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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... fall apart in the presence of his men . He sat on an old tent with his back against the rampart . His voice trembled . He avoided the contemptuous eyes of those officers who wanted to fight . In his agitation he stuffed quid after quid ...
... fall apart in the presence of his men . He sat on an old tent with his back against the rampart . His voice trembled . He avoided the contemptuous eyes of those officers who wanted to fight . In his agitation he stuffed quid after quid ...
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... fall of 1814 it appeared that the federal government had run out of both men and money . All attempts to establish a dependable regular army seemed to have failed . Although the paper strength of the U.S. Army was raised to 62,000 men ...
... fall of 1814 it appeared that the federal government had run out of both men and money . All attempts to establish a dependable regular army seemed to have failed . Although the paper strength of the U.S. Army was raised to 62,000 men ...
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... fall of 1817 the first of the wars with the Seminole Indians broke out , and Andrew Jackson marched to battle again at the head of about 2,500 Tennessee militia . Breaking the power of the Semi- noles , he kept marching south until he ...
... fall of 1817 the first of the wars with the Seminole Indians broke out , and Andrew Jackson marched to battle again at the head of about 2,500 Tennessee militia . Breaking the power of the Semi- noles , he kept marching south until he ...
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The Colonial Wars | 3 |
THEATER OF COLONIAL WARS | 16 |
SIEGE OF QUEBEC 1759 | 62 |
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