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  • African Americans in Central Texas History

    From Slavery to Civil Rights

    by E. Joe Brackner Jr., Sherilyn Brandenstein, Donaly E. Brice, William Dean Carrigan, Karen Kossie-Chernyshev, Billy Bob Lightfoot, Ronald E. Marcello, James T. Matthews, Donald G. Nieman, Neil G. Sapper, Rebecca Sharpless, James Sorelle, Keith J. Volanto, Martin Kuhlman ...
    Bruce A. Glasrud and Deborah M. Liles have gathered over thirty years of scholarship—articles, book excerpts, and new, original essays—to offer for the first time an overview of the history of African Americans in Central Texas. From slavery and agriculture in the nineteenth century to entrepreneurship and the struggle for civil rights in the twentieth century, African Americans in Central Texas ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Warriors and Scholars

    A Modern War Reader

    Edited by Peter B. Lane, Ronald E. Marcello ...
    Few works of military history are able to move between the battlefield and academia. But Warriors and Scholars takes the best from both worlds by presenting the viewpoints of senior, eminent military historians on topics of their specialty, alongside veteran accounts for the modern war being discussed. Editors Peter Lane and Ronald Marcello have added helpful contextual and commentary footnotes ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    American Military Command from World War II to Today

    by Thomas E. Ricks ...
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  • The Gun

    by C. J. Chivers ...
    Series series A History of Weapons and Warfare
    In a tour de force, prize-winning New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of rapid-fire arms from the American Civil War, through WWI, Vietnam, to present day Afghanistan when Kalashnikovs and their knock-offs number as many as 100 million—enough for one out of seventy people on earth.At a secret arms-design contest in Stalin’s ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Cold War

    A Military History

    by Stephen E. Ambrose ...
    Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering dispute between two of the greatest military powers in history. Hundreds of millions of people held their collective breath as the United States ... Read more

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  • Losing Military Supremacy

    The Myopia of American Strategic Planning

    by Andrei Martyanov ...
    Marytanov explains why and how the US armed forces have lost the military supremacy they thought they once had and how Russia, which supposedly had been defeated in the Cold War, succeeded not only in catching up with USA, but actually surpassing it in many key domains such as long range cruise missiles, diesel-electric submarines, air defenses, electronic warfare, air superiority and many others. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • War Made New

    Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today

    by Max Boot ...
    A monumental, groundbreaking work, now in paperback, that shows how technological and strategic revolutions have transformed the battlefieldCombining gripping narrative history with wide-ranging analysis, War Made New focuses on four "revolutions" in military affairs and describes how inventions ranging from gunpowder to GPS-guided air strikes have remade the field of battle—and shaped the rise ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Putin's Wars

    From Chechnya to Ukraine

    by Mark Galeotti ...
    THE FINANICAL TIMES - BEST BOOKS OF 2022'The prolific military chronicler and analyst Mark Galeotti has produced exactly the right book at the right time.' - The TimesA history of how Putin and his conflicts have inexorably reshaped Russia, including his devastating invasion of Ukraine.Putin's Wars is a timely overview of the conflicts in which Russia has been involved since Vladimir Putin became ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

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  • The Changing Face of War

    Combat from the Marne to Iraq

    by Martin van Creveld ...
    One of the most influential experts on military history and strategy has now written his magnum opus, an original and provocative account of the past hundred years of global conflict. The Changing Face of War is the book that reveals the path that led to the impasse in Iraq, why powerful standing armies are now helpless against ill-equipped insurgents, and how the security of sovereign nations may ... Read more

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  • The Age of Airpower

    by Martin Van Creveld ...
    Airpower, more than any other factor, has shaped war in the twentieth century. In this fascinating narrative history, Martin van Creveld vividly portrays the rise of the plane as a tool of war and the evolution of both technology and strategy. He documents seminal battles and turning points, and relates stories of individual daring and collective mastery of the skies.However, the end of airpower's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Spetsnaz

    Russia’s Special Forces

    by Mark Galeotti ...
    Series Book 206 - Elite
    An authoritative illustrated analysis of the history of the military Special Forces units of the Soviet Union and Russian Federation.When the shadowy, notorious Spetsnaz were first formed, they drew on a long Soviet tradition of elite, behind-the-lines commando forces from World War II and even earlier. Throughout the 1960s–70s they were instrumental both in projecting Soviet power in non-aligned ... Read more

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  • The Library of Congress World War II Companion

    Edited by David M. Kennedy ...
    An indispensable reference on World War II produced by the Library of Congress and edited by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David M. Kennedy. With hundreds of illustrations and quotations from contemporary documents, this will be the most authoritative popular reference on World War II.The noted historian John Keegan called World War II "the largest single event in human history." More than ... Read more

    $33.99 USD