Military & War

"These guys are intense. And they bring that same fire to their narration in the audiobook. Listen to these insanely competent SEAL officers tell you exactly how to make a team successful through their firsthand experiences in business and combat." - The Hustle An updated edition of the...

America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a...

This gut-wrenching firsthand account of the war is a classic in the annals of Vietnam literature. "Guns up!" was the battle cry that sent machine gunners racing forward with their M60s to mow down the enemy, hoping that this wasn't the day they would meet their deaths. Marine Johnnie Clark heard...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Discover the moving, entertaining, never-before-told story of how one man found his calling: to see that those who defend this country and its freedoms are never forgotten. As a kid in suburban Chicago, Gary Sinise was more interested in sports and rock 'n' roll than...

“One of the 12 best business books of all time…. Timeless principles of empowering leadership.” – USA Today "The best how-to manual anywhere for managers on delegating, training, and driving flawless execution.” —FORTUNE Marquet was a Naval Academy graduate and an experienced officer...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the celebrated author of Operation Mincement and The Siege comes the thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. “The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉ Named a...

The time is 1943, the place is Sicily, and the event is the start of the most remarkable career of any American infantryman in the war....

The #1 New York Times bestselling first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy SEAL who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from...

The celebrated 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific, winner of eight Emmy Awards, was based on two classic books about the War in the Pacific, Helmet for My Pillow and With The Old Breed....

The #1 New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017 “Eminently readable but thick with import . . . Grant hits like a Mack truck of knowledge.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait...

The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. Like George...

Read by the author and Jesse Vilinsky. The best book by a sniper since American Sniper. “Darkhorse isn’t just about combat. It’s about leading from the front, learning from failure, and showing up every day to be useful. If you want an example of true strength, read this.” —Arnold...

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Make Your Bed—a short, inspirational book of advice and leadership lessons that Admiral McRaven collected over his four decades as a Navy SEAL. The title “Bullfrog” is given to the Navy SEAL who has served...

Stirringly evocative, thought provoking, and often jaw dropping, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's awe-inspiring 400-mission career that included his involvement in attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard...

LT Dick Thompson, codename Dynamite, describes in detail that takes your breath away, brutal firefights and hand-to-hand combat against overwhelming odds. Follow Dynamite as he transitions from a Airborne Ranger Special Forces warrior into one of the most elite, tier-one special operators.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West—"a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Review). In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route...

“This beautifully braided story...reveals the best and worst of humanity. A magnificent work of narrative nonfiction, true to the past and essential for the present.”—Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Shangri-La and 13 Hours An epic true story of the triumph of...

NOW A BLOCKBUSTER MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY CLINT EASTWOOD—NOMINATED FOR SIX ACADEMY AWARDS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. His fellow American warriors, whom he protected with deadly...

As a commander of Delta Force - the most elite counter terrorist organization in the world - Pete Blaber took part in some of the most dangerous, controversial, and significant military and political events of our time....

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling Civil War biography of Confederate general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, who became a great and tragic national hero. Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person...

The only comprehensive, firsthand account of the thirteen hour firefight at the Battle of Keating by Medal of Honor recipient Clinton Romesha, for readers of Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden and Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell "'It doesn't get better.' To us, that phrase nailed one of the...

The Instant New York Times Bestseller by Co-Star of Fox's American Grit and Legendary Ranger Nicholas Irving. Groundbreaking, thrilling and revealing, The Reaper is the astonishing memoir of Special Operations Direct Action Sniper Nicholas Irving, the 3rd Ranger Battalion's deadliest sniper with...

The companion volume to the multimillion-copy bestseller No Easy Day by former Navy SEAL Mark Owen reveals the evolution of a SEAL Team Six operator. Mark Owen’s instant #1 New York Times bestseller, No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden, focused on the...

The celebrated 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific, winner of eight Emmy Awards, was based on two classic books about the War in the Pacific, Helmet for My Pillow and With The Old Breed....

Read by author Luis Elizondo. Featuring a forward written and read by Christopher Mellon. The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs—now known as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)—reveals long-hidden truths with profound implications for not only...

In early June 1967, Marine Corps recruits from Minneapolis-St. Paul and outlying Minnesota received a letter stating all those scheduled for active duty in June would go as one platoon on June 28, 1967. One hundred fifty Marine applicants would be shipped to San Diego, California, to the recruit training depot. The Minnesota Twins baseball team was sponsoring the unit. They were sworn in on television at a pregame ceremony and were guests of the Twins at the game.

Learn from losing three wars—or lose the next one in 2033. Bing West is the only historian to serve on the front lines in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan—and at the highest levels of government. He fought in the battles he writes about, and he explains with firsthand insight why our grunts...

The hardest conflict to face is the one within. MyLinh Shattan is no stranger to conflict, from evacuating during the fall of Saigon to reporting to West Point shortly after it accepts women. But when her daughter, Cara, becomes a West Point cadet, she confronts memories she would rather leave...

From Brandywine to Yorktown, follow the astonishing real-life journey of the Revolutionary War’s most mythic warrior. “One-Man Army” was George Washington’s nom de guerre for Peter Francisco. Abducted from the Azores and deposited in the colony of Virginia at the age of four, little...

Award-winning author, Thomas J. Cutler offers an in-depth and inspiring look at the truly heroic story of Ernest Evans and the crew of USS Johnston during the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944. The term “hero” is overused today, but the story of Ernest Evans and the crew of USS Johnston...

Charles Carroll of Carrollton signed the Declaration of Independence with more to lose than almost any man in the room. He was one of the wealthiest men in British America, heir to vast Maryland estates, Catholic family ambition and a fortune built across generations. Yet his wealth did not bring full belonging. As a Catholic in a Protestant political world, Carroll inherited suspicion as well as privilege. He knew what it meant to be powerful and excluded at the same time. When the American Revolution forced a choice, Carroll chose danger. By signing the Declaration, he placed his fortune,...

The greatest adventure in human history has already begun. From the Cold War battle that launched Sputnik and sent astronauts to the Moon to today’s race toward Mars, From Sputnik to Mars: Humanity’s New Space Race tells the thrilling story of humanity’s quest to conquer space — and what comes next. This sweeping and accessible book takes readers inside the dramatic rise of the Space Age: the rocket scientists who changed history, the political rivalries that fueled the Moon race, the triumph of Apollo 11, and the technological revolutions that transformed science fiction into ...

Major Peter Weaver's military career is remarkable for its breadth, from the Royal Tank Corps, to the infantry, but also as an engineer and on colonial and special operations. Hearing accounts of the rise of Hitler, he joined the Territorials. The outbreak of war saw him rapidly promoted...

Twelve years. That’s all it took — for a Macedonian king in his twenties to destroy the largest empire the world had ever seen, march an army from the Adriatic to the Punjab, and die in Babylon at thirty-two, having never lost a battle. Then the mythmaking started. And it has never stopped. Here is the problem with Alexander the Great: every account written by someone who actually knew him is lost. What survives was written four centuries later, assembled from vanished books — and layered over, ever since, with hero-worship, legend, and pop psychoanalysis. This book tells the story ...

Berlin, 1943. The stage is set. The lie must hold until dawn. Ernst Wahl is the most celebrated illusionist in the Reich: a master of vanishing cabinets, signed cards, and the careful management of a crowd's attention. The Ministry believes his talents belong to them. They are wrong. Under cover of a lavish propaganda gala, Wahl and a costume department seamstress with a secret of her own are moving forty people through a corridor no one is supposed to notice, using the oldest trick in his repertoire: showing the audience exactly what they expect to see. But Wahl is carrying a debt of his ...

Thomas Jefferson believed in liberty as a mathematical certainty — a truth as clean and provable as a proof in Euclid. He built a house to prove it: a mountaintop mansion of perfect Palladian proportion, engineered down to the inch, a monument to the idea that reason could construct a more just world. He built it with the labor of people he owned. The Architecture of Freedom follows Jefferson across four decades — from a failed manumission petition in a Williamsburg tavern to the drafting of the Declaration, from the wreckage of his wife's death to the drawing rooms of revolutionary ...

Ten months in the general's shadow taught Emil Bauer everything about silence, and nothing about forgiveness. When the U.S. Third Army sweeps through his occupied Alsace in 1944, geography teacher Emil Bauer is conscripted as a driver and translator for a general who turns roads into weapons and men into instruments. From the passenger seat of a Jeep, Emil becomes invisible in the way only the useful are — present for the war's private moments, trusted with words that never make it into the official record. But invisibility has a price. When a captured German officer hands him information...

The Alamo. February, 1836. Ana María Veramendi sets type in her father's print shop while two armies converge on Béxar, and no one asks what a young Tejana notices, remembers, or writes down. San Antonio, 1908. Adina de Zavala breaks into a condemned building at four in the morning, a skeleton key in one hand and a lantern in the other, to save the last stone walls of the Alamo's Long Barracks from a hotelier's wrecking crew — and finds a sealed tin box hidden behind a wall that has kept its secret for seventy-two years. Inside is a record no textbook contains: testimony from witnesses ...

Poland, 1942. When the transport halts at a mill on the frozen San River, twelve-year-old Eli Brandauer does the one thing no one expects: he gets out. Alone. Into a Carpathian winter that kills grown men, with nothing but the lessons his grandfather left him and an address hidden inside his boot. Eli is a watchmaker's son. He knows the name of every part of a movement, the patience of small ordered things. None of it prepares him for the morning the yellow papers slide under the door and his family is marched to the rail yard. By the time the columns form, his mother is gone. By the next ...

The United States was creeping ever closer to independence. The shot heard round the world still echoed in the ears of Parliament as impassioned revolutionaries took up arms for and against King and country. In this captivating blend of careful research and rich narrative, Derek W. Beck...

He was the most feared fighter pilot of the First World War. He became a legend in a red aircraft. He died chasing one last victim too low over enemy lines. Manfred von Richthofen — the Red Baron — remains the most famous airman in history. To his enemies he was the red machine in the sky. To Germany he became proof that victory could still be counted, named, and celebrated. To the men who flew with him, he was not simply a symbol, but a disciplined hunter who turned air combat into method. RED BARON tells the story behind the legend: the aristocratic cavalry officer whose first arm was...

George Mason helped shape American liberty, then refused to sign the Constitution because he believed it did not protect liberty enough. In 1776, Mason drafted the Virginia Declaration of Rights, one of the most influential rights documents of the revolutionary era. Its language of inherent rights, popular sovereignty and restrained government helped shape the American rights tradition and later echoed in the federal Bill of Rights. Yet Mason was also one of the founding generation’s most difficult figures. He was a private Virginia planter drawn reluctantly into public life, a critic of ...

Benjamin Rush signed the Declaration of Independence, but his life cannot be reduced to one famous act of patriotism. He was a physician, teacher, reformer, antislavery advocate, prison reformer, public health voice and one of the earliest major American medical writers on mental illness. He stood close to the centre of the American Revolution, but his real burden came afterward: trying to decide what liberty should mean in hospitals, prisons, schools, sickrooms, households and the conscience of the new republic. Rush believed America had to become more than independent. It had to become ...

A historical biography book set in Maryland and Massachusetts during the early 19th century. Imagine being born into bondage, separated from your mother at a young age, and subjected to cruelty at the hands of those who claim ownership over you. This was the harsh reality for Frederick Douglass, a man whose life would become a testament to the power of resilience and determination in the face of unimaginable adversity. From his early days as a slave on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland, to his escape to freedom in New York City, Douglass's story is one of courage and conviction. With ...

What does it mean to stay when leaving is possible? In HALO, Paul J. Ferguson examines the life of Staff Sergeant William H. Pitsenbarger, a United States Air Force pararescueman and Medal of Honor recipient who was lowered into an active firefight during the Vietnam War and chose to remain on the ground, treating and evacuating the wounded under relentless enemy fire. He had the opportunity to leave. More than once. He did not take it. This Short Perspective does not attempt to retell every detail of that day. Instead, it focuses on the decision within it—how it formed, how it repeated, ...

UPHAM: Lion of the Line is the gripping true story of Charles Hazlitt Upham, the only combat soldier ever awarded the Victoria Cross twice. From the farms and high country of Canterbury to the brutal fighting on Crete, the Western Desert, Ruweisat Ridge, captivity, escape attempts, Colditz, and the difficult return to peace, this is a serious, hard-edged account of a man who never behaved like a legend. Upham was not a theatrical hero. He disliked fame, distrusted fuss, and believed his decorations reflected the courage of the men around him as much as his own. Yet again and again, when the...

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were modern, controversial, and long. The courage inside them was immediate, personal, and often decided in seconds. This book tells one hundred Medal of Honor stories from America’s post-9/11 wars. These are stories of soldiers, Marines, sailors, airmen, Rangers, SEALs, medics, leaders, and small-unit fighters who faced ambushes, grenades, burning vehicles, suicide bombers, rooftop battles, hostage rescues, outpost attacks, mountain firefights, and desperate rescues under fire. Some survived and carried the burden of memory. Others were honoured after ...

The First World War changed the meaning of modern battle. Machine guns, barbed wire, artillery, poison gas, aircraft, tanks, trenches, and mud turned courage into something harsher, closer, and more costly than earlier generations had imagined. This book tells one hundred Medal of Honor stories from America’s role in the War to End All Wars. These are stories of soldiers, Marines, sailors, airmen, officers, medics, scouts, runners, rescuers, machine-gun attackers, and men who kept moving when fear, wounds, and exhaustion should have stopped them. Some names became famous: Alvin C. York, ...

This is the story of a Vietnam era fighter pilot whose first love was the F-100 Super Sabre, affectionaly known as The Hun. Follow this young man through his college years with a sole mission of joining the Air Force to be a pilot and his desire to someday fly in combat. This book is for anyone who ever wondered the how, when and why of fighter aviation in the 1960's and what it was like to fly in combat in Vietnam in the Hun. The author is a highly decorated combat pilot having been awarded three Silver Stars for Gallentry in Action flying in the F-100. He is a true American hero and you ...

John Pym was one of the most important political figures on the road to the English Civil War. He did not wear a crown, command cavalry charges or rule England as Lord Protector. His power was different. It lived in speeches, committees, parliamentary management, religious fear and the ability to turn grievance into organised resistance. To his supporters, Pym was a defender of Parliament, Protestant religion and English liberty against a king who could no longer be trusted. To his enemies, he was a dangerous agitator who helped turn lawful opposition into rebellion. He was not the only ...