Harlem's Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I, Paperback - Stephen L. Harris

Reducere. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, thousands of African-American men volunteered to fight for a country that granted them only lim...

On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson thrust the United States into World War I by declaring, "The world must be made safe for democracy." For the 380, ...

DescriptionThis book presents the evolution of one of the most famous French-made fighter aircraft of WWI--the fast, rugged Spad. From humble begin...

Reducere. A century ago, sparsely populated and largely rural Florida rallied as America plunged into World War I. The state's sacrifices and contributions h...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Martin PeglerIllustration(s): Colour artwork plates; black & white and colour photographs and illust...

Life was hard during World War I, and not just for the soldiers in the trenches. For men, women, and children on the home front, the war brought ma...

Reducere. Despite a strategically vulnerable position, an ill-prepared army, and questionable promises of military support from the Allied Powers, Romania in...

Reducere. ``Remarkable.... The first comprehensive history of the war written from the perspective of the Central Powers.`` --Los Angeles Review of BooksFor ...

Presents a collection of more than 125 letters written by Private 1st Class Raymond W. Maker describing his everyday service in combat during World...

Reducere. The number of soldiers wounded in World War I is, in itself, devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. On the ba...

Reducere. Major General Maurice Rose (1899-1945), commander of 3rd Amored, First Army's legendary "Spearhead" division, was the highest-ranking American Jewi...

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

Reducere. Alois Dwenger, writing from the front in May of 1942, complained that people forgot ``the actions of simple soldiers....I believe that true heroism...

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 ...

Reducere. A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five...

I Freed Myself: African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era - David Williams

``A superb book--an American equivalent to John Keegan's The Face of Battle. I sincerely believe that Grunts is destined to be a classic.``--Dave G...

Reducere. If the Wright brothers' 1903 flights in Kitty Hawk marked the birth of aviation, World War I can be called its violent adolescence--a brief but blo...

The AEF Way of War: The American Army and Combat in World War I - Mark Ethan Grotelueschen

Reducere. Well after slavery was abolished, its legacy of violence left deep wounds on African Americans' bodies, minds, and lives. For many victims and witn...

Reducere. Numbering 4, 000 select officers and men, Combat Team 370 was part of n Europe during World War II the 92nd Infantry Division, the only all-Negro d...

Reducere. Millions of men lived in the trenches during World War I. More than six million died there. In Eye-Deep in Hell, the author explores this unique an...

DescriptionDuring the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaign...

Reducere. Originally published in 1948, this WWII division history has long been out-of-print. It remains today the definitive WWII history of the "Buckeye D...

Reducere. When the U.S. government forced 70, 000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals t...

Reducere. For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in...

Some of the most brutally intense infantry combat in World War II occurred within Germany's Hrtgen Forest. Focusing on the bitterly fought battle b...

Reducere. A new title in this award-winning series, it covers a large scope of WWI - from pre-war Europe to women in wartime. Ages: 6-9yrs

Reducere. It was in Hampton Roads, Virginia, that hundreds gained their freedom. The teeming wharves were once a major station on the Underground Railroad, a...

"One of the most enjoyable WW2 books to date." -War History Online "One Hell of a War" is a fascinating blend of firsthand accounts and the strateg...

The hugely popular actor and TV presenter provides young readers with everything they could ever want to know about WWI including how to build a tr...

Reducere. An inventive study of relations between the National Guard and the Regular Army during World War II, Guard Wars follows the Pennsylvania National G...

This book highlights the variety of literary, social, political and philosophical reverberations of the war in Scotland writing.Publisher: Edinburg...

Description The War to End All Wars is considered by many to be the best single account of America's participation in World War I. Covering famous ...

Reducere. When World War I began, war reporting was a thoroughly masculine bastion of journalism. But that did not stop dozens of women reporters from steppi...

Reducere. Explore the fascinating history of America's first World War, meet the greatest military leaders and tacticians, and learn about key battles in thi...