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The American Revolution (Vol. 1-3)
Illustrated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This book on the American Revolution consists of three parts-a brief narrative history of the war, a chronology of military events, and a bibliography. Each part requires a word of explanation. The narrative consists of one chapter on the colonial background of American military history and two on...
Shades of Blue and Gray
An Introductory Military History of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
An introductory military history of the American Civil War, Shades of Blue and Gray places the 1861-1865 conflict within the broad context of evolving warfare. Emphasizing technology and its significant impact, Hattaway includes valuable material on land and sea mines, minesweepers, hand grenades,...
A Savage War
A Military History of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
How the Civil War changed the face of war
The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Part of our value-added professional format series, the Combatives Field Manual (FM 3-25.150, FM 21-150) contains information and guidance pertaining to rifle-bayonet fighting and hand-to-hand combat. The hand-to-hand combat portion of this manual is divided into basic and advanced training. This...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2012
Part of our value-added professional format series of U.S. military manuals, this U.S. Marine Corps manual covers logistics operations.
Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication (MCDP) 4, Logistics, describes the theory and philosophy of military logistics as practiced by the United States Marine...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Part of our value-added professional format series, the Civil Disturbance Operations Field Manual(FM 3-19.15, FM 19-15) addresses continental United States (CONUS) and outside continental United States (OCONUS) civil disturbance operations. Today, United States (US) forces are deployed on peacekeeping,...
From Victory to Stalemate
The Western Front, Summer 1944?Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
By the summer of 1944, the war in Europe had reached a critical point. Both the western Allies and the Soviets possessed the initiative and forces capable of mounting strategic offensives against the German enemy. Writing a study of operations on first the Western then Eastern Front, respected military...
Why Air Forces Fail
The Anatomy of Defeat
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
According to Robin Higham and Stephen J. Harris, "Flight has been part of the human dream for aeons, and its military application has likely been the dark side of that dream for almost as long." In the twentieth century, this dream and its dark side unfolded as the air forces of the world...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
This book examines the role that theater-level commanders in the UN and NATO played in influencing the use of airpower over Bosnia between the spring of 1993 and the end of 1995. It also uncovers factors explaining why top UN and NATO commanders in the region acted as they did. The central thesis...
by Defence Forces Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Explore the many testimonies and accounts of the surviving leaders, the veterans and volunteers who took part in the historic events of Ireland's 1916 Rising, the War of Independence and Civil War, along with a plethora of supporting documentation gathered from the participants through the unique...
Kalashnikov AK47 Series
The 7.62 x 39mm Assault Rifle in Detail
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Popularly known as the AK47 or just AK, the 7.62mm Avtomat Kalashnikov obrazets 1947g was accepted into service by the Soviet Army in 1947. Despite its widespread use by the Soviet armed forces, the AK only became known in the West during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, when Soviet troops sent to...
The Coming Draft
The Crisis in Our Military and Why Selective Service Is Wrong for America
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
A frustrating war and an endless occupation. The very real prospect of more conflict overseas. A military stretched beyond its breaking point. The stage is set for the resumption of the draft. Now, in an explosive and provocative book, Philip Gold, a former Marine and a disaffected conservative, reveals...
Warrior's Rage
The Great Tank Battle of 73 Easting
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
On 26 February 1991, cavalry troops of “Cougar Squadron,” the 2nd Squadron of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, charged out of a sandstorm during Operation Desert Storm and caught Iraq’s Republican Guard Corps in the open desert along the North-South grid line of a military map referred to as the...
Weird War
Curious Military Trivia
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
In this thought-provoking and highly entertaining book, noted historian Alan Axelrod (The Real History of World War II) takes readers on a journey through some of the lesser-known aspects of military history. In chapters such as Personality Parade ("Facts about commanders--the good, the bad, and the...