Military history

Esta es la crónica nunca contada de un grupo de ex combatientes y familiares de caídos en Malvinas que se propusieron identificar a los soldados sepultados sin nombre en el Cementerio de Darwin, a quienes llevan como esquirlas en la memoria.

Descubra la fascinante historia de los antiguos guerreros mexicanos, sus aspectos novedosos y poco tratados como el enigmático y polémico uso de las artes marciales en el México precolombino, la arqueología experimental de armas o la construcción de fortificaciones.

This handbook provides the reader with an historical and contemporary overview of the service by women in all branches of the U.

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This book describes the everyday lives of people during the American Revolution as they adapted to the political and military conflicts of the time.

Letting ordinary people speak for themselves, this book uses primary documents to highlight daily life among Americans-Union and Confederate, black and white, soldier and civilian-during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

An insightful look into the immediate and long-term impact of the Vietnam War on a wide range of people and social groups, both Americans in the United States and in Vietnam.

This book offers a detailed timeline of the key events in the history of the U.

Understand the growth and evolution of American air power with this overview of the history of the world's most successful aviation force.

This poignant history of the Tuskegee Airmen separates myth and legend from fact, placing them within the context of the growth of American airpower and the early stirrings of the African American Civil Rights Movement.

A thorough and effectively executed study, this biography will appeal to anyone interested in Stonewall Jackson and the military history of the Civil War.

Packed with rich detail and analysis, this exciting tale of war at sea relates the dramatic and moving true story of the sinking of the British liner Laconia and its consequences for the conduct of marine warfare.

Written in a clear and engaging narrative style, this book analyzes the pivotal campaign in which Robert E.

Between 1815-1860, the tiny American army took on many new and often daunting tasks.

Through an array of theoretical approaches and empirical material, this comprehensive and accessible volume surveys private armed forces and directly challenges conventional stereotypes of security contractors.

This revisionist history offers a fresh analysis of Napoleon and the French army as they defended their empire against the massive Coalition invasion of 1814.

This work offers the first one-volume comprehensive military history of modern South Africa.

This provocative book seeks to answer a most crucial-and embarrassing-question concerning the U.

This volume is the only current treatment of security issues in Central Asia for the nonspecialist, as well as specialists and policy-makers.

From Army Rangers to Green Berets to the U.

A revelatory new account of the Second World War-and how bitter competition between the Allies would shape the postwar world In June 1944, an Allied army of British, American, and Canadian troops sought to open up a Second Front in Normandy.

The beautiful picture of brothers in arms vanquishing a tyrant.

Firsthand accounts of war in the Pacific theater from an intrepid reporter of World War II combatWar Is Not Just for Heroes rescues the incredible true stories of US Marine Corps.

America's entrance into the wars in Vietnam came as a result of several factors.

Holding the small island of Malta, the British Empire's strategic centerpiece in the Mediterranean Sea, was critical to the Allied cause in World War II--and taking it was essential for Axis victory.

With a unique prewar history as a snagboat and James B.

Extraordinary storytelling about unfathomable horror.

Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamentals of democracy.

"e;As America assesses the value of our intervention in Afghanistan and involvement in future foreign wars, we must always consider the price.

Gewalt, Gräuel und Verbrechen sind drei Fahnenwörter, mit welchen das Elend des Ersten Weltkrieges beschrieben werden kann.

When looking at the early modern period (c.

Lange wurde den protestantischen Militärgeistlichen Preußens zugeschrieben, mithilfe der Religion die Soldaten diszipliniert zu haben.

Kaum eine Armee galt lange Zeit als derart »diszipliniert« und ausgebildet wie die preußische Armee im frühen 18.

The general field of study of this volume is the history and culture of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517).

The First World War massively changed the scale and nature of the "e;military veteran question"e; in Europe.

While the Ottoman conquest of the Mamluk realm in 1516-17 doubtlessly changed the balance of political power in Egypt and Greater Syria, the changes must be seen as a wide-ranging transition process.

Der Dreißigjährige Krieg gilt vielfach als Zeit der Krise von Staatlichkeit und der Erosion von Herrschaft.

Kriegs- und Wehrmachtpfarrer waren an allen Feldzügen des Zweiten Weltkriegs beteiligt.

Wer die erschreckende Brutalität des russischen Geheimdienstes verstehen will, muss dieses Buch lesen.

Leopold Rosenmayr schildert in diesem Erfahrungsbericht sein Leben als 18-jähriger Dolmetscher der Deutschen Wehrmacht 1943 in Wien und von 1944 bis 1945 in Griechenland.

Auch nach den "Jubiläumsjahren" 2014/18 blieben viele Forschungsfragen zu Aspekten des Ersten Weltkriegs in Graz und der Steiermark offen.

Stralsund nach dem Großen Nordischen Krieg bis zur französischen Besetzung 1807: Hüterin städtischer Freiheiten, Regierungssitz aber auch Festungs- und Garnisonsstadt.

Der Erste Weltkrieg hat Vor- und Nachgeschichten.

Soviet Success (1947) deals with Soviet Russia after the Second World War.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;THE GREAT WAR COLLECTION - The Battle of Jutland, The Battle of the Somme & Nelson's History of the War (9 Books in One Volume)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Soviet Communism (1989) contains the full text of the 1986 new and significantly revised foundational documents of Soviet Communism, the Programme and Party Rules - changes agreed following Mikhail Gorbachev's call for the radical and democratic reform of the Party and of the Soviet political system as a whole.

This is the first full-length work devoted to Aedan mac Gabrain, 6th century king of Dal Riata in Scotland.

Improvement of Desert Ranges in Soviet Central Asia (1985) examines the progress made in the Soviet Union's attempts to increase desert vegetation without using irrigation or fertilizers.

The Soviet Far East (1957) examines the Soviet economic and political development of the Russian Far East between Lake Baikal and the Pacific, as it gained importance as the geographic base of Soviet power in the Far Eastern theatre of international politics and strategy.

Firsthand accounts of war in the Pacific theater from an intrepid reporter of World War II combatWar Is Not Just for Heroes rescues the incredible true stories of US Marine Corps.