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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
�1993
Language
English
Description
A classic compendium of and reference guide to the military history of the world - the wars, combat operations, and growth of military arts: tactics, strategy, and weaponry. New, updated, and revised to include new discoveries about the use of weapons in ancient China, upheavals in Lebanon, the winding down of the Soviet-Afghanistan war, the invasions of Grenada and Panama by U.S. forces, the war in the Persian Gulf, and the collapse of the Soviet...
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
In North America geography has shaped the course of military history as it has nowhere else in the world. Our vast interior spaces, huge mountain ranges, extensive river systems, and boundless prairies have determined each critical conflict for control of the continent. Guided by this central insight, the acclaimed military historian John Keegan takes us on a tour of every major fortification and scene of battle in North America, from the arrival...
Author
Publisher
Woodchuck Hollow Press
Language
English
Description
World War II in the Pacific Theater, oral histories collected from over 30 U.S. veterans, told in their own words.
"At the height of World War II, Look Magazine profiled a small upstate New York community for a series of articles portraying it as the wholesome, patriotic model of life on the home front. Seventy years later, a high school history teacher and his students track down over two dozen veterans residing around "Hometown, USA" ..."--
90) America at war
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
�2008
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems about America at war from the Revolution to the Iraq war.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The powerful and riveting new audiobook in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill OReilly and Martin Dugard Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. Killing the Rising Sun takes readers to the bloody tropical-island...
Author
Language
English
Description
This book tells the riveting story of one of the most heroic battles in American history. On General Douglas MacArthur's orders, a force of 12,000 U.S. Marines was marching north to the Yalu River in late November 1950. These three Marine regiments of the 1st Marine Division -- strung out along eighty miles of a narrow mountain road -- soon found themselves completely surrounded by 60,000 Chinese soldiers. Despite being given up for lost by the military...
100) Warriors
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A overview of warriors throughout history--from Ancient Greece to the Middle Ages--the equipment they used, and the most famous warriors in history"--
