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  • Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America

    Closing Ranks

    by Kevin Greene, Peter Karsten, Selika M. Ducksworth-Lawton, Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas, Hal M. Friedman, Jeremy P. Maxwell, Robert F. Jefferson Jr. ...
    Series series War and Society in Modern American History
    Fusing riveting testimony from African American veterans with the most incisive research of current military scholars, Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in 20th-Century America: Closing Ranks explores the intersecting characteristics of civil rights struggle and political activism that was reflected in the lives of ex-GIs throughout Twentieth Century American history. The volume examines ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Digesting History: The U.S. Naval War College, The Lessons of World War Two, and Future Naval Warfare, 1945-1947

    The U.S. Naval War College, The Lessons of World War Two, and Future Naval Warfare, 1945-1947

    by Hal M. Friedman ...
    Product Description: Digesting History: The U.S. Naval War College, the Lessons of World War II, and Future Naval Warfare, 1945–1947, by Professor Hal M. Friedman, studies the contribution of the Naval War College, especially in the presidency of Admiral Raymond Spruance, to strategic thought during the first critical postwar years—that is, between the end of the war and the formulation of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • War in the American Pacific and East Asia, 1941-1972

    Edited by Hal M. Friedman ...
    Series series AUSA Books
    Before 1940, the Japanese empire stood as the greatest single threat to the American presence in the Pacific and East Asia. To a lesser degree, the formerly hegemonic colonial powers of Britain, France, and the Netherlands still controlled portions of the region. At the same time, subjugated peoples in East Asia and Southeast Asia struggled to throw off colonialism. By the late 1930s, the ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

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    Discover how history's only five-star admirals triumphed in World War II and made the United States the world's dominant sea power.Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William Halsey. These four men were the best and the brightest the navy produced, and together they led the U.S. navy to ... Read more

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  • The Generals

    American Military Command from World War II to Today

    by Thomas E. Ricks ...
    **A New York Times bestseller!An epic history of the decline of American military leadership—from the bestselling author of Fiasco and Churchill and Orwell.**While history has been kind to the American generals of World War II—Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley—it has been less kind to the generals of the wars that followed, such as Koster, Franks, Sanchez, and Petraeus. In The Generals, ... Read more

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  • Day of Deceit

    The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor

    by Robert Stinnett ...
    In Day of Deceit, Robert Stinnett delivers the definitive final chapter on America's greatest secret and our worst military disaster.Drawing on twenty years of research and access to scores of previously classified documents, Stinnett proves that Pearl Harbor was not an accident, a mere failure of American intelligence, or a brilliant Japanese military coup. By showing that ample warning of the ... Read more

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  • Eagle Against the Sun

    The American War with Japan

    by Ronald H. Spector ...
    Series series World War II History
    “The best book by far on the Pacific War” (The New York Times Book Review), this classic one-volume history of World War II in the Pacific draws on declassified intelligence files; British, American, and Japanese archival material; and military memoirs to provide a stunning and complete history of the conflict.This “superbly readable, insightful, gripping” (Washington Post Book World) contribution ... Read more

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  • Pearl Harbor

    From Infamy to Greatness

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    “A valuable reexamination” (Booklist, starred review) of the event that changed twentieth-century America—Pearl Harbor—based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times bestselling author.The America we live in today was born, not on July 4, 1776, but on December 7, 1941, when an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes supported by aircraft carriers, destroyers, and midget ... Read more

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  • The Pacific War

    The Strategy, Politics, and Players That Won the War

    by William B. Hopkins ...
    This "important comprehensive study" of WWII in the Pacific examines the high-level decision-making and strategy that led to victory ( Roanoke Times).Once the stories have been told of battles won and lost, most of what happens in a war remains a mystery. So it has been with accounts of World War II in the Pacific, a complex conflict whose nature is often obscured by simple chronological ... Read more

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  • Refighting the Pacific War

    An Alternative History of World War II

    Edited by James C Bresnahan ...
    Refighting the Pacific War looks at how World War II in the Pacific might have unfolded differently, giving historians, authors and veterans the opportunity to discuss what happened and what might have happened. Contributors to this alternative history include noted military historians William Bartsch, John Burton, Donald Goldstein, John Lundstrom, Robert Mrazek, Jon Parshall, Douglas Smith, Peter ... Read more

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    The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960

    by James D. Hornfischer ...
    **A close-up, action-filled account of the crucial role the U.S. Navy played in the early years of the Cold War, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Fleet at Flood Tide and The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors“A lucid, fast-moving and fitting finale to [Hornfischer’s] career.”—The Wall Street Journal**A landmark chronicle of the U.S. Navy in the Cold War, Who Can Hold the Sea ... Read more

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  • Revolt of the Admirals: The Fight for Naval Aviation, 1945-1950

    by Jeffrey G. Barlow ...
    Chronicles in compelling detail the historic showdown between the U.S. Air Force and the Navy over the role of carrier aviation in the national security framework of the United States.The National Security Act of 1947, intended to unify the separate armed services under a single Defense Secretary, failed to settle the deeper issue that divided them, the debate over roles and missions. One symptom ... Read more

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