Nature, recreation and sports

The Ultimate Deployment Guidebook

by Kristina A. Smith & Paul N. Smith – Savas Beatie (November 19, 2013)

Is your Facebook page a threat to national security? What about your momma’s address? Only while deployed in service to our country can you completely let your appearance go . . . and receive no less than...

After Combat

by Marian Eide & Michael Gibler – Potomac Books (September 01, 2018)

Approximately 2.5 million men and women have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in the service of the U.S. War on Terror. Marian Eide and Michael Gibler have collected and compiled personal combat accounts from...

How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan

by Douglas Grindle – Potomac Books (November 01, 2017)

Douglas Grindle provides a firsthand account of how the war in Afghanistan was won in a rural district south of Kandahar City and how the newly created peace slipped away when vital resources failed to materialize...

The Struggle for Iraq

by Thomas M. Renahan – Potomac Books (June 01, 2017)

The Struggle for Iraq is a vivid personal account of the Iraqi people’s fight for democracy and justice by an American political scientist. Thomas M. Renahan arrived in southern Iraq just three days before...

Selling War

by Steven J. Alvarez – Potomac Books (March 01, 2016)

In the spring of 2004, army reservist and public affairs officer Steven J. Alvarez waited to be called up as the U.S. military stormed Baghdad and deposed Saddam Hussein. But soon after President Bush’s famous...

Smoke the Donkey

by Cate Folsom & Robert R. Ruark – Potomac Books (April 01, 2016)

On a U.S. military base near Fallujah in war-torn Iraq, Col. John Folsom woke up one morning to the sound of a small, scruffy donkey tied up outside his quarters. He was charmed by this scrawny animal with a...

From Stray Dog to World War I Hero

by Grant Hayter-Menzies, Paul E. Funk & Pen Farthing – Potomac Books (November 01, 2015)

On the streets of Paris one day in July 1918, an American doughboy, Sgt. Jimmy Donovan, befriended a stray dog that he named Rags. No longer an unwanted street mutt, Rags became the mascot to the entire First...

Cheated

by Jay M. Smith & Mary Willingham – Potomac Books (March 15, 2015)

In 2010 allegations of an utterly corrupt academic system for student-athletes emerged from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus, home of the legendary Tar Heels. As the alma mater of Michael...

Grumman FF

by Phil H. Listemann – Philedition (January 15, 2009)

The Grumman FF, even if it is not particularly well known, is important in that it was the start a long dynasty of carrier-based fighters for the USN which included the famous WW2 Hellcat, the Panther and Cougar...

The Brewster Buffalo

by Phil H. Listemann – Philedition (February 04, 2019)

The Brewster Buffalo was born as the Brewster F2A for the United States Navy. It was the first monoplane fighter to be introduced into USN service. At the end of the thirties, with war approaching, many European...

The Golf Lover's Guide to England

by Michael Whitehead – White Owl (January 18, 2021)

Every golf course around the world has one thing in common – they are all unique. Golf provides a different experience wherever you go. No two courses are ever the same and each has their own captivating story...

Oliver Bulleid's Locomotives

by Colin Boocock – Pen and Sword Transport (January 18, 2021)

Oliver Bulleid’s locomotives guides the reader in the quest to understand what motivated Mr Bulleid in his work as a senior engineer and manager, and tries, with as little bias as is reasonable, to make sense...

Armoured Cruiser Cressy

by Andrew Choong – Seaforth Publishing (March 30, 2020)

The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the ‘as fitted’ general arrangements, these drawings represented the...

Eagle Down

by Jessica Donati – PublicAffairs (January 18, 2021)

“POWERFUL, IMPORTANT, AND SEARING.” —GENERAL DAVID PETRAEUS, U.S. Army (ret.), former commander, U.S. Central Command, former CIA director

The Wall Street Journal’s national security reporter takes readers...

Indoor Wildlife

by Gerard E Cheshire – White Owl (February 28, 2019)

Indoor Wildlife is a book that looks at our houses and other buildings from the point of view of wild animals and plants.Some come indoors to hibernate, some come indoors to find food and others come indoors...

WWII in the Desert

by Andy Singleton – Pen and Sword Military (October 30, 2018)

Andy Singleton has been modelling and painting most of his life and has been a professional commission figure painter for some years now. Here he shares his experience and tips of the trade with those collecting...

British Military Medals - second Edition

by Peter Duckers – Pen and Sword Military (September 16, 2013)

This second edition of Peter Duckers best-selling British Military Medals traces the history of medals and gallantry awards from Elizabethan times to the modern day, and it features an expert account of their...

V Bombers

by Martin W. Bowman & Dave Windle – Pen and Sword Aviation (June 25, 2009)

Britain’s desire to stay at the leading edge in the design and development of modern jet powered aircraft was born in the later stages of World War Two. The RAF sent requests to the leading aircraft manufactures...