Category: Post-War

On October 3, 1993, a band of U.S. soldiers embarked on a mission in Somalia to capture two warlords. It was a simple plan. What erupted instead was a night of bloodshed and death. It became the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. This is the extraordinary minute-by-minute account of that courageous, historic, and brutal night.
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The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War

By: Brands, H. W.

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Anchor : October 2017

Seller ID: 206548

ISBN-13: 9781101912171

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world, when he suggested that General Douglas MacArthur, the willful, fearless, and highly decorated commander of the American and U.N. forces, had his finger on the nuclear trigger. At a time when the Soviets, too, had the bomb, the specter of a catastrophic third World War lurked menacingly close on the horizon. A correction quickly followed, but the damage was done; two visions for America's path forward were clearly in opposition, and one man would have to make way. The contest of ...
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The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War

By: Brands, H. W.

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Anchor : October 2017

Seller ID: 216696

ISBN-13: 9781101912171

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world, when he suggested that General Douglas MacArthur, the willful, fearless, and highly decorated commander of the American and U.N. forces, had his finger on the nuclear trigger. At a time when the Soviets, too, had the bomb, the specter of a catastrophic third World War lurked menacingly close on the horizon. A correction quickly followed, but the damage was done; two visions for America's path forward were clearly in opposition, and one man would have to make way. The contest of ...
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Why Angels Fall : A Journey Through Orthodox Europe from Byzantium to Kosovo

By: CLARK, VICTORIA

Price: $12.50

Publisher: St Martins Pr : December 2000

Seller ID: 214529

ISBN-13: 9780312233969

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Unjacketed black hardcovers show moderate cover wear, firm binding, unmarked text.
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Magnet Ass And The Stone-Cold Truck Hunters: The Story of Vietnam's Most Impossible Flight

By: Cunningham, Will,Pastor, Paul

Price: $14.99

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform : July 2018

Seller ID: 212293

ISBN-13: 9781722194512

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

"Magnet Ass And The Stone-Cold Truck Hunters" is a Vietnam War memoir about Captain Alan "Magnet Ass" Milacek, the "man who flew his plane on one wing." It is a war story. But it is also not a war story. It has everything to do with a white-hot mission over the Plain of Jars in 1970, for which ten men earned The Mackay Trophy, one of history's most coveted aviation awards--and at the same time, it has nothing to do with any of that at all. It is gritty, and it is holy, sometimes full of shit and shrapnel--and at other times as demure as a duck flying over a pond in the dead of winter. Flashing...
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Road to the Killing Fields: The Cambodian War of 1970-1975 (Volume 53) (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series)

By: Deac, Wilfred P.

Price: $27.95

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press : June 2000

Seller ID: 172870

ISBN-13: 9781585440542

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

In 1970, the small nation of Cambodia was sucked into the vortex of Cold War geopolitics, a war whose denouement led to one of the worst bloodbaths in history. Road to the Killing Fields is the first book to deal exclusively with the military aspects of how that tragedy developed. Because U.S. involvement in that part of Southeast Asia was largely clandestine, Americans have had little exposure to the events that led to the horrific citizen massacres known as the "killing fields." Author Wilfred P. Deac offers background information in his introductory chapters, describing Cambodia and its pe...
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