Williams-Ford Texas a&M University Military History Series – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Williams-Ford Texas a&M University Military History Series. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
100 produkter
Honey Springs, Oklahoma
Historical Archaeology of a Civil War Battlefield
Inbunden, 2025
541 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The sectional conflict between North and South was different in Indian Territory (now the state of Oklahoma). There, the Civil War was only a veneer over the competition among the United States, the Confederacy, and sovereign Indian Nations known as the Five Civilized Tribes whose citizens, in …
Selling Air Power
Military Aviation and American Popular Culture After World War II
Av Steve Call
Inbunden, 2009
587 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In "Selling Air Power", Steve Call provides the first comprehensive study of the efforts of post-war air power advocates to harness popular culture in support of their agenda. In the 1940s and much of the 1950s, hardly a month went by without at least one blatantly pro - air power article appearing …
Blood and Treasure
Confederate Empire in the Southwest
Häftad, 1996
428 kr
Lägg i varukorg
For decades before the Civil War, Southern writers and warriors had been urging the occupation and development of the American Southwest. When the rift between North and South had been finalized in secession, the Confederacy moved to extend their traditions to the west–a long-sought goal that had …
Battle of Glorieta
Union Victory in the West
Häftad, 2000
326 kr
Lägg i varukorg
On the morning of March 26, 1862, Confederate and Union armies met in Glorieta Pass in the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico. A series of skirmishes, jockeying for position, and a pitched battle on March 28 took a heavy toll on both sides and left the Rebels under Gen. Henry Hopkins …
Defense of Vicksburg
A Louisiana Chronicle
Av Allan C. Richard, Mary Margaret Higginbotham Richard
Inbunden, 2003
352 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Defense of Vicksburg: A Louisiana Chronicle is the story of the Louisiana soldiers who fought at Vicksburg, as told through their letters, diaries, and remembrances. Most histories of this famous Civil War siege have been written by the victors; this one presents a day-by-day account from the …
Only War We Had
A Platoon Leaders Journal of Vietnam
Häftad, 2007
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
230 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In my year in Vietnam, I walked the booby-trapped rice paddies of the Delta, searching for the elusive Viet Cong, and later macheted my way through the triple-canopy jungle, fighting the North Vietnamese Regulars...I sweated, thirsted, hunted, killed. Somewhere in all my experiences, I overlapped …
Danger Close
Tactical Air Controllers in Afghanistan and Iraq
Av Steve Call
Inbunden, 2007
587 kr
Lägg i varukorg
"America had a secret weapon," writes Steve Call of the period immediately following September 11, 2001, as planners contemplated the invasion of Afghanistan. This weapon consisted of small teams of Special Forces operatives trained in close air support (CAS) who, in cooperation with the loose …
Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and the National Agenda
Inbunden, 2009
455 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Though Jimmy Carter is widely viewed as one of the least effective modern presidents, the human rights agenda for which his administration is known remains high in the national awareness and continues to provide important justifications for presidential and congressional action a quarter-century …
Selling Air Power
Military Aviation and American Popular Culture After World War II
Av Steve Call
Häftad, 2009
285 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In "Selling Air Power", Steve Call provides the first comprehensive study of the efforts of post-war air power advocates to harness popular culture in support of their agenda. In the 1940s and much of the 1950s, hardly a month went by without at least one blatantly pro - air power article appearing …
War and the Environment
Military Destruction in the Modern Age
Inbunden, 2009
295 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In recent times, the devastation occurring in places like Darfur has focused the world's attention on the intertwined relationship of military conflict and the environment - and the attendant human suffering. In ""War and the Environment"", eleven scholars explore, among other topics, the …
Arguing Over the American Lake
Bureaucracy and Rivalry in the U.S. Pacific, 1945-1947
Inbunden, 2009
790 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Between 1945 and 1947, the United States sought an imperial solution to its security problems in the Pacific Basin. Faced with fears of a future Pearl Harbor-style attack by a potentially resurgent Japan, and facing an even more realistic confrontation with the Soviet Union, American policymakers, …
CROSSWINDS
The Air Force's Setup in Vietnam
Häftad, 2009
285 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Tilford exposes the generals' tunnel-vision. . . . He demolishes the myth that the 1972 ‘Christmas bombing' brought Hanoi to its knees . . . . His controversial thesis is that the bombing of the North and the interdiction campaign against the Ho Chi Minh Trail were in no way decisive and that USAF …
Disaster in Korea
The Chinese Confront MacArthur
Häftad, 1989
399 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Tells the story of General MacArthur's November 1950 attack to the Yalu River, an attack that was repulsed by 200,000 Chinese 'volunteer' infantry.
Americans All!
Foreign-born Soldiers in World War I
Häftad, 2001
225 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A surge of immigrant draftees in the US Army permanently challenged the way military leaders approached citizenship training.
On the Prairie of Palo Alto
Historical Archaeology of the U.S.-Mexican War Battlefield
Av Charles M. Haecker, Jeffrey G. Mauck
Häftad, 2009
341 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Combat Ready?
The Eighth U.S. Army on the Eve of the Korean War
Inbunden, 2010, 15+ år
529 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the decades since the “forgotten war' in Korea, conventional wisdom has held that the Eighth Army consisted largely of poorly trained, undisciplined troops who fled in terror from the onslaught of the Communist forces. Now, military historian Thomas E. Hanson argues that the generalizations …
Very Short War
The Mayaguez and the Battle of Koh Tang
Häftad, 2011
268 kr
Lägg i varukorg
On May 12, 1975, less than two weeks after the fall of Saigon, Khmer Rouge naval forces seized the S.S. Mayaguez , an American container ship, off the Cambodian coast in the Gulf of Siam. The swift military response ordered by President Gerald Ford was designed to recapture the Mayaguez , held at …
Son Tay Raid
American POWs in Vietnam Were not Forgotten
Av John Gargus
Häftad, 2010
254 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In May 1970, aerial photographs revealed what U.S. military intelligence believed was a POW camp near the town of Son Tay, twenty-three miles west of North Vietnam’s capital city. When American officials decided the prisoners were attempting to send signals, they set in motion a daring plan to …
Until They Are Home
Bringing Back the MIAs from Vietnam, a Personal Memoir
Inbunden, 2011
363 kr
Lägg i varukorg
'Our mission continues . . . Until They Are Home!' - Motto of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting CommandAt the end of the Vietnam War - or American War, as it is called in Hanoi - 2,585 Americans were unaccounted for in Southeast Asia. In 1992, a joint task force was established to continue the work of …
Ghosts of Iwo Jima
Häftad, 2011
268 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In February 1945, some 80,000 U.S. Marines attacked the heavily defended fortress that the Japanese had constructed on the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima. Leaders of the Army Air Forces said they needed the airfields there to provide fighter escort for their B-29 bombers. At the cost of 28,000 …
Glider Infantryman
Behind Enemy Lines in World War II
Av Don Rich, Kevin Brooks
Häftad, 2013
223 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A member of the famed Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division, Donald J. Rich went ashore on D-Day at Utah Beach, was wounded in the bloody conflict at Carentan, landed in a flimsy plywood-and-canvas glider on the battlefields of Holland, and survived the grim siege with the ""Battling …
Testing American Sea Power
U.S. Navy Strategic Exercises, 1923-1940
Häftad, 2013
285 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Pacific Theatre in World War II depended on American sea power. This power was refined between 1923 and 1940, when the U.S. Navy held twenty-one major fleet exercises designed to develop strategy and allow officers to enact plans in an operational setting.Prior to 1923, naval officers relied …
Raid Too Far
Operation Lam Son 719 and Vietnamization in Laos
Inbunden, 2014
409 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In February 1971, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) launched an incursion into Laos in an attempt to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail and destroy North Vietnamese Army (NVA) base areas along the border. This movement would be the first real test of Vietnamization, Pres. Richard Nixon’s program to …
Martial Imagination
Cultural Aspects of American Warfare
Häftad, 2013
338 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Martial experiences and the mythologies that surround them have profoundly affected the ways in which Americans think of themselves. Wars identify the heroes who help define national character, provide the stories for the grand narratives of belonging and sacrifice, and serve as markers for …
Texas Aggie Medals of Honor
Seven Heroes of World War II
Häftad, 2013
201 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Every Medal of Honor represents a story of gallantry, courage, and sacrifice. Conceived in the early 1860s, the Medal of Honor, awarded “in the name of the Congress of the United States”, has been presented to more than 3,000 members of the United States armed forces. Seven of the 464 Medals of …
Execute Against Japan
The U.S. Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Inbunden, 2013
238 kr
Lägg i varukorg
“Execute against Japan should be required reading for naval officers (especially in submarine wardrooms), as well as for anyone interested in history, policy, or international law.” - Adm. James P. Wisecup, President, US Naval War College (for Naval War College Review)
Every Citizen a Soldier
The Campaign for Universal Military Training After World War II
Inbunden, 2014
467 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Beginning in 1943, US Army leaders such as John M. Palmer, Walter L. Weible, George C. Marshall, and John J. McCloy mounted a sustained and vigorous campaign to establish a system of universal military training (UMT) in America. Fearful of repeating the rapid demobilization and severe budget cuts …
Cause Greater Than Self
The Journey of Captain Michael J. Daly, World War II Medal of Honor Recipient
Häftad, 2014
291 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A privileged, hell-raising youth who had greatly embarrassed his family—and especially his war-hero father—by being dismissed from West Point, Michael J. Daly would go on to display selfless courage and heroic leadership on the battlefields of Europe during World War II. Starting as an enlisted man …
