Vietnam War

Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower came to be seen by many as a doddering lightweight....

This landmark account of the US Navy in the Cold War, Who Can Hold the Sea combines narrative history with scenes of stirring adventure on—and under—the high seas. In 1945, at the end of World War II, the victorious Navy sends its sailors home....

Robert Timberg weaves together the lives of five prominent Annapolis graduates to reveal how the Vietnam War continues to haunt America....

This is the incredible true story of a brave military unit in Vietnam that risked everything to rescue an outnumbered troop under heavy fire-and the 39-year odyssey to recognize their bravery....

Musgrave writes honestly about his struggle to balance his deep love for the Marine Corps against his responsibility as a citizen to protect the very troops asked to protect America at all costs....

In the summer of 1967, Mark Garrison had dropped out of college at Southern Illinois University just before entering his third year....

As Reaching for Glory opens, LBJ is campaigning for the greatest presidential landslide in history...

The long-buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war, You Don’t Belong Here fills a void in the history of women and of war....

In this groundbreaking look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, Martin Sherwin not only gives us a riveting sometimes hour-by-hour explanation of the crisis itself, but also explores the origins, scope, and consequences of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the post-World War II world....

Ed Cobleigh gives a stirring and emotional description of one man's journey into airborne hell and back, recounting the pleasures and the pain, the wins and the losses....

Professors Schweikart and Allen have revised, updated, and expanded their book, which covers America's long history with an appreciation for the values that made this nation uniquely successful....

In Bobby Kennedy, Larry Tye peels away layers of myth and misconception to paint a complete portrait of this singularly fascinating figure....

This gut-wrenching firsthand account of the war is a classic in the annals of Vietnam literature...

With Soldiers of Reason, Alex Abella has rewritten the history of Americas last half century and cast a new light on our problematic present....

Former president George Bush has no plans to write his autobiography, so this collection of letters, diary entries, and...

Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that the news media defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society....

Written by a pilot who flew near-daily combat missions, this engrossing book is the story of one man, his colleagues, and his machine, the mighty F-4 Phantom II, at war....

A remarkable memoir of small-unit leadership and the coming of age of a young soldier in combat in Vietnam....

The mainstream media and history books would have you believe that the Vietnam War was tragic and a dismal failure....

Brilliantly researched, authoritatively crafted by a prize-winning biographer, this is the Nixon we've been waiting for....