Shifty’s War
From D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge and more, here is the authorized biography of one of the most celebrated paratroopers of Easy Company, Sergeant Shifty Powers.
Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life
Chronicles the Allied commander and future president's unlikely rise to power, tracing his impoverished youth as the son of pacifists, his West Point education, toil under MacArthur in the Philippines, and involvement in D-Day.
With the Old Breed
Lying in a foxhole sweating out an enemy artillery or mortar barrage or waiting to dash across open ground under machine-gun or artillery fire defied any concept of time. Eugene B. Sledge’s With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa is a classic memoir that has left an indelible mark…
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.
D DAY Through German Eyes
This book sheds fascinating light on what it was like for the German soldier during the D-Day invasion of Normandy by Allied forces.
Collapse
My view is that, if environmentalists aren’t willing to engage with big businesses, which are among the most powerful forces in the modern world, it won’t be possible to solve the world’s environmental problems. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed – My Perspective Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose…
A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety
Jimmy Carter looks back from ninety years of age and reveals private thoughts and recollections of a businessman, politician, evangelist, and humanitarian career.
Road to Huertgen: Forest in Hell
Road to Huertgen-Forest in Hell chronicles the 1944 combat experiences of U.S. Army Lieutenant Paul Boesch. The setting is the Huertgen Forest, a 1,300 square mile, densely wooded, hilly region along the German-Belgian border.
Citizen Soldiers
The inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II.
The Things Our Fathers Saw: Voices of the Pacific Theater
The previously untold firsthand accounts of combat and brotherhood, of captivity and redemption, and the aftermath of a war that left no American community unscathed.