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  • af The late John A. Wood
    308,95 - 920,95 kr.

    In the decades since the Vietnam War, veteran memoirs have influenced Americans' understanding of the conflict. Yet few historians or literary scholars have scrutinized how the genre has shaped the nation's collective memory of the war and its aftermath.

  • - Officers of the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot during Its North American Service, 1767-1776
    af Steven M. Baule
    428,95 kr.

    Protecting the Empire's Frontier tells stories of the roughly eighty officers who served in the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot, which served British interests in America during the crucial period from 1767 through 1776.

  • - An Ohio Teenager in World War II
    af Frank Lavin
    198,95 - 368,95 kr.

    Carl Lavin was a high school senior in Canton, Ohio, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The Canton, Ohio, native was eighteen when he enlisted, a decision that would take him with the US Army from training across the United States and Britain to combat with the 84th Infantry Division in the Battle of the Bulge. Home Front to Battlefront is the tale of a foot soldier who finds himself thrust into a world where he and his unit grapple with the horrors of combat, the idiocies of bureaucracy, and the oddities of life back home-all in the same day. The book is based on Carl's personal letters, his recollections and those of the people he served beside, official military history, private papers, and more.Home Front to Battlefront contributes the rich details of one soldier's experience to the broader literature on World War II. Lavin's adventures, in turn disarming and sobering, will appeal to general readers, veterans, educators, and students of the war. As a history, the book offers insight into the wartime career of a Jewish Ohioan in the military, from enlistment to training through overseas deployment. As a biography, it reflects the emotions and the role of the individual in a total war effort that is all too often thought of as a machine war in which human soldiers were merely interchangeable cogs.

  • - The Reversal of US Policy toward West Germany, 1946-1955
    af Sheldon A. Goldberg
    748,95 kr.

    At the end of World War II, the Allies were unanimous in their determination to disarm the former aggressor Germany. As the Cold War intensified, however, the decision whether to reverse that policy and to rearm West Germany led to disagreements both within the US government and among members of the nascent NATO alliance.

  • - The World War I Diary and Letters of David S. Ingalls, America's First Naval Ace
    af David S. Ingalls
    406,95 kr.

    Draws on the unpublished diaries, correspondence, informal memoir, and other personal documents of the U.S. Navy's only flying "ace" of World War I to tell his unique story.

  • - Crime and Governance in American-Controlled Germany, 1944-1949
    af Thomas J. Kehoe
    748,95 kr.

    This important contribution to American and German social, military, and police histories, as well as historical criminology offers the first comprehensive exploration of criminality, policing, and both German and American fears around the realities of conquest and potential resistance amid the looming threat from communism in an emergent Cold War.

  • - Jacob Dolson Cox and the Civil War Era
    af Eugene D. Schmiel
    253,95 - 930,95 kr.

    Jacob Dolson Cox, a former divinity student with no formal military training, was among those who rose to the challenge. In a conflict in which "political generals" often proved less than competent, Cox, the consummate citizen general, emerged as one of the best commanders in the Union army.

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