America at War – serie
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Iraq War
Revised Edition
Av Rodney P. Carlisle, John S. Bowman
Inbunden, 2010
526 kr
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In a dramatic three-week campaign beginning March 20, 2003, U.S. and British forces, along with several other countries in a coalition, destroyed the Iraqi army, defeating Saddam Hussein's oppressive regime. Over the coming months and years, former regime members, along with some armed …
War of 1812
Inbunden, 2003
410 kr
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The year was 1812, and the United States teetered once again on the brink of war with Great Britain. Caught in England's ongoing battle with France, the United States found its ports blockaded and its young sailors pressed into service aboard British vessels. War of 1812, Updated Edition tells of …
Iraq War
Inbunden, 2004
410 kr
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Following the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991, the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq continued to defy the United Nations. His government made it nearly impossible for UN-appointed inspectors to determine whether Iraq had eliminated its programs to manufacture and deploy weapons of mass destruction, …
Afghanistan War
Av Rodeny P. Carlisle, John S. Bowman
Inbunden, 2010
526 kr
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The September 11, 2001, terror attacks orchestrated by al-Qaeda prompted the United States to declare a "War on Terror." When the Taliban government of Afghanistan refused to extradite al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, an American-led coalition went to war with Afghanistan, overthrowing the Taliban …
Plains Indian Wars
Av Sherry Marker, John S. Bowman
Inbunden, 2010
526 kr
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Greed, misunderstanding, and resentment characterized the relationship between early white settlers moving west and the Native American peoples of the Great Plains. As whites delved further into western territory, the U.S. government attempted to quell Native Americans' fears by signing treaties …
Korean War
Inbunden, 2010
526 kr
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Believing it could act with impunity in a world exhausted by war, communist North Korea decided to invade and annex Western-allied South Korea in June 1950. President Harry Truman, who feared from the beginning that Korea was ""the opening round of World War III,"" committed U.S. troops to repulse …
Vietnam War
Revised Edition
Av Maurice Isserman, John S. Bowman
Inbunden, 2010
526 kr
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In clear, lucid prose, Vietnam War, Revised Edition explores the critical questions surrounding the United States' experience in Vietnam: What led President Lyndon B. Johnson to commit combat troops in 1965? How was it possible for the North Vietnamese to suffer a military defeat in the Tet …
World War I
Revised Edition
Av Peter I. Bosco, John S. Bowman
Inbunden, 2010
526 kr
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A century of material progress and growing prosperity led the nations of Western Europe to believe that they were in the vanguard of a new and peaceful world order. But their economic rivalries, backed by growing military establishments, finally degenerated to an extreme level of barbarity.World …
Spanish-American War
Av Michael Golay, John S. Bowman
Inbunden, 2010
526 kr
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The United States was swept into the Spanish-American War with the mysterious explosion of the USS Maine in Cuba's Havana harbor, which spurred a surge of anti-Spanish sentiment among Americans through the use of yellow journalism.Spanish-American War, Revised Edition gives a lively account of the …
Persian Gulf War
Av Rodney P. Carlisle, John S. Bowman
Inbunden, 2010
526 kr
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The Persian Gulf War was the first war that the United States was officially involved in as a combatant after the Vietnam War. It was a war in which many new technological, strategic, political, and economic elements came together for the first time, making the war a particularly unique experience …
Chronology of Wars
Inbunden, 2010
568 kr
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Chronology of Wars, Revised Edition discusses the 13 wars examined in the other America at War titles from a chronological perspective. The chronology includes an introduction that calls attention to relevant themes that persist throughout America's wartime past and looks from a different …
War of 1812
Av Miriam Greenblatt, John S. Bowman
Inbunden, 2010
526 kr
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The year was 1812, and the United States teetered once again on the brink of war with Great Britain. Caught in England's ongoing battle with France, the United States found its ports blockaded and its young sailors pressed into service aboard British vessels.War of 1812, Revised Edition tells of …
Revolutionary War
Revised Edition
Inbunden, 2010
526 kr
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Beginning with an exploration of the troubled times of the 1760s and 1770s, Revolutionary War, Revised Edition presents a probing and thoughtful account of America's heroic seven-year struggle for independence, from the first shots at Lexington and Concord to the British surrender at Yorktown, …
