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Unlike Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. William T. Sherman, whose controversial Civil War-era reputations persist today, Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan has been largely untouched by controversy. In Little Phil, historian Eric J. Wittenberg reassesses the war record of a man long considered one of the Union Army's greatest generals.

My Hitch in Hell is an inspiring survivor's epic about the triumph of human will despite unimaginable suffering.

On August 7, 1998, three years before President George W. Bush declared the War on Terror, the radical Islamist group al-Qaeda bombed the American embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, where Prudence Bushnell was serving as U.S. ambassador. Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience is her account of what happened, how it happened, and its impact twenty years later. When the bombs went off in Kenya and neighboring Tanzania that day, Congress was in recess and the White House, along with the rest of the United States, was focused on the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. Congress held no hearings about the bombings, the national security community held no after-action reviews, and the mandatory Accountability Review Board focused on narrow security issues. Then on September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda attacked the U.S. homeland, and the East Africa bombings became little more than an historical footnote.Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience is Bushnell’s account of her quest to understand how these bombings could have happened, given the scrutiny bin Laden and his cell in Nairobi had been getting since 1996 from special groups in the National Security Council, the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA. Bushnell tracks national security strategies and assumptions about terrorism and the Muslim world that failed to keep us safe in 1998. In this hard-hitting, no-holds-barred account, she reveals what led to poor decisions in Washington and demonstrates how diplomacy and leadership will be our country’s most potent defense going forward.

Heather Selma Gregg argues that the U.S.-led efforts to "nation build" in both Iraq and Afghanistan failed to focus on the population and build national unity as part of its state building efforts.

The Soldier from Independence recounts the World War I military adventure that would mark a turning point in the life of a humble man who would go on to become commander in chief as the thirty-third president of the United States.

A son details the negotiations between a German Jew and the Nazi mass-murderer Heinrich Himmler that allowed for the release of women, including his mother, held in the Ravensbruck concentration camp.

The story of four Cambodian families as they confront deportation forty years after their resettlement in the United States. Katya Cengel weaves their remarkable stories together into a single moving narrative-one that reveals a disquieting cycle of violence, safety, and loss.

A new look at terrorism and how politics, the media, and the War on Terror play off one another.

This After Combat introduces readers to the wars fought by military forces from the perspective of the combatants. Veterans narrate what Tim O'Brien calls a "true war story": one without obvious purpose or moral imputation, independent of civilian logic, propaganda goals, and even peacetime convention.

Historian David Byrne offers an analysis of the ideas that informed Ronald Reagan's political philosophy and policy ideas.

Rodger McDaniel offers readers a glimpse into twentieth-century political shifts through the perspective of the liberal senator Gale McGee from a rural conservative state.

Blaming China makes a compelling case that America's political dysfunction, economic insecurity, and cultural fragmentation will create an environment where conflict with China becomes the rational choice of Americans who view China as the cause of their problems.

Peter Stehman resurrects the details of a World War I hate crime perpetrated on American soil against a German immigrant. Focusing on a time when Americans had been whipped into a patriotic frenzy by government propaganda and hate-mongering, this story illuminates a dark past that still bleeds into today.

How China Sees the World explores the roots of the growing Han nationalist group and the implications of Chinese hypernationalism for international relations.

Using examples from recent female-centric pop culture media and topics, Dianna E. Anderson shows how critics' insistence on a pure feminist portrayal fails the movement's attempt at feminist advancement.

Two books on hoops weren't enough, so now there's a third: Basketball Championships' Most Wanted (TM), focusing on the best, worst, greatest, and most amusing from basketball's long history of championships in college and the pros-mens' and womens', ABA and CBA, and the Olympics as well! March Madness is one of the most exciting times of year, ...

In a follow-up to his Clearing the Bases-Sports Illustrated's book of the year for 2002-syndicated columnist Allen Barra turns his eye from America's pastime to America's passion.

Political speeches and public rhetoric paint the phenomena of terrorism with a black and white brush, presenting it as a clear-cut battle between evildoers and heroes. With The Achille Lauro Hijacking", Michael K. Bohn, who watched the incident unfold from the White House Situation Room, uses the infamous terrorist incident to illuminate the folly of such over simplified jingoisms.

Tells the full story of the man who fought three of the world's great powers - and won. Cecil B. Currey makes clear one primary reason why America lost the Vietnam War: Vo Nguyen Giap. He has written the definitive biography of one of history's greatest generals.

Journey "inside the numbers" for an exceptional set of statistical tools and rules that can help explain the winning, or losing, ways of a basketball team. Basketball on Paper doesn't diagram plays or explain how players get in shape, but instead demonstrates how to interpret player and team performance.

On the eve of the American Civil War, Wade Hampton, one of the wealthiest men in the South and indeed the United States, remained loyal to his native South Carolina as it seceded from the Union. Raising his namesake Hampton Legion of soldiers, he eventually became a lieutenant general of Confederate cavalry after the death of the legendary J. E. B.

Intrigued by the mystique and challenge of the Marine Corps, eighteen-year-old Wesley Fox enlisted in the summer of 1950, shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War. Readers interested in US military history from the second half of the twentieth century, in the Marine Corps, and in inspiring tales of personal achievement will find plenty of each in Fox's extraordinary memoir.

Although the basketball teams of the Southeastern Conference dominate the national college rankings, it wasn't too long ago that the SEC was mostly recognized for football. Today the SEC has displaced the Big Ten and the Atlantic Coast Conference as the premier conference of college basketball.

This fast-moving memoir of T. Moffatt Burriss shows his extraordinary role as a platoon leader and company commander with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Europe and North Africa during World War II. He saw a great deal of combat on Sicily, at Salerno, on Anzio Beach, in Holland during Operation Market Garden, and during the drive into Germany. This book portrays World War II as seen vividly through the eyes of the young American citizen-soldier.