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Operation Homecomingby Andrew Carroll
Random House Publishing Group 2006; US$ 13.99“Here is what you will not find in the news–the personal cost of war written as clear and beautiful as literature worthy of the name is. These stories are the real thing, passionate, imaginative, searing.” –Richard Bausch, author of Wives & Lovers The first book of its kind, Operation Homecoming is the result of a major initiative launched by the National Endowment for the Arts to bring distinguished writers to military bases and inspire U.S. Marines, soldiers, sailors, and airmen and their families to record their wartime experiences. Encouraged by such authors as Tom Clancy, Mark Bowden, Bobbie Ann Mason, Tobias Wolff, Jeff Shaara, and Marilyn Nelson, American military personnel and their loved ones wrote... more...
Performance Under Stressby Peter A. Hancock; James L. Szalma
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 99.95What is the impact of stress on soldier performance on the modern, electronic battlefield? This book brings together leading researchers from diverse perspectives to shed light on this critical question. Using a variety of methodological and conceptual approaches, the insights generated represent a benchmark in the present state of understanding and provide a range of directions for future research in this arena. more...
Army Life in a Black Regimentby Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Digital Scanning, Inc. 2001; US$ 4.95The author, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, recounts the adventures of the First Carolina Volunteers, a black regiment mustered into the Army of the United States during the Civil War. Colonel Higginson was convinced that these eight hundred men could drill and perform as well as the best of the white regiments. Transformed from slaves into soldiers, many of whom could not read or write when enlisted, this battalion was watched with microscopic scrutiny by friends and foes as a spectacle of daring innovation. more...
British Wars, 1637-1651by Peter Gaunt
Routledge 1997; US$ 25.95A concise history of events in England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland during the 1640s. Gaunt explores the relationship between the kingdoms and assesses whether the wars can be seen as a single conflict or inter-related, separate conflicts. more...
War and Society in the Greek Worldby John Rich; Graham Shipley
Routledge 1995; US$ 44.95Examines the impact of war on Greek society from Homeric times to the age of Alexander and his successors. Discusses the causes and profits of war, links between war, piracy, slavery and trade and the ideology of warfare in literature and art. more...
From Melos to My Laiby Lawrence A. Tritle
Routledge 2000; US$ 39.95From Melos to My Lai presents an erudite, provocative and moving analysis of the accounts of violence in the literature and history of ancient Greece and in the film literature and veterans' accounts of the Vietnam War. more...
Fighting Songs and Warring Wordsby Brian Murdoch
Routledge 1990; US$ 150.00The accepted canon of war poetry usually includes only those underlining patriotic or nationalistic views. This study opens up the view of war poetry with the inclusion of such material as Nazi poetry and song, and the poetry of the atomic bomb. more...
Humane Warfareby Christopher Coker
Routledge 2001; US$ 47.50This highly controversial and cutting-edge book asks whether the attempts to make war 'virtual' or 'virtuous' can succeed and whether the West is deluding itself (not its enemies) in thinking that war can ever be made more humane. more...
Battle for Britainby Mary Evans; David Morgan
Routledge 1992; US$ 206.00It is generally accepted that Britain was held together during the second world war by a spirit of national democratic `consensus'. But whose interests did the consensus serve? And how did it unravel in the years immediately after victory? more...
Citizenship and Warsby Bertrand Taithe
Routledge 2001; US$ 40.95Putting the latest theoretical thinking into empirical use, the author assesses how the function of the state and its citizens changed during the Paris Commune and Franco-Prussian War. more...









