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Gettysburg: The Definitive Account of the Civil War's Turning Point—A Comprehensive Narrative History
By Stephen W. Sears
American Civil War / Union Military / Confederate Military
George Meade, handed command of the Army of the Potomac just days before the battle of Gettysburg, has long stood in Lee's shadow. But Stephen Sears argues that Meade thoroughly outgeneraled him across three days in July 1863, while Lee gave vague orders, trusted faulty intelligence, and lost control of his generals. Blending close-up accounts of the fighting with the larger strategic picture, Sears follows the campaign from Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania through the costliest battle of the war and defends Meade's much-criticized decision not to strike Lee's retreating army.
$2.99
Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War II
By James Holland
WWII / ETO / Aviation / US Military
In the third week of February 1944, with both sides' air forces in crisis, Allied bombers from Britain and Italy launched their first round-the-clock offensive against Germany, and new aircraft like the long-range P-51 Mustang plus better tactics won out in six days of intense air battles that largely cleared the skies of German aircraft by D-Day. James Holland tells the story of Operation Argument through interviews, oral histories, diaries, and official records, following pilots, aircrew, and civilians on both sides from command headquarters to fighter cockpits and the chaos on the ground.
$2.99
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Apache: Inside the Cockpit of the World's Most Deadly Fighting Machine
By Ed Macy
Afghanistan / British Military / Aviation / Memoir
Forced out of the Paras by a brutal accident, Ed Macy bent the rules to get into the British Army's Apache program, and in Helmand his squadron faced a mission many said could not be done, flying into the Taliban-held Jugroom Fort to recover a missing Royal Marine. Macy won the Military Cross for that rescue, and his first book follows him from training to the cockpit and that day at the fort.
$2.99
Washington's Marines: The Origins of the Corps and the American Revolution, 1775-1777
By Jason Bohm
American Revolution / USMC
After Washington's defeats in New York and New Jersey in 1776, Congress detached the young Continental Marines from the Navy to fight on land, where they joined the turning-point victories at Trenton, Assunpink Creek, and Princeton before Washington let Henry Knox use them to fill the army's depleted artillery at Morristown. Retired Marine Major General Jason Bohm tells the story of the Corps' first two years, from its founding on November 10, 1775, through that winter campaign.
$3.99
Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II
By Adam Makos
WWII / ETO / Armor / US Military
Clarence Smoyer was a natural-born tank gunner in the 3rd Armored Division, nicknamed Spearhead. After watching friends die at the West Wall and in the Battle of the Bulge, he got a Pershing super tank and the job of leading every attack, including the fight for Cologne. There he fought an iconic duel with a German Panther, and faced a teenage Panzer IV gunner named Gustav Schaefer whose crew had been sent on a suicide mission. Decades later, the two men met again.
$4.99
Gladius: The World of the Roman Soldier
By Guy de la Bédoyère
Ancient / Roman Military
From recruitment to combat to retirement, Guy de la Bedoyere reconstructs daily life in the Roman army between 264 BC and AD 337, drawing on ancient historians as well as the soldiers' own words on tombstones, religious dedications, private letters, and graffiti. It is organized by theme rather than as a narrative of campaigns, so it reads more like a rich reference on what serving Rome was actually like.
$2.99
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The Knights Hospitaller: A Military History of the Knights of St John
By John Carr
Medieval / Middle East / Naval
What began as a monastic order running hostels for pilgrims in the Holy Land became an elite fighting force at Hattin, Acre, and Arsuf, then carried on from Rhodes and Malta as a Mediterranean naval power that battled Barbary pirates, withstood the great Ottoman siege of Malta in 1565, and lasted until its defeat by Napoleon in 1798. Journalist and historian John Carr draws on recent scholarship to trace the order's wars and politics from the Crusades to the age of revolution.
$3.99
Barbarossa Unleashed: The German Blitzkrieg through Central Russia to the Gates of Moscow, June-December 1941
By Craig W.H. Luther
WWII / Eastern Front / German Military
Germany's Army Group Center drove along the Minsk-Smolensk-Moscow axis in the summer of 1941. Craig Luther follows that advance in close detail from the perspective of the soldiers at the front, drawing on hundreds of veterans' accounts, letters, diaries, and archival records gathered over twelve years. A massive book of more than 700 pages in hardcover, it places their experiences within the wider campaign and examines the German army's role in war crimes.
$2.99
