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Taking Fire
The True Story of a Decorated Chopper Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Nicknamed "Mini-Man" for his diminutive stature, a mere five-foot-three and 125 pounds in his flight boots, chopper pilot Ron Alexander proved to be a giant in the eyes of the men he rescued from the jungles and paddies of Vietnam. With an unswerving concern for every American soldier trapped...
Cleared Hot!
A Marine Combat Pilot's Vietnam Diary
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1993
Daring missions. Dangerous rescues. Deadly accuracy.
Many pilots never made it out of 'Nam. This one did. Highly decorated Col. Bob Stoffey-- a Marine Corps pilot for over twenty-five years, who served multiple tours in Vietnam-- has seen and done it all. Cleared Hot! is his story-- a fast-paced,...
Level Zero Heroes
The Story of U.S. Marine Special Operations in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
A New York Times Best seller!
In Level Zero Heroes, Michael Golembesky follows the members of U.S. Marine Special Operations Team 8222 on their assignment to the remote and isolated Taliban stronghold known as Bala Murghab as they conduct special operations in an effort to break the Taliban's...
None Left Behind
The 10th Mountain Division and the Triangle of Death
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
The 10th Mountain Division is known as the most deployed unit in the U.S. Army. Today the War on Terror has drawn it to Afghanistan and Iraq. To Lieutenant Colonel Mike Infanti's unit fell the pacification of a hellish hotbed of terrorism south of Baghdad dubbed "The Triangle of Death."...
Without Hesitation
The Odyssey of an American Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
The powerful unvarnished memoir of General Hugh Shelton, war hero, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during 9/11, and one of the leading military figures of our time
Whether serving under a Democratic president or a Republican president, General Shelton was never afraid to speak out and...
They Fought for Each Other
The Triumph and Tragedy of the Hardest Hit Unit in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Charlie 1-26 confronted one of the worst neighborhoods in Baghdad and lost more men than any battalion since Vietnam
Based on "Blood Brothers", the Michael Kelly Awardnominated series that ran in Army Times, this is the remarkable story of a courageous military unit that sacrificed...
Trigger Men
Shadow Team, Spider-Man, the Magnificent Bastards, and the American Combat Sniper
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Combat veteran and author Hans Halberstadt takes readers deeper inside the elusive world of snipers than ever before, from recruitment and training to the brutality of the killing fields.
Shadow Team is probably the most productive sniper team in American military history, accounting for 276...
The Spy Who Loved
The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
The Untold Story of Britain's First Female Special Agent of World War II
In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessed colleague in a hotel in the South Kensington district of London. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising; that she had survived the...
Blackhorse Riders
A Desperate Last Stand, an Extraordinary Rescue Mission, and the Vietnam Battle America Forgot
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Winner of the 2013 Silver Medal in History from the Military Writer's Society of America
Finalist, 2013 Colby Award
Winner of the 2012 USA Best Book Award for Military History
Philip Keith's Blackhorse Riders is the incredible true story of a brave military unit in Vietnam that...
Admiral "Bull" Halsey
The Life and Wars of the Navy's Most Controversial Commander
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
The definitive biography of America's best-known naval officer, who commanded the legendary fast carrier force during WWII.
From the tragic aftermath of Pearl Harbor, when he fashioned America's first response to the attack, to the war's final day in Tokyo Bay when he witnessed Japan's surrender,...
Sniper Elite
The World of a Top Special Forces Marksman
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
A gritty, no-holds-barred behind-the-scenes memoir of life as one of the world's top snipers
In Sniper Elite, Rob Maylor takes readers inside the closed world of the elite Special Forces sniper, detailing Maylor's dedication to the dark art of sniping and touching on the history of the great...
by Duane Schultz
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Colorful, charismatic, and controversial, George Armstrong Custer became a national hero at the age of twenty-three when he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general—barely two years after graduating at the bottom of his class from West Point. He was idolized both by his men and by the American...
Warrior
The Legend Of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1998
Peter Hathaway Capstick died in 1996. At the time of his death, the world-renowned adventure writer was putting the finishing touches on this, a stirring and vivid biography of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, a man with whom he felt he had much in common. Edited and prepared for publication by his...
by Bob King
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
IN VIETNAM THEY TRAINED HIM TO DO WHAT NO ONE ELSE WOULD.
For seventeen years, Bob King, who began his military career as a member of the Special Forces Unit in Vietnam, led an incredible double life, carrying out the U.S. government's high-risk missions-- without involving its military. Then,...