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  • The Bridge at Remagen

    A Story of World War II

    by Ken Hechler ...
    It was a stunning strategic victory of World War II–and one of the most fantastic breaks for the Allies. On March 7, 1945, a small group of American infantrymen, engineers, and tank crews secured the Ludendorff Bridge that crossed the Rhine. The successful mission saved thousands of American lives and spearheaded the invasion of Nazi Germany.The Bridge at Remagen is the detailed narrative of this ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • I Always Wanted to Fly

    America’s Cold War Airmen

    by Colonel Wolfgang W. E. Samuel ...
    Until now, no book has covered all of Cold War air combat in the words of the men who waged it. In I Always Wanted to Fly, retired United States Air Force Colonel Wolfgang W. E. Samuel has gathered first-person memories from heroes of the cockpits and airstrips.Battling in dogfights when jets were novelties, saving lives in grueling airlifts, or flying dangerous reconnaissance missions deep into ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Roads to Congress 2008

    by Sunil Ahuja, Margaret E. Banyan, Peter Bergerson, William Binning, Robert J. Duffy, Sean Foreman, Richard Gelm, Marcia Godwin, Andrew Kear, Jeffrey Kraus, Tom Lansford0, Amy Lauren Lovecraft1, Gerald McBeath2, John David Rausch Jr3, Bob N. Roberts4, Justin Sinner5, Dan Smith6, Joshua Stockley7, Jeffrey S. Ashley8, Robert P. Watson9, Kyle L. Saunders3 ...
    The Roads to Congress 2008 offers readers straightfoward and detailed case studies of the campaigns, candidates, key issues, and outcomes of over one dozen of the most important and interesting races of 2008. This includes both House and Senate campaigns, contests from all regions of the country, and seats held by Democrats and Republicans, as well as open seats. Every two years the pageantry of ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

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    by Dwayne T. Burns, Leland Burns ...
    A paratrooper's memoir of survival and close-quarters combat in WWII: "Well worth reading" ( Flight Journal).When Dwayne Burns turned eighteen, he decided he wanted to fight alongside America's best. He joined the paratroopers and was assigned to the 508th Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division. Little did he suspect that a year later he'd be soaring in a flak-riddled C-47 over Normandy, part of ... Read more

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  • All the Way to Berlin

    A Paratrooper at War in Europe

    by James Megellas ...
    In mid-1943 James Megellas, known as “Maggie” to his fellow paratroopers, joined the 82d Airborne Division, his new “home” for the duration. His first taste of combat was in the rugged mountains outside Naples.In October 1943, when most of the 82d departed Italy to prepare for the D-Day invasion of France, Lt. Gen. Mark Clark, the Fifth Army commander, requested that the division’s 504th Parachute ... Read more

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  • Crisis in the Pacific

    The Battles for the Philippine Islands by the Men Who Fought Them

    by Gerald Astor ...
    From the depths of defeat...On December 8, 1941, one day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Air Force struck the Philippines in the first blow of a devastating invasion.With an undersupplied patchwork army at his command, General Douglas MacArthur led a valiant defense of the Philippines. When defeat came, MacArthur swore he would return, while thousands of POWs fell into Japanese ... Read more

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  • Omaha Beach (True Combat)

    by Al Cimino ...
    It was easy for the German machine-gunners to concentrate their fire on the ramp of a landing craft as it hit the shore. Inside the landing craft, the assault troops would hear the bullets bouncing like flung pebbles off the metal ramp, knowing that the moment they hit the beach that protection would be snatched away from them. As it dropped, it exposed thirty men huddled together – the perfect ... Read more

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  • If You Survive

    From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story

    by George Wilson ...
    "If you survive your first day, I'll promote you."So promised George Wilson's World War II commanding officer in the hedgerows of Normandy -- and it was to be a promise dramatically fulfilled. From July, 1944, to the closing days of the war, from the first penetration of the Siegfried Line to the Nazis' last desperate charge in the Battle of the Bulge, Wilson fought in the thickest of the action, ... Read more

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  • Shifty's War

    The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell "Shifty" Powers, the Legendary Sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers

    by Marcus Brotherton ...
    From D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge and more, here is the authorized biography of one of the most celebrated paratroopers of Easy Company, Sergeant Shifty Powers, the legendary sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers.Look for the Band of Brothers miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix!As a boy, Darrell “Shifty” Powers’s goal was to become the best rifle shot he could be. His father ... Read more

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  • Sixty Days in Combat

    An Infantryman's Memoir of World War II in Europe

    by Dean Joy ...
    “The infantryman’s war is . . . without the slightest doubt the dirtiest, roughest job of them all.”He went in as a military history buff, a virgin, and a teetotaler. He came out with a war bride, a taste for German beer, and intimate knowledge of one of the darkest parts of history. His name is Dean Joy, and this was his war.For two months in 1945, Joy endured and survived the everyday ... Read more

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  • War Stories of D-Day

    Operation Overlord: June 6, 1944

    by Michael Green, James D. Brown ...
    D-Day, June 6, 1944: it was the biggest amphibious operation in history. German Field Marshal Rommel, declared, "the enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield," the Allied Forces undertook a massive invasion of the German-occupied coast of Normandy, France. First, there was the aerial onslaught by British and American airborne divisions, then the landing of the American, ... Read more

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  • Recon Scout

    Story of World War II

    by Fred H. Salter ...
    HE LIVED ON THE ABYSS OF DEATHAS A RECON SCOUT IN WORLD WAR II.From Africa’s Sahara Desert, where he met Churchill, to the plains of Tunisia, where he served under Patton, Fred Salter executed daring nightly solo missions, risking his life to gather the vital intelligence the U.S. Army desperately needed. After the battlefields of Sicily came the long, grueling effort to wrench Italy from the grip ... Read more

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