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  • U.S. Marines In Battle: An-Nasiriyah, 23 March-2 April 2003 [Illustrated Edition]

    Includes over 9 maps, 23 diagrams and illustrations.On 23 March 2003, 5,800 U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy Corpsmen-the warriors of Task Force Tarawa-began fighting a ferocious battle in the city of an-Nasiriyah, Iraq. As the first large-scale battle fought by U.S. Marines in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Nasiriyah became a test of the Coalition's ability and resolve to defeat a determined, resourceful foe ... Leer más

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  • The Marines' Fight for Survival

    War, Politics, and Institutional Crisis, 1945-1952

    Series series Studies in Civil-Military Relations
    The compelling history of how the US Marines and their allies fought to preserve the Corps and establish its role in national defense.Only five years after Marines raised the American flag on Iwo Jima, the United States Marine Corps was close to becoming a hollow force. A parsimonious Truman administration and a hostile defense secretary, Louis Johnson, had reduced the Corps to a handful of ... Leer más

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  • Southampton Reflections

    Series series Reflections
    Southampton has been a major port on England’s south coast since the medieval era and sections of the ancient city walls remain today. In the nineteenth century the town expanded further following the formation of the Southampton Docks Company, the building of a railway connection with London, and the growth of shipbuilding and other related industries. Devastated by aerial bombardment in the ... Leer más

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  • Long Gray Lines

    The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915

    de Rod Andrew ...
    Military training was a prominent feature of higher education across the nineteenth-century South. Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel, as well as land-grant schools such as Texas A&M, Auburn, and Clemson, organized themselves on a military basis, requiring their male students to wear uniforms, join a corps of cadets, and subject themselves to constant military discipline. Several southern ... Leer más

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  • Wade Hampton

    Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer

    Series series Civil War America
    One of the South’s most illustrious military leaders, Wade Hampton III was for a time the commander of all Lee’s cavalry and at the end of the war was the highest-ranking Confederate cavalry officer. Yet for all Hampton’s military victories, he also suffered devastating losses in his family and personal life. Rod Andrew’s critical biography sheds light on his central role during Reconstruction as ... Leer más

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  • The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens

    Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder

    Andrew Pickens (1739–1817), the hard-fighting South Carolina militia commander of the American Revolution, was the hero of many victories against British and Loyalist forces. In this book, Rod Andrew Jr. offers an authoritative and comprehensive biography of Pickens the man, the general, the planter, and the diplomat. Andrew vividly depicts Pickens as he founds churches, acquires slaves, joins the ... Leer más

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  • Southampton The Postcard Collection

    Series series The Postcard Collection
    The city of Southampton, lying on the south coast in Hampshire, has seen massive changes over the years. Its favoured location on the natural harbour of Southampton Water enabled it to develop as a major port, and it saw particularly rapid growth in Victorian times with the development of the docks and related shipbuilding industries. Significant areas of the city were destroyed in the Second ... Leer más

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  • Southampton Memories

    People and Places

    Series series Memories
    Southampton is now part of a huge metropolitan area running along the south coast in Hampshire. The city has seen massive changes over the years and although its history goes back many centuries, it saw particularly rapid growth in Victorian times with the development of the docks and related shipbuilding industries. Significant areas of the city were destroyed in the Second World War. The ... Leer más

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  • Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

    The Civil War Era

    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at ... Leer más

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  • Twilight of the Gods

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    de Ian W. Toll ...
    Series Libro 3 - The Pacific War Trilogy
    **New York Times Bestseller“No one has told the story of World War II in the Pacific, from beginning to bitter end, better than Ian W. Toll. This final volume concludes a brilliant trilogy.”—Alex Kershaw, New York Times best-selling author of The First Wave and Avenue of Spies**In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The ... Leer más

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  • Grant

    Ulysses S. Grant was the first four-star general in the history of the United States Army and the only president between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson to serve eight consecutive years in the White House. As general in chief, Grant revolutionized modern warfare. Rather than capture enemy territory or march on Southern cities, he concentrated on engaging and defeating the Confederate armies in ... Leer más

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