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Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Born to a distinguished family steeped in military tradition, raised on stories of wartime and ancestral heroes, Anthony Loyd longed to experience war from the front lines?so he left England at the age of twenty-six to document the conflict in Bosnia. For the following three years he witnessed the killings of one of the most callous and chaotic clashes on European soil, in the midst of a lethal struggle among the Serbs, Croatians, and Bosnian Muslims....
65) The Eagle and the Rising Sun: the Japanese-American war, 1941-1943, Pearl Harbor through Guadalcanal
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
66) The Pointblank Directive: three generals and the untold story of the daring plan that saved D-Day
Author
Publisher
Osprey Pub Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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Description
After a year of unremarkable bombing against Germany aircraft industry, and with just five months to go until D-Day, General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, commander of the United States Army Air Forces placed his lifelong friend General Carl A. "Tooey" Spaatz in command of the strategic bombing forces in Europe and gave his protégé, General James "Jimmy" Doolittle command of the Eighth Air Force in England. For these fellow aviation pioneers and air war...
67) Retreat, hell!
Author
Series
Corps volume 10
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1950, the U.S. Marines confront an uphill battle as they make their way from Inchon across the 38th parallel, dealing with the full force of Chinese military might and the disappearance of an officer's son behind enemy lines.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An account of the final great naval battle between England and Spain details General Juan del Águila's attempt to invade Elizabeth I's England, strategist Charles Blount's efforts to redeem himself against charges of treason, and Irish insurgent Hugh O'Neill's final effort to drive the English out of Ireland.
Author
Publisher
Walker and Company
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the history of Arlington National Cemetery, originally the ancestral home of Mary Custis Lee, wife of General Robert E. Lee, and tells the story of how it was established as a national resting place for America's fallen soldiers.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Douglas MacArthur was arguably the last American public figure to be worshiped unreservedly as a national hero, the last military figure to conjure up the romantic stirrings once evoked by George Armstrong Custer and Robert E. Lee. But he was also one of America’s most divisive figures, a man whose entire career was steeped in controversy. Was he an avatar or an anachronism, a brilliant strategist or a vainglorious mountebank? Drawing on a...
77) Under fire
Author
Series
Corps volume 9
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When Captain Ken McCoy is asked to leave the Corps after his report on probable North Korean hostilities displeases his superiors, he is hired by the CIA and must join with other veterans to retaliate against Korea's invasion of the 38th parallel.
78) The gamble
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
The story of Gen. David Petraeus and the American military, reveals that many high-level officials were opposed to the 2003 invasion.
79) Air Force Eagles
Author
Series
Air Force trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"'Sicily,' said Goethe, 'is the key to everything.' The birthplace of Archimedes, Georgio de Chirico, and Muhammad al-Idrisi, it is the largest island in the Mediterranean. The stepping-stone between Europe and Africa, the gateway between the East and the West, the link between the Latin world and the Greek, at once a stronghold, clearing-house and observation-point, it has been fought over and occupied in turn by all the great powers that have striven...
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