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This history of the 10th Mountain Division during World War II focuses on the personal experiences of the mountain troops who served in Alaska and Italy. Feuer conveys the opinions expressed by the veterans about the conduct of the campaigns-both the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988439030Author Mindy WeiselFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dream of Things MediaPublisher Dream of Things MediaWeight(grams) 348g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837184692Author Eli GinzbergFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Based upon exhaustive research in numerous archival sources, including the personal papers of the major British military and political leaders of the day, this is a comprehensive study of British military planning during a period in which long-successful...

A Soldier's Sketchbook, an illustrated memoir from a World War II soldier, is drawn from the letters, sketches, snapshots, and mementos of Pvt. Joseph Farris, who left his home of Danbury, Connecticut, and set off to war aboard the U.S.S. General Gordon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738869414Author Lionel Francis BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 153Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 134g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837162744Author Kenneth J. HaganFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861011735Format HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Salamander BooksPublisher Salamander Books LtdWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916121126Author John ScrivenFormat PaperbackPage Count 602Imprint Wilberforce PublicationsPublisher Wilberforce PublicationsWeight(grams) 870g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857068620Author William WoodFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788431890Author Franklin R CrawfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788453755Author William E EisenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 367g

When Oscar Booze entered West Point in 1898, the older cadets decided that he did not conform to their image of what a cadet should be. After four months of constant torment, including a beating in an organized boxing match, ridicule for reading his...

This carefully researched study is the first to chronicle the history of Allied involvement in the defense of British, French, and Dutch possessions in the Caribbean. The study is extremely well researched and well written. . . . The definitive work in...

This provocative new study traces the origins of the modern military-industrial complex to the Progressive ideology of the late nineteenth end early twentieth centuries. Borden examines the crucial changes that occurred in World War I and its aftermath,...

Napoleon's youngest brother, Jerome, has over the centuries been portrayed as a military commander who was completely incompetent and unimportant to his famous sibling. This first biography of Jerome by an American author utilizes many firsthand accounts...

During the Second World War, the United States benefited greatly from the espionage collaboration between a well-connected ex-professor of economics, Erwin Respondek, and his contact at the U.S. embassy in Berlin, Sam Woods. The intelligence gathered by...

"This book should be part of every professional development program. In fact, this book shows that reform' groups pose the greatest threat to our country's security, because their agendas general impede progress and modernization. For this reason,...

This book continues the author's study of the development of the fleet and the naval art and the history of naval operations under the Tudors and Stuarts. The author considers the British struggle with the Dutch for maritime supremacy and the rise of...

Every American should read this book in order to gain a clear insight about military combat and war. From the foreword by Ross Perot Recommended for readers who enjoy suspenseful accounts of close combat. Publishers Weekly Most Americans remember...the...

From Thermopylae to Belfast, elite military formations have been deployed against conventional or irregular forces. This study offers a superb analysis of elites in military history. A collection of brilliant studies by distinguished scholars, it...

When Ronald Reagan introduced the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) in 1983, he boldly challenged the long-accepted nuclear doctrine of mutual assured destruction. He argued that the development of this costly and complex missile defense system,...

War proved a seminal influence on the shape of the 20th century. This collection provides various essays addressing the phenomenon of war as viewed through the eyes of the fin de siecle. Leading scholars of war, international relations, and international...

This text is the first to closely compare and contrast the Gulf and Vietnam Wars on both the war and home fronts. Widely respected experts give a balanced, new perspective on the Vietnam War, based on considerable new primary research to explain the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837189802Author Thomas C. SchellingFormat HardbackPage Count 293Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857062758Author Evelyn Oliver AsheFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 181g

This book provides a fresh perspective on causes, consequences, and cures surrounding today's most pressing global security challenges. After explaining the changes in post-Cold War threat, it develops a novel target-centered approach to assessment and...

Formed in the aftermath of WWII and in the face of the emerging threat posed by the Soviet Union, the transformation that has taken place in recent years within NATO has been neither natural nor easy for the multi-national organization or the United...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992530174Author Andrew JohnstonFormat HardbackPage Count 498Imprint Echo BooksPublisher Echo BooksWeight(grams) 816g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898755466Author Diane L HammFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898750584Author John E JessupFormat PaperbackPage Count 524Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

The period from the Indian wars to WWI saw the evolution of the U.S. Army from a 25,000 man frontier constabulary to a modern professionally led two million man force fighting in a coalition war in Europe. This study describes the context within which...

This oral history offers the voices of thirty-three Oklahomans. Some of them fought in the Vietnam War, and others waited--some are still waiting--for their loved ones to come home, alive or in a body bag. In the ranks of Stanley W. Beesley's compilation...

In the midst of the heartbreak, confusion, and rumors that followed Appomattox, some Southerners resolved to emigrate rather than surrender, and emigrate they did-to South America, Europe, Canada, and Mexico. Mexico's Emperor Maximilian, trying to secure...

This provocative book seeks to answer a most crucial-and embarrassing-question concerning the U.S. military: why the United States is so often stymied in military confrontations with seemingly weaker opponents, despite its "superpower" status...

Thousands of nuclear antiaircraft arms were designed, tested and deployed in the United States during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency. These Army "Nike-Hercules" missiles, Air Force "Genie" rockets, and "BOMARC" and...

Preserving much rare and disintegrating information, this comprehensive chronology and fact book provides day-to-day records covering a third of the Pacific war for the first time. Recounts events in the North Pacific between August 1943 and September...

Murphy was one of a very small number of volunteer pilots who, with their flight crews, started bombing at low altitudes in B-17 flying fortresses in the Southwest Pacific. The aircraft were flown at a 200-foot altitude and at 250 miles per hour at night...

This volume addresses a timely subject--the question of small wars and the limits of power from a historical perspective. The theme is developed through case studies of small wars that the Great Powers conducted in Africa and Asia during the nineteenth...

This is the first biography of one of the most important yet least well-known American military leaders of World War II. Written by a veteran journalist and former staff officer who served under General Patch in the Pacific and Europe, it offers a...