Military history

Covering 2000 years--from Roman times through the Cold War--this book describes the evolution of military architecture in the territory today known as the Netherlands.

World War I was a global cataclysm that toppled centuries-old dynasties and launched "e;the American century.

How did the business of professional baseball fare during World War II?

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More than 150,000 American Jews served in the air war during World War II.

This is the first and only comprehensive history of all decorations and medals that may be awarded to men and women serving in the United States Army and Air Force.

The Renaissance was a revolution of ideas, arts and sciences alike, with Italy at its center.

On July 3, 1940, 5,000 exhausted and hungry French officers reached a high plateau of the Moravian Mountain range in Austria.

During the early months of World War II, Winston Churchill maneuvered to get the U.

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Covering the history of the U.

There was more to World War I than the Western Front.

In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place.

Richard Fleming served as a scout with the elite U.

In Europe, World War II was four months old by Christmas 1939.

Two aging Civil War veterans mourned the death of their sons at a joint funeral in Knoxville National Cemetery.

It was not Robert Oppenheimer who built the bomb--it was engineers, chemists and young physicists in their twenties, many not yet having earned a degree.

This work tells the personal stories of boys and girls who left home and enlisted in the U.

Drawing on more than 22 years' research, this book presents an exhaustive chronology of the Great Sioux Campaign in three parts: the U.

Although the Paris Peace Accords ended direct United States military involvement in Vietnam on January 27, 1973, the process of withdrawal lasted over three years.

From the moment when the launching of HMS Dreadnought made every capital ship in the world obsolete overnight, we have been fascinated with these powerful surface combatants.

During the first half of 1969, Bravo Troop, 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 25th Infantry Division operated northwest of Saigon in the vicinity of Go Dau Ha, fighting in 15 actions on the Cambodian border, in the Boi Loi Woods, the Hobo Woods and Michelin Rubber Plantation and on the outskirts of Tay Ninh City.

A medical officer in the 34th "e;Red Bull"e; Infantry Division on the front lines of World War II, Lt.

The role of Americans in the two world wars is well known, but with a glaring exception--one that reveals a little-known aspect of the common history of the United States and Canada.

Originally designed as a cargo and paratroop transport during World War II, the Fairchild C-82 Packet is today mainly remembered for its starring role in the Hollywood film The Flight of the Phoenix (1965).

In 1968, twenty-one-year-old Fred McCarthy transitioned from the monastic life of a seminary student to that of a U.

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This work is a comparative study of the three "e;great"e; American wars of the 20th century: World War I, World War II and Vietnam.

This book follows the author's experiences in the United States Navy from 1966 through 1972.

This first ever biography of Antarctic explorer Sir Raymond Priestley (1886-1974) covers his full (at times life-threatening) involvement with Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1907-1909 Nimrod Expedition and Robert Scott's 1910-1913 Terra Nova Expedition.

The captivating individual stories of 17 U.

Comic books have presented fictional and fact-based stories of the Korean War, as it was being fought and afterward.

During the Cold War, as part of its defense strategy against the Soviet Union, the U.

For three years, Staff Sergeant Charles M.

In February 1968, the U.

Jean Ternant's life (1751-1833) spanned a period of enormous change in European life.

A soldier's eye view of Vietnam's fiercest close-quarters battle upon its 50th anniversaryKhe Sanh's Hill Fights of 1967as experienced by co-author Bobby Maras and told in this hour-by-hour, day-by-day accountwere carnage on the ground, much of it hand-to-hand fighting in the dark.

In 2012, Specialist Summerfield and the 2-508th Parachute Infantry Regiment were deployed to the Kandahar province of Afghanistan.

The 16-man Black Hawk Counter Narcotics Infantry Team served as an advisory and training unit for the Afghanistan National Army during a poppy eradication operation in Helmand province in 2008 and 2009.

A poignant memoir that recounts the author's hair-raising--and occasionally hilarious--experiences as a young, not especially gung-ho Marine artilleryman in Vietnam.

Much has been written about the exploits of the American Expeditionary Forces, the men and women sent overseas to fight during World War I, but much less is known about the two million who served in the Army without ever setting foot on foreign soil.

When Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces on April 30, 1975, the communist victory sent shockwaves around the world.

THE LAST SURVIVOR is the incredible story of a man who survived three concentration camps and a major maritime disaster at the end of WW II.

Both before and during World War II, the Nazis restricted the rights of Jewish and communist doctors.

From the early 1950s until 1992, the U.

Steven Grzesik's counter-culture experience in Greenwich Village ended with a bad acid trip followed by a draft notice.

In The Hidden Places of WWII, the author takes readers to overlooked places where WWII history was made.

A brutal siege.

Un diplomate moldave, Nicolas Milescu, deja presente a Louis XIV et a d'autres princes d'Europe, est envoye par le tsar de toutes les Russies en Chine, porteur d'un message d'amitie aupres de l'empereur Kang Xi.

The Greatest Navy SEAL Stories Ever Told is the first book to place side by side extraordinary stories of SEALs who put their lives on the line, and then go out and do it again the next day.