Preserved today as a museum in its namesake state, the battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) saw combat during WWII and the Korean War and was the only...

As lead ship of America’s first “fast battleship” class, and the US Navy’s newest battleship when America entered WWII, the construction of the USS...

Although bombed at Pearl Harbor, USS Tennessee was back to sea before the year was over. The crew of the resilient warship fought from Alaska's Ale...

USS Yorktown (CV-5) was the US Navy's first battle-worthy, purpose-built aircraft carrier. Her crew, already accustomed to wartime conditions by ma...

In a little-known episode of the Vietnam War, the CIA hired Norwegian skippers to command fast patrol boats to land South Vietnamese commandos and ...

This work offers a contemporaneous portrait of Old Virginia, her unwavering stance on State sovereignty, and her fight to the death to defend the f...

This is part one of a comprehensive two-volume reference that shows all the camouflage uniforms of the Waffen-SS. Using predominately modern color ...

This is part two of a comprehensive two-volume reference that shows all the camouflage uniforms of the Waffen-SS. Using predominately modern color ...

The report on Kurt Waldheim's activities on the Balkans during World War II attracted political attention when its conclusions became known in 1988...

This comprehensive volume analyzes the radical change in the nature of armed conflicts and in the way they are narrated and represented. Ever since...

This book discusses and assesses the War Powers Resolution, its application since enactment in 1973, providing detailed background on a variety of ...

"To oppose the military machine means to accept the possibility that one may be destroyed by it." – Archibald Baxter. We Will Not Cease is the unfl...

The culmination of twenty-five years of research and three years of writing, and a unique, in depth presentation of the order of battle and command...

The German Plenipotentiary in Denmark, Werner Best, reported back several times a day to the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin about conditions in ...

The war was over and Dad was coming home at last! But the days and weeks go by, and when he does return Dad is not the happy man that young Rita on...

Strength and Goodness ( Force-Bonté ) by Bakary Diallo is one of the only memoirs of World War I ever written or published by an African. It remain...

Strength and Goodness ( Force-Bonté ) by Bakary Diallo is one of the only memoirs of World War I ever written or published by an African. It remain...

This is an account of one woman's Holocaust survival and painful postwar years spent forging an adult identity out of the splinters of a girlhood d...

The thousands of New Zealand men who fought in the First World War went through hell. And right beside them was another fighting force, armed with ...

The severe shortage of teachers brought on by WWII meant that teenagers -- some with little or no training, were placed in charge of country school...

The Women for Victory series provides a thorough and authoritative reference for American servicewomen?s history and uniforms of WWII, and is desig...

This is a unique book for two reasons: it focuses on neuropsychiatric casualties of war, a topic that has traditionally been avoided in the media a...

On 1 February 1940, a thirty-three-year-old Jewish woman arrived alone in New York Harbor bearing, in her womb, the person who would eventually bec...