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  • The Making of Strategy

    Rulers, States, and War

    Most writing about strategy has focused on individual strategic theorists or great military leaders. This book focuses instead on the messy processes by which rulers and states have framed strategy in the past - a subject of vital practical importance to strategists, and of great interest to students of strategy and statecraft. It consists of 17 case studies that range from fifth-century Athens ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

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  • What It Is Like to Go to War

    "A precisely crafted and bracingly honest" memoir of war and its aftershocks from the New York Times–bestselling author of Matterhorn ( The Atlantic).In 1968, at the age of twenty-three, Karl Marlantes was dropped into the highland jungle of Vietnam, an inexperienced lieutenant in command of forty Marines who would live or die by his decisions. In his thirteen-month tour he saw intense combat, ... Read more

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  • Alexander Hamilton's Revolution

    His Vital Role as Washington's Chief of Staff

    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 that Washington and Hamilton's bond was forged during the Revolutionary War. Alexander Hamilton ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Five Ancestor Fist Kung Fu

    Simple, direct, and deadlyit's the art of ngo cho kun, or fists of the five ancestors.In its approach to iron body training, its reliance on the sam chien stance, and its special emphasis on hard and soft techniques, this Fukien style of kungfu is believed to be the root of the Gojuryu and Uechiryu Okinawan karate systems.During the declining years of the Ching dynasty, Sijo Chua Giok Beng ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Target Tokyo

    The Story of the Sorge Spy Ring

    From the New York Times–bestselling authors of Miracle at Midway: A thrilling account of one of World War II's most legendary spies.Richard Sorge was dispatched to Tokyo in 1933 to serve the spymasters of Moscow. For eight years, he masqueraded as a Nazi journalist and burrowed deep into the German embassy, digging for the secrets of Hitler's invasion of Russia and the Japanese plans for the East. ... Read more

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  • When the Odds Were Even

    The Vosges Mountains Campaign, October 1944-January 1945

    by Keith Bonn ...
    In three months of savage fighting, the U.S. Seventh Army did what no army in the history of modern warfare had ever done before–conquer an enemy defending the Vosges Mountains.With the toughest terrain on the Western Front, the Vosges mountain range was seemingly an impregnable fortress, mannedby German troops determined to hold the last barrier between the Allies and the Rhine. Yet despite ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Red Christmas

    The Tatsinskaya Airfield Raid 1942

    Series Book 30 - Raid
    By December 1942, the Soviets had surrounded the German 6th Army in Stalingrad, cutting off all lines of supply except through the air.Seeking to sever this last German lifeline, Soviet Command decided to launch a raid with the entire 24th Tank Corps to seize the airfield at Tatsinskaya, the primary operating base for the German airlift efforts. On 17 December, the 24th Tank Corps advanced toward ... Read more

    $16.49 USD

  • Yangtze River Gunboats 1900–49

    by Angus Konstam ...
    Series Book 181 - New Vanguard
    From the end of the 19th century through the first half of the 20th, most Western powers maintained a naval presence in China.These gunboats protected traders and missionaries, safeguarded national interests, and patrolled Chinese rivers in search of pirates. It was a wild, lawless time in China as ruthless warlords fought numerous small wars to increase their power and influence.This book covers ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • The Art of War - an Andy McNab War Classic: The beautifully reproduced illustrated 1882 edition, with introductions by Andy McNab and Henry Cust. M. P.

    - Introduction from SAS and Gulf War hero Andy McNab DCM MM- The 1882 edition of The Art of War- Preface by Niccolò Machiavelli- Translated from Italian by Christian E Detmold- Bonus material: Introduction by Henry Cust, MP- Complete with all the original illustrations- Beautifully formatted in this Apostrophe Books editionThe Art of War sees political and military theory brought together by one ... Read more

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  • ARDENNES-ALSACE (The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II)

    by Roger Cirillo ...
    Series series The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II
    ARDENNES-ALSACE (The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II)-This ebook Included TOC for Reader.-This sample in this ebook ;Commanders and intelligence officers (G–2) at every level— from the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), to the divisions holding the line—judged that the Germans were too weak to attempt regaining the initiative by a large-scale offensive. Despite their ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Taboo Genocide

    Holodomor 1933 & the Extermination of Ukraine

    by Kris Dietrich ...
    This is a story of war and peace. It may have been the greatest crime of the century after the Bolshevik coup and Russian Revolution and the murder of the Russian Romanov Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra and their five young children: four Grand Duchesses Olga, Anastasia, Tatiana, Marie and the Tsarevich, Alexis. It is our story. And I want to share it with you now because it is your ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Iron Dawn

    The Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War Sea Battle that Changed History

    by Richard Snow ...
    “An utterly absorbing account of one of history’s most momentous battles” (Forbes) that not only changed the Civil War but the future of all sea power—from acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who “writes with verve and a keen eye” (The New York Times Book Review).No single sea battle has had more far-reaching consequences than the one fought in Hampton Roads, Virginia, in 1862. The ... Read more

    $13.99 USD