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Eminent scholar John Prados brings his deep expertise to the subject of the US Special Forces and provides an essential primer on its various components.

New trade paperback - The Ghosts of Langley is the story of spymasters, their minions, and the ways in which the Central Intelligence Agency changed the world we see. This is a story of determined men and women who believed in their mission, followed White House orders, and sometimes made them up.

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A new perspective on the greatest military offensive the world had ever seen, for the 75th anniversary of D-Day and the Normandy campaign.

The Ghosts of Langley offers a detail-rich, often relentless litany of CIA scandals and mini-scandals. . . [and a] prayer that the CIA learn from and publicly admit its mistakes, rather than perpetuate them in an atmosphere of denial and impunity." -The Washington Post From the writer Kai Bird calls a "wonderfully accessible historian, " the first major history of the CIA in a decade, published to tie in with the seventieth anniversary of the...

The Ghosts of Langley will be essential listening for anyone who cares about the next phase of American history-and the CIA's evolution-as its past informs its future and a president of impulsive character prods the agency toward new scandals and failures.

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The press leak in 1971 of a secret government document about the Vietnam War set off a chain of events that culminated in one of the most important First Amendment decisions in American legal history. This book re-examines what happened, why it mattered, and why it still has relevance today.

This careful examination of key strategies, events, and personalities in the conflict sheds fresh light on the high points of the Vietnam experience and punctures the enduring mythologies of the war. A model of lucid writing and fair judgement. Thomas Powers.

In America, the wife of the former ambassador who exposed George Bush's sixteen-word State of the Union fib about uranium from Niger, is now being harassed by allies of the administration. In Britain, the scientist who blew the whistle on Tony Blair has been driven to suicide.For all of us who, thanks to these whistle-blowers, now realize that we have been hoodwinked and want to understand exactly how, national security analyst John Prados has...

Providing for the first time transcripts of previously secret White House telephone tapes, and drawing upon a wealth of oral history and previously classified documents, this book addresses the legal and moral issues that resonate today as debates continue over government secrecy and democracy's requisite demand for truthfully informed citizens.

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The story of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in World War II-the greatest naval battle in history. As Allied ships prepared for the invasion of the Philippine island of Leyte, every available warship, submarine and airplane was placed on alert while Japanese admiral Kurita Takeo stalked Admiral William F. Halsey's unwitting American armada. It was the beginning of the epic Battle of Leyte Gulf-the greatest naval battle in history. In Storm Over Leyte...

Too often the ordeals of participants on both sides of the Vietnam War have been interpreted by others journalists, historians, even generals. In an invaluable corrective, John Prados, one of our leading interpreters of the Vietnam War, opens a window into the visceral first-hand experiences of those on the ground in Vietnam. His carefully chosen and thoughtfully introduced anthology gathers the voices in narrative and poetry of men and women,...

The Battle of Normandy was the greatest offensive campaign the world had ever seen. It was also the crucible of combat tactics and logistic techniques that would decide the outcome of World War II...The Battle of Normandy began on D-Day. June 6, 1944-the day that the Allied forces launched the great crusade to free Europe from the iron grip of Nazi Germany. Tightly constricted hedgerow country and bitter German resistance held the Allied advan...

In December 1974, a front-page story in the New York Times revealed the explosive details of illegal domestic spying by the Central Intelligence Agency. This included political surveillance, eavesdropping, detention, and interrogation. The revelation of illegal activities over many years shocked the American public and led to investigations of the CIA by a presidential commission and committees in both houses of Congress, which found evidence ...