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¿ Personal letters detailing a soldier¿s analysis of the war and day-to-day life on the front line¿ Astonishing contemporary photographs bring the many colourful characters vividly to lifeThough the United States was late to enter the Great War, a number of idealistic young Americans wished to take part from the beginning. One of these was Avery Royce Wolfe, a highly educated scion of a family in America¿s burgeoning industrial heartland.Volun...

Gilbert takes readers back to the protracted and bloody struggles the Marine Corps tank division faced in Vietnam. The author illustrates how the Marine tankers routinely demonstrated the versatility, dedication, and matchless courage that Americans have come to expect.

The conflagration that consumed Europe in August 1914 had been a long time in coming¿and yet it need never have happened at all. For though all the European powers were prepared to accept a war as a resolution to the tensions which were brewing across the Continent, only one nation wanted war to come: Imperial Germany. Germany alone possessed the opportunity and the power to determine that a war in eastern Europe would become The Great War, wh...

With his parting words ¿I shall return, ¿ General MacArthur sealed the fate of the last American forces on Bataan. Yet one young Army Captain, Russell Volckmann, refused to surrender. He disappeared into the jungles of north Luzon and raised a Filipino army of over 22, 000 men. For the next three years he led a guerrilla war killing over 50, 000 Japanese enemy soldiers. At the same time he established radio contact with MacArthur¿s HQ in Austr...

Anybody who says that the pen is mightier than the sword hasn't spent time in Somalia, or in Beirut during its bloody heyday. So begins this fascinating memoir of a journalist, filmmaker, and just plain raconteur who has made a career of examining warfare-on the ground as the bullets are flying. While the average citizen is aware of violent conflicts broiling all around the globe, Al J. Venter has felt the need to see them all in person, prefe...

Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, had been massive in scale, arguably the largest military operation of all time. This book not only tells the story of Operation Barbarossa but describes the expertise, skills, and decision-making powers of the men who directed it.

An inside account of the South Vietnamese elites who strove to carry on the war against the Communists during the U.S. Army's withdrawal . . . The book is a personal memoir of the author's service as a US Army advisor during the end-stages of America's involvement in Vietnam.

The story of the fighter pilot the Red Baron himself sought to emulate . . .German air ace Oswald Boelcke was a national hero during World War I, the youngest captain in the German air force, decorated with the Pour Ie Merite order while still only a lieutenant and with 40 aerial victories at the time of his death.He became a pilot shortly before the outbreak of the war, and when he was tragically killed in a flying accident during combat less...

This work brings together experts from around the world to inform gardeners about developments in the new¿irresistible yet long overdue¿trend toward creating environmentally friendly yet enduring rose gardens, with ¿sustainability¿ as the key.Pick up any popular gardening magazine and browse through it. Chances are you will soon encounter one word¿"sustainability."Sustainability has, indeed, become the catchword of 21st century gardening. And ...

This book presents the remarkable personal journals of a German soldier who participated in Operation Barbarossa and subsequent battles on the Eastern Front, revealing the combat experience of the German-Russian War as seldom seen before.

One of the most notorious Americans of the 20th century was a failed Broadway actress turned radio announcer named Mildred Gillars, better known to American GIs as "Axis Sally." Under the tutelage of her married lover, Max Otto Koischwicz, Gillars became the personification of Nazi propaganda to the American GI.

This is the previously untold story of one of the most ferocious and prolonged air/naval battles in history: the battle at the radar picket stations during the American assault on Okinawa in spring 1945.

The images of soldiers and marines coming ashore on hostile beaches are embedded in our collective memory of World War II. But what of the sailors who manned the landing craft, going back and forth under fire with nowhere to take cover?In this book, Ken Wiley, a coast guardsman on an attack-transport ship in the Pacific, relates the extraordinary story of how the United States projected its power across 6, 000 miles of ocean, despite fierce Ja...

Protasio traces the story from the time of the "Lusitania's" construction to her demise, while providing a real-time look at the chaos on board once German torpedoes had shattered the ship. This account deals with the diplomatic repercussions of the sinking while at the same time examines the human side of the story.

O'Keeffe explores in detail what happened in January 1945 in the snow-covered Vosges Mountains, when the Wehrmacht's attempt to destroy the Sixth Army Group failed. As a result of the rapid advance of Seventh Army and the 14th, German POW camps were liberated of more than 100, 000 prisoners.

This book is crafted around soldiers¿ personal descriptions of their war experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq, culminating in life-altering injuries to the brain and psyche, along with the equally dramatic story of their recoveries. An irony of America¿s 21st century wars has been that while our combat medical and medevac capabilities have grown enormously, the nature of many of America¿s soldiers¿ wounds have undergone a subtle change. Men and...

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Unlike previous books on Ploesti, Jay Stout goes well beyond the famous big and bloody raid of August 1943 and depicts the entire 1944 strategic campaign of twenty-plus missions that all but knocked Ploesti out of the war and denied the German war machine the fuel and lubricants it so desperately needed.

Historian Tanner examines the wars of both George Bush, Jr. and Sr., beginning with the precipitous rise of the U.S. military since the 1980s, as well as the tactical, strategic, and political issues surrounding each of the subsequent wars.

Here is an engrossing combat memoir of one man's experiences in Vietnam before the Tet Offensive, through his second tour of duty as a company commander in the Seventh Cavatry.