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  • Caissons Go Rolling Along

    A Memoir of America in Post-World War I Germany

    by Johnson Hagood ...
    An engrossing portrait of war-torn Europe written by one of South Carolina's most distinguished military officers of the last century.Major General Johnson Hagood (1873-1948) was one of South Carolina's most distinguished army officers of the twentieth century. An artillerist and a scholar of military science, Hagood became a noted expert in logistics and served as the chief of staff of the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The YMCA at War

    Collaboration and Conflict during the World Wars

    by Jeffrey C. Copeland, Yan Xu, Joel R. Bius, Ugo Pavan Dalla Torre, Larry A. Grant, John J. Maker, John Moremon, Kristin Mulready-Stone, Erika Cornelius Smith0, Kenneth A. Steuer1, Edward C. Woodfin2 ...
    The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is best known for its athletic and youth programs, a heritage that draws on its origins in 1844 to provide wholesome recreation to urban youth away from the moral decay of industrialized urban living. Before long, that uplift mission found a place in the American Civil War, and soon the Y had spread all over the world by the early twentieth century, and ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

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  • The Guns of August

    The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series

    by Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • “A brilliant piece of military history which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchill’s statement that the first month of World War I was ‘a drama never surpassed.’”—NewsweekSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeIn this landmark account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Guns at Last Light

    The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945

    by Rick Atkinson ...
    Series Book 3 - The Liberation Trilogy
    THE NEW YORK TIMES**#1** BESTSELLEROne of The Washington Post's Top 10 Books of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II.It is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies libe... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Rommel, Knight's Cross (True Combat)

    by Nigel Cawthorne ...
    Under cover of the bombardment, the Germans blew gaps in the wire and cleared paths through the minefield. By the following morning, they had established a hole through the outer defences a mile and a half wide and taken more than 100 prisoners. Their charismatic leader, the dynamic Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox, was the most highly respected German general of World War II.Read about the daring ... Read more

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  • How Canada Won the Great War

    by Robert Child ...
    For nearly 100 years Canada's role in ending WWI sooner than anyone thought possible has gone largely unrecognized. The Canadian Corp led by citizen soldier, Arthur Currie, became the premiere fighting force on the Western Front. The fact that Canada was not yet a formalized nation but a Dominion at the close of the war may be the reason for the absence of recognition yet the record of the ... Read more

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  • Mr. Wilson's War

    From the Assassination of McKinley to the Defeat of the League of Nations

    by John Dos Passos ...
    Beginning with the assassination of McKinley and ending with the defeat of the League of Nations by the United States Senate, the twenty-year period covered by John Dos Passos in this lucid and fascinating narrative changed the whole destiny of America. This is the story of the war we won and the peace we lost, told with a clear historical perspective and a warm interest in the remarkable people ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Myth of the Great War

    A New Military History of World War I

    by John Mosier ...
    "A compelling and novel reassessment of World War I military history" ( Kirkus Reviews )"There is much in the work I really admire, not least its brilliant recasting of the traditional military narrative." —Niall Ferguson, author of The Pity of WarBased on previously unused French and German sources, this challenging and controversial new analysis of the war on the Wester... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battle for Vimy Ridge, 1917

    by Nigel Cave, Jack Sheldon ...
    In a new departure in the Battleground Europe series, this book is a guide to both sides of a major battle in this case to the Canadian Corps operations against 1st Bavarian Reserve Corps at Vimy from 9 12 April 1917, which formed part of the opening of the British offensive, known as the Battle of Arras. Historically, the capture of Vimy Ridge was an event far more significant than its undoubted ... Read more

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  • With Zeal and With Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783

    The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783

    by Matthew H. Spring ...
    Series series Campaigns and Commanders Series
    The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Now Matthew H. Spring reveals how British infantry in the American Revolutionary War really fought.This groundbreaking book offers a new analysis of the British Army during the “American rebellion” at both operational and tactical levels. Presenting fresh insights into the speed of British ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Jedburghs

    The Secret History of the Allied Special Forces, France 1944

    by Will Irwin ...
    The story of the Special Forces in World War II has never fully been told before. Information about them began to be declassified only in the 1980s.Known as the Jedburghs, these Special Forces were selected from members of the British, American, and Free French armies to be dropped in teams of three deep behind German lines. There, in preparation for D-Day, they carried out what we now know as ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour

    Armistice Day, 1918 World War I and Its Violent Climax

    by Joseph E. Persico ...
    November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I. The Allied generals knew the fighting would end precisely at 11:00 A.M, yet in the final hours they flung men against an already beaten Germany. The result? Eleven thousand casualties suffered–more than during the D-Day invasion of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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