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SAS Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed as Nazi Stormtroopers
By Damien Lewis
WWII / North Africa / British Military
Posing as Afrika Korps soldiers in German uniforms and weapons, a British SAS force under Capt. Herbert Buck crossed some 2,000 miles of Sahara in September 1942 to hit Rommel's port fortress of Tobruk from the rear and free and arm Allied POWs. Damien Lewis tells the story using the raiders' private diaries.
$3.99
U.S.S. Seawolf: Submarine Raider of the Pacific
By Gerold Frank, James D. Horan, and J. M. Eckberg
WWII / Pacific / Naval / US Military
Told from the viewpoint of Chief Radioman Joseph Eckberg, this is the story of the U.S. Navy submarine Seawolf and its war in the Pacific during World War II, with the heat, sweat, and depth-charge attacks of submarine life described in vivid detail.
$0.99
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The Winter that Won the War: The Winter Encampment at Valley Forge, 1777–1778
By Phillip S. Greenwalt
American Revolution
“An Army of skeletons…” is how Gouverneur Morris described the Continental Army when he visited Valley Forge in early 1778. After defeats at Brandywine and Germantown, and the loss of Philadelphia, George Washington had marched the army into its winter encampment on December 19, 1777. Despite the paucity of hope with which the winter had begun, the army emerged six months later a changed force. Phillip Greenwalt follows the campaign of 1777 and then the encampment itself, exploring Washington's handling of political intrigue, the revival of the quartermaster department, and the training a German baron gave to the army.
$2.99
The Germans and the Dieppe Raid: How Hitler's Wehrmacht Crushed Operation Jubilee
By James Shelley
WWII / ETO / German Military
Relying mostly on a second-rate static infantry division, the German defenders of Dieppe shattered a far better equipped Allied raiding force in a single day, with fewer than half of the nearly 5,000 Canadians in the raid making it back to England. Drawing on German sources, James Shelley tells the story from the defenders' side, including how ready they were, the lessons the Wehrmacht later applied to its plans for meeting the invasion of France, and the way Goebbels spun the victory for propaganda.
$2.99
Black Redcoats: The Corps of Colonial Marines, 1814–1816
By Matthew Taylor
War of 1812 / British Military
During the War of 1812, thousands of enslaved African Americans fled to join the British, who built them into the Corps of Colonial Marines. Matthew Taylor tells their story as both military history and African American history, arguing that the fear they inspired helped British forces burn Washington, D.C., and following the corps to the 1816 Battle of Negro Fort in what was then Spanish Florida.
$2.99
A Drop Too Many
By John Frost
WWII / ETO / British Military / Memoir
Equipped with supplies for about a day, John Frost's 2nd Parachute Battalion held the north end of the Arnhem road bridge for three days and four nights against German armor and infantry before casualties and empty ammunition pouches finally forced them out. One of Britain's first paratroopers, Frost also tells of the daring Bruneval raid to snatch German radar secrets, the fighting in Tunisia, Sicily, and Italy, and his time as a prisoner of war.
$2.99
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First In, Last Out: An American Paratrooper in Vietnam with the 101st and Vietnamese Airborne
By John D. Howard
Vietnam / US Military / Memoir
Fresh out of West Point, John Howard arrived in Vietnam in 1965, the year U.S. troop levels began to dramatically increase, serving as a platoon commander in an elite counterguerrilla force. He returned for a second tour in 1972 as a senior advisor to the South Vietnamese when U.S. troop strength had dwindled to 24,000. His memoir covers both the early escalation and the final years of American involvement in Vietnam.
$2.99
Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
By Stephen E. Ambrose
Indian Wars / US Military / Cavalry
A dual biography of Oglala Sioux leader Crazy Horse and Gen. George Armstrong Custer, two men who rose to leadership young, fell from power, and worked to win back their people's respect. Their paths met at the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876, where 611 men of the 7th Cavalry rode toward about 3,000 Indians waiting for battle.
$1.99
