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1066: The Year of the Three Battlesby Frank McLynnISBN 0712666729 (0-7126-6672-9)
Softcover, Pimlico
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› Find signed collectible books: '1066: The Year of the Three Battles'Book summary:If ever there was a year of destiny for the British Isles, 1066 must have a strong claim. King Harold faced invasion not just from William and the Normans across the English Channel but from the Dane, King Harald Hardrada. Before he faced the Normans at Hastings in October, he had defeated the Danes at York and Stamford Bridge in September. In this superbly researched study, Frank McLynn overturns long-accepted myths, showing how Williams victory at the Battle of Hastings was not, in fact, a certainty, and arguing that Harald Hardrada was actually the greatest warrior of the three. This is a masterly study, and reveals the truth to be more interesting than the myths surrounding this pivotal year in history.[via]More editions of 1066: The Year of the Three Battles:
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Characterby Jonathan ShayISBN 0684813211 (0-684-81321-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Age of Chivalryby Liliane Funcken, Fred FunckenISBN 0706358082 (0-7063-5808-2)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc Canada Ltd
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America's First Battles, 1776-1965by Charles E. Heller, William A. StofftISBN 0700602771 (0-7006-0277-1)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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An American Profession of Arms: The Army Officer Corps, 1784-1861by William B. SkeltonISBN 0700611142 (0-7006-1114-2)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Andersonvilleby MacKinlay KantorISBN 0690003293 (0-690-00329-3)
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Arab Historians of the Crusadesby Francesco GabrieliISBN 0710028741 (0-7100-2874-1)
Hardcover, Routledge & K. Paul
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The Battle for Leningrad, 1941-1944: 1941-1944by David M. GlantzISBN 0700612084 (0-7006-1208-4)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Battle of Wits : The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War IIby Stephen BudianskyISBN 0684859327 (0-684-85932-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Battle of Wits : The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II'Book summary:On December 3, 1941, officers of the U.S. Army Signal Intelligence Unit decoded a message sent from Tokyo to the Japanese embassy in Washington, ordering embassy staff to destroy its code books and other sensitive material. This, the officers determined, meant that Japan was preparing to break off diplomatic relations with the United States and go to war. When, they could not say; to gain a precise date, they would have had to break the Japanese naval codes. Therein, writes Stephen Budiansky in Battle of Wits, lay the rub: "Since mid-1939, America had not read a single message in the main Japanese naval code on the same day it had been sent. For most of the period from June 1, 1939, to December 7, 1941, the [U.S.] Navy was working on naval messages that were months, or even over a year old."
For all their lack of preparedness and occasional inefficiencies, and for all the disdain with which some Allied ground commanders held the work of military intelligence, writes Budiansky, Allied cryptographers were of critical importance in determining the outcome of World War II. The decoding of Japanese and German encryption engines, for instance, helped the Allied navies gain victory in the battles of the Atlantic and Midway, while the translation of secret German railroad schedules allowed Winston Churchill to warn Josef Stalin that the German army was about to invade the Soviet Union--though Stalin refused to take the warning seriously. The codebreakers, in short, "averted disasters that would have been terrible setbacks to the Allied cause," and they almost certainly saved a considerable number of lives as they labored to crack such profound puzzles as Enigma and Purple.
Budiansky's narrative is strong on the science of cryptography--so much so that readers without a background in mathematics and logic may have trouble following the arcana of key squares, bigrams, and all the other trade secrets of cryptanalysis. Readers willing to brave matters technical, however, will find Budiansky's comprehensive account to be the best single book on the subject, and one well worth their attention. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfareby Robert Michael CitinoISBN 0700613005 (0-7006-1300-5)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Bombers Commandby Max HastingISBN 0685958922 (0-685-95892-2)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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A Brotherhood of Valor: The Common Soldiers of the Stonewall Brigade, C.S.A., and the Iron Brigade, U.S.Aby Jeffry D. WertISBN 0684824353 (0-684-82435-3)
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Caesarby Michael GrantISBN 0695805428 (0-695-80542-8)
Hardcover, Follett Pub Co
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Citizen Sherman: A Life of William Tecumseh Shermanby Michael FellmanISBN 0700608400 (0-7006-0840-0)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Colossus Reborn: The Red Army At War, 1941-1943by David M. GlantzISBN 0700613536 (0-7006-1353-6)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Colossus Reborn: The Red Army At War, 1941-1943'Book summary:In Stumbling Colossus, David Glantz explored why the Red Army was unprepared for the German blitzkrieg that nearly destroyed it and left more than four million of its soldiers dead by the end of 1941. In Colossus Reborn he recounts the miraculous resurrection of the Red Army, which, with a dazzling display of military strategy and operational prowess, stopped the Wehrmacht in its tracks and turned the tide of war.
A major achievement in the recovery and preservation of an entire nation's military experience, Colossus Reborn is marked by Glantz's unrivaled access to and use of Soviet archival sources. This allows him to illuminate not only Russian victories in the Battles of Moscow, Stalingrad, and Kursk, but also to rescue a host of major "forgotten battles," many of which had been suppressed to preserve reputations and national pride. As he reveals in unprecedented detail, disastrous defeats vied with resounding victories throughout the early years of the conflict, as the Red Army struggled to find itself in the "Great Patriotic War."
Beyond the battles themselves, Glantz also presents an in-depth portrait of the Red Army as an evolving military institution. Assessing more clearly than ever before the army's size, strength, and force structure, he provides keen insights into its doctrine, strategy, tactics, weaponry, training, officer corps, and political leadership. In the process, he puts a human face on the Red Army's commanders and soldiers, including women and those who served in units-security (NKVD), engineer, railroad, auto-transport, construction, and penal forces-that have till now remained poorly understood.
The world's top authority on the Soviet military, Glantz has produced a remarkable study that adds immeasurably to our understanding of the one part of World War II that's still struggling to emerge from the shadows of history.
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The Conquerors : Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945by Michael BeschlossISBN 0684810271 (0-684-81027-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Conquerors : Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945'Book summary:Long before an Allied victory was assured during World War II, the Big Three--Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin--began discussing how to prevent Germany from ever again threatening the world. The fact that Germany today is a peaceful, democratic ally of the U.S. is "one of America's great twentieth-century international achievements," writes esteemed historian Michael Beschloss. How such a transformation was accomplished is the subject of The Conquerors.
Drawing on thousands of previously unreleased documents, secret audio recordings, private diaries, and other information recently made available, Beschloss details the complex diplomacy between the Allied leaders, including their differences over whether to demand Germany's unconditional surrender; how, if at all, to divide Germany after the war; and how to effectively punish Germany without creating the kind of resentment that led to the rise of Hitler. The relationship between the three leaders, and later, Truman, is fascinating, as Beschloss reveals private conversations, ulterior motives, and numerous back-channel deals that took place. Of particular interest is the maneuvering of Roosevelt and Churchill, who were both concerned that the Soviets would attempt a postwar power grab in Western Europe if given the chance. The book also deals with Roosevelt's reluctance to deal with Germany's systematic extermination of the Jews, and the role that his old friend and Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., played in pushing the President into action. After learning of the Holocaust, Morgenthau became obsessed with punishing Germany severely, drafting a plan that called for the complete destruction of their mines and factories as a way of forcing Germany into subsistence farming--ideas that put him at odds with Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, and many others in the administration.
The Conquerors is a superbly written, if brief, treatment of the political events leading up to the defeat of Germany, with the main players brought vividly to life by Beschloss's keen eye for detail and his ability to expose the human strengths and weaknesses of the participants. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harborby Robert B. StinnettISBN 0684853396 (0-684-85339-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor'Book summary:It was not long after the first Japanese bombs fell on the American naval ships at Pearl Harbor that conspiracy theories began to circulate, charging that Franklin Roosevelt and his chief military advisors knew of the impending attack well in advance. Robert Stinnett, who served in the U.S. Navy with distinction during World War II, examines recently declassified American documents and concludes that, far more than merely knowing of the Japanese plan to bomb Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt deliberately steered Japan into war with America.
Stinnett's argument draws on both circumstantial evidence--the fact, for example, that in September 1940 Roosevelt signed into law a measure providing for a two-ocean navy that would number 100 aircraft carriers--and, more importantly, on American governmental documents that offer apparently incontrovertible proof that Roosevelt knowingly sacrificed American lives in order to enter the war on the side of England. Although obviously troubled by his discovery of a systematic plan of deception on the part of the American government, Stinnett does not take deep issue with its outcome. Roosevelt, he writes, faced powerful opposition from isolationist forces, and, against them, the Pearl Harbor attack was "something that had to be endured in order to stop a greater evil--the Nazi invaders in Europe who had begun the Holocaust and were poised to invade England." Sure to excite discussion, Stinnett's book offers what may be the final word on the terrible matter of Pearl Harbor. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Donkeysby Alan ClarkISBN 0712650350 (0-7126-5035-0)
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Duel for the Golan: The 100-Hour Battle That Saved Israelby Eric Hammel, Jerry AsherISBN 0688069118 (0-688-06911-8)
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The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe Ca. 1200 B.C.by Robert DrewsISBN 0691025916 (0-691-02591-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe Ca. 1200 B.C.'Book summary:The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century b.c. with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruction descended upon key cities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, bringing to an end the Levantine, Hittite, Trojan, and Mycenaean kingdoms and plunging some lands into a dark age that would last more than four hundred years. In his attempt to account for this destruction, Robert Drews rejects the traditional explanations and proposes a military one instead.
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Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War IIby James TobinISBN 0700608974 (0-7006-0897-4)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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First Across the Rhine: The 291st Engineer Combat Battalion in France, Belgium, and Germanyby Eric Hammel, Pergrin, David E, ColISBN 0689120338 (0-689-12033-8)
Hardcover, Pacifica Pr
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From Shield to Storm: High-Tech Weapons, Military Strategy, and Coalition Warfare in the Persian Gulfby Austin Bay, James F. DunniganISBN 0688110347 (0-688-11034-7)
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The Galleys at Lepanto: Jack Beechingby Jack BeechingISBN 0684179180 (0-684-17918-0)
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The German High Command at War: Hindenburg and Ludendorff Conduct World War Iby Robert B. AspreyISBN 0688128424 (0-688-12842-4)
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The Gi Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions, 1941-1945by Peter R. MansoorISBN 0700612262 (0-7006-1226-2)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Goodbye Dolly Gray: The Story of the Boer Warby Rayne KrugerISBN 0712662855 (0-7126-6285-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Goring: A Biographyby David IrvingISBN 0688066062 (0-688-06606-2)
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The Great Military Siegesby Vezio MelegariISBN 0690357095 (0-690-35709-5)
Hardcover, Crowell
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Guide to the Battle of Antietam: The Maryland Campaign of 1862by Army War College, Jay Luvaas, Harold W. NelsonISBN 0700607846 (0-7006-0784-6)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Guide to the Battle of Gettysburgby Jay LuvaasISBN 0700606866 (0-7006-0686-6)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Hard Marching Every Day: The Civil War Letters of Private Wilbur Fisk, 1861-1865by Emil Rosenblatt, Ruth RosenblattISBN 0700606815 (0-7006-0681-5)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Marching Every Day: The Civil War Letters of Private Wilbur Fisk, 1861-1865'Book summary:As a war correspondent, Wilbur Fisk was an amateur, yet his letters to the Montpelier Green Mountain Freeman comprise one of the finest collections of Civil War letters in existence. "Literary gems," historian Herman Hattaway calls them. "In fact, they are so good that it would be believable that some expert novelist had created them."
But Fisk was no novelist. He was a rural school teacher from Vermont, primarily self-educated, who enlisted in the Union Army simply because he believed he would regret it later if he didn't.
Unlike professional war correspondents, Private Fisk had no access to rank or headquarters. Instead, he wrote of life as a private--as one of the foot soldiers who slept in the mud and obeyed orders no matter how incomprehensible.
Between December 11, 1861, and July 26, 1865, Fisk wrote nearly 100 letters from the battlefield. At the beginning of the war he was exuberant and eager for contact with the enemy. Two years later, Fisk was disillusioned and war weary. "The rebel dead and ours lay thickly together, their thirst for blood forever quenched. Their bodies were swollen, black, and hideously unnatural. They eyes glared from their sockets, their tongues protruded from their mouths, and in almost every case, clots of blood and mangled flesh showed how they had died, and rendered a sight ghastly beyond description. I thought I had become hardened to almost anything, but I cannot say I ever wish to see another sight like that I saw on the battle-field of Gettysburg."
Fisk wrote as eloquently on the moral and political issues behind the war as he did on the everyday hardships of life in the Army of the Potomac. He saw the war as a question of right and wrong and he continued to believe that it had to be fought, even after he was well acquainted with its horror and pointlessness.
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Hitler's Generalsby Corelli BarnettISBN 0688103839 (0-688-10383-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitler's Generals'Book summary:With few exceptions, historians of Germany's leadership during WWII have concentrated on Adolf Hitler. This remarkable study probes instead the relationship between Hitler and his generals--men such as Rommel, Beck, and Model. And Hitler's Generals investigates the mystery of how a generation of able commanders came to be seduced step-by-step by Hitler's false patriotism and cunning manipulation. 26 black-and-white photographs; 15 maps. [via]
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I Was a Strangerby John HackettISBN 0712665625 (0-7126-6562-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Iron Duke: A Military Biography of Wellingtonby Lawrence JamesISBN 0712667652 (0-7126-6765-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iron Duke: A Military Biography of Wellington'Book summary:Lord Wellington dont know how to lose a battle. This view of a soldier at Waterloo became the judgment of the world on the man who was hailed as the first general of his age. At Waterloo, Wellington defeated Napoleon, the master of war, finally checking the disruptive forces of the French Revolution that had troubled Europe for over two decades. He taught himself the art of war in India, where his hard-fought victories helped lay the foundations of the British Raj. His armies liberated Portugal and Spain, shattered the myth of French invincibility, and inspired the people of Europe to oppose Napoleon. Largely drawn from original sources, this first-rate biography follows the life of Wellington the soldier, explaining how he waged war, how he inspired the men he commanded, and how he brought peace to Europe.[via]More editions of The Iron Duke: A Military Biography of Wellington:
It Never Snows in Septemberby Robert J. KershawISBN 0711030626 (0-7110-3062-6)
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Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the Westby Steven E. WoodworthISBN 0700605673 (0-7006-0567-3)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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In Jefferson Davis and His Generals, Steven Woodworth shows that both extremes are accurate--Davis was both heroic and incompetent. Yet neither viewpoint reveals the whole truth about this complicated figure. Woodworth's portrait of Davis reveals an experienced, talented, and courageous leader who, nevertheless, undermined the Confederacy's cause in the trans-Appalachian west, where the South lost the war.
At the war's outbreak, few Southerners seemed better qualified for the post of commander-in-chief. Davis had graduated from West Point, commanded a combat regiment in the Mexican War (which neither Lee nor Grant could boast), and performed admirably as U.S. Senator and Secretary of War. Despite his credentials, Woodworth argues, Davis proved too indecisive and inconsistent as commander-in-chief to lead his new nation to victory.
As Woodworth shows, however, Davis does not bear the sole responsibility for the South's defeat. A substantial part of that burden rests with Davis's western generals. Bragg, Beauregard, Van Dorn, Pemberton, Polk, Buckner, Hood, Forrest, Morgan, and the Johnstons (Albert and Joseph) were a proud, contentious, and uneven lot. Few could be classed with the likes of a Lee or a Jackson in the east. Woodworth assesses their relations with Davis, as well as their leadership on and off the battlefields at Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, and Atlanta, to demonstrate their complicity in the Confederacy's demise.
Extensive research in the marvelously rich holdings of the Jefferson Davis Association at Rice University enriches Woodworth's study. He provides superb analyses of western military operations, as well as some stranger-than-fiction tales: Van Dorn's shocking death, John Hood and Sally Preston's bizarre romance, Gideon Pillow's undignified antics, and Franklin Cheatham's drunken battlefield behavior. Most important, he has avoided the twin temptations to glorify or castigate Davis and thus restored balance to the evaluation of his leadership during the Civil War.
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Leeby Douglas Southall FreemanISBN 0684829533 (0-684-82953-3)
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Lee : An Abridgement in One Volume of the Four-Volume R. E. Leeby Douglas S. Freeman, James M. McPhersonISBN 0684193787 (0-684-19378-7)
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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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Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command Gettysburg to Appomattoxby Douglas Southall FreemanISBN 0684837854 (0-684-83785-4)
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Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command Manassas to Malvern Hillby Douglas Southall FreemanISBN 0684837838 (0-684-83783-8)
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Lee's Lieutenants Vol. 3, Pt. 2: A Study in Commandby Douglas S. FreemanISBN 0684187485 (0-684-18748-5)
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The Longest Battle: The War at Sea 1939-45by Richard HoughISBN 0688043100 (0-688-04310-0)
Hardcover, Morrow
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The Longest Battle: The War at Sea, 1939-1945by Richard HoughISBN 0688079539 (0-688-07953-9)
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The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil Warby David J. EicherISBN 0684849453 (0-684-84945-3)
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The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918-1940by James S. CorumISBN 0700608362 (0-7006-0836-2)
Hardcover, University Press of Kansas
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Macarthurs War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Heroby Stanley WeintraubISBN 0684834197 (0-684-83419-7)
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Makers of Modern Strategy: Military Thought from Machiavelli to Hitlerby Edward M. EarleISBN 0691069077 (0-691-06907-7)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Making the Corpsby Thomas E. RicksISBN 0684848171 (0-684-84817-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Making the Corps : 61 Men Came to Paris Island to Become Marines, Not All of Them Made Itby Thomas E. RicksISBN 0684831090 (0-684-83109-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making the Corps : 61 Men Came to Paris Island to Become Marines, Not All of Them Made It'Book summary:Marines are different: distinct not only from ordinary U.S. citizens but from the ranks of the army, navy, and air force as well. The difference begins with boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, where the history and future of the United States Marine Corps intersect in the training of every new recruit. In Making the Corps, Ricks follows a platoon of young men through 11 grueling weeks of boot camp as their drill instructors indoctrinate them into the culture of the Few and the Proud. Many arrive at Parris Island undisciplined and apathetic; they leave as marines.
With the end of the cold war, the role of the American military has shifted in emphasis from making war to keeping peace. "The best way to see where the U.S. military is going is to look at the marines today," says Ricks, as the other armed forces have begun to emulate the marine model. To understand Parris Island--a central experience in the life of every marine--is to understand the ethos of the Marine Corps. Ricks examines the recent changes in the Standard Operating Procedures for Recruit Training (the bible of Parris Island), which indicate how the corps is dealing with critical social and political issues like race relations, gender equality, and sexual orientation. Making the Corps pierces the USMC's "sis-boom-bah" mythology to help outsiders understand this most esoteric and eccentric of U.S. armed forces. --Tim Hogan [via]
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Mother, May You Never See the Sights I'Ve Seen: The Fifty Seventh Massachusetts Veteran Volunteers in the Army of the Potomac 1864-1865by Warren WilkinsonISBN 0688108717 (0-688-10871-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Namby Mark BakerISBN 0688012248 (0-688-01224-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought Thereby Mark BakerISBN 068800086X (0-688-00086-X)
Hardcover, Morrow
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A Natural History of Raccoonsby Dorcas MacClintock, J. Sharkey ThomasISBN 0684166194 (0-684-16619-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Never Were Men So Brave: The Irish Brigade During the Civil Warby Susan Provost BellerISBN 0689814062 (0-689-81406-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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No Shining Armor: The Marines at War in Vietnam An Oral Historyby Otto J. LehrackISBN 0700605347 (0-7006-0534-7)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Partners in Commandby Joseph T. GlattthaarISBN 0684863634 (0-684-86363-4)
Softcover, Free Pr
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The Red King's Rebellion: Racial Politics in New England 1675-1678by Russell BourneISBN 0689120001 (0-689-12000-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Sable Arm: Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865by Dudley Taylor CornishISBN 070060328X (0-7006-0328-X)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Sharp End: The Fighting Man in World War IIby John EllisISBN 068416728X (0-684-16728-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Shiloh: The Battle That Changed the Civil Warby Larry J. DanielISBN 0684838575 (0-684-83857-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Shooting Blanks: War Making That Doesn't Workby Albert A. Nofi, James F. DunniganISBN 068808947X (0-688-08947-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Shooting Blanks: War-Making That Doesn't Workby James F. Dunnigan, Albert A. NofiISBN 0688140661 (0-688-14066-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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A Short History of the American Revolutionby James L. StokesburyISBN 068812304X (0-688-12304-X)
Softcover, Quill
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A Short History of the Civil Warby James L. StokesburyISBN 0688151299 (0-688-15129-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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A Short History of the Korean Warby James L. StokesburyISBN 0688095135 (0-688-09513-5)
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Siege: Malta 1940-1943by Ernle Dusgate Selby BradfordISBN 0688047815 (0-688-04781-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnamby John L. PlasterISBN 0684811057 (0-684-81105-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Soldiers and Scholars: The U.S. Army and the Uses of Military History, 1865-1920by Carol ReardonISBN 0700611126 (0-7006-1112-6)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Soldiers of Destruction: The Ss Death's Head Division, 1933-1945by Charles W. SydnorISBN 0691008531 (0-691-00853-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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They Called It Passchendaele: The Story of the Third Battle of Ypres and the Men Who Fought in Itby Lyn MacdonaldISBN 0689708114 (0-689-70811-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Three Men of Bostonby John R. GalvinISBN 0690010184 (0-690-01018-4)
Hardcover, Crowell
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Time to Killby Paul Addison, Angus CalderISBN 0712673768 (0-7126-7376-8)
Softcover, Random House
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Ultra at Sea: How Breaking the Nazi Code Affected Allied Naval Strategy During World War IIby John WintonISBN 0688094228 (0-688-09422-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Understanding War: Essays on Clausewitz and the History of Military Powerby Peter ParetISBN 0691000905 (0-691-00090-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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War in the Ancient World: A Social Historyby Yvon GarlanISBN 0701118881 (0-7011-1888-1)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Wars of the Roses: Military Activity and English Society 1452-1497by Anthony GoodmanISBN 0710007280 (0-7100-0728-0)
Hardcover, Routledge
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The Winter War: The Falklandsby John Witherow, Bishop, Patrick and Witherow, JohnISBN 0704334240 (0-7043-3424-0)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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The Yom Kippur Warby Peter AllenISBN 068417488X (0-684-17488-X)
Hardcover, Scribner
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