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How America Goes to War
Inbunden, 2005
877 kr
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With American involvement in Iraq in the forefront of national news coverage and in the minds of many citizens, questions concerning America's involvement in past conflicts have once again arisen. This is the story of how the United States has gone to war and how the evolution of the nation's …
1001 Things Everyone Should Know About WWII
E-bok, 2010
73 kr
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For the millions who want to know more about “The Greatest Generation” and the global struggle they fought and won, an essential work of popular reference. World War II was the most complex, geographically extensive, and momentous global conflict in human history–a subject uniquely suited to the …
How America Goes to War
E-bok, 2005
935 kr
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With American involvement in Iraq in the forefront of national news coverage and in the minds of many citizens, questions concerning America's involvement in past conflicts have once again arisen. This is the story of how the United States has gone to war and how the evolution of the nation's …
Rebel Brass
The Confederate Command System
Häftad, 1993
268 kr
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Throughout the years of its existence the Confederacy was caught up in a massive war effort that finally touched all elements of life in the South. In the way it was fought the Civil War was unlike any wars that had preceded it and thus presented special strategic challenges to military leaders. In …
Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy
Av Jon L. Wakelyn, Frank E. Vandiver
Inbunden, 1977
1278 kr
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Black Jack
The Life and Times of John J. Pershing
Inbunden, 1977
778 kr
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This National Book Award finalist traces the life of the general whose career began on the western frontier and culminated with victory in a world war. Using both domestic and foreign sources, many heretofore untapped, Frank Vandiver focuses on the qualities of and challenges to Pershing the …
Their Tattered Flags
The Epic of the Confederacy
Häftad, 1987
194 kr
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Their tattered flags became the symbol of a defeated class, and Vandiver's description of aristocratic Southern leadership in crisis is a real contribution to the literature of the Civil War.— New York Times Book Review "" . . . goes beyond the legendary heroism of the Lees and the Johnstons and …
Blood Brothers
A Short History of the Civil War
Inbunden, 1992
323 kr
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Brothers by blood before the war; brothers in blood after. The blood mingled in the Civil Was became the symbol and perverse source of indissoluble union between two sections, two ways of life, two visions of the future, and even two revolutions. In riveting detail, veteran Civil War historian …
Blood Brothers
A Short History of the Civil War
Häftad, 1992
180 kr
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Brothers by blood before the war; brothers in blood after. The blood mingled in the Civil Was became the symbol and perverse source of indissoluble union between two sections, two ways of life, two visions of the future, and even two revolutions. In riveting detail, veteran Civil War historian …
Ploughshares Into Swords
Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance
Inbunden, 1994
409 kr
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Begun in the late 1940s, before Vandiver enrolled in the doctoral program at Tulane University, research for this book started with his interviewing the Confederate ordnance chief's daughters and included perusal of Gorgas's 1857-1877 journals. Gorgas is credited with creating, in the Confederacy's …
