A Rebel War Clerk's Diary

J B Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern War Studies
• Amidst the vast literature of the Civil War, one of the most significant and enlightening documents remains largely unknown. A day-by-day, uninterrupt... Lees meer

A Military History of Afghanistan

Ali Ahmad Jalali

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern War Studies
• The history of Afghanistan is largely military history. From the Persians and Greeks of antiquity to the British, Soviet, and American powers in moder... Lees meer

Useful Captives

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern War Studies
• Useful Captives: The Role of POWs in American Military Conflicts is a wide-ranging investigation of the integral role prisoners of war (POWs) have pla... Lees meer

Vietnam's High Ground

J P Harris

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern War Studies
• During its struggle for survival from 1954 to 1975, the region known as the Central Highlands was the strategically vital high ground for the South Vi... Lees meer

Davis and Lee at War

Steven E Woodworth

• Paperback | Engels | Modern War Studies
• Winner: Fletcher Pratt Award Steven Woodworth's previous book, the critically acclaimed Jefferson Davis and His Generals , won the prestigious Fletche... Lees meer

Nixon's Nuclear Specter

Jeffrey P Kimball, William Burr

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern War Studies
• In their initial effort to end the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger attempted to lever concessions from Hanoi at the negotiating table w... Lees meer

The Russian Army in the Great War

David R Stone

• Paperback | Engels | Modern War Studies
• A full century later, our picture of World War I remains one of wholesale, pointless slaughter in the trenches of the Western front. Expanding our foc... Lees meer

The War for Korea, 1950-1951

Allan R Millett

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern War Studies
• In The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House Burning , one of our most distinguished military historians argued that the conflict on the Korean peninsula ... Lees meer

From Defeat to Victory

Charles J Dick

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern War Studies
• By the summer of 1944, the war in Europe had reached a critical point. Both the western Allies and the Soviets possessed the initiative and forces cap... Lees meer

Victors in Blue

Albert Castel, Brooks Simpson

• Paperback | Engels | Modern War Studies
• Make no mistake, the Confederacy had the will and valor to fight. But the Union had the manpower, the money, the materiel, and, most important, the ge... Lees meer

Black Prisoner of War

James A Daly, Lee Bergman

• Paperback | Engels | Modern War Studies
• Black Prisoner of War chronicles the story of James Daly, a young black soldier held captive for more than five years by the Viet Cong and North Vietn... Lees meer

Mobilizing for Modern War

Paul a C Koistinen

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern War Studies
• Although the military-industrial complex became familiar to most Americans during the Cold War, Paul Koistinen shows that its origins actually go back... Lees meer

Forgotten Warriors

T X Hammes

• Paperback | Engels | Modern War Studies
• When the Korean War broke out in 1950, the Marine Corps was ordered to deploy an air-ground brigade in less than ten days, even though no such brigade... Lees meer

The Cia's Secret War in Tibet

Kenneth Conboy, James Morrison

• Paperback | Engels | Modern War Studies
• Defiance against Chinese oppression has been a defining characteristic of Tibetan life for more than four decades, symbolized most visibly by the much... Lees meer

Arsenal of World War II

Paul a C Koistinen

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern War Studies
• Prolific munitions production keyed America's triumph in World War II but so did the complex economic controls needed to sustain that production. Arti... Lees meer

Decoding Clausewitz

Jon Tetsuro Sumida

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern War Studies
• For nearly two centuries, On War, by Carl Phillip Gottfried von Clausewitz (1780-1831), has been the bible for statesmen and military professionals, s... Lees meer

U.S. Army Doctrine

Walter E Kretchik

• Paperback | Engels | Modern War Studies
• From the American Revolution to the global war on terror, U.S. Army doctrine has evolved to regulate the chaos of armed conflict by providing an intel... Lees meer

For Courageous Fighting and Confident Dying

Warren B Armstrong

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern War Studies
• When soldiers in the Civil War called on their religious beliefs in order to cope with the horrors of battle, many looked to the regimental chaplain f... Lees meer

Davis and Lee at War

Steven E Woodworth

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern War Studies
• Winner: Fletcher Pratt Award Steven Woodworth's previous book, the critically acclaimed Jefferson Davis and His Generals , won the prestigious Fletche... Lees meer

D-Day 1944

• Paperback | Engels | Modern War Studies
• June 6, 1944: the Allies launch the largest combined aerial and amphibious assault in modern history. Taking the Germans by surprise, they storm the h... Lees meer

The First Summit

Theodore a Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Modern War Studies
• Four months before Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met in secret aboard a ship in a secluded Newfoundland harbor. This was t... Lees meer

Dear Catharine, Dear Taylor

Catharine Peirce, Taylor Peirce

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern War Studies
• "I would like to take thee in my arms once more and have the little children around me. . . . But I know it is my duty to stay here and try and be one... Lees meer

The Making of a Paratrooper

Kurt Gabel

• Paperback | Engels | Modern War Studies
• The memoir of paratrooper Kurt Gabel--a German Jew who emigrated to the US in 1938, joined the 513th Regiment of the 17th Airborne Division, and fough... Lees meer

The Red Army and the Great Terror

Peter Whitewood

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern War Studies
• On June 11, 1937, a closed military court ordered the execution of a group of the Soviet Union's most talented and experienced army officers, includin... Lees meer