Military history

Pushing back against the idea that the Slave Power conspiracy was merely an ideological construction, Alice Elizabeth Malavasic argues that some southern politicians in the 1850s did indeed hold an inordinate amount of power in the antebellum Congress and used it to foster the interests of slavery.

Connecticut privateer Nathaniel Fanning (1755-1805) was captured by the British during the Revolutionary War.

In a new and updated second edition, this book--first published in 1983--provides a detailed review of the end of the Vietnam War.

At the outbreak of World War I, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, military commander of Germany's East African Colony, planned to divert British troops from Europe to East Africa.

9/11 is more commonly associated with New York and the World Trade Center than with the Pentagon, whose destruction received far less coverage.

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Volume 2 continues the history of the U.

Unprepared for invasion, Tennessee joined the Confederacy in June 1861.

The Viet Nam War ended nearly half a century ago.

The U.

After Operation Valkyrie--the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and seize control of the German government--both the Third Reich and Hitler came to a violent end.

World War I began in August 1914--the United States did not enter the conflict until April 1917.

After just four weeks of training, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders--a regiment of cowboys recruited into the First U.

George R.

In November 2005, Sunni insurgents attacked a U.

This firsthand account, never before published in English, details a secret World War II mission in 1944 called Operation Salamander, in which Tadeusz Chciuk (writing as Marek Celt) parachuted into German-occupied Poland with the enigmatic political adviser Dr.

The Battle of the Little Big Horn was the decisive engagement of the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877.

In November 1969, what Time Magazine called the "e;largest battle of the year"e; took place less than two miles from the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.

Among the top physicians of the Confederacy, Christopher H.

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.