Great Campaigns (History Books)

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Notes on one of the most infamous and bloody battles of World War IIfrom the German perspective.
As the Allied armies swept towards the Reich in late 1944, the German high command embarked on an ambitious plan to gain the initiative on the western front and deal a crippling blow to the Allied war effort. As early as August 1944, when the Germans were being crushed in the east and hammered in Normandy, Hitler was talking of an offensive aimed at destroying as many American and British divisions ... (vollständige Beschreibung)

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Wilderness Campaign: May 1864
For two days in early May,1864, a dark woodland south of the Rapidan River known as the Wilderness rang with the clamor of battle. The musketry and cheers of the troops of the Confederacy and the Union were deafening as charge gave way to countercharge. Fires erupted which consumed the dead and wounded, filling the air with the stench of burning flesh. The battle of the Wilderness was what many witnesses would describe as "hell on earth." The Wilderness Campaign tr... (vollständige Beschreibung)

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The Philadelphia Campaign: June 1777- July 1778
Brandywine, Germantown, Valley Forge, Monmouth. These are some of the most famous locales of the Revolution, yet not one was the scene of an American victory. The Philadelphia campaign, which ran for well over a year from early 1777 to mid-summer 17778, is recognized as the high point of the Revolution. It was a campaign during which the British won almost every battle and gloriously seized their objective, the Colonial capital at Philadelphia, ye... (vollständige Beschreibung)

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The destruction of George Armstrong Custer's command at Little Bighorn by the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne on 25 June, 1876 has been etched in the national memory and has remained one of America's longest lingering controversies. The Little Bighorn Campaign penetrates the mysteries of Custer's disaster as well as the broader context of the 1876 campaign against the Sioux.The Little Bighorn Campaign is the most comprehensive military study of the movements and battles which led up to and followed ... (vollständige Beschreibung)

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Gettysburg Campaign June-july 1863
"Long recognized as one of the best introductions to the campaign, Albert A. Nofi's The Gettysburg Campaign does not focus exclusively on the three days of the battle, but shows how events of May and J"

Long recognized as one of the best introductions to the campaign, Albert A. Nofi's The Gettysburg Campaign does not focus exclusively on the three days of the battle, but shows how events of May and June of 1863 set the stage for the engagement, and traces L... (vollständige Beschreibung)

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including Sayings, Phrases & Expletives
by Darryl Lyman

Now that millions of Americans are interested in the Civil War, many have found that period words in contemporary letters, diaries, reminiscences, official accounts and even modern histories can be obstacles to a true understanding of the time and its people; author Darryl Lyman has gathered in an easy-to-use reference book from over 700 words and expressions that first appeared or were first widely used during the Civil War.

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A Novel
Douglas Savage

On the first day of July 1863, Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia accidentally crossed swords with George Gordon Meade’s federal Army of the Potomac. They clashed at a tiny Pennsylvania crossroads called Gettysburg. Three days later, at least 22,000 Confederate men and boys were dead, wounded or captured, and the Yankees held the field when the river of bloodshed finally stopped. Gettysburg was General Lee’s worst defeat on an open field of battle.

In T... (vollständige Beschreibung)

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Albert Nofi has used his many years of research to produce an account of the battle of Waterloo that has all the grandeur and military detail one could want, but which never loses its interest in individual human experience.

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Some 2,000,000 lives were lost in the Korean War. The full story of the bloody and gruelling conflict is here portrayed in over 300 pictures from the Associated Press archive.

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In the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East some of World War II's greatest legends were born as Erwin Rommel the Desert Fox led his Afrika Korps against the Desert Rats of the British 8th Army led by Bernard Montgomery. Both sides recruited local people to their cause, winning stunning victories but planting the seeds of conflicts to come.This exceptional work draws on exclusive interviews with Rommel's German-Italian translator, covers the Mediterranean grand strategy of both sides, eva... (vollständige Beschreibung)

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Grant's Vicksburg operations and those of the opposing side are of lasting historical interest. Combined land and naval operations, guerrilla raids, political infighting and interference, and the riverine operations of America's first "brown water" navy; all have been brought together here in a powerful narrative of military history.

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by Douglas Savage

An epidemic breaks out on a U.S. nuclear submarine off the coast of Cuba. By the author of The Court Martial of Robert E. Lee.

One hundred miles off the coast of Puerto Rico, a top secret experiment too dangerous to be conducted on land is being conducted aboard the U.S. nuclear attack submarine Sam Houston—an experiment that has gone horribly wrong.

A predator is loose in the Sam Houston—a microscopic killer that strikes without warning, driving its victims to te... (vollständige Beschreibung)

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Called a "masterpiece" by Civil War News, this is the most detailed regimental analysis of the first day of the battle of Gettysburg.. Gettysburg, July 1 presents the most detailed regimental-level account ever written of the critical first day of the Civil War's greatest battle. Using firsthand sources, most of which are unpublished and some never before cited, Gettysburg, July 1 combines recent scholarly interpretations of the action with original analysis by the author. It takes a fresh appro... (vollständige Beschreibung)

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including Slogans, Battle Cries & Speeches
by Darryl Lyman

A classic work featuring cross-indexed descriptions, locations, and complete inscriptions of all 203 Confederate memorials at Gettysburg, with detailed historical commentary and a complete order of battle for the Army of Northern Virginia.

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A classic work featuring cross-indexed descriptions, locations, and complete inscriptions of all 203 Confederate memorials at Gettysburg, with detailed historical commentary and a complete order of battle for the Army of Northern Virginia.

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Dr. Samuel Mudd's guilt or innocence in the Lincoln assassination is debated by a distinguished group of jurists and Civil War historians recently convened by the University of Richmond School of Law to reexamine the case.


In the words of F. Lee Bailey, counsel for the accused: " ... the fabric of any criminal proceeding is that which deserves the overview-the calm, deliberate, combined wisdom in the overview of an appellate court."

"Here is history at its best, relived with all its cont... (vollständige Beschreibung)

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"The final Japanese attack along the Driniumor occurred on August 4th. By this time General Adachi had learned of Ted Force and further that those Americans were coming south behind him. He had to leave now or face complete annihilation of the remainder of the 18th Army. He knew he could never attack the Aitape airfields, despinte the heroic exertions of his soldiers. Supplies were exhausted so that even if the enemy were not on his rear, he could not sustain another major attack. General A... (vollständige Beschreibung)

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Numerous illustrations, many from sources now lost, back up a detailed discussion of world-wide developments in armor from the earliest times, and weapons from the Stone Age to early firearms and cannon.


Charles Boutell wrote the most famous works on heraldry of all time. They continue to be in print in updated editions today, although the original edition of Arms and Armour has become a rare collector's item. The French antiquarian M.P. Lacombe's writings are particularly interesting due t... (vollständige Beschreibung)

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Emerging from the mists of legend at the time of the fall of Rome in the fifth century, the Saxon kings attempted to build a new kingdom around their own province of Wessex in southwestern England. Their goal had scarcely been accomplished when Saxon England was conquered by the Normans in 1066.

Strongly emphasizing a "collapse of civilization" theme, the author of this classic volume shows that Saxon England and Viking Scandinavia did not exist in a vacuum. The European-wide approach places ... (vollständige Beschreibung)

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by Jeremiah Curtin

The Mongols erupted out of Central Asia in 1206 and soon controlled an empire stretching from Poland to Korea; although remembered as a destructive force, they united a great part of the world under one rule, and their combined arms and mobile tactics have had considerable influence on subsequent military thinkers.

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by John E. Morris
A Contribution to Medieval Military History Based on Original Documents.

The author of this classic work took a "campaign" approach to Edward I's methodical reduction of Welsh independence, achieved through many years of building strategic castles, conducting "scorched earth" sweeps, and establishing loyal local nobles.

The military campaigns of Edward I, king of England between 1272 and 1307, were a turning-point in the history of warfare within northwestern Europe dur... (vollständige Beschreibung)

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"American Military History" makes available to a civilian audience for the first time a comprehensive view of the parallel development of the American military and the American nation, evaluated in light of the nine principles of war currently recognized by the U.S. military. Volume 2 of this influential work takes the American people and their armed forces in the wider world of the twentieth century, with its global commitments, multi-national operations and mass citizen armies. The decade lead... (vollständige Beschreibung)

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Some 2,000,000 lives were lost in the Korean War. The full story of the bloody and gruelling conflict is here portrayed in over 300 pictures from the Associated Press archive.

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