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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781117881812Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research)Publisher BCR (Bibliographical Center for...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241603250Author Charles RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781169976535Author Reuben Gold ThwaitesFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 667g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781117894300Author Andrew J BoiesFormat PaperbackImprint BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research)Publisher BCR (Bibliographical Center for...

In 1942, the shadow of modern war reached Australia's shores for the first time. In this compelling volume, leading historians explore why 1942 was such a pivotal year in Australia's history and explain how the nation confronted some of its greatest...

Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly was a renowned soldier and one of the most influential figures in Australia's military history. As Chief of the General Staff during the Vietnam War, he oversaw a significant re-organisation of the Army as he fought a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250100085Author Daniel Da CruzFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint St. Martins Press-3plPublisher St. Martins Press-3plWeight(grams) 349g

Hats Off offers a concise history of U.S. Army headgear from the immediate post Civil War era to the eve of World War I. In this study historian John P. Langellier shares more than a quarter of a century of research in archives, museums, and private...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983256519Author Daniel P WhitingFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint JimPublisher JimWeight(grams) 160g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982246726Author Johnnie Belle McDonaldFormat HardbackImprint Copano Bay PressPublisher Copano Bay PressWeight(grams) 440g

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2010 The Hundred Years War was a vicious, costly, and, most dramatically, drawn out struggle that laid the framework for the national identities of both England and France into the modern...

"War... is merely an idea, an institution, like dueling or slavery, that has been grafted onto human existence. It is not a trick of fate, a thunderbolt from hell, a natural calamity, or a desperate plot contrivance dreamed up by some sadistic puppeteer...

Intelligence operations face the challenging task of predicting the shape of future wars. This task is hindered by their limited ability to warn of peacetime foreign military innovation. Using formerly classified sources-in particular, the reports of...

One of the most important questions of human existence is what drives nations to war-especially massive, system-threatening war. Much military history focuses on the who, when, and where of war; in this riveting book, Dale C. Copeland brings attention to...

In Australian Battalion Commanders in the Second World War, Garth Pratten explores, for the first time, the background, role and conduct of the commanding officers of Australian infantry battalions in World War II. Despite their vital role as the...

Following Mark Johnston's acclaimed illustrated histories of the 7th and 9th Australian Divisions, this is his long-awaited history of the 6th Australian Division: the first such history ever published. The 6th was a household name during World War II...

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Every Civil War buff has heard of the Battle of Chantilly, the bloody 1862 engagement fought in a driving rainstorm only twenty miles from Washington that claimed the lives of two of the Union's most promising generals. Yet few have known the full story...

War was Britain’s furnace for two thousand years and we are that forging. Rome conquered England if not Scotland and imposed military rule. Saxon raiders, then Vikings and finally Normans each invaded in turn. England and Scotland spent three hundred...

The People's Republic of China is the only large country in the world that does not have a "national" military; its military answers only to a political party, the Chinese Communist Party. For a brief period in the mid-twentieth century, China had the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618127429Author COWLEYPage Count 592Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 1206g

"Editors Alan Nolan and Sharon Eggleston Vipond's insightful essays provide fresh perspectives on the Iron Brigade's exploits, detailing military and political events in the words of actual combatants." -Military ReviewOriginally called "The Black Hat...

On May 9, 1846, Second Lieutenant Theodore Lincoln Chadbourne, United States Army, fell in the battle of Resaca de la Palma during the war with Mexico. Dead at twenty-three in a remote desert, his promise outweighing his accomplishments, Chadbourne slid...

This is the story of two Confederate spies, Tom Harbin and Charlie Russell. Harbin, among the most wanted of all Confederate agents, was also one of the leaders in the plot to kill Abraham Lincoln. It was Harbin who left a getaway horse for Booth outside...

The future of international relations hangs by a thread as Russia continues its aggression against Ukraine. Countries across the world have responded in myriad ways ranging from outright condemnation and imposition of sanctions on Russia, to taking a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743256179Author Andrew CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & Schuster

This updated edition of the 1992 reference work ("exhaustive...fascinating"--Library Journal) contains comprehensive information about United States military cemeteries, including how each cemetery was chosen, why it was established, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972307239Author Roy William Roush Ph DFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Front Line PressPublisher Front Line PressWeight(grams) 227g

The Russian Campaign, 1812 chronicles the events of Napoleon's Russian campaign through the journal of the Duke of Fezensac. A professional soldier and officer, Fezensac kept his journal for family and close friends. It was first published in France in...

The determination with which the Confederate garrison of Port Hudson, Louisiana, held out, for seven weeks, fewer than five thousand Confederate troops fended off almost thirty thousand Yankees, makes it one of the most interesting campaigns of the Civil...

Between 1916 and 1918, more than 3,800 men of the Australian Imperial Force were taken prisoner by German forces fighting on the Western Front. Australians captured in France and Belgium did not easily integrate into public narratives of Australia in the...

For three days in the fall of 1846, U.S. and Mexican soldiers fought fiercely in the picturesque city of Monterrey, turning the northern Mexican town, known for its towering mountains and luxurious gardens, into one of the nineteenth century's most...

No-one in the Australian government or Army could have predicted that in the 25 years following the end of the Cold War Army personnel would be deployed to Rwanda, Cambodia, Somalia, Bougainville, East Timor, Afghanistan, Iraq and the Solomon Islands.In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781792491269Author Robert F RitchieFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

Most people have heard of the United States' infamous 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy, yet few know about Australia's own history of LGBT military service. In Serving in Silence? lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender servicemen and women share their...

In the vast body of material dealing with Custer's "last stand," the journal kept by young Lieutenant James H. Bradley of the Seventh Infantry is at once graphic, incisive, and of first-rate historical importance. It is also little known. It...

On April 28, 1946, a small group of American wives and children arrived at the port of Bremerhaven, West Germany, the first of thousands of military family members to make the trans-Atlantic journey. They were the basis of a network of military...

There is a lot more to military life than war. From an army nurse's letters home during the First World War, military families in Southeast Asia during the Cold War and recovering air force war dead to educating Papua New Guinean forces and the...

This work records a week in Dublin during April 1916 when in a forlorn hope 2,000 Irish Volunteers rose up in armed rebellion against the British Empire in a bid to establish an independent Irish state. The Rising is recalled in the words of those who...