear war, a young.....
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DUTTON Books, September 2012. Hardcover. The #1 New York Times bestselling first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy SEAL who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in.....
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Putnam Adult, May 2003. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author on title page, with a round sticker on front cover that reads 'Autographed by Author'. Dust jacket rubbed. Slightly cocked. Inscribed by Author on title page, with a round sticker on front cover that reads 'Autographed by Author'. Dust jacket rubbed. Slightly.....
Sentry. Paperback.
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Penguin Books, December 2007. Trade Paperback. Brilliant distillations of the strategies of war--and the subtle social game of everyday life--by the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power and The Laws of Human Nature. This is the only authorized paperback edition in the US. Robert Greene's groundbreaking guides, The.....
Military Information Enterprises, November 1992. Paperback.
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Thomas Dunne Books, November 2005. Hardcover. Superfit, muscled, and macho, gladiators were hero-worshipped for their skills and courage as they fought to the death, yet despised for their humble status. For over six cruel centuries, tens of thousands died in the blood soaked arenas of Rome and its colonies, watched.....
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Vintage, January 2018. Trade Paperback. A highly original history, tracing the least understood and most intractable form of organized human aggression from Ancient Rome through the centuries to the present day. We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and what it.....
The University of Chicago Press, January 1982. Hardcover.
Doubleday, January 1983. Hardcover. Dust jacket is shelf worn and price clipped with a few small tears. Dust jacket is shelf worn and price clipped with a few small tears.
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Free Press, September 1988. Trade Paperback. The third edition of Geoffery Blainey's highly acclaimed study on the causes of war has been expanded and updated to include a complete discussion of World War II and the road towards nuclear war. Analyzing all international wars since 1700, Causes of War solves.....
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Longman, June 2000. Trade Paperback. Spanning three centuries and four continents, from the late medieval period to the present day, this collection builds a picture of the practical and ideological issues surrounding women soldiers, and the ambiguous place they inhabit, uncovering in the process a remarkable continuity across cultures and.....
