Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families
The History of the Navy of the United States of America. Volume 1 of 2
by James Fenimore Cooper
So You Think You Know Antietam?
by James Gindlesperger and Suzanne Gindlesperger
September 17, 2012, marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam-America's bloodiest day. To the people in the North it was Antietam, after the stream whose name translated from the Native American as the swift current. Those in the South referred to it as Sharpsburg, after the nearby town. Whatever the name, this much is undisputed: it was the bloodiest one-day battle in United States history. Following just 12 hours of combat, some 23,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded, or mis...
Merriam Press Military Monograph MM36 (Seventh Edition, 2011). Extremely detailed day-by-day chronological history of the entire campaign in the Philippines during the first six months after America's entry into the war. Considerable information on units, personalities, combat, and more. Allows you to follow the conduct of the entire campaign in context, and to more easily relate this slice of World War II with other aspects of the war at the same time. Contents: Dedication; Introduction; Decemb...
This book is crafted around soldiers’ personal descriptions of their war experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq that culminate in life-altering injuries to the brain and psyche, along with the equally dramatic story of their recoveries. An irony of America’s 21st century wars has been that while our combat medical and medevac capabilities have grown enormously (from a rough average of 4:1 wounded to dead in World War II to 8:1 today), the nature of many of America’s soldiers’ wounds has undergone a...
The Gettysburg Campaign and its culminating battle have generatedmore than their share of analysis and published works. In My Gettysburg, Civil War scholar and twenty-six-year Gettysburg resident Mark Snell goes beyond the campaign itself to explore the "culture" of the battlefield. In this fascinating collection, Snell provides an intriguing interpretation of some neglected military aspects of the battle, such as a revisionist study of Judson Kilpatrick's decision to launch ""Farnsworth's Char...
American Heritage Illustrated History of the United States Vol. 7 (American Heritage Illustrated History of the United States,, #7)
by Robert G. Athearn
A History of African Americans in the Segregated United States Military
by Naurice Frank Woods
A fast-paced and absorbing read of the final months of the vital Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War. Thousands of miles from friendly ports, the US Navy fought to turn the tide of World War II. Jeffrey Cox turns his razor-sharp focus to these final months of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign. This is the central plotline running through this page-turning history beginning with the Japanese Operation I and the American ambush of Admiral Yamamoto; continuing with the Allied inva...
If there's one conflict that was remarkable from a lot of points of view, it was the American Civil War, better known in France as the War of Secession. In this war the armies of the South opposed those of the North - the Union - of the almost hundred-years old republic of the United States of (North) America; it remains in the annals as the last classic war - in certain aspects the heir to the Napoleonic wars - and the first real modern war of the 20th Century in which "state of the art" techno...
Ultimate Guide to U.S. Special Forces Skills, Tactics, and Techniques (Ultimate Guides)
Everyone knows that members of the U.S. Special Forces are the top-shelf, creme de la creme, A-Number-Ones, specially hand-picked people to train and serve as the avant garde of the largest, most well-funded military on the face of the earth. But that doesn't happen overnight! There are special training procedures-over and above basic training-that turn a swabbie into a SEAL, a grunt into a Green Beret, or a runt into a Ranger. Collected here for the first time is official information on USSF...
Military demolitions are the destruction by fire, water, explosive, and mechanical means of areas, structures, facilities, or materials to accomplish a military objective. The U.S. Army Explosives and Demolitions Handbook is a guide to the use of explosives in the destruction of military obstacles from the Department of the U.S. Army. This guide includes information on types, characteristics, and uses of explosives and auxiliary equipment; preparation, placement, and firing of charges; safety pr...
This thirteenth and final volume of the series devoted to the papers of General Nathanael Greene includes correspondence to and from Greene from the end of the Revolutionary War up to his death in June 1786. It concludes with an epilogue and an addendum of forty-six documents that have come to light since the volumes in which they would have appeared have been published. The documents presented here trace the dismissal of the Southern Army and details of salutes offered to Greene by the citizen...
This is the story of the oldest warship afloat in the world, the venerable frigate USS Constitution, the cornerstone of the nascent American navy created by act of Congress in 1794. To set the stage for the dominance of this remarkable vessel, military historian Colonel David Fitz-Enz re-creates the world of sail, when seven knots an hour was considered blinding speed for a warship. In Old Ironsides (a nickname the boat received after a British sailor observed a cannonball bouncing off its side)...
Faded Glory: A Century of Forgotten Texas Military Sites, Then and Now (Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humani)
by Thomas E Alexander and Dan K Utley
The seventh volume of the Papers of Nathanael Greene documents a crucial period of the American Revolution in the South. In the first months of 1781, Nathanael Greene, who had taken command of the Southern Army only weeks before, initiated the campaign that would ultimately free the South from British occupation. These months saw the pivotal engagement at Cowpens, the 'Race to the Dan' - in which Greene's army marched the breadth of North Carolina with the British in close pursuit - and the clim...