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Small Wars by Sadie Jones
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The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson
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Knife Song Korea by Richard Selzer
April 3, 2025On arriving at his small and isolated army base in Korea, Sloane is met by Larry...
The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship by James Scott
April 1, 2025The book reveals for the first time the extent of the outrage and widespread disbelief of...
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
March 31, 2025This continued fighting retreat for allied forces persisted for the four bloody months from December 1941...
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
March 23, 2025Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
March 17, 2025Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
March 15, 2025It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat –...




