Gabor S. Boritt, Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, brings together five Civil War historians to reveal how battlefield decisions shaped the very forces -- social, economic, and political -- that many scholars claim determined the outcome of the war. James McPherson argues that the Civil War was won by the Union army through key victories at key moments. Archer Jones exa…
Contents : 1. The first "protectorate": France and Cambodia 2. Into the quagmire: America and Indochina before Geneva 3. The pursuit of neutrality: Cambodia and the powers, 1954-1966 4. The erosion of neutrality: America and the rise of the Cambodian right, 1966-1969 5. A gamble that failed: Sihanouk and the Cambodian right, 1969-March 1970 6. From nationalism to revolution: the coup an…
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 …