Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history - and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort.....

This one-volume anthology provides a comprehensive analysis of the role that air power has played in military conflicts over the past century....

A revealing look at the powerful lessons the Treaty of Versailles has for us today....

The operation known as Market Garden - made famous in the book and film A Bridge Too Far - was the largest airborne assault in history up to that time....

For more than 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads not only for armies but also for clashes between civilizations....

In the darkness before moonrise on the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast on August 21, 1940, the night erupted in a fusillade of bullets and shells....

This is the first modern history of the Marines in a generation....

Countless brave animals have played their part in the long, cruel history of warfare....

Learn about Armistice Day with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.....

Niccolo Machiavelli's Art of War is one of the world's great classics of military and political theory....

In 1942, the small Mediterranean island of Malta was the most heavily bombed place on earth....

From one of the country's most prominent writers and one of the military's most outspoken generals comes the audiobook every American must listen to....

No espionage missions have been kept more secret than those involving American submarines....

A Band of Brothers for the Pacific, this is the gut-wrenching but ultimately triumphant story of the Marines' most ferocious, yet largely forgotten, battle of World War II....

Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked...

Crossbow was Don Bendell's first book ever, but many still say that it was his best, as it was written very much from the heart....

From Pearl Harbor to Midway to Tokyo Bay, Alvin Kernan's career in the U.S. Navy spanned...

This compendium fleshes out the century's best known military mishaps....

Inte ens Stalin kunde l?ta bli att imponeras av D-dagen....

From its beginnings, America has acted out much of its history on the battlefront. Yet for the average American, little is known of the Spanish-American War....

Dirty Little Secrets fearlessly takes aim at the seemingly impressive facade of modern military power....

Chris Hunter has the most dangerous job in the world in the most dangerous place in the world: he's responsible for bomb disposal in the British sector of Iraq....

November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I....

After its successful landing at Inchon and capture of Seoul in September 1950, the U.S. X Corps was joined by Eighth Army, and many people expected the two commands to be combined into one....

Michael Veitch's life-long obsession with the aircraft of the Second World War led him to conclude that every single person who flew, or flew in them, has at least one extraordinary story to tell....

On rare occasions in American history, Congress enacts a measure so astute, so far-reaching, so revolutionary, it enters the language as a metaphor....

If I were God, what would you want for Christmas?

Grace Under Fire is an extraordinary, moving record of the importance of religion and spirituality to troops and their families from the American Revolution through the fighting in Iraq....

December 1944. General MacArthur has vowed to return to the Philippines with the help of the Pacific Fleet. But at the height of the invasion, the ships are blindsided by a typhoon....

Military life has usually been a unique and peculiar experience for most civilians exposed to it....

On 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War, the Light Brigade of the British Cavalry Division made the most magnificent and most brutal charge in military history....

In this extraordinary audiobook, Robert D. Kaplan lets listeners experience up close the American military worldwide in the air, at sea, and on the ground....

In this extraordinary audiobook, Robert D. Kaplan lets listeners experience up close the American military worldwide in the air, at sea, and on the ground....

Throughout history great generals have done what their enemies have least expected....

On the eve of the 65th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe, Larry Alexander returns to the very battlefields that made Easy Company a legend. ....

We could see them now, hundreds of little black figures riding through the chaparral. A spent bullet...

Jeb Stuart: The Last Cavalier is a full and definitive biography of the dashing and enigmatic Confederate hero of the Civil War, General J.E.B. Stuart....

The vivid battle scenes will satisfy fans of military memoirs, but it's Campbell's sense of duty, faith, and love for his men that makes Joker One a truly extraordinary account of war....

This work offers a firsthand account of the Battle of Tora Bora and an insider's look at the extraordinary nature of America's supersecret counterterrorist unit....

The Military Gazette is a vivid portrait of military life through the centuries, as lived by the generations of men and women who took part....

The Military Gazette, is a vivid portrait of military life through the centuries, as lived by the generations of men and women who took part....

My Tank Is Fight! contains a humorous and exciting examination of 20 real inventions from World War II that never saw the light of day....

No military figure in history has been quite as polarizing as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he a monster, driven by an endless, ruinous quest for military glory....

Part Blackhawk Down, part The Riddle of the Sands, former MI6 officer Harry Ferguson has written an extraordinarily gripping non-fiction thriller....

Southern Afghanistan: reporter Stephen Grey is embedded with B Company, 2 Yorks, during Operation Snakebite....

George S. Patton was a general who achieved greatness in his field by contradicting his own nature....

It was phenomenally successful in the air, breathtakingly decisive on the ground - and suddenly the war in the Persian Gulf was over, with an overwhelming victory for the allied forces....

In this factual account written with General Carl Steiner (Ret.), a commander who held responsibility for all U.S. Special Operations forces, we get insight into a largely secretive community....

General William Tecumseh Sherman is known as the man who said War is hell and who waged it so fiercely that it left a permanent scar on the Southern psyche....

In a burnished, driving prose, incorporating a myriad of fresh sources, John Keegan tells the story of the Allies' greatest military achievement as he chronicles the 1944 invasion of Normandy....

With Soldiers of Reason, Alex Abella has rewritten the history of Americas last half century and cast a new light on our problematic present....

What happens to the elite, close-knit soldiers of Australia's Special Air Service (SAS) Regiment after they leave the Who Dares Wins world of special forces? Find out....

This volume looks at the history of the D-Day Invasion, the story and context of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Battle of Waterloo, the importance of Armistice Day, the history of the Spanish Inquisition, and more....

For the soldiers and officers of Australia's Special Air Service (SAS) Regimenta?? this is not just their professional mottoa?? but a creed that shapes their lives....

In this brilliant new book, historian William I. Hitchcock surveys the European continent from D-Day to the final battles of the war and the first few months of the peace....

The true story of this enthralling adventure has become obscured by the legend....

On Easter morning, 1972, Marine captain John Ripley braved intense enemy fire to blow up a bridge...

From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgetable audiobook that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time....

The story of the Special Forces in World War II has never fully been told before....

It was the first war we could not win....

On May 24, 1940, Hitler's armies were on the brink of a shattering military victory. Only 10 miles away, 400,000 Allied troops were pinned against the coast of Dunkirk....

In the dark and uncertain days of 1941 and 1942, when Rommel's tanks were sweeping towards Suez, a handful of daring raiders were making history for the Allies....

A landmark work of history that challenges our most basic assumptions about the causes and consequences of the First World War....

The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China presents us with an Eastern tradition of strategic thought....

The Somme has remained a byword for the futility of war ever since....

Armed with M1 rifles, bayonets, and a few hand grenades, young soldiers from different units, operating without command, come together as The Stragglers....

On September 6, 1943, 338 B-17 Flying Fortresses of the American Eighth Air Force took off from England, bound for Stuttgart, Germany, to bomb Nazi weapons factories....

In November 1943, while on war patrol in the Makassar Strait, the USS Billfish submarine was spotted by the Japanese, who launched a vicious depth-charge attack....

As an embedded journalist in Iraq, North got a soldier's-eye view, often while under fire, of what the mainstream media failed to report....

In his college war course, Dr. Shermer mixes straight narrative history with science, philosophy, and theory as to the causes and solutions to war....

Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway revisit their relationships with 10 American veterans of the battle....

On May 7th, 1915 a passenger ship crossing the Atlantic sank with the loss of 1200 lives....

In 1967, a bullet cost 13 cents, and no one gave Uncle Sam a bigger bang for his buck than the 5th Marine Regiment Sniper Platoon...

Going far beyond a military account, Segev re-creates the crisis in Israel before 1967....

One of the great untold stories of WW II finally comes to light in this account of the members of Torpedo Squadron Eight and their heroic efforts in helping an outmatched U.S. fleet ....

Starting with the premise that all civilizations owe their origins to warmaking, Keegan probes the meanings, motivations, and methods underlying war in different societies....

A lavish production featuring two fascinating and unique tales of World War I, this Reality audio book iis an absolute must for any World War enthusiast.....

As David Lipsky follows a future generation of army officers from their proving grounds to their barracks, he reveals the range of emotions and desires that propels these men and women forward....

Few individuals have the chance to contribute so much of themselves to the American story as General Tommy Franks. In American Soldier, he captures it all....

Bomber is the story of the final mission of RAF Lancaster bomber WF183, call sign O, Orange, which took place one night in 1943....

Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history, but even though he was at the forefront of the political scene for almost 60 years...

Civilization and Its Enemies is an extraordinary tour de force by America's reigning philosopher of 9/11, Lee Harris....

The son of Jamaican immigrants, a mischievous child, and an average student, Colin Powell has become one of the most influential Americans....

The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II....

In Counterinsurgency, Kilcullen brings together his most salient writings on this vitally important topic....

The protection of cyberspace, the information medium, has become a vital national interest because of its importance both to the economy and to military power....

Based on interviews with Japanese and American survivors, letters, diaries, and other primary sources, Danger's Hour explores the May 11, 1945, attack on the USS Bunker Hill....

Within the living memory of Americans are two deadly surprise attacks against the United States....

When Hitler declared war on the United States, he bet that the young men brought up in the Hitler Youth would outfight...

On the day that Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister, Germany invaded Holland and Belgium....

As Hitler proceeded with his invasion plans, code-named Operation Sealion, he knew that the RAF must not be allowed to threaten the invading forces as they crossed the Channel....

From July to September 1940, the British people watched the Battle of Britain play out in the skies above them, aware that the eventual outcome would decide their fate....

Audible presents a special collection of Fresh Air interviews related to the Mideast Crisis...

The first great war correspondent of the Middle Ages, Jean Froissart chronicled events during...

Halliburtons Army is the first book to show, in shocking detail, how Halliburton really does business in Iraq and around the world....

When Hitler came to power in the 1930s, Germany had led the world in science, mathematics, and technology for nearly four decades....

In this landmark book, Robert D. Kaplan shows how American imperialism and the Global War on Terrorism are implemented on the ground....

In this landmark book, Robert D. Kaplan shows how American imperialism and the Global War on Terrorism are implemented on the ground....

In January of 1940, France possessed the most powerful army in Europe.....

In fiction, the spy is a glamorous figure whose secrets make or break peace, but, historically, has intelligence really been a vital step to military victories?

In this breakthrough study, preeminent war historian John Keegan goes to the heart of a series of important conflicts to develop a powerful argument about military intelligence...

The military victory in Iraq was stunning and swift, but months after the fall of Baghdad, the U.S. military is still fighting....

On May 7, 1915, toward the end of a routine crossing from New York to Liverpool, England, RMS Lusitania...

More than two years into America's conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States' all-volunteer force is stretched as thinly as it's ever been....

Stephen Ambrose tells the miraculous story of how a single American company took the Remagen Bridge over the Rhine...

In these brilliant essays, some of our finest military historians reveal little-known facts and events from WWII. W.A.B. Douglas exposes the Nazi's armed landing on North American soil...

Author and former intelligence officer Amy Waters Yarsinske breaks the incredible true story of the first American pilot shot down during the Gulf War....

Author and former intelligence officer Amy Waters Yarsinske breaks the incredible true story of the first American pilot shot down during the Gulf War...

The epic battle for Fallujah revealed the startling connections between policy and combat that are a part of the new reality of war....

A Prussian soldier and writer, von Clausewitz is said to have distilled Napoleon into theory...

Throughout time, leaders at the pinnacle of power - popes and kings, presidents and prime ministers, czars and generals - have subscribed to the belief that they can change the course of history...

From the earliest days of his dictatorship, Saddam Hussein had vowed to destroy Israel....

One of the great secrets of the Cold War, hidden for decades, is revealed at last....

Twenty-five years after the fall of Saigon, the legacy of the war affects lives on both sides of the Pacific....

For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport....

In 1991, acting on a tip from a local fisherman, two scuba divers discovered a sunken German U-boat, complete with its crew of 60 men, not too far off the New Jersey coast....

Set on retaking the Philippines ever since his ignominious flight from the islands in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur needed a first-rate intelligence-gathering unit....

This is the story of James Leininger, who---a little more than two weeks after his second birthday---began having blood-curdling nightmares that just would not stop....

Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky has broken down the iron curtain...

In August 1942, an overconfident Adolf Hitler would attempt to invade Stalin's namesake city on the Volga...

Decorated army officer Major Ed Dames tells the shocking true story of his time as operations and training officer for the top-secret Psychic Intelligence Unit....

David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare....

Written before Alexander the Great was born, this Chinese treatise on war has become one of the most influential works on the subject....

This first-hand account of the noble, barbaric Fourth Crusade was written by Geoffroy de Villehardouin...

Fighting itself can be a source of great, perhaps even the greatest, joy; out of this joy and fascination an entire culture has grown....

Every day ordinary young Americans are fighting and dying in Iraq, with the same bravery, honor, and sense of duty that have distinguished American troops throughout history....

Every day ordinary young Americans are fighting and dying in Iraq, with the same bravery, honor, and sense of duty that have distinguished American troops throughout history....

Before General MacArthur could fulfill his stirring promise of I shall return and retake the Philippines from Japanese control, a remarkable rescue mission would have to take place....

Civilization may face no greater enemy than Saddam Hussein...

It is the world's most widely recognized weapon, the most profuse tool for killing ever made....

In The March of Folly, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian Barbara Tuchman tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages...

In this riveting series of lectures, Professor Timothy B. Shutt of Kenyon College explores the naval battles that have helped to establish empires and have changed history....

The fateful quarter-century leading up to World War I was a time when the world of privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of protest was heaving in its pain....

This ScientificAmerican.com special report covers the development and spread of weapons...

In 1992 Vasili Mitrokhin defected to England and brought along an extensive archive of military intelligence from the Soviet Union. A career KGB officer...

Philosopher, ethicist, and psychoanalyst Nancy Sherman explores the psychological and moral burdens borne by soldiers....

Here, freelance writer Aaron Glantz hones in on the momentous impact of the Iraq war on injured veterans as they return home....

In this timely book, Lawrence Kaplan and William Kristol take a hard look at Saddam Hussein....

Days of Infamy; Red Runs the Vistula; Korea: The Unfinished War; Revisiting Vietnam; Massacre at Cuska; The Few Who Stayed; Married to the Military....

Combat veteran and author Hans Halberstadt takes listeners deeper inside the elusive world of snipers than ever before....

In their new book, Unfit for Command, John O'Neill and co-author Jerome Corsi bring together the words of more than 200 Navy veterans who served with Kerry and feel it their duty to....

In Uranium, Tom Zoellner takes readers around the globe in this intriguing look at the mineral that can sustain life or destroy it....

Dan Lyons resigned as Dean at Gonzaga University to become the free world's leading advocate of winning...

How Britain, at the height of her imperial power, sent an entire fleet to blockade Greece....

It was the final and conclusive battle of the Napoleonic Wars, after Bonaparte returned from exile in Elba....

Carter describes the history of previous peace efforts and why they fell short. This is President Carter's call for action, and he lays out a practical and doable path to peace....

With the evolution of the parachute, the paratrooper, and the helicopter, traditional ground warfare acquired a new, third dimension....

We examine the different anti-aircraft cannons, rockets, and radar systems designed to blast enemy aircraft from friendly skies.

Answering the desperate calls for air strikes from soldiers in the jungle, U.S. fighters and bombers unleashed their fury on the enemy in Vietnam....

An aircraft carrier is today's most versatile and powerful weapon....

Before the age of the supersonic airplanes, airships were the most dominant threat in the sky....

We take a look at the vehicles that make possible the most complex of military maneuvers: the amphibious assault landing....

The tactics of tank-versus-tank combat are examined, as well as the goals of the tank infantry team....

We look at the challenges faced by Army engineers as they work to breech a seemingly impregnable enemy fortress....

We look at how airplanes have adapted to flying low and slow to help troops engaged in ground combat....

This episode traces the marriage of firepower and the helicopter....

We explore the evolution of armor and weapons for fighting men....

Today's supersonic dogfights, submarines that lurk beneath the waves, and mechanized forces that fire projectiles at tremendous speeds would not be possible without yesterday's tactics and tools....

There was a time when the battleship was the largest mobile structure on the face of the earth. A nation's power was measured by the number of battleships sailing under its flag....

When it comes to superior firepower, military leaders have often believed that bigger is better....

The early aviators used to chuck hand grenades on the enemy below. Soon, they began to pitch small cast-iron bombs from their open cockpits....

The flintlock rifle, when first placed in the hands of infantrymen, gave them more power than ever before....

Since 1790, the U.S. Coast Guard has fought along side her sister services in every national conflict....

Near the turn of the century, wounded soldiers had a slim chance of surviving their battlefield injuries....

A general can't expect his soldiers to win if he can't communicate with them....

From the rugged four pipers (destroyers with four smoke stacks) in World War I to today's sophisticated floating fortresses, the destroyer remains the most versatile of all naval ships....

Elite forces in the German army were carefully selected and given dangerous assignments in WWII....

The evolution of famous small arms from hand-held mini-cannons to laser-aimed rifles....

The U.S. Marines who fought for control of the Pacific islands in World War II had to fight for every yard....

The story of the soldiers and Marines who saw combat in Vietnam....

We look at the military power that has been unleashed by the United States and the unmatched arsenal it has at its disposal....

Armored cars gave soldiers the chance to shoot on the move....

Hitler's tanks, artillery and mechanized infantry cut enemy resistance with speed and power....

We look at the menacing power of the deadliest submarine force in history....

In the Fall of 1939, Hitler unleashed the Luftwaffe air force, which destroyed their rivals with unrelenting artillery....

The Korean War was a turning point in the struggle between Communism and the West....

This program reveals how the Navy's fighting team of ships and aircraft worked together to gain victory against the Japanese in the many bloody campaigns of the Pacific....

This episode explores the developments in precision guidance that have revolutionized the role of strike aircraft....

We trace the history of the world's most powerful weapons: ballistic missile submarines....

A look at the dramatic introduction of jet planes - in the skies over Europe in World War II and from the first jet aces in Korea to the supersonic fighters of today....

Although they comprised only two percent of the Navy, U.S. submariners sunk over 60 percent of all Japanese ships in World War II....

Methods of training soldiers - war games - have changed dramatically throughout military history....

A military expert reveals how science fiction is fast becoming reality on the battlefield....

Historians have said that World War II was a continuation of World War I....

Historians have said that World War II was a continuation of World War I....

World War One began on horseback, with generals employing bayonet charges to gain ground, and ended with attacks resembling the Nazi blitzkriegs....