Strategy category: 1253 books
Shadow Warriors
Inside the Special Forces
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
An unconventional war requires unconventional men—the Special Forces.
Green Berets • Navy SEALS • Rangers •
Air Force Special Operations • PsyOps • Civil Affairs •
and other special-mission units
The first two Commanders books, Every Man a Tiger and...
The Korean War
A History
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED.
For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence...
Hallowed Ground
A Walk at Gettysburg
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
James M. McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, and arguably the finest Civil War historian in the world, walks us through the site of the bloodiest and perhaps most consequential battle ever fought by Americans: the Battle of Gettysburg.
The events that occurred...
Left of Bang
How the Marine Corps' Combat Hunter Program Can Save Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
"At a time when we must adapt to the changing character of conflict, this is a serious book on a serious issue that can give us the edge we need.”
—General James Mattis, USMC, Ret.
"Left of Bang offers a crisp lesson in survival in which Van Horne and...
A Bridge Too Far
The Classic History of the Greatest Battle of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
The classic account of one of the most dramatic battles of World War II.
A Bridge Too Far is Cornelius Ryan's masterly chronicle of the Battle of Arnhem, which marshalled the greatest armada of troop-carrying aircraft ever assembled and cost the Allies nearly twice as many casualties as D-Day.
In...
Rise and Kill First
The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, hailed by The New York Times as “an exceptional work, a humane book about an incendiary subject.”
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN HISTORY
NAMED...
Skunk Works
A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly...
The Face of Battle
A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 1983
Master military historian John Keegan’s groundbreaking analysis of combat and warfare
The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at the "point of maximum danger." Without the myth-making elements of rhetoric and xenophobia,...
Hagakure
The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The comprehensive and accurate edition of the Hagakure is a must-have for serious martial artists or fans of samurai and the bushido code.
The Hagakure is one of the most influential of all Japanese texts—written nearly 300 years ago by Yamamoto Tsunetomo to summarize the very essence of...
by Netanel Lorch
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Netanel Lorch, who fought as an officer in Jerusalem during Israel’s War of Independence and later founded the Israel Defense Forces’ Historical Section, offers a detailed military history of the years 1947-49. The book begins with the tensions of the British Mandate period in Palestine, including...
Pacific Alamo
The Battle for Wake Island
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2004
It happened in the shadow of Pearl Harbor-mere hours after the first attack on the day that would "live in infamy." But few know the full story of Wake Island.
Now a prominent military historian, breaking new ground on the assault, relates the compelling events of that day and the...
by Stephen Wentworth Roskill
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
The War at Sea is essential reading for anyone interested in World War 2. It's breadth and deep of coverage of the historical detail is without equal. Only Morisons 'US Naval Operations in WWII' compares but it is totally focused on the USN and does not start till 1941. This is not a combat narrative,...
Alexander Hamilton's Revolution
His Vital Role as Washington's Chief of Staff
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Despite his less-than-promising beginnings as the only key Founding Father not born and raised on American soil, Hamilton was one of the best and brightest of his generation. His notoriety has rested almost entirely on his role as Secretary of the Treasury in Washington's administration, yet few realize...
World in Crisis
Classic Accounts of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Three New York Times–bestselling World War II histories, including the true story of the miraculous evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk.
The monumental scope and breathtaking heroism of World War II are brought to vivid life in three riveting accounts that span the...