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A biography of one of the Confederacy's fighting generals, Patrick Cleburne. Symonds seeks to provide insights into the dialogue between society, culture, and personality, on one side, and Civil War military leadership on the other.

Examines how the issue of the Vietnam War shaped the leadership of six presidents, and vice versa. Focusing on the personalities, politics, priorities and actions of the presidents, the contributors consider the expansion of presidential power in foreign-policy formulation since World War II.

This text examines the role of the news media during the Vietnam War. The author aims to demystify the subject, using military documents and news reports to explore how the press contradicted themselves and each other and how the war came to be seen as a hopeless effort.

The definitive biography of George Henry Thomas, who is often counted among the Union's top five generals. Provides a new and more complete look at a man known to history as "the Rock of Chickamauga" and to General William T. Ssherman as a soldier who was "as true as steel."

An account of the Vietnam War, as seen by the American PFCs, sergeants and platoon leaders in the rivers and jungles and trenches. Into their stories, Lehrack has woven a narrative that explains the events they describe and places them into both a historical and a political context.

This recollection of the Civil War documents the armies on the move and incorporates biographical sketches and stories of bravery.

This study reveals the rich exchange of wartime intelligence between the Anglo-American allies and the Soviet Union, as well as the procedures and politics that made such an exchange possible. The book demonstrates that the demand for intelligence outpaced the ability of any one ally to produce it.

It was Willaim Tecumseh Sherman who both articulated and practiced the relentless scorched-earth policy that broke the heart of the Confederacy. This work illuminates the emotional as well as the intellectual, ideological and occupational lives of this Victorian American.

This volume celebrates one of America's most prominent establishments. It provides a history of the academy, featuring contemporary research and perspectives. It tells how the institution was created to embody the vision of Jefferson, and how it has developed to meet needs of the times.

An account of the GI offensive in Europe. From the mobilization of an ill-trained and poorly-equipped army in 1940 to the juggernaut of 69 infantry divisions in 1945, Peter R. Mansoor provides an analysis of the long and bloody road to victory over the German army.

Beginning with the first regiments formed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, this book chronicles how American militia-men have transformed themselves from a loose collection of local defence forces into a modern efficient reserve force.

Mary Glantz analyzes tensions shaping the policy stance of the US toward the Soviet Union before, during, and immediately after World War II. She shows how career officers were able to resist and shape presidential policy - and how their critical views helped shape the parameters of the subsequent Cold War.

General Walter Krueger is still one of the least-known army commanders of World War II. This book resurrects the brilliant career of this great military leader while deepening our understanding of the Pacific War. By showing how he breathed life into Pacific war strategy, it gives him that credit and fills a gap in American military history.

A documentary and statistical foundation for Colossus Reborn. Its includes a roster of the senior command cadre during wartime, a description of the army's weaponry and equipment, and a listing of the Red Army's and NKVD's order of battle at six crucial points from June 22, 1941, through December 31, 1943.

Winner of the US Civil War Center Ribbon of Honor.

When American and South Vietnamese forces attacked Cambodia in 1970, the invasion ignited a firestorm of violent anti-war protests in the US. Based on research and analysis of the Cambodian invasion's objectives, planning, organization, and operations, this study encourages respect for one of America's genuine military successes during the war.

One of the most important public figures in antebellum America, Winfield Scott is known today more for his swagger than his sword. "Old Fuss-and-Feathers" was a brilliant military commander whose tactics and strategy were innovative adaptations from European military theory; yet he was often under appreciated by his contemporaries and until recently overlooked by historians.

A panoramic new look at the critical role of Corinth, Mississippi in the Civil War. Vividly details the nearly year-long campaign that opened the way to Vicksburg and presaged the Confederacy's defeat in the West.

No mission too difficult, no sacrifice too great - Duty First!"" For a century, from the Western Front of World War I to the wars of the 21st century, this motto has spurred the soldiers who wear the shoulder patch bearing the Big Red One. In this comprehensive history of Americas 1st Infantry Division, James Scott Wheeler chronicles its major combat engagements and peacetime duties.

David Glantz recounts the miraculous resurrection of the Red Army, which, with a dazzling display of military strategy and operational prowess, stopped the Wehrmacht in its tracks and turned the tide of war. He offers insights into its doctrine, strategy, tactics, weaponry, training, officer corps, and political leadership..

Long the neglected stepchild in studies of World War II air campaigns, German anti-aircraft units have been frequently dismissed by historians as ineffective weapons that wasted valuable resources. Edward Westermann disagrees with that view and makes a convincing case for the contributions made by the range of German anti-aircraft defenses.

Nathan Bedford Forrest was a renowned cavalryman who fought during the American Civil War. This book presents an analysis of his life, from childhood in Mississippi, to wealth from the slave trade, his role as founder and Grand Wizard of the first Ku Klux Klan, and his death.

On June 11, 1937, a closed military court ordered the execution of a group of the Soviet Union's most talented and experienced army officers, including Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevskii; all were charged with participating in a Nazi plot to overthrow the regime of Joseph Stalin. There followed a massive military purge, from the officer corps through the rank-and-file, that many consider a major factor in the Red Army's dismal performance in confronting the German invasion of June 1941. Why take such action on the eve of a major war? The most common theory has Stalin fabricating a "e;military conspiracy"e; to tighten his control over the Soviet state. In The Red Army and the Great Terror, Peter Whitewood advances an entirely new explanation for Stalin's actionsan explanation with the potential to unlock the mysteries that still surround the Great Terror, the surge of political repression in the late 1930s in which over one million Soviet people were imprisoned in labor camps and over 750,000 executed.Framing his study within the context of Soviet civil-military relations dating back to the 1917 revolution, Whitewood shows that Stalin sanctioned this attack on the Red Army not from a position of confidence and strength, but from one of weakness and misperception. Here we see how Stalin's views had been poisoned by the paranoid accusations of his secret police, who saw spies and supporters of the dead Tsar everywhere and who had long believed that the Red Army was vulnerable to infiltration by foreign intelligence agencies engaged in a conspiracy against the Soviet state. Recently opened Russian archives allow Whitewood to counter the accounts of Soviet defectors and conspiracy theories that have long underpinned conventional wisdom on the military purge. By broadening our view, The Red Army and the Great Terror demonstrates not only why Tukhachevskii and his associates were purged in 1937, but also why tens of thousands of other officers and soldiers were discharged and arrested at the same time. With its thorough reassessment of these events, the book sheds new light on the nature of power, state violence, and civil-military relations under the Stalinist regime.

This single volume work serves as an introduction and overview of the authors Stalingrad trilogy that transformed our understanding of the Nazi Soviet War and its impact on world history.