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BLOWTORCH

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History has not been kind to Robert Komer, a casualty of bad historical analysis and inaccurate information. A Cold War national security...

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GREAT ADMIRALS

by Jack Sweetman

Combining scholarship with readability, this collection of nineteen biographical essays has been written by a distinguished international team of...

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ZULU FRONTIERSMAN

by Major C.G. Dennison

It is said that Charles George Dennison saw more active service in the British nineteenth-century colonial wars for southern Africa than any other...

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RICKOVER

by Francis Duncan

As the father of the nuclear powered Navy, Adm. Hyman G. Rickover was a pivotal figure in twentieth-century American history. While many books have...

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ADMIRALS IN THE AGE OF NELSON

by Lee Bienkowski

The period of the French Wars (1793-1815), known as the golden age of fighting sail in Great Britain because of the extraordinary victories won by...

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CONGO

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Lauded for his ability to tell compelling, true adventure stories, award-winning author Andrew C.A. Jampoler has turned his attention this time to a...

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PUSHING THE LIMITS

by Carl LaVO

Vice Admiral Allan Rockwell McCann left no reminiscences that might reveal a deeper sense of his extraordinary service, but naval historian Carl LaVO...

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AN UNSUNG SOLDIER

by Robert S. Jordan

Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster was one of the leading soldier-scholars of his time. He was one of the key figures during the Cold War - one who stood...

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ISHERWOOD, NAVAL ENGINEER

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FIGHTING ADMIRALS OF WORLD WAR II

by David Wragg

Control of the sea was a crucial element in the outcome of World War II. The U-boat campaign almost brought Britain to her knees; the Arctic convoys...

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FOR COUNTRY AND CORPS

by Gail B.Shisler

Oliver P. Smith fought at Peleliu and Okinawa and then commanded the 1st Marine Division in Korea during the assault at Inchon, the recapture of...

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QUEST FOR GLORY

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To win glory and power, to be renowned throughout posterity--such was the ambition that fueled Dahlgren's controversial rise to eminence during the...

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