Presidio Press imprint: 129 books
The Defense of Hill 781
An Allegory of Modern Mechanized Combat
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
“Brilliant, hardhitting description of modern war on the U.S. Army’s premier training ground. A must-read tactical primer for today’s warrior.”—John C. “Doc” Bahnsen, Brigadier General, USA (Ret.)
At the turn of the century a small, humorous book on tactics was published. The...
Common Sense Training
A Working Philosophy for Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Leadership is so much a part of the conduct of training that at times it is difficult to tell where one stops and the other starts. . . .
“The best book on military training from platoon to division level that has been published in any army.”—Army magazine
“His message is that...
The Art of Maneuver
Maneuver Warfare Theory and Airland Battle
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
The Art of Maneuver shows how true maneuver-warfare theory has been applied in campaigns throughout history. With a genius for apt analogy the author shows how our obsession with fighting and winning set-piece battles causes us to overlook an enemy’s true vulnerabilities. But as low-intensity conflicts...
Armed Conflict
The Lessons of Modern Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
What challenges will America face in armed conflicts of the future and how will we prepare for them? National security depends upon the ability of the military to “predict” the future nature of war. Despite the difficulty in making such predictions, one must remember: nation states and other countries...
1862
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The Civil War comes alive in all its passion and fury–only now the Brits are fighting . . . alongside the Confederacy
Outraged when the U.S. Navy seizes three Confederates aboard an English sailing ship, Britain retaliates by entering the fray in support of the Rebels–and suddenly it’s...
WWIII: Darpa Alpha
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2007
In a bold and devastating move against the United States, terrorists have hijacked Project Darpa Alpha, classified advanced technology that can transform rifle rounds into tank crushers. The White House is stunned at the magnitude of the assault. General Douglas Freeman has already tried and failed...
So Sad to Fall in Battle
An Account of War Based on General Tadamichi Kuribayashi's Letters from Iwo Jima
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
The Battle of Iwo Jima has been memorialized innumerable times as the subject of countless books and motion pictures, most recently Clint Eastwood’s films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, and no wartime photo is more famous than Joe Rosenthal’s Pulitzer Prize-winning image of Marines...
Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die
Memoirs of a World War I Marine
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
In the tradition of All Quiet on the Western Front, Elton E. Mackin’s memoirs are a haunting portrayal of war as seen through the eyes of a highly decorated Marine who fought in every Marine Brigade battle from Belleau Wood to the crossing of the Meuse on the eve of the Armistice.
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by Herbert Crowder
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Fast-paced and authentic, Herbert Crowder's dramatic thriller draws on modern events from the heart of the Middle East--where the specter of nuclear confrontation lurks just beyond the horizon. A gripping novel.
At the Abyss
An Insider's History of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“The Cold War . . . was a fight to the death,” notes Thomas C. Reed, “fought with bayonets, napalm, and high-tech weaponry of every sort—save one. It was not fought with nuclear weapons.” With global powers now engaged in cataclysmic encounters, there is no more important time for this essential,...
Mercenaries
Soldiers of Fortune, from Ancient Greece to Today#s Private Military Companies
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
SOLDIERS OF $$
Privateers, contract killers,corporate warriors. Contract soldiers go by many names, but they all have one thing in common: They fight for money and plunder rather than liberty, God, or country. Now acclaimed author and war vet Michael Lee Lanning traces the compelling history...
The Changing Face of War
Combat from the Marne to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
One of the most influential experts on military history and strategy has now written his magnum opus, an original and provocative account of the past hundred years of global conflict. The Changing Face of War is the book that reveals the path that led to the impasse in Iraq, why powerful standing...
The Day We Lost the H-Bomb
Cold War, Hot Nukes, and the Worst Nuclear Weapons Disaster in History
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
In The Day We Lost the H-Bomb, science writer Barbara Moran marshals a wealth of new information and recently declassified material to give the definitive account of the Cold War’s biggest nuclear weapons disaster. On January 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber exploded over the sleepy Spanish...
Forward into Battle
Fighting Tactics from Waterloo to the Near Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
The first edition (1981) took a critical look at the accepted wisdom of historians who interpreted battlefield events primarily by reference to firepower. It showed that Wellington's infantry had won by their mobility rather than their musketry, that the bayonet did not become obsolete in the nineteenth...