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When war erupted in Europe in 1914, American journalists hurried across the Atlantic ready to cover it the same way they had covered so many other wars. However, very little about this war was like any other. American Journalists in the Great War tells the dramatic stories of the journalists who covered World War I for the American public.

For its first eighty-five years, the United States was only a minor naval power. Its fledgling fleet had been virtually annihilated during the War of Independence and was mostly trapped in port by the end of the War of 1812. How this meagre presence became the major naval power it remains to this day is the subject of American Naval History, 1607-1865.

Chronicles the horrors of war and a rise and decline of American power and prestige

Reveals how Britain's diplomatic and naval authority in the early Victorian period was not circumstantial but rather based on real economic and naval strength as well as on resolute political leadership. The Royal Navy's main role in the nineteenth century was to be a deterrent force, a role it skilfully played.

In this first comprehensive study of the Regular Army in the Civil War, Clayton R. Newell and Charles R. Shrader focus primarily on the organisational history of the Regular Army and how it changed as an institution during the war, to emerge afterward as a reorganised and permanently expanded force. The eminent, award-winning military historian Edward M. Coffman provides a foreword.

Offers a study of the propaganda that targeted women and children during World War I.

This collection of essays reveal the centrality of visual media, particularly the poster, within the specific national contexts of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States during World War I. Ultimately, posters were not merely representations of popular understanding of the war, but instruments influencing the reach, meaning, and memory of the war in subtle and pervasive ways.

Fort Leavenworth, where Roger J. Spiller taught the US army's finest for twenty-five years, is indeed a ""school of war"". There, among military professionals, Spiller honed his remarkable skills as an analyst and historian, scholar and teacher. This volume brings together Spiller's original and thought-provoking explorations of wars big and small and armies glorified and ignored.

For more than three decades, the US Army's ""Troop Information"" program used films, radio programs, pamphlets, and lectures to stir patriotism and spark contempt for the enemy. Christopher S. DeRosa examines soldiers' formal political indoctrination, focusing on the political training of draftees and short-term volunteers from 1940 to 1973.

Examines the lives & experiences of British soldiers in the complex, evolving cultural frontiers in British America after the Seven Years War. Going beyond the war experience, this work explores various aspects of peacetime service, including the soldiers' diet and health, mental well-being, social life, transportation, and clothing.

Describes and analyzes the military history of the six key Arab states - Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Syria - during the post-World War II era. This book shows how each Arab military grew and learned from its own experiences in response to the objectives set within constrained political, economic, and social circumstances.