Bestsellers

The USS Seawolf was one of the greatest submarine raiders of all time. Having narrowly avoided the attack on Pearl Harbor the Seawolf set out for the seas of the Pacific to wreak havoc on Japanese shipping....

In Island Infernos, John C. McManus explores the Army’s dogged pursuit of Japanese forces, island by island, throughout 1944, a year that would bring America ever closer to victory or defeat....

This celebrated classic gives a soldier's-eye-view of the Guadalcanal battles; crucial to World War II, the war that continues to fascinate us all....

This is an eyewitness - and eye-opening - account of some of the most savage and brutal fighting in the war against Japan, told from the perspective of a young Texan....

General George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the US Army during WWII, faced the daunting task not only of overseeing two theaters of a global conflict but also of selecting the best generals....

Nancy Dougherty and, following her death, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt journey into the heart of Nazi evil: a portrait of one of the darkest figures of Hitler’s Nazi elite—Reinhard Heydrich, the designer and executor of the Holocaust, chief of the Reich Main Security, including the Gestapo.

SS General Hans Kammler was one of the worst of the Nazi war criminals. He was the architect of the Nazis’ death camp technology. He designed the gas chambers and crematoria that Nazis used to kill and dispose of millions of Jewish prisoners during World War II....

Helmet for My Pillow is a personal memoir of the war in the Southern Pacific by the World War II United States Marine Corps veteran, author, and military historian Robert Leckie....

In the first biography covering his entire life - including his severe PTSD and his tragic death at age 45 - the unusual story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated hero of World War II....

Ernest "Andy" Andrews's company, part of the 1st Infantry Division, departed England on the evening of June 5 on the USS Henrico. Fighting in Normandy, Andy was nicked by a bullet and evacuated to England in late July when the wound became infected....

Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson’s lively, succinct biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower explores how his legacy endures today In the rousing style he’s famous for....

With his parting words "I shall return," General Douglas MacArthur sealed the fate of the last American forces on Bataan. Yet one young Army Captain refused to surrender....

In his dispatches, Steinbeck focuses on the human-scale effect of the war, portraying everyone from the guys in a bomber crew to Bob Hope on his USO tour and even fighting alongside soldiers....

The definitive account of General Douglas MacArthur's rise during World War II, from the author of the best seller The Admirals....

The only Major League ballplayer whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA....

In 1942, in German-occupied Poland, a Jewish baby girl was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. That baby, Joasia, knew nothing about this extraordinary event until she was thirty-two, when a letter arrived from a stranger.

This highly regarded war memoir was a best seller in both Japan and the United States during the 1960s and has long been treasured by historians for its military insights....

‘Paddy' Mayne was one of the most outstanding special forces leaders of the Second World War....

American Warlords is the story of the greatest "team of rivals" since the days of Lincoln....

"I first began to appreciate fully all we owed the World War II generation when I was covering the fortieth and fiftieth anniversaries of D-Day for NBC News. When I wrote in The Greatest Generation...