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Balanced and in-depth military coverage (all theaters, North and South) in a non-partisan format with detailed notes, offering meaty, in-depth articles, original maps, photos, columns, book reviews, and indexes.
126th NY Infantry at Harpers Ferry — First Confederate Regiment from Santa Rosa to Chickamauga — Long road to Bentonville — Book reviews — complete list of contents and index for Volume One.
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This is a Summary & Analysis of. All the Light We Cannot See The lives of two teens, a French girl and a German boy, improbably intersect at the end of World War II in All The Light We Cannot See. This companion to Still Alice includes: • Summary of the book • Character Analysis • A Discussion on Themes • And much more!
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Nova Scotia–born Will R. Bird miraculously survived the First World War and returned to Nova Scotia. Determined to tell the stories of the brave soldiers who served, Bird became one of the most prolific authors on the subject, completing both fiction and non-fiction works. For nearly two decades following the war, Bird published war stories in magazines and periodicals, which have now gone out of print and were never digitized, and the stories had...
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The Author shares with readers his life from time he graduated from high school, his life excited life in the navy , and from the navy to a civilian life, his call to the ministry, and the unusual experiences in his life as pastor of over fifty years, and sixty years of marriage, before the Lord called his wife home. It was an exciting journey for a young man who grew up on a one mule farm in the red hills of Georgia.
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The Vietnam war began for the United States in 1954; by 1966, the Central Intelligence Agency undertook a major analysis and concluded: We cannot win in Vietnam. Their analysis was kept secret for 40 years and not released - with redactions - until 2006. A second version - with additional redactions - was released in 2016. Their analysis was a tragic and accurate prophecy, unheeded. Now published for the first time.
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In the first and only examination of how the British Empire and Commonwealth sustained its soldiers before, during, and after both world wars, a cast of leading military historians explores how the empire mobilized manpower to recruit workers, care for veterans, and transform factory workers and farmers into riflemen.
Raising armies is more than counting people, putting them in uniform, and assigning them to formations. It demands efficient measures...
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Fighting Hoosiers: Indiana in Two World Wars tells the compelling, heartbreaking, and breathtaking stories of some of the hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers who served their country during the First and Second World Wars.
Drawn from the rich holdings of the Indiana Magazine of History, a journal of state and Midwestern history published since 1905, the collection includes original diaries, letters and memoirs, as well as research essays-all of them...
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Illustrated with more than 20 maps plans and photos. When this handbook was written in 1943, the Japanese soldier was seen by British Empire troops as a jungle fighting superman, who had largely blitzed and defeated them at every turn. As part of an effort to dispel this myth, the Intelligence Section of General Headquarters in India set about distilling the tactics that the Japanese had used and to formulate counter-measures. As the staff point out...
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An anthology of letters from writers to the Telegraph covering the lead up to and the duration of the entire First World War. For the millions at home watching the horrors of the First World War unfold, there were few means by which they could express their anxiety, show their pride for the Tommies on the front, or vent their frustration at the way the war was being fought. So, many did what the British do best – they wrote letters and, in so doing,...
12) Invasion
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The Dutch in Wartime: Survivors Remember is a series of books with wartime memories of Dutch immigrants to North America, who survived the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands.
Book 1, Invasion, covers the five days in May 1940 when an unsuspecting Dutch nation was brutally overrun by invading Nazi troops.
13) Under Nazi Rule
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The Dutch in Wartime: Survivors Remember is a series of books with wartime memories of Dutch immigrants to North America, who survived the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands.
Book 2, Under Nazi Rule, is about the hardships and fears of living through war and occupation. Every normal task becomes an almost impossible, sometimes dangerous, chore.
Designed and written to be easily accessible to readers of all ages and backgrounds, these books contain...
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Writers from twenty Allied and Axis countries are gathered in this unique collection of letters from servicemen and -women to their friends, families, and sweethearts. World War II Letters gives an unbiased look into the lives of those who served throughout the world-in Europe, the Pacific, Northern Africa, and Asia-and gives an intimate and honest portrayal of their experiences.
Wide ranging in scope, World War II Letters includes writings by officers...
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The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Kidderminster offers an intimate portrayal of the town and its people living in the shadow of the Great War for five years. A beautifully illustrated and highly accessible volume it explores the town's recruiting drives, the background and fate of the area's men on the frontline, the changing face of industry, the vital role...
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75th Infantry Division: Ardennes, Central Europe, Rhineland is a comprehensive history of one of the most distinguished divisions of World War II. This history traces their 1943 activation at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and follows through to the most memorable battles of War-Ardennes, the Colmar Pocket, the Ruhr, and more. History is complimented by hundreds of photographs, maps and honor roll. Includes special stories from veterans of the 75th...
18) Summary, Analysis & Review of Bill O'Reilly's and Martin Dugard's Killing the Rising Sun by Instarea
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Bill O'Reilly's and Martin Dugard's Killing the Rising Sun by Instaread Preview: Killing the Rising Sun relates episodes from the Pacific theater of World War II including the controversial US decision to develop and utilize atomic weapons. Fueled by confidence in their racial superiority, the Japanese exerted great effort to expand their empire throughout East Asia. Once Prime Minister Hideki Tojo convinced Emperor Hirohito...
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Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited collection of the greatest novels and stories written in the aftermath of the Civil War, trying to show the truth in disguise of fiction, the trauma, the turmoil, the massacre and the heroism of all people involved:
Stephen Crane:
The Red Badge of Courage
The Little Regiment
The Veteran
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed & A Curious Experience (Mark Twain)
Ambrose Bierce:
An Occurrence...
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After the United States declared war against Germany in April 1917, the US Army established the Tank Corps to help break the deadlock of trench warfare in France during World War I. The army envisioned having a large tank force by 1919, but when the war ended in November 1918, only three tank battalions had participated in combat operations. Shortly after, Brigadier General Samuel D. Rockenbach, Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) Tank...
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