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Battalion Commanders at War

U.S. Army Tactical Leadership in the Mediterranean Theater, 1942-1943

by Steven Thomas Barry
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017

Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award Most histories of the U.S. Army in World War II view the Mediterranean Theater of Operations primarily as a deadly training ground for very green forces, where lessons learned on the beaches of Oran, in the hills of the Kasserine Pass area,...

Decent Interval

An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam

by Frank Snepp
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

Widely regarded as a classic on the Vietnam War, Decent Interval provides a scathing critique of the CIA's role in and final departure from that conflict. Still the most detailed and respected account of America’s final days in Vietnam, the book was written at great risk and ultimately at great...

The Fight for the Old North State

The Civil War in North Carolina, January-May 1864

by Hampton Newsome
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019

On a cold day in early January 1864, Robert E. Lee wrote to Confederate president Jefferson Davis “The time is at hand when, if an attempt can be made to capture the enemy’s forces at New Berne, it should be done.” Over the next few months, Lee’s dispatch would precipitate a momentous series...

Abandoning Vietnam

How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War

by James H. Willbanks
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018

Did America's departure from Vietnam produce the "peace with honor" promised by President Richard Nixon or was that simply an empty wish meant to distract war-weary Americans from a tragic "defeat with shame"? While James Willbanks doesn't offer any easy answers to that question,...

Military Justice in Vietnam

The Rule of Law in an American War

by William Thomas Allison
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017

The My Lai Massacre was the most publicized incident subjected to military law during the Vietnam War, but military lawyers in all the service branches had their hands full with less-publicized desertions, drug use, rapes, fraggings, black marketeering, and even small claims. William Allison reveals...
by Martin P. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

Four score and seven years ago . . . . Are any six words better known, of greater import, or from a more crucial moment in our nation's history? And yet after 150 years the dramatic and surprising story of how Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address has never been fully told. Until now. Martin...

Germany and the Axis Powers

From Coalition to Collapse

by Richard L. DiNardo
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017

It seemed that whenever Mussolini acted on his own, it was bad news for Hitler. Indeed, the Fuhrer's relations with his Axis partners were fraught with an almost total lack of coordination. Compared to the Allies, the coalition was hardly an alliance at all. Focusing on Germany's military relations...

Military Service and American Democracy

From World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

by William A. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016

“When I became secretary of defense,” Ashton B. Carter said when announcing that the Pentagon would open all combat jobs to women, “I made a commitment to building America’s force of the future. In the twenty-first century, that requires drawing strength from the broadest possible pool of...
by Willem L. Oltmans
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017

In March 1964 the Dutch journalist Willem Oltmans (1925–2004) encountered Marguerite Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother, at JFK International Airport. In April 1977, he found himself testifying before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA). In the thirteen years between these two...

The CIA and Congress

The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy

by David M. Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018

D.B. Hardeman Prize From its inception more than half a century ago and for decades afterward, the Central Intelligence Agency was deeply shrouded in secrecy, with little or no real oversight by Congress—or so many Americans believe. David M. Barrett reveals, however, that during the agency's...
by Donald A. Zinman
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016

It was during the Depression, with the Republican regime in disarray, that Franklin D. Roosevelt came into office with a mandate to change the role of government. His was one of the presidencies—like Jefferson’s, Jackson’s, and Lincoln’s before his, and Reagan’s after—that transformed...

Presidential War Power

Third Edition, Revised

by Louis Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014

A classic and bestselling work by one of America's top Constitutional scholars, Presidential War Power garnered the lead review in the New York Times Book Review and raised essential issues that have only become more timely, relevant, and controversial in our post-9/11 era. In this third edition,...

Lincoln and the Border States

Preserving the Union

by William C. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014

Adopting a new approach to an American icon, an award-winning scholar reexamines the life of Abraham Lincoln to demonstrate how his remarkable political acumen and leadership skills evolved during the intense partisan conflict in pre-Civil War Illinois. By describing Lincoln's rise from obscurity...

Beyond the Borders of the Law

Critical Legal Histories of the North American West

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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018

In the American imagination “the West” denotes a border—between civilization and wilderness, past and future, native and newcomer—and its lawlessness is legendary. In fact, there was an abundance of law in the West, as in all borderland regions of vying and overlapping claims, jurisdictions,...
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