Over the course of four decades, Weldon L. Kennedy rose in the law enforcement ranks to the FBI's highest-ranking official under Director Louis J. Freeh. Imparting a wealth of law enforcement experience and of wisdom about how to succeed at a job one truly loves, On-Scene Commander is for anyone with an interest in the real world of the FBI.

A Medal of Honor recipient and retired Marine, Colonel Wesley L. Fox writes about his fears in difficult operational and training situations, their effect on him, and he how he handled particular fears. While he focuses primarily on military experiences, Fox's methods of handling the thoughts, actions, and reactions apply to civilian circumstances as well.

Potomac Books Blood on the Lens chronicles filmmaker Jim Burroughs's 18 trips to Afghanistan since 1986, the bloody and deceit-ridden period that saw the war against the Soviets, the cessation of American support, a civil war, the rise of the Taliban, the hijacking of the country by al Qaeda, the U.S.-led invasion, and the Herculean effort to form a new country under the rule of law.

In 1955, Marvin Durning arrived at the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence office in Munich, Germany. During this year, he participated in the final stages of transforming Germany from a defeated enemy into a respected democracy. Beneath the calm surface of everyday life in Munich, however, roamed agents and double agents who witnessed defections, kidnappings, interrogations that ended in death, and assassinations by bomb explosions and by poison dart. World Turned Upside Down is Durning's account of such activities.

The Chief Culprit
Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II
by Viktor Suvorov
ISBN: 9781597971140
$29.95 Hardcover
Potomac Books

Using new documents and reevaluating existing material, The Chief Culprit analyzes Joseph Stalin's strategic design to conquer Europe and his support for Germany, which helped bring Hitler to power and sustained him. From Victor Suvorov's examination, Stalin emerges as a diabolical genius consumed by visions of a worldwide Communist revolution at any cost, the leader who wooed Hitler and Germany in his own effort to conquer the world.