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  • av Jonathan M. House
    637,-

    The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the 1950s and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affected millions of lives. This book is the first comprehensive, multinational overview of military affairs during the early Cold War, beginning with conflicts during World War II in Warsaw, Athens, and Saigon and ending with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

  • av Nathaniel Jarrett
    446,-

  • - General Dominique Vandamme
    av John G. Gallaher
    389 - 526,-

    A dedicated career soldier and excellent division and corps commander, Dominique Vandamme was a thorn in the side of practically every officer he served. In this first book-length study of Vandamme in English, John Gallaher traces the career of one of Napoleon's most successful midrank officers.

  • - Britain's Citizen-Soldiers and the South African War, 1899-1902
    av Stephen M. Miller
    526,-

    Focuses on the connection between Britain's auxiliary forces - volunteers, militia, and yeomanry - and its imperial mission during the late Victorian era, looking especially at why the British war effort came to depend on their performance.

  • av Sarah C. Melville
    355 - 457,-

    Backed by an unparalleled military force, Sargon II outwitted and outfought powerful competitors to extend Assyrian territory and secure his throne. As Sarah Melville shows in this analysis of his campaigns, the king used his army not just to conquer but also to ensure regional security, manage his resources, and support his political agenda.

  • - A Critique of Waterloo
    av Carl von Clausewitz
    492,-

  • - The British Regiment on Campaign, 1808-1815
    av Andrew Bamford
    577,-

  • - The Battle for Monterrey, Mexico, 1846
    av Christopher D. Dishman
    355,-

  • - Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy
    av Benjamin Armstrong
    275,-

    Benjamin Armstrong sets out to take irregular naval warfare out of the shadow of the blue-water battles that dominate naval history. This book, the first historical study of its kind, makes a compelling case for raiding and irregular naval warfare as key elements in the story of American sea power.

  • - Cornwallis and the British March to Yorktown
    av Stanley D.M. Carpenter
    389,-

    Presents a closely observed, comprehensive account of Britain's failed strategy in the American South during the American War for Independence. Approaching the campaign from the British perspective, this book restores a critical but little-studied chapter to the narrative of the Revolutionary War.

  • - An Atlantic Microcosm, 1755-1772
    av Alexander V. Campbell
    423,-

    In the wake of Braddock's defeat at Fort Duquesne in 1755, the British army raised the 60th, or Royal American, Regiment of Foot to fight the French and Indian War. As Alexander Campbell shows, the inclusion of foreign mercenaries and immigrant colonists alongside British volunteers made the RAR a microcosm of the Atlantic world.

  • - A Canadian Regiment, the Continental Army, and American Union
    av Holly A. Mayer
    560,-

    The 2nd Canadian Regiment was one of the first 'national' regiments in the American army. In this study of the regiment, Holly Mayer marshals personal and official accounts to reveal what the personal passions, hardships, and accommodations of the 2nd Canadian can tell us about the greater military and civil dynamics of the American Revolution.

  • - Americans under British Command, 1918
    av Mitchell A. Yockelson
    355,-

    The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the war's end. Yet despite the importance of this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant attention from historians.

  • - The Politics of Command in the Late Victorian Army
    av Ian F. W. Beckett
    577,-

    Within the context of debates about both the evolution of Victorian professions and the nature of military professionalism, F.W. Beckett considers the late Victorian officer corps as a case study for weighing distinctions between the British soldier and his civilian counterparts.

  • - Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592-1598
    av Kenneth M. Swope
    389,-

    Presents the first full-length scholarly study in English of the invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592. Drawing on Korean, Japanese, and especially Chinese sources, he corrects the Japan-centred perspective of previous accounts.

  • - The 81st Infantry Division's Pacific Campaign
    av Bobby C. Blair
    355,-

    When the 1st Marine Division began its invasion of Peleliu in September 1944, the operation in the South Pacific was to take but four days. In fact, capturing this small coral island in the Palaus with its strategic airstrip took two months. Bobby Blair and John Peter DeCioccio tell the story of this campaign through the eyes of the 81st Infantry.

  • - Scourge of Napoleon
    av Michael V. Leggiere
    370,-

    One of the most colourful characters in the Napoleonic pantheon, Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher is best known as the Prussian general who, with the Duke of Wellington, defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. This biography by Michael Leggiere is the first scholarly book in English to explore Blucher's life and military career - and his impact on Napoleon.

  • - Tactical Reform of the British Army, 1902-1914
    av Spencer Jones
    355,-

    The first book to address specific connections between the Boer War and the opening months of World War I, Spencer Jones's fresh interpretation adds to the historiography of both wars by emphasizing the continuity between them.

  • - African American Patriots in the American Revolution
    av Judith L Van Buskirk
    389,-

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