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Homage to Catalonia
By George Orwell
Spanish Civil War / Memoir
Volunteering for a left-wing militia in Barcelona at the end of 1936, George Orwell fought fascist forces in the trenches of the Aragon front, then watched the Republican side turn on itself until his militia's party was outlawed and he had to flee to France. Expect as much about Republican infighting and Communist propaganda as about combat, since this is where Orwell learned firsthand how totalitarianism works, the groundwork for Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
$0.99
Palace Cobra: A Fighter Pilot in the Vietnam Air War
By Ed Rasimus
Vietnam / Aviation / US Military / Memoir
Back in the Vietnam War in 1972 after a first tour flying F-105s in 1966, Ed Rasimus now flew the F-4 Phantom alongside pilots determined not to be the last to die in a conflict their country had abandoned. The sequel to his memoir, “When Thunder Rolled,” it runs from the bathhouses and barrooms to the prison camps of North Vietnam with the wry cynicism of a combat aviator.
$2.99
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Eager Eagles 1941–Summer 1943: Going Over, Gaining Strength (The US Eighth Air Force in Europe Book 1)
By Martin W. Bowman
WWII / Aviation / US Military / ETO
Arriving in East Anglia in 1942, the bomber crews of the newly created Eighth Air Force had to learn to fly in Britain's and northern Europe's unpredictable weather while settling among villagers who had already endured more than three years of war. Martin Bowman opens his series with the crews' own first-hand accounts, starting from the shock of Pearl Harbor, and covers their lives among the British as well as their operations.
$3.99
The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution
By Alex Storozynski
American Revolution / Poland
Kosciuszko reached America a month after the Declaration of Independence, built the fortifications for Philadelphia, devised battle plans for the victory at Saratoga, and designed the West Point defenses whose plans Benedict Arnold later stole. Alex Storozynski follows him to the Southern Army, where he oversaw a ring of African American spies, and home to Poland, where he led the 1794 uprising that bears his name while corresponding with Thomas Jefferson about the immorality of slaveholding.
$1.99
Escape from the Deep: A True Story of Courage and Survival During World War II
By Alex Kershaw
WWII / Naval / Pacific / US Military
Hit by one of its own faulty torpedoes in October 1944, the submarine USS Tang went down with survivors trapped 180 feet below the surface as Japanese depth charges fell. Only nine of the 80-man crew survived, and Alex Kershaw follows them to a Japanese interrogation camp known as the Torture Farm, where they held out until their liberation in 1945.
$2.99
Forgotten Battles of the Zulu War
By Adrian Greaves
Zulu Wars / Colonial Wars / Africa / British Military
On the same day the Zulus overran the British camp at Isandlwana, the battle of Nyezane was fought, and the disaster has overshadowed it ever since. Adrian Greaves, founder of the Anglo Zulu War Historical Society, covers Nyezane along with Hlobane, Gingindhlovu, the death of the Prince Imperial, and the final Zulu defeat at Ulundi, then follows the Boer attack on a Redcoat column marching to Pretoria that opened the First Boer War.
$1.99
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Letters from the Battle of Waterloo: Unpublished Correspondence by Allied Officers from the Siborne Papers
Edited by Gareth Glover
Napoleonic Wars / British Military
While building his famous scale model of Waterloo, Captain William Siborne wrote to surviving officers asking where they had stood and what they had seen. Only a selection of their replies was published in 1891, and Gareth Glover now presents more than 200 of the unpublished accounts, including letters from Hanoverian and King's German Legion officers, letting the men who fought describe the battle in their own words.
$2.99
The Remains of Company D: A Story of the Great War
By James Carl Nelson
WWI / US Military / France
Company D of the 28th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division, fought at Cantigny, Soissons, and the Meuse-Argonne, and James Carl Nelson follows its men from enlistment through combat to the effort to recover their remains. To tell their story he tracked down the soldiers' descendants and the letters and diaries they had kept.
$2.99
