Military history

This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population.

This first comprehensive analysis of the Third Reich's efforts to confiscate, loot, censor and influence art begins with a brief history of the looting of artworks in Western history.

After the Americans withdrew from the Vietnam War, their Indochinese allies faced imprisonment, torture and death under communist regimes.

The effects of the War outside present-day Vietnam are ongoing.

By 1915, the Western Front was a 450-mile line of trenches, barbed wire and concrete bunkers, stretching across Europe.

Hampered by lack of materials, shipyards and experienced shipbuilders, even so the South managed to construct 34 iron-armored warships during the Civil War, of which the Confederate Navy put 25 into service.

Drawing on six years of research, this book covers the military service and postwar lives of notable Confederate veterans who moved into Northern California at the end the Civil War.

During the two decades following entry into World War II, nearly 30 million men and women served in or worked for the United States military.

This dictionary gives an enormous amount of basic information on the Third Reich era by listing, and often depicting, German terms connected to Nazism and the Germany of World War II.

"e;As a 15-year-old boy I fought briefly in a war.

This book traces the history of the Richardson Light Guard of Wakefield, Massachusetts, from its origins in 1851 until its end in 1975.

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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