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Explores the relationship between American General Joseph ""Vinegar Joe"" Stilwell and British Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten in the China-Burma-India Theater (CBI) and the South East Asia Command (SEAC) between October 1943 and October 1944, within the wider context of Anglo-American relations during World War II.

Despite popular belief, the Civil War did not end when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox in April 1865. The Confederacy still had tens of thousands of soldiers under arms, in three main field armies and countless smaller commands. The book tells the actual story of the messy and complicated end to the Confederacy.

Analyses the performance of the US Army and US Marine Corps in urban combat in four major urban battles of the mid-twentieth century (Aachen 1944, Manila 1945, Seoul 1950, and Hue 1968). Alec Wahlman assesses each battle using a similar framework of capability categories. Separate chapters address urban warfare in American military thought.

The US Marine Corps Combined Action Platoons (CAPs) lived in Vietnamese villages, with the mission of defending the villages. Ted Easterling examines how well the CAPs performed as a counterinsurgency method, how the Marines adjusted to life in the Vietnamese villages, and how they worked to accomplish their mission.

Makes the case that the wartime experiences of combat units such as the Tank Battalions and the Tuskegee Airmen ultimately convinced President Truman to desegregate the military, without which the progress of the Civil Rights Movement might also have been delayed.