Sökt på: Serie Texas A&M University Military History Series
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How I Earned the Ruptured Duck
Twenty years old when he entered the army in 1942, Leo Bogart was one of 16 million Americans who served with the armed forces during World War II. In numerous letters home, he …
Blue and Gold and Black
During the twentieth century, the U.S. Naval Academy evolved from a racist institution to one that ranked equal opportunity among its fundamental tenets. This transformation was …
Sideshow War
In ""Sideshow War: The Italian Campaign, 1943-1945"", George F. Botjer examines the economic, political, and cultural factors that influenced the unfolding of the fight for the …
The Mexican National Army, 1822-1852
The army of thirty-five thousand that engineered Mexico's independence was a melting pot of insurgent and royalist forces held together by the lure of rapid promotions and other …
Simon Bolivar's Quest for Glory
Earning glory on the fields of battle, Simon Bolivar, who fought to free South America from Spanish rule from 1810 to 1825, was one of the most influential figures in Latin …
Red Wings Over the Yalu
The Korean War was a pivotal event in China's modern military history. The fighting in Korea constituted an important experience for the newly formed People's Liberation Army Air …
Under Army Orders
Between 1950 and 1953, 138,600 US Army National Guardsmen were called up for federal service. This text explores some of the more obscure aspects of the Korean conflict, focusing …
Sappers in the Wire
This dramatic narrative recounts the last high-casualty U.S. action in the Vietnam War. Military leaders and historians have attributed the disaster to a dereliction of duty in the …
A Dark and Bloody Ground
This work examines the ominous prelude to the Battle of the Bulge and reveals one of the US Army's bloodiest nightmares of World War II. In late 1944, the American army had pushed …
To Save a City
Following World War II, the Soviet Union drew an ""Iron Curtain"" across Europe, crowning its efforts with a blockade of West Berlin in a desperate effort to prevent the creation …
Lafayette of the South
In this volume, Jeff Kinard reveals the distinguished life and career of Prince Camille de Polignac, a French aristocrat and Confederate military man. Kinard follows Polignac …
Reeducation in Postwar Vietnam
The stories of three survivors of the Vietnam War. Huynh Van Chinh and Tran Van Phuc, who had been colonels in the Army of Vietnam, lived through the torture of the ""reeducation …