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Retired Coast Guardsmen Denis Noble captures the stories of the brave crews who man the U.S. Coast Guard's small boat stations. Each year, these everyday heroes respond to over 37,000 calls for assistance and save more than 4,000 lives. Lifeboat Sailors bears witness to the courage of these unique men and women, and sounds the alarm for the rescue of this cherished American institution.

One War at a Time—Lincoln's axiom for Union diplomacy—refutes the opinion of most historians and biographers that Lincoln played only a minor role in U.S. foreign relations. Rather, the book shows that Lincoln skillfully conducted a dangerous diplomatic balancing act, avoiding war with England and France while using the threat of war to prevent European recognition of Confederate independence. No other book offers such a thorough review of Union and Confederate relations with Britain. Author Dean B. Mahin also provides the first full analysis of U.S. and Confederate reactions to the French intervention in Mexico. His review of Civil War foreign policy adds a new dimension to our understanding of the great conflict.

"Castles in the Air" recreates, in the words of surviving aircrew members themselves, all the tension and terror of their exhausting sorties deep into enemy airspace, fleshing out other, more impersonal narratives.

THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR is the definitive pictorial record of the war that brought the United States onto the world's stage and into the twentieth century

An irreverent but informed look at the colorful personalities, exciting places, and devoted fans of stock car racing

At the close of World War II, the Soviet Union controlled all of eastern Germany with the exception of the American, British, and French sectors of Berlin. In June 1948, Soviet authorities halted the West's land access to the city, apparently dooming the inhabitants of its Western sectors to starvation. Would half of Berlin remain free and democratic, or would it succumb to Stalin's stranglehold? American and British planes immediately began a massive airlift that would last for fifteen months. Flying 276,926 dangerous missions, often in bad weather, and bringing in 2.3 million tons of food and coal, the legendary Berlin Airlift cost the lives of 75 U.S. and British airmen but saved the besieged enclave. Focusing on the experience of airmen, politicians, and ordinary citizens, historian Michael D. Haydock tells the human story of a spectacular aviation and logistical accomplishment that has had lasting geopolitical significance.

On April 14, 1994, on a clear morning over northern Iraq's no-fly zone, two U.S. Air Force F-15 jets encountered two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters on a routine mission. Within ten minutes, the F-15s misidentified the helicopters and shot them down with fire-and-forget missiles. For three years, aircraft had patrolled these skies with a near-perfect safety record. Although the Black Hawk's downing was one of the worst air-to-air friendly fire incidents involving U.S. aircraft in military history, the Air Force would officially conclude the pilots had made a reasonable mistake.  One victim was ebullient twenty-five-old intelligence officer Laura Piper, in love with life and with being an Air Force lieutenant. Movingly written by her mother, A Chain of Events is the story of Laura’s final flight and the Air Force’s mishandling of the subsequent investigation. It is a story of duty, patriotism, a mother’s devotion to a daughter’s memory, and her family’s disappointment in a beloved institution.

Takes the reader on a journey through the unknown parts of golf's history.

This is the first history of the U.S. Army Air Corps unit that incorporated Gen. Claire Chennault's famous "Flying Tigers." During the dark days immediately after Pearl Harbor, most news from the Asian front was bad—with the exception of reports about the Flying Tigers and their successors, the 23rd Fighter Group. Day after day in the deadly skies over China, the 23rd's shark-mouthed P-40s outfought the Japanese. No single American fighter group in World War II performed more varied missions, was more successful, or was more central to the war effort in its theater of operations. By the end of the war, the 23rd had tallied nearly six hundred aerial victories and destroyed nearly four hundred more Japanese aircraft on the ground. Carl Molesworth's Sharks Over China is based on his interviews with the group's survivors and contains numerous rare photographs.

Contains more than 400 photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki before, during, and after those fateful days

Details the Japanese thought process leading up to, during, and after the attack that changed the world.

This narrative about Wilson’s Creek starts with the backdrop of issues—from abolition to succession—in Missouri preceding the Civil War and continues to cover early war issues, such as the search for the Swamp Fox and Battle of Boonville, before culminating with the Battle of Wilson's Creek and its sub-battle at Bloody Hill.

Includes more than 450 official and personal photographs, both U.S. and Vietnamese

Official 50th anniversary commemorative vol. of the Battle of Normandy Foundation--Foreword.

Brave Decisions presents true stories of men in American military history who met a moral challenge and did “the right thing.” Having the courage to choose the right path, these fifteen men, including Ulysses S. Grant, Douglas MacArthur, and Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., have become American heroes. Their dilemmas did not involve simple choices of honor and dishonor but hard, courageous, and ethical paths that had both professional and personal consequences. Brave Decisions highlights leaders who recognized the right course.

The first book to analyze the critical partnership among the Navy, industry, and science forged by World War II and responsible for producing submarines in the United States until 1961, Forged in War by Gary E. Weir won the Roosevelt Prize for naval history.

An account of World War II from the perspective of historians and firsthand observers, this study seeks to provide readers with an accurate picture of how the war was perceived at the time it was fought.

While Cannons Roared is an intimate picture of the American Civil War on the home front, in the corridors of power - and even in the capital's most prestigious hotel. While most books about the war focus on the battlefield, some of the great conflict's most interesting events occurred away from the sound of cannon and rifle fire. These twenty-one entertaining pieces by noted historian John M. Taylor (acclaimed biographer of Civil War figures William Henry Seward and Raphael Semmes) range from an account of how Ulysses S. Grant was for years held personally responsible for a trunk full of stolen money, to the little-known story of how Abraham Lincoln hired a substitute to serve in the Union army on his behalf, and to a full account of the bloodiest political assassination attempt in American history.