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Napoleon's Commentaries on the Wars of Julius Caesar: A New English Translation
By Napoleon Bonaparte, translated by R.A. Maguire
Ancient / Roman Military
Exiled on St. Helena, Napoleon dictated a campaign-by-campaign critique of Caesar's wars in Gaul and the Roman civil war, pointing out where Caesar and his enemies blundered and what they should have done instead. R.A. Maguire's version is thought to be the first full English translation.
$3.99
Eastern Inferno: The Journals of a German Panzerjäger on the Eastern Front, 1941–43
By Hans Roth, edited by Christine Alexander and Mason Kunze
WWII / Eastern Front / German Military / Memoir
A soldier in an anti-tank battalion of the German 299th Infantry Division kept private journals from the June 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union through the Kiev encirclement, a brutal winter, and the drive toward Stalingrad, writing honestly because Wehrmacht censors would never have passed it. Hans Roth's journals, edited by Christine Alexander and Mason Kunze, include a massacre of civilians he witnessed and his unit's view of the Italian 8th Army's collapse.
$2.99
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365 Days
By Ronald J. Glasser
Vietnam / US Military / Memoir
Sent in 1968 to the Army hospital at Camp Zama in Japan to treat officers' children, pediatrician Ronald Glasser was soon swamped by the wounded flown in from every front in Vietnam. A National Book Award finalist, his book tells the stories of seventeen of those patients, wounded young men counting down the days until they could go home.
$3.99
The Falklands War: There and Back Again: The Story of Naval Party 8901
By Mike Norman and Michael Jones
Falklands War / British Military / Memoir
Expecting a quiet yearlong tour in the Falkland Islands, Major Mike Norman instead soon found himself in charge of defending the islands against the Argentine invasion. Heavily outnumbered, he and his detachment of 43 Royal Marines from Naval Party 8901 fought in the gardens and inside Government House until the governor ordered them to lay down their arms. Forty-nine days later, Norman and his Royal Marines were back with the Task Force to retake the islands. Written with fellow Falklands veteran and historian Michael Jones, it draws on Norman’s memories, the defense log, his Marines’ testimony, and newly released government files.
$2.99
A Military Life of Constantine the Great
By Ian Hughes
Ancient / Roman Military
Rome's first Christian emperor won sole rule of the empire by beating rival Romans on the battlefield, most famously Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. Ian Hughes narrates every one of Constantine's campaigns and asks whether he would deserve the title "the Great" on his military record alone.
$2.99
Once a Hussar: A Memoir of Battle, Capture and Escape in the Second World War
By Ray Ellis
WWII / North Africa / British Military / Memoir
A gunner with the South Notts Hussars, serving as the 107th Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery, Ray Ellis was the last soldier to fire on advancing German troops at the Battle of Knightsbridge before Italian forces took him prisoner. He had enlisted as a teenager in 1939, and his memoir follows him through an Italian POW camp, his escape, and a year on the run with partisans in the Apennines.
$3.99
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The Rhodesian War: Fifty Years On
By Paul L. Moorcraft and Peter McLaughlin
Rhodesian Bush War / Africa / Guerrilla Warfare
Outnumbered, outgunned, and squeezed by sanctions, Rhodesia's security forces fought Black nationalist guerrillas in a counterinsurgency still studied at Western war schools. Paul Moorcraft and Peter McLaughlin trace the colony's military history from the first resistance to colonial rule through the Lancaster House agreement and argue the Rhodesians were fighting a losing war almost from the start.
$3.99
The 1915 Campaign (British Expeditionary Force)
By Andrew Rawson
WWI / British Military
From the success at Neuve Chapelle in March to the nightmare gas attack at Ypres in April, Andrew Rawson gives a thorough account of the British Expeditionary Force's actions during the battles of 1915 and early 1916.
$2.99
