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Examines the lives & experiences of British soldiers in the complex, evolving cultural frontiers in British America after the Seven Years War. Going beyond the war experience, this work explores various aspects of peacetime service, including the soldiers' diet and health, mental well-being, social life, transportation, and clothing.

For more than three decades, the US Army's ""Troop Information"" program used films, radio programs, pamphlets, and lectures to stir patriotism and spark contempt for the enemy. Christopher S. DeRosa examines soldiers' formal political indoctrination, focusing on the political training of draftees and short-term volunteers from 1940 to 1973.

Examines twenty-five hundred years of human conflicts and their varied impacts on civilian society. This book features case studies that examine what military forces did to non-combatants in the area of their operations, and why they did it and how they justified their actions. It focuses on the practical realities of war.

In this groundbreaking work, David Raub Snyder offers a nuanced investigation into the German army's prosecution and punishment of sex offenders during the Second World War. In so doing, Snyder restores balance to the literature regarding the military administration of justice under Hitler and to the historiography of sexuality and the Third Reich.

More than twelve thousand American Indians served in the United States military in World War I, even though many were not US citizens and did not enjoy the benefits of enfranchisement. Using the words of the veterans themselves, North American Indians in the Great War presents the experiences of American Indian veterans during World War I and after their return home.

1879 marked the beginning of one of the longest, bloodiest conflicts of nineteenth-century Latin America. The War of the Pacific pitted Peru and Bolivia against Chile in a struggle initiated over a festering border dispute. Employing the primary and secondary sources, William F. Sater offers the definitive analysis of the conflict's naval and military campaigns.

This collection of essays reveal the centrality of visual media, particularly the poster, within the specific national contexts of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States during World War I. Ultimately, posters were not merely representations of popular understanding of the war, but instruments influencing the reach, meaning, and memory of the war in subtle and pervasive ways.

Fort Leavenworth, where Roger J. Spiller taught the US army's finest for twenty-five years, is indeed a ""school of war"". There, among military professionals, Spiller honed his remarkable skills as an analyst and historian, scholar and teacher. This volume brings together Spiller's original and thought-provoking explorations of wars big and small and armies glorified and ignored.

United States entered the Great War in 1917. Offering a collection of more than one hundred letters that he wrote to his fiancee, the author describes his experiences during World War-I as part of the famed 42nd, or Rainbow, Division.

Examines how military institutions attempted to meet the demands of the strategic, political, and technological realities of the turbulent era between the First and Second World Wars. This title includes an introduction describing the intellectual and practical challenges facing the military reformer in peacetime.

By tracing the changing role of the officer corps from its position in a National Socialist dictatorship to its current status in a Western-style democracy, this title illuminates both the development of a democratic ideology in the Federal Republic and the influence of warfare in German society.

Chronicles the horrors of war and a rise and decline of American power and prestige