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Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc
By Patrick K. O'Donnell
WWII / D-Day / U.S. Military
German guns atop Pointe du Hoc could rake the Normandy beaches, so the 68 men of Dog Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion, were sent straight up the sheer cliffs to destroy them. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with the Rangers, Patrick K. O’Donnell follows them from D-Day to a desperate bayonet charge up Hill 400 in the Hurtgen Forest and on through the Battle of the Bulge.
$2.99
Such Men as These: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies over Korea
By David Sears
Korean War / Naval / Aviation / U.S. Military
Flying off icy carrier decks into some of the war's thickest anti-aircraft fire, Navy pilots over Korea struck heavily defended dams, bridges, and tunnels in the mountains of the North, and some never came back. David Sears, a Navy veteran, used the research notes James Michener gathered for The Bridges at Toko-Ri to track down the real aviators, including a young Neil Armstrong, and tell their stories of survival, loss, and loyalty to downed comrades..
$2.99
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The Charge of the Heavy Brigade: Scarlett's 300 in the Crimea
By M.J. Trow
Crimean War / British Military
On the same morning at Balaclava that made the Light Brigade famous, General James Scarlett led roughly 300 heavy cavalrymen uphill into a far larger mass of Russian horsemen and drove them back, helping keep the vital port of Balaclava in British hands. M.J. Trow tells the story of the charge history forgot, overshadowed within hours by the disaster that followed it.
$0.99
The Charge of the Light Brigade: History's Most Famous Cavalry Charge Told Through Eye Witness Accounts, Newspaper Reports, Memoirs and Diaries
By John Grehan
Crimean War / British Military
Hours after the Heavy Brigade’s triumph, a garbled order sent some 600 British light cavalrymen down a valley ringed by Russian guns, and the blunder became the most famous cavalry charge in history. John Grehan lets the men who rode it tell the story, stitching together eyewitness accounts, newspaper reports, memoirs, and diaries, so expect a collection of firsthand voices rather than a single narrative.
$3.99
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
By Max Hastings
WWII
Generals and campaigns get their due, but Max Hastings tells the story of World War II largely through the soldiers, sailors, and civilians who lived and died in it, on every front from Poland to the Pacific. The Washington Post called it the best one-volume history of the war yet written.
$4.99
The Blackhorse in Vietnam: The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam and Cambodia, 1966-1972
By Donald Snedeker
Vietnam / U.S. Military
When the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment landed in Vietnam, conventional wisdom said tanks and armored vehicles couldn't operate off the roads in a jungle war, and the Blackhorse spent the next six years proving otherwise across Vietnam and into Cambodia. Don Snedeker, a Vietnam-era armor officer and longtime historian of the regiment's veterans, spent 25 years assembling this first comprehensive history of the unit and the troopers who served in it.
$2.99
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The Rorke's Drift Commanders: Gonville Bromhead and John Chard
By James W. Bancroft
Colonial Wars / Zulu War / British Military
Hours after the British disaster at Isandlwana, two junior lieutenants found themselves in charge of roughly 150 men at a small mission station as thousands of Zulu warriors bore down on them. James W. Bancroft follows Gonville Bromhead and John Chard, who both won the Victoria Cross for the defense of Rorke's Drift, before and after the battle that thrust fame upon them.
$0.99
Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway
By N. Jack “Dusty” Kleiss
WWII / Pacific / U.S. Military / Memoir
From 20,000 feet over Midway, young Navy pilot Jack "Dusty" Kleiss pushed his Dauntless dive bomber into a near-vertical plunge toward the Japanese fleet on the morning that turned the Pacific war. Written with historians Timothy and Laura Orr and published after his death, his memoir gives a vivid cockpit-level account of the battle, sharp criticism of the Navy's attack plan, and an honest look at the friends he lost.
$1.99
