Michigan's Early Military Forces (Great Lakes Books)
Michigan has long been proud of its military service, but many of its early accomplishments are unknown to most of the state's residents. This book fills the void in our knowledge by bringing together an impressive array of information on Michigan's armed forces from 1775 to 1860. Here we find the name rank, unit, and dates of service for all known Michigan men who served in the Revolutionary War, Indian Wars, War of 1812, Black Hawk War, Toledo War, Patriot War, and the Mexican-American War. Ac...
The Nazi Party was a model of fanatical political efficiency in furthering the goals of Hitler's dictatorship and at the same time an organization that attracted many careerists and some of the most undesirable elements of society. This monumental book traces the rise and fall of this notorious party. This is the only book to cover the entire period of the Nazi Party's existence, from its humble desperate beginnings in 1919 to the catastrophe of 1945 and its universal banishment as a criminal...
Walter Model ranks among the foremost commanders of the German Wehrmacht. This is recognised by both German and foreign military historians. But Model was also one of the most brutal German Generals. Whenever he assumed a new command, he showered his staff officers with insults which hurt their dignity and led many of them to request their transfer. The higher Model rose in rank, the more offensive his behaviour became. This book tells the story of Walter Model's career, beginning with his yout...
World War I: Naval Warfare 1914 - 1918 (The History of World War I)
by Edward J Erickson
At the start of the war, the German Empire had cruisers scattered across the globe, some of which were subsequently used to attack Allied merchant shipping. The British Royal Navy systematically hunted them down, though not without some embarrassment from its inability to protect Allied shipping. However, the bulk of the German East-Asia squadron did not have orders to raid shipping and was instead underway to Germany when it encountered elements of the British fleet. Soon after the outbreak of...
The Cradle of Secession's illustrious Civil War experience.
Modelling the Messerschmitt Bf 109b/C/D/E (Osprey Modelling, #32)
by Brett Green
The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was the most prominent German fighter type of World War II - over 35,000 were built and it served in many different variants and roles throughout the course of the war. This book is the first in a series of three covering the entire history of the Bf 109. It describes the range of kits available for the early and pre-war variants, including the Bf 109s that flew in the Spanish Civil War, Poland, France and the Battle of Britain. Author Brett Green also includes the full...
In 1862 at the age of thirty-two, Centreville, Michigan, physician John Bennitt joined the 19th Michigan Infantry Regiment as an assistant surgeon and remained in military service for the rest of the war. During this time Bennitt wrote more than two hundred letters home to his wife and daughters sharing his careful and detailed observations of army life, his medical trials in the field and army hospitals, dramatic battles, and character sketches of the people he encountered, including his regime...
Area 51 - Black Jets: A History of the Aircraft Developed at Groom Lake, America's Secret Aviation Base
by Bill Yenne
Rising Star of Promise
by David Jackson Logan, Samuel N. Thomas, Jr., and Jason H. Silverman
The Wartime Diary and Letters of David Jackson Logan, 17th South Carolina Volunteers, 1861-1864. The first book-length treatment of the 17th South Carolina Volunteers, based on David J. Logan's newspaper articles, diaries and journals. Logan's letters home also provide rare insight into the relationship between Civil War husband and wife.
The "Wars of the Bushes" is a fascinating study of the United States' foreign policy and the military engagements waged during the two Bush presidencies. Historian Stephen Tanner deftly argues that the current president's foreign policy is seriously at odds with the first President Bush's successful recipe of broad-based global alliances, clear-cut political goals, and quick, decisive wars. Tanner's study begins with an examination of George H. W. Bush's career. Bush's own wartime experiences, c...
Fireforce as a military concept dates from 1974 when the Rhodesian Air Force (RhAF) acquired the French MG151 20mm cannon from the Portuguese. Coupled with this, the traditional counter-insurgency tactics of follow-ups, tracking and ambushing against Mugabe's ZANLA and Nkomo's ZIPRA, simply weren't producing satisfactory results. Visionary RhAF and Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI) officers thus expanded on the idea of a `vertical envelopment' of the enemy (first practised by SAS paratroopers in Mo...
North American F-86D/L Sabre Dog (Adc Interceptor, #1)
by Chris Banyai-Riepl
War exposes the divide between who we think we are and how we behave in extreme situations. Sheri Snively, who served as a Quaker chaplain with the U.S. Navy, has crafted a vivid, unsettling, and ultimately hopeful personal account of the effects of the Iraq war on soldiers and civilians in Heaven in the Midst of Hell. As she served with the Marines working amid the boredom, ten-sion, and seemingly meaningless carnage at a trauma hospital between Ramadi and Fallujah, Commander Snively experience...