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Civilians in the Path of War
Av Mark Grimsley, Clifford J. Rogers
Häftad, 2008
276 kr
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"War," wrote Gen. William T. Sherman, "is cruelty, and you cannot refine it." Throughout history, noncombatants have always been among the victims of war's violence. In this book, nine distinguished historians examine twenty-five hundred years of human conflicts and their varied impacts on civilian …
Imagining the Unimaginable
World War, Modern Art, and the Politics of Public Culture in Russia, 1914-1917
Inbunden, 2008
532 kr
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As World War I shaped and molded European culture to an unprecedented degree, it also had a profound influence on the politics and aesthetics of early-twentieth-century Russian culture. In this provocative and fascinating work, Aaron J. Cohen shows how World War I changed Russian culture and …
Thirty Years' War and German Memory in the Nineteenth Century
Av Kevin Cramer
Inbunden, 2007
1160 kr
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The nineteenth century witnessed the birth of German nationalism and the unification of Germany as a powerful nation-state. In this era the reading public's obsession with the most destructive and divisive war in its history—the Thirty Years' War—resurrected old animosities and sparked a violent, …
Army and Empire
British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758-1775
Häftad, 2008
226 kr
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The end of the Seven Years' War found Britain's professional army in America facing new and unfamiliar responsibilities. In addition to occupying the recently conquered French settlements in Canada, redcoats were ordered into the trans-Appalachian west, into the little-known and much disputed …
Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done
A History of the Regular Army in the Civil War
Av Clayton R. Newell, Charles R. Shrader
Inbunden, 2011
883 kr
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On the eve of the Civil War, the Regular Army of the United States was small, dispersed, untrained for large-scale operations, and woefully unprepared to suppress the rebellion of the secessionist states. Although the Regular Army expanded significantly during the war, reaching nearly sixty-seven …
Age of the Ship of the Line
The British and French Navies, 1650-1815
Inbunden, 2009
391 kr
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For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called “ships of the line” dominated war at sea and were thus instrumental in the European struggle for power and the spread of imperialism. Foremost among the great naval powers were Great Britain and France, whose advanced economies could support …
Strange and Formidable Weapon
British Responses to World War I Poison Gas
Inbunden, 2008
532 kr
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The advent of poison gas in World War I shocked Britons at all levels of society, yet by the end of the conflict their nation was a leader in chemical warfare. Although never used on the home front, poison gas affected almost every segment of British society physically, mentally, or emotionally, …
Death Zones and Darling Spies
Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting
Häftad, 2013
343 kr
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Chosen for 2015 One Book One Nebraska In 1961, equipped with a master's degree from famed Columbia Journalism School and letters of introduction to Associated Press bureau chiefs in Asia, twenty-six-year-old Beverly Deepe set off on a trip around the world. Allotting just two weeks to South …
Grand Illusion
The Prussianization of the Chilean Army
Av William F. Sater, Holger H. Herwig
Inbunden, 1999
630 kr
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The Grand Illusion analyzes the impact of European military institutions on Hispanic America in general and examines the putative "Prussianization" of the Chilean army in particular. The authors focus on Chile's attempt to import and assimilate foreign military methods, doctrine, and matériel. They …
For Home and Country
World War I Propaganda on the Home Front
Inbunden, 2010
532 kr
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World War I prompted the first massive organized propaganda campaign of the twentieth century. Posters, pamphlets, and other media spread fear about the "Hun," who was often depicted threatening American families in their homes, while additional campaigns encouraged Americans and their allies to …
Political Indoctrination in the U.S. Army from World War II to the Vietnam War
Häftad, 2009
284 kr
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After drilling troops during the American Revolution, Baron Friedrich von Steuben reportedly noted that although one could tell a Prussian what to do and expect him to do it, one had to tell an American why he ought to do something before he would comply. Although such individualistic thinking is …
Politics of Air Power
From Confrontation to Cooperation in Army Aviation Civil-Military Relations
Häftad, 2009
276 kr
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The Politics of Air Power examines the turbulent development of relations between U.S. Army aviation leaders and civilian officials during the 1920s and 1930s. In the early 1920s Brigadier General William "Billy" Mitchell and a group of Army Air Service officers tried to force the creation of an …
Sex Crimes Under the Wehrmacht
Häftad, 2009
284 kr
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In this groundbreaking work, David Raub Snyder offers a nuanced investigation into the German army's prosecution and punishment of sex offenders during the Second World War. In so doing, Snyder restores balance to the literature regarding the military administration of justice under Hitler and to …
Picture This
World War I Posters and Visual Culture
Av Pearl James
Häftad, 2010
343 kr
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The First World War was waged through the participation not just of soldiers but of men, women, and children on the home front. Mass-produced, full-color, large-format war posters were both a sign and an instrument of this historic shift in warfare. War posters celebrated, in both their form and …
State at War in South Asia
Häftad, 2009
343 kr
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Much research has been done on Western warfare and state building but very little on the military effectiveness of states, until now. Using South Asia as a case study, The State at War in South Asia examines how the state, from prehistory to modern times, has managed to wage war. The State at War …
North American Indians in the Great War
Häftad, 2009
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284 kr
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More than twelve thousand American Indians served in the United States military in World War I, even though many were not U.S. citizens and did not enjoy the benefits of enfranchisement. Using the words of the veterans themselves, as collected by Joseph K. Dixon (1856–1926), North American Indians …
Andean Tragedy
Fighting the War of the Pacific, 1879-1884
Häftad, 2009
518 kr
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The year 1879 marked the beginning of one of the longest, bloodiest conflicts of nineteenth-century Latin America. The War of the Pacific pitted Peru and Bolivia against Chile in a struggle initiated over a festering border dispute. The conflict saw Chile's and Peru's armored warships vying for …
In the School of War
Häftad, 2010
343 kr
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Fort Leavenworth, where Roger J. Spiller taught the army's finest for twenty-five years, is indeed a "school of war." There, among military professionals who had experienced war firsthand, Spiller honed his remarkable skills as an analyst and historian, scholar and teacher—skills that have made him …
Soldiers As Citizens
Former Wehrmacht Officers in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1955
Inbunden, 2001
649 kr
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For centuries prior to 1945, the German officer corps constituted a social and political elite in Central Europe. And as this book shows, the debacle of the Second World War, the scorn of the German populace, and the control of the Allies did not entirely diminish the officers' critical role. By …
Citizens More Than Soldiers
The Kentucky Militia and Society in the Early Republic
Inbunden, 2007
649 kr
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Historians typically depict nineteenth-century militiamen as drunken buffoons who stumbled into crooked lines, poked each other with cornstalk weapons, and inevitably shot their commander in the backside with a rusty, antiquated musket. Citizens More than Soldiers demonstrates that, to the …
Thirty Years' War and German Memory in the Nineteenth Century
Av Kevin Cramer
Häftad, 2010
343 kr
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The nineteenth century witnessed the birth of German nationalism and the unification of Germany as a powerful nation-state. In this era the reading public's obsession with the most destructive and divisive war in its history—the Thirty Years' War—resurrected old animosities and sparked a violent, …
American Soldier in World War I
Av George Browne, David L. Snead
Häftad, 2010
343 kr
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George "Brownie" Browne was a twenty-three-year-old civil engineer in Waterbury, Connecticut, when the United States entered the Great War in 1917. He enlisted almost immediately and served in the American Expeditionary Forces until his discharge in 1919. An American Soldier in World War I is an …
Beneficial Bombing
The Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945
Inbunden, 2011
708 kr
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The Progressive Era, marked by a desire for economic, political, and social reform, ended for most Americans with the ugly reality and devastation of World War I. Yet for Army Air Service officers, the carnage and waste witnessed on the western front only served to spark a new progressive …
Deterrence Through Strength
British Naval Power and Foreign Policy Under Pax Britannica
Inbunden, 2011
649 kr
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The notion of a Pax Britannica—a concept implying that Britain's overwhelming strength enforced global peace in the era that began with Napoleon's defeat in 1815—largely ended with the British Empire itself. Although most historians still view this period as a departure from the eighteenth century, …
Age of the Ship of the Line
The British and French Navies, 1650-1815
Häftad, 2011
205 kr
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For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called “ships of the line” dominated war at sea and were thus instrumental in the European struggle for power and the spread of imperialism. Foremost among the great naval powers were Great Britain and France, whose advanced economies could support …
American Naval History, 1607-1865
Overcoming the Colonial Legacy
Inbunden, 2012
494 kr
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For its first eighty-five years, the United States was only a minor naval power. Its fledgling fleet had been virtually annihilated during the War of Independence and was mostly trapped in port by the end of the War of 1812. How this meager presence became the major naval power it remains to this …
Sex Crimes Under the Wehrmacht
Inbunden, 2007
649 kr
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In this groundbreaking work, David Raub Snyder offers a nuanced investigation into the German army's prosecution and punishment of sex offenders during the Second World War. In so doing, Snyder restores balance to the literature regarding the military administration of justice under Hitler and to …
Fu-go
The Curious History of Japan's Balloon Bomb Attack on America
Av Ross Coen
Inbunden, 2014
343 kr
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This story about a little-known failed military excursion by the Japanese will appeal to general history readers as well as military history buffs.-John Rodzvilla, Library JournalNear the end of World War II, in an attempt to attack the United States mainland, Japan launched its fu-go campaign, …
On the Trail of the Yellow Tiger
War, Trauma, and Social Dislocation in Southwest China During the Ming-Qing Transition
Inbunden, 2018
649 kr
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The Manchu Qing victory over the Chinese Ming Dynasty in the mid-seventeenth century was one of the most surprising and traumatic developments in China’s long history. In the last year of the Ming, the southwest region of China became the base of operations for the notorious leader Zhang Xianzhong …
In the Service of the Emperor
Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army
Häftad, 2003
343 kr
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Japan's war in Asia and the Pacific from 1937 to 1945 continues to be a subject of great interest, yet the wartime Japanese army remains little understood outside Japan. Most published accounts rely on English-language works written in the 1950s and 1960s. The Japanese-language sources have …
