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  • The British Working Class and Enthusiasm for War, 1914-1916

    de David Silbey ...
    Series series Military History and Policy
    Millions of men volunteered to leave home, hearth and family to go to a foreign land to fight in 1914, the start of the biggest war in British history. It was a war fought by soldier-citizens, millions strong, most of whom had volunteered willingly to go. They made up the army that first held, and then, in 1918, thrust back the German Army to win t ... Leer más

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  • The Other Face of Battle

    America's Forgotten Wars and the Experience of Combat

    Taking its title from The Face of Battle, John Keegan's canonical book on the nature of warfare, The Other Face of Battle illuminates the American experience of fighting in "irregular" and "intercultural" wars over the centuries. Sometimes known as "forgotten" wars, in part because they lacked triumphant clarity, they are the focus of the book. David Preston, David Silbey, and Anthony Carlson ... Leer más

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  • From Quills to Tweets

    How America Communicates about War and Revolution

    While today's presidential tweets may seem a light-year apart from the scratch of quill pens during the era of the American Revolution, the importance of political communication is eternal. This book explores the roles that political narratives, media coverage, and evolving communication technologies have played in precipitating, shaping, and concluding or prolonging wars and revolutions over the ... Leer más

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    The Other Face of Battle

    America's Forgotten Wars and the Experience of Combat

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    Taking its title from The Face of Battle, John Keegan's canonical book on the nature of warfare, The Other Face of Battle, illuminates the American experience of fighting in "irregular" and "intercultural" wars over the centuries. Sometimes known as "forgotten" wars, in part because they lacked triumphant clarity, they are the focus of the book. David Preston, David Silbey, and Anthony Carlson ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • A War of Frontier and Empire

    The Philippine-American War, 1899–1902

    First-rate military history, A War of Frontier and Empire retells an often forgotten chapter in America's past, infusing it with commanding contemporary relevance.It has been termed an insurgency, a revolution, a guerrilla war, and a conventional war. As David J. Silbey demonstrates in this taut, compelling history, the 1899 Philippine-American War was in fact all of these. Played out over three ... Leer más

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  • The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China

    A History

    A concise history of an uprising that took down a three-hundred-year-old dynasty and united the great powers.The year is 1900, and Western empires are locked in entanglements across the globe. The British are losing a bitter war against the Boers while the German kaiser is busy building a vast new navy. The United States is struggling to put down an insurgency in the South Pacific while the ... Leer más

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  • Wars Civil and Great

    The American Experience in the Civil War and World War I

    Series series Modern War Studies
    Although the Civil War and the Great War were fought only fifty years apart, the perceived time between these two cataclysmic events seems far longer in popular American memory: the Civil War was the centerpiece of the nineteenth century and lies deep in America’s past whereas World War I was a modern prelude to World War II, a conflict still in living memory. Wars Civil and Great breaks down ... Leer más

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    Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance

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  • 50 Battles That Changed the World

    de William Weir ...
    An informative look at the military conflicts that most altered the course of history and civilization, from ancient times to the modern world.Rather than celebrating warfare, 50 Battles That Changed the World looks at the clashes the author believes have had the most profound impact on world history. Ranked in order of their relevance to the modern world, these struggles range from the ancient ... Leer más

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  • Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun

    Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms

    The 20th anniversary edition of the study that first revealed De Soto's path across the 16th century American South includes a forward by Robbie EthridgeBetween 1539 and 1542, the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto led a small army on an expedition of almost four thousand miles across Southeastern America. De Soto's path had been one of history's most intriguing mysteries until the publication of ... Leer más

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  • Infamy

    The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

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  • The Rise of the Tudors

    The Family That Changed English History

    The epic story of treachery and ruthlessness, death and deception, and the birth of the dynasty that produced Henry VIII and Elizabeth I—"An authoritative overview of the causes and consequences of the most important battle in all of the War of the Roses" (Philippa Gregory).On the morning of August 22, 1485, in fields several miles from Bosworth, two armies faced each other, ready for battle. The ... Leer más

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