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Schiffer Publishing Ltd J. Howard Werts Gettysburg
Book SynopsisJ. Howard Wert was a recent college graduate when the armies of the North and South converged near his family''s homestead just three miles outsideGettysburg in the summer of 1863. A militia member and anti-slavery supporter,Wert acted as a guide forUnion General George Meade, helpingposition federal troops in the fields and hills around town.Perhaps more importantly, hecollectedand labeled artifacts from the battle, including a still-hot Confederate shell that almost hit him near Little Round Top. After the war, Wert resumedgathering relics of the three-day battle, many given to him by veterans of both sides,including weapons, clothing, letters, furniture, and even items relatedto Lincoln''s Address. Now this amazing private collection can be appreciated through more than 120 color pictures and informative text about both the items and Wert''s life.
£28.79
Baker Publishing Group Sounding Forth the Trumpet 18371860
Book SynopsisSounding Forth the Trumpet brings to life one of the most crucial epochs in America's history--the events leading up to and precipitating the Civil War.
£30.38
Johns Hopkins University Press Civil War Ironclads
Book SynopsisContrary to widespread belief, Roberts concludes, the ironclad program set Navy shipbuilding back a generation.Trade ReviewAn important study of institutional response to a new technology that holds lessons for today. Choice 2003 In this impressively researched and broadly conceived study, William Roberts offers the first comprehensive study of one of the most ambitious programs in the history of naval shipbuilding, the Union's ironclad program during the Civil War. Perhaps more importantly, Roberts also provides an invaluable framework for understanding and analyzing military-industrial relations, an insightful commentary on the military acquisition process, and a cautionary tale on the perils of the pursuit of perfection and personal recognition. -- Robert Angevine Journal of Military History Well researched... Any Civil War scholar or naval historian, regardless of specialty, will find something of interest in the volume. -- James E. Sefton History: Reviews of New Books Well-conceived and well-written... One of the strengths of the book is the author's comparison of ironclad-building efforts with modern military-industrial efforts such as the Polaris Fleet Ballistic missile program. -- David Surdam EH.Net Roberts does an excellent job detailing the rise and fall of the [monitor-building] programs, including the major design elements and changes that contributed to the debacle. He skillfully weaves in the key operations that disclosed the monitors' shortcomings... Every major character involved is presented... Civil War Ironclads is an excellent addition to the literature of the period. -- Donald L. Canney Nautical Research Journal 2003 Roberts's study, illuminating on many fronts, is a welcome addition to our understanding of the Union's industrial mobilization during the Civil War and its inadvertent effects on the postwar U.S. Navy. -- William M. McBride Technology and Culture 2004 [A] readable and well-researched account of Civil War ironclad production. -- Benjamin Franklin Cooling Journal of American History 2004 This is an important book that should be in the library of all those interested in the Civil War at sea. -- Spencer C. Tucker North and South 2004 A valuable read for the specialist in Civil War navies. NYMAS Review 2008 Civil War Ironclads could easily be a case study to accompany any text in the history of technology or management. Anyone concerned with managing complex technology, of which building warships is still among the most complex, will be able to apply lessons learned. -- Kathy Crewdson and Ian Dew The Northern Mariner 2007Table of ContentsContents: List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1 "I Have Shouldered This Fleet" - Gustavus Fox and "Monitor Mania" 2 Forging the Fleet - Alban C. Stimers and the Passaic Project 3 The Navy Looks West 4 Mobilization on the Ohio River 5 Miserable Failures - Combat Lessons and Political Engineering 6 A Million of Dollars - The Price of "Continuous Improvement" 7 Progress Retarded - The Harbor and River Monitors, 1863-1864 8 The Sudden Destruction of Bright Hopes - The Downfall of the General Inspector 9 Good for Fifty Years - Winding Down the Mobilization 10 Additions, Alterations, and Improvements - Reversing Technological Momentum Appendix Tabular Data for Passaic- and Tippecanoe-Class Monitors Abbreviations Notes Essay on Sources Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Fragile Fabric of Union Cotton Federal
Book SynopsisThe story he tells reveals the opportunities and costs of cotton production for the Lower South and the United States.Trade ReviewSchoen has written an immensely important history of southern political economy, one that is destined to be prominent in future studies of the Old South. -- James L. Huston Civil War Book Review 2010 Schoen's chronological approach in five chapter develops his arguments and does a masterful job of keeping the focus on cotton, its politics, its exploitation of slaves, and ultimately the self-delusions of the cotton states vis-a-vis the world... An excellent book on all counts. Highly recommended. Choice 2010 A sophisticated, nuanced analysis of elite political-economic rhetoric in the antebellum South. -- Lawrence A. Peskin North Carolina Historical Review 2010 In sure-footed fashion, Brian Schoen guides the reader through overlooked issues in the oft-told account of southern secession. -- Frank J. Byrne Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 2010 Students of the causes of the Civil War should read The Fragile Fabric of Union. It is well written and extensively documented... The author brings the issues to life by illustrating how economic self interested colored the views of the South to the point that it was willing to sunder the Union and go to war. -- Stephen Donnelly Historical Journal of Massachusetts 2010 I found myself reading this book in light of current events. Schoen does a good job pointing out that legislative victors may rue their triumph, while losers may inadvertently reap benefits from loathed legislation... The book is clearly written. -- David G. Surdam Journal of Economic History 2010 Impressive... Adds an intriguing new dimension to ongoing debates about the nature of southern economic development, what motivated southern states to secede, why they seceded when they did, and ultimately what caused the Civil War. -- Beth English American Historical Review 2010 In this provocative book, he forces historians who have not done so already to discount 'Lost Cause' lore and pay greater attention to southerners who thought they could use their monopoly in raw cotton as leverage to advance the interests of their region in the larger world. -- Glenn C. Altschuler Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2010 An important contribution to the reinterpretation of plantation slavery and the origins of the U.S. Civil War... A lucidly written, richly researched, and convincing analysis of the global forces that shaped the politics of the southern slaveholders. -- Charles Post Journal of American History There is much to admire in Brian Schoen's ambitious new book... A remarkable scholarly debut that represents one of the most important studies of 'why the South fought' to be released in over a generation. -- Scott P. Marler Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2009 Schoen's readable prose deserves a wide audience. His explanations of tariffs and other economic issues are clear, and he has admirable command of a wide range of political and economic subjects (both domestically and in foreign relations). This book will be a welcome addition to the bookshelf of any scholar of the antebellum era. -- Aaron W. Marrs Technology and Culture 2011 Schoen extends the transatlantic dimensions of this era; just as the politics of slavery were shaped by developments in the Caribbean and Europe, so too did the political economy of cotton stretch throughout the Atlantic world. This book should be read by all those interested in broadening their understanding of both the Atlantic world of the nineteenth century and the coming of the American Civil War. -- Ed Rugemer H-CivWar, H-Net Reviews Schoen challenges previous studies and underscores the impact of external global economics as a primary cause of the Civil War. This contention is likely to stir controversy and healthy debate. -- Michael Russert Civil War News 2010 Schoen's Fragile Fabric commendably sheds renewed light on the conflict's origins at the local, sectional, and transatlantic level. -- Marc-William Palen Southern Historian 2011Table of ContentsSeries Editor's ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPrologue, 1781. The Threads of a Global Loom: Cotton, Slavery, and Union in an Interdependent Atlantic, 1789–1820Cotton, Empire, and NationThe Formation of a Transatlantic Cotton InterestCotton's "Revolution" and Its Limits2. Calculating the Cost of Union: Nationalism and Sectionalism in a Republican Era, 1796–1818The Cotton South and a Republican Coalition of "Equals""The Honor of Bearing It Best": Cotton, Commercial Warfare, and WarPeace Abroad, Dissension at Home: Republicans Active and Passive3. Protecting Slavery and Free Trade: The Political Economy of Cotton, 1818– 1833Panic and ProtectionCotton and a Harmonious Domestic and International Division of Labor"Unequal" Protection under the Law and Cotton's Minority Status4. Building Bridges to the West and the World: Empowerment and Anxiety in the Second Party System, 1834–1848Publishing the "Banns" of Marriage: The Search for Lower South Commercial AdvancementAmerican Proslavery Thought in the Age of British AbolitionThe Second Party System in the Cotton South5. An Unnatural Union: King Cotton and Lower South Secession, 1849– 1860Economic Advancement in an Age of Democratic AscendanceConverting Friends to Enemies and Enemies to Friends: The Search for Natural AlliesRealists Decide: Election and SecessionEpilogue, 1861NotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Officer Nurse Woman
Book SynopsisOfficer, Nurse, Woman brings to light the nearly forgotten contributions of brave nurses who risked their lives to bring medical care to soldiers during a terrible-and divisive-war.Trade ReviewVuic offers an important new contribution to how we understand women's participation in the U.S. military after World War II. -- Tanya L. Roth H-Minerva, H-Net Reviews 2010 Vuic's book is important reading for anyone wanting a more thorough understanding of more than just the Vietnam War or nursing history. Its relevance also encompasses enduring complexities of gender, cultural representations, and collective memory. Highly recommended. Choice 2010 Utilizing a feminist paradigm, Kara Dixon Vuic's evocative and unique dissection of the collective gender experiences of Army Nurse Corps officers in Vietnam and its aftermath breaks new ground in the history of military nursing... I found Officer, Nurse, Woman quite intriguing. I can unreservedly recommend it as a valuable addition to the literature documenting nurse participation in the Vietnam War. -- Mary T. Sarnecky, DNSc, RN Nursing History Review 2011 Excellent study... The strength of this book is Vuic's main source: nurses who served in Vietnam... Officer, Nurse,Woman enriches a growing body of literature on second-wave feminism's broad impact and successfully challenges and complicates the dominant narrative of military history and destabilizes familiar categories-especially our notions about women and war. -- Susan Gelfand Malka Journal of American History 2010 A well researched, well written account that will be used by professors and students who wish to understand better the complexity of gendered military service. -- D'Ann Campbell Journal of Military History Provides an important foundation for understanding how military women reflect social and cultural gender roles, how institutions respond to and influence gender norms, and how the response shapes and challenges our understanding of citizenship and nation... Vuic's book will be important for scholars of the time period as well as those interested in gender, women's work, nursing history, and the military. -- Julie Fairman Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2010 The best one volume treatment available that integrates the personal experiences of nurses with a nuanced understanding of social, political, military, gender, and women's history alongside feminist theory. Minerva: Women and War This is a wonderful book, chock full of oral history and riveting personal stories. It makes a meaningful contribution to Vietnam War and twentieth-century gender historiography. -- Penelope Adams Moon Historian 2011Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: "Lady, you're in the army now"1. "The Bright Adventure of Army Nursing": Meeting Nursing Demands for the Vietnam War2. "An officer and a gentleman": Gender and a Changing Army3. "A wonderful, horrible experience": Nursing Education and Practice4. "Helmets and hair curlers": Gender and Wartime Nursing5. "I'm afraid we're going to have to just change our ways": Wives, Mothers, and Pregnant Nurses in the Army6. "You mean we get women over here?": Gender and Sexuality in the War Zone7. "Not All Women Wore Love Beads in the Sixties": Postwar Depictions of Vietnam War NursesConclusion: Officers, Nurses, and WomenNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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Random House USA Inc Legend
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MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Entertaining History
Book SynopsisPopular media can spark the national consciousness in a way that captures people's attention, interests them in history, and inspires them to visit historic sites. This collection of essays and feature stories celebrates the popular media that have enticed Americans to learn more about the country’s most dramatic historical era.Trade Review“Brisk and lively, the essays in Entertaining History convey the immersive joy of reading, watching, and listening to popular Civil War history.”—Megan Kate Nelson, author of Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War “The contributors to this volume have written an engaging collection of short essays introducing readers to many of the key works of literature, film, and music that influence how we remember the Civil War.”—Christian McWhirter, author of Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War
£19.76
Random House USA Inc Independence Lost Lives on the Edge of the
Book SynopsisA rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society Winner of the Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year Award • Winner of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey History Prize • Finalist for the George Washington Book Prize Over the last decade, award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal has revitalized the study of early America’s marginalized voices. Now, in Independence Lost, she recounts an untold story as rich and significant as that of the Founding Fathers: the history of the Revolutionary Era as experienced by slaves, American Indians, women, and British loyalists living on Florida’s Gulf Coast. While citizens of the thirteen rebelling colonies came to blows with the British Empire over tariffs and parliamentary representation, the situation o
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The University Press of Kentucky Replacing France The Origins of American
Book SynopsisUsing recently released archival materials, Replacing France explains how and why the United States came to assume control as the dominant western power in Vietnam during the 1950s.Trade ReviewFresh and important. Statler provides persuasive answers to some of the key questions about the decisions that led the United States into Vietnam. - Mark Atwood Lawrence, author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in VietnamTable of ContentsIntroduction 'A Most Disagreeable Mirror': Race Consciousness as Double Consciousness The Race of a More Perfect Union: James Baldwin, Segregated Memory, and the 2008 Presidential Race James Baldwin and the Politics of Disconnection What William F. Buckley Jr. Did Not Understand About James Baldwin: On Baldwin's Politics of Freedom Baldwin, Prophecy, and Politics The Negative Political Theology of James Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain: James Baldwin and the Politics of Faith Socrates in a Different Key: James Baldwin and Race in America Crossing Identitarian Lines: Women's Liberation and James Baldwin's Early Essays 'Where the People Can Sing, the Poet Can Live': James Baldwin, Pragmatism, and Cosmopolitan Humanism Baldwin's Individualism and Critique of Property James Baldwin on Violence and Disavowal James Baldwin and #BlackLivesMatter Tell Him I'm Gone: On the Margins in High Tech City
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The University Press of Kentucky History Teaches Us to Hope Reflections on the
Book SynopsisCharles Pierce Roland ranks as one of the most distinguished and respected historians of the Civil War and the American South.Trade ReviewCharles Roland is one of the most eminent historians of our time. These essays go far in explaining why he is held in such high esteem. - James I. Robertson Jr., author of Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Soldier, The Legend
£48.71
The University Press of Kentucky The War That Never Ends New Perspectives on the
Book SynopsisThe War That Never Ends sheds new light on the evolving historical meanings of the Vietnam War, its enduring influence on current matters of global significance, and its potential to influence American foreign policy, in times of peace and war.Trade ReviewThese excellent essays by some of the leading historians of the war represent the best of the new international history - reassessing traditional interpretations, exploring new questions and neglected aspects of the conflict, and drawing on extensive research in recently accessible archival material in Vietnam and elsewhere. - Andrew L. Johns, coeditor of The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War ""Does an excellent job posing and answering the question of why Vietnam still matters and why it will remain the 'war that never ends'."" - Kathryn C. Statler, author of Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam
£56.62
The University Press of Kentucky Striking Back Combat in Korea MarchApril 1951
Book SynopsisStriking Back: Combat in Korea, March-April 1951 is the second book in a three-volume series about the Korean War, examining the fighting that occurred during the late winter and early spring of the war's first year.
£60.71
The University Press of Kentucky My Old Confederate Home A Respectable Place for
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The University Press of Kentucky Lincoln on Trial Southern Civilians and the Law
Book SynopsisCarnahan specifically scrutinizes Lincoln's conduct toward Southerners in light of the international legal standards of his time as the president wrestled with issues that included bombardment of cities, collateral damage to civilians, seizure and destruction of property, forced relocation, and the slaughter of hostages.
£14.00
The University Press of Kentucky A General Who Will Fight
Book SynopsisWhen it was most crucial, Grant demonstrated his integrity, determination, and tactical skill by taking control of the Union troops and leading his forces to victory.A General Who Will Fight is a detailed study of leadership that explores Grant's rise from undisciplined cadet to commanding general of the United States Army.
£30.40
The University Press of Kentucky Team 19 in Vietnam An Australian Soldier at War
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£32.00
The University Press of Kentucky Lincoln Seward and US Foreign Relations in the
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The University Press of Kentucky George Rogers Clark and William Croghan
Book SynopsisCroghan's marriage to Lucy Clark, George Rogers Clark's sister, solidified his position in society. Croghan remained at Clark's side throughout it all, even as he prospered in the new world they had fought to create, while Clark languished.
£27.00
The University Press of Kentucky Confederate Citadel
Book SynopsisRichmond, Virginia: pride of the founding fathers, doomed capital of the Confederate States of America. Confederate Citadel: Richmond and Its People at War offers a detailed portrait of life's daily hardships in the rebel capital during the Civil War.
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University of Virginia Press Civil War Petersburg Confederate City in the
Book SynopsisFew wartime cities in Virginia held more importance than Petersburg. On the eve of the Civil War, the city elected a conservative, pro-Union approach to the sectional crisis. This book provides a study of this city, looking at both Petersburg's civilian experience and the city's place in Confederate military strategy and administration.
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. NATO in the Crucible
Book SynopsisWhen the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) became involved in security operations during the War in Afghanistan, it faced a range of complex challenges, including a highly motivated Afghan insurgency that changed over time and repeatedly defied assumptions. Conflicts within NATO also posed challenges. The alliance brought together a quarter of the world's nations, each with its own goals and interests, in an effort to stabilize an agrarian country that posed no immediate security threat. For more than a decade, through changes in leadership and strategy, the nations experienced bitter disagreements, resentments, and a conflict that escalated to a level of violence and uncertainty few had anticipated. In NATO in the Crucible, Deborah Lynn Hanagan analyzes these challenges and explains how the alliance maintained cohesion despite them. She examines why NATO succeeded in Afghanistan when history suggests most coalitions fracture under such intense pressure. In the end, she arg
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WW Norton & Co Confederate Soldier of the American Civil War
Book SynopsisThis book provides a glimpse at the lives, weapons, and equipment of these soldiers through a collection of artifacts and exacting reproductions.
£11.39
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Americas Civil War
Book SynopsisSuch is the continuing volume of work on the Civil War that we are regularly in need of an authoritative and accessible brief synthesis to keep us up to date with this endlessly fascinating subject. Brooks Simpson meets that need for the 1990s in America''s Civil War, a wonderful feat of compression in which he addresses all the great issues of the war in 200 pages of clear and readable prose. Rightly, he puts the military history of the conflict at the center of the picture, but he excels in relating the drama of the war itself to the politics of both Union and Confederacy, to the stresses and strains-and opportunities-of the home front, and to the great issues of emancipation and reconstruction. This book is a fine achievement, and it will be invaluable not only to students but to many other readers-and even Civil War specialists will benefit from its fresh insights.Peter J. Parish, Cambridge UniversityTrade Review"Sensible, well-written, and thoroughly grounded in the most recent scholarship, America's Civil War is the best short synthesis of the subject available." —Mark Grimsley, Ohio State University "This book is a fine achievement, and it will be invaluable not only to students but to many other readers—and even Civil War specialists will benefit from its fresh insights." —Peter J. Parish "Simpson has written a lively and interpretive history of the US Civil War. Based on a mastery of the secondary literature, Simpson's narrative weaves the political, military, and social history of this significant period." (CHOICE, September 1996) "This work finally condenses the story of the War to a manageable size for the beginner and student alike. ...Written in a clear, concise manner, this book belongs on the book shelves of any collector of writings on the Civil War." (The Cincinnati Civil War Round Table, November 1996) "Students looking for a condensed, clear, and evenhanded summary of a particular campaign would do well to consult this volume. ...America's Civil War will be a useful supplemental reading in survey courses and a solid short text for courses on the war itself. Occupying an important niche between the single-chapter accounts of the American history textbooks and much longer single-volume treatments...Simpson's book admirably fulfills the goals of the American History Series." (Civil War History, June 1997)Table of ContentsForeword VII Preface and Acknowledgments XII Introduction: On Understanding the Civil War 1 Chapter One: Secession and the First Shot 7 Secession 9 The First Shot 21 Chapter Two: War Begins 24 Mobilizing For Conflict 25 War Aims 31 The First Battles 37 The European Response 45 Chapter Three: The Limited War 49 Forts Henry and Donelson 50 Shiloh 53 Rebels Resurgents in Virginia 57 Confederate Escalation 66 Chapter Four: War Becomes Revolution 70 Toward Emancipation 71 Confederate Counteroffensives: Lee Moves North 80 Confederate Counteroffensives: Perryville, Iuka, and Corinth 87 Emancipation and Elections 89 Union Battlefield Standoffs and Rebuffs 94 Chapter Five: Gambles Won and Lost 100 Chancellorsville 101 Vicksburg and Gettysburg 105 Chickamauga and Chattanooga 114 The Impact of Emancipation 120 Chapter Six: The Home Front 130 The Folks Back Home 131 The Northern Economy and War Effort 137 The Southern Economy and War Effort 141 Politics and Society: The North 145 Politics and Society: The South 152 Wartime Reconstruction: Early Steps 157 Chapter Seven: The Campaigns of 1864 162 Grant’s Grand Design 163 The Wilderness Campaigns 166 The Atlanta Campaign 175 Lincoln’s Bid for Reelection 177 Victory on the Battlefield and at the Ballot Box 183 Chapter Eight: Victory and Defeat 188 Sherman’s March to the Sea 189 Fort Fisher and the March through the Carolinas 194 Emancipation, Reconstruction, and Peace Proposals 197 From Richmond to Appomattox 201 Foundations for Peace 206 Conclusion: Why the Union Won 213 Bibliographical Essay 221 Index 233 Maps: Major Campaigns of the Civil War 35 Campaigns in the West, February to April 1862 52 The Peninsula Campaign 1862 64 Campaigns in Virginia and Maryland, August to December 1862 82 War in the East, 1863 103 The Vicksburg Campaign, April to July 1863 108 Grant vs. Lee 168 Campaigns in the West, 1864-65 190
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The New Left
Book SynopsisIn his latest publication, William L. O'Neill presents a concise critical history of the New Left, the thinking, people, and events that helped shape the 1960s in America, and its principal heir, the Academic Left.Table of ContentsForeword V Preface IX Chapter One: The Rise of SDS 1 Birth of the New Left 3 SDS Takes the Stage 7 Chapter Two: SDS: Decline and Fall 28 Chapter Three: Hippies and Yippies 45 The Counterculture 45 The Yippies 46 HUAC and The Yippies 54 The End of the Yippies 57 Chapter Four: Fadeout 60 Why the New Left Failed 66 Chapter Five: The Academic Left 79 Speech Codes 84 Multiculturalism 89 Affirmative Action 92 Sexual Harassment 100 Postmodernism 103 Conclusion 106 Bibliography Essay 11 Index 117
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Presidio Press Platoon Leader
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Presidio Press A Life In A Year The American Infantryman in
Book SynopsisThis provocative in-depth book focuses on the experiences of the infantry soldier in Vietnam. More than 60 Army and Marine Corps infantrymen speak of their experiences during their year-long tours of duty.
£9.15
Random House Publishing Group Blood Trails The Combat Diary of a Foot Soldier
Book SynopsisBAPTISM BY FIREChris Ronnau volunteered for the Army and was sent to Vietnam in January 1967, armed with an M-14 rifle and American Express traveler’s checks. But the latter soon proved particularly pointless as the private first class found himself in the thick of two pivotal, fiercely fought Big Red One operations, going head-to-head against crack Viet cong and NVA troops in the notorious Iron Triangle and along the treacherous Cambodian border near Tay Ninh.Patrols, ambushes, plunging down VC tunnels, search and destroy missions-there were many ways to drive the enemy from his own backyard, as Ronnau quickly discovered. Based on the journal Ronnau kept in Vietnam, Blood Trails captures the hellish jungle war in all its stark life-and-death immediacy. This wrenching chronicle is also stirring testimony to the quiet courage of those unsung American heroes, many not yet twenty-one, who had a job to do and did it without complaint-fighting, sacrificing, and dying f
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Sourcebooks Fire The Civil War
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St Martin's Press The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley
Book SynopsisA New York Times notable book of 2023 A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography[An] erudite, enlightening new biography . . . [Waldstreicher's] interpretations equal Wheatley's own intentional verse, making it a joy to follow along as he unpacks her words and their arrangement. Tiya Miles, The AtlanticThoroughly researched, beautifully rendered and cogently argued . . . The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley is [. . .] historical biography at its best. Kerri Greenidge, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)A paradigm-shattering biography of Phillis Wheatley, whose extraordinary poetry set African American literature at the heart of the American Revolution.Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slav
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WW Norton & Co Napoleon A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows
Book SynopsisMarking the 200th anniversary of his death, Napoleon is an unprecedented portrait of the emperor told through his engagement with the natural world.Trade Review"Beautiful.... It is an adjustment to think of Napoleon as a cultivator rather than as a conqueror, a planter rather than a planner. But such ambivalences are precisely Ms. Scurr’s métier.... The mountain of biographies written about the 'Little Corporal' must, at this point, be higher than the Alps he famously crossed in 1800, but her horticultural angle allows Ms. Scurr to tell the endlessly fascinating story of his life anew: not as a megalomaniac’s power-hungry ascent to temporary glory but as the constantly frustrated reaching for the plenitude and happiness that Joséphine’s found in her garden." -- Christoph Irmscher - Wall Street Journal"An elegant prose stylist, Scurr is above all a fabulous historian, and a vivid storyteller with a novelist’s eye for engaging detail. With the exception of the Battle of Waterloo—the most significant fighting of which took place over a garden at Hougoumont—the wars in this book occur largely offstage. Napoleon emerges not in his warrior guise but in his full humanity... History’s palimpsest emerges in these pages too, through Scurr’s accounts of modern-day places shaped by Napoleon’s vision: while his empire is the stuff of history books, his legacy as a landscape genius endures." -- Claire Messud - Harper’s Magazine"Scurr has ingeniously somehow found an entirely new prism through which to view Napoleon... Dr Scurr takes the opportunity to discourse on numerous aspects of Napoleon and the natural world, and has ultimately produced a somewhat eccentric but immensely satisfying and captivating book... 'There is always something new to say,' Scurr says of Napoleon, 'no matter how many regiments of biographers have marched across the same ground.' With this charming and intelligent book about a hitherto entirely unexamined aspect of the Bonapartist epic, she persuades us of this comforting truth." -- Andrew Roberts - Times Literary Supplement"Improbably glorious and exceptionally herbaceous.... Scurr, lecturer in history and politics at Cambridge university, has achieved something remarkable: a completely original book on a completely unoriginal subject. But then she is herself a truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive.... Marvellous." -- Simon Schama - Financial Times"The Cambridge historian Ruth Scurr brings shades of subtletly and nuance to a life well known, telling Napoleon’s story through his love of nature and the gardens. A brilliantly original biographer of Robespierre – briefly Napopleon’s ally – and of John Aubrey, Scurr has attributes too often missing among her contemporaries. She can write, beautifully : and she casts a cold eye on proceedings, unfazed by previous adoration or condemnation of her subject…. Grippingly original." -- Paul Lay, The Sunday Times [UK]"Scurr’s is an approach that pays some real dividends [of] rich details [and] fresh perspectives." -- David Crane - The Spectator"Looking at Bonaparte through the lens of his passion for gardens brings out new and fascinating details about his life, including his love of science and engineering, his obsession with botany and especially his desire to stamp order upon an unruly natural and political world.... Scurr is well known for her inventive and absorbing biographies.... A rewarding book that gives intriguing and novel insight into a man about whom we thought everything had already been said." -- Deborah Mason - Bookpage"Even readers well-versed in Napoleon’s rise and fall will learn something new from this gracefully written and imaginatively conceived portrait." -- Publishers Weekly"A diligent historian, Scurr does not ignore the wars and politics that dominated Napoleon’s life, and she concludes with a vivid account of the battle of Waterloo, in which the chateau of Hougoumont, with its 'high garden walls,' played a central role . . . A wealth of natural history and a fine Napoleon biography." -- Kirkus Reviews"Scurr. . . uses her signal strength as biographer. . . Scurr’s vivid writing helps to convey a visual portrait . . . [and] presents an unusual perspective on the life of the general." -- David Keymer - Library Journal"If you read just one biography this year, make it Ruth Scurr’s brilliant and original exploration of Napoleon’s life as an amateur gardener. Everything makes sense once you realize this was a man obsessed with making nature go his way." -- Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire"From Napoleon’s first garden as a schoolboy to his last on Saint Helena, Ruth Scurr takes us on a journey filled with unexpected new vistas on a familiar life. Napoleon: A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows foregrounds his passion for science and love of the natural world. The result is a refreshing, engaging read." -- Victoria Johnson, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of American Eden"Ruth Scurr’s imaginative take on Napoleon’s life serves up fascinating insights into the man’s behavior and motivations, as well as an illuminating account of those around him. The gardening angle is fresh and perfectly developed; to garden is to control and manipulate, an empire builder does the same." -- Penelope Lively"It is hard to find fresh things to say about Napoleon, but Ruth Scurr has managed it. . . . No one interested in Napoleon will fail to discover here something unknown or unexpected." -- William Doyle, professor emeritus of history at the University of Bristol and author of The Oxford History of the French Revolution"A pleasure to read. . . . Ruth Scurr’s sharp perception opens new vistas in the extensive landscape of Napoleon’s boundlessly curious mind." -- Sue Prideaux, author of I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche"Ruth Scurr gives us a captivating, original perspective on a man too often simplified as a glorious—or vainglorious—emperor on horseback. Her sparkling book reminds us of Napoleon’s human frailties and, above all, that he was also a man of science fascinated by the order, diversity, and richness of the plant world." -- Peter McPhee, author of Liberty or Death: The French Revolution
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Fighting for Napoleon
Book SynopsisA rare insight into the lives of Napoleonic soldiers taken from over 1,600 letters, most of which have never been published before.
£20.61
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Napoleonic Dads Army
Book SynopsisA book that explores what is often described as the Dad’s Army of the Napoleonic Wars.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Redcoats of Wellingtons Light Division in the
Book SynopsisEssential addition to every Peninsular War library.
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Amberley Publishing Through Spain with Wellington
Book SynopsisWith background information and commentary provided by expert Adrian Greenwood, meticulously footnoted, this is a worthy addition to the literature of the Napoleonic Wars.Trade Review‘One of the most revealing first-hand accounts of life in Wellington’s army to be discovered for many years.’ -- Rory Muir, author of Wellington
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Pelican Publishing Co. Bushwhacker Belles
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History Press Potomac Marble
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£20.39
The University of North Carolina Press Rebel Richmond Life and Death in the Confederate
Book SynopsisIn the spring of 1861, Richmond, Virginia, suddenly became the capital city, military headquarters, and industrial engine of a new nation fighting for its existence. In Rebel Richmond, Stephen Ash vividly evokes life in Richmond as war consumed the Confederate capital.Trade ReviewDeeply researched, revealing, and compelling. . . . Will set the standard for other much-needed intensive, close-up examinations of what the Civil War meant on the ground.--Library Journal
£30.36
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Mystery of Missing Flight FBELV
Book SynopsisThe Mystery of Missing Flight F-BELV, believed to be the only aircraft never to have been recovered from the Vietnam War.
£19.99
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Eyewitness Korea
Book SynopsisVivid first-hand accounts of American and British soldiers in the front line of the Korean War, giving insight into their recruitment, training, casualties and captivity as well as combat experience.
£25.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Air War Over North Vietnam: Operation Rolling
Book SynopsisIn early 1965 the United States unleashed the largest sustained aerial bombing campaign since World War II, against North Vietnam. Through an ever-escalating onslaught of destruction, Operation Rolling Thunder intended to signal America's unwavering commitment to its South Vietnamese ally in the face of continued North Vietnamese aggression, break Hanoi's political will to prosecute the war, and bring about a negotiated settlement to the conflict. It was not to be. Against the backdrop of the Cold War and fears of widening the conflict into a global conflagration, Washington policymakers micromanaged and mismanaged the air campaign and increasingly muddled strategic objectives and operational methods that ultimately sowed the seeds of failure, despite the heroic sacrifices by U.S. Air Force and Navy pilots and crews Despite flying some 306,000 combat sorties and dropping nearly 650,000 tons of ordnance on North Vietnam - more than that used in the Pacific theater during World War II - Operation Rolling Thunder failed to drive Hanoi decisively to the negotiating table and end the war. That would take another four years and another air campaign.
£14.99
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo 1810 and 1812: The
Book SynopsisThe area astride the Spanish/Portuguese border between the respective fortresses of Ciudad Rodrigo and Almeida was the focus of the Peninsular War for much of the period from the autumn of 1809 through until 1812\. The fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo that dominated the country between the Rivers Agueda and Coa, was one of the 'Keys to Spain' for any army attacking either east or west across the frontier. With the defeat of the Fifth Coalition at Wagram in 1809, Napoleon was free to turn his attention to the rebellious Iberian Peninsula and the small British Army. Tasking a reluctant Marshal Massena to 'throw the leopard into sea', preparations started for what proved to be a protracted and lacklustre siege. Marshal Ney, however, champed at the bit and wanted to press on with the invasion and despite an increasing tempo of outpost actions, such as the renowned affair at Barbra del Puerco, Napoleon in attempting to control events from Paris, insisted on an orderly siege. With the fall of Ciudad Rodrigo, Craufurd's Light Division remained covering the Army's frontage but after a superbly conducted withdrawal, Craufurd's judgement erred and he was force into a costly fighting withdrawal to the River Coa. The British now fell back into Portugal but by Spring 1811 they were back and with Napoleon stripping troops from the Peninsular Wellington could prepare to invade Spain and besiege Ciudad Rodrigo Preparations for the siege were almost complete in December 1811, when further troops were stripped from Marshal Marmont, an opportunity to presented itself for a lightening operation to take Ciudad Rodrigo in the 1812 siege, which was of very different character.
£23.75
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Bombing Campaign North Vietnam: Volume II:
Book SynopsisOn March 30, 1972 some 30,000 North Vietnamese troops along with tanks and heavy artillery surged across the demilitarized zone into South Vietnam in the opening round of Hanoi's Easter Offensive. By early May South Vietnamese forces were on the ropes and faltering. Without the support of U.S. combat troops - who were in their final stage of withdrawing from the country - the Saigon government was in danger of total collapse and with it any American hope of a negotiated settlement to the war. In response, President Richard Nixon called for an aggressive, sustained bombardment of North Vietnam. Code-named Operation Linebacker I, the interdiction effort sought to stem the flow of men and material southward, as well as sever all outside supply lines in the first new bombing of the North Vietnamese heartland in nearly four years. To meet the American air armada, North Vietnamese MiG fighters took to the skies and surface-to-missiles and anti-aircraft fire filled the air from May to October over Hanoi and Haiphong. With the failure of its Easter Offensive to achieve military victory, Hanoi reluctantly returned to the negotiating table in Paris. However, as the peace talks teetered on the edge of collapse in mid-December 1972, Nixon played his trump card: Operation Linebacker II. The resulting twelve-day Christmas bombing campaign from 18-30 December unleashed the full wrath of American air power. More than 2,200 attack sorties, including 724 B-52 sorties alone, were flown by Air Force and Navy aircraft delivering 15,287 tons of bombs that laid waste to the North Vietnamese capital. Railyards, military storage depots, power stations, and bridges, as well as radar and communication sites, airfields, and anti-aircraft defences were pummelled day and night. Linebacker II would prove to be decisive: a ceasefire agreement was signed on 23 January 1973.
£14.99
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Anglo-Boer War in 100 Objects
Book SynopsisThe Anglo-Boer War in 100 Objects brings the victories and the tragedies-and the full extent of the human drama behind this war-to life through 100 iconic artefacts. While a Mafeking siege note helps to illustrate the acute shortages caused by the siege, a spade used by a Scottish soldier at Magersfontein and the boots of a Boer soldier who died at Spion Kop tell of the severity of some of the famous battles. The book follows the course of the war but also highlights specific themes, such as British and Boer weaponry, medical services and POW camps, as well as major figures on both sides. The text is interspersed with striking historical images from the museum's photographic collection. More than 200 additional objects have been included to help tell the story of a conflict that left an indelible mark on the South African landscape.
£29.90
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Napoleon's Downfall: Madame Recamier and Her
Book SynopsisNapoleon Bonaparte and Juliette Recamier were both highly influential and well-known in France, yet they were often at odds with each other. Their story played out on the European stage during a period of political upheaval and new political ideas. Napoleon gained power in the aftermath of the French Revolution, and he would go from spectacular victories to dismal failure. His defeat in the early nineteenth century would result in Europe acquiring new national borders and with that Britain, Russia, and the United States would gain greater international influence. Juliette, on the other hand, wielded her own power. Because of the tumultuous French Revolution, noble and aristocratic landowners were being replaced by a new wealthy class in the private sector. Juliette and her husband were among the beneficiaries of this growing affluence and influence, and her power came from her new-found position in society. Juliette also viewed life differently than Napoleon. She saw life from the standpoint of a wealthy socialite whereas Napoleon's desires were always shaded by his military experiences and his meteoric rise to power. Along the way, Juliette would have to face the testy Emperor, and she would find that his own brother would fall for her. Even some of Napoleon's greatest enemies would woo her.
£23.83
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Vehicles and Heavy Weapons of the Vietnam War
Book SynopsisThe ground war in Vietnam pitted a myriad of American tanks, artillery, APC and trucks against not only the weapons of Communist North Vietnam, but also the terrain. Through archival images, the arsenal of the US Army and USMC are revisited. From the iconic M113 APC to the M48A3 tank, M551 Armored Reconnaissance/Airborne Assault Vehicle, M151 and M54 trucks, M50 Ontos, M107 and M109 artillery, and M42 Duster, the complete array of vehicles fielded is shown. This book, the first in a series on the US military's weapons, vehicles, aircraft, and naval vessels of the Vietnam War, offers a highly illustrated reference for this wishing to delve deeper into this conflict.
£25.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Inchon Landing: MacArthur's Korean War
Book SynopsisInchon, a dramatic Cold War event: in the first two volumes in the author's series on battles of the Korean War, North Korean ground forces, armour and artillery cross the 38th Parallel into South Korea, inflicting successive ignominious defeats on the ill-prepared US-led UN troops, pushing them ever southward into a tiny defensive enclave the Pusan Perimeter on the tip of the Korean Peninsula. General Douglas MacArthur, Second World War veteran of the South East Asia and Pacific theatres, meets with considerable resistance to his plans for a counteroffensive, from both Washington and his staff in South Korea and Japan: it is typhoon season, the approaches to the South Korean port city of Inch'?n are not conducive to amphibious assault, and it will leave the besieged Pusan Perimeter in great danger of being overrun. However, the controversial MacArthur's obstinate persistency prevails and, with a mere three weeks to go, the US X Corps is activated to execute the invasion on D-Day, 15 September 1950. Elements of the US Marine Corps land successfully on the scheduled day, and with the element of surprise on their side, immediately strike east to Seoul, only 15 miles away. The next day, General Walker's Eighth US Army breaks out of Pusan to complete the southerly envelopment of the North Korean forces. Seoul falls on the 25th. MacArthur's impulsive gamble has paid off, and the South Korean government moves back to their capital. The North Koreans have been driven north of the 38th Parallel, effectively bringing to an end their invasion of the south that started on 25 June 1950.
£17.90
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Logistics in the Vietnam Wars, 1945-1975
Book SynopsisThe combatants in the three Vietnam wars from 1945 to 1975 employed widely contrasting supply methods. This fascinating book reveals that basic traditional techniques proved superior to expensive state of the art systems. During the Indochina or French' war, France's initial use of wheeled transport and finally air supply proved vulnerable given the terrain, climate and communist adaptability . The colonial power gave up the unequal struggle after the catastrophic defeat at Dien Bien Phu. To stem the advance of Communism throughout the region, the Americans stepped in to support the pro-Western South Vietnam regime and threw vast quantities of manpower and money at the problem. The cost became increasingly unpopular at home. General Giap's and Ho Chi Minh's ruthless use of coolies most famously on the Ho Chi Minh Trail proved resistant to carpet-bombing and Agent Orange defoliation. The outcome of the final war between the Communist North Vietnam and the corrupt Southern leadership, now with minimal US support, was almost a forgone conclusion. The Author is superbly qualified to examine these three wars from the logistic perspective. His conclusions make for compelling reading and will be instructive to acting practitioners and enquiring minds.
£23.75
