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America's Warsby Alan Axelrod
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003; US$ 40.00In America's Wars, one of the nation's leading authors of popular history provides a unique one-stop resource for essential information on every military action involving the United States and its precursor colonies. Comprehensive coverage includes: * Capsule histories of every recorded conflict that occurred in North America or involved the United States through the present day * Engagingly written accounts of more than 100 wars, skirmishes, and military expeditions * More than 100 illustrations, including period photos and depictions * Compelling firsthand accounts of major engagements * Timelines and primary-source documents * Fresh insights into the underlying causes and consequences of each conflict Wiley Desk References are comprehensive,... more...
Don't Tread on Meby H.W.Iii Crocker
Crown Publishing Group 2006; US$ 13.99• Did America win its independence because British generals were too busy canoodling with their mistresses? • Should America have annexed Mexico—all of it—and Cuba too? • Did 1776 justify Southern secession in the nineteenth century? • Should Patton have been promoted over Eisenhower? • Did the U.S. military win—and Congress lose—the Vietnam War? • Was it right to depose Saddam Hussein—and is it wrong to worry about a possible Iraqi civil war? The answer to these questions is a resounding yes, says author H. W. Crocker III in this stirring and contrarian new book. In Don’t Tread on Me , Crocker unfolds four hundred years of American military history, revealing... more...
American Military Leadersby John C. Fredriksen
ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 175.00"Prominent men and women of the military are the scope of this reference work. Coverage includes the most famous of leaders such as Grant, Patton, and Schwarzkopf; but what makes the source so outstanding is its inclusion of forgotten leaders such as Native American Stand Watie, aviator Jackie Cochran, and army educator Alden Partridge. Biographies more...
Grace Under Fireby Andrew Carroll
Doubleday Publishing 2007; US$ 11.99ho have been tested by fire and maintained their faith The first book of its kind, Grace Under Fire is an inspiring and spiritual collection of letters and e-mails by U.S. troops and their families from the American Revolution through the War on Terrorism. Andrew Carroll, editor of the bestselling War Letters , went through his massive archive of seventy-five-thousand previously unpublished wartime correspondence to pick out the most intimate, dramatic, historic, and insightful letters and e-mails ever written about God, religion, and spirituality. The fifty best of these are featured in this incredible book, and they emphasize how extremely important faith has been, and continues to be, in the lives of U.S. troops and their families.... more...
America's Military Adversariesby John C. Fredriksen
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 85.00This work chronicles the lives and accomplishments of over 200 enemies who have fought, plotted, spied on, and in some instances defeated U.S. forces over the past three centuries. Mangas Coloradas in the Old Southwest, Charles Cornwallis at the Guilford Courthouse, Erwin Rommel at Kasserine Pass?these are just a few of the skilled opponents the U. more...
America's Victoriesby Larry Schweikart
Penguin Group Inc. 2007; US$ 12.99From the Revolutionary War to the present, the American military has consistently beaten the odds. It?s not luck. America?s armed services are under attack. From college campuses to the floor of the Senate, the Iraq war is portrayed as a quagmire, the army is described as "broken," and our men and women in uniform are maligned as torturers. By seeing everything through the distorted lens of Vietnam?a war shrouded in harmful myths? critics have lost sight of our country?s real military record, and the factors that have enabled us to win with remarkable consistency, in situations even more dire than Iraq. In America?s Victories , Professor Larry Schweikart restores the truth about our amazing military heritage. Just... more...
The Encyclopedia of North American Colonial Conflicts to 1775by Spencer Tucker; James Arnold; Roberta Wiener
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 295.00The only multivolume encyclopedia covering all aspects of North American colonial warfare, with special attention paid to the social, political, cultural, and economic affairs that were affected by the conflicts. more...
British Social Attitudes 22by Alison Park
Sage Publications Ltd. 2005; US$ 100.00The 22nd Report looks at topics such as: redistribution; work//life balance; the National Health Serivice; housing; transport; education; pension; and Europe. more...
The American Way of Warby Eugene Jarecki
Simon & Schuster 2008; US$ 12.99In the sobering aftermath of America's invasion of Iraq, Eugene Jarecki, the creator of the award-winning documentary Why We Fight , launches a penetrating and revelatory inquiry into how forces within the American political, economic, and military systems have come to undermine the carefully crafted structure of our republic -- upsetting its balance of powers, vastly strengthening the hand of the president in taking the nation to war, and imperiling the workings of American democracy. This is a story not of simple corruption but of the unexpected origins of a more subtle and, in many ways, more worrisome disfiguring of our political system and society. While in no way absolving George W. Bush and his inner circle of their accountability... more...
Signs of Warby A. Obajtek-Kirkwood; E. Hakanen
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 95.00An analysis of Vietnam, 9/11 and the Iraq War from patriotism to dissent through various visual and written signs among which the US flag, ribbons, car-stickers, cartoons, movies, the media and presidential war rhetoric. more...