More than 300,000 people visit the site of George Armstrong Custer's Last Stand each year; however the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn is only part of Custer's story on the Great Plains.
From Kokoda to Kure (Volume 6. of "The Doctors at War" Series)
This is the final volume in the series of “Australian Doctors at War ”, and takes up the story from the conclusion of the Kokoda Campaign in January 1943. It documents the medical support given to the campaigns in New Guinea in 1944 and 1945, and the landings on Borneo in 1945. It includes the biographies of four hundred Australian doctors who ......
Few analysts of U.S. involvement in Vietnam would agree with the provocative conclusion of this book. The thesis of most postmortems is that the United States lost the war because of the failure of its foreign policy decisionmaking system.
The story of the 1/5th battalion from their mobilization in August 1914 to the end of the war. The parts played by nearly 1,500 men is described, from their first action in Flanders in March 1915, on into the Somme; the Ypres Salient; Epehy; the battalion's epic stand at Festubert in April 1918 and the spectacular advance of the last 100 Days.
The objective of this book is to provide wider understanding of the key issues following the end of the Cold War that have transformed Germany and Europe.
At the end of October 1969, 5,000 North Vietnamese Army regulars surrounded a force of 150 American soldiers and their South Vietnamese allies at a firebase in a far-flung corner of Vietnam. The situation was desperate and, despite initial attempts to resupply the base, soon became untenable.
This is imperial Germany's handbook of warfare in World War 1. It talks about allowed and prohibited conduct during war. It includes treatment of enemy prisoners of war, non-combatants, hostages, 'war rebels', spies, terrorists; private property, booty, plundering, war levies; administration of enemy territory and treatment of inhabitants.
German Armored Reconnaissance in Action in World War II
In this follow up to Scouts Out, the definitive account of World War II-era German armored reconnaissance forces, Robert J. Edwards continues his exploration of the tactics and doctrine of the small units that served as the tip of the spear for the German Army, venturing out ahead of the main lines to scout territory and gather crucial ......