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 …
For more than a decade, this annual volume has provided an authoritative summary of all that has happened to the world's navies and their ships in the previous twelve months. It combines regional surveys with major articles on important new warships, and looks at wider issues of significance to navies such as aviation and weaponry. The contributors come from around the globe and as well as prov…
This revised & updated edition brings together the most original contributions from both sides of the globalization debate. Extensive new material incorporates the latest developments & sets the issues in the context of a global order in constant flux
The only single-volume annual survey of naval developments.
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.