True War and Combat Stories

With the same flair for history and narrative that distinguished his bestseller, The Alienist, Caleb Carr tells the incredible story of Frederick Townsend Ward, the American mercenary who fought for the emperor of China in the Taiping rebellion, history's bloodiest civil war. The Devil Soldier is a...

In The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein, George Piro, an Assyrian-American, Arabic-speaking former FBI Special Agent, recounts his extraordinary experiences as the lead interrogator of Saddam Hussein during his US captivity. Over six months, Piro spent more than five hundred hours with the former...

Hero, adulterer, bon vivant, murderer and rogue, Dan Sickles led the kind of existence that was indeed stranger than fiction. Throughout his life he exhibited the kind of exuberant charm and lack of scruple that wins friends, seduces women, and gets people killed. In American Scoundrel Thomas...