The Age of the Ship of the Line

Jonathan R Dull

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called "ships of the line" dominated war at sea and were thus instrumental in the European struggle ... Lees meer

Imagining the Unimaginable

Aaron J Cohen

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• As World War I shaped and molded European culture to an unprecedented degree, it also had a profound influence on the politics and aesthetics of early... Lees meer

Policing Sex and Marriage in the American Military

Kellie Wilson-Buford

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• The American military's public international strategy of Communist containment, systematic weapons build-ups, and military occupations across the glob... Lees meer

Managing Sex in the U.S. Military

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• The U.S. military is a massive institution, and its policies on sex, gender, and sexuality have shaped the experiences of tens of millions of American... Lees meer

The Age of the Ship of the Line

Jonathan R Dull

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called "ships of the line" dominated war at sea and were thus instrumental in the European struggle ... Lees meer

A Religious History of the American GI in World War II

G Kurt Piehler

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• A Religious History of the American GI in World War II breaks new ground by recounting the armed forces' unprecedented efforts to meet the spiritual n... Lees meer

Remembering World War I in America

Kimberly J Lamay Licursi

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• Poised to become a significant player in the new world order, the United States truly came of age during and after World War I. Yet many Americans thi... Lees meer

Friendly Enemies

Lauren K Thompson

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• During the American Civil War, Union and Confederate soldiers commonly fraternized, despite strict prohibitions from the high command. When soldiers f... Lees meer

Soldiers as Citizens

Jay Lockenour

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• For centuries prior to 1945, the German officer corps constituted a social and political elite in Central Europe. And as this book shows, the debacle ... Lees meer

Marianne Is Watching

Deborah Bauer

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• Polly Corrigan Book Prize shortlist Professional intelligence became a permanent feature of the French state as a result of the army's June 8, 1871, r... Lees meer

Beneficial Bombing

Mark Clodfelter

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• The Progressive Era, marked by a desire for economic, political, and social reform, ended for most Americans with the ugly reality and devastation of ... Lees meer

Army and Empire

Michael N McConnell

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• The end of the Seven Years' War found Britain's professional army in America facing new and unfamiliar responsibilities. In addition to occupying the ... Lees meer

The Challenge of Change

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• The Challenge of Change examines how military institutions attempted to meet the demands of the new strategic, political, and technological realities ... Lees meer

Grand Illusion

William F Sater, Holger H Herwig

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• The Grand Illusion analyzes the impact of European military institutions on Hispanic America in general and examines the putative "Prussianization" of... Lees meer

On the Trail of the Yellow Tiger

Kenneth M Swope

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• The Manchu Qing victory over the Chinese Ming Dynasty in the mid-seventeenth century was one of the most surprising and traumatic developments in Chin... Lees meer

An American Soldier in World War I

George Browne

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• George "Brownie" Browne was a twenty-three-year-old civil engineer in Waterbury, Connecticut, when the United States entered the Great War in 1917. He... Lees meer

You Can't Fight Tanks with Bayonets

Allison B Gilmore

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• A startling omission from the extensive literature on the Pacific events of World War II is an analysis of Allied psychological operations. Allison B.... Lees meer

North American Indians in the Great War

Susan Applegate Krouse

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• More than twelve thousand American Indians served in the United States military in World War I, even though many were not U.S. citizens and did not en... Lees meer

Indian Soldiers in World War I

Andrew T Jarboe

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• Third place in the 2022 SAHR Templer Best First Book Prize More than one million Indian soldiers were deployed during World War I, serving in the Indi... Lees meer

Managing Sex in the U.S. Military

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• The U.S. military is a massive institution, and its policies on sex, gender, and sexuality have shaped the experiences of tens of millions of American... Lees meer

Sex Crimes Under the Wehrmacht

David Raub Snyder

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• In this groundbreaking work, David Raub Snyder offers a nuanced investigation into the German army's prosecution and punishment of sex offenders durin... Lees meer

A Scientific Way of War

Ian C Hope

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• While faith in the Enlightenment was waning elsewhere by 1850, at the United States Military Academy at West Point and in the minds of academy graduat... Lees meer

Deterrence Through Strength

Rebecca Berens Matzke

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• The notion of a Pax Britannica--a concept implying that Britain's overwhelming strength enforced global peace in the era that began with Napoleon's de... Lees meer

Death Zones and Darling Spies

Beverly Deepe Keever

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in War, Society, and the Military
• Chosen for 2015 One Book One Nebraska In 1961, equipped with a master's degree from famed Columbia Journalism School and letters of introduction to As... Lees meer