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United States Army in WWII - Europe - the Last Offensive
[Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Includes 26 maps and 92 illustrations]
The American armies that absorbed the shock of the German counteroffensives in the Ardennes and Alsace in the winter of 1944-45 were the most powerful and professional that the United States had yet put in the field. That this was the case was abundantly demonstrated...
United States Army in WWII - the Pacific - Leyte: the Return to the Philippines
[Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Includes 10 tables, 9 charts, 54 maps and 88 illustrations]
The landing of the American forces on Leyte on 20 October 1944 brought to fruition the long-cherished desire of General Douglas MacArthur to return to the Philippine Islands and avenge the humiliating reverses suffered in the early days...
Wilson's War
How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and World War I I
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The fateful blunder that radically altered the course of the twentieth century—and led to some of the most murderous dictators in history
President Woodrow Wilson famously rallied the United States to enter World War I by saying the nation had a duty to make “the world safe for democracy.”...
The United States of Trivia
Over 500 Fascinating Facts
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
American history isn't trivial
Where did the Pilgrims first land? Not Plymouth Rock. They actually made landfall in the New World at what is now Provincetown, Massachusetts. We've probably all used a safety pin or two at some point, but who invented it? Walter Hunt of New York, who made the...
by Willis John Abbot, H. W. McVicar, W. C. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
With the capture of the Chesapeake in June, 1813, we abandoned our story of the naval events along the coast of the United States, to follow Capt. Porter and his daring seamen on their long cruise into far-off seas. But while the men of the Essex were capturing whalers in the Pacific, chastising insolent...
Political Assassinations and Attempts in US History
The Lasting Effects of Gun Violence Against American Political Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The long, dark history of political violence in the United States.
Violence has been employed to achieve political objectives throughout history. Taking the life of a perceived enemy is as old as mankind. Antiquity is filled with examples of political murders, such as when Julius Caesar was felled...
by Michael Neureiter
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Essay from the year 2010 in the subject History - America, grade: 1,0, , course: U.S. History: From World War II to Present, language: English, abstract: This essay addresses the following scenario: You are a staffer for NCHE (National Council on History Education). The Board of Trustees has directed...
No Man's Land
Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
From South Africa in the nineteenth century to Hong Kong today, nations around the world, including the United States, have turned to guestworker programs to manage migration. These temporary labor recruitment systems represented a state-brokered compromise between employers who wanted foreign workers...
by Steven E. Woodworth
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
REA’s Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing...
Taken Hostage
The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive. Thus began the Iran Hostage Crisis, an affair that captivated the American public for 444 days and marked America's first confrontation with the forces of radical Islam. Using hundreds...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
This significant historical work produced by the U.S. Army Center of Military History about the overall history of the American Revolution. Excerpted from the Army Historical Series - American Military History, Volume 1, Second Edition, it provides a great overview of the Revolutionary War from the...
by John Bach McMaster
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
It has long been the custom to begin the history of our country with the discovery of the New World by Columbus. To some extent this is both wise and necessary; but in following it in this instance the attempt has been made to treat the colonial period as the childhood of the United States; to have it...
by Howard Zinn
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The Abridged Teaching Edition of A People's History of the United States has made Howard Zinn's original text available specifically for classroom use. With exercises and teaching materials to accompany each chapter, this edition spans American Beginnings, Reconstruction, the Civil War and through...
by John Wakefield
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.
History of the War between the United States and the Sac and Fox Nations of Indians is a contemporary account of the Black Hawk War.