Military history

In 1942, Hitler''s Nazi regime trained eight operatives for a mission to infiltrate America and do devastating damage to its infrastructure.

From the Civil War to the Great War, the transatlantic commercial trading system that dated from the nation's colonial times continued in America.

Urban Battlefields: Lessons Learned from World War II to the Modern Eraoffers a detailed study of the complexities of urban operations, demonstrating through historical conflicts their key features, the various weapons and tactics employed by both sides, and the factors that contributed to success or failure.

Most of us rally around the glory of the Allies'' victory over the Nazis in World War II.

A full understanding of the historical process must include studies of the social and economic conditions of societies as well as biographies of the people on which a clear understanding of history is based-but not just the "e;great"e; people.

Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES- Why was the Battle of the Nile so decisive in the French Revolutionary Wars?

This book is about the applicability of the high seas regime in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ).

This is a story of a young lad who chose college far away from his small home town of Washington, NJ.

This is a book that will change the American perception of the Pacific War.

To succeed in achieving its national security objectives the United States needs to use Associative Power in place of both Hard Power and Soft Power.

This new study provides a concise, accessible introduction to occupied Europe.

The first part of the book reflects the context of life within the totalitarian systems of Communism and Nazism.

Since the American Revolution, African American women have served in every U.

From 1095 to the end of the thirteenth century, the crusades touched the lives of many thousands of British people, even those who were not crusaders themselves.

On December 13, 1937, Japanese troops captured China's former capital, Nanjing.

This book outlines the World War II experiences of Carl E.

War Wisdom: A Cross Cultural Sampling is a unique combination of directory and analysis.

Born poor in Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1755, the young Israel Thorndike was a fisherman and ship owner who made a small fortune as a Revolutionary War privateer.

The book draws on letters, diaries, recent books and articles in History, but also relies on multi-disciplinary sources in politics and literature, along transnational comparisons to place the events in a broader perspective.

The third book in Professor Christian Potholm's war trilogy (which includes Winning at War and War Wisdom), Understanding War provides a most workable bibliography dealing with the vast literature on war and warfare.

In 1941, Imperial Japan rapidly brought an end to the British Empire in Asia.

“John Carney is one of the few heroes I have.

Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone is an exhaustive examination of the controversial issue of comfort women, who provided sexual services to Japanese soldiers before and during World War II.

A book about fine leadership in combat, LRRP Company Command focuses on Captain George Paccerelli as he molds the men of the Air Cav''s LRRP company into a successful reconnaissance unit.

This book is a critical reposition of the study of military regimes in Africa.

It’s 1942 and Hitler’s armies stand astride Europe like a colossus.

War trauma has long been associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a term coined in 1980 to explain the post-war impact of Vietnam veterans.

American military attaches document the impact of airpower during the Spanish Civil War, featuring intervention by some of the strongest air forces in the world in a prelude to World War II.

With their renowned squadron leader Greg “Pappy” Boyington, Marine Fighting Squadron (VMF) 214 was one of the best-known and most colorful combat units of World War II.

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On April 10, 1970, Hill 927 was occupied by troopers of the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division.

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During the Vietnam War, few combat operations were more dangerous than LRRP/Ranger missions.

Power, Threat, or Military Capabilities assesses two mainstays of international relations, balance of power and balance of threat, using the case of US balancing against the Soviet Union in the later Cold War.

While the seventy-seven-day siege of Khe Sanh in early 1968 remains one of the most highly publicized clashes of the Vietnam War, scant attention has been paid to the first battle of Khe Sanh, also known as “the Hill Fights.

The Illusion of Ignorance examines the cultural politics of the American encounter with Porfirian Mexico as a precursor and model for the twentieth-century American encounter with the world.

Unlocked Memories is a collection of memories that were shared by Russians who witnessed the German invasion of the Leningrad region in 1941.

A Physician Under the Nazis are the memoirs of the first forty years (1909-1948) of the life of Henry Glenwick.

Irene Levin Berman was born, raised, and educated in Norway.

In his five-plus years as president of the United States, Lyndon Johnson witnessed dramatic power struggles within and between the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and the United States of America.

Were World Wars I and II inevitable?

Accidental Soldier depicts Richard B.

Becoming the Arsenal discusses one of the three signal events that transformed the relationship of government and the private sector in directing the American economy.

Lurps is the revised edition of the memoir of a juvenile delinquent who drops out of ninth grade to chase his dream of military service.

The Holocaust in Hungary provides a comprehensive documentary account of one of the most brutal and effective killing campaigns in history.

A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields.

This is an untold, beautifully-written spy story set in wartime occupied France with a brilliant but ruthless British secret agent at its heart.

From the bestselling author of Fortress Malta this is the second book in the Mediterranean war trilogy.