Military history

Scholars hail the find as "e;the most important discovery in Civil War scholarship in the last half century.

In September 1944 Hitler ordered an attack on Gen.

The decades-long military campaign for the American West is an endlessly fascinating topic, and award-winning author Jerome A.

Robert Macombers Honor series of naval fiction follows the life and career of Peter Wake in the U.

The ripple effects of the First World War came at an inopportune time for the infant Chinese republic.

In 1914, Europe was not the only continent coming to terms with a new form of conflict.

Between 1819 and 1845, as veterans of the Revolutionary War were filing applications to receive pensions for their service, the government was surprised to learn that many of the soldiers were not men, but boys, many of whom were under the age of sixteen, and some even as young as nine.

Between 1819 and 1845, as veterans of the Revolutionary War were filing applications to receive pensions for their service, the government was surprised to learn that many of the soldiers were not men, but boys, many of whom were under the age of sixteen, and some even as young as nine.

In September 1944 Hitler ordered an attack on Gen.

History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Frederick the Great Volume XX by Thomas Carlyle is a biographical work that delves into the life and reign of the influential Prussian monarch.

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The little-known true story of a mysterious nuclear reactor disaster-years before Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, or Fukushima.

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The best U.

Robert Macombers Honor series of naval fiction follows the life and career of Peter Wake in the U.

This book is based on more than a hundred letters sent home by three Swansea brothers during the First World War, almost all of which relate to the period 1916-18 when Richard, Gabriel and Ivor Eustis were serving in different theatres.

In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a meteor in the hemisphere.

Assault guns (Sturmgeschutz in German) were armored fighting vehicles similar to tanks, with the chassis and tracks of a panzer but without the rotating turret, which allowed the mounting of a larger gun.

In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a meteor in the hemisphere.

Updated edition of the essential guide for enlisted soldiers in the U.

These are the stories Vietnam vets tell over beers at Legion halls and VFW postsstories of young men tangled up in the chaos of landing zones and nameless jungle hills, in the boredom of base camps, in the confusion of a controversial war.

Updated edition of the essential guide for enlisted soldiers in the U.

History and folklore abound in these twenty-five true stories about lost ships along North Carolina's storm-washed Outer Banks.

These are the stories Vietnam vets tell over beers at Legion halls and VFW postsstories of young men tangled up in the chaos of landing zones and nameless jungle hills, in the boredom of base camps, in the confusion of a controversial war.

Assault guns (Sturmgeschutz in German) were armored fighting vehicles similar to tanks, with the chassis and tracks of a panzer but without the rotating turret, which allowed the mounting of a larger gun.

"e;An engaging and often frightening story"e; of a member of the 305th Engineering Battalion of the 80th Infantry Division (Andrew Z.

Zwei SS-Manner stehen vor der Tur.

"e;An exhaustive compilation of first-hand accounts of the Gettysburg battlefield in the days, weeks, and months following the fight .

This book argues that Nietzsche's political thought and his own proposed model of governance is Bonapartist in conception: autocratic will in the guise of popular rule.

This book features cutting, edge, interdisciplinary research on the legacy of the Spanish Civil War by established and new scholars from across the world.

A week-by-week guide to surviving boot camp-includes interviews with recent graduates, recruiters, and instructors.

History of the War in Afghanistan Vol.

Streitkrafte spielten auf dem Weg zur Deutschen Einheit eine entscheidende, bis heute oft unterschatzte Rolle: - bei der Frage der Gewalt wahrend der Friedlichen Revolution, - bei den Diskussionen uber die Bundniszugehorigkeit eines vereinten Deutschlands, - bei der Auflosung der militarischen Strukturen der DDR und der Integration ehemaliger NVA-Angehoriger in die Bundeswehr, - beim Aufbau einer neuen militarischen Organisation in den neuen Bundeslandern, - beim Abzug der sowjetischen/russischen Streitkrafte aus Deutschland.

"e;An exhaustive compilation of first-hand accounts of the Gettysburg battlefield in the days, weeks, and months following the fight .

Manfred von Richthofen ist der beruhmteste Jagdflieger aller Zeiten.

This book takes a thematic-cum-stylistic approach to Auden’s earlier poetry and poetics.

History and folklore abound in these twenty-five true stories about lost ships along North Carolina's storm-washed Outer Banks.

The rough-and-tumble life of Special Forces vet and Sixties pop star Barry SadlerThe top Billboard Hot 100 single of 1966 wasn't ';Paint It Black' or ';Yellow Submarine'--it was ';The Ballad of the Green Berets,' a hyper-patriotic tribute to the men of the Special Forces by Vietnam vet Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler.

This book takes a thematic-cum-stylistic approach to Auden’s earlier poetry and poetics.

History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Frederick the Great Volume XV by Thomas Carlyle is a biographical work that delves into the life and reign of the influential Prussian monarch.

History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Frederick the Great Volume XII by Thomas Carlyle is a biographical work that delves into the life and reign of the influential Prussian monarch.

On the morning of December 7, 1941, Chief Aviation Ordnanceman John W.

'For the first time Australia speaks, not for herself alone, but for the whole British Commonwealth.

History often repeats itself, but rarely with such brutal clarity as in the mountains of Afghanistan.

In the spring of 334 BC a young king led his army across the narrow straits dividing Europe from Asia, stopped to honor the ruins of Troy, and hurled a spear into the sand of the far shore — claiming a continent as spear-won land.

Drama.

A gripping narrative of one of the Civil War's most consequential engagements.

On the morning of December 7, 1941, Chief Aviation Ordnanceman John W.

History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Frederick the Great Volume IX by Thomas Carlyle is a biographical work that delves into the life and reign of the influential Prussian monarch.

Through the eyes of a Marine radioman, Sudden Death unveils the constant threat of death in Vietnam's unforgiving jungles.