Autobiography: Historical, Political & Military

A new collection of Bill Ehrhart's essays--25 of them, written between 2002 and 2012 on subjects ranging from the Vietnam War failures of Americ...

Stanley Aylett's remarkable account of six years' service as a front-line surgeon with the British Army is that rare thing: a complete narrative fr...

In his heyday, Paul Robeson was one of the most famous people in the world; to his enemies he was also one of the most dangerous. From the 1930s ...

Captain James A. Baker, Houston lawyer, banker, and businessman, received an alarming telegram on September 23, 1900: his elderly millionaire clien...

In this classic tale, Richard E. Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupati...

In January 2006, after the Republic of Liberia had been racked by fourteen years of brutal civil conflict, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf-Africa's Iron Lady...

The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the former Soviet Union forced America's armed forces to redefine themselves and codify their role ...

Serving to Lead charts the career of one of the most senior officers in modern British Army history. It is a must-read for anyone interested in gai...

An autobiography that takes an in depth look at how evacuees were treated in WW2. Shows the chaos of the evacuee system at the start of the war. ...

This is a revision and updating of the first edition, published in 2000. Presidents from Washington to Obama are rated in the categories of Foreign...

Examining the life of one of 20th-century New Zealands leading academics, this biography of Ivan Sutherland also casts light on the development of ...

The vast majority of soldiers and sailors fighting in World War II did not engage the enemy directly. Indeed, for every infantryman actually fighti...

Among the finer soldier-diarists of the Civil War, John Edward Dooley first came to the attention of readers when an edition of his wartime journal...

Revealing the mind-set of a soldier seared by the horrors of combat even as he kept faith in his cause, Last to Leave the Field showcases the priv...

This eighth volume of Andrew Jackson's papers presents more than five hundred documents, many appearing here for the first time, from a core year i...

In December 1846, John Jacob Oswandelor Jake as he was often calledenlisted in the Monroe Guards, which later became Company C of the First Pennsyl...

In Fighting Stock, Richard B. McCaslin illuminates numerous facets of Ford''s life typically overshadowed by emphasis on his identity as Ranger and...

How is Barack Obama represented in popular culture? More than the United States' 44th president, he is also a lens through which we can examine ...