Presidio Press imprint: 129 books
Firepower in Limited War
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
“Bar none, the best book on fire support in the English language and one of the most accessible works on tactics I have ever read.”—Bruce Gudmundsson, author of On Artillery
The military of the United States is the world's strongest. Our armed forces are equipped with weapons of remarkable...
On Strategy
A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
Stunning in its insight, On Strategy is required reading not just for everyone who is interested in the Vietnam War, but for anyone who is concerned about the place of the United States on the world stage and how America can, and more importantly cannot, employ its immense military force to help bring...
Summons of Trumpet
U.S.-Vietnam in Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
Soldier/scholar Palmer traces the history of the American involvement in Vietnam and shows how events in both the U.S. and Vietnam became inextricably linked as domestic dissent and a lack of realistic, viable military strategy ultimately led to America's first lost war.
Stalking the Vietcong
Inside Operation Phoenix: A Personal Account
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
In a gripping memoir that reads like a spy novel, one man recounts his personal experience with Operation Phoenix, the program created to destroy the Vietcong’s shadow government, which thrived in the rural communities of South Vietnam.
Stuart A. Herrington was an American intelligence advisor...
The Bloody Forest
Battle for the Hurtgen: September 1944-January 1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
The definitive account of one of World War II’s bloodiest campaigns—the five-month battle between American and German forces in the Huertgen Forest—told through the words of the men who were there.
From the preface:
“In the course of research and interviews while writing a series...
Normandy
The Real Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
“It was the [allied armies’] valor, their endurance, and their ability to adapt that won the battle of Normandy and launched the liberation of Western Europe.”
—from Normandy: The Real Story
For decades, it’s been the conventional wisdom that “brute force” alone beat the German...
Lead On!
A Practical Guide to Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
“A warm yet specific book which cuts to the heart of leadership issues and savvy.”—The Bookwatch
Informal, even conversational in style, Lead On! is nevertheless a serious handbook from which aspiring leaders can learn how to achieve seemingly impossible goals. The book is replete with...
When the Odds Were Even
The Vosges Mountains Campaign, October 1944-January 1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
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,...
by Robert Leonhard
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
The crisis is upon us: We have no viable doctrine for tomorrow's wars. Now that the world has entered the information age, principles that have served to enlighten the art of war no longer work. Born of agrarian times and honed during the industrial age, the classical principles of war are, in large...
The Coming Draft
The Crisis in Our Military and Why Selective Service Is Wrong for America
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
A frustrating war and an endless occupation. The very real prospect of more conflict overseas. A military stretched beyond its breaking point. The stage is set for the resumption of the draft. Now, in an explosive and provocative book, Philip Gold, a former Marine and a disaffected conservative, reveals...
Six Days of War
June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first comprehensive account of the epoch-making Six-Day War, from the author of Ally—now featuring a fiftieth-anniversary retrospective
Though it lasted for only six tense days in June, the 1967 Arab-Israeli war never really ended. Every crisis that has ripped...
Raising the Hunley
The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The history of the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley is as astonishing as its disappearance. On February 17, 1864, after a legendary encounter with a Union battleship, the iron “fish boat” vanished without a trace somewhere off the coast of South Carolina. For more than a century the fate of...
Lightning Out of Lebanon
Hezbollah Terrorists on American Soil
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Before September 11, 2001, one terrorist group had killed more Americans than any other: Hezbollah, the “Party of God.” Today it remains potentially more dangerous than even al Qaeda. Yet little has been known about its inner workings, past successes, and future plans–until now.
Written...
Legionnaire
Five Years in the French Foreign Legion
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“A pleasure to read and nearly impossible to put down.”
–Army Times
“Embodies an experience that many have enjoyed in fantasy–few in reality.”
–The Washington Post
The French Foreign Legion–mysterious, romantic, deadly–is filled with men of dubious character, and hardly...