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  • Command And Control Mechanisms In The Chickamauga Campaign: The Union Experience

    by Major Philip J. Baker Jr. ...
    This thesis analyzes how Major General William S. Rosecrans, commander of the Army of the Cumberland, employed the command and control mechanisms available to him as he maneuvered his army from Tullahoma, Tennessee toward Chattanooga, Tennessee in August-September, 1863. It also analyzes how these mechanisms were employed during the battle of Chickamauga itself, on 19-20 September, 1863.General ... Read more

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  • Trial By Fire: Forging American Close Air Support Doctrine, World War I Through September 1944

    by Major Philip W. Wielhouwer ...
    Proper doctrine for close support of American ground forces by airpower has been a tumultuous issue since the first days of combat aircraft. Air and ground leaders struggled with interservice rivalry, parochialism, employment paradigms, and technological roadblocks while seeking the optimum balance of missions given the unique speed, range, and flexibility of aircraft. Neither ground force ... Read more

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  • The Conquest Of Okinawa: An Account Of The Sixth Marine Division

    by Major Philips D. Carleton ...
    Contains numerous maps.One of a series of monographs prepared by the Historical Division that deals with the activities of Marine Corps units in World War II, this monograph is the work of Captain Carleton. While on Okinawa he lived with the men of the Sixth Marine Division, watched them fight and listened to their accounts of the action. He was with the Twenty Ninth Marines on Motobu Peninsula, ... Read more

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  • The Soviet Air Force And Strategic Bombing

    by Major Philip A. Stemple ...
    It is the purpose of this project to show why the Soviet Air Force did not embrace the revolutionary Douhetian concept of strategic bombing as did other world powers during the 1920's, 30's and World War II. It is also to explain that in addition to technological shortcomings, there was a combination of theoretical and doctrinal reasons, taken to rigidity, that was responsible for this. Moreover, ... Read more

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  • Clarendon Reconsidered

    Law, Loyalty, Literature, 1640�1674

    Edited by Philip Major ...
    Clarendon Reconsidered reassesses a figure of major importance in seventeenth-century British politics, constitutional history and literature. Despite his influence in these and other fields, Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon (1609–1674) remains comparatively neglected. However, the recent surge of interest in royalists and royalism, and the new theoretical strategies it has employed, make this ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Thomas Killigrew and the Seventeenth-Century English Stage

    New Perspectives

    by Philip Major ...
    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    Despite his significant influence as a courtier, diplomat, playwright and theatre manager, Thomas Killigrew (1612-1683) remains a comparatively elusive and neglected figure. The original essays in this interdisciplinary volume shine new light on a singular, contradictory Englishman 400 years after his birth. They increase our knowledge and deepen our understanding not only of Killigrew himself, ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Royalists and Royalism in 17th-Century Literature

    Exploring Abraham Cowley

    by Philip Major ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    Author of plays, love-lyrics, essays and, among other works, The Civil War, the Davideis and the Pindarique Odes, Abraham Cowley made a deep impression on seventeenth-century letters, attested by his extravagant funeral and his burial next to Chaucer and Spenser in Westminster Abbey. Ejected from Cambridge for his politics, he found refuge in royalist Oxford before seeing long service as secretary ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Sir John Denham (1614/15-1669) Reassessed

    The State's Poet

    Edited by Philip Major ...
    Sir John Denham (1614/15–1669) Reassessed shines new light on a singular, colourful yet elusive figure of seventeenth-century English letters. Despite his influence as a poet, wit, courtier, exile, politician and surveyor of the king's works, Denham, remains a neglected figure. The original essays in this interdisciplinary collection provide the sustained modern critical attention his life and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Literatures of Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath, 1640-1690

    by a foreword by Lisa Jardine ...
    Series series Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
    Original and thought-provoking, this collection sheds new light on an important yet understudied feature of seventeenth-century England's political and cultural landscape: exile. Through an essentially literary lens, exile is examined both as physical departure from England-to France, Germany, the Low Countries and America-and as inner, mental withdrawal. In the process, a strikingly wide variety ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Writings of Exile in the English Revolution and Restoration

    by Philip Major ...
    Writings of Exile in the English Revolution and Restoration opens a window onto exile in the years 1640-1680, as it is experienced across a broad spectrum of political and religious allegiances, and communicated through a rich variety of genres. Examining previously undiscovered and understudied as well as canonical writings, it challenges conventional paradigms which assume a neat demarcation of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • England's Fortress

    New Perspectives on Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax

    by Andrew Hopper, Philip Major ...
    Overshadowed in the popular imagination by the figure of Oliver Cromwell, historians are increasingly coming to recognize the importance of Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, in shaping the momentous events of mid-seventeenth-century Britain. As both a military and political figure he played a central role in first defeating Charles I and then later supporting the restoration of his son ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel

    Edited by Peter Bondanella, Andrea Ciccarelli ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era. Contributions cover a wide range of topics including the theory of the novel in Italy, the historical novel, realism, modernism, postmodernism, neorealism, and film and the novel. The contributors are ... Read more

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