Texas and Texans in World War II

Several years ago, while writing the entry for Texas in World War II for the "New Handbook of Texas," Ralph Wooster was struck by...

Sea Stories: Humor & Life Lessons From a 40-Year Navy Journey - SIGNED COPY

Humor and Life Lessons from a Navy career, focusing on the love for its Sailors. Along with the frequent hardships, sacrifices, and long separations...

Rock Force: The American Paratroopers Who Took Back Corregidor and Exacted MacArthur’s Revenge on Ja

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Drawn from firsthand accounts and personal interviews with the battle's surviving veterans, acclaimed war correspondent and...

The Fighting Sullivans: How Hollywood and the Military Make Heroes

In November of 1942, the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa, were killed when a Japanese torpedo sank their ship during the most ferocious naval...

The Comanche Code Talkers of World War II

Among the allied troops that came ashore in Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, were thirteen Comanches in the 4th Infantry Division, 4th Signal Company. Under...

Grandma’s Wartime Baking Book: World War II and the Way We Baked

It is dawn of the 1940s and America is in the midst of a difficult war. The women of the Home Front are dealing...

Grandma’s Wartime Kitchen: World War II and the Way We Cooked

While the country’s soldiers were fighting in World War II, the women who stayed behind were making their own courageous—and delicious...

Nimitz at Ease by Capt. Michael A. Lilly, USN (RET)

Nimitz at Ease relates the true and unpublished story of a grand relationship that developed between Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Una and...

For Crew And Country

In For Crew and Country, John Wukovits tells of the most dramatic naval battle of the Pacific War and the incredible sacrifice of the...

Midway

There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of...

Joe Rochefort’s War

Elliot Carlson's award-winning biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort is the first to be written about the officer who headed Station Hypo, the U.S....

Tanks in Hell

In May 1943 a self-described “really young, green, ignorant lieutenant” assumed command of a new Marine Corps company. His even younger enlisted Marines were learning...

Tin Can Titans: The Heroic Men and Ships of World War II’s Most Decorated Navy Destroyer Squadron

When Admiral William Halsey selected Destroyer Squadron 21 (Desron 21) to lead his victorious ships into Tokyo Bay to accept the Japanese surrender, it was the...

Uncommon Valor on Iwo Jima

When the smoke cleared on Iwo Jima in March 1945, 19,000 American Marines had been wounded and 7,000 were dead, a casualty rate of nearly 39 percent. Lasting...

Women Heroes of World War II―the Pacific Theater

Glamorous American singer Claire Phillips opened a nightclub in Manila, using the earnings to secretly feed starving American POWs. She also began working as...

Flags of Our Fathers

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of...

Race of Aces: WWII’s Elite Airmen and the Epic Battle to Become the Master of the Sky

The astonishing untold story of the WWII airmen who risked it all in the deadly race to become the greatest American fighter pilot.

Devil At My Heels

The bestselling autobiography of the legendary Louis Zamperini, the hero of the blockbuster Unbroken.

A modern classic by an American legend, Devil...

East Texas in World War II

Texas made a remarkable contribution to the American war effort during World War II . Almost 830,000 Texans, including 12,000 women, donned uniforms, and more than 23,000 Texas...

Jungle Survival Manual

During the Second World War, Allied soldiers fought to survive not only encounters with the enemy but the landscape they found themselves in. Being...

Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan (Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Series)

Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go...

US Army Cooks Manual

An army marches on its stomach—so the classic saying goes. This book brings together excerpts from contemporary manuals for U.S. Army...

The American Flag

This handsome guide to the American flag is a concise collection of the history and etiquette of the U.S. flag in an elegant...

Islands of the Damned

When a young Texan named R.V. Burgin joined the Marines in 1942, he never imagined what was waiting for him a world away in...

How They Won the War in the Pacific

More than 70 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, this is the classic book about the principal architects of victory in the Pacific during...

WWII Pacific Puzzle Book

Learn about the leading figures, important Pacific battles, major events, and intelligence strategies of World War II, which involved 20 nations across the globe. Test...

Voices of the Pacific

Following fifteen Marines from the Pearl Harbor attack, through battles with the Japanese, to their return home after V-J Day, Adam Makos and Marcus...