The University Press Of Kentucky: 775 books
Beetle
The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
A valued adviser and trusted insider in the highest echelon of U.S. military and political leaders, General Walter Bedell Smith began his public service career of more than forty years at age sixteen, when he joined the Indiana National Guard. His bulldog tenacity earned him an opportunity to work with...
by Paul M. Zall
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2006
Although he called himself merely a "printer" in his will, Benjamin Franklin could have also called himself a diplomat, a doctor, an electrician, a frontier general, an inventor, a journalist, a legislator, a librarian, a magistrate, a postmaster, a promoter, a publisher -- and a humorist....
General William E. DePuy
Preparing the Army for Modern War
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
From the late 1960s to the late 1970s, the United States Army was a demoralized institution in a country in the midst of a social revolution. The war in Vietnam had gone badly and public attitudes about it shifted from indifference, to acceptance, to protest. Army Chief of Staff General Creighton...
The Embattled Past
Reflections on Military History
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Internationally recognized for having reinvigorated and redefined his field, distinguished military historian Edward M. Coffman is a dedicated and much-admired teacher and mentor. In The Embattled Past, several of his most important essays have been assembled into a collection that serves as an essential...
The Quiet Professional
Major Richard J. Meadows of the U.S. Army Special Forces
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Major Richard J. "Dick" Meadows is renowned in military circles as a key figure in the development of the U.S. Army Special Operations. A highly decorated war veteran of the engagements in Korea and Vietnam, Meadows was instrumental in the founding of the U.S. Delta Force and hostage rescue force. Although...
Into the Wilderness
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
"When Thomas Jefferson sent a team of explorers to discover a way to the Pacific Ocean two hundred years ago, the western border of the United States was the Mississippi River. It was Jefferson's dream to uncover the mysteries of the distant lands beyond. In 1803, the president sent a team of thirty...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
Although nine of the former British colonies joined the United States before Virginia, the fate of the new republic depended heavily on the Commonwealth. With four of the first five American presidents, and many other founding fathers and framers of the Constitution, calling Virginia their home, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Between the epic battles of 1862 and the grueling and violent military campaigns that would follow, the year 1863 was oddly quiet for the Confederate state of Virginia. Only one major battle was fought on its soil, at Chancellorsville, and the conflict was one of the Army of Northern Virginia's greatest...
by Chris M. Calkins, Ginette Aley, Jaime Amanda Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
By January 1865, most of Virginia's schools were closed, many newspapers had ceased publication, businesses suffered, and food was scarce. Having endured major defeats on their home soil and the loss of much of the state's territory to the Union army, Virginia's Confederate soldiers began to desert...
The 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam
Unparalleled and Unequaled
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Of all the military assignments in Vietnam, perhaps none was more challenging than the defense of the Mekong River Delta region. Operating deep within the Viet Cong--controlled Delta, the 9th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army was charged with protecting the area and its population against Communist...
Brigadier General John D. Imboden
Confederate Commander in the Shenandoah
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
" John D. Imboden is an important but often overlooked figure in Civil War history. With only limited militia training, the Virginia lawyer and politician rose to the rank of brigadier general in the Confederate Army and commanded the Shenandoah Valley District, which had been created for Stonewall...
Voices from the Vietnam War
Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The Vietnam War's influence on politics, foreign policy, and subsequent military campaigns is the center of much debate and analysis. But the impact on veterans across the globe, as well as the war's effects on individual lives and communities, is a largely neglected issue. As a consequence of cultural...
The 25-Year War
America's Military Role in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
On April 30, 1975, Saigon and the government of South Vietnam fell to the communist regime of North Vietnam, ending -- for American military forces -- exactly twenty-five year of courageous but unavailing struggle. This is not the story of how America became embroiled in a conflict in a small country...
Unchained Voices
An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
In Unchained Voices, Vincent Carretta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century people of African descent, enabling many of these authors to be heard for the first time in two centuries.
Their writings reflect the surprisingly diverse experiences...