Explores the life of General Curtis LeMay, a decorated pilot, who masterminded the Tokyo firebombings, tried to prevent the Bay of Pigs, and ran for Vice President as George Wallace's running mate.

Challenges opinions about the Civil War general's presidency, explaining how Grant enabled the country to achieve a sense of post-war calm and applied constructive political strategies in favor of less effective occupation tactics.

"Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most complicated generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant'slife has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil...

A war-time memoir of Major Dick Winters, who assumed command of Easy Company, known as the "Band of Brothers, " when they parachuted into France on D-Day, and describes their trek across Europe, the Battle of the Bulge, liberation of concentration camps, and capture of Hitler's alpine retreat.

Drawing on General Patton's own diaries, letters, speeches and personal papers, shows how the military commander's faith played a big role in his successes on the battlefield.

In this lavishly illustrated volume, Larry McMurtry, the greatest chronicler of the American West, tackles for the first time one of the paramount figures of Western and American history. On June 25, 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry attacked a large Lakota Cheyenne village on the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory. He lost not only the battle but his life-and the lives of his entire cavalry. "Custer's Last Stand" was...

"The Asset Mindset ... delivers twelve chapters of self-awareness, self-manifestation, and personal development, helping you to: Discover and change any negative mindsets and behaviors that prevent you from achieving success; build a mindset you will be proud to live with and start creating positive changes today; [and] turn yourself into an elite-level asset, the kind that overcomes any obstacle that life may throw at you."--

Joseph Bonsall, a long-time member of the Oak Ridge Boys, shares the story of the Pennsylvania couple who inspired his song "G.I. Joe and Lillie, " telling how they met during World War II when she was a corporal in the Woman's Army Corp and he was a patient in an Army hospital, and how she honored her vow to stay with him and love him through good times and bad.

Presents a memoir in which Tommy Franks, Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command from July 2000 through July 2003, recalls his life, discussing his childhood and military career, and providing a behind-the-scenes look at the War on Terrorism.