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"At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had just lost his first election campaign for Parliament. He believed that to achieve his goal he must do something spectacular on the battlefield. Despite deliberately putting himself in extreme danger as a British Army officer in colonial wars in India and Sudan, and as a journalist covering a Cuban uprising...
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Pegasus Books
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2018.
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English
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A history of Britain in the violent and unruly era between the first Scandinavian raids in 789 and the final expulsion of the Vikings from York in 954.
In 865, a great Viking army landed in East Anglia, precipitating a series of wars that would last until the middle of the following century. It was in this time of crisis that the modern kingdoms of Britain were born. In their responses to the Viking threat, these kingdoms forged...
In 865, a great Viking army landed in East Anglia, precipitating a series of wars that would last until the middle of the following century. It was in this time of crisis that the modern kingdoms of Britain were born. In their responses to the Viking threat, these kingdoms forged...
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2017.
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Another history pageturner from the authors of the #1 bestsellers George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.
The War of 1812 saw America threatened on every side. Encouraged by the British, Indian tribes attacked settlers in the West, while the Royal Navy terrorized the coasts. By mid-1814, President James Madison’s generals had lost control of the war in the North, losing...
The War of 1812 saw America threatened on every side. Encouraged by the British, Indian tribes attacked settlers in the West, while the Royal Navy terrorized the coasts. By mid-1814, President James Madison’s generals had lost control of the war in the North, losing...
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Compass Point Books
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[2015]
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1 online resource (64 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps.
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English
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Explores how General George Washington's secret crossing of the Delaware helped to increase the colonists confidence and turn the tide of the fighting during the American Revolution.
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Portfolio
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2013
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xi, 452 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
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English
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General Stanley McChrystal, the commanding officer of all U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, frankly explores the major episodes and controversies of his eventful career.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2022]
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xxv, 542 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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An acclaimed military historian presents this powerful history of four military leaders--Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, George Marshall and Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower--who exhibited unparalleled military leadership that led the U.S. victoriously through two World Wars
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Atlantic Monthly Press
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[2022]
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xvii, 413 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
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English
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"From an acclaimed military historian, the interlocking lives of three of the most important and consequential generals in World War II. Born in the two decades prior to World War I, George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel became among the most recognized and successful military leaders of the twentieth century. However, as acclaimed military historian Lloyd Clark reveals in his penetrating and insightful braided chronicle of their lives,...
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Stackpole Books
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[2022]
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ix, 531 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
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English
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The Partnership shines a spotlight on two giants of U.S. history, Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Marshall and Secretary of War Henry Stimson, telling the fascinating stories of each man, the dramatic story of their collaboration to defeat the Axis-a master class in leadership and teamwork-and the epic story of the United States in World War II.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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2021.
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xxvii, 701 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
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English
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Winning Independence is the dramatic story of how and why Great Britain-so close to regaining several southern colonies and rendering the postwar United States a fatally weak nation ultimately failed to win the war. The book explores the choices and decisions made by Clinton and Washington, and others, that ultimately led the French and American allies to clinch the pivotal victory at Yorktown that at long last secured American independence.
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W. W. Norton & Company
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[2022]
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420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"Black Snow brilliantly vivifies the horrific reality of the most destructive air attack in history, against Tokyo on the night of March 9-10, 1945. James Scott deftly employs sharply etched portraits of individuals of all stations and nationalities to survey the global, technological, and moral backdrop of the cataclysm, including the searing experiences of Japanese trapped in a gigantic firestorm. This riveting account illuminates an historical...
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Scholastic Press
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[2018]
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255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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English
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A thrilling true survival story that follows one of America's most beloved presidents, John F. Kennedy, as he fought to save his crew after a deadly shipwreck in the Pacific during World War II.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
2017.
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447 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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An account of how the U.S. Army was created to fight a crucial Native American war. Describes how George Washington and other early leaders organized the Legion of the United States under General "Mad" Anthony Wayne in response to a 1791 militia defeat in the Ohio River Valley. --Publisher
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Publication Date
c2005
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xiii, 288 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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A bold new thesis in the study of the Civil War suggests Lee had a heretofore undiscovered strategy at Gettysburg that, if successful, could have changed the outcome of the war. Conventional wisdom has held that on the third day of the battle, Lee made one profoundly wrong decision. But there is much more to the story, which Tom Carhart addresses for the first time. With meticulous detail, Carhart revisits the historic battles Lee taught at West Point--the...