Military history

This collection of essays, organized around the theme of the struggle for equality in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, also serves to honor the renowned Civil War historian James McPherson.

Off-beat, irreverent and subversive a Jewish family memoir about convenient delusions and unsayable truths, from the acclaimed author of the cult classic novel, Submarine'The best book I ve read in the past year .

A riveting collection of thirty-eight narratives by American soldiers serving in Afghanistan, Outside the Wire offers a powerful evocation of everyday life in a war zone.

Throughout most of American history, U.

Long before Germany's blitzkrieg swept the West, European leaders had received many signals of its imminence.

Winner of the 2024 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval LiteratureThe Neptune Factor is the biography of an idea-the concept of "e;Sea Power,"e; a term first coined by Capt.

Naval warfare was confined for centuries to surface combat, or undersea clashes.

Fought in the skies over North Vietnam, the air war between Vietnamese People's Air Force (VNPAF) and U.

A detailed and thorough chronological overview of the history of warfare and military structures in Africa, covering ancient times to the present day.

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In his widely acclaimed Chasing Shadows ("e;the best account yet of Nixon's devious interference with Lyndon Johnson's 1968 Vietnam War negotiations"e;-- Washington Post), Ken Hughes revealed the roots of the covert activity that culminated in Watergate.

Karl Haushofer, a Bavarian general and professor, is widely recognized as the "e;father of geopolitics.

Throughout history, innovations in military technology have transformed warfare, which, in turn, affected state formation.

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A New Force at Sea tells the story of one of the most important officers in the U.

The Confederate guerrilla cavalry chieftain relates the history of his daredevil command in this memoir.

On 29 September 1934, at the German Embassy office in London, Christabel Bielenberg officially became a German citizen.

At a crucial point in the twentieth century, as Nazi Germany prepared for war, negotiations between Britain, France, and the Soviet Union became the last chance to halt Hitler's aggression.

The Vietnam War is anything but a forgotten war.

This is the story of the oldest warship afloat in the world, the venerable frigate USS Constitution, the cornerstone of the nascent American navy created by act of Congress in 1794.

After more than a decade of fighting in Afghanistan, the United States and its allies are set to transfer security responsibilities to Afghan forces in 2014.

Naval intelligence is one of the most vital, and sometimes decisive, forms of intelligence.

Handbook of Warning Intelligence: Assessing the Threat to National Security was written during the cold war and was classified for 40 years.

This resource strategically traces Greek warfare from 720 to 30 BC and its specific and extensive details-the wars, the troops, the armor, the military tactics, and other factors either affecting or affected by the wars.

During the late 11th through the early 14th centuries at least seven major expeditions were made between Western Europe and the Holy Land with the goal of ending Muslim control of Jerusalem.

For Southeast Asia, the Vietnam War altered forever the history, topography, people, economy, and politics of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), the Republic of Vietnam (RVN), Cambodia, and Laos.

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During the Iraq War, thousands of young Baghdadis worked as interpreters for US troops, becoming the front line of the so-called War on Terror.

In Because of Eva, an American Jewish woman travels to Eastern Europe and Israel to solve mysteries in her family's past by delving into World War II and Holocaust history.

In this gripping memoir, Lederman tells her story of survival during one of the most horrific episodes in history.

Jews in Nazi-occupied Warsaw during the 1940s were under increasing threat as they were stripped of their rights and forced to live in a guarded ghetto away from the non-Jewish Polish population.

On September 7, 1864, William Whitlock, aged thirty-five, left his wife and four children in Allegany, New York, to join the Union army in battle.

The Mediterranean is the maritime crossroads where Europe, Asia, and Africa meet.

During the Cold War a number of high-ranking Soviet citizens spied for the CIA, providing the United States with valuable information while putting themselves and their families in great danger.

The USS Rasher had an extraordinary record in World War II: she sank 18 enemy ships and destroyed 99,901 tons--the second highest tonnage of the war.

Leading politicians, diplomats, clerics, planters, farmers, manufacturers, and merchants preached a transformative, world-historical role for the Confederacy, persuading many of their compatriots to fight not merely to retain what they had but to gain their future empire.

The 1930s were dominated by economic collapse, stagnation, and mass unemployment.

Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin's 1946 autobiography The Making of a Southerner is considered a classic testament of a white southerner's commitment to racial justice in a culture where little was to be found.

Between Sovereignty and Anarchy considers the conceptual and political problem of violence in the early modern Anglo-Atlantic, charting an innovative approach to the history of the American Revolution.

Almost from the moment in 1940 that Otto Frisch and Rudofl Peierls suggested, from their small office in the University of Birmingham, that an atomic weapon could be miniaturized and delivered to its target by aircraft, the concept of atomic espionage can be said to have existed.

Opening with the ominous scene of one young school girl whispering an urgent account of Nazi horror to another over birthday cake, Ozsvath's extraordinary and chilling memoir tells the story of her childhood in Hun-gary, living under the threat of the Holocaust.

In Fifteenth Air Force against the Axis: Combat Missions over Europe during World War II, Kevin A.

In the spring of 1861, Virginians confronted destiny-their own and their nation's.

During the Vietnam War, the U.

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"e;This remarkable publication provides a captivating and brilliantly executed series of conversations among seventeen most impressive historians.

The decision of the eventual Confederate states to secede from the Union set in motion perhaps the most dramatic chapter in American history, and one that has typically been told on a grand scale.

The period from the outset of World War I to the end of World War II was among the most significant in the history of the United States.