Vietnam War

The M16 rifle is one of the world’s most famous firearms, iconic as the American weapon of the Vietnam War and, indeed, as the US military’s standard service rifle until only a few years ago. But the story of the M16 in Vietnam is anything but a success story....

This ranks as one of the best books out about the Vietnam War from an ordinary soldier's point of view....

The Last Warrior tells Andrew Marshall's story for the first time, in the process providing an unparalleled history of the evolution of the American defense establishment.....

In The Icarus Syndrome, Peter Beinart tells a tale as old as the Greeks—a story about the seductions of success....

Blaine Harden returns with the untold story of one of the most powerful spies in American history, shedding new light on the US role in the Korean War and its legacy....

Former secretary of state and best-selling author Madeleine Albright offers provocative ideas about how to confront the striking array of challenges that the next commander-in-chief will face....

In 1991, Chuck Mawhinney was reluctantly dragged out of anonymity when it was revealed that he held the record among United States Marine Corps snipers....

This audiobook exposes the misconceptions, half-truths, and outright lies that have shaped the still dominant but largely mythical version of the secret Cuban missile crisis....

President Bill Clinton's My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts to serving the public....

"Grand strategy" is one of the most widely used and abused concepts in the foreign policy lexicon. In this important book, Hal Brands explains why grand strategy is a concept that is so alluring....

Empire of Ideas reveals how and why image first became a component of foreign policy....

A leading civil rights historian places Robert Kennedy for the first time at the center of the movement for racial justice of the 1960s―and shows how many of today’s issues can be traced back to that pivotal time....

A bracing corrective to the myths that have shaped economic, military, and diplomatic policy, dispelling our oil-soaked fantasies of dependence....

This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's-and controversial insider's-view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history....

From the New York Times best-selling author Joe Weber comes a thrilling novel of the Vietnam War. In a fast-paced, thrilling look into the life of a Vietnam War fighter pilot, Weber takes us high into the skies above Hanoi and examines the air war as only a veteran fighter pilot can....

Michael O'Hanlon presents an informed modern plan for post-2020 American foreign policy that avoids the opposing dangers of retrenchment and overextension....

The Cuban missile crisis was the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War and the most perilous moment in American history....

Our relationship with China remains one of the most complex and rapidly evolving and is perhaps one of the most important to our nation's future....

Over the course of a lifetime of service to his country, Colin Powell became a national hero, a beacon of wise leadership and, according to polls, "the most trusted man in America....

This new Reader’s Edition of Harry Truman’s memoirs corrects some important problems that made the prior two volumes difficult to enjoy. This new edition offers the thrill of hearing the authentic Harry S. Truman, probably the most important president of the last 75 years....