The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies, Paperback - Peter S. Carmichael

Reducere. How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S...

Restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War. These essays complicate the standard distinctions between battlefront and homefron...

Reducere. Leonard investigates why these women chose unconventional ways to help their cause. In doing so, she gives us a striking portrait of the lives wome...

Reducere. In the summer of 1861, Americans were preoccupied by the question of which states would join the secession movement and which would remain loyal to...

The story of how Congress helped win the Civil War--a new perspective that puts the House and Senate, rather than Lincoln, at the center of the con...

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...

Tells the story of the women who were left alone after World War I - a remarkable generation of women who were changed by war; and in their turn he...

Reducere. This is the second volume of a projected four-volume work. In Volume I the author delineated the uniforms, arms, accouterments, and equipment of th...

In 1941, Sgt Albert Victor Ient sought adventure in the Services. Stationed in Hong Kong, he faced a different reality when his position was overru...

Reducere. Designed to accompany Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War, College Edition, by Elizabeth R. Varon, Sources for Armies of Delivera...

Reducere. Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzle history" (USA Today), tells the spellbinding t...

As 1862 dawned, the Civil War, the conflict that had started the year before and that most Americans thought would last only a few months, showed n...

As 1862 dawned, the Civil War, the conflict that had started the year before and that most Americans thought would last only a few months, showed n...

DescriptionThis book provides an overview of the history of allied medicine in the Great War. Based on both primary research and secondary literatu...

* A powerful and time-honoured collection of interviews with the veterans of Vietnam.

Reducere. In this riveting, character-driven history, one of our most respected historians traces the diseases in the public mind--the distortions of reality...

Reducere. The Negro's Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union, Paperback

Reducere. Reveals how the Rothschild Banking Dynasty fomented war and assassination attempts on 4 presidents in order to create the Federal Reserve Bank - Ex...

Reducere. The Kentuckian's of the Confederate ArmyThe Orphan Brigade was the nickname given to the First Kentucky Brigade―the largest brigade to be recruited...

Reducere. Some of the most dramatic and consequential events of the Civil War era took place in the South Carolina Lowcountry between Charleston and Savannah...

A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers Though both the Union and Confederate arm...

Publisher: Vintage CanadaAuthor(s): John BoykoIllustration(s): B&W ON TEXT STOCKNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 211 x 2...

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...

Lt. Gen. George S. Patton remarked that the "45th Infantry Division is one of the best, if not the best division that the American army has ever pr...

Reducere. DescriptionAn introduction the civil war for young readers.This book introduces readers (Grades 3-5) to the American Civil War, detailing the war's...

The inspirational story of how the most injured soldier from the Afghanistan conflict defied all odds by surviving, talking and walking again, and ...

The Russo-Japanese War was the first major conflict of the 20th century, as vast armies clashed in Manchuria incurring enormous casualties. This te...

About the AuthorBruce L. Brager, a graduate of George Washington University, is a writer who has ghostwritten dozens of books and published numerou...

Reducere. Amid the fearsome battles of the Civil War, both Union and Confederate soldiers were urged onward by song. There were songs to wake them up and son...

Gardening in wartime Britain was a part of the fight for freedom. This book tells the story of how Britain's wartime government encouraged and cajo...

Reducere. When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turne...

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...

DescriptionMichael Stephenson's Patriot Battles is a comprehensive and richly detailed study of the military aspects of the War of Independence, an...

DescriptionAgain and again British politicians, commentators and celebrities intone that 'The War on Drugs has failed'. They then say that this is ...

Reducere. Guerrilla warfare, border fights, and unorganized skirmishes are all too often the only battles associated with Missouri during the Civil War. Comb...

Reducere. In April of 1945, just before the end of the Second World War, Mexico sent an air contingent to fight shoulder-to-shoulder with the Allied Forces: ...

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...

Ron Davies' story is that of an ordinary soldier from Essex and his experiences, by turns amusing and harrowing, in the Second World War.Publisher:...

Reducere. German infantry during World War Two was the most highly trained infantry in the world. They trained hard and fought even harder. These individuals...