Explores humanity's love affair with war, discussing how war becomes an emotionally intense and even exhilarating experience for civilians and soldiers alike.

"A compelling look at US Navy SEALs through a true-to-life lens focused on the triumphs and challenges of the elite warriors of the Special Forces community. Master Chief (SEAL) Rick Kaiser (Ret.) captures over 45 years of events in and around the SEAL Teams. It is not a blood-and-guts portrayal of battlefield victories and losses, but an authentic view of how things are done in the Teams. The SEALs truly are silent professionals and the most memorable...

The second installment in Lloyd's bravura history of the First World War, The Eastern Front chronicles the bloody fighting in Eastern Europe and the Balkans through diary entries, eyewitness reports and memoirs. The definitive history of the Eastern Front in the First World War, from the acclaimed military historian and author of Passchendaele and The Western Front. In the second volume of his landmark First World War trilogy, Professor Nick Lloyd...

A classic study of military leadership uncovering why generals fail. The Crimea, the Boer War, the Somme, Tobruk, Pearl Harbor, the Bay of Pigs: these are just some of the milestones in a century of military incompetence, of costly mishaps and tragic blunders. Are these simple accidents-as the "bloody fool" theory has it-or are they inevitable? The psychologist Norman F. Dixon argues that there is a pattern to inept generalship, and he locates this...

War has ravaged the world since the beginning of time, but how has it changed throughout the millennia? Grisly history is explained in detail and illuminated with handy charts and maps. A surefire hit with reluctant readers, this book takes no prisoners as it spills the gruesome details about the dark and violent side of the ancient and modern worlds.

Chronicles the apocalyptic motivations and brutality of the First Crusade, which destroyed civilizations in the Near and Middle East.

"In Impossible Victories , Bryan Perrett gives full account of ten military successes that defied the odds. Stressing throughout the decisive role of courage, boldness, and grit, he shows us American and British forces in desperate action over a period of more than 150 years, beginning in Spain in 1811 and ending in Vietnam in 1967." -- Book jacket

"A overview of warriors throughout history--from Ancient Greece to the Middle Ages--the equipment they used, and the most famous warriors in history."--

A century has now gone by, yet the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 is still infamous as arguably the most ill conceived, badly led and pointless campaign of the entire First World War. The brainchild of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, following Turkey's entry into the war on the German side, its ultimate objective was to capture the Gallipoli peninsula in western Turkey, thus allowing the Allies to take control of the eastern Mediterranean...

When Anatoly Lukyanov arrives in the U.S. during the California Gold Rush, he is just a wide-eyed, idealistic Russian/Buriat kid, in love with the idea, and ideals, of America. Soon, he finds work he loves as a cowboy, along with a new American name: Nate Luck. Over the next forty years, Nate experiences both the best and the worst that America has to offer - as a cowboy, a soldier, an adopted member of the Nez Perce tribe, a deputy sheriff, and a...