The best armed forces books

Delve into women’s American history and discover the women and their families who acted with courage and tenacity to preserve freedom, from original sources. From the feisty women and girls who escaped captivity in the French and Indian war; women who boycotted tea, acted as spies, and one attributed with saving the continental army by delaying the most famous British general of the American Revolution; women who helped at home and in camps during the War wartimes, nurses during the civil war, to more modern wars, the stories include quotes, excerpts or letters and sermons. Whiting and her co-author are both veteran wives of military men and had other family members serve in wartime. The stories come from the heart of authors.

FDR transformed the presidency into an institution of domestic and international leadership, providing a model against which every successor was measured. My book is unique in focusing on the leadership skills he displayed as domestic reformer in the 1930s and as wartime commander-in-chief. It explains how he enhanced the presidency’s governing capacity, promoted a constitutional revolution, forged a new intimacy between Americans and their president through his genius for political communication, and transformed the Democrats from minority to majority party. It further demonstrates his strategic and organizational leadership during America’s greatest foreign war, his role in holding together the US-UK-Soviet Grand Alliance, and his pioneering development of the national-security presidency. Given this range of accomplishments, FDR merits recognition as America’s greatest president.

Co-authored by Professor Martin Seligman, Tomorrowmind tackles the challenges of thriving in our modern world of work with a 70,000-year-old brain. How can we not only survive but flourish amidst the never-ending cycles of change and unprecedented uncertainty that threatens to drown us daily? Drawing from their original research, Kellerman and Seligman outline five key skills that today’s professionals need to develop to achieve their potential. It also offers guidance for organizational leaders looking to arm their workforce with the capabilities that will future-proof their firm’s success.

Since the end of the draft, the U.S. Army has prided itself on its patriotic volunteers who heed the call to “Be All That You Can Be.” But beneath the recruitment slogans, the army promised volunteers something more tangible: a social safety net including medical and dental care, education, child care, financial counseling, housing assistance, legal services, and other privileges that had long been reserved for career soldiers. 

The Rise of the Military Welfare State examines how the U.S. Army’s extension of benefits to enlisted men and women created a military welfare system of unprecedented size and scope at the end of the twentieth century. And it examines how this welfare state fared amidst the rollback of civilian social welfare, a turn to “self-reliance” within the military leadership, and the growth of military privatization and outsourcing.  

Whether you are stalled on the smallest of tasks or on major projects with long time spans, you'll find that The Sixty-Second Self-Starter is both a valuable tool and an action guide for helping you become more accomplished and more satisfied with your work and your life.

You’ll find great value in The Sixty-Second Self-Starter for several reasons. The 60 tips range from time-tested techniques to fresh and innovative insights that other people have found to be helpful. Also, the book was written in an engaging, friendly, witty, down-to-earth style. As a former procrastinator, I share with you the insider techniques and vital lessons that I’ve learned over the years which help keep procrastination at bay. 

The year is 2319. The galactic war with the aliens known as the Serken had finally turned to the favor of the Allied words for the first time in over a decade. Yet it is far from over. Lt. Commander Roy O’Hara leads his squadron of combat space fighters against the enemy’s latest Super Destroyer and is shot down over an unexplored planet. Near death, Roy is found by a beautiful healer named Katreena. Roy finds that both of their fates are intertwined in prophecy and in a secret that the planet holds, which could be the key to winning the war or further destruction.

Weary Warriors explores the impact of armed conflicts on the human body, mind, and soul of combatants across two centuries of wars in modern times. It offers a history of military psychiatry from the American Civil War to the recent Afghanistan conflict. The invisible wounds of combat and warfare are themselves a military occupation of the individual veteran’s body, personality, human spirit, and life. Cultural constructs of masculinity are also examined. A complex interplay of truths and traumas, and of power relations and diagnostic and treatment practices, operate through dynamic relationships of combat, care, and control.    

Memory is Our Home is a thirty-year account that reveals the vibrant life of my family and of Eastern European, twentieth-century Jewish history and culture. The firsthand accounts link together Jewish life during the interwar years, Poland under the Nazi’s murderess grip, and the fate of Jews surviving throughout Russia and Uzbekistan during WWII.

My mother survived against all odds, and in the midst of all the tragedy, she even experienced love. What followed was a shocking repatriation home to Poland, to the “vast graveyard” and Jewish life under a new kind of oppression, communism. Interwoven with my mother’s journals are stories she told me throughout my life and my own recollections from life in the shadows of the Holocaust aftermath into the late 1960s.

The popularity of dinosaurs seems never-ending, as evidenced by the popularity of films such Jurassic Park and documentaries like Walking with Dinosaurs. But how much do these types of entertainment really tell us about recent scientific discoveries and the latest research into the world of the dinosaur?

This is the first book that explains how scientists have been able to put together a picture of how dinosaurs looked, what they ate, and how they moved and interacted with each other. Taking a new approach to the subject, David Norman combines different areas of science, such as anatomy, genetics, forensics, and engineering design, to piece together the latest evidence of how animal life evolved on earth. 

Traumatized by the effects of Compression travel, Irish soldier Darren Loughlin holds the key to the fate of Earth’s Martian colonies. With his Battalion decimated, his fractured memory holds the only clues to the colony-wide communications blackout.

With time running out, Darren pieces together his year-long tour of duty with the Mars Occupation Force. Stationed in the Nazi-founded New Berlin colony, ruled by the brutal MARSCORP, he recounts his part in the vicious, genocidal war against the hostile alien natives and all who question Terran supremacy. But as his memories return, Darren suspects he is at the centre of a plot spanning forty years. He has one last mission to carry out. And his alien enemies may be more human than he is…