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  • Pershing's Tankers

    Personal Accounts of the AEF Tank Corps in World War I

    by Lawrence M. Kaplan ...
    "Compelling . . . highly recommended to students of the Great War or of armored force development." — The Journal of America's Military PastAfter the United States declared war against Germany in April 1917, the US Army established the Tank Corps to help break the deadlock of trench warfare in France. The army envisioned having a large tank force by 1919, but when the war ended in November 1918, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Homer Lea

    American Soldier of Fortune

    by Lawrence M. Kaplan ...
    "The unlikely story of Lea's attempts to train a cadre of soldiers in American Chinatowns who would return to their homeland to make it a modern world power." — Pacific Historical ReviewAs a five-feet-three-inch hunchback who weighed about 100 pounds, Homer Lea (1876–1912), was an unlikely candidate for life on the battlefield, yet he became a world-renowned military hero. Homer Lea: American ... Read more

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  • NATO and the UN

    A Peculiar Relationship

    by Lawrence S. Kaplan ...
    When the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed just four years after the United Nations, it provided its members with a measure of security in the face of the Soviet Union’s veto power in the senior organization’s Security Council, as well as a means of coping with Communist expansion. Ever since then, the two institutions have been competitors in maintaining peace in the postwar world. ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Westward the Course of Empire

    by Lawrence S. Kaplan ...
    Series series Biographies in American Foreign Policy
    This biography of one of America's greatest political figures focuses on Thomas Jefferson's role as a maker of foreign policy. Although he was not the sole formulator of American diplomacy, Jefferson's voice was the most pervasive in the first generation of the republic's history. This text explores how the concept of the United States' westward expansion worked as the moving force in forming ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • NATO 1948

    The Birth of the Transatlantic Alliance

    by Lawrence S. Kaplan ...
    This compelling history brings to life the watershed year of 1948, when the United States reversed its long-standing position of political and military isolation from Europe and agreed to an "entangling alliance" with ten European nations. Not since 1800, when the United States ended its alliance with France, had the nation made such a commitment. The historic North Atlantic Treaty was signed on ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Conversion of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg

    From Isolation to International Engagement

    by Lawrence S. Kaplan ...
    Series series Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
    The United States has looked inward throughout most of its history, preferring to avoid "foreign entanglements," as George Washington famously advised. After World War II, however, Americans became more inclined to break with the past and take a prominent place on the world stage. Much has been written about the influential figures who stood at the center of this transformation, but remarkably ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Harold Stassen

    Eisenhower, the Cold War, and the Pursuit of Nuclear Disarmament

    by Lawrence S. Kaplan ...
    Series series Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
    Harold Stassen (1907–2001) garnered accolades as the thirty-one-year-old "boy wonder" governor of Minnesota and quickly assumed a national role as aide to Admiral William Halsey Jr. during World War II. When Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected in 1952, Stassen was named director of the Mutual Security Administration and then became the president's special assistant for disarmament. In this position, ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The United States and NATO

    The Formative Years

    by Lawrence S. Kaplan ...
    The creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was one of the most important accomplishments of American diplomacy in countering the Soviet threat during the early days of the Cold War. Why and how such a reversal of a 150-year nonalignment policy by the United States was brought about, and how the goals of the treaty became a reality, are questions addressed here by a leading scholar of ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Alexander Hamilton

    Ambivalent Anglophile

    by Lawrence S. Kaplan ...
    Series series Biographies in American Foreign Policy
    Of all of the Founding Fathers of the American republic none, with the possible exception of Thomas Jefferson, has evoked more passions and aroused more controversy than Alexander Hamilton. In this absorbing new biography, eminent historian Lawrence Kaplan examines Hamilton's conception of America's role in the world and the foreign policies that followed from his vision. Kaplan looks at how ... Read more

    $42.19 USD

  • The McNamara Ascendancy, 1961-1965

    by Lawrence S. Kaplan, Ronald D. Landa, Edward J. Drea ...
    Series series History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense
    The McNamara Ascendancy, the first of two volumes in the History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense dealing with the tenure of Robert S. McNamara, examines the dynamic, sometimes turbulent early years of his secretaryship under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Few secretaries of defense before or since entered the Pentagon with such a commanding start or left behind a more ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Corrective Osteotomies for Rigid Spinal Deformities

    Edited by Leon Kaplan, Lawrence G. Lenke ...
    The ultimate guide and surgical manual for managing patients with rigid spinal deformitiesDespite attempts to detect and treat spine deformities early in younger and older populations, spine deformity surgeons encounter a wide array of complex spine pathologies in patients across the age and pathology continuum. Corrective Osteotomies for Rigid Spinal Deformities, edited by world-renowned spinal ... Read more

    $179.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The War over Iraq

    Saddam’s Tyranny and America’s Mission

    by Lawrence F. Kaplan, William Kristol ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 1 min

    Fox News political analyst William Kristol was intimately involved (along with Bush administration figures Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle) in pushing proposals to militarily attack Iraq and project American military power for a “New American Century.” Here, he and New Republic senior editor Lawrence F. Kaplan present the justification for that stance. Arguing that Saddam Hussein was the ... Read more

    $13.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus