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  • Pass in Review - Military School Celebrities (Volume Three)

    Pass in Review - Military School Celebrities: One Hundred Years (1890s - 1990s), #3

    Series Book 3 - Pass in Review - Military School Celebrities: One Hundred Years (1890s - 1990s)
    Military schools in the United States were established out of necessity due to the difficulties faced by the American colonists fighting for their independence. During the Revolutionary War, British forces were commanded by officers educated at the Royal Military Academies at Sandhurst and Woolwich. It wasn't until 1802 that the United States established its first military school: the United ... Read more

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  • America's Five-Star Warriors

    Throughout American history, the U.S. Congress has authorized the temporary establishment of a five-star military rank. This aligned the United States' military ranks with those of its allies, thus eliminating the problem of U.S. officers commanding Allied officers of technically higher rank. There have been twelve military officers who have held the five-star rank -- seven from the Army ... Read more

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  • Empire’s Labor

    The Global Army That Supports U.S. Wars

    by Adam D. Moore ...
    In a dramatic unveiling of the little-known world of contracted military logistics, Adam Moore examines the lives of the global army of laborers who support US overseas wars. Empire's Labor brings us the experience of the hundreds of thousands of men and women who perform jobs such as truck drivers and administrative assistants at bases located in warzones in the Middle East and Africa. He ... Read more

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  • Aberration of Mind

    Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South

    More than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychological crisis it created. In Aberration of Mind, Diane Miller Sommerville offers the first book-length treatment of suicide in the South during the Civil War era, giving us insight into both white and black communities, Confederate soldiers and their families, as ... Read more

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  • Battlelines: Road to Gettysburg

    Civil War Combat Artists and the Pictures They Drew, #1

    by Jim Stovall ...
    Series Book 1 - Civil War Combat Artists and the Pictures They Drew
    What did a battle during the Civil War look like?We have no photographs of Civil War battles because photography had no advanced to where it could stop that kind of action.But we can get a good idea of what the battles were like from the courageous -- and sometimes reckless -- combat artists from contemporary publications who took to the field and attached themselves to the armies.Sadly, the work ... Read more

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  • The Forgotten Women Heroes: Second World War Untold Stories - The Women Heroes in the Extraordinary World War Two[Military, History,War,World War]

    *** This is a short and Untold Stories of the Women Heroes in the Extraordinary World War Two ***These women have been footnotes in history and at least one of them was a model for women in James Bond books and movies. The women however have remained in the shadows of the stories of the Second World War. These women fade into history even though their actions were crucial in changing the outcome ... Read more

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  • No Useless Mouth

    Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution

    "Rachel B. Herrmann's No Useless Mouth is truly a breath of fresh air in the way it aligns food and hunger as the focal point of a new lens to reexamine the American Revolution. Her careful scrutiny, inclusive approach, and broad synthesis―all based on extensive archival research―produced a monograph simultaneously rich, audacious, insightful, lively, and provocative."―The Journal of American ... Read more

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  • A Common Bond II

    In 1993, two Vietnam veterans got together over coffee and founded The Memorial Day Writers' Project (MDWP), a creative vehicle and venue for veterans and others who have been touched by war. The MDWP sets up a tent within sight of the Vietnam Memorial (The Wall), rain or shine, every Memorial Day and Veterans Day since its founding, to encourage and facilitate the sharing of creative works by ... Read more

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  • 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized) - Point of the Spear

    More than 30 years ago, 24th Infantry Division soldiers answered the call of their Nation and went to war, first in Panama during Operation Just Cause to capture General Manuel Noriega and then in the Middle East during Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm to liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein. It was the 24th IDs deep thrust into Iraq where it gained the nickname 'Point of the Spear'. The ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Belmont

    A short military history of Ulysses S Grant's first major command in the American Civil War. Tactical descriptions, light command analysis, references and an order of battle. An easy to read yet accurate introduction to Grant, the Civil War, and military history. ... Read more

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  • Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill

    How Veteran Politics Shaped the New Deal Era

    The period between World Wars I and II was a time of turbulent political change, with suffragists, labor radicals, demagogues, and other voices clamoring to be heard. One group of activists that has yet to be closely examined by historians is World War I veterans. Mining the papers of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and the American Legion (AL), Stephen R. Ortiz reveals that veterans actively ... Read more

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  • World War 1: A History From Beginning to End

    by Henry Freeman ...
    World War One was one of the bloodiest wars in modern history. At its end, it had claimed over seventeen million lives. It led to the collapse of nations, the abdication of monarchies and ended empires. Entire divisions of men perished in the pursuit of mere miles of uninhabitable wasteland––towns were pulverized and millions displaced. It became a horrendous war of attrition, each side competing ... Read more

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  • George Smith Patton: Four Men Who Shared the Name

    The Life and Death of George Smith Patton Jr., #1

    Series Book 1 - The Life and Death of George Smith Patton Jr.
    General George Smith Patton of World War II fame often spoke with pride of the military deeds of his forefathers. From an early age, he had been regaled with the exploits of his relatives from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War. These stories of courage and great deeds of his heroic ancestors and their mighty battles, greatly influenced the man who would lead American troops in World War I and ... Read more

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  • Naval Air War: The Rolling Thunder Campaign

    The Rolling Thunder Campaign

    Series Book 4 - The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War
    This is the sixth monograph in the series The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War. It covers aircraft carrier activity during Operation Rolling Thunder in the war. Operation Rolling Thunder was one of the longest sustained aerial bombing campaigns in history. And it would be a failure. The U.S. Navy proved essential to the conduct of Rolling Thunder. Exploiting the inherent flexibility and mobility of ... Read more

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  • Notes from Underground: A Cold War Missileer Goes Home

    by Paul Kijinski ...
    The author, a missile launch control officer in the waning years of the Cold War, returns to his old Air Force unit in North Dakota. His goal is to learn firsthand how today's missileers are faring in the gray environment of the post-Cold War era. Have they managed to maintain a sense of mission, and if so, upon what is it founded? Do they harbor any bitterness toward military or political leaders ... Read more

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  • Grenada

    Series series The Free Read Series
    An account of the Grenada Invasion (Operation Urgent Fury) and why the Marine Expeditionary Force are my heroes for their stand at Grenada. ... Read more

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  • DUTY

    An Epic Novel of West Point and the Civil War

    by Bob Mayer ...
    Series Book 1 - Duty, Honor, Country
    "Will leave you spellbound. Mayer’s long suit is detail, giving the reader an in-depth view of the inner workings of the Army and West Point." Book NewsAn epic series in the vein of HBO's Rome, following two ordinary men through extraordinary times; from West Point, through the Mexican War, into the Civil War.Elijah Cord and Lucius Rumble swore oaths, both personal and professional. They were ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of U.S. Counterterrorism and Irregular Warfare Operations

    This handbook comprises essays by leading scholars and practitioners on the topic of U.S. counterterrorism and irregular warfare campaigns and operations around the globe.Terrorist groups have evolved substantially since 9/11, with the Islamic State often described as a pseudo-state, a terrorist group, and insurgency all at the same time. While researchers', analysts', and policymakers’ ... Read more

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  • Civil War Citizens

    Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America’s Bloodiest Conflict

    Edited by Susannah J. Ural ...
    At its core, the Civil War was a conflict over the meaning of citizenship. Most famously, it became a struggle over whether or not to grant rights to a group that stood outside the pale of civil-society: African Americans. But other groups--namely Jews, Germans, the Irish, and Native Americans--also became part of this struggle to exercise rights stripped from them by legislation, court rulings, ... Read more

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  • Boy Generals of the Civil War

    The Civil War was the last American conflict in which very young soldiers regularly rose to high rank. Many a youth of 16 or younger managed to enlist, in the absence of public birth records, and political influence secured commissions for a few before they reached the legal military age of 18. Those who survived three or four years of battlefield attrition often rose to the command of companies, ... Read more

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  • Washington's Life Guards: Conquer or Die

    After the Battle of Boston ended in March 1776, General Washington realized that a surprise raid on his headquarters was a serious possibility. To counter that possibility, Washington decided to form an elite unit of soldiers who would be responsible for protecting his own person and household, as well as the official papers of the Continental Army. On 11 March 1776, General Washington sent a ... Read more

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  • Something Ventured, Something Gained: My Quest to Become a White House Fellow

    Early in my military career, I set out to become a White House Fellow. This book tells the story of my journey to achieve that goal. Along the way, I served as Administrative Assistant to General of the Army Omar Bradley; acted as Military Assistant to the Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army; participated in Operation Just Cause, Operation Desert Shield, and Operation Desert Storm; and met ... Read more

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  • Creating the Modern Army

    Citizen-Soldiers and the American Way of War, 1919–1939

    Series series Studies in CivilMilitary Relations
    The modern US Army as we know it was largely created in the years between the two world wars. Prior to World War I, officers in leadership positions were increasingly convinced that building a new army could not take place as a series of random developments but was an enterprise that had to be guided by a distinct military policy that enjoyed the support of the nation. In 1920, Congress accepted ... Read more

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  • Siege of Yorktown: The Last Major Land Battle of the American Revolutionary War

    by Henry Freeman ...
    What kind of impact does a battle and siege from more than 200 years ago have on the world today? Yorktown held the key to the end of the American Revolution and allowed America to become not only a sovereign nation, but also set the stage for it to become a world power, worth keeping an eye on.Inside you will read about...✓ The Road to Yorktown✓ Opening Moves✓ The Troops in Motion✓ The Battle at ... Read more

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