This amazingly complete book describes in crisp text all the information commanders and staff officers need to know about "how the army works" in the year 1862.
This work is an operational critique of the art of war as practiced by U.S. and Canadian tank commanders in France in 1944, it also traces the evolution of North American armoured doctrine. Battle performance reviews, interrogation reports, diaries and technical evaluations are all drawn upon.
Colonel Irvin Alexander's Odyssey as a Japanese Prisoner of War
Few American prisoners of war during World War II suffered more than those captured when the Philippines fell to the Japanese in April 1942. In a horrifying captivity that lasted until the war's end, US troops endured the notorious Bataan Death March, overcrowded prison camps, and the stinking "hell ships" that transported them to Japan and ......
* What it was like to fight Hitler's ideological troops in Normandy starting on D-Day, June 6, 1944 Regarded as Nazi Germany's elite military force, the Waffen SS had a reputation for ferocity on the battlefield and mercilessness to prisoners.
The Untold Story of America's Most Famous Fort Until the End of the Civil War
Everyone knows the story of how the Civil War began at Fort Sumter, but what happened to the fort after the first shots were fired there? The North wanted to restore Sumter to its rightful place in the Union and close the vital Confederate supply port of Charleston while the South needed to defend its birthplace and keep the supplies flowing--thus
"Lowry, a physician and medical historian, weaves a fascinating history of a little-discussed aspect (sex) of a much-discussed subject (the Civil War).
It is not generally known that the three-day battle of Gettysburg, one of the most important and significant engagements of the Civil War, is included in the course of training of student officers in practically all the European war colleges as an outstanding example of tactics and strategy.
America in the Summer of Independence and the Conference for Peace
By May 1776, the skirmishes at Lexington and Concord had already occurred, but the American colonies had not yet declared independence. An increasingly sceptical George III thought that a prolonged conflict in North America might be avoided and appointed Admiral Lord Richard Howe and his brother General William Howe to be peace negotiators.
The role of artillery on the Eastern Front should not be underestimated. While dashing aerial battles waged overhead and panzers and T-34s rumbled across the vast steppes, it was the artillery that rained down the most destruction.
