Specific wars and campaigns

This two-volume set brings to life the daily thoughts and routines of men and women-rich and poor, of various cultures, religions, races, and beliefs-during a time of great political, social, economic, and legal turmoil.

The Iraq War (2003-2011) was the most significant conflict in the early 21st century.

Accidental Soldier depicts Richard B.

This book provides readers with an overview of how Americans have commemorated and remembered the Civil War.

This book comprehensively covers the wide geographical range of the northern home fronts during the Civil War, emphasizing the diverse ways people interpreted, responded to, and adapted to war by their ideas, interests, and actions.

Drawing together a wide variety of primary source documents from across the United States, Europe, and Asia, this book illuminates the events and experiences of World War II-the most devastating war in human history.

This book offers a unique perspective for understanding how and why the Second World War in Europe ended as it did-and why Germany, in attacking the Soviet Union, came far closer to winning the war than is often perceived.

Ideal for general readers as well as professionals conducting extensive research, this informative book offers a collection of documents on the origins and conduct of the Iraq War.

This biography provides a concise, accurate, and lively account of one of the best known yet least understood figures of the Civil War, Robert E.

This book examines newspapers, magazines, photographs, illustrations, and editorial cartoons to tell the important story of journalism, documenting its role during the Civil War as well as the impact of the war on the press.

This book explains how the Battle of Antietam-a conflict that changed nothing militarily-still played a pivotal role in the Civil War by affording Abraham Lincoln an opportunity to announce the emancipation of slaves in states in rebellion.

This reference work is an ideal resource for anyone interested in better understanding the controversial Iraq War.

A noted World War I scholar examines the critical decisions and events that led to Germany's defeat, arguing that the German loss was caused by collapse at home as well as on the front.

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This appealing narrative history of one of the Civil War's most pivotal campaigns analyzes how the western Confederate army under John B.

The author of We Who Are Alive and Remain presents remembrances from the families of the soldiers of Easy Company

A Company of Heroes is an intimate, revealing portrait of the lives of the men who fought for our freedom during some of the darkest days the world has ever known-men who returned home with a newfound wisdom and honor that they passed on to their families and who continue to inspire new generations of Americans.

The revisionist work about Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, who won his battles at sea but lost the war of public opinion.

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A haunting portrait of one of the most fascinating and influential figures of the mid-twentieth century, this biography takes a penetrating look at James Forrestal's life and work.

The A to Z of U.

The period from the outset of World War I to the end of World War II was among the most significant in the history of the United States.

How do individuals, societies, and nations deal with their difficult pasts?

This book offers a unique firsthand account of the experiences of a teenage officer in America's Civil War.

What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914?

On August 26, 1861, one hundred volunteers met at Camp Wood and formed Company A.

Odyssey of a Bombardier is the illustrated Prisoner of War "e;log"e; that depicts the experiences of bombardier Richard M.

During World War II 51,000 Italian prisoners of war were detained in the United States.

During the American Civil War, Maryland did not join the Confederacy but nonetheless possessed divided loyalties and sentiments.

World War II on Film examines the war through the lens of 12 films.

This important reference work highlights a number of disparate themes relating to the experience of children during the Holocaust, showing their vulnerability and how some heroic people sought to save their lives amid the horrors perpetrated by the Nazi regime.

Covering many aspects of the Vietnam War that have not been addressed before, this book supplies new perspectives from academics as well as Vietnam veterans that explore how this key conflict of the 20th century has influenced everyday life and popular culture during the war as well as for the past 50 years.

Among the more improbable events of the Asia-Pacific Theater in World War II was the creation in Singapore of a corps of female Indian combat soldiers, the Rani of Jhansi Regiment (RJR).

This study introduces a new perspective on Lincoln and the Civil War through an examination of his declaration of our national values and the subsequent interpretation of those values by families during the war.

Published on the 40th anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam, this book brings to life the experiences and memories of South Vietnamese soldiers-the forgotten combatants of this controversial conflict.

The Civil War on Film informs high-school and college readers interested in Civil War film history on issues that arise when film viewers confuse entertainment with historical accuracy.

Originally published in 1997, Bacskai's powerful ethnography portrays the political, religious, and individual forces that came to bear on the Orthodox Jewish tradition as it struggled for survival in the aftermath of the Holocaust in Hungary.

This is the story of a crushingly ordinary man who had the misfortune to live in the first two-thirds of the twentieth century.

This book examines the differing ways that Atlantans have remembered the Civil War since its end in 1865.

This edited collection of Civil War correspondence between Col.

With a fresh interpretation of African American resistance to kidnapping and pre-Civil War political culture, Blind No More sheds new light on the coming of the Civil War by focusing on a neglected truism: the antebellum free states experienced a dramatic ideological shift that questioned the value of the Union.

Prison Pens presents the memoir of a captured Confederate soldier in northern Virginia and the letters he exchanged with his fiancee during the Civil War.

Covering many aspects of the Vietnam War that have not been addressed before, this book supplies new perspectives from academics as well as Vietnam veterans that explore how this key conflict of the 20th century has influenced everyday life and popular culture during the war as well as for the past 50 years.

This carefully researched book provides an operational level analysis of European warfare from 1792 to 1815 that includes the tactics, operations, and strategy of major conflicts of the time.

Covering the daily lives of American soldiers from their training through their arrival in France and participation in the final battles of the war, this book offers a breadth of perspectives on the experiences of doughboys in the First World War via primary documents of the time.

A compelling narrative of one of the Civil War's most pivotal campaigns in which Federal armies drove Robert E.

This invaluable resource offers students a comprehensive overview of the German war machine that overran much of Europe during World War II, with close to 300 entries on a variety of topics and a number of key primary source documents.

Vietnam War on Film illustrates how to employ film as a teaching tool.

Even though much of Europe eventually succumbed to the Nazis during World War II, many Europeans defiantly resisted occupation in every way possible.

Providing an invaluable introductory resource for students investigating the war in Afghanistan, this book highlights the evolution of the conflict through the documents that helped to shape it.