The Soldier's Two Bodies: Military Sacrifice and Popular Sovereignty in Revolutionary War Veteran Narratives, Hardcover - James Greene

In The Soldier's Two Bodies, James M. Greene investigates an overlooked genre of early American literature--the Revolutionary War veteran narrative...

Reducere. How can the truth about the devastating atrocities committed by the German army on the Eastern Front in the Second World War be reconciled with the...

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

Historian and collector Michael Green shows in this fascinating and graphically illustrated book that the two wars that engulfed Indochina and Nort...

Islamist thinkers used to debate the doctrine of the caliphate of man, which holds that God is sovereign but has appointed the multitude of believe...

DescriptionToday the Korean War of 1950-1953 is overshadowed by later twentieth-century conflicts in Vietnam and the Middle East, yet at the time i...

DescriptionAs the newly appointed commander of the Southern Continental Army in December 1780, Nathanael Greene quickly realized victory would not ...

Reducere. In 1991 a brutal civil war broke out in Sierra Leone, a small country on the west coast of Africa. Masterminded by Muammar Qaddafi of Libya and Char...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Edmund S. MorganThis book makes the provocative case here that America has remained politically stable because the Founding...

Reducere. June 7, 2005, a sandstorm obscured what light lingered in Iraq's nighttime sky as Staff Sergeant Alberto Martinez tied a claymore mine to a window ...

Reducere. Much of New York during the Revolutionary era was frontier wilderness, sparsely populated and bitterly divided. Although the only major campaign in...

Kantorowicz's 1957 study of 1, 200 years of monarchy has had a profound affect on the way academics think about the study of history.Publisher: Mac...

DescriptionThis is a comprehensive look at how France influenced the American Revolutionary War in a variety of ways; intellectually, financially, ...

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...

DescriptionFor much of its 2, 000-year history, the Roman Catholic Church was a formidable political and military power, in contrast to its pacifis...

Reducere. What the Boys in Blue Left Behind is a long overdue pictorial encyclopedia. This book reveals memorabilia which the Civil War veterans left to us. ...

Set in Russia in the year 1916, In the Trenches is based on the true story of the author's life during WWI. Fifteen-year-old Zina runs away from ho...

Reducere. The Guide to the American Revolutionary War in New Jersey: Battles, Raids and Skirmishes, Paperback

This book explores the use and impact of music therapy with military populations through the personal and professional experiences from a wide rang...

Reducere. A deeply researched and engaging account of the use of U-Boats in the First World War. The focus touches on both diplomatic and economic aspects as...

Reducere. DescriptionThis remarkable memoir is one of the most celebrated documents toemerge from the tumult of America's Revolutionary War. Theordinary and ...

A compelling novel of sacrifice and survival, love and hope, set in Italy during World War Two - inspired by true events.

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...

Kantorowicz's 1957 study of 1, 200 years of monarchy has had a profound affect on the way academics think about the study of history.

Publisher: Brandeis University PressAuthor(s): James WrightNumber of pages: 156Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 236 x 29Cover type: Hardback...

Over 60, 000, 000 people died worldwide during the course of the Second World War and, in contrast to those slaughtered in The Great War, it was ci...

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

Rank and file soldiers were not 'the scum of the earth' but included a cross section of working-class men, who retained their former civilian cultu...

Reducere. This volume offers accounts of the many battles and skirmishes in the Great Sioux War as they were observed by participating officers, enlisted men...

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. In January 1868, a Union veteran named Gilbert Bates set out from his Wisconsin farm for Vicksburg, Mississippi, to prove a point and win a bet: th...

The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served ...

Reducere. When it comes to veteran mental health, there are some preconceived notions about what it means. After over a decade and a half of sustained combat...

The annals of the First World War record the Argonne Forest as the epicenter of the famous Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918. The largest American op...

Reducere. Anglo-Boer War Blockhouses is a fresh analytical look at how the construction of over 9, 000 small fortifications during the Anglo-Boer War sought ...

Reducere. When above-the-knee amputeeswalk, we generate seven to nine times the force of our body weight right into the point where the prosthesis meets our ...

Set in occupied Paris, this epic, powerful story of love, retribution and atonement sheds light on the events of Liberation and its aftermath. A no...

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. George Mergenthaler, the grandson of the inventor of the Linotpye, was an only child and at the time of his birth in 1920, became the sole male hei...

DescriptionIn the year AD 9, three Roman legions were crushed by the German warlord Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. This event is w...

Publisher: University Press of FloridaAuthor(s): Rodney CarlisleIllustration(s): IllustrationsNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2011Dimensions:...

About the AuthorDon Troiani is well known for his extremely accurate historical and military paintings, scenes of great characters and grand action...

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...

Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Ruth DruartPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 233 x 35Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul...

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...

Life During the Revolutionary War, Hardcover