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From inside dust jacket: For many Americans the First World War is the forgotten war: a war that seems to have fallen into an historical void between the Civil War and World War II. This is surprising given its profound significance to the United States. More than four million Americans were mobilized in 1917-18, of whom more than 100,000 were killed--double… Read more about this item

From the inside dust jacket: The true story that we had been spotted seemed almost certain with the arrival of a floatplane and then four bombers. The planes did not bother us as much as the ear-splitting echo-ranging of the destroyer, the pings blasting through our hull as she closed the range. "Set all torpedoes on two feet and open the outer… Read more about this item

From inside dust jacket: THE FIRST WORLD WAR created the modern world. A conflict of unprecendented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the twentieth century as mechanized warfare and mass death. It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped our times--modernism in the arts, new approaches to… Read more about this item

From inside dust jacket: This is the story of one of the strangest, hardest fought, least known, and most important wars in American history. It is also the story of the spirit of an age: Manifest Destiny and expansion of a young, robust, and restless nation. The tale begins with the Alamo, or, rather, with the United States remembering the Alamo… Read more about this item

From inside dust jacket: John Warry's eminently readable, detailed exploration of the art of warfare in the Graeco-Roman world traces the evolution of weapons, fortifications, and battle tactics from the Mycenean and Homeric ages (more than 1000 years B.C.) to the barbarian invasions of Rome in the fifth century A.D. In his analysis of armed conflict, the author presents the reasons… Read more about this item

From back cover: The orthodoxy regarding the relationship between politicians and military leaders in wartime democracies contends that politicians should declare a military operation's objectives and then step aside and leave the business of war to the military. In this timely and controversial examination of civilian--military relations, Eliot A. Cohen chips away at this time-honored belief with case studies of statesmen… Read more about this item

The work of a fifth-century B.C. heir to the knowledge amassed by a clan of experts of arms and fighting, The Art of War is one of the most useful books ever written on leading with wisdom. Sun Tzu's terse but probing aphorisms come down to us throught the millennia as a practical guide to achieving success by coming to… Read more about this item