Military history

World War I began disastrously for the English when the Germans routed them at Mons, Belgium, on August 23 and 24, 1914.

Mass population displacement affected millions of Europe's civilians across the different theatres of war in 1914-18.

Mass population displacement affected millions of Europe's civilians across the different theatres of war in 1914-18.

During World War I, the American Merchant Marine meant dangerous duty.

Assassination--in Japanese, ansatsu or "e;dark murder"e;--was instrumental in the samurai-led revolution known as the Meiji Restoration, by which the shogun's military government was overthrown and the Imperial monarchy restored in 1868.

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This book explores the eight-month wave of mutinies that struck the French infantry and navy in 1919.

In the years following the Civil War, the U.

"e;An amazingly detailed account of the American Expeditionary Force at Belleau Wood in 1918"e; from the authors of Tanks in Hell (Books Monthly).

This biography of the Civil War officer who established the Union's intelligence network "e;is an absolute treasure trove of .

An in-depth analysis of aircraft carrier battles in WWII and the evolution of carrier operations-from technology and strategy to life among the crew.

As a first lieutenant in the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, U.

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During World War I, as young men journeyed overseas to battle, American women maintained the home front by knitting, fundraising, and conserving supplies.

As a 26-year old Marine radar intercept officer (RIO), Fleet Lentz flew 131 combat missions in the back seat of the supersonic F-4 B Phantom II during the wind-down of the Vietnam War.

On September 25, 1944, Hitler attempted to shore up his faltering forces by creating the Volkssturm or People's Army.

A visual look at the Nazi assault on the Soviet capital in the series that's "e;a welcome addition .

This is the definitive biography of one of the most controversial figures of the Second World War.

This book examines the treatment of cultural and religious diversity - indigenous and immigrant - on both sides of the Irish border in order to analyse the current state of tolerance and to consider the kinds of policies that may support integration while respecting diversity.

America's chief exports are war and entertainment; combined, they are the war films viewed all over the world.

From World War II to high above the Earth to Vietnam, this memoir tells the story of fighter pilot Howard C.

Contemporary Violence: Postmodern War in Kosovo and Chechnya draws on several years of field research, as well as interpretive IR theory and analysis of empirical source material so as to shed light on contemporary violence.

Focusing on three forms of biological threat--bioterrorism, biocrime and biohacking--the author examines the history of biowarfare and terrorism.

Over the years, technological advances have given publishers the ability to produce more books and online publications with greater speed.

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Odilo Globocnik, a collaborator of Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, was responsible for the deaths of at least 1.

Stirring accounts of the almost legendary campaigns of the United States Fourth Armored Division, universally recognized as "e;Patton's Best,"e; from its pre-World War II origins up through its famous relief of the 101st Airborne Division during the Battle of the Bulge are presented in this book.

Among their many idiosyncrasies, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda, remained serious cartoon aficionados throughout their lives.

Beyond Nightingale is the first book to explore the inception of modern nursing from a transnational perspective, studying the development of the new military nursing in the five Crimean War armies.

This fascinating look at the life of a modern-day professional soldier gives the reader an inside view of the deadly global war on terror.

The author describes his memoir: "e;It's based on wartime letters.

When war broke out between the British and Turkish empires in 1914, the 6th (Poona) Division sailed from India to Basra to bolster Britain's allies, deny the port to enemy shipping, and secure Britain's Persian oil supplies.

This book is for the teenager or young adult who is interested in enlisting in the United States Coast Guard.

Over the past eight decades, developments in vertical lift aircraft--both helicopters and vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) planes--have given the American military unparalleled capabilities on the modern battlefield.

With the withdrawal of French forces from South Vietnam in 1955, the U.

Eyewitness accounts of heavy bombers on D-Day Rarely told story of what happened above the beaches Detailed descriptions of various bombing runs In this vivid and dramatic look at World War II in the air, eight different aircrews--three American and five British--tell eye-opening and heart-racing stories of operations before, during, and after D-Day.

In this pathbreaking study, Patricia Bonomi argues that religion was as instrumental as either politics or the economy in shaping early American life and values.

In this Marine combat memoir, Steve Johnson recounts his service in Vietnam from April 1967 to May 1968.

Women of war is an examination of gender modernity using the world's longest established women's military organisation, the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry.

In 1965, drafted into the Army to serve in Vietnam, Lawrence Climo, a young physician just out of training, learned of a unique humanitarian mission with counter-insurgency objectives that was looking for doctors: MILPHAP (Military Provincial Hospital Augmentation Program).

Sometimes, to move forward, we must look back.

Jane Fonda's visit to Hanoi in July 1972 and her pro-North Vietnamese, anti-American conduct, especially her pose with an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down American planes and her propaganda broadcasts directed toward American troops, angered many Americans.

In this Christian Encounter Series biography, author John Perry explores the life of Sir.

Colonel Donald Gilbert Cook was the first U.

This play re-enacts the 1917 trial and imprisonment of Alice Wheeldon, the renowned suffragist, for her alleged role in plotting to assassinate the Prime Minister Lloyd George.

By the end of the sixteenth century, stories about the Revolt in the Low Countries (c.

Russia's North Caucasus mujahedin of the self-declared Caucasus Emirate and the history thereof is part and parcel of the global jihadi revolutionary movement which includes but is no longer led by Al Qaeda.

In the 1930s and 1940s - amid the crises of totalitarianism, war and a perceived cultural collapse in the democratic West - a high-profile group of mostly Christian intellectuals met to map out 'middle ways' through the 'age of extremes'.

A groundbreaking look at how the interrogation rooms of the Korean War set the stage for a new kind of battle-not over land but over human subjectsTraditional histories of the Korean War have long focused on violations of the thirty-eighth parallel, the line drawn by American and Soviet officials in 1945 dividing the Korean peninsula.