Da Capo Press imprint: 567 books
A Death in San Pietro
The Untold Story of Ernie Pyle, John Huston, and the Fight for Purple Heart Valley
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
By the time Mark Clark’s Fifth Army reached the small village of San Pietro north of Naples in the first week of December 1943, a tough but rapid sweep through Sicily came to a muddy halt. On the slopes of a distant mountain, the death of a single platoon captain, Henry Waskow, epitomized the struggle.
A...
Smoky the Brave
How a Feisty Yorkshire Terrier Mascot Became a Comrade-in-Arms during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
The extraordinary, touching true story of Smoky, the smallest--and arguably bravest--dog of World War II
In February 1944, as Japanese military advances threatened to overwhelm New Guinea, a tiny, four-pound Yorkshire Terrier was discovered hiding in the island's thick jungles. A total mystery...
by Oscar E. Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
No previous book has been devoted to Marine Corps armor in World War II. Gilbert's gripping narrative combines exhaustive detail on Marine armor and combat with moving eyewitness accounts, never before published, of what it was actually like to be a Marine tanker in action in the Pacific.
Istanbul
A Tale of Three Cities
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact.
From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul--resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East...
Crucible of Command
Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee--The War They Fought, the Peace They Forged
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
A dual biography and a fresh approach to the always compelling subject of these two iconic leaders-how they fashioned a distinctly American war, and a lasting peace, that fundamentally changed our nation
The Chosen Few
A Company of Paratroopers and Its Heroic Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
The never-before-told story of one of the most decorated units in the war in Afghanistan and its fifteen-month ordeal that culminated in the 2008 Battle of Wanat, the war's deadliest
A single company of US paratroopers--calling themselves the "Chosen Few"--arrived in eastern Afghanistan...
Their Last Full Measure
The Final Days of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
As the Confederacy steadily crumbled under the Union army's relentless hammering, dramatic developments in early 1865 brought the bloody war to a swift climax and denouement. Their Last Full Measure relates these thrilling events, which followed one another like falling dominoes—from Fort Fisher's...
We Were One
Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
A riveting first-hand account of the fierce battle for Fallujah during the Iraq War and the Marines who fought there--a story of brotherhood and sacrifice in a platoon of heroes
Five months after being deployed to Iraq, Lima Company's 1st Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, found itself...
Xenophon's March
Into The Lair Of The Persian Lion
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
The year is 403 B.C. The Athenian philosopher Xenophon finds himself with an army of Greeks marching to what is now Turkey. Their mission: to aid the Persian pretender Cyrus in a war against his brother Artaxerxes. At a great battle, Cyrus is killed and his army destroyed-except for the Greeks holding...
The Forger
An Extraordinary Story of Survival in Wartime Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2008
In Nazi Germany, 20-year-old graphic artist Cioma Schönhaus found a unique outlet for his talent: he forged documents for people fleeing the Reich, ultimately helping to save hundreds of lives. Yet, even as the Gestapo posted his photo in public, he lived a daringly adventurous life, replete with...
Such Men as These
The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies over Korea
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In 1951, James Michener went to Korea to report on a little known aspect of America's stalemated war: navy aviators. His research inspired novel about these pilots became an overnight bestseller and, perhaps, the most widely read book ever written about aerial combat.
Using Michener's notes,...
Afghanistan
A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
For over 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads for armies and has witnessed history-shaping clashes between civilizations: Greek, Arab, Mongol, and Tartar, and, in more recent times, British, Russian, and American. When U.S. troops entered Afghanistan...
Baghdad
City of Peace, City of Blood--A History in Thirteen Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of great...
The Terra Cotta Army
China's First Emperor and the Birth of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
The Terra Cotta Army is one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made. Over seven thousand life-size figures of warriors and horses were interred in the mausoleum of the first emperor of China-and each figure was individually carved.
Weaving together history and a first-hand account...