Military history

RMS Rhone, just three years old then and the pretty queen of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Companys fleet, sank in the great St.

A staggering 30,000 British prisoners of war liberated from German POW camps by the Soviets at the end of World War II were never returned home.

This book explores the literary culture of Britain's radical press from 1880 to 1910, a time that saw a flourishing of radical political activity as well as the emergence of a mass print industry.

This is the story of the Spanish-American War, told not from the perspective of generals, policy makers, or politicians, but from that of the soldiers, sailors and marines in the field and the reporters who covered their efforts.

History comes alive in these pages as Peter Stephaich traces his origins from 1608 when King Rudolph II of Hungary conferred noble status on his family.

*; 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.

At the turn of the twentieth century, the Ottoman state identified multiple threats in its eastern regions.

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.

This critical text offers a behind-the-scenes look at fifteen of the most important American war films of the last 60 years.

Military Police units worked to keep the peace in Europe from the occupation after World War II to the end of the Cold War.

At the height of the Korean War in 1952, a budding young historian was drafted into the U.

The A to Z of British Intelligence offers insight into the history and operations of British Intelligence through its more than 1,800 entries, covering a vast and varied cast of characters: the spies and their handlers, the moles and defectors, the political leaders, the top brass, the techniques and jargon, and the many different offices and organizations.

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

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

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

"e;Examines and analyzes the organizational culture of three armies, those of the United States, Britain, and Israel .

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

"e;An excellent contribution to the debate on the future role of nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence in American foreign policy.

The defection of Igor Gouzenko in September 1945, more so than any other single event, alerted the West to the nature and scale of the Soviet espionage offensive being waged by the Kremlin.

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

The Life Within provides a social and cultural history of the indigenous people of a region of central Mexico in the later colonial period-as told through documents in Nahuatl and Spanish.

This book discusses the role of the U.

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.

In 2008, the iconic doomsday clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientistswas set at five minutes to midnight-two minutes closer to Armageddon than in 1962, when John F.

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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.

On March 9, 1916 the border town of Columbus, New Mexico was attacked by forces under the command of the Mexican revolutionary, Pancho Villa.

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.

This sweeping recasting of American naval history is a bold departure from the conventional ';sea power' approach.

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.

Alfred Thayer Mahans The Influence of Seapower upon History is well known to students of naval history and strategy, but his other writings are often dismissed as irrelevant to todays problems.

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.

A new collection of Bill Ehrhart's essays--25 of them, written between 2002 and 2012 on subjects ranging from the Vietnam War failures of American policy-makers to life in 21st century Vietnam; the trenches of the Western Front, the mountains of Korea, the sands of Iraq; from the value of one's name to the cowardice of Congress; mountain gorillas in Rwanda, the journalist Gloria Emerson, teaching poetry to teenagers; on the famous (Wilfred Owen) and the obscure (Robert James Elliott).