Endurance and War: The National Sources of Military Cohesion, Hardcover - Jasen J. Castillo

Reducere. Scholars and military practitioners alike have long sought to understand why some country's militaries fight hard when facing defeat while others c...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Earl J. HessDuring the Civil War, neither the Union nor the Confederate army could have operated without effective transpor...

Reducere. DescriptionIn The Transparent Cabal, Stephen J. Sniegoski, Ph.D., provides the key to understanding "neoconservatism, " its meaning, and its influe...

Reducere. DescriptionBicycling Gettysburg National Military Park: The Cyclist's Civil War Travel Guide is the one-and-only book that you need to bicycle the ...

Reducere. Major General J. F. C. Fuller, a pioneer of mechanized warfare in Great Britain, was one of this century's most renowned military strategists and h...

Reducere. Join Henry, a boy from the swamps of Louisiana, as he learns an important lesson about kindness with his swamp animal friends.Bullfrog loves to sin...

The German Army lost two consecutive wars and the conclusion is often drawn that it simply wasn't able to cope with its opponents. This image is co...

Reducere. The fifteen Sioux (and one Cheyenne) who speak in Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight witnessed Custer's Last Stand. Their testimony sheds lig...

Intelligence is often the critical factor in a successful military campaign. This was certainly the case for Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellingt...

Reducere. Great patch book focused only on World War II. Depicts hundreds of SSIs (patches), tabs and scrolls, as well as chevrons, including SSI reproductio...

DescriptionWhat was it like to be a military combat photographer in the most photographed war in history -- the Vietnam War? Shooting Vietnam takes...

DescriptionThe story of an iconic model in the long history of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, the WLA, which was used by Allied forces during WWII, i...

Reducere. The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the 1950s and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affect...

A comprehensive and up-to-date study of the combat and logistics vehicles which formed part of the German contingent that fought in the Spanish Civ...

Description Far from the image of an apolitical, "clean" Wehrmacht that persists in popular memory, German soldiers regularly cooperated with organ...

Reducere. National Geographic presents provocative stories shedding new light on the Civil War, American history's watershed, from Union and Confederate sold...

Reducere. Based on previously unused French and German sources, this challenging and controversial new analysis of the war on the Western front from 1914 to ...

Reducere. In this one-of-a-kind atlas, scores of archival maps and dozens of newly created maps trace the battles, political turmoil, and great themes of Ame...

Rough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy...

Reducere. A full assembly of all 249 maps and sketches from UNITED KINGDOM MILITARY SERIES: OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN HISTORY - THE MEDITERRANEAN AND MIDDLE EAST. Al...

Description"To win, we must endeavour to be the stronger of the two at the point of impact. Our only hope of this lies in making our own choice of ...

DescriptionOriginally published as _Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies From 1799 to 1815 this is one of the most magnificent of a...

The first two decades after the end of the Cold War were characterized by governments' desires to reduce the sizes of their armed forces, not least...

In Munich in 1920, just after the end of the First World War, German officers who had been prisoners of war in England published a book they had wr...

Of the one million British and Empire military personnel who were killed in action; died of wounds, disease, or injury; or were missing presumed de...

Reducere. A new baby brother is coming! What will Kirima do?Kirima's worried that her parents won't have time to spend with her anymore when the new baby arr...

DescriptionSir Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, is best known for his exceptional military career. He was one of the Duke of Wellington's ablest lieut...

How can we attempt to understand the experience of those involved in ancient battles, sieges and campaigns? What was the visual impact of seeing th...

The desert war in Libya and Egypt between 1940 and 1942 has deservedly attracted the attention of many historians. Fought in an unforgiving yet str...

DescriptionA series of daring missions from World War II, revealed through letters and documents from the main protagonists.Winning World War II wa...

From top secret spy missions to recently declassified WWII documents, this richly illustrated account of the covert espionage operations of World W...

The Third Armored Division, famously known as the "Spearhead Division, " had an illustrious combat career in WW2. One of only two "heavy armored" d...

Reducere. This is a major new approach to the military revolution and the relationship between warfare and the power of the state in early modern Europe. Whe...

Reducere. During his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln expressed hope that the better angels of our nature would prevail as war loomed. He was wrong. ...

DescriptionHistories of the German army on the Eastern Front generally focus on battlefield exploits on the war as it was fought in the front line....

DescriptionMichel Goya's Flesh and Steel during the Great War is one of the most thoughtful, stimulating and original studies of the conflict to ha...

Experts analyse the impact of World War II on individual countries and regions, and how its legacy continues to shape political and military thinki...

Reducere. Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any ...