Books

In a forgotten historical footnote, the U.S. implemented its first-ever peacetime draft in 1940. It would prove crucial in...

In the novel, Steele must contend with a foreign assassin who's targeting top-tier U.S. military personnel and protect our...

Henry Johnson served in World War I as a member of the 369th Regiment, the African American unit that was later called the...

His new book is full of action, but it’s has other stuff soldiers experience in combat, like embarrassment, confusion, and...

Two Marine sergeants and their captain/author reflect on the book that won the prestigious National Book Award for fiction.

Civilians know that the war in Iraq was a different kind of war, with large numbers of weekend warrior National Guardsmen and...

UNC-Chapel Hill religion historian Bart Ehrman's latest book, mounting a historical proof for the existence of Jesus, is so...

Tom King's "Sheriff of Babylon” is a crime drama in comic book form set during the early years of the Iraq War.

As America's World War II generation passes into history, one of the last living veterans of the pivotal campaigns of the...

Made famous by the HBO miniseries The Pacific, McEnery's rifle company, the legendary K/3/5 of the First Marine Division...