Military history: post WW2 conflicts books

The unforgettable account and courageous actions of the U.S. Army s 240th Assault Helicopter Company and Green Beret...  Read More >>

The Vietnam War is one of the longest and most controversial in US history. This book seeks to explore what lessons...  Read More >>

How did the Vietnam War change the way we think of ourselves as a people and a nation? Christian G. Appy now examines...  Read More >>

President Harry Truman's dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur from Korea In 1951 occurred as a result of bureaucratic...  Read More >>

The Price They Paid is the stunning and dramatic true story of a legendary helicopter commander in Vietnam and the...  Read More >>

The Price They Paid is the stunning and dramatic true story of a legendary helicopter commander in Vietnam and the...  Read More >>

Explores JFK's role in US invasion of Vietnam and a reflects on the political culture that encouraged the Cold War....  Read More >>

On 30 March 1972 the South Vietnamese positions along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separated the North from...  Read More >>

On 30 March 1972, while peace negotiations had been dragging on for four years in Paris, the North Vietnamese launched...  Read More >>

Bruce Lack’s poetry confronts the human cost of sending young men and women to fight a war of questionable justification...  Read More >>

"Volume IX is the last volume in the ""Marine Corps Heroes"" set of award citations to U.S. Marines. This volume...  Read More >>

All hands standby for the story that could not be told...The 50th Anniversary of the first and perhaps the only...  Read More >>

Volume VIII of Marine Corps Heroes includes history of the Silver Star Medal, and citations for awards of the Silver...  Read More >>

"Volume VII of the ""Marine Corps Heroes"" series contains basic history of the Silver Star Medal and citations...  Read More >>

Past history, the story of Korea and the crises which faced our prisoners of war in that conflict from capture through...  Read More >>

"Volume V of ""Marine Corps Heroes"" contains some basic history of the Silver Star Medal, and includes the citations...  Read More >>

"Volume VI of ""Marine Corps Heroes"" contains some basic history of the Silver Star Medal. The book contains the...  Read More >>

A memoir from an Iraqi translator code named Johnny Walker, who, at great danger to himself and his family, worked...  Read More >>

Since the surge in Iraq in 2007, counterinsurgency (COIN) has been at the forefront of military and foreign affairs...  Read More >>

Since the September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the United States has been at war with...  Read More >>

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Marine Corps Heroes Volume III, part of a 9-volume set, contains the citations for all awards of the Navy Cross...  Read More >>

The national debate surrounding America's involvement in Iraq is complex and confusing. While it has been full of...  Read More >>

The Iraq War in Anbar Province, also known as the Al Anbar campaign, consisted of fighting between the United States...  Read More >>

For some, Hill 488 was just another landmark in the jungles of Vietnam. For the eighteen men of Charlie Company,...  Read More >>