Military history

During the brutal and destructive King Philip's War, the New England Indians combined new European weaponry with their traditional use of stealth, surprise, and mobility.

BEAT THE DRUM SLOWLY is the story of war, parenthetically and unfortunately, it is also unavoidably, the story of mans history.

The Founders wrote in 1776 that "e;life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"e; are unalienable American rights.

The Collin Dymond story covers 1857 to 1865.

Two parts of this three part book are based upon fact: anti-Semitism and World War 2.

Shamans Dream : the Modoc War is a literary non-fiction account of the 1873 standoff between besieged Modoc Indians and the United States Army on the California/Oregon border.

A groundbreaking study of the Canadians' first major operation in Normandy with new revelations on the death of German panzer ace Michael Wittmann.

More than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychological crisis it created.

A History of the Samurai tells the complete story of Japan's legendary warrior class from beginning to end--an epic tale of intrigue, bloodshed and bravery that is central to an understanding of the Japanese character and of Japanese history.

The heroic story of Jewish resistance and survival during the Second World War.

Edward Connor was barely out of high school when he joined the U.

The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity.

Definitive account of French volunteers in the Waffen-SS Blow-by-blow retelling of battles on the Eastern Front, including the fight for Berlin Focuses on all French SS units, especially the 33rd SS Grenadier Division "e;Charlemagne"e; Impeccably researched, this book tells the story of the Frenchmen who, motivated by their hatred of Communism, chose to fight for the Third Reich in World War II, first in the regular army and then as part of the Waffen-SS.

The familiar story of the Civil War tells of a predominately agricultural South pitted against a rapidly industrializing North.

Battalion- and company-level account of the vital contributions of Canadian soldiers to victory in Europe in World War IIBased on war diaries, casualty reports, and after-action interviewsThe author is one of Canada's preeminent military historiansConsisting of the Calgary Highlanders, the Black Watch, and the French-speaking RA*giment de Maisonneuve, the 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade landed in France in early July 1944 as part of British General Bernard Montgomery's 21st Army Group.

Here are the characters and personalities of the three great Union generals, explored with intelligence and wit by one of our most distinguished historians of the Civil War.

[A] dramatic, affecting account.

For more than a century and a half Texans have honored the heroes of the Texas fight for independence.

Did the bombing of Japan's citiesculminating in the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasakihasten the end of World War II?

In this engaging and nuanced political history of Northern communities in the Civil War era, Adam I.

Sherman's March, cutting a path through Georgia and the Carolinas, is among the most symbolically potent events of the Civil War.

This exciting new volume profiles several substantiated cases of female soldiers during the American Civil War, including Sarah Rosetta Wakeman (aka Private Lyons Wakeman, Union); Sarah Emma Edmonds (aka Private Frank Thompson, Union); Loreta Janeta Velazquez (aka Lieutenant Harry T.

This is the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic's history.

A master historian's provocative new interpretation of FDR's role in the coming of World War II.

From the biblical days of Delilah to mdern times there have been women who ventured at their peril as spies into the conflicts of armed men.

"e;My mind refuses to play its part in the scholarly exercise.

Since the United States Army's inception by an act of Congress on June 14, 1775, its remarkable service members have engaged in almost every one of the most important turning points in our nation's history.

At the close of the Civil War, it was clear that the military conflict that began in South Carolina and was fought largely east of the Mississippi River had changed the politics, policy, and daily life of the entire nation.

In the wake of the firing on Fort Sumter, outraged Northerners looked forward to a quick and decisive victory over the Confederate rebels.

Most studies of World War II assume that it was, in some way, a triumph for Britain.

A classic about real-life WWII espionage,as conducted by its modern master*A Man Called Intrepid is the classic true story of Sir William Stephenson (codenamed Intrepid) and the spy network he founded that would ultimately stall the Nazi war machine and help winWorld War II.

In mid-1943 Nazi Germany entered a crisis from which it was to emerge vanquished.

The Civil War brought many forms of upheaval to America, not only in waking hours but also in the dark of night.

A WWII Soviet officer recalls leading a battalion of convict-soldiers in this rare firsthand account of a Red Army penal unit.

John Hodgkins was eight years old when his father was drafted into the army and left for Europe for fight in WWII.

Revised edition of a rare account of a German armored division in combat at the epic Battle of Stalingrad.

For many years historians of the Cuban missile crisis have concentrated on those thirteen days in October 1962 when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war.

Many accounts of the secession crisis overlook the sharp political conflict that took place in the Border South states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri.

Virginia saw significant action during the War of 1812, from the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair to the defense of Norfolk against British invaders.

In the Netherlands, a small group of biracial citizens has entered its eighth decade of lives that have been often puzzling and difficult, but which offer a unique insight into the history of race relations in America.

In this comprehensive history, R.

Fascinating look from the Japanese side at Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway Fully authorized account including contemporary interviews with those that flew with Lt.

In 1937, Japan blundered into a debilitating war with China, beginning with a minor incident near Peking (now Beijing) that quickly escalated.

In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American "e;new woman,"e; Lynn Dumenil examines World War I's surprising impact on women and, in turn, women's impact on the war.

During the Seven Years' War, Sir John St.

Running Toward the Guns is an autobiographical story and an accounting of Chanty Jong's personal inner self-healing journey that led to a successfully unexpected discovery.

Robert Lovett grew up in Texas, went to Yale, and earned his wings as a naval air force hero in World War I.

In 2003, Major William Edwards and Lt.

This is a study of the Korean War of 1950-1953 from the inside--the nuts and bolts of armed conflict.

The Albanian Operation, carried out by British and American secret services from 1949 to 1953, was one of the first Western attempts to subvert a country behind the Iron Curtain.