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…
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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.
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The former president relates the story of his public and private life from his modest beginnings in the Midwest, through a distinguished film career, to a second career in politics
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