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Team of Giants
The Making of the Spanish-American War
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CA$49.95
ISBN: 9780806194714
Pub Date: December 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
A stirring narrative built on rigorous research, Team of Giants is a fresh account of the role the martial ambitions of these men played in a war that would launch the American Century and set each man on the path to his own place in history.
Defending Fort Stanwix
A Story of the New York Frontier in the American Revolution
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CA$44.95
ISBN: 9781501777530
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Cornell University Press
In Defending Fort Stanwix, William L. Kidder tells the dramatic story of "the Fort that Never Surrendered" and the crucial role it played in the American War for Independence. After a series of military...
Ski, Climb, Fight
The 10th Mountain Division and the Rise of Mountain Warfare
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CA$49.95
ISBN: 9780806194653
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Intertwining the history of the World War II 10th Mountain Division and US mountain warfare with the history of American skiing and mountaineering, Ski, Climb, Fight is at once an unprecedented, in-depth account of one of the most celebrated military units of World War II and a fresh look at US mountain warfare from its inception eighty years ago to our own day.
Race and Gender at War
Writing American Military History
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CA$138.00
ISBN: 9780817322113
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University of Alabama Press
Fresh perspectives on the implications of gender and race in US military history from a diverse group of scholars in the field of war and society
Race and Gender at War
Writing American Military History
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CA$43.95
ISBN: 9780817361686
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University of Alabama Press
Fresh perspectives on the implications of gender and race in US military history from a diverse group of scholars in the field of war and society
A Life Cut Short at the Little Big Horn
U.S. Army Surgeon George E. Lord
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780806194844
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
A portrait of a singular figure in the milieu of the American military's nineteenth-century medical elite, A Life Cut Short at the Little Big Horn offers a close look at a familiar chapter in U.S. history, and a reminder of the humanity lost in a battle that resonates to this day.
Kidnapped at Sea
The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White
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CA$42.95
ISBN: 9781421449517
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: John Hopkins University
The true story of David Henry White, a free Black teenage sailor enslaved on the high seas during the Civil War, whose life was falsely and intentionally appropriated to advance the Lost Cause trope...
Cherokee Civil Warrior
Chief John Ross and the Struggle for Tribal Sovereignty
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780806194912
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Centering a Native point of view, this book recasts and expands what we know about John Ross, the Cherokee Nation, its commitment to maintaining its sovereignty, and the Civil War era in Indian Territory. Weeks also provides historical context for later developments, from the events of Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee to the struggle over tribal citizenship between the Cherokees and the descendants of their former slaves.
Special Operations in World War II
British and American Irregular Warfare
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780806194066
Pub Date: August 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
British and American commanders first used modern special forces in support of conventional military operations during World War II. Since then, although special ops have featured prominently in popular culture and media coverage of wars, the academic study of irregular warfare has remained as elusive as the practitioners of special operations themselves. This book is the first comprehensive study of the development, application, and value of Anglo-American commando and special forces units during the Second World War.
To Fix a National Character
The United States in the First Barbary War, 1800-1805
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CA$71.95
ISBN: 9781421449265
Pub Date: August 2024
Imprint: John Hopkins University
A new history of the First Barbary War, a conflict that helped plant the seeds for the United States' ascent to a global superpower.After the American Revolution, maritime traders of the United States...
Garden of Ruins
Occupied Louisiana in the Civil War
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CA$67.95
ISBN: 9780807181393
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: LSU Press
J. Matthew Ward?s Garden of Ruins serves as an insightful social and military history of Civil War?era Louisiana. Partially occupied by Union forces starting in the spring of 1862, the Confederate state...
The Globe and Anchor Men
U.S. Marines and American Manhood in the Great War Era
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CA$80.95
ISBN: 9780700636259
Pub Date: April 2024
Throughout the World War I era, the United States Marine Corps’ efforts to promote their culture of manliness directed attention away from the dangers of war and military life and towards its potential...
Empire Marine
General Littleton W. T. Waller and the Growth of American Imperialism, 1856-1926
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780875658674
Pub Date: April 2024
Empire Marine examines the role that Littleton W. T. Waller played in the development and growth of the Marine Corps within the emerging empire of turn-of-the-century America. The grandson of the...
Cold War Country
How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism
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CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781469678368
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of North Carolina Press
Country music maintains a special, decades-long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn't just happen. This readable history reveals how country music's Nashville-based business...
An Aide to Custer
The Civil War Letters of Lt. Edward G. Granger
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780806194226
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Amply illustrated with maps and photographs, An Aide with Custer gives readers an unprecedented view of the Civil War and one of its most important commanders, and unusual insight into the experience of a staff officer who served alongside him.
Kill Jeff Davis
The Union Raid on Richmond, 1864
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780806194202
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
The ostensible goal of the controversial Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on Richmond (February 28-March 3, 1864) was to free some 13,000 Union prisoners of war held in the Confederate capital. But orders found on the dead body of the raid's subordinate commander, Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, point instead to a plot to capture or kill Confederate president Jefferson Davis and set Richmond ablaze. Kill Jeff Davis offers a fresh look at the failed raid and mines newly discovered documents and little-known sources to provide definitive answers.
Team of Giants
The Making of the Spanish-American War
CA$49.95
ISBN: 9780806194714
Pub Date: December 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Defending Fort Stanwix
A Story of the New York Frontier in the American Revolution
CA$44.95
ISBN: 9781501777530
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Ski, Climb, Fight
The 10th Mountain Division and the Rise of Mountain Warfare
CA$49.95
ISBN: 9780806194653
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Race and Gender at War
Writing American Military History
CA$138.00
ISBN: 9780817322113
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University of Alabama Press
Race and Gender at War
Writing American Military History
CA$43.95
ISBN: 9780817361686
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University of Alabama Press
A Life Cut Short at the Little Big Horn
U.S. Army Surgeon George E. Lord
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780806194844
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Kidnapped at Sea
The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White
CA$42.95
ISBN: 9781421449517
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: John Hopkins University
Cherokee Civil Warrior
Chief John Ross and the Struggle for Tribal Sovereignty
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780806194912
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Special Operations in World War II
British and American Irregular Warfare
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780806194066
Pub Date: August 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
To Fix a National Character
The United States in the First Barbary War, 1800-1805
CA$71.95
ISBN: 9781421449265
Pub Date: August 2024
Imprint: John Hopkins University
Garden of Ruins
Occupied Louisiana in the Civil War
CA$67.95
ISBN: 9780807181393
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: LSU Press
The Globe and Anchor Men
U.S. Marines and American Manhood in the Great War Era
CA$80.95
ISBN: 9780700636259
Pub Date: April 2024
Empire Marine
General Littleton W. T. Waller and the Growth of American Imperialism, 1856-1926
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780875658674
Pub Date: April 2024
Cold War Country
How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781469678368
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of North Carolina Press
An Aide to Custer
The Civil War Letters of Lt. Edward G. Granger
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780806194226
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Kill Jeff Davis
The Union Raid on Richmond, 1864
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780806194202
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press