Stackpole Books: 1000 books
Soul Survivors
Stories of Wounded Women Warriors and the Battles They Fight Long After They've Left the War Zone
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Life is tough for veterans, especially female veterans. They have much to deal with and much to heal from: combat, physical and psychological wounds, sexual harassment and assault, trauma, stress, chains of command, the VA. Now more than ever these veterans are facing their problems head on. In this...
War to the Knife
Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Marching armies, cavalry raids, guerilla warfare, massacres, towns and farms in flames—the American Civil War, 1861-1865? No—Kansas, 1854-1861. Before there was Bull Run or Gettysburg, there was Black Jack and Osawatomie. Long before events at Fort Sumter ignited the War Between the States, men...
by Stephen L. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Air Force officers of all ranks, from cadets to generals, both active duty and reserves, will find this revised edition essential reading for a successful career.
Space Station Friendship
A Visit with the Crew in 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The year is 2007, the fiftieth anniversary of the Space Age. Space shuttle Discovery is about o dock at the first permanent U. S. space station, which author Dick Lattimer called Friendship. In all but name, the space station depicted in these pages is based on NASA plans.
To help you project yourself...
Training a Young Pointer
How the Experts Developed My Bird Dog and Me
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
The story of a bird dog's early years, showing how an owner selects a pup and finds a trainer. Tips on housebreaking, socialization, basic commands, field training, whistle training and ranging methods, types of training collars, using a check cord, release and fetch commands. Interviews and insights with longtime pointing-dog owners, trainers, and other experts.
Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars: 1865-1890
Conquering the Southern Plains
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890: Conquering the Southern Plains is the third in a planned five-volume series that will tell the saga of the military struggle for the American West in the words of the soldiers, noncombatants, and Native Americans who shaped it. Volume III: Conquering the...
Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars: 1865-1890
The Wars for the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Second in five-volume series recreates the military struggle for the American West in the words of the soldiers, noncombatants, and Native Americans.
Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars: 1865-1890
The Army and the Indian
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2004
• Articles by William T. Sherman, James A. Garfield, John Pope, Nelson A. Miles, Elizabeth Custer, and others
• Topics include army life on the frontier, Indian scouts, women's experiences, and commanders and their campaigns
This is the final installment of a series that seeks to tell the saga...
by U.S. War Department
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2005
• The "rules of warfare" and "government of the army" as they existed in the American Civil War
• All 101 Articles of War as amended through June 1863 including the famous Lieber Code (General Orders No. 100), directed by President Lincoln, which expanded the laws of land warfare...
High Tide in the Korean War
How an Outnumbered American Regiment Defeated the Chinese at the Battle of Chipyong-ni
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
By early 1951, American forces and their UN allies had been driven more than 100 miles down the Korean peninsula by the Chinese. The situation was bleak when Gen. Matthew Ridgway ordered a last stand at the village of Chipyong-ni. There a single regiment (the 23rd Infantry) of fewer than 5,000 U.S....
New Guinea
The Allied Jungle Campaign in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Visual history of the Allied battles for New Guinea during 1942-44.
Blossoming Silk Against the Rising Sun
U.S. and Japanese Paratroopers at War in the Pacific in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Complete account of airborne operations in the Pacific theater. Firsthand descriptions from American and Japanese paratroopers. Detailed maps illustrate battles.
Red, White, or Yellow?
The Media & the Military at War in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
War has always attracted journalists, such as Ernest Hemingway in the Spanish Civil War or David Halberstam in Vietnam. And war reporting has often been controversial as well as influential, like William Randolph Hearst's "yellow journalism" in the Spanish-American War. But what happens...
The Battle of the Bulge
Hell at Bütgenbach / Seize the Bridges
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Against-all-odds actions by the 1st Infantry Division during the Battle of the Bulge. Firsthand accounts from American and German soldiers. Details on Jochen Peiper and the notorious Malmedy Massacre.