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War by Numbers assesses the nature of conventional warfare through the analysis of historical combat. Christopher A. Lawrence establishes what we know about conventional combat and why we know it. By demonstrating the impact a variety of factors h...

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Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Pranges bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and A...

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A century before Lance Armstrong captured headlines around the world by winning a record seventh consecutive Tour de France, another American dominated the world of competitive cycling. His name was Bobby Walthour, and in the early 1900s he was on...

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At the risk of succumbing to hyperbole, Basketball on Paper is a revolutionary strike for statistical analysis of the game of basketball. . . . There has never been a basketball book quite like [it].Hoopsworld.com Journey "inside the numbers&...

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Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Pranges bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and A...

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Technological failure results when one side in a conflict does not fully grasp the potential impact of known, or even familiar, weapons in the enemys hands. In most cases, such failure resulted from higher officials ignorance or their total misund...

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For all the literature about Civil War military operations and leadership, precious little has been written about strategy, particularly in the eastern theater. The Civil War in the East takes a fresh look at military operations in this sector and...

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A comprehensive and impressively written history of the Korean War.Washington Post Selected for the 2019 Commandant's Professional Reading List Updated with maps, photographs, and battlefield diagrams, this special fiftieth anniversary editio...

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2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In this timely and provocative book, Damon Root reveals how Frederick Douglasss fight for an antislavery Constitution helped to shape the course of American history in the nineteenth century and beyond. At a ...

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Nicholas Murrays The Rocky Road to the Great War examines the evolution of field fortification theory and practice between 1877 and 1914. During this period field fortifications became increasingly important, and their construction evolved from pr...

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As Hitlers Einsatzgruppen (mobile SS killing units) marched into the Soviet Union directly behind the advancing Wehrmacht to murder Jews and others, less well-known units were also following in the footsteps of the German armed forces. They were c...

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From MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW: This photographic history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki provides the first comprehensive photographic record of the bombings and their aftermath, presenting a history of the two cities before and after the bombs drop and also...

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A New York Times Best Wine Book of 2021 Champagne Charlie tells the story of a dashing young Frenchman, Charles Heidsieck, who introduced hard-drinking Americans to champagne in the mid-nineteenth century and became famously known as Champagne Cha...

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First published in 1976. This study continues an endeavour whose aim was to use traditional concepts as a basis for the discussion of contemporary political predicaments. The endeavour began with the publication of the symposium In Defense of Sove...

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2014 SLA Baseball Caucus Readers Choice Award winner from the Special Libraries Association The Deadball Era (19011920) is a baseball fans dream. Hope and despair, innocence and cynicism, and levity and hostility blended then to create an air of e...

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The United States of Sports takes kids on a first-of-its-kind journey across the U.S. with stops in every state in the union. Super cool maps with unique hand-illustrated icons show where all the great sites can be found, including arenas, stadium...

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This handsome commemorative volume contains hundreds of Allied and German photographs, many never seen before by the general public. Written by the coauthors of Gordon W. Prange's acclaimed bestsellers, At Dawn We Slept and Miracle at Midway, it i...

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Women Warriors takes the reader back through history and around the world to uncover a clear pattern of women as warriors. It is a fascinating comment on the nature of gender, on the power of the warrior image, and on the images source in history.

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The British Army's Special Air Service is one of the world's premier special operations units. During the Gulf War, deep behind Iraqi lines, an SAS team was compromised. A fierce firefight ensued, and the eight men were forced to run for their liv...

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An historical account of the Second World War originally published in 1945, which provides today's readers with a picture of how the war was perceived at the time it was fought.

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A systematic, comprehensive, and straightforward textbook for analyzing and comparing insurgencies and terrorist movements, Insurgency and Terrorism was first published in 1990 to broad acclaim. Observers, scholars, students, military personnel, j...

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A special report from the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis that examines and identifies the key security challenges facing policymakers today

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Paper edition reprint of the 1995 work about which Book News wrote: "Recounts the summer 1861 battle in Missouri, the bloodiest major engagement of the war up to that time, and argues that the loss of Missouri at this point, coupled with the ...

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Now in trade paperback, War Dogs provides an eye-opening look at unsung canine heroes from World War I to the present. Terriers, shepherds, beagles, collies, huskies, and Dobermans are only a few of the breeds that have pulled sleds, searched cave...

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Coauthor Erich Friedrich won the Iron Cross fighting the Soviets. But when he refused to give the Nazi salute and criticized Hermann Gring, he was charged with subversion and thrown into a cell. With him were a suspected spy, two accused deserters...

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This is the first history of the U.S. Army Air Corps unit that incorporated Gen. Claire Chennault's famous "Flying Tigers." During the dark days immediately after Pearl Harbor, most news from the Asian front was bad—with the except...

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Victor's book is the first to show that implementing the Final Solution was actually the root of Hitler's most disastrous military decisions.

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Edd Roush was once ejected from a game for falling asleep in the outfield. Dan Friend played left field while dressed in a bathrobe. Outfielder Len Koenecke was killed attempting historys first skyjacking. Pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich s...

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