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  • Race, Politics, and Reconstruction

    The First Black Cadets at Old West Point

    Series series The Black Soldier in War and Society
    The first in-depth study of racial integration at West Point after the Civil WarRace, Politics, and Reconstruction tells the story of racial integration at the United States Military Academy after the Civil War and spotlights the social environment and cultural currents that led to its failure. The first attempt to racially integrate West Point proved not simply a lost opportunity but an ... Read more

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  • Charles Wadsworth Camp and World War I

    War's Dark Frame and History of the 305th Field Artillery

    Charles Wadsworth Camp (1879-1936) was a journalist, critic, playwright, novelist, and soldier. Born in Philadelphia and educated at Princeton University, his work appeared in publications like Collier's and The New York Sun. He met the pianist Madeleine Barnett Camp at a wedding in Jacksonville, Florida, and they were married. Together they traveled extensively for his writing assignments until ... Read more

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  • A Rifleman Went to War

    This vintage book contains the fascinating treatise on being a rifleman, with information on the use of a rifle in war, what makes a rifleman, what a rifleman needs to know... and more. This text offers its readers a unique insight into what it means to be a rifleman, based upon the author's extensive experience from his childhood spent near the hunting grounds of Indiana to the time he spent on ... Read more

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  • The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History

    A "well-reasoned and timely" ( Booklist) essay collection interrogates the Lost Cause myth in Civil War historiography.Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the cause of states' rights? In reality, these suggestions are an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of Southerners to ... Read more

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  • A Rifleman Goes To War [Illustrated Edition]

    Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photosThe classic account of sniping on the Western Front."Herbert Wesley McBride was a Captain in the Twenty-first Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, during the First World War. He was a sniper and commander of a machine gun unit known as the "Emma Gees." He was also the author of two books on the war: "A ... Read more

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  • The History Buff's Guide to the Civil War

    The best, the worst, the largest, and the most lethal top ten rankings of the Civil War

    Series series History Buff's Guides
    Do You Think You Know the Civil War?The History Buff's Guide to the Civil War clears the powder smoke surrounding the war that changed America forever. The perfect guide for anyone looking for great history facts like:What were the best, the worst, the largest, and the most lethal aspects of the conflict?What are the top ten causes?The bloodiest battles?With over thirty annotated top ten lists and ... Read more

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  • Adventures Of A Motorcycle Despatch Rider During The First World War [Illustrated Edition]

    Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos"A young British soldier who went to war on two wheels"When the Great War broke out, the author of this book decided to leave his university studies and join the struggle. What attracted him immediately was the potential to combine his military service with his love of motorcycles and so it was that he ... Read more

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  • Longstreet

    The Confederate General Who Defied the South

    Winner, American Battlefield Trust Prize for HistoryWinner, Library of Virginia Literary Award for NonfictionFinalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BiographyA “compelling portrait” (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author) of the controversial Confederate general who later embraced Reconstruction and became an outcast in the South.It was the most remarkable political about-face... ... Read more

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  • From Dunkirk to the Rhineland

    The Rhineland via Normandy and Brussels

    by C.N. Murrell ...
    Charles (Charlie to his comrades) Murrell kept detailed diaries of his service with the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards throughout the Second World War as Guardsman (later Sergeant).This book starts on 10 May 1940 with the Blitzkrieg on Arras and the retreat to Dunkirk. The Dunkirk beaches and his own undignified evacuation are described in some detail and occasional humor.The second part begins on 20 ... Read more

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  • What This Cruel War Was Over

    **Using letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers—black and white, Northern and Southern—as they fought and marched across a divided country, this unprecedented account is “an essential contribution to our understanding of slavery and the Civil War" (**The Philadelphia Inquirer).In this unprecedented account, Chandra Manning With stunning poise ... Read more

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  • The Mammoth Book of How it Happened: World War I

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Series Book 378 - Mammoth Books
    The spectre of the Great War still haunts us. No other conflict so dramatically illustrates the waste of life, and the slaughter of innocents, as that of 1914-18. And none has so dramatically shaped the modern world: the Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, the break-up of Empire, the supremacy of America and World War II all stem from the four years of the 'war to end all wars'.Here is the eye ... Read more

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