Military category: 34701 books
The Cold War
A Military History
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering dispute between two of the greatest military...
Courtney Hicks Hodges
From Private to Four-Star General in the United States Army
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
In the annals of military history, only rarely has someone earned the distinction of rising from the rank of private to full general. Born January 5, 1887, Courtney Hodges attended West Point during the early 1900s. After failing Mathematics at West Point, he returned home for three months before enlisting...
by Steven D. Mercatante
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Why Germany Nearly Won: A New History of the Second World War in Europe challenges this conventional wisdom in highlighting how the re-establishment of the traditional German art of war—updated to accommodate new weapons systems—paved the way for Germany to forge a considerable military...
by Sir John William Fortescue
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Sir John Fortescue holds a pre-eminent place amongst British military historians, his enduring fame and legacy resting mainly on his life’s work “The History of the British Army”, issued in 20 volumes, which took him some 30 years to complete. In scope and breadth it is such that no modern scholar...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
This Army history publication provides details and analysis of the Civil War from its beginnings in 1816 through its conclusion.
Contents include: Secession, Sumter, and Standing to Arms * The Balloon Experiment * The Baltimore Riots * The Opponents * Anaconda Plan * First Bull Run (First Manassas)...
by Clement A. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Confederate Military History is a 12-volume series of books written and/or edited by former Confederate general Clement A. Evans that deals with specific topics related to the military personalities, places, battles, and campaigns in various Southern United States, including those of the Confederacy....
by Clement A. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Confederate Military History is a 12-volume series of books written and/or edited by former Confederate general Clement A. Evans that deals with specific topics related to the military personalities, places, battles, and campaigns in various Southern United States, including those of the Confederacy....
Anzac's Long Shadow
The Cost of Our National Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
A century ago we got it wrong. We sent thousands of young Australians on a military operation that was barely more than a disaster. It’s right that a hundred years later we should feel strongly about that. But have we got our remembrance right? What lessons haven’t we learned about war, and what...
Caracalla
A Military Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Caracalla has one of the worst reputations of any Roman Emperor. Many ancient historians were very hostile and Edward Gibbon later dubbed him ‘the common enemy of mankind’. Yet his reign was considered by at least one Roman author to be the apogee of the Roman Empire. Guilty of many murders and...
Great Military Blunders
History's worst battlefield decisions from ancient times to the present day
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
From ancient times to the Bay of Pigs and the Falklands War, military history has been marked as much by misjudgements and incompetence as by gallantry and glory. Such blunders have sometimes ended in tragedy, sometimes in farce - such as the English troops, supposedly marching on Cadiz in 1625, who...
Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement
The Shocking True Story of the Military Intelligence Failure at Pearl Harbor and the Fourteen Men Responsible for the Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
This account of the top secret investigation is “essential history . . . the authoritative appraisal of why American armed forces met the Japanese attack asleep” (The Christian Science Monitor).
On December 6, 1941, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander in chief of the United States Pacific...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
This is literally an A to Z "who's who" set of biographies of major figures in the history of U.S. Army Military Intelligence.
Some of the prominent people in this comprehensive document:
John Alsop * Stewart Alsop * Charles F. Berlitz * John Birch * McGeorge Bundy * Aaron...
by Major Brian T. Baxley
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Operation Weserübung, the German invasion of Norway during the Second World War, is considered by many military historians to be the first joint military operation involving the combined planning and execution of air, land, and sea forces. After a brief introduction and an explanation of the significance...
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
THE FORGE: The Decline and Rebirth of the American Military, November 12, 1918 to December 6, 1941 by Eric Hammel = Because the United States military undertook its first World War II offensive operations in the Pacific within only eight months of Pearl Harbor, most historians and readers of the wars...