Specific wars and campaigns

*; A pivotal year of World War II through German eyes *; The campaigns of the German army, air force, and navy described by a master storyteller *; Covers the aftermath of Stalingrad, Kursk, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, the U-boat war, and air battles After a crushing loss at Stalingrad, the German war machine regrouped in early 1943 to stave off total defeat, but it could not stem the rising Allied tide.

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Covers the D-Day airborne drops and amphibious landings at Omaha Beach and Utah Beach.

Visions of Glory brings together twenty-two images and twenty-two brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that unfolded during a particular year of the Civil War.

In this vividly honest memoir, author Michael Uhl details his experiences in Vietnam as first lieutenant of a counterintelligence team attached to the 11th Infantry.

Winner of the 2010 George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association.

Joseph Balkoski concludes his landmark series on the U.

First full-length history of the largest and most successful airborne offensive ever.

Filled with 1:72-scale drawings of armored vehicles from Germany, Japan, Italy, Hungary, and Romania.

Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands, examining the ways in which Mexico's North overlapped with the U.

The war in Afghanistan has run for more than a decade, and NATO has become increasingly central to it.

The Fateful Lightning is the second volume of Kathleen Diffleys trilogy on Civil War magazine fiction.

Weaving together information from official sources and personal interviews, Barbara Tomblin gives the first full-length account of the US Army Nurse Corps in the Second World War.

Gripping firsthand accounts.

The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation shows how antebellum African Americans used the newspaper as a means for translating their belief in black "e;chosenness"e; into plans and programs for black liberation.

What Americans call the Vietnam War actually began in December 1946 with a struggle between the communists and the French for possession of the country--but Vietnam's strategic position in southeast Asia inevitably led to the involvement of other countries.

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Negotiating China's Destiny explains how China developed from a country that hardly mattered internationally into the important world power it is today.

Intrigued by hints of ';the bigger man' behind the war personality of Gen.

This is the personal account of an army infantry platoon leader and commanding officer in the central highlands of Vietnam during 1967 and 1968 when he was 21 years old.

Learning to Forget analyzes the evolution of US counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine over the last five decades.

This book recounts four tours of Air Force duty in Vietnam, 1965-1968, and reports firsthand how tactics and the war effort changed each time.

Field Marshal Erwin Rommels heroic opposition to Hitler in 1944 cost him his life.

The years 1909-1918 can be regarded as formative for MI5, an era in which it developed from a small counterespionage bureau into an established security intelligence agency.

Ante Pavelic was the leader of the fascist party of Croatia (the Usta e), who, on Adolf Hitler's instruction, became the leader of Croatia after the Nazi invasion of 1941.

The author of this Vietnam War memoir was drafted in November 1966 just before completion of his Ph.

At the end of World War II, Gen.

The Chocolate Chip became famous for its ability to stand firm against the heat of the oven.

In the final, desperate months of World War Two, at a time when the German war machine was considered by the Allies to be an almost spent force, Adolf Hitler unleashed a new weapon against England and western Europe that fell from the silence of the Earth’s upper atmosphere and the edge of space.

Julian Bell explores the life of a younger member, and sole poet, of the Bloomsbury Group, the most important community of British writers and intellectuals in the twentieth century, which includes Virginia Woolf (Julian's aunt), E.

One of the decisive battles of the 20th century began on August 29, 1914 with the cry that echoed throughout France: ';The Prussians are coming!

Occupied Iran in World War II became the most important supply route to Russia and source of fuel to the Allies.

Rome Reborn on Western Shores examines the literature of the Revolutionary era to explore the ways in which American patriots employed the classics and to assess antiquity's importance to the early political culture of the United States.

As two of the most popular entertainers of the mid-century film industry, comic greats Bud Abbott and Lou Costello offered an essential balm to the American public following the sorrows of the Great Depression and during the trauma of World War II.

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During World War II, the Nazis plundered from occupied countries millions of items of incalculable value estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

How big is Germany's Air Force?

Hundreds of photos, including many never published before with riveting accounts of armored warfare in World War II.

The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox.

At least 8-10 million Iranians out of a population of 18-20 million died of starvation and disease during the famine of 1917-1919.

Few ships in American history have had as illustrious a history as the heavy cruiser USS Portland (CA-33), affectionately known by her crew as 'Sweet Pea.

James Arness gives the full story on his early years, his family, his military career and his film work in Hollywood, including appearances in the cult-favorite science fiction movies Them!

Provides a day-by-day account of the action on all fronts and of the events surrounding the conflict, from the guns of August 1914 to the November 1918 Armistice and its troubled aftermath.

On the night of August 13, 1944, the U.

Combining theories of calculation and property relations and using an array of archival sources, this book focuses on the building and decommissioning of state-owned defense factories in World War II-era Chicago.

""Even though women were not supposed to be on the front lines, on the front lines we were.

Armor expert Zaloga enters the battle over the best tanks of World War II with this heavy-caliber blast of a book armed with more than forty years of research.

A landmark text on the greatest land battle of the Pacific War.

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Marigold presents the first rigorously documented, in-depth story of one of the Vietnam War's last great mysteries: the secret peace initiative, codenamed "e;Marigold,"e; that sought to end the war in 1966.