From the Middle Ages on the most precise shooters have been employed as marksmen or sharpshooters, and equipped with the best available weapons. The German states made the first serious use of sharpshooters on the battlefield during the Seven Years W...

This short book is a chronological and non-exhaustive study of photographs, letters, stories, weapons, and uniforms of soldiers. This study gives the opportunity to access the very private lives of soldiers who participated in various operations on t...

The classic, revised story of how an elite group of US Air Force pilots fought a secret air war over Vietnam in Cessna 0-2 and OV-10 Bronco prop planes?flying as low as they could get. The eyes and ears of the fast-moving jets who rained death and de...

"Honoring Those They Led" examines specific points and groups within a massive subject; Commanding Generals of WW II German field commands with those primarily studied being among those presented one or more of their highest combat decorations by Ado...

John Yochelson was seventeen when he first heard President Kennedy's call, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country". Responding to the call to public service, he had a front-row seat from the mid-1970s through...

Laid out in front of Blackpool Tower, the British home of variety for more than a hundred years, the Comedy Carpet is the largest work of public art in Europe. Thousands of jokes and quotations by more than 850 comedians and writers from the early da...

Originally published in 1956, former Second World War prisoner-of-war Calton Younger's No Flight from the Cage received critical acclaim. One critic wrote, "the book goes below the surface of prison camp life and shows a remarkable insight into the m...