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Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
By Fredrik Logevall
French Indochina / Vietnam War / Cold War / U.S. Military
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, Embers of War traces the origins of America's involvement in Vietnam from the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference through the final years of France's doomed war in Indochina, ending with the first American combat deaths in 1959. Drawing on newly declassified archives from multiple nations, Logevall reconstructs the decisions made in Washington, Paris, and Hanoi that made the American war in Vietnam all but inevitable.
$1.99
Chickenhawk
By Robert Mason
Vietnam War / Aviation / Memoir
One of the most celebrated Vietnam memoirs ever written, and a good companion read with Embers of War. Mason flew more than 1,000 helicopter combat missions during his 1965-66 tour with the 1st Cav in Vietnam, piloting a Huey “slick” carrying troops into landing zones under fire. He renders the full emotional range of that experience with an honesty that prompted one reviewer for Time to claim the book’s “vertical plunge into the thickets of madness will stun readers.”
$1.99
The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad
By Harrison Salisbury
WWII / Eastern Front
The siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944 was one of the deadliest sieges in history, with death toll estimates ranging as high as 1.5 million, most starving or freezing to death in the winter of 1941-42 when temperatures reached thirty below zero. Salisbury spent 25 years interviewing survivors and sifting through Russian archives to produce this account, which carries an additional thread most histories of the siege omit: the city had as much to fear from Stalin as from Hitler, a point driven home by the postwar Leningrad Affair in which Stalin purged the city's wartime heroes.
$1.99
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The Recollections of Rifleman Harris
By Benjamin Harris
Napoleonic Wars / Memoir
Harris served as an enlisted rifleman in the 95th Rifles during the Peninsular War and the retreat to Corunna, one of the most grueling episodes in British military history. Dictated decades later to a friend who wrote it down, this is a ground-level account of Napoleonic warfare from the ranks: the mud, the marching, the skirmishing, and the men who survived it.
$0.99
Three Days In June: The Incredible Minute-by-Minute Oral History of 3 Para's Deadly Falklands War Battle
By James O'Connell
Falklands War / British Military
The Battle of Mount Longdon (June 11-12, 1982) was the costliest battle of the Falklands War, and the bloodiest close-quarters fighting British troops had experienced since the Korean War. O'Connell was there as a 22-year-old private with 3 Para and was seriously wounded. Frustrated by inaccurate accounts of the battle, he spent years interviewing veterans on both sides of the wire, including Argentine officers and NCOs who commanded the defending positions, and gained rare access to 3 Para's battalion records and radio logs to reconstruct the fight minute by minute.
$4.99
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The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848
By Martin Dugard
Mexican-American War / American Civil War / U.S. Military
The Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 was a training ground for nearly every significant commander on both sides of the American Civil War. Dugard follows Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis through their Mexican campaigns, showing how the war shaped their tactics, their characters, and their understanding of each other, making the argument that Appomattox was in some sense decided on the plains of Mexico fifteen years earlier.
$2.99
When the Tempest Gathers: From Mogadishu to the Fight Against ISIS, a Marine Special Operations Commander at War
By Andrew Milburn
Modern Warfare / USMC / Memoir
Milburn grew up in Britain, trained as a lawyer, then walked into a Marine Corps recruiting office and spent the next 32 years commanding at every level from rifle platoon to special operations task force. This memoir traces that journey from the streets of Mogadishu in 1993 through Baghdad, Fallujah, Mosul, and the fight against ISIS. Winner of the Eugene Sledge Award for Best Memoir at the 2024 Marine Corps Heritage Awards.
$2.99
