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By the late 1960s, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in US history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end.

In this transnational history of World War II, Kelly A.

"e;The volume's narrative content is enhanced and supplemented by an event timeline, B&W period photographs, modern color photography, profiles of key generals, color maps of various kinds, and topical sidebars.

The election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860 initiated a heated debate throughout the South about what Republican control of the federal government would mean for the slaveholding states.

The American Civil War was a crucial event in the development of Chicago as the metropolis of the heartland.

On the eve of the Civil War and after, Illinois was one of the most significant states in the Union.

Hero of the Angry Sky draws on the unpublished diaries, correspondence, informal memoir, and other personal documents of the U.

On March 11, 1854, the people of Wisconsin prevented agents of the federal government from carrying away the fugitive slave, Joshua Glover.

"e;The volume's narrative content is enhanced and supplemented by an event timeline, B&W period photographs, modern color photography, profiles of key generals, color maps of various kinds, and topical sidebars.

Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War represents pathbreaking research on the rise of U.

**Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist** Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors.

Few places in the world carry as heavy a burden of history as Auschwitz.

The true story of the US Navy operation that captured Nazi submarine U-505, its crew, technology, encryption codes, and an Enigma cipher machine.

Carl Lavin was a high school senior when Pearl Harbor was attacked.

Despite his military achievements and his association with many of the great names of American history, Godfrey Weitzel (1835-1884) is perhaps the least known of all the Union generals.

In the quarter century after the founding of the Peoples Republic of China in 1949, Beijing assisted Vietnam in its struggle against two formidable foes, France and the United States.

In the decades since the Vietnam War, veteran memoirs have influenced Americans' understanding of the conflict.

When it came to the Civil War, Michiganians never spoke with one voice.

In 1942, Bill Manbo (19081992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming.

Sunday Times Bestselling author Will Iredale tells the stirring heroic story of the ragtag fisherman fighting the Nazis to save Britain, for fans of James Holland, Max Hastings and Damien Lewis'SUPERB' James Holland'EXCITING AND IMPORTANT' Dan Snow'REVELATORY AND THRILLING' Saul David'THIS IS HISTORY AT FULL THROTTLE' Guy WaltersJust after midnight on Saturday, 2 September 1939, a German U-boat quietly slipped out of its berth and into the North Sea.

During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military.

For the 380,000 African American soldiers who fought in World War I, Woodrow Wilsons charge to make the world safe for democracy carried life-or-death meaning.

This volume makes available a fascinating narrative and a document of singular importance to the study of the Civil War.

With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps the last all-white branch of the U.

"e;Vivid, fast-paced .

BOOK 12 OF THE LADYBIRD EXPERT HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, FROM AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN JAMES HOLLANDFeaturing stunning illustrations from Keith Burns, bringing the story to life in vivid detailWhy did Japan decide to attack at Pearl Harbour?

"e;Children see and hear what is there; adults see and hear what they are expected to and mainly remember what they think they ought to remember,"e; David Lowenthal wrote in The Past Is a Foreign Country.

This final installment of the highly acclaimed four-volume series traces events from March 1864 to June 1865.

This is the third volume of the ground-breaking eyewitness narrative that has been called a "masterpiece.

A social-developmental psychologist and a social anthropologist describe what is known and what needs to be investigated concerning the development of race and color concepts in young children.

A newly discovered firsthand account of the Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath from one of the survivors a lost classic that brings unprecedented immediacy to our understanding of this world-changing event.

International lawyers and distinguished scholars consider the question: Is it legally justifiable to treat the Vietnam War as a civil war or as a peculiar modern species of international law?

Volume three of the complete wartime correspondence of the two great statesmen of the twentieth centuryThis three-volume work is the first complete collection of the correspondence of Winston Churchill and Franklin D.

Volume two of the complete wartime correspondence of the two great statesmen of the twentieth centuryThis three-volume work is the first complete collection of the correspondence of Winston Churchill and Franklin D.

Volume one of the complete wartime correspondence of the two great statesmen of the twentieth centuryThis three-volume work is the first complete collection of the correspondence of Winston Churchill and Franklin D.

Professor Havens analyzes the efforts of Japanese antiwar organizations to portray the war as much more than a fire across the sea"e; and to create new forms of activism in a country where individuals have traditionally left public issues to the authorities.

In this major reexamination of the southern industrial economy and its failure to progress during the antebellum period, Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss show that slavery and its consequences were not alone in inhibiting industrialization.

It is well documented that relations between the Allies and the Soviet Union were deteriorating from 1943.

In this thoroughly researched documentation of a historically controversial issue, the author considers the background, passage, and constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Law.

Conner explains the background, organization, and workings of the National War Labor Board, created by President Wilson in April 1918.

The purpose of this study was to discover what was typical in the history and character of the state during the period of the Civil War and the readjustment that followed.

In 1961, the U.

In Making Sense of War, Amir Weiner reconceptualizes the entire historical experience of the Soviet Union from a new perspective, that of World War II.

The Battle of Antietam took place on September 17, 1862, and still stands as the bloodiest single day in American military history.

As the Vietnam War divided the nation, a network of antiwar coffeehouses appeared in the towns and cities outside American military bases.

The dynastic struggles of the Wars of the Roses (1455-85) have traditionally been portrayed as belonging to one of the most dramatic periods in the history of England, an age of murder and melodrama.

From the Outside In examines the profound impact of World War II on American government.

The strategy and planning behind D-Day: "e;The best-researched, best-written account [of the Normandy Campaign] I have ever read.

The purpose of this study was to discover what was typical in the history and character of the state during the period of the Civil War and the readjustment that followed.