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In this compelling memoir Aramís Calderón tells a fascinating story of what it’s like to be a fugitive’s son, what drives a young man into the military, and how his time in combat brings back childhood memories he’d hoped to forget.

Predicting the Winner is a riveting narrative about election night 1952, when computers were used for the first time to predict winners from early returns and the results were launched live and untested on the newest medium for news: television.

Through the lens of the 2019 Cricket World Cup, former senior U.S. embassy official Ted Craig offers an insightful, fast-moving tour through U.S.-Pakistan relations, from 9/11 to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Lincoln and California portrays the previously unrecognized ties between President Abraham Lincoln and the Golden State, portraying his key relationships with close friends and personal acquaintances that helped influence the imperiled Union.

The Gas and Flame Men tells how chemical warfare changed the course of World War I, war in general, and the game of baseball—with famous players stepping away from the game to serve and fight in France.

Molyvos chronicles the work of Melinda McRostie and a few friends in Molyvos—on the north coast of the Greek island of Lesvos—as well as Eric and Philippa Kempton at Eftalou as they carried out the only refugee relief effort on the north coast between 2014 and 2015.

In Spymaster’s Prism, the legendary spymaster Jack Devine aims to ignite public discourse on our country’s intelligence, covert action, and counterintelligence posture against Russia.

This biography of Richard Nixon covers his uniquely Southern California life in full circle, from his birth in Yorba Linda to his final resting place just a few yards from the home in which he was born.

Told in real time, this is the story of President Abraham Lincoln, his cabinet, and his military commanders during the first days of the Civil War.

Based on previously unpublished research, noted historian D. M. Giangreco provides a concise account of President Harry S. Truman’s decision to drop the atom bomb during World War II, focusing on the question: What did Truman know, and when did he know it?

Spy Ships highlights specialized naval ships used for collecting intelligence and reveals their major impact on military operations and national security.

All Souls Day is the reconstruction of a little-known battle during World War II and the impact it has to this day.

In this journal Boatswain’s Mate James Morrison recounts the Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty’s 1787 voyage and the ensuing mutiny, providing an invaluable resource for naval historians and an enthralling tale for the general reader.

A no-holds-barred account of the reality one woman faced in war, War Flower pushes back against the stereotypes of women in combat.

A woman Marine officer’s story of coming of age.

A journalist embedded with Navy SEALs in Iraq recounts his time on the battlefield and the journey there and back.

After Combat introduces readers to the wars fought by military forces from the perspective of the combatants. Veterans narrate what Tim O’Brien calls a “true war story”: one without obvious purpose or moral imputation, independent of civilian logic, propaganda goals, and even peacetime convention.

Michael G. Waltz offers a unique, firsthand account of the American war effort in Afghanistan as he recounts experiences as both a policy official and a Special Forces officer in the Bush and Obama administrations.

Using an unprecedented human rights trial as its lens, The Disappeared tells the extraordinary saga of Argentina’s attempt to prosecute its aging Dirty Warriors a generation after the collapse of its last military regime.

John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco tells the history of the Unaccompanied Cuban Children’s Program, known as Operation Pedro Pan, which brought more than fourteen thousand children from Castro’s Cuba to the United States between 1960 and 1962.

This multilayered biography examines five remarkable women (Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Clara Barton, Julia Ward Howe, and Sarah Josepha Hale) who made important contributions to the Union cause before, during, and after the defining years of the American Civil War.