Military history

Bretnor covers "e;Vulnerability and the Equations of War,"e; "e;Destructive Forces and the Equations of War,"e; "e;Time and the Equations of War,"e; "e;The Critical Imbalance,"e; and "e;The Optimum Response.

American military advisors in South Vietnam came to know their allies personally--as few American soldiers could.

The incarceration of French and American prisoners of war in Dartmoor Prison, at a time when Britain was at war with both its traditional enemy and the young nation of former British colonies, was a dark and unusual episode.

Motivated by patriotism, 21-year old Everard Bullis of St.

In Old Warhorse vs.

One of NASCAR's pioneers, Bud Moore won countless races in the sport's early rough and tumble days.

This book details the Liberty ships and the Emergency Shipbuilding Program during World War II.

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Born into one of 19th century Europe's more powerful families, Archduchess Marie Valerie was the favorite daughter of Austria's Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth.

At "e;zero dark thirty"e; on January 30, 1971, units of the U.

Matt Burnett joins the militia when he hears of pending French and Indian attacks upon colonial settlers.

When the Americans invaded the Japanese-controlled islands of Saipan and Tinian in 1944, civilians and combatants committed mass suicide to avoid being captured.

Focusing on the wartime activities of the U.

From the very inception of the United States, few issues have been so divisive and defining as American slavery.

This narrative history describes the events preceding, and the prosecution of, the Texas Revolution and the U.

The life and achievements of General Omar Nelson Bradley are legendary.

The mother of 11 year old Ilse Glaus turned down the last plane out of East Prussia ahead of the advancing Russians in order to stay back with her aged parents.

There was another war in Vietnam, one that mostly did not make the headlines: the campaign to "e;win the hearts and minds"e; of the Vietnamese people.

The impact of the Civil War was felt far beyond American shores.

On 12 September 1944, a wolfpack of U.

Men and women who serve in the armed forces are subject to a different legal code than those they protect.

One of the central events of modern history, World War I has been poorly presented in English language films.

In World War I, 104 African American doctors joined the United States Army to care for the 40,000 men of the 92nd and 93rd Divisions, the Army's only black combat units.

Rudolf Hoss has been called the greatest mass murderer in history.

Since World War I, nose art has adorned military aircraft around the world.

The signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973 signified the end of the Vietnam War.

From the turn of the 20th century until the end of World War II, the United States Marine Corps fought a series of "e;small wars,"e; starting in the Philippines in 1899, and ending in the islands of the southwest Pacific in 1945.

This is a thorough historiographic review of the Battle of Marathon.

In the final year of World War I, Germany made its first attempt to wage submarine warfare off faraway shores.

The book chronicles the extensive training and heroic service of the New York National Guard's 104th Field Artillery Regiment from the period of 1916 to 1919.

During World War II, an eccentric band of barnstormers, stunt flyers and commercial pilots joined military recruits to form the Pan American Air Ferries.

In what ways does political trauma influence the art arising from it?

The factors leading to the defeat of the Axis Powers in World War II have been debated for decades.

For the Mexican government to go to war with its more powerful northern neighbor in 1846 was folly.

The Ukrainian crisis that dominated headlines in fall 2013 was decades in the making.

From the very earliest days of organized warfare, combatants have wanted to develop weapons with more firepower.

Carl Von Clausewitz described the purpose of war as "e;the compulsory submission of the enemy to our will.

This collection of accounts of American men and women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan reveals their personal experiences as military combat personnel.

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George Barnett transformed the United States Marine Corps from an antiquated afterthought to a modern force with an international reputation.

In April 1917, Congress approved President Woodrow Wilson's request to declare war on the Central Powers, thrusting the United States into World War I with the rallying cry, "e;The world must be made safe for democracy.

In 1831, Prussia was consumed by two fears: the possibility of revolution resulting from the 1830 November Uprising of Poland against Russia, and a looming cholera epidemic.

Fictional war narratives often employ haunted battlefields, super-soldiers, time travel, the undead and other imaginative elements of science fiction and fantasy.

For two weeks during the spring of 1942, the Bataan Death March--one of the most widely condemned atrocities of World War II--unfolded.

Through a century of movies, the U.

During the Civil War, control of the Mississippi River was hotly contested by both the Union and Confederate armies.

Christopher Gist is a great American hero who has often gone unnoticed.

Britain's peacekeeping role in Southeast Asia after World War II was clear enough but the purpose of the Commonwealth in the region later became shadowy.

The early 20th century saw the founding of the National Security League, a nationalistic nonprofit organization committed to an expanded military, conscripted service and meritocracy.

In the fall of 1983, arguably the coldest year of the decades-long Cold War, the world's greatest superpower invaded Grenada, a Marxist-led Caribbean nation the size of Atlanta.