Specific wars and campaigns

This book is an ambitious and wide-ranging social and cultural history of gender relations among indigenous peoples of New Spain, from the Spanish conquest through the first half of the eighteenth century.

Nearly 90 percent of residents in Dubai are foreigners with no Emirati nationality.

By exploring the role of Oberlin--the college and the community--in fighting against slavery and for social equality, J.

Japans invasion of China in 1937 saw most major campaigns north of the Yangtze River, where Chinese industry was concentrated.

George C.

In this edition of his widely acclaimed study, Marion B.

Few events have sparked more legends and stories of the supernatural than America's Civil War.

Stone & Stone Editor’s ChoiceBy the summer of 1944, the war in Europe had reached a critical point.

In this expansive history of South Carolina's commemoration of the Civil War era, Thomas J.

In May 1861, Virginian Thomas Henry Carter (18311908) raised an artillery battery and joined the Confederate army.

Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and throughout Virginia, the Civil War was clearly a conflict that raged across a continent.

During the winter of 1864, more than 3,000 Federal prisoners of war escaped from Confederate prison camps into South Carolina and North Carolina, often with the aid of local slaves.

From Kabul to Baghdad and Back provides insight into the key strategic decisions of the Afghan and Iraq campaigns as the United States attempted to wage both simultaneously against al-Qaeda and its supporting affiliates.

A sailors extraordinary experiences on an American submarine in the Pacific are candidly reported in this eyewitness account of war from a torpedomans perspective.

Told here for the first time in vivid detail is the story of the defenders of Wake Island following their surrender to the Japanese on December 23, 1941.

This is the true story of the legendary Vietnam War hero John Ripley, who braved intense enemy fire to destroy a strategic bridge and stall a major North Vietnamese invasion into the South in April 1972.

Before America entered World War II, twenty-two U.

Calling the Combined Chiefs of Staff the glue that held the British-American alliance together in World War II, David Rigby describes the vital contributions to Allied victory made by the organization, which drew its members from the U.

The American fleet aircraft carrier Hornet is widely acknowledged for the contributions she made to the war effort.

More than 9 million Germans died as a result of deliberate Allied starvation and expulsion policies after World War II-one quarter of the country was annexed, and about 15 million people expelled in the largest act of ethnic cleansing the world has ever known.

Did you know that apart from lessons on ethics and morals, the World War 1 also gives valuable contributions to the progress of military science?

How did the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction shape the masculinity of white Confederate veterans?

No nation is free from the charge that it has a less-than-complete view of the past.

When NATO took charge of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) for Afghanistan in 2003, ISAF conceptualized its mission largely as a stabilization and reconstruction deployment.

Black smoke drifted about the scene.

As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 1865.

A wry memoir of innocence, perplexity, and growing up as a white girl in a (very slowly) changing South.

With all that has already been written about President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, one of the little known stories is the case of the only successful conspirator, John Harrison Surratt, the son of Mary Surratt, who was hanged for her part in the crime.

Marine combat veteran and award-winning military historian Joseph Alexander takes a fresh look at one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War.

Father Joe O'Callahan, S.

In early December 1941 in the Philippines, a young Navy ensign named Kemp Tolley was given his first ship command, an old 76-foot schooner that had once served as a movie prop in John Ford's "e;The Hurricane.

Regarded as the standard biography of World War II naval hero Adm.

A World War II merchant seaman, John Bunker takes a thorough look at the American merchant marines' significant contributions to the war effort.

This military history examines the complex factors surrounding the execution of an American militia colonel in British-occupied Charleston, SC.

This vivid history of the Civil War era reveals how unexpected bonds of union forged among diverse peoples in the Ohio-Kentucky borderlands furthered emancipation through a period of spiraling chaos between 1830 and 1865.

Between the end of May and the beginning of August 1864, Lt.

During World War II, Allied casualty rates in the air were high.

Drawing on a decade of research into the community that proposed the so-called "e;Ground Zero Mosque,"e; this book refutes the idea that current demands for Muslim moderation have primarily arisen in response to the events of 9/11, or to the violence often depicted in the media as unique to Muslims.

Borders of Belonging investigates a pressing but previously unexplored aspect of immigration in America-the impact of immigration policies and practices not only on undocumented migrants, but also on their family members, some of whom possess a form of legal status.

Meet Blackwater USA, the private army that the US government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil.

The Allied Powers and the Central Powers were fighting tooth and nail during the World War 1.

There have been a number of studies published on the activities of British and German navies during World War I, but little on naval action in other arenas.

From huddled command conferences to cramped cockpits, John Lundstrom guides readers through the maelstrom of air combat at Guadalcanal in this impressively researched sequel to his earlier study.

Faithful Warriors is a memoir of World War II in the Pacific by a combat veteran of the 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division.

A vividly detailed account of life aboard U.

This remarkable memoir tells the compelling story of the near-mythic British district officer who helped shape the first great Allied counteroffensive.

A Marine officer's inner struggle with truth after coming home from Iraq.

As the only French woman among some 11,000 defenders at Dien Bien Phu, Genevive de Galard had a unique perspective of the siege and fall of the French fortress.

Iraq war veteran's Poulin Prizewinning debut poetry collection explores war, masculinity, and return to civilian life.

From Storm to Freedom analyzes and assesses the strategic interaction between Iraq and the United States from 1990 to 2009, from the perspective of a single, if discontinuous conflict.