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Author
Series
Second World War volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1949
Edition
Chartwell ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 751 p. : maps, port. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 413 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From an acclaimed military historian, the interlocking lives of three of the most important and consequential generals in World War II. Born in the two decades prior to World War I, George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel became among the most recognized and successful military leaders of the twentieth century. However, as acclaimed military historian Lloyd Clark reveals in his penetrating and insightful braided chronicle of their lives,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The High Command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. The men in charge all too frequently appeared to be fighting against the administration in Washington instead of for it, increasingly cast as political pawns facing down a vindictive congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War. President...
44) Obama's wars
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Formats
Description
Woodward shows Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret war in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
447 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Autumn of the Black Snake tells the overlooked story of how Washington achieved his aim. In evocative and absorbing prose, William Hogeland conjures up the woodland battles and the hardball politics that formed the Legion of the United States, our first true standing army. His memorable portraits of leaders on both sides?from the daring war chiefs Blue Jacket and Little Turtle to the doomed commander Richard Butler and a steely, even ruthless Washington?drive...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
784 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An account of the life and career of the thirty-fourth president presents an analysis of his character as drawn from letters, diaries, historical documents, and other sources, in a volume that discusses his pivotal contributions throughout World War II.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the tide of the Civil War turned in the spring of 1865, Abraham Lincoln took a dangerous two-week trip to visit the troops on the front lines accompanied by his young son, seeing combat up close, meeting liberated slaves in the ruins of Richmond, and comforting wounded Union and Confederate soldiers. he power of Lincoln?s personal example in the closing days of the war offers a portrait of a peacemaker. He did not demonize people he disagreed with....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiv, 480 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Even now, after more than fifteen years, it is hard to see the invasion of Iraq through the cool, considered gaze of history. For too many people, the damage is still too palpable, and still unfolding. Most of the major players in that decision are still with us, and few are not haunted by it, in one way or another. Perhaps that combination, the passage of the years and the still unresolved trauma, explains why so many protagonists opened up so fully...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps, portraits, photographs ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Black Snow brilliantly vivifies the horrific reality of the most destructive air attack in history, against Tokyo on the night of March 9-10, 1945. James Scott deftly employs sharply etched portraits of individuals of all stations and nationalities to survey the global, technological, and moral backdrop of the cataclysm, including the searing experiences of Japanese trapped in a gigantic firestorm. This riveting account illuminates an historical...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 497 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"The American president has come to be the most powerful figure in the world--and in the nineteenth century, a great man held that office. Lincoln scholar Miller's new book closely examines that great man in that hugely important office, analyzing the commander in chief who coped with the profound moral dilemmas of America's bloodiest war. In this sequel to Lincoln's Virtues Miller completes his 'ethical biography,' showing the inexperienced backcountry...
Author
Publisher
Faber
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xvi, 397 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The true story of Ian Fleming's Second World War unit, the real-life inspiration for James Bond. In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming RNVR was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence - the dynamic figure behind James Bond's fictional chief, 'M'. In the Admiralty, Fleming had a brilliant idea: why not set up a unit of authorised looters, men who would go in with front-line troops to steal enemy intelligence? Known as '30 Assault...
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xiv, 301 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy shows how Davis shaped and articulated the principal policy of the Confederacy with clarity and force and, like no other chief executive in American history, exercised a tenacious hands-on influence in the shaping of military strategy.
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