The Wars of AmericaHarper & Row, 1981 - 1160 Seiten The Wars of America is a dramatic and compelling narrative history by an outstanding military historian of America's armed conflicts and the political, cultural and economic factors behind them since the earliest explorers and settlers arrived on this continent. First published in 1968, It was revised and updated in 1981 to include the Vietnam War. It has now been updated to include all the events of the last ten years in Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, and the victory over Iraq in the Persian Gulf by United Nations forces under the command of General Norman Schwarzkopf. A final chapter analyzes the self-destruction of the European communist world in the summer and fall of 1991, including the collapse of the hard-line Soviet government and the upheavals in Yugoslavia, and speculates on the meaning of these developments on America's future. Leckie not only stresses those personal aspects of war that make it the most intense and contradictory of our experiences. In the new chapters he shows how, while operating in a quintessentially American tradition, our military and political leaders applied the tragic lessons learned in the war in Southeast Asia against North Vietnam by changing from a conscripted to a volunteer army, thus leading the way to better training methods, higher morale, and far better performance on the battlefield. Combining dramatic narrative with sound reference material, The Wars of America is essential for anyone who wishes to understand America at war. |
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... began to sink under the weight of multiplying fears . As daylight of August 16 came , William Hull began to fall apart in the presence of his men . He sat on an old tent with his back against the rampart . His voice trembled . He ...
... began to sink under the weight of multiplying fears . As daylight of August 16 came , William Hull began to fall apart in the presence of his men . He sat on an old tent with his back against the rampart . His voice trembled . He ...
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... began to kedge . That is , a cutter carried a small anchor forward and dropped it so that all hands might tug on the attached cable and thus haul the ship ahead . Kedging laboriously , Constitution began to crawl away from her pursuers ...
... began to kedge . That is , a cutter carried a small anchor forward and dropped it so that all hands might tug on the attached cable and thus haul the ship ahead . Kedging laboriously , Constitution began to crawl away from her pursuers ...
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... began disassembling it , and it suddenly began to hiss ominously . In an instant the deck was cleared , Grant and Foote racing each other for the ladder topside . Reaching the upper deck and realizing that the mine was not going to ...
... began disassembling it , and it suddenly began to hiss ominously . In an instant the deck was cleared , Grant and Foote racing each other for the ladder topside . Reaching the upper deck and realizing that the mine was not going to ...
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The Colonial Wars | 3 |
THEATER OF COLONIAL WARS | 16 |
SIEGE OF QUEBEC 1759 | 62 |
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