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Torture and State Violence in the United States
A Short Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The war on terror has brought to light troubling actions by the United States government which many claim amount to torture. But as this book shows, state-sanctioned violence and degrading, cruel, and unusual punishments have a long and contentious history in the nation.
Organized around five...
by Allan Mclaughlin, Allan Mclaughlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
After the Peace of Paris in 1783, and the birth of a new nation on the American continent, home-seekers arriving at ports of the United States were called immigrants. Previous to the revolutionary war they were known as colonists. The distinction is one of political allegiance. The colonist was an...
Moments That Made America
Moments That Made America, #1
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
If logic means anything, there should be no such nation as the United States of America. Except for a remarkable set of circumstances, some of them bordering on the miraculous, the United States should not exist. The fact that this unique nation is here at all, defies rational explanation. Throughout...
by Brig. Gen. Tran Dinh Tho
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes over 50 maps and illustrations
This monograph forms part of the Indochina Monograph series written by senior military personnel from the former Army of the Republic of Vietnam who served against the northern communist invasion.
“For several years Cambodia, under the leadership...
United States Army In WWII - The Pacific - Guadalcanal: The First Offensive
[Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Includes 3 charts, 36 maps and 107 illustrations]
"The successes of the South Pacific Force," wrote Admiral Halsey in 1944, "were not the achievements of separate services or individuals but the result of whole-hearted subordination of self-interest by all in order that one successful...
Berdan's United States Sharpshooters in the Army of the Potomac
1861~1865 (Abridged, Annotated)
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Dispensing 52-caliber death at long distance was their specialty and it made them a favorite target. With their Colts, Sharps, and Whitworth globe rifles, led by one of the world's premier marksmen, Berdan's sharpshooters played an important role at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Brandy...
by John Adams
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
In this third and final volume of A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, John Adams brings to a close his lengthy argument against "collecting all authority into one center."
By first continuing his exposition of the Italian republics of the...
America Entering World War I (1917-1918)
The U.S. Army Before the War, Mobilization of Manpower, Building the American Expeditionary Forces, American Soldiers Begin Arriving, Men and Materiel, The AEF Joins the Fight
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
America's entry into the World War in April 1917 presented the United States Army with its greatest challenge in the nation's history. This book examines the U.S. Army's involvement in the Great War from the declaration of war on 6 April 1917 through the initial phase of the German Spring Offensive...
The New World Power
American Foreign Policy, 1898-1917
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
From the era of the Spanish American war onward, the United States found itself increasingly involved in the affairs of countries beyond North America. The New World Power offers an interpretive framework for understanding U.S. foreign policy during the first two decades of America's emergence as...
The Modern Mercenary
Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
It was 2004, and Sean McFate had a mission in Burundi: to keep the president alive and prevent the country from spiraling into genocide, without anyone knowing that the United States was involved. The United States was, of course, involved, but only through McFate's employer, the military contractor...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Following the Second World War, the United States assumed the mantle of world leadership from Great Britain and faced two concurrent pressures on the world order: communism and anti-colonialism....
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
This unique and informative paper was produced by the National Intelligence University / National Defense Intelligence College. The Blue Planet: Informal International Police Networks and National Intelligence, makes a powerful argument for why the United States needs to make better use of its federal...
Union and Confederate Civil War Strategies
A 59-Minute Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2018
The Civil War is an enormously important event in our nation's history, and not just a fleeting disagreement about slavery between the northern and southern states. As such, it has impacted our country's political course into modern day. The results of the Civil War reinforced the motto, E pluribus...
Surviving Genocide
Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion
In this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned...