The chief diver of Pearl Harbor's salvage operations tells the story of the desparate attempts to save the ships and those trapped inside after the air raid in December, 1941.

From Germany's invasion of Poland to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, from D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge to Iwo Jima and Bataan, the legendary battles and encounters of the Second World War have been the subjects of innumerable books. Yet, within the history of World War II, a wide range of mysterious, baffling, oddly coincidental, and inexplicable events remain. Now, critically acclaimed military historian William Breuer presents the first...

This volume investigates the ties in the United States; South among citizens to the American Civil War that ended more than 130 years previously. The author reports on contemporary attitudes on the Civil War and how it is discussed and taught, as well as attitudes about race. Written in the form of dispatches posted at varying times, it recounts the author's Civil War explorations in the South. Some of his encounters are humerous, but many open a...

Recounts a 1993 firefight in Mogadishu, Somalia, that resulted in the deaths of eighteen Americans and more than five hundred Somalis, examining the rationales behind the disastrous raid. "Already a classic of war reporting and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden's brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S....