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Modern War Studies Series

316 primary works • 316 total works
William Thomas Allison, General Editor

Theodore A. Wilson, Founding Editor

Series Editors: Raymond A. Callahan, Allan R. Millett, Carol Reardon, David R. Stone, Heather Marie Stur, Samuel J. Watson, Jacqueline Whitt, and James H. Willbanks

The Modern War Studies series provides a forum for the best of the new military history. The scope of this series…
A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, Vol. 1
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4.00 · 6 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2009 · 42 editions
First published in 1866, John B. Jones's "A Rebel …

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    The First Peacetime Draft
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    3.53     · 17 Ratings · published 1986 · 4 editions
    Introduced into Congress two days before the fall …

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    America's First Battles, 1776-1965
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    3.84     · 119 Ratings · 13 Reviews · published 1986 · 11 editions
    This volume, a collection of eleven original essay…

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    The Sable Arm: Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865
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    4.18     · 38 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1966 · 17 editions
    A bona fide classic, The Sable Arm was the first w…

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    The Military Legacy of Civil War: The European Inheritance
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    3.67     · 24 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1988 · 6 editions
    This pioneering study focuses on the experiences a…

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    America's First Black General: Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., 1880-1970
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    4.00     · 11 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1989 · 4 editions
    Throughout an illustrious career that spanned the …

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    The Twilight of the U.S. Cavalry: Life in the Old Army, 1917-1942
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    4.10     · 21 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1989 · 6 editions
    In an age of nuclear deterrence, SDI, and laser te…

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    Recruiting for Uncle Sam: Citizenship and Military Manpower Policy
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    3.17     · 6 Ratings · published 1989 · 3 editions
    Which citizens have fought America's wars? Which o…

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    Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West
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    4.18     · 125 Ratings · 17 Reviews · published 1990 · 7 editions
    Jefferson Davis is a historical figure who provoke…

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    Soldiers and Scholars: The U.S. Army and the Uses of Military History, 1865-1920
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    4.29     · 7 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1990 · 4 editions
    The use and abuse of military history is the theme…

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    Bernard Brodie and the Foundations of American Nuclear Strategy
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    3.50     · 4 Ratings · published 1991 · 1 edition
    Despite glasnost and the unexpected thaw in East-W…

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    The First Summit: Roosevelt and Churchill at Placentia Bay, 1941: Revised Edition
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    4.38     · 8 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1991 · 9 editions
    Four months before Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill…

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    MacArthur's ULTRA: Codebreaking and the War against Japan, 1942-1945
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    4.58     · 12 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1991 · 3 editions
    Cracking the enemy's radio code is a task so urgen…

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    Hard Marching Every Day: The Civil War Letters of Private Wilbur Fisk, 1861-1865
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    3.96     · 27 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1992 · 6 editions
    As a war correspondent, Wilbur Fisk was an amateur…

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    No Shining Armor: The Marines at War in Vietnam: An Oral History
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    4.31     · 26 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1992 · 6 editions
    "No more Vietnams!"

    A quarter century after the war…

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    The Origins of SDI 1944-1983
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    3.50     · 2 Ratings · published 1992 · 2 editions
    Most people think Star Wars was Reagan's idea, but…

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    The Roots Of Blitzkrieg: Hans von Seeckt And German Military Reform
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    4.01     · 78 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 1992 · 6 editions
    Following Germany's defeat in World War I, the Ger…

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    Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864
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    4.35     · 127 Ratings · 19 Reviews · published 1992 · 9 editions
    Following a skirmish on June 28, 1864, a truce is …

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    Chemical Soldiers: British Gas Warfare in World War I
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    4.25     · 16 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1992 · 10 editions
    They were sometimes the butt of jokes, the "comica…

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    An American Profession of Arms: The Army Officer Corps, 1784-1861
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    4.19     · 16 Ratings · published 1992 · 4 editions
    Following the formation of a regular army in 1784,…

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    Hitler's Japanese Confidant: General Ōshima Hiroshi and MAGIC Intelligence, 1941-1945
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    4.20     · 10 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1993 · 5 editions
    In 1940 the U.S. Army Signal Intelligence Service …

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    Commanders in Chief: Presidential Leadership in Modern Wars
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    3.00     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1993 · 2 editions
    Since 1798, when Congress authorized John Adams to…

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    Shadow on the White House: Presidents and the Vietnam War, 1945-1975
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    3.75     · 4 Ratings · published 1993 · 6 editions
    Harry Truman's administration began searching for …

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    The Draft, 1940-1973
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    3.71     · 7 Ratings · published 1993 · 2 editions
    Individual liberty is ingrained in American cultur…

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    Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His Vietnam Advisors
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    3.90     · 10 Ratings · published 1993 · 4 editions
    Lyndon Johnson, when it comes to his role in the V…

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    The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville
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    4.32     · 564 Ratings · 65 Reviews · published 1992 · 1 edition
    The rise of Civil War general John Bell Hood, his …

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    The AEF and Coalition Warmaking, 1917-1918
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    3.75     · 8 Ratings · published 1993 · 4 editions
    Underscoring an emerging revisionist view of the A…

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    The Marine Corps' Search for a Mission, 1880-1898
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    4.75     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1993 · 1 edition
    Heirs to a storied past and glamorized as modern-d…

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    Voices from Captivity: Interpreteting the American POW Narrative
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · published 1994 · 3 editions
    Popularized by books and films like Andersonville …

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    D-Day 1944
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    4.00     · 4 Ratings · published 1994 · 2 editions
    June 6, 1944: the Allies launch the largest combin…

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    Napoleon's Last Victory and the Emergence of Modern War
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    3.72     · 36 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1994 · 5 editions
    Presenting a significant new interpretation of Nap…

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    Battlefield Chaplains: Catholic Priests in World War II
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    4.30     · 20 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1994 · 5 editions
    "If death must come—then far better for it to come…

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    Closing with the Enemy: How GIs Fought the War in Europe, 1944-1945
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    4.01     · 144 Ratings · 18 Reviews · published 1994 · 21 editions
    Closing with the Enemy picks up where D-Day leaves…

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    Mao's Military Romanticism: China and the Korean War, 1950-1953
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    3.88     · 17 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1995 · 2 editions
    This is the first English-language military histor…

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    Davis and Lee at War
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    4.10     · 30 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1995 · 4 editions
    Steven Woodworth's previous book, the critically a…

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    The Propaganda Warriors: America's Crusade Against Nazi Germany
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    4.00     · 4 Ratings · published 1996 · 1 edition
    Legendary "Wild Bill" Donovan, CIA directors Allen…

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    Arming Against Hitler: France and the Limits of Military Planning
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    3.93     · 14 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1996 · 2 editions
    In May-June 1940 the Germans demolished the French…

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    Stalin's Reluctant Soldiers: A Social History of the Red Army, 1925-1941
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    4.17     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1996 · 2 editions
    Under Joseph Stalin's iron-fisted rule, the Soviet…

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    A People's Contest: The Union and Civil War, 1861-1865
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    4.07     · 27 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1988 · 7 editions
    “This is essentially a People’s contest. On the si…

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    Sharing Secrets with Stalin: How the Allies Traded Intelligence, 1941-1945
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    3.60     · 5 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1996 · 5 editions
    Bestselling author Bradley Smith reveals the surpr…

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    The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy
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    3.88     · 257 Ratings · 35 Reviews · published 1996 · 6 editions
    ‘Mythology about the South and its leaders – and t…

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    Beating Plowshares into Swords: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1606-1865
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    4.67     · 3 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1996 · 3 editions
    Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning…

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    Fighting with the Soviets: The Failure of Operation FRANTIC, 1944-1945
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    3.91     · 11 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1997 · 2 editions
    Fighting with the Soviets provides the first compr…

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    The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat
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    3.84     · 74 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1997 · 6 editions
    I saw enough to sicken the heart. . . . The scenes…

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    Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War
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    4.32     · 158 Ratings · 17 Reviews · published 1997 · 8 editions
    To Jefferson Davis, he was the "Stonewall of the W…

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    Citizen Sherman:: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman
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    3.67     · 90 Ratings · 12 Reviews · published 1995 · 1 edition
    Bright, compulsively articulate, famous, loved, ha…

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    The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918-1940
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    4.08     · 59 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1997 · 2 editions
    At the end of World War I, the German military mac…

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    Civil War Kansas: Reaping the Whirlwind: the Authorized Edition with a New Preface
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    3.72     · 25 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1997 · 3 editions
    "The long agony" was over: Kansas, as of January 2…

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    Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865-1919
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    4.14     · 7 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1997 · 2 editions
    Although the military-industrial complex became fa…

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    MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign
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    3.88     · 40 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 1998 · 4 editions
    When General Douglas MacArthur led Allied troops i…

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    Over Lincoln's Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the War
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    4.10     · 10 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1998 · 2 editions
    The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War gene…

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    Facing My Lai: Moving Beyond the Massacre
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    4.24     · 17 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1998 · 6 editions
    The My Lai massacre of March 16, 1968 and the cour…

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    Stopped at Stalingrad: The Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East, 1942-1943
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    4.43     · 103 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1998 · 10 editions
    By the time Hitler declared war on the Soviet Unio…

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    The Confederacy's Greatest Cavalryman: Nathan Bedford Forest
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    4.21     · 38 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1998 · 4 editions
    This is the best biography of one of the most exci…

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    Honorable Warrior: General Harold K. Johnson and the Ethics of Command
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    4.52     · 25 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1998 · 4 editions
    A man of extraordinary inner strength and patrioti…

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    Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War
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    4.16     · 97 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1998 · 9 editions
    Germany's surprise attack on June 22, 1941, shocke…

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    For Courageous Fighting and Confident Dying: Union Chaplains in the Civil War
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    3.71     · 7 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1998 · 1 edition
    When soldiers in the Civil War called on their rel…

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    Reporting Vietnam: Media and Military at War
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    3.44     · 18 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1998 · 12 editions
    For many Americans during the Vietnam era, the war…

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    Tracking the Axis Enemy: The Triumph of Anglo-American Naval Intelligence
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    4.00     · 4 Ratings · published 1998 · 3 editions
    Naval intelligence is an aspect of World War II th…

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    Nixon's Vietnam War
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    3.55     · 31 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1998 · 5 editions
    Robert H. Ferrell Award Ohio Academy of History B…

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    Joseph E. Johnston and the Defense of Richmond
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    3.75     · 20 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1998 · 1 edition
    Most often viewed as a prelude to Robert E. Lee's …

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    Vietnamese Women at War: Fighting for Ho Chi Minh and the Revolution
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    3.85     · 20 Ratings · published 1999 · 8 editions
    For as long as the Vietnamese people fought agains…

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    Warmaking and American Democracy: The Struggle over Military Strategy, 1700 to the Present
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    3.33     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1999 · 3 editions
    Offers a study of American war strategy in its dom…

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    Civil War Generals in Defeat
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    3.75     · 12 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1999 · 4 editions
    Commanders who serve on the losing side of a battl…

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    Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942
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    3.99     · 156 Ratings · 12 Reviews · published 1999 · 7 editions
    One of the least known stories of World War II, Op…

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    The GI Offensive In Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions, 1941-1945
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    4.00     · 66 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1999 · 13 editions
    Presents a study of America's infantry combat perf…

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    Doniphan's Epic March: The 1st Missouri Volunteers in the Mexican War
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    4.38     · 13 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1999 · 1 edition
    In 1846-1847, a ragtag army of 800 American volunt…

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    The Battle of Kursk
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    4.08     · 873 Ratings · 38 Reviews · published 1999 · 24 editions
    Immense in scope, ferocious in nature, and epic in…

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    American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953
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    3.41     · 69 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 2000 · 3 editions
    The Korean War was the first armed engagement for …

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    The Philippine War, 1899-1902
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    3.90     · 215 Ratings · 16 Reviews · published 2000 · 7 editions
    This year begins the centennial of the Philippine …

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    Spies and Commandos: How America Lost the Secret War in North Vietnam
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    3.80     · 30 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2000 · 5 editions
    During the Vietnam war, the United States sought t…

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    Secret Messages: Codebreaking and American Diplomacy, 1930-1945
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    3.67     · 3 Ratings · published 2000 · 3 editions
    To defeat your enemies you must know them well. In…

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    In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front
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    4.14     · 1124 Ratings · 56 Reviews · published 1995 · 26 editions
    In the hell that was World War II, the Eastern Fro…

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    Inside Hitler's High Command
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    4.13     · 69 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2000 · 12 editions
    Challenging previous accounts, Geoffrey Megargee s…

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    Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union, 1926-1933
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    3.78     · 9 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2000 · 1 edition
    From 1926 to 1933, a vast transformation swept thr…

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    Victory in Europe, 1945: From World War to Cold War
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · published 2000 · 2 editions
    In this provocative collection, senior scholars ex…

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    Black Prisoner of War: A Conscientious Objector's Vietnam Memoir
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2000 · 3 editions
    Black Prisoner of War chronicles the story of Jame…

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    Tom Taylor's Civil War
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2000 · 2 editions
    Our hurly-burly sagas of war often overlook the de…

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    Niagara 1814: America Invades Canada
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    3.88     · 17 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2000 · 1 edition
    Most books on the War of 1812 focus on the burning…

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    Lee, Grant and Sherman: A Study in Leadership in the 1864-65 Campaign
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    3.78     · 9 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2000 · 14 editions
    Had Lee enjoyed the manpower or materiel advantage…

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    Hitler's Northern War: The Luftwaffe's Ill-Fated Campaign, 1940-1945
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2001 · 5 editions
    Adolf Hitler had high hopes for his conquest of No…

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    After Clausewitz: German Military Thinkers Before the Great War
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    4.10     · 20 Ratings · published 2001 · 2 editions
    The writings of Carl von Clausewitz loom so large …

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    The Russian Way of War: Operational Art, 1904-1940
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    4.00     · 18 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2001 · 1 edition
    In the first half of the twentieth century, both c…

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    Military Justice in America: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, 1775-1980
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2001 · 2 editions
    A unique but largely neglected part of the America…

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    Combined Arms Warfare in the Twentieth Century
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    3.98     · 61 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2001 · 7 editions
    For centuries, the world has witnessed the develop…

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    Mao's Generals Remember Korea
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    3.77     · 13 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2001 · 3 editions
    Fifty years after the Korean conflict, what is a f…

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    While God Is Marching on: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers
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    4.36     · 44 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2001 · 3 editions
    They read the same Bible and prayed to the same Go…

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    Flak: German Anti-Aircraft Defenses, 1914-1945
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    4.44     · 16 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2001 · 5 editions
    Air raid sirens wail, searchlight beams flash acro…

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    Civil War St. Louis
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    4.00     · 34 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 2001 · 6 editions
    In the Civil War, rough-and-tumble St. Louis playe…

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    Hell in Hürtgen Forest: The Ordeal and Triumph of an American Infantry Regiment
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    4.00     · 53 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2001 · 10 editions
    Some of the most brutally intense infantry combat …

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    Trial by Fire: The 1972 Easter Offensive, America's Last Vietnam Battle
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    4.06     · 31 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 1994 · 7 editions
    Provides an account of the last massive engagement…

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    Wings, Women, and War: Soviet Airwomen in World War II Combat
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    4.35     · 88 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2002 · 4 editions
    The Soviet Union was the first nation to allow wom…

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    Attack of the Airacobras: Soviet Aces, American P-39S, and the Air War Against Germany
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    3.77     · 13 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2001 · 8 editions
    During its titanic military struggle with Germany,…

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    The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost
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    3.77     · 203 Ratings · 24 Reviews · published 2001 · 5 editions
    The War in Afghanistan (1979-1989) has been called…

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    West Point: A Bicentennial History
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    3.45     · 11 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2002 · 5 editions
    Grant. Pershing. Eisenhower. Schwartzkopf. The Uni…

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    Victory at Mortain: Stopping Hitler's Panzer Counteroffensive
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    3.75     · 32 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2002 · 7 editions
    A powerful German counterattack in Normandy in Aug…

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    The CIA's Secret War in Tibet
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    4.00     · 48 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2002 · 6 editions
    Defiance against Chinese oppression has been a def…

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    Mr. Truman's War: The Final Victories of World War II and the Birth of the Postwar World
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