The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth, Paperback - Earl J. Hess

Reducere. The Civil War's single-shot, muzzle-loading musket revolutionized warfare-or so we've been told for years. Noted historian Earl J. Hess forcefully ...

Reducere. As William T. Sherman's Union troops began their campaign for Atlanta in the spring of 1864, they encountered Confederate forces employing field fo...

Reducere. The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north t...

Reducere. Civil War Supply and Strategy stands as a sweeping examination of the decisive link between the distribution of provisions to soldiers and the stra...

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

Reducere. Sweeping away many of the myths that have long surrounded Pickett's Charge, Earl Hess offers the definitive history of the most famous military act...

Reducere. As a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) earned a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own soldiers, and for l...

Reducere. Fought on July 28, 1864, the Battle of Ezra Church was a dramatic engagement during the Civil War's Atlanta campaign. Confederate forces under John...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring the Civil War, Mississippi's strategic location bordering the Mississippi River and the state's system of railroads drew the atte...

Reducere. Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove were three of the most important battles fought west of the Mississippi River during the Civil War. Th...

Reducere. DescriptionOn the battlefields of the Crimean War, William Howard Russell described the new weapon in the hands of British troops -- the rifle-musk...

Reducere. The foot soldier during the American Civil WarThis book will be of particular interest to all those who study the American Civil War, since it deta...

Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality - E. J. Hobsbawm

Reducere. DescriptionThe foot soldier during the American Civil WarThis book will be of particular interest to all those who study the American Civil War, si...

Reducere. Analyzes nonrational thought processes, demonstrating underlying grammar; Indian philosophy, Schelling modern poetry, much more.

DescriptionAmerica's evolution during the mid-19th century just prior to the Civil War was amazing. The six-fold increase in population from 1800 t...

Reducere. "The Commentaries on the Gallic War" is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar des...

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

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Shows how the image of Cornish wreckers as villains deliberately luring ships on to the rocks is a myth.

Reducere. During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln reviewed thousands of wartime military trials, including several cases featured in this bo...

Reducere. Elisabeth Wood's account of insurgent collective action in El Salvador is based on oral histories gathered from peasants who supported the insurgen...

Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Chr...

This book looks at the relationship between statute law and legal practice. It examines how law is applied in reality and more precisely how law is...

The Barrett M82 is one of the most successful sniper rifles ever manufactured. This is technical history of a rifle initially commissioned as an an...

Col. Mark James Alexander was the only airborne officer to lead three different battalions into combat in World War II, successively commanding the...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this remarkable collection, ten premier scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examini...

Elements of dystopian saga, lyrical romance and noir thrills are combined in this genre-defying debut taking place in a post-digital and flood-dren...

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Reducere. Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds...

In 1643/4 the once-famous Francis Cleyn painted the unhappy young heir of Corfe Castle, John Bankes, and his tutor, Dr Maurice Williams. The painte...

Reducere. The American Civil War divided the United States from 1861-1865. During those years, over two million soldiers served in both the Union and Confede...

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. ...

Reducere. "I am awed by my destructive power. With a small squeeze of the gun trigger under my right index finger, I can rip the turret off a thirty-ton batt...

Reducere. A brilliant evocation of the post-Civil War era by the acclaimed author of Patriots and Union 1812. After Lincoln tells the story of the Reconstruc...

Reducere. Publications of the German Historical Institute: Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918 The First World War ...

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 ...

Reducere. Provides the most comprehensive overview of the American war memorial as a cultural form and reframes the national debate over Civil War monuments ...

Reducere. Savannah in the New South: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century, by Walter J. Fraser, Jr., traces the city's evolution from the pivotal p...

"De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries (The War Commentaries of Julius Caesar: The War in Gaul and The Civil War)' is a collection of war writin...

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...

In these works an old woman is frequently portrayed who has traditionally been held to be Rembrandt's mother, Neeltje Willemsdr. van Zuijdtbroek. W...

Reducere. DescriptionFrancis Parkman's history Montcalm and Wolfe, originally published in two volumes is, possibly, the finest history book to come out of A...

A history of the making and printing of news.Illustrations: 20 illustrations

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The emergence of the tank in World War I led to the development of the first infantry weapons to defend against tanks. Anti-tank rifles became comm...

Contrary to conventional wisdom which views governance as part of a military strategy, some rebels govern to achieve political ends, such as social...

The most famous Civil War name in Northern Virginia, other than General Lee, is Colonel John Singleton Mosby, the Gray Ghost. He stands out among n...

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