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Airpower in Small Wars: Fighting Insurgents and Terroristsby James S. Corum, Wray R. JohnsonISBN 0700612408 (0-7006-1240-8)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, And Vietnamby Peter S. Kindsvatter, Russell F. WeigleyISBN 0700614168 (0-7006-1416-8)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, And Vietnam'Book summary:Some warriors are drawn to the thrill of combat and find it the defining moment of their lives. Others fall victim to fear, exhaustion, impaired reasoning, and despair. This was certainly true for twentieth-century American ground troops. Whether embracing or being demoralized by war, these men risked their lives for causes larger than themselves with no promise of safe return.
This book is the first to synthesize the wartime experiences of American combat soldiers, from the doughboys of World War I to the grunts of Vietnam. Focusing on both soldiers and marines, it draws on histories and memoirs, oral histories, psychological and sociological studies, and even fiction to show that their experiences remain fundamentally the same regardless of the enemy, terrain, training, or weaponry.
Peter Kindsvatter gets inside the minds of American soldiers to reveal what motivated them to serve and how they were turned into soldiers. He recreates the physical and emotional aspects of war to tell how fighting men dealt with danger and hardship, and he explores the roles of comradeship, leadership, and the sustaining beliefs in cause and country. He also illuminates soldiers' attitudes toward the enemy, toward the rear echelon, and toward the home front. And he tells why some broke down under fire while others excelled.
Here are the first tastes of battle, as when a green recruit reported that "for the first time I realized that the people over the ridge wanted to kill me," while another was befuddled by the unfamiliar sound of bullets whizzing overhead. Here are soldiers struggling to cope with war's stress by seeking solace from local women or simply smoking cigarettes. And here are tales of combat avoidance and fraggings not unique to Vietnam, of soldiers in Korea disgruntled over home-front indifference, and of the unique experiences of African American soldiers in the Jim Crow army.
By capturing the core "band of brothers" experience across several generations of warfare, Kindsvatter celebrates the American soldier while helping us to better understand war's lethal reality--and why soldiers persevere in the face of its horrors.
This book is part of the Modern War Studies series. [via]
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And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-june 1864by Mark GrimsleyISBN 0803271190 (0-8032-7119-0)
Softcover, Bison Books
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The Archidamian Warby Donald KaganISBN 0801497140 (0-8014-9714-0)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Archidamian War'Book summary:This book, the second volume in Donald Kagan's tetralogy about the Peloponnesian War, is a provocative and tightly argued history of the first ten years of the war. Taking a chronological approach that allows him to present at each stage the choices that were open to both sides in the conflict, Kagan focuses on political, economic, diplomatic, and military developments. He evaluates the strategies used by both sides and reconsiders the roles played by several key individuals. [via]
The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolutionby Barnet SchecterISBN 0802713742 (0-8027-1374-2)
Hardcover, Walker & Company
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Battle of Hamburg: Allied Bomber Forces Against a German City in 1943by Martin MiddlebrookISBN 0713910747 (0-7139-1074-7)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941by William Lawrence ShirerISBN 0801870569 (0-8018-7056-9)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941'Book summary:By the acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, this day-by-day, eyewitness account of the momentous events leading up to World War II in Europe is now available in a new paperback edition.
CBS radio broadcaster William L. Shirer was virtually unknown in 1940 when he decided there might be a book in the diary he had kept in Europe during the 1930sspecifically those sections dealing with the collapse of the European democracies and the rise of Nazi Germany.
Berlin Diary first appeared in 1941, and the timing was perfect. The energy, the passion, the electricity in it were palpable. The book was an instant success, and it became the frame of reference against which thoughtful Americans judged the rush of events in Europe. It exactly matched journalist to event: the right reporter at the right place at the right time. It stood, and still stands, as so few books have ever donea pure act of journalistic witness.
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Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945by Leo MarksISBN 068486780X (0-684-86780-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945'Book summary:At the age of 8, Leo Marks discovered the great game of code-making and -breaking in his father's London bookshop, thanks to a first edition of Poe's The Gold-Bug. At 23, as World War II was being played out in earnest, he hoped to use his strengths for the Allies. But Marks's urgent, witty memoir, Between Silk and Cyanide, begins with his failure to get into British Intelligence's cryptographic department. As everyone else on his course heads off to Bletchley Park ("the promised land"), he is sent to what his sergeant terms "some potty outfit in Baker Street, an open house for misfits." In fact, the Special Operations Executive's mandate was, in Churchill's stirring phrase, to "Set Europe Ablaze," and Marks's was to monitor code security so that agents could could report back as safely as possible. When he arrived, the common wisdom was that it was easiest for men and women in the field to memorize and use well-known poems.
Unfortunately, since the Germans had equal access to the classics--"Reference books," Marks quips, "are jackboots when used by cryptographers"--Marks thought agents should write their own poems (or use his) instead, several of which are cheerily obscene. After all, no son or daughter of the Fatherland could ever know the rest of a verse that began "Is de Gaulle's prick / Twelve inches thick," and continued on in a similar, shall we say, vein. But Marks soon felt that original doggerel was just as dangerous, since even slight misspellings could render messages indecipherable and risk agents' lives. His first solution? WOKs (worked-out keys) printed on silk. An operative would use one key, send the message, and immediately tear off the strip. Marks had a hard time proving that swaths of silk would save his people from swallowing their "optional extra," a cyanide pill. His efforts were dead serious, but often landed him in comic terrain.
In one of the book's great set pieces, Marks visits Colonel Wills--surely the model for Ian Fleming's Q--in order to sort out the best ways to print his code keys. Before solving this minor problem (invisible ink!), Wills showed Marks several new projects--one of which involves an exotic array of dung, courtesy of the London Zoo. This gifted gadgetmeister planned to model life-sized reproductions of these droppings and pack them with explosives, personalized for all parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia. "Once trodden on or driven over (hopefully by the enemy) the whole lot would go off with a series of explosions even more violent than the ones which had produced it," Marks explains.
Despite such larky sentences and sections, the author never loses sight of the importance of his vocation, and Between Silk and Cyanide is as elegiac as it is engaging. Marks knows when to cut the laugh track, particularly as his book becomes a despairing record of agents blown--lost to torture, prison, the camps, and execution. Readers will never forget the valor of Violette Szabo, Noor Inayat Kahn, and the White Rabbit himself, Flight Lieutenant Yeo-Thomas. Poem-cracking, as Marks again and again makes clear, was far more than a parlor game. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Beyond Band of Brothersby Cole C. Kingseed, Richard D. WintersISBN 0786290919 (0-7862-9091-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Band of Brothers'Book summary:Now in paperback! The New York Times bestseller and war memoir from the commander of the legendary Band of Brothers??now with a new preface from Dick Winters.[via]
They were called Easy Company?but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of Brothers, they suffered 150% casualties while liberating Europe?an unparalleled record of bravery under fire. Winner of the Distinguished Service Cross, Dick Winters was their legendary commander. This is his story?told in his own words for the first time.
On D-Day, Winters assumed leadership of the Band of Brothers when its commander was killed and led them through the Battle of the Bulge and into Germany?by which time each member had been wounded. Based on Winters?s wartime diary, Beyond Band of Brothers also includes his comrades? untold stories. This is a moving memoir by the man who earned the love and respect of Easy Company?and who is a hero to new generations worldwide.More editions of Beyond Band of Brothers:
Blue Skies and Blood : The Battle of the Coral Seaby Edwin P. HoytISBN 0743458354 (0-7434-5835-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Australia
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Bold Dragoon: The Life of J.E.B. Stuartby Emory M. ThomasISBN 0806131934 (0-8061-3193-4)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bold Dragoon: The Life of J.E.B. Stuart'Book summary:[via]Jeb Stuart, leader of the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia, earned the admiration of his enemies during the first three years of the Civil War. Famed for his daring ride around McClellan during the Peninsula Campaign, and his raid behind Union lines in Virginia and into Maryland and Pennsylvania, he was a legend long before he was killed at Yellow Tavern in 1864.More editions of Bold Dragoon: The Life of J.E.B. Stuart:
Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in Warby Robert Anthony PapeISBN 0801483115 (0-8014-8311-5)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900by Diana PrestonISBN 0802713610 (0-8027-1361-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900'Book summary:During the 19th century, rapacious colonial powers squeezed China mercilessly, seizing territory and extorting profits while missionaries sought souls. In the late 1890s, a virulently resentful peasant movement spread across northern China; foreigners nicknamed its adherents "Boxers" for the martial-arts exercises they practiced en masse. When the movement erupted into open violence in 1900, the imperial government supported attacks on foreigners that escalated into a siege of the foreign embassies in Peking. Diana Preston's The Boxer Rebellion is an account of the 55-day confrontation that alarmed the world. When Western and Japanese troops eventually routed the Boxers, soldiers and civilians looted the capital (to the benefit of Western museums) and extracted yet more concessions from China. The events of 1900 showed both sides at their colorful worst, and the author spares neither Chinese cruelty nor colonial pomposity and racism. Though this narrative history is told almost entirely from a Western viewpoint--of the 200 titles in the bibliography, not one is in Chinese--the many diaries and letters that Preston consulted ensure a lively portrayal of personalities and evocation of the times. She enjoys racy rumors, whether substantiated or not, and is so enamored of the charlatan Backhouse's salacious claims that he had an affair with the Dowager Empress that she details them twice. With little analysis but all the pace and immediacy of a popular novel, The Boxer Rebellion makes for absorbing reading. --John Stevenson [via]
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Brave Menby Ernie Pyle, G. Kurt PiehlerISBN 0803287682 (0-8032-8768-2)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brave Men'Book summary:Europe was in the throes of World War II, and when America joined the fighting, Ernie Pyle went along. Long before television beamed daily images of combat into our living rooms, Pyles on-the-spot reporting gave the American public a firsthand view of what war was like for the boys on the front. Pyle followed the soldiers into the trenches, battlefields, field hospitals, and beleaguered cities of Europe. What he witnessed he described with a clarity, sympathy, and grit that gave the public back home an immediate sense of the foot soldiers experience.There were really two wars, John Steinbeck wrote in Time magazine: one of maps and logistics, campaigns, ballistics, divisions, and regiments and the other a "war of the homesick, weary, funny, violent, common men who wash their socks in their helmets, complain about the food, whistle at Arab girls, or any girls for that matter, and bring themselves through as dirty a business as the world has ever seen and do it with humor and dignity and courageand that is Ernie Pyles war." This collection of Pyles columns detailing the fighting in Europe in 194344 brings that warand the living, and dying, moments of historyhome to us once again.[via]More editions of Brave Men:
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Britain and Her Army, 1509-1970: A Military, Political and Social Surveyby Correlli BarnettISBN 0713901128 (0-7139-0112-8)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the Westby William H. LeckieISBN 0806112441 (0-8061-1244-1)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West'Book summary:Originally published in 1967, William H. Leckie's The Buffalo Soldiers was the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African American units in the conquest of the West. In this revised edition, the authors further explore the lives of buffalo soldiers in the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments, showing that they were increasingly confident in their fighting ability and, above all, determined to prove themselves worthy of their newly entitled citizenship.
Before William Leckie's groundbreaking work, buffalo soldiers had been relegated to historical obscurity. Thirty-six years later, with sales of more than 75,000 copies, The Buffalo Soldiers is a classic. Now, in a newly revised edition, the authors expand the original research.
Written in accessible prose that includes a synthesis of recent scholarship, (I>The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West, Revised Edition, delves further into the social impact of being an African American soldier in the nineteenth century. This work also explores the experiences of the soldiers' families at frontier posts. In a new epilogue, the authors summarize developments in the lives of buffalo soldiers after the Indian Wars and discuss contemporary efforts to memorialize them in film, art, and architecture. [via]
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American Westby Dee Alexander BrownISBN 0805066691 (0-8050-6669-1)
Softcover, Owl Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West'Book summary:First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. During these three decades, America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million. Again and again, promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives. The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations, and were starved and killed if they resisted. It is a truism that "history is written by the victors"; for the first time, this book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. Accustomed to stereotypes of Indians as red savages, white Americans were shocked to read the reasoned eloquence of Indian leaders and learn of the bravery with which they and their peoples endured suffering. With meticulous research and in measured language overlaying brutal narrative, Dee Brown focused attention on a national disgrace. Still controversial but with many of its premises now accepted, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee has sold 5 million copies around the world. Thirty years after it first broke onto the national conscience, it has lost none of its importance or emotional impact. --John Stevenson [via]
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Celtic Warriors: 400Bc-Ad1600by Tim NewarkISBN 0713720433 (0-7137-2043-3)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Civil War Desk Referenceby Margaret E. Wagner, Gary W. Gallagher, Paul Finkelman, Library of Congress Staff, James M. McPhersonISBN 0684863502 (0-684-86350-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Civil War Desk Reference'Book summary:The bloody conflict that sundered the United States from 1861 to 1865 took 620,000 lives, laid waste to large sections of the American South, and decided the future course of the nation. Its reverberations are still felt in American life. Now from the home of "The Nation's Memory" comes "The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference." Drawn from the Library's unparalleled Civil War collections -- including previously unpublished letters and diaries, maps and photographs, as well as thousands of works by post-Civil War scholars and experts -- this is the ultimate one-volume reference on the Civil War.
A comprehensive yet accessible compendium, "The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference" is organized into chapters that address broad themes such as "Antebellum America," "Wartime Politics," "Armies," and "Reconstruction and Aftermath of the War." Each of these chapters includes more specific topics, such as "The Election of 1860," "Notable Civil War Officers," and "African Americans During Reconstruction." There are timelines that chronicle major events, brief profiles of significant people, and excerpts from key pieces of legislation and addresses that reflect the passions and politics of the times. Here readers can find, for example, detailed information on the arms used on both sides during the Civil War in the "Weaponry" chapter. And descriptions of significant battles, as well as information on casualties, military strategy and tactics, and logistical support, are to be found in the "Battles and the Battlefield" chapter. Topics ranging from economic conditions north and south of the Mason-Dixon line on the eve of the war to the history of slavery in the United Statesto the impact of the Civil War on literature and the fine arts give additional depth and context to the book's presentation of Civil War events.
"The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference" also looks beyond the major events and figures and examines the lives of the common soldiers (from their diet, training, and medical treatment to the struggles of the Union's black soldiers), the various roles women played in the war, and telling events on the home fronts. Along with the words of writers such as Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, readers will find excerpts from the journals and letters of nurses, soldiers, refugees and freedmen. A final chapter offers a guide to further study of the Civil War -- including information about major archival collections, important published resources, and national historic sites-for those who wish to learn more.
Prodigious in its scope, illustrated with more than 100 photographs and drawings and dozens of maps, "The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference" is sure to become the indispensable one-volume reference on the Civil War. [via]
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Combined Operations in the Civil Warby Rowena Reed, John D. MilliganISBN 080328943X (0-8032-8943-X)
Softcover, University of Nebraska Press
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Das Reich: Resistance and the March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division through France, June 1944by Max HastingsISBN 0718120744 (0-7181-2074-4)
Hardcover, M. Joseph
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Das Reich: The March of the 2nd Ss Panzer Division Through Franceby Max HastingsISBN 0805014071 (0-8050-1407-1)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Day of Destiny: The Photographs of D-Dayby L. Douglas Keeney, William S. ButlerISBN 0688168825 (0-688-16882-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Dirty Little Secrets: Military Information You're Not Supposed to Knowby Albert A. Nofi, James F. DunniganISBN 0688112706 (0-688-11270-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dirty Little Secrets: Military Information You're Not Supposed to Know'Book summary:Fearlessly taking aim at the seemingly impressive facade of modern military power, Dirty Little Secrets is an unusual, entertaining, and thought-provoking look at the myths, mysteries, arcana, and boondoggles unknown to the rest of us. Did you know that
- There are an estimated 40 million AK47 assault rifles in the world? (Page 25)
- The United States Air Force estimates that collisions between aircraft and birds, about two thousand a year, cost $100 million annually-and about twenty injured or dead airmen? (Page 136)
- As the ultimate defense against electronic warfare, the Swiss Army maintains twenty thousand carrier pigeons for combat service? (Page 243)
- The space shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986 crippled the U.S. intelligence satellite network between 1986 and 1990 and would have left the U.S. military almost blind in the event of a major conflict? (Page 245)
- Most helicopters on combat ships cannot be used more than twenty to forty hours a month? (Page 179)
- For over twenty years, the U.S. Navy has been successfully using sea lions, dolphins, and whales to guard its ships from enemy divers? (Page 195)
In addition to recounting everything from the merely trivial to the truly terrible, the authors help readers to look at the big picture, reminding us that ignorance is not bliss where the military is concerned.
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Dragons at War: Land Battles in the Desertby David BolgerISBN 0804108994 (0-8041-0899-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The End of the Beginning : From the Siege of Malta to the Allied Victory at el Alameinby Phil Craig, Tim ClaytonISBN 074322325X (0-7432-2325-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The English Civil War 1642-1651: An Illustrated Military Historyby Philip J. Haythornthwaite, Jeffrey J. BurnISBN 0713712635 (0-7137-1263-5)
Hardcover, Blandford Press
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Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officersby Joseph T. GlatthaarISBN 0807125601 (0-8071-2560-1)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannockby Francis Augustin O'ReillyISBN 0807128090 (0-8071-2809-0)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Getting It Right: American Military Reforms After Vietnam to the Gulf War and Beyondby James F. Dunnigan, Raymond M. MacEdoniaISBN 0688140653 (0-688-14065-3)
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Getting It Right: American Military Reforms After Vietnam to the Persian Gulf and Beyondby James F. Dunnigan, Raymond M. MacEdoniaISBN 0688120962 (0-688-12096-2)
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Gettysburgby Time-Life BooksISBN 0783547005 (0-7835-4700-5)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient Worldby Adrienne MayorISBN 0715632574 (0-7156-3257-4)
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Here Is Your War: Story of G.I. Joeby Orr Kelly, Ernie Pyle, Carol JohnsonISBN 0803287771 (0-8032-8777-1)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Here Is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe'Book summary:A wonderful and enduring tribute to American troops in the Second World War, Here Is Your War is Ernie Pyles story of the soldiers first campaign against the enemy in North Africa. With unequaled humanity and insight, Pyle tells how people from a cross-section of Americaranches, inner cities, small mountain farms, and college townslearned to fight a war. The Allied campaign and ultimate victory in North Africa was built on blood, brave deeds, sacrifice and needless loss, exotic vistas, endurance, homesickness, and an unmistakable American sense of humor. Its all herethe suspenseful landing at Oran; the risks taken daily by fighter and bomber pilots; grim, unrelenting combat in the desert and mountains of Tunisia; a ferocious tank battle that ended in defeat for the inexperienced Americans; and the final victory at Tunis. Pyles keen observations relate the full story of ordinary G.I.s caught up in extraordinary times.[via]More editions of Here Is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe:
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II Vol. 5: The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942 - February 1943by Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0785813063 (0-7858-1306-3)
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In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the Uss Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivorsby Doug StantonISBN 0805073663 (0-8050-7366-3)
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Captain McVay was quickly court-martialed for having failed to follow evasive maneuvers, "the first captain in the history of the U.S. Navy," Doug Stanton observes, "to be court-martialed subsequent to losing his ship in an act of war." Although the sailors under his command would insist that McVay had been scapegoated, and although I-58's commander testified before the court that "he would have sunk the Indianapolis no matter what course she was on," McVay was never able to clear his name. He committed suicide in 1968.
Stanton captures the drama of these events in his vigorous narrative, which augments and updates Richard Newcomb's Abandon Ship!. Stanton observes that although McVay was exonerated by an act of Congress in 2000, the conviction still stands in Navy records. Stanton's book makes a powerful case for why that conviction should be overturned, and why the captain and crew of the Indianapolis deserve honor. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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In Harm's Way : The Sinking of the U. S. S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivorsby Doug StantonISBN 0805066322 (0-8050-6632-2)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Iwo Jimaby Richard F. Newcomb, Harry SchmidtISBN 0805070710 (0-8050-7071-0)
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Richard F. Newcomb is one of the true masters of military storytelling. In researching Iwo Jima he interviewed hundreds of Iwo veterans, both American and Japanese; read the diaries and letters of fighting men; and combed through masses of official navy and marine records to write the full story of one of the most famous battles in U.S. history. With exceptional depth, intelligence, and emotional power, Newcomb recounts the events of February 19, 1945, in which common men were thrust into impossible circumstances, demonstrating valor and even humor amid the horror and chaos of war.More editions of Iwo Jima:
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Knights Templarby Stephen HowarthISBN 0689111851 (0-689-11185-1)
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The Last Frontier: The Roman Invasions Of Scotlandby Anthony KammISBN 0752431374 (0-7524-3137-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E. Lawrenceby Jeremy WilsonISBN 0689119348 (0-689-11934-8)
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Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Commandby Stephen W. Sears, Douglas Southall Freeman, James M. McPhersonISBN 0684859793 (0-684-85979-3)
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The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnamby Mark ClodfelterISBN 0803264542 (0-8032-6454-2)
Softcover, Bison Books
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Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of Americaby William C. DavisISBN 0743234995 (0-7432-3499-5)
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The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaignsby Joseph T. GlatthaarISBN 0807120286 (0-8071-2028-6)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thoughtby Michael I. HandelISBN 0714681326 (0-7146-8132-6)
Softcover, Frank Cass & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought'Book summary:This is the first comprehensive study based on a detailed textual analysis of the classical works on war by Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, Mao Tse-tung, and to a lesser extent, Jomini and Machiavelli. Brushing stereotypes aside, the author takes a fresh look at what these strategic thinkers actually saidnot what they are widely believed to have said. He finds that despite their apparent differences in terms of time, place, cultural background, and level of material/technological development, all had much more in common than previously supposed. In fact, the central conclusion of this book is that the logic of waging war and of strategic thinking is as universal and timeless as human nature itself.
This third, revised and expanded edition includes five new chapters and some new charts and diagrams.
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Masters of War: Sun Tzu, Clausewitz, and Jominiby Michael I. HandelISBN 0714640875 (0-7146-4087-5)
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The Medieval War Horseby Ann HylandISBN 075091243X (0-7509-1243-X)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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The Military Campaigns of the Wars of the Rosesby Philip A. HaighISBN 0750914300 (0-7509-1430-0)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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Monitorby James T. De KayISBN 0756758181 (0-7567-5818-1)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monitor'Book summary:Many writers have described the famous clash between the Monitor and the Merrimac, but James Tertius deKay's book probably belongs at the top of the stack. Much of Monitor focuses on how these ships came into being, including John Ericsson's struggle of more than 20 years to have his vision of an ironclad warship become a reality. As the title suggests, Monitor is more about the Monitor than the Merrimac, but both vessels get their due in deKay's wide-ranging narrative. Like so much of Civil War history, the coincidences and ironies of what happened at the mouth of the Chesapeake in 1862--how the two ships met, how brother fought brother, how neither impregnable warrior survived the calendar year--make for a spellbinding story, and deKay tells it as well as it has ever been told. [via]
Napoleonic Wars: An Illustrated History 1792-1815by Michael GloverISBN 0713417234 (0-7134-1723-4)
Hardcover, Batsford
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Nelson the Commanderby Geoffrey BennettISBN 0713412119 (0-7134-1211-9)
Hardcover, B. T. Batsford
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No Man's Land : 1918, the Last Year of the Great Warby John TolandISBN 0803294514 (0-8032-9451-4)
Softcover, University of Nebraska Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Man's Land : 1918, the Last Year of the Great War'Book summary:From freezing infantrymen huddled in bloodied trenches on the front lines to intricate political maneuvering and tense strategy sessions in European capitals, noted historian John Toland tells of the unforgettable final year of the First World War. As 1918 opened, the Allies and Central Powers remained locked in a desperate, bloody stalemate, despite the deaths of millions of soldiers over the previous three and a half years. The arrival of the Americans "over there" by the middle of the year turned the tide of war, resulting in an Allied victory in November.[via]In these pages participants on both sides, from enlisted men to generals and prime ministers to monarchs, vividly recount the battles, sensational events, and behind-the-scenes strategies that shaped the climactic, terrifying year. It's all herethe horrific futility of going over the top into a hail of bullets in no man's land; the enigmatic death of the legendary German ace, the Red Baron; Operation Michael, a punishing German attack in the spring; the Americans' long-awaited arrival in June; the murder of Russian Czar Nicholas II and his family, the growing fear of a communist menace in the east; and the armistice on November 11. The different points of view of Germans, Americans, British, French, and Russians add depth, complexity, and understanding to the tragedies and triumphs of the War to End All Wars.
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Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939by Alvin D. CooxISBN 0804718350 (0-8047-1835-0)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Rising Sun Victorious: The Alternative History of How the Japanese Won the Pacific Warby Peter G. TsourasISBN 0756791324 (0-7567-9132-4)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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The River War : An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudanby Winston L. S. ChurchillISBN 0786707518 (0-7867-0751-8)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Russia at War, 1941-1945by Alexander WerthISBN 0786707224 (0-7867-0722-4)
Softcover, Basic Books
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The Second World War: A Complete Historyby Martin GilbertISBN 0805076239 (0-8050-7623-9)
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Seven Roads to Hell: A Creaming Eagle at Bastogneby Donald R. BurgettISBN 0783889941 (0-7838-8994-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Skulking Way of War: Technology and Tactics Among the New England Indiansby Patrick M. MaloneISBN 0801845548 (0-8018-4554-8)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil Warby Craig L. SymondsISBN 0700609342 (0-7006-0934-2)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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To the Last Man: Spring 1918by Lyn MacdonaldISBN 0786707976 (0-7867-0797-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To the Last Man: Spring 1918'Book summary:As poignant as Niall Fregusson's The Pity of War, as powerful as John Keegan's The First World War, this is an engrossing eye-witness history of World War I. From the trenches to the battle lines, in bold advances and fighting retreats and courageous stands, this oral chronicle of World War I by award-winning historian Lyn Macdonald brings to life the massive German offensive of Spring 1918 that became the Second Battle of Somme. As moving as it is monumental, the volume recounts the devastating assault in the words of the men who survived it -- from the commanders to the war-weary British Tommies, the eager German foot soldiers, and the as-yet-untested doughboys fresh from the U.S. Unforgettably, To the Last Man puts a human face on the armies in the field as it gives voice to the soldiers who together held their position against the foe-resisting, as the Allied command had ordered, "to the last round and the last man."[via]More editions of To the Last Man: Spring 1918:
To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13-25, 1864by Gordon C. RheaISBN 0807125350 (0-8071-2535-0)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Total War; Causes and Courses of the Second World Warby Peter Calvocoressi, Guy WintISBN 0713902361 (0-7139-0236-1)
Hardcover, Allen Lane the Penguin Press
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Victory At Yorktown: The Campaign That Won The Revolutionby Richard M. KetchumISBN 0805073965 (0-8050-7396-5)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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War and Society in Europe of the Old Regime 1618-1789by Matthew Smith AndersonISBN 0773517596 (0-7735-1759-6)
Softcover, McGill Queens Univ Pr
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The War With Spain in 1898by David F. TraskISBN 0803294298 (0-8032-9429-8)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscienceby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0805055193 (0-8050-5519-3)
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Warriors of Arthurby John Matthews, Richard Hook, Bob StewartISBN 0713721464 (0-7137-2146-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Wars of Americaby Robert LeckieISBN 0785809147 (0-7858-0914-7)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000-1300by John FranceISBN 0801486076 (0-8014-8607-6)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Women Warlords: An Illustrated Military History of Female Warriorsby Tim Newark, Angus McBrideISBN 0713722622 (0-7137-2262-2)
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The World Crisis, 1911-1918by Winston Churchill, Martin GilbertISBN 0743283430 (0-7432-8343-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Wounded Kneeby Dee Brown, Amy EhrlichISBN 0805027009 (0-8050-2700-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wounded Knee'Book summary:First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. During these three decades, America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million. Again and again, promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives. The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations, and were starved and killed if they resisted. It is a truism that "history is written by the victors"; for the first time, this book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. Accustomed to stereotypes of Indians as red savages, white Americans were shocked to read the reasoned eloquence of Indian leaders and learn of the bravery with which they and their peoples endured suffering. With meticulous research and in measured language overlaying brutal narrative, Dee Brown focused attention on a national disgrace. Still controversial but with many of its premises now accepted, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee has sold 5 million copies around the world. Thirty years after it first broke onto the national conscience, it has lost none of its importance or emotional impact. --John Stevenson [via]
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