This Guide to the Study and Use of Military History is designed to foster an appreciation of the value of military history and explain its uses and the resources available for its study. It is not a work to be read and lightly tossed aside, but one the career soldier should read again or use as a reference at those times during his career when necessity or leisure turns him to the contemplation…
Provides a clear focus on the crucial part played by the Loyalists in the American Revolution, and analyzes shifts in policy as the British alternately courted and ignored them during the successive phases and campaigns of the war
Examines the historical background and the diverse reasons for these conflicts The Great Peloponnesian War: 431-404 BC | Alexander's conquests: 336-323 BC | Roman Civil War: 33-30 BC | Charles Martel's campaigns against the Moors: AD 739 | The Seventh Crusade: 1248-54 | The Ming overthrow of Mongol rule in China: 1351-88 | Constantinople: 1453 | Spanish conquest of Mexico: 1519-39 | Babur's co…
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, this fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded …
After more than two decades, this dramatic and concise single-volume distillation of [the author's] definitive four-volume biography of George Washington ... has itself become an American classic. Now in a new trade paperback edition, this masterful work explores the Father of Our Country.
"Discover the key battles, tactics, technologies, and turning points of the Second World War - the epic conflict that shaped the modern world. Combining authoritative, exciting text and bold explanatory graphics, The World War II Book explores the causes, key events, and lasting consequences of the Second World War. Using the original, graphic-led approach of the series, entries profile more th…
In this groundbreaking book, award-winning investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh shows us a John F. Kennedy we have never seen before, a man insulated from the normal consequences of behavior long before he entered the White House. His father, Joe, set the pattern with an arrogance and cunning that have never been fully appreciated: Kennedys could do exactly what they wanted, and could evad…