Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare, views on the evolution of U.S. intelligence, and studies on the delicate balance between the need for information-gathering and the values of democratic societies. It also includes...

In "The History of the 33rd Divisional Artillery, in the War, 1914-1918," John Victor Macartney-Filgate meticulously chronicles the operational journey of the 33rd Divisional Artillery during the Great War. This historical account is marked by a combination of scholarly rigor and vivid narrative, employing primary sources and firsthand testimonials to evoke the experiences of soldiers in the throes of conflict. The text situates itself within the broader context of World War I literature, ...

"The History of the 33rd Divisional Artillery, in the War, 1914-1918" by John Victor Macartney-Filgate provides a detailed account of the artillery operations and experiences of the 33rd Division during World War I. The book delves into the strategic importance of artillery in warfare, highlighting the challenges faced by the division and the evolution of tactics throughout the conflict. Macartney-Filgate's meticulous research and firsthand accounts offer readers a vivid portrayal of the s...

The Artillery Enthusiast's Library: 19 Essential Reads assembles a broad documentary field around artillery: its mechanisms, tactical uses, organization, and cultural fascination. Across technical exposition, historical narrative, practical analysis, and reflective military writing, the volume charts the changing language through which guns, gunnery, and battlefield power have been understood. Its significance lies less in a single canonical argument than in the productive juxtaposition of...

*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World ...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • America's foremost Civil War historian recounts the final year of the Civil War in his final volume of the Army of the Potomac Trilogy.Bruce Catton takes the reader through the battles of the Wilderness, the Bloody Angle, Cold Harbot, the Crater, and on through the horrible months to one moment at Appomattox. Grant, Meade, Sheridan, and Lee vividly come to life in all their failings and triumphs.

The early battles of the First World War during the autumn and winter of 1914 were open, mobile affairs of the kind long familiar to professional soldiers. By early 1915, however, a new type of war had emerged - trench warfare.Modern artillery and machine-guns had been employed in the Boer War only a decade or so previously, but the perfection of their use led to the creation of a static front: the Western Front. Attempts to circumvent this Front, notably at Gallipoli in 1915, only...

Now published for the first time, an eyewitness account of the Civil War by a Union soldier who fought from Bull Run to Knoxville.This remarkable book presents the transcription of some twenty pocket diaries kept throughout the first three years of the Civil War by Charles B. Haydon and sent back one by one to his home in Decatur, Michigan, to be read by his father and brother. As readable as they are lively and informative, they offer a marvelous firsthand view of ...

Brave Battalion presents the story of four Canadian Highland regiments that were banded together as the 16th Battalion. Ninety years after the end of WWI, this work honours those soldiers and makes their stories a vivid reality. Focusing on the Canadian Scottish (Princess Mary’s) Battalion, Mark Zuehlke presents the harrowing experiences that bonded the men and which came to represent the uniting and rising of a nation beginning to realize its potential.Complemented by map...

An eye-witness account of the Civil War, from the Confederate perspective. This brigade was part of the Eighth South Carolina Regiment. According to the Preface: "I consider Kershaw's Brigade ... one of the best eye-witness accounts of its kind, complete, trustworthy, and intensely interesting. Beginning with the secession of South Carolina onDecember 20, 1860, Dickert describes in detail the formation, organization, and myriad military activities of his brigade until its surrender at Durh...

This is an account of the British Expeditionary Forces battles in the summer and autumn of 1917. It begins with the Allied plan to free up the Flanders coast, to limit German naval and submarine attacks on British shipping.The opening offensive began with the detonation of nineteen mines on 7 June and ended with the capture of the Messines Ridge. The main offensive started with success on 31 July but was soon bogged down due to the August rains. Three huge attacks between 20 September and ...

The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson is the history of Edward Moore's experiences in the Rockbridge Artillery during the Civil War. Heraklion Press has included a linked table of contents.