Military
Brothers in Arms
Readers will always be grateful to Bernard Cornwell for bringing the common soldiers, and the spectacularly uncommon Richard Sharpe, to…
Guerrilla Leader: T.E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt
Professor of Military Theory James Schneider examines the leadership genius of T.E. Lawrence, known to history as “Lawrence of Arabia.”…
The Darkening Field
Captain Alexei Korolev of the Moscow Militia’s Criminal Investigation Division is ordered to Odessa, Ukraine, to look into the suspicious…
Red Flags
Corruption in the South Vietnamese government and a lack of commitment on the part of the regular South Vietnamese army…
A Place Called Armageddon
The fall of Christian Constantinople to the Turks is a historical fact, but knowing this in no way detracts from…
The Lion Wakes
For me, this was a book of two halves. Each scene is vividly told, with unusual phrasing and a knowledgeable…
Conqueror: A Novel of Kublai Khan
Editors' choice
Conqueror is the story of the renowned scholar and warrior Kublai Khan, but it is also the tale of those…
Spartacus: The Gladiator
Editors' choice
Thanks to Hollywood, Spartacus is one of the most familiar figures of Roman history, notorious and glorified for his slave…
Marathon: Freedom or Death
Sequel to the well-received Killer of Men, Marathon‘s publication commemorates the 2500th anniversary of this landmark Greek victory over the…
The Whites of Their Eyes: Bunker Hill, the First American Army, and the Emergence of George Washington
Few events in American history have stirred the national imagination as much as the heroic stand of ragtag colonial militia…
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