The University Press Of Kentucky imprint: 774 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Though Abraham Lincoln has been the subject of numerous biographies, his personality remains an enigma. During his lifetime, Lincoln prepared two sketches of his life for the 1860 presidential race. These brief campaign portraits serve as the core around which Paul Zall weaves extracts from correspondence,...
Nothing Less Than War
A New History of America's Entry into World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
When war broke out in Europe in 1914, political leaders in the United States were swayed by popular opinion to remain neutral; yet less than three years later, the nation declared war on Germany. In Nothing Less Than War: A New History of America's Entry into World War I, Justus D. Doenecke examines...
The Art of Command
Military Leadership from George Washington to Colin Powell
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
What essential leadership lessons do we learn by distilling the actions and ideas of great military commanders such as George Washington, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Colin Powell? That is the fundamental question underlying The Art of Command: Military Leadership from George Washington to Colin Powell....
The Art of Command
Military Leadership from George Washington to Colin Powell
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
What essential leadership lessons do we learn by distilling the actions and ideas of great military commanders such as George Washington, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Colin Powell? The Art of Command demonstrates that great leaders become great through a commitment not only to develop vital skills but...
The Dentist of Auschwitz
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In 1941 Berek Jakubowicz (now Benjamin Jacobs) was deported from his Polish village and remained a prisoner of the Reich until the final days of the war. His possession of a few dental tools and rudimentary skills saved his life. Jacobs helped assemble V1 and V2 rockets in Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau;...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2007
As the Civil War entered its first full calendar year for the Old Dominion, Virginians began to experience the full ramifications of the conflict. Their expectations for the coming year did not prepare them for what was about to happen; in 1862 the war became earnest and real, and the state became...
The Longest Rescue
The Life and Legacy of Vietnam POW William A. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
While serving as a crew chief aboard a U.S. Air Force Rescue helicopter, Airman First Class William A. Robinson was shot down and captured in Ha Tinh Province, North Vietnam, on September 20, 1965. After a brief stint at the "Hanoi Hilton," Robinson endured 2,703 days in multiple North Vietnamese...
A General Who Will Fight
The Leadership of Ulysses S. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Prior to his service in the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant exhibited few characteristics indicating that he would be an extraordinary leader. His performance as a cadet was mediocre, and he finished in the bottom half of his class at West Point. However, during his early service in the Civil War, most...
Gray Ghost
The Life of Col. John Singleton Mosby
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Confederate John Singleton Mosby forged his reputation on the most exhilarating of military activities: the overnight raid. Mosby possessed a genius for guerrilla and psychological warfare, taking control of the dark to make himself the "Gray Ghost" of Union nightmares. Gray Ghost, the first...
Freedom's Main Line
The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Black Americans in the Jim Crow South could not escape the grim reality of racial segregation, whether enforced by law or by custom. In Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides, author Derek Charles Catsam shows that courtrooms, classrooms, and cemeteries were not the...
Escape from Hitler's Europe
An American Airman behind Enemy Lines
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
"A hell of an adventure story." -- Ring Lardner Jr. "A story of what is best in human beings triumphing over what is worst." -- John Sayles November 1943: American flyer George Watt parachutes out of his burning warplane and lands in rural Nazi-occupied Belgium. Escape from Hitler's...
The War to End All Wars
The American Military Experience in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
The War to End All Wars is considered by many to be the best single account of America's participation in World War I. Covering famous battles, the birth of the air force, naval engagements, the War Department, and experiences of the troops, this indispensable volume is again available in paperback for students and general readers.
Maverick Marine
General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Smedley Butler's life and career epitomize the contradictory nature of American military policy through the first part of this century. Butler won renown as a Marine battlefield hero, campaigning in most of America's foreign military expeditions from 1898 to the late 1920s. He became the leading national...
Bomber Pilot
A Memoir of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
" Winner of the Best Aeronautical Book Award from the Reserve Officers Association of the United States "The sky was full of dying airplanes" as American Liberator bombers struggled to return to North Africa after their daring low-level raid on the oil refineries of Ploesti. They lost...