Military history

The second days fighting at Gettysburg the assault of the Army of Northern Virginia against the Army of the Potomac on 2 July 1863 was probably the critical engagement of that decisive battle and, therefore, among the most significant actions of the Civil War.

Throughout the twentieth century, the pilots of the Royal Australian Navy carved their name with pride to build a service that would take shape as the Navy's Fleet Air Arm.

The American Civil War was a crucial event in the development of Chicago as the metropolis of the heartland.

On the eve of the Civil War and after, Illinois was one of the most significant states in the Union.

Hero of the Angry Sky draws on the unpublished diaries, correspondence, informal memoir, and other personal documents of the U.

On March 11, 1854, the people of Wisconsin prevented agents of the federal government from carrying away the fugitive slave, Joshua Glover.

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"e;The volume's narrative content is enhanced and supplemented by an event timeline, B&W period photographs, modern color photography, profiles of key generals, color maps of various kinds, and topical sidebars.

Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War represents pathbreaking research on the rise of U.

Unlock the secrets of the legendary weapons of the samuraiWhile the samurai is well known as the military nobility of medieval Japan, their range of weapons, which went far beyond the katana, bow, and spear, is lesser known.

This book tells the story of Balithe "e;paradise island of the Pacific"e;its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world.

**Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist** Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors.

Good strategic assessment does not guarantee success in international relations, but bad strategic assessment dramatically increases the risk of disastrous failure.

Few places in the world carry as heavy a burden of history as Auschwitz.

This is the 5th, revised and updated, edition of Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-First Century.

This is the 5th, revised and updated, edition of Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-First Century.

West African Challenge to Empire examines the anticolonial war in the Volta and Bani region in 1915-16.

At the end of World War II, the Allies were unanimous in their determination to disarm the former aggressor Germany.

The true story of the US Navy operation that captured Nazi submarine U-505, its crew, technology, encryption codes, and an Enigma cipher machine.

Between February 1864 and April 1865, 41,000 Union prisoners of war were taken to the stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 of them died.

Carl Lavin was a high school senior when Pearl Harbor was attacked.

Despite his military achievements and his association with many of the great names of American history, Godfrey Weitzel (1835-1884) is perhaps the least known of all the Union generals.

The literature describing social conditions during the post-World War II Allied occupation of Germany has been divided between seemingly irreconcilable assertions of prolonged criminal chaos and narratives of strict martial rule that precluded crime.

In the quarter century after the founding of the Peoples Republic of China in 1949, Beijing assisted Vietnam in its struggle against two formidable foes, France and the United States.

Historians have long understood that books were important to the British army in defining the duties of its officers, regulating tactics, developing the art of war, and recording the history of campaigns and commanders.

In the decades since the Vietnam War, veteran memoirs have influenced Americans' understanding of the conflict.

Of all the heroes produced by the Civil War, Robert E.

From 1895 to 1898, Cuban insurgents fought to free their homeland from Spanish rule.

It is well this is so terrible!

While women are officially barred from combat in the American armed services, in the current war, where there are no front lines, the ban on combat is virtually meaningless.

In August 1986, Alice Auma, a young Acholi woman in northern Uganda, proclaiming herself under the orders of a Christian spirit named Lakwena, raised an army called the "e;Holy Spirit Mobile Forces.

The battle of Gettysburg was the largest engagement of the Civil War, and with more than 51,000 casualties also the deadliest.

When it came to the Civil War, Michiganians never spoke with one voice.

In 1942, Bill Manbo (19081992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming.

Sunday Times Bestselling author Will Iredale tells the stirring heroic story of the ragtag fisherman fighting the Nazis to save Britain, for fans of James Holland, Max Hastings and Damien Lewis'SUPERB' James Holland'EXCITING AND IMPORTANT' Dan Snow'REVELATORY AND THRILLING' Saul David'THIS IS HISTORY AT FULL THROTTLE' Guy WaltersJust after midnight on Saturday, 2 September 1939, a German U-boat quietly slipped out of its berth and into the North Sea.

'An obligatory read for anyone who wants to understand the new forces shaping the future.

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Sweeping away many of the myths that have long surrounded Picketts Charge, Earl Hess offers the definitive history of the most famous military action of the Civil War.

Most Civil War generals were graduates of West Point, and many of them helped transform the U.

In the Trenches at Petersburg, the final volume of Earl J.

In the Peninsula Campaign of spring 1862, Union general George B.

Earl J.

The Spotsylvania Campaign was a crucial period in the protracted confrontation between Ulysses S.

The United States established an academy for educating future army officers at West Point in 1802.

The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade was one of North Carolinas best-known and most successful units during the Civil War.

During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military.

On March 15, 1781, the armies of Nathanael Greene and Lord Charles Cornwallis fought one of the bloodiest and most intense engagements of the American Revolution at Guilford Courthouse in piedmont North Carolina.

For the 380,000 African American soldiers who fought in World War I, Woodrow Wilsons charge to make the world safe for democracy carried life-or-death meaning.

This volume makes available a fascinating narrative and a document of singular importance to the study of the Civil War.

Michael Ballard provides a concise yet thorough study of the 1863 battle that cut off a crucial river port and rail depot for the South and split the Confederate nation, providing a turning point in the Civil War.