American War Machine

Why Does America Go to War? In the last decades, America has gone to war as supposed defenders of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect...

DescriptionA Withering Fire is the definitive history of American machine gun battalions in World War I. It describes the creation of these battali...

Reducere. In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, the Soviet world chess champio...

Reducere. ""The trouble with our state, "" Daniel Berrigan writes in his great poem, ""was not civil disobedience, which in any case was hesitant and rare. ....

Reducere. DescriptionYour mission is to go back in time and discover the identity of the man who fired the first shot of the American revolution, and bring b...

Reducere. Emergency War Plan examines the theory and practice of American nuclear deterrence and its evolution during the Cold War. Previous examinations of ...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring World War II, both sides communicated extensively through telegraph messages. If it weren't for a brilliant team of U.S. codebrea...

Reducere. Provocative and highly controversial, The Nazi Hydra In America presents an overview of the fascist influence in America. While Eisenhower's troops...

In World War I the American motor vehicle industry was tested by the sudden appearance of vast transport challenges. The nation's immense manufactu...

Sensational eyewitness accounts from the most heroic and legendary American aviators of World War II, never before published as a book They are voi...

Reducere. Merriam Press Military Monograph 317. Fifth Edition (2012). Fascinating account of Rayle's varied career from prior to World War II, working at the...

Reducere. Over the Rockies and down the Pacific slope the Purple Emperor's great war machine rolled on, to crush the last vestige of American resistance. Ope...

Reducere. The riveting true story of America's first modern military battle, its first military victory during World War One, and its first steps onto the wo...

Reducere. DescriptionHairs vs. Squares is an ode to an unforgettable season that began with the first major players' strike in the history of North American ...

When the Japanese war machine swept through South-East Asia in early 1942, it was inevitable that conflict would reach Australian territory on the ...

The first full-length biography of Edward J. Kelly tells the vivid story of the rough-hewn politician who became one of Chicago's most powerful may...

Reducere. "Stunning stories that weave together the major fronts of WWI into a sweeping narrative." ─ ReviewerThe Great War left millions of civilians and so...

A richly illustrated guide to modeling the nimble M113 Armored Personnel Carrier, a Cold War veteran of the jungle and desert, filled with previous...

Reducere. The aesthetic known as the Bakersfield Sound transformed country music, its hard edge a stark contrast to Nashville's stringed orchestras. It turne...

This is the sordid chronicle of the U-boat war against merchant shipping along the American eastern seaboard in World War Two. Between January 14, ...

Reducere. Entering World War I in 1917, a burst of patriotism in New Orleans collided with civil liberties. The city, due to its French heritage, shared a st...

Featuring hundreds of photos from the national archives, diagrams, and detailed specifications, Hunnicutt's Firepower remains the definitive develo...

Reducere. The first in a series of meticulously researched World War II novels about hit-and-run raids against Hitler's war machine by British forces - under...

Reducere. When a machine-gun bullet ended the life of war correspondent Ernie Pyle in the final days of World War II, Americans mourned him in the same breat...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the operations written by Nazi scientists and Allied forces *Includes online resources and a bi...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the operations written by Nazi scientists and Allied forces *Includes online resources and a bibliography ...

DescriptionA two-player deck-building war game, pitting players against one another in the European theater of World War II.June, 1944. Through the...

Reducere. ACCLAIM FOR ENIGMA"CRACKING STUFF...VIVID AND HITHERTO UNKNOWN DETAILS." -Sunday Times (London)"IN A CROWD OF BOOKS DEALING WITH THE ALLIED BREAKIN...

Sherlock Holmes is the most famous of all fictional detectives but, across the Atlantic, he had plenty of rivals.Between 1890 and 1920, American wr...

Reducere. General Wesley K. Clark recounts his experience leading NATO's forces to a hard-fought and ultimately successful victory in Kosovo in 1999. As the ...

DescriptionCome face-to-face with the raging terror of World War II in this firsthand graphic novel adaptation of a Polish-American machine gunner'...

Reducere. On Gunnery traces the fascinating evolution of artillery from the battlefields of the American Civil War to the desert sands of the middle east at ...

Reducere. DescriptionHanna lives each day to its fullest. This is her autobiography, a true story of growing up in Nazi Germany, marrying an American GI, and...

Reducere. The M18 Hellcat was an American tank destroyer during World War II. Armed with a 76-mm cannon, it was the fastest tracked armored fighting vehicle ...

Reducere. Why do some cryptographic systems fail and others succeed? Stephen Kelley's new book, Big Machines, explores this fundamental question of cryptolog...

Joe Keller and SteveDeever, partners in a machine shop during World War II, turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths of many men. De...

Reducere. This riveting book follows a small group of Australian front-line soldiers from their enlistment in the dark days of 1940 to the end of World War I...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the remarkable story of the heroic rescue of priceless horses in the clo...

Reducere. Ivan Doig's companion memoir to his bestselling This House of Sky--inspired by the letters his mother wrote during World War II--is "a lyrical evoc...

Reducere. In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaig...

Reducere. The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of ...

Reducere. It's 1776, and the Revolutionary War is raging. Fourteen-year-old Nathan Wade is a patriot, but he's too young to join the fight. Then his cousin D...

Reducere. Original introduction by Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan and Gun Machine Who are these bold rebels pillaging their European neighbors in ...

DescriptionMost people know that Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was a towering figure of American literature, a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner and a...

A witch, more machine than human, judges the character of the wicked and hands out justice in a ravaged Chicago. John Henry wields his mighty hamme...

Reducere. Used primarily as a long-range bomber escort in raids over Germany, the North American P-51 Mustang earned a reputation for toughness and agility i...

From GARTH ENNIS, the creator of the hit AMC television shows THE BOYS and PREACHER, this "first time in softcover" edition collects the critically...

Reducere. From the author of the Escape from Furnace series, The Devil's Engine: Hellraisers is the opening salvo in an explosive new horror trilogy about an...

Reducere. A crackling portrayal of everyday American heroines...A triumph. -- Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue A g...

WINNER OF THE SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON AWARD FOR NAVAL LITERATURE ``I devoured Act of War the way I did Flyboys, Flags of Our Fathers and Lost in Shang...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ivan DoigDriven by the memory of a fallen teammate, TSU's 1941 starting lineup went down as legend in Montana football hist...

It's 1879 and Lt. Cmdr. Peter Wake, U.S.N., is on special assignment as the official American neutral naval observer to the War of the Pacific ragi...

Reducere. 'A shining accomplishment. A classic' New York Times'Ranks among the outstanding air memoirs of the war' Max HastingsOn an August morning in Englan...

Reducere. In her highly acclaimed debut novel, the bestselling author of Shelter introduces the Hampsons, an ordinary, small-town American family profoundly ...

Reducere. From January to July 1942, more than seventy-five ships sank to North Carolina's "Graveyard of the Atlantic" off the coast of the Outer Banks. Germ...

Reducere. Before dawn breaks over the Pacific, young Japanese pilots don the scarfs of ancient warriors -- and in the early light of Sunday morning an Americ...

DescriptionTwelve women. Twelve horrors disguised as love. In Anya Martin's new collection of horror tales: a teenage girl faces the consequences o...

Reducere. From the New York Times-bestselling author Tom Clancy called "the master" In war-torn Lisbon, a bartender and a nightclub singer are caught up in a...

Reducere. The Heart of the Matter"Morris Berman wrote one of the best works of cultural history (the "Consciousness" trilogy) and one of the best works of po...

Reducere. On February 15, 1898, the American ship USS Maine mysteriously exploded in the Havana Harbor. News of the blast quickly reached U.S. shores, where ...

Reducere. Towards the end of the eighteenth century, a group of learned men in the English Midlands, the Lunar Society, works to bring science and reason to ...

Reducere. America's Art of War -- this book should be taught in every business school in America. Its awesome! - George Lang, Ohio Senator and Founder of the...

Contributor(s): Author: Corey R. LewandowskiAuthor: David N. BossieCorey R. Lewandowski and David N. Bossie, the authors of the blockbuster, Let Tr...

Eisner-Award winner, Gene Luen Yang, weaves together the tales of THE TERRIFICS in this epic collection Ever wondered what it's like to go back to ...

Reducere. Life-long motorcyclist Ken Philp reveals the story of the Ner-a-Car in England. Reference is also made to the American story. There are over 50 bla...

Reducere. A modification of the 2-ton "deuce", the DUKW amphibious truck was designed in 1942 by a team that included a British sailor, an American yacht bui...

The story of today's Jeep Wrangler has an intriguing and unusual beginning, when the demands of the American army during the Second World War led t...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2017 "A pinball machine zinging with sharp dialogue, breathtaking plot twists and naught...

Reducere. "A high-energy tale that unfolds at a machine-gun pace...Betley has become essential reading." --Booklist A global conspiracy threatens America's p...

Reducere. If clothes make the man, who makes the clothes and the trends they inspire? Fashion historian Daniel Delis Hill takes readers on a fascinatingly de...