Military history

The Isles of Scilly, five inhabited islands 24 miles west of Land's End, were of low priority to the War Department when the First World War was declared.

Louis Trezevant Wigfall was a violent, mercurial man.

Wounds and disease were as devastating on the battlefields of the ancient world as they are today.

War stories are mostly innocent fables and understood as such by both the teller and the hearer.

Is any war a “good war”?

So who really started the war?

The Maps of Spotsylvania through Cold Harbor continues Bradley M.

On October 23, 1983, nearly simultaneous suicide truck bombings killed 241 U.

This is a huge history book for fifth graders because of the topics discussed here.

***Selected for the 2010 Chief of the United States Air Force's Reading List***This one-volume anthology provides a comprehensive analysis of the role that air power has played in military conflicts over the past century.

Helicopter pilots in Vietnam kidded one another about being nothing but glorified bus drivers.

A Free Man of Color and His Hotel weaves the story of a uniquely successful black businessman into the burgeoning post-Civil War political struggle that pitted the federal government against the states' desire to remain autonomous.

The military adventure that George W.

Beginning with the Communist Saur Revolution of 1978 and continuing through Gen.

John Ernest offers a comprehensive survey of the broad-ranging and influential African American organizations and networks formed in the North in the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War.

The American Civil War was caused by so many inequalities.

It is only in the past two decades that English-speaking scholars have fully breached European language barriers, permitting a comprehensive reexamination of the Napoleonic Wars beyond the limitations of English-, French-, and German-dependent works.

The spirit of Christmas was strong between the soldiers fighting in 1914.

By reading this book, you will gain the historical knowledge behind the Trail of Tears.

"e;Chick does a good job of portraying [General Beauregard] as the first real hero of the Confederacy, who at times proved his own worst enemy.

United States historian William Pencak presents thirteen of his essays, written beginning in 1976.

During histhirty-eight-year career as a military officer, Henry Clay Merriam received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Civil War, rose to prominence in the Western army, and exerted significant influence on the American West by establishing military posts, protecting rail lines, and maintaining an uneasy peace between settlers and Indians.

Understanding the role of combat in the Iraq war is essential for both the American people and the U.

Introduced in 1998 by the Department of Defense, the concept of information operations (IO) proposed to revolutionize the ways in which warfare, diplomacy, and business were conducted.

"e;Focuses on the extensive contributions to the pyrrhic Confederate victory at Chickamauga made by the brave Lone Star State soldiers.

"e;A comprehensive, eminently readable, lavishly illustrated, and historically accurate account"e; of this important yet overlooked Civil War battle (Civil War News).

In 1941 photographer Croswell Bowen joined American Field Service volunteer ambulance drivers and served alongside the British Eighth Army during World War II.

This seminal work on modern terrorism is the one book to read in order to truly understand the reasons why radical Muslims such as Osama bin Laden and his followers have declared war on America and the West.

In New York City in 1939, neither eighteen-year-old Jack "e;Jake"e; Jacobson nor his comrade Murray "e;Duke"e; Davison had any intention of joining the military.

"e;Do not begrudge the white man his presence on this land.

Inspired by the old African proverb: When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground, high-school student Morgan Reilly sought to preserve as many Maine libraries as he could by interviewing men and women from Maine who served in World War II and preserving their stories.

Very Special Ships is the first full-length book about the Abdiel-class fast minelayers, which were considered the fastest and most versatile to serve in the Royal Navy during World War II.

Here lies the big question on territory that once plagued the Native American Indians.

The Native Americans hold very sacred traditions.

"e;The Importance of the North River (the Hudson), and the sanguine wishes of all to prevent the enemy from possessing it, have been the causes of this unhappy catastrophe.

From Axis Victories to the Turn of the Tide is a history of the critical campaigns of WorldWar II that highlights the "e;visible"e; turning point battles of the war in 1942 and 1943.

There isn't anything good about war except for the lessons that can be learned from each of them.

Let's meet and greet some of history's greatest war commanders!

The history of the Ottoman Empire spanned more than seven centuries.

How did the Native American Indians gather food?

As of early 2010, more than two million U.

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"e;[Serves] as both a helpful concise history text and as a phenomenal field guide to modern Valley Forge and its surroundings.

This book is perfect for the future armies of the world.

Hand-picked, pressure-tested, and full of astronaut gung ho, the young pilots of Eye of the Viper are poised for the toughest assignment of their career: the exhaustive six-month training course at Arizona's Luke Air Force Base, at a cost of $2 million each.

Despite the wake-up call of September 11, 2001, terrorism remains a dire threat to the security of all civilized nations, making it imperative for leaders to develop better national, regional, and global strategies to counter its many forms.

People could truly learn so much reading history, there's no doubt about that.

In the post-1945 era, the aircraft carrier has remained a valued weapon despite the development of nuclear weapons, cruise and ballistic missiles, and highly capable submarines.

The book that helped inspire Anthony Doerrs All the Light We Cannot See An updated edition of this classic World War II memoir, chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century, with a new photo insert and restored passages from the original French edition When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident.