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By, For, and About Marines is a nonfiction collection of notable quotes giving voice to U.S. Marines throughout its storied and illustrious history. Each quote is set in historical context to give th …

The United States Army and the Making of America: From Confederation to Empire, 1775–1903 is the story of how the American military—and more particularly the regular army—has played a vital role in t …

Enlightening accounts from a US Army soldier covering an unusual range of assignments, training events, operations, and engagements with America’s allies over a span of five decades. Readers may well …

Maritime Unmanned recounts the promising beginning, demoralizing setbacks, and ultimate success of the visionaries who championed unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) technology for the U.S. Navy.  Ernest …

Suburban Empire takes readers to the US missile base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the matrix of postwar US imperial expansion, the Cold War nuclear arms race, and the tide of anti-c …

Where was the first major battle fought after the Romans invaded Britain? What’s the difference between ‘Kentish Men’ and ‘Men of Kent’? Why did a Medway castle store more gunpowder than the Tower of …

The Home Guard, familiar to us all from the antics of Dads Army on the TV, in fact performed a deadly serious role — guarding infrastructure and communications, and releasing the regular Army for mor …

Another in the series of booklets written by Col. G. A.Wade and published in the dangerous year of 1940 intended for the instruction of the newly recruited Home Guard. Colonel Wades clear writing and …

This second volume in German Great War flyer Haupt Heydemarcks trilogy of aerial memoirs gives us all the hazards and hopes of his job as an aerial observer written with humour and panache. The book …