Examines the story of Operation Red Wings and Operation Whalers involving the Marines in Afghanistan in June 2005, the deaths of nineteen U.S. military soldiers, the demise of Ahmad Shah, and the impact this incident had on the War on ...

This book analyzes the many things that went wrong in the Battle for Peleliu, and in doing so, corrects several earlier accounts of the campaign.

This book fills a void and tells the story of one of the key leaders in World War II. More than any other marine, Holcomb molded his Corps into the modern force-in-readiness that would eventually help fight the Cold War and the Global War ...

William H. Bartsch draws on correspondence, interviews, diaries, memoirs, and official war records, including those translated from Japanese sources, to offer an intensely human narrative of the failed attempt to recapture Guadalcanal’s ...

Shuri no longer seemed invincible. This book presents the story of the United States Marines in the battle for Okinawa in World War II.