Military Research

This Pulitzer Prize finalist provides the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51. No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial...

"Echoes of the Reich is a brilliantly atmospheric historical techno-thriller that fuses World War II intrigue with unsettling scientific mystery, pulling readers into a chilling race against a force capable of reshaping history itself." — NewInBooks In 1942, radar engineer Wilhelm Brandt detects a signal that should not exist—aimed not at Germany’s enemies, but at one of the Reich’s most secret weapons facilities. He does not report it. He begins to investigate it. Told across two timelines separated by a century, and linked by more than coincidence. A century later, a research ...

NOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE NUREMBERG STARRING RUSSELL CROWE AND RAMI MALEK In 1945, an improbable relationship between the fallen Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goering, and ambitious US Army physician, Douglas Kelley, becomes a hazardous quest into the nature of evil “The book is a page turner...

Colton Baker sought isolation in the frozen north to hide from the beast in his blood. His quiet existence shatters when a critically injured woman named Elena collapses at his remote cabin. She carries explosive evidence against Blackridge Mineral. A heavily armed extraction team is closing in to silence her. They have cut off all escape routes. Elena has a biological clock ticking down from severe trauma. Colton has six days until the full moon. With a massive winter storm burying the landscape, they must face a squad of ruthless mercenaries on the ice. The armed team believes they are ...

Bob Lazar was a brilliant young physicist that found himself employed at a top-secret facility in the middle of the desert outside Las Vegas. Under the watchful eye of the government elite, he is tasked with understanding an exotic propulsion system being used by an advanced aerospace vehicle he is told came from outer space. The stressful work and long, odd hours start to wear on Bob and he becomes concerned for his safety. He tells his wife and a couple close friends about what he's doing in the desert, and his employers find out and are furious.

What if the most powerful intelligence apparatus in the world admitted there were forces it could not understand and could not control?For twenty-three years, the U.S. government funded a clandestine unit of "psychic spies" tasked with performing the impossible. Project Stargate was the final evolution of a series of secret programs—Scanate, Gondola Wish, and Grill Flame—designed to determine if human consciousness could be used to gather actionable intelligence against America's adversaries.Inside this declassified history, you will discover: The "Eight-Martini" Successes: The shocking...

A prize-winning historian’s major new history of the Second World War, arguing that Stalin’s USSR was the war’s driving force. “A provocative revisionist take on the Second World War … McMeekin is a formidable researcher.” —Financial Times We remember World War II as a struggle...

Deep in the abyss of Loch Ness, a forty-year-old secret is waking up. High school English teacher Isla McKenna knows the old rules of the loch: show respect, stay off the water after dark, and never mock the deep. But when billionaire Julian Croft builds Serenity Point Lodge—a modernist glass palace—directly over the water, he disturbs a territorial titan that has been studied, enhanced, and imprisoned for decades. Marine biologist Dr. Rowan Cade arrived chasing acoustic phantoms, but he found a biological nightmare. The "accident" that claimed an elite guest was no slip; it was a ...

“One of the very best World War II books in many years…A great read.” —General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former Director of the CIA * “Fans of Unbroken will love this book.” —Doug Stanton In the tradition of Ghost Soldiers, a “riveting” (The Wall Street Journal) World War...

A renowned political scientist’s searing explanation for the rightward turn of global politics since the end of the Cold War. The collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ushered in an era of tremendous political optimism: communism was receding and democracy was on the march in Eastern Europe...

“For anyone involved in settling disputes” (Richard Dawkins), a famed political scientist offers a classic argument for how to achieve a more cooperative world We assume that, in a world ruled by natural selection, selfishness pays. So why cooperate? In The Evolution of Cooperation...

From from New York Times bestselling author and retired US Army Staff Sergeant Travis Mills, here are twelve principles to heal after trauma and overcome adversity. “This book is a master class in recovery, renewal, and recalibration. Travis does not make excuses. Travis does not complain...

The extraordinary, must-read story of the brave, bold Hubert Wilkins - Australia's most adventurous explorer, naturalist, photographer, war hero, aviator, spy and daredevil - brought to life by Australia's greatest storyteller. Sir Hubert Wilkins is one of the most remarkable Australians who...

An unbelievable series of events led to the establishment of the Northwest Electro-development Laboratory, later the U.S. Bureau of Mines Albany Research Center. Though the fledgling lab had difficulty securing staff due to World War II, world-renown metallurgist William J. Kroll was hired early on as a consultant after fleeing Nazi occupation. Kroll, who had pioneered a method for producing commercial titanium, worked with his core group of associates to develop malleable zirconium, just as a need arose for the little-known metal.

What if the U.S. military was hosting extraterrestrials on Earth—and someone lived to tell the tale? In the early 1960s, U.S. Air Force weather observer Charles Hall made a claim that would shock the world of ufology and beyond: he had encountered a mysterious race of extraterrestrials—tall, pale beings he called the "Tall Whites"—while stationed at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. The Charles Hall "Tall Whites" Incident dives deep into this extraordinary testimony, offering a comprehensive investigation into one of the most compelling and controversial alien contact cases in modern ...

A young man fleeing a criminal biker gang finds himself abducted by the members of an underground military research center specializing in genetic programs.

What if the most secret place on Earth wasn’t about aliens at all, but about us? For more than seventy years, a barren stretch of Nevada desert has captured the world’s imagination. “Beyond the Fence: The Untold Story of Espionage, Innovation, and the Myths Born in Nevada’s Hidden Skies” pulls back the curtain on the true history of Area 51, an intersection of secrecy, science, and the human need to believe. From the silent flights of the U-2 and the supersonic shadows of the A-12 to the birth of stealth and the rise of unmanned intelligence, this book traces the hidden evolution ...

Joseph McMoneagle spent twenty years in the United States Army, serving in signals intelligence, overseas assignments, and the secret world of Cold War surveillance. Nothing in that career suggested that he would become one of the most closely studied participants in an extraordinary government experiment. In the late 1970s, Army intelligence recruited McMoneagle into a classified program investigating remote viewing—the claimed ability to describe distant or concealed targets without ordinary sensory access. Within the Fort Meade unit, he became known as Remote Viewer No. 001. His ...

I Am Meir’s brother is ta biography of the celebrated research scientist, Eliezer (Eli) Huberman, and the relationship he had with his Israeli spymaster brother, Meir (Huberman) Dagan. In order to grasp the influences that turn ordinary people into extraordinary people, the story begins with Eli and Meir’s parents. The family, including two-year-old Eli, escape from Poland and the Nazi extermination in 1941, only to find themselves entrapped in the frozen tundra of a Russian work camp. Through resilience, ingenuity and determination that would be passed down to their sons, the parents ...

What if the greatest secret of the modern era is not being kept by the government, but by the corporations it pays? For more than seventy years, the United States has chased something it cannot officially name. Lights that outmaneuver fighter jets. Craft that drop from the stratosphere to the ocean floor in seconds. Objects pulled from crash sites and trucked into hangars no senator has ever toured. And behind every classified program, every black-budget appropriation, every congressional briefing cut short by a man in an unmarked badge, sits a private contractor with no oath of office and ...