Fall 2007 Trade Paperbacks: War & Military
by Staff -- Publishers Weekly, 8/6/2007
Andrews McMeel
Doonesbury.com's The Sandbox: Dispatches from Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan (Sept., $14.95) by Garry Trudeau culls service members' stories from the online forum.
Conway
(dist. by Trafalgar Square)
The Banzai Hunters: The Forgotten Armada of Little Ships That Defeated the Japanese, 1944–45 (Sept., $14.95) by Peter Haining commemorates the British 14th, which took on the Japanese in Burma in 1944.
Encounter Books
Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy (Oct., $19.95) by Frederick W. Kagan. The military historian analyzes the transformation of U.S. military strategy.
Glas
(dist. by Northwestern Univ. Press)
Sea Stories by Alexander Pokrovsky and Army Stories by Alexander Terekhov (Sept., $14.95 each) collect the personal experiences and insights of young men in the Russian military.
Mbi/Zenith Press
P-47 Thunderbolt at War (Nov., $19.95) by Cory Graff charts the life and times of the largest and heaviest single-engine fighter plane ever built.
To Be a Military Sniper (Dec., $21.95) by Gregory Mast and Hans Halberstadt lays out the details of sniper training including the types of missions to which snipers are assigned.
National Museums of Scotland
(dist. by Antique Collectors' Club)
Commando Country (Sept., $19.95) by Stuart Allen charts the history of special forces during World War II that trained in the rugged terrain of the Scottish highlands.
New Page Books
PSI Spies: The True Story of America's Psychic Warfare Program (Sept., $15.99) by Jim Marrs probes the U.S. Army's formerly top-secret remote viewing unit, revealing how this psychic ability was used by the military.
Oak Tree Press
Scurvy Dogs, Green Water and Gunsmoke: Fifty Years in U.S. Navy Destroyers (Nov., $12.95), edited by Robert Cohen. Fifteen contributors detail their navy experiences during the Korean War and since.
State Univ. of New York Press
The Epic Battles for Ticonderoga, 1758 (Feb., $21.95) by William R. Nester recounts the military campaigns near Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y.
