Category: General

The bombing campaign that was meant to keep South Vietnam secure, Rolling Thunder became a byword for pointless, ineffective brutality, and was a key factor in America's Vietnam defeat. But in its failures, Rolling Thunder was one of the most influential air campaigns of the Cold War. It spurred a renaissance in US air power and the development of an excellent new generation of US combat aircraft, and it was still closely studied by the planners of the devastatingly successful Gulf War air campaign. Dr Richard P. Hallion, a vastly knowledgeable air power expert at the Pentagon, explains in t...
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USAAF Fighter Units: MTO 1942-1945 (Osprey Airwar 12)

By: Airwar Series

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Osprey Publishing : July 1978

Seller ID: 438439

ISBN-13: 9780850452440

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Sacred Ground: Leadership Lessons From Gettysburg & The Little Bighorn

By: Appelquist, Jeff

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Beaver's Pond Press : February 2010

Seller ID: 483834

ISBN-13: 9781592983230

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In Sacred Ground, Jeff Appelquist takes us on an amazing journey of exploration and discovery to the Gettysburg and Little Bighorn battlefields. By studying these momentous events through the lens of individual leadership and team dynamics, we see that the stories from history are fascinating, the parallels to today are memorable, and the principles of leadership enduring. History at its best is one unending, frequently unforgettable story about people who lived and breathed, and sometimes accomplished extraordinary things under great duress. While not everyone loves history, everyone loves a...
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In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat

By: Atkinson, Rick

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. : March 2004

Seller ID: 445503

ISBN-13: 9780805075618

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

From Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Rick Atkinson comes an eyewitness account of the war against Iraq and a vivid portrait of a remarkable group of soldiers For soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division, the road to Baghdad began with a midnight flight out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in late February 2003. For Rick Atkinson, who would spend nearly two months covering the division for The Washington Post, the war in Iraq provided a unique opportunity to observe today's U.S. Army in combat. Now, in this extraordinary account of his odyssey with the 101st, Atkinson presents an intimat...
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In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat

By: Atkinson, Rick

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. : March 2004

Seller ID: 562231

ISBN-13: 9780805075618

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Rick Atkinson comes an eyewitness account of the war against Iraq and a vivid portrait of a remarkable group of soldiers For soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division, the road to Baghdad began with a midnight flight out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in late February 2003. For Rick Atkinson, who would spend nearly two months covering the division for The Washington Post, the war in Iraq provided a unique opportunity to observe today's U.S. Army in combat. Now, in this extraordinary account of his odyssey with the 101st, Atkinson presents an intimat...
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A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies

By: Bamford, James

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Doubleday : June 2004

Seller ID: 461397

ISBN-13: 9780385506724

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The bestselling author of "Body of Secrets" and "The Puzzle Palace "presents his most hard-hitting book to date--a sweeping, authoritative, and fearless account of the failures of America's intelligence agencies and the Bush administration's calculated efforts to sell a war to the American people. In "The Puzzle Palace," James Bamford revealed the existence of the NSA, the largest, most secretive, and best-financed intelligence organization in the world. In "Body of Secrets," he took readers inside the ultrasecret agency, charting its deeds and misdeeds from its founding in 1952 to the end of ...
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The Rights of Man, the Reign of Terror: The Story of the French Revolution

By: Banfield, Susan

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins : January 1989

Seller ID: 542527

ISBN-13: 9780397323531

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In Honored Glory: Arlington National Cemetery: The Final Post

By: Bigler, Philip

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Vandamere Pr : October 2005

Seller ID: 475459

ISBN-13: 9780918339683

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

By: Boot, Max

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Basic Books : May 2003

Seller ID: 558180

ISBN-13: 9780465007219

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

America's "small wars," "imperial wars," or, as the Pentagon now terms them, "low-intensity conflicts," have played an essential but little-appreciated role in its growth as a world power. Beginning with Jefferson's expedition against the Barbary Pirates, Max Boot tells the exciting stories of our sometimes minor but often bloody landings in Samoa, the Philippines, China, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Mexico, Russia, and elsewhere. Along the way he sketches colorful portraits of little-known military heroes such as Stephen Decatur, "Fighting Fred" Funston, and Smedley Butler. From ...
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

By: Bowden, Mark

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Signet : August 2001

Seller ID: 548323

ISBN-13: 9780451203939

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

On October 3, 1993, a band of U.S. soldiers embarked on a mission in Somalia to capture two warlords. It was a simple plan. What erupted instead was a night of bloodshed and death. It became the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. This is the extraordinary minute-by-minute account of that courageous, historic, and brutal night.
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My War: Killing Time in Iraq

By: Buzzell, Colby

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Dutton Caliber : September 2006

Seller ID: 509572

ISBN-13: 9780425211366

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An underemployed, skateboarding party animal, Colby Buzzell traded a dead-end future for the army--and ended up as a machine gunner in Iraq. To make sense of the absurd and frightening events surrounding him, he started writing a blog about the war--and how it differed from the government's official version. But as his blog's popularity grew, Buzzell became the embedded reporter the Army couldn't control--despite its often hilarious efforts to do so. The result is an extraordinary narrative, rich with unforgettable scenes: the Iraqi woman crying uncontrollably during a raid on her home; the so...
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Gothic Serpent: Black Hawk Down Mogadishu 1993 (Raid)

By: Chun, Clayton K. S.

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Osprey Publishing : May 2012

Seller ID: 446069

ISBN-13: 9781849085847

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The United States had demonstrated its military superiority worldwide with its lightning victory over Iraq in 1991. As the only superpower in the world, few would argue that Washington could not prevail in a conventional conflict. Humanitarian missions, however, were another story. Although the United States had experience in a few humanitarian missions, it had just concluded operations in northern Iraq, and was soon to support the United Nations program to help the people in a failed state - Somalia. Somalia was falling apart; it had ceased to exist as a country. Warring tribes had reduced it...
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Battle Ready (Study in Command)

By: Clancy, Tom

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Putnam Adult : May 2004

Seller ID: 475484

ISBN-13: 9780399151767

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In his first three Commanders books, Tom Clancy teamed with Generals Fred Franks, Jr., Chuck Horner, and Carl Stiner to provide masterful blends of history, biography, you-are-there narrative, insight into the practice of leadership, and plain, old-fashioned storytelling. Battle Ready is all of that-and it is also something more. Marine General Tony Zinni was known as the "Warrior Diplomat" during his nearly forty years of service. As a soldier, his credentials were impeccable, whether leading troops in Vietnam, commanding hair-raising rescue operations in Somalia, or-as Commander in Chief of...
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Every Man a Tiger

By: Clancy, Tom

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Putnam Adult : May 1999

Seller ID: 514620

ISBN-13: 9780399144936

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Combining military history and biography, a profile of General Chuck Horner, commander of the allied air forces during the Persian Gulf War, discusses the tactics involved, as well as the changing nature of our Air Force.
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Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship (Tom Clancy's Military Reference)

By: Clancy, Tom, Gresham, John

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Berkley : January 2002

Seller ID: 528298

ISBN-13: 9780425183007

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Only the author of The Hunt for Red October could capture the reality of life aboard a nuclear submarine. Only a writer of Clancy's magnitude could obtain security clearance for information, diagrams, and photographs never before available to the public. Now, every civilian can enter this top secret world and experience the drama and excitement of this stunning technological achievement...the weapons, the procedures, the people themselves...the startling facts behind the fiction that made Tom Clancy a #1 bestseller.Submarine includes: Exclusive photographs, illustrations, and diagramsMock war ...
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AD Skyraider Units of the Korean War (Combat Aircraft, 114)

By: Combat Aircraft

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Osprey Publishing : February 2016

Seller ID: 438354

ISBN-13: 9781472812643

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Douglas AD Skyraider is considered the most effective naval aircraft of the Korean War, overshadowed in fame by the new jet fighters that captured the public imagination. Too late for combat in World War II, the AD had replaced Dauntless, Helldiver, and Avenger dive- and torpedo-bombers from that conflict on carrier decks during the late 1940s and was on hand to react to the surprise North Korean invasion of South Korea in June 1950. This book tells the story of the carrier-based U.S. Navy squadrons and the three land-based U.S. Marine Corps AD units that flew combat missions against the ...
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Air War in the Gulf 1991(Osprey Combat Aircraft 27)

By: Combat Aircraft

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Osprey Publishing : September 2001

Seller ID: 438342

ISBN-13: 9781841762951

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In August 1990 Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces invaded and occupied the small Arab state of Kuwait. This book analyses the ensuing Gulf War (16 January - 28 February 1991) - a war fought to expel Iraq and restore Kuwaiti independence if not, as one British MP tartly observed, to defend democracy. The allies under General Schwarzkopf launched five weeks of air attacks, deploying 1,800 technologically highly advanced aircraft from the US, British, French and Saudi air forces. Many of these machines, including the British Tornadoes and US F-117A Stealth fighters, had never before engaged in combat,...
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B-29 Superfortress Units of the Korean War (Combat Aircraft)

By: Combat Aircraft

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Osprey Publishing : December 2003

Seller ID: 438343

ISBN-13: 9781841766546

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This book is the story of a majestic bomber of the propeller era flying perilous combat missions against a sleek, nimble warplane of the jet age, the Soviet MiG-15. A very heavy bomber and a sky giant during World War II, at that time the B-29 was the most advanced combat aircraft in the world. By the time North Korea attacked its southern neighbour in 1950, thus starting the Korean War (1950-1953) the B-29 had been reclassified a medium bomber. Many of its crew members had fought their war and settled down to raise families and begin careers only to be recalled to fight another war on a dista...
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B-52 Stratofortress Units In Operation Desert Storm (Combat Aircraft 50)

By: Combat Aircraft

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Osprey Publishing : November 2004

Seller ID: 438344

ISBN-13: 9781841767512

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

With the ending of the Cold War (1946-1991), the B-52's traditional combat role became redundant, and the USAF looked for new ways to use the machine. The invasion of Kuwait by Iraq in August 1990 gave the B-52 the chance to prove its worth in the new world order, and Stratofortress crews flying the B-52G seized the opportunity with both hands. This book explains how, flying from bases in the Indian Ocean, Britain, Spain and Saudi Arabia, the B-52G was at the forefront of the campaign to free Kuwait of Saddam's forces and dropped the first bombs of Operation Desert Storm (1990-1991).
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Category: General