John C. McManus

Chronicles the American involvement in Operation Market-Garden in 1944, one of World War II's most ambitious, but crucial invasions against Nazi Germany.

"John C. McManus, one of our most highly-acclaimed historians of World War II, takes readers from Pearl Harbor--a rude awakening for a ragtag militia woefully unprepared for war--to Makin, a sliver of coral reef where the Army was tested against the increasingly-desperate Japanese. In between were nearly two years of punishing combat as the Army transformed, at times unsteadily, from an undertrained garrison force into an unstoppable juggernaut, and...

"The latter half of the 20th century was a turbulent time for Vietnam. This small Southeast Asian country once occupied by France found itself divided after nationalist revolutionaries overthrew the colonial government, splitting the country between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the north and the Republic of Vietnam in the south. Worse still, tensions between the two territories gave way to a decades-long civil conflict that would ensnare...