  Napoleon: The Path to Power
by Philip Dwyer
List: $35.00 pp.672 Hardcover
Publish Date: 3/27/2008
Description: At just thirty years of age, Napoleon Bonaparte ruled the most powerful country in Europe. But the journey that led him there was neither inevitable nor smooth. This authoritative biography focuses on the evolution of Napoleon as a leader and debunks many of the myths that are often repeated about him—sensational myths often propagated by Napoleon himself. Here, Philip Dwyer sheds new light on Napoleon’s inner life—especially his darker side and his passions—to reveal a ruthless, manipulative, ... 
 Historic Photos of World War II: Pearl Harbor to Japan
by Bob Duncan
List: $39.95 pp.216 Hardcover
Publish Date: 2/1/2008
Description: On December 7, 1941, America's hopes of remaining neutral in World War II disappeared in the oily smoke that roiled from her battleships burning at Pearl Harbor. The nation faced Herculean tasks to strike back against the Imperial Japanese military that had attacked her. Victory demanded crossing thousands of miles of ocean, creating new weapons, and arming hundreds of thousands of young men to fight their way across a series of desolate islands that a fanatical enemy had fortified to exact the ...
 Historic Photos of West Point
by Jon Malinowski
List: $39.95 pp.216 Hardcover
Publish Date: 2/1/2008
Description: Product Description
West Point, New York, home of the United States Military Academy, is one of the nation's most famous and unique landscapes. Established in 1802 to train engineer officers for the Army, West Point has for over two hundred years produced many of the country's greatest leaders, including Ulysses S. Grant, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton, and Douglas A. MacArthur.
Using nearly two hundred historical photos from the Library of Congress, National Archives, and collections...
 Rupert Red Two: A Fighter Pilot's Life from Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs
by Jack Broughton
List: $26.95 pp.352 Hardcover
Publish Date: 1/15/2008
Description: In 1945 Second Lieutenant Jack Broughton graduated from West Point with the silver pilot wings of a newly commissioned member of the Army Air Corps.Nearly thirty years later, he retired as a full colonel in the United States Air Force, an entity that didnt even exist when he first learned to fly.Along the way Colonel Broughton saw duty in virtually every fighter aircraft the Air Corps and then Air Force had to offer.His story is a biography of the U.S. Air Force as it was experienced by one of i...
 German Panzers in World War II: Order of Battle
by Chris Bishop
List: $19.95 pp.192 Paperback
Publish Date: 12/15/2007
Description: At the forefront of the German Blitzkrieg of World War II was the Panzerwaffe, the tank arm that initially swept all before it. German Panzers in World War II is a highly-focused, close-up look at how the Panzerwaffe worked, and how German armored warfare evolved from 1939 until defeat in 1945. The book, illustrated with photographs of the Panzers in action and detailed campaign maps, examines the organization and strength of the German tank forces that took part in each major German campaign la...
 Chosin: Heroic Ordeal of the Korean War
by Eric Hammel
List: $23.00 pp.480 Paperback
Publish Date: 11/23/2007
Description: None....
 Marines: An Illustrated History
by Chester G. Hearn
List: $29.95 pp.192 Hardcover
Publish Date: 11/15/2007
Description: The Marine Corps came into being with the nation it serves, in 1775--and has been a proud defender of the American ideal ever since. With photographs of historic missions and shots of the Corps in action today, this illustrated volume gives readers a feel for what it means--and has meant--to be a Marine. Here, over time and wherever duty calls, are the select few who make up the tightly knit fighting force known for its lightning speed, overwhelming power, and truly heroic sense of duty.
-- Ama...
 P-47 Thunderbolt at War
by Cory Graff
List: $19.95 pp.128 Paperback
Publish Date: 11/15/2007
Description: Perhaps the most significant fighter aircraft of World War II, the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was the largest and most powerful single-engine fighter of the war, and with over fifteen thousand P-47s built, its production numbers topped any other American fighter. P-47 Thunderbolt at War traces the history of the P-47, including the pioneering efforts of Alexander de Seversky and Alexander Kartveli, who designed the prototype; the features that played into the P-47s combat performance; and its war...
 The Fall of Napoleon: Volume 1, The Allied Invasion of France, 1813-1814
by Michael V. Leggiere
List: $35.00 pp.656 Hardcover
Publish Date: 11/12/2007
Description: This book tells the story of the invasion of France at the twilight of Napoleon’s empire. With over a million men under arms throughout central Europe, Coalition forces poured over the Rhine River to invade France between late November 1813 and early January 1814. Three principal army groups drove across the great German landmark, smashing the exhausted French forces that attempted to defend the eastern frontier. In less than a month, French forces ingloriously retreated from the Rhine to the Ma...
 The Big Red One: America's Legendary 1s Infantry Division from World War I to Desert Storm
by James Scott Wheeler
List: $34.95 pp.594 Hardcover
Publish Date: 11/3/2007
Description: "No mission too difficult, no sacrifice too great--Duty First!" For almost a century, from the Western Front of World War I to the deserts of Iraq, this motto has spurred the soldiers who wear the shoulder patch bearing the Big Red One. In this first comprehensive history of America's 1st Infantry Division, James Scott Wheeler chronicles its major combat engagements and peacetime duties during its legendary service to the nation.
The oldest continuously serving division in the U.S. Army, the ...
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