Author: wbecker

With the Old Breed

A former member of the First Marine Division gives a front-line description of two World War II Pacific campaigns - Peleliu and Okinawa - in which he participated as a teenage soldier.

The Wild Blue

Ambrose describes how the Army Air Forces recruited, trained, and selected the elite few who would undertake the most demanding and dangerous jobs in the war.

Collapse

A study of the downfall of some of history's greatest civilizations such as the Anasazi, the Maya, and the Viking colony on Greenland by tracing patterns of environmental damage, climate change, poor political choices, and other factors that were pivotal to their demise.