A popular history of battlefield medicine from the Revolutionary War to the present, told through stirring portraits of our unsung heroes, America's military medics and corpsmen.

They left Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Michigan, and Stanford to drive ambulances on the French front, and on the killing fields of World War I they learned that war was no place for gentlemen.

As featured on 60 Minutes,a shocking eyewitness account from the inner circle of power in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

“The further backward you look, the further forward you can see,” said Winston Churchill. Using that statement as a springboard, this informative and helpful book studies five of history’s heroes and shows how their qualities can help reshape your life.

"A brilliant biography which will surely become a classic life of Napoleon."--Lawrence James, The Times(London)

From the best-selling author of A Man Called Intrepid (The Lyons Press, 2000) comes the first full-fledged biography of Vera Atkins, of whom James Bond creator Ian Fleming said, "In the real world of spies, Vera Atkins was the boss."

A firsthand account of life with Hitler from 1942 until his death in the Berlin bunker in 1945, by the woman who was his last secretary.

A fast-paced look at the ways in which human history has been decided by the unaccountable whim of nature.

The Pulitzer-prize winning senior foreign correspondent for the New York Timesdraws on his profound grasp of the people and culture of Indochina to offer a fresh perspective on Vietnam.

A fascinating and enlightening look at the absurd and bizarre events of battle that changed the course of history, from a respected journalist and military historian.