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Private Citizens, Popular Press, and the Rise of American Power

By Joel R. Davidson

This book is a history of public information and personal ideas, specifically ideas about war and the military over the last century. It examines the interplay between popular media coverage of the nation’s wars and the perceptions of ordinary Americans regarding military issues. Armchair Warriors begins with the premise that the press provided most Americans with their primary source of ...

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Heavy Cruisers of the Admiral Hipper Class

Admiral Hipper, Blücher, Prinz Eugen, Seydlitz, Lützow

By Gerhard Koop and Klaus-Peter Schmolke

The warships of the World War II German Navy are among the most popular subjects in naval history, and one of the best collections is the concise but authoritative six volume series written by Gerhard Koop and illustrated by Klaus-Peter Schmolke. Each book contains an account of the development of a particular class, a detailed description of the ships, with ...

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Pocket Battleships of the Deutschland Class

Deutschland/Lutzow-Admiral Scheer-Admiral Graf Spee

By Gerhard Koop and Klaus-Peter Schmolke

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German Light Cruisers of World War II

Emden, Konigsberg, Karlsruhe, Koln, Leipzig, Nurnberg

By Gerhard Koop and Klaus-Peter Schmolke

The warships of the World War II era German Navy are among the most popular subjects in naval history with many books devoted to the subject. However, for a concise but authoritative summary of the design history and careers of the major surface ships, it is difficult to beat the six volumes in the Warships of the Kriegsmarine series. Now ...

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Evolving Military Justice

Analysis and Discussion

Edited by Eugene R. Fidell and Dwight H. Sullivan

For decades, debate has raged over whether the military justice system is foremost a tool to preserve discipline within the armed forces or a means of dispensing justice on a par with civilian criminal justice systems. From the dawn of American military law in 1775 through World War II, the answer was obvious: military justice was primarily a tool commanders ...

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Prelude to Tragedy

Vietnam, 1960-1965

Edited by Harvey C. Neese and John O'Donnell; Foreword by Richard Holebrooke

Foreword by Richard Holbrooke

Five American and three Vietnamese participants in the early days of U.S. involvement in southeast Asia compellingly argue that the failure of American policy in Vietnam was not inevitable. The common theme of their individual essays suggests that the war in Vietnam might have had a much different—and far less tragic—outcome if U.S. policy makers had ...

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Sea Life in Nelson's Time

By John Masefield

Written by British Poet Laureate John Masefield in 1905, this lyrical tribute to sailors in the Age of Sail captures the grim reality of life at sea. In the clear, muscular English that made him famous, Masefield breathes life into the misery and barbarity that served as a foundation for naval glory. He brilliantly tells the story of the ships ...

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Burning of Washington

The British Invasion of 1814

By Anthony S. Pitch

With all the immediacy of an eyewitness account, Anthony Pitch tells the dramatic story of the British invasion of Washington in the summer of 1814, an episode many call a defining moment in the coming-of-age of the United States. The British torched the Capitol, the White House, and many other public buildings, setting off an inferno that illuminated the countryside ...

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