War History Network members are aware that wars are fought by the warriors who fill the ranks before and during conflicts. “Russia’s Fighting Men: 1880-1914” is a study of the men who prepared to defend their nation in the years leading up to Worl
Read more…“Black Redcoats” is a study of the hundreds of American Blacks, mostly run-away slaves, who served in the British Colonial Marines in the Southern theatres during the War of 1812. Drawn from plantations around Chesapeake Bay, the Georgia Sea Islands
Read more… War History Network members are familiar many War II tales but one that is frequently overlooked is told in We Band Of Angels. It contains the story of 99 American nurses trapped on Bataan and Corregidor during the Japanese conquest of 1942.
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To War History Network members familiar with George Washington and a few Revolutionary War battles, the introductory, theme setting statement: “There was in the end no way in which the Americans could have ultimately been denied their independence;
Read more…Unlike Anything That Ever Floated approaches the classic Battle of Hampton Roads between the Monitor and Virginia from two perspectives. It goes into extensive detail about the engineering and mechanical features of each vessel as well as the occur
Read more…War History is not solely made on the battlefields. The meetings that lay the plans for victory are as much a part of the story as the shot and shell. Allied plans for World War II and its sequalae were formulated in a series of conferences invol
Read more…War History Network members know that war studies have many aspects. They focus on the big story, who won the war or battle, the life of the individual participant and the betwixt and between, the smaller battles, and the roles of the participants
Read more…Friction between the United States and Mexico is a long saga that sometimes erupted into military conflict. The General and the Jaguar by Eileen Welsome chronicles a particular flashpoint in that relationship. The General is John J. Pershing, the
Read more…“Historical Memoir Of The War In West Florida And Louisiana in 1814-15” is a first-person narrative by Frenchman Arsene Lacarriere Latour, who served as chief engineer under Gen. Andrew Jackson throughout the Gulf campaign. Hie obtained his posit
Read more…Histories of the American Revolution ordinarily feature wise Founding Fathers, military heroes and, in the end at least, glorious triumph. “Scars of Independence” presents the image of a violent struggle, not between freedom-loving Americans and t
Read more…To some, 1778-1783 is identified with the American Revolution. From Ushant To Gibraltar relates the men and actions of the Royal Navy Channel Fleet during those years. Americans would be interested in this book for its study European naval combat
Read more…Not all war history centers on the battlefield. The home front has its own contributions. “Women Remember the War” is a fascinating collection of oral histories of 25 Wisconsin women who lived through World War II. It consists of edited version
Read more…Revolutions need organizers and nations need Founders before armies take to the fields. For the United States one such organizer and founder was John Hancock. Heir to the House of Hancock established by his childless uncle, he turned his inheritanc
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Though rarely remembered today, Pierre Gibault was a crucial figure in the American Revolution in the West. A native of New France, Gibault was ordained to the priesthood in Quebec and assigned to the Illinois Country. Settling in Kaskaskia, Illi
Read more…Foreign enemies can unite political foes. One such instance is chronicled in All Behind You Winston: Churchill’s Great Coalition 1940-45. This volume documents the consensus and disputes, initiatives advanced and those deferred, and the leaders o
Read more…Karl Von Clausewitz, a renowned Prussian general and military theorist, once famously stated, "War is the continuation of politics by other means." To understand war then, one must go behind the frontlines into the political realm to the people an
Read more…Much of human experience is the fighting of wars. More of it is preparing for war. French Republic’s Fighting Men: 1880-1914 is the story of France’s recovery from the Franco-Prussian War and its preparation for the next one. This brief work is
Read more…War History Network members appreciate the multi-faceted impact of war. Botha, Smuts And The Great War is a fascinating case study of the then new Union of South Africa. Its path to war shared factors with that other USA, the United States of Amer
Read more…Commanders In Chief consists of revised papers read before a symposium of the Military Studies Institute of Texas A & M University in 1990. Modern wartime presidents studied are William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, L
Read more…The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
Seventy-Fifth Anniversary
By Wladyslaw Szpilman, author. With a new forward by Andrzei Szpilman, son.
The Pianist, first written by Wladyslaw Szpilman in 1945 and
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