"Rick Atkinson ... has long been admired for his unparalleled ability to write deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative history. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he tells the story of the first twenty months of the bloody struggle to shake free of King George's shackles. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, the ragtag...

"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist-I really believe he is Antichrist-I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave,' as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you-sit down and tell me...

Finally, a candidate representing all Americans—both predator and prey! Tired of politics as usual? Despair This election year, Rita Mae Brown has thrown her cat into the ring. Her intrepid feline co-author, Sneaky Pie Brown, is taking time off from her busy schedule writing bestselling mysteries to run for President of the United States. Hail to the Sneaky Pie heads to the Oval Office with an animal-friendly agenda to unify all Americans—regardless...

Color illustrations fill this overview of the battles, soldiers, weapons, and issues that shaped the first two years of the American Revolution.

Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. This book takes readers to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made a triumphant...

A memoir covering the author's decision to join the Marines and attend Marine Corps Officer Candidate School, which led to his role as commander of a forty-man infantry platoon in Iraq, where he fought insurgents and bonded with the men in his unit.

Explains that Presidents Kennedy and Johnson believed that Communism had to be defeated in Vietnam to protect the United States, but once there U.S. forces faced an elusive and unconventional enemy.

American Navy SEAL and team leader Marcus Luttrell tells his story of the loss of his teammates in July 2005 along the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border to al-Qaida insurgents.