Product Description: Going beyond the battles and the memoirs, this book offers a unique, intimate and informative portrayal of this nation's greatest catastrophe, the War Between the States.

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Covers the battles and campaigns, leaders, major military units, and weaponry of World War II in the Pacific, and examines the political, social, and economic factors that affected the war's progress and outcome. (view table of contents)

The latest in the popular Dirty Little Secrets series offers more than two hundred sections detailing suppressed or longforgotten facts about the conflict in Vietnam, including a look at the beginnings of the Navy's Top Gun combat school and much more. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

The latest in the popular Dirty Little Secrets series offers more than two hundred sections detailing suppressed or long-forgotten facts about the conflict in Vietnam, including a look at the beginnings of the Navy's Top Gun combat school and much more. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Describes the loosely organized networks of people, both free and slave, who helped fugitives from the South escape slavery to freedom in the North or in Canada

Describes the covert actions which occurred on both sides during the Civil War

Book by Dunnigan, James F., Nofi, Albert A.

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It was the bloodiest battle of the bloodiest war in American history. It was the “high tide” of the Confederacy. At Gettysburg men fought in places that speak of the firm nature of their combat: Devils Den, the Slaughter Pen, the Valley of Death. Others sound more innocuous, that Wheat Field, the Peach Orchard, Little Round Top - but these too resound with the life and death struggle of brutal war. It was at Gettysburg that three days decided a war and changed the future of a nation. The Gettysburg Campaign is a revised edition of one of the best histories of the events that led to, culminated in, and followed the epic battle of Gettysburg. The story begins with the grand cavalry battles and skirmishes that marked the beginning of Lee's epic invasion of the North. Historian Albert A. Nofi follows the pattern of events that led both armies to the crossroads town of Gettysburg where the terrible whirlwind of battle intensified. The awful second day of the fight is presented in grim detail with a complete accounting of savage thrust and counterthrust. The book investigates the planning that led to the panoramic charge of General Pickett's command which ended in disaster. Finally there is the grim march from the battlefield as the Confederates retreated to Virginia timidly pursued by the victorious Federals.Supplementing the telling narrative are informative and descriptive sidebars giving nuts-and-bolts information about the battle. These cover in detail such topics as strategy, tactics, logistics, and personalities giving the reader a comprehensive perception of one of the greatest events in American history. Maps cover the movements of armies to Gettysburg and the tactical ploys for each day of the battle. The Gettysburg Campaign has been reedited and redesigned to include more sidebars, a complete order of battle with strength data, and new pictures. It improves a book that has already been noted as a “must read” for anyone interested in the battle of Gettysburg and the Civil War. (view table of contents)

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Covers battles of the Pacific, with information on the ships and aircraft that were used, strategies that were applied, and biographical sketches of major participants

Historical entries capture little-known aspects of World War II, exposing the dark, misunderstood, and tragicomic aspects of the war

Product Description: 31 b&w illus. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4. $12.95 value.

Product Description: Renowned historian and military commentator Albert A. Nofi brings together for the first time in paperback a series of hard-hitting essays on World War II's most pivotal campaigns; clear, concise and packed with information.

Revealing the importance of deception in ancient and modern warfare in its various guises--surprise, stealth, ambush, camouflage--an analysis by military experts explains how deception has become a media tool and how to recognize it. 20,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.

Product Description: "Shooting blanks" is what happens when the troops are called out and the results are not what was expected. The authors, distinguished defense analysts, look closely at all aspects of war-making--from officer training and weapons procurement to intelligence gathering and the relationship between "bullets and ballots"--and deliver a startling, timely clarion call that concerned citizens can't afford to ignore...read more

Product Description: Veteran Civil War historian and military commentator Al Nofi has compiled a dramatic selection of personal narratives extending from the Secession debate to Fort Sumter to the end of the first year of the Civil War.

Product Description: An engaging collection of more than 500 startling facts, anecdotes and other small jottings about America's War Between the States. Arranged roughly in chronological order, with chapters for pre-war and post-war and the five war years, these items are not only amusing and entertaining, but give considerable insight into many of the key personalities of the war...read more

Product Description: It was a small war as such things go, probably no more than 2,500 men were ever engaged in a single action, both sides taken together. It was a short war too, lasting only about seven months. And it was certainly fought in what was at the time one of the most obscure corners of the world...read more