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In this reexamination of Confederate war aims, Joseph L. Harsh analyzes the military policy and grand strategy adopted by Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis in the first two years of the Civil War. Recent critics of Lee have depicted him as a general of tactical brilliance, but one who lacked strategic vision.

One hundred years ago, a WWI soldier writes letters home to his family detailing his journey through the war. You can be there when he is issued his helmet, side arm and mackinaw. Go on watch patrol in the middle of the night with him. Ride shotgun while he maneuvers a supply truck in the Motor Train at night, with no headlights to see by. Rejoice with him when the armistice is signed. Through his words you can relive his experience as we commemorate the centennial of the Great War.

Something To Write Home About Volume III wraps up the series of three books commemorating the centennial of World War I. Volume three is a montage of postcards, photo's and letters collected by our soldier during his time in France, and Germany. The collection includes accolades he received throughout his life after the war ended, his marriage and passing.

For the doomed stand American forces made in the Philippines at the start of World War II, two generals received their country’s highest military award, the Medal of Honor. One was the charismatic and controversial Douglas MacArthur, whose orders forced him to leave his soldiers on the islands to starvation and surrender but whose vow to return echoed around the globe. The other was the gritty Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, who became a hero to the troops whose fate he insisted on sharing even when it meant becoming the highest-ranking American prisoner of the Japanese.

Don’s Great Escape is one man’s story of being in a German POW camp in WWII. Don’s plane went down over occupied France in 1943. He was captured and sent to Stalag Luft III made famous by the 1963 movie The Great Escape. On January 28, 1945, Stalag Luft III was evacuated so the camp would not be captured by the Russians. After several days of walking and being transported by boxcars, the prisoners eventually ended up in Stalag VIIA at Moosburg. Don was liberated on April 29, 1945. His story is told by letters written home to his parents.

Inspirational storiesCourage in Camouflage is a fascinating collection of stories based on individual interviews with military veterans young and old from all across the United States. Most of these brave men and women served considerable time in combat during sometimes historic battles in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Operation Desert Storm, Desert Shield, and the longstanding fight against terrorism in the Middle East. Most all have gone on to successful lives outside the military, but things they saw and did during wartime haunt many of them to this day. Life-changing experiencesMike ...

NOTA PRELIMINAR: Para mis amigos de selección escribo estas páginas: en ellas explico cómo y por qué interine en los asuntos del General Augusto C. Sansino, después de estar completamente abatido en las luchas políticas de Nicaragua. La muerte del campeón de la autonomía de nuestro país ha producido en mi ánimo intensa sensación de dolor, pues tal delito puso de relieve el embotamiento colectivo de nuestra moral pública. Decía no recuerdo qué actor, que así como en el final de los ríos encuéntrase siempre el océano, así también en el fondo de esta existencia humana ...

On 1 November 1920, eighteen-year-old UCD medical student Kevin Barry was hanged in Dublin’s Mountjoy Jail for his role in a bungled IRA operation in which three British soldiers were killed. To this day, he remains a vibrant and celebrated icon of patriotic, idealistic death, his name synonymous with youthful republican sacrifice. His life was short, but Kevin was more than a hapless teen swept away in the revolutionary maelstrom of the time. Here, Professor Eunan O’Halpin, a grand-nephew of Barry, accesses exclusive family records and other archives to explore Kevin’s republicanism ...

CONTRA SANDINO EN LA MONTAÑA, libro de cuentos de Manolo Cuadra, realiza hoy el pensamiento original de la revista Nuevos Horizontes de convertirse en Empresa Editorial de libros nacionales. De entre los que han llegado al papel las incidencias de la última guerra nicaragüense, acaso ninguno es tan calificado como Manolo Cuadra, el inquieto escritor que militó en las filas del Ejército, en la dramática lucha de seis años que éste sostuvo contra Sandino y sus hombres. Él supo de la emboscada en la jungla bravía y húmeda; pudo apreciar los métodos de uno y otro combatiente, ...

Recopilaciones de docunmentos de los siguientes personajes de la época: GUSTAVO ALEMÁN BOLAÑOS. Escritor, autor de varios libros sobre Sandino. PABLO EMILIO BARRETO. Periodista, antiguo reportero del diario La Prensa, de Managua. ARTURO BLISS-LANE. Ministro de los Estados Unidos en Nicaragua. SALVADOR CALDERÓN RAMÍREZ. Ministro de Nicaragua en México, delegado de Sandino a los arreglos de paz con el Presidente Sacasa. ABELARDO CUADRA VEGA. ex-Teniente de la Guardia Nacional, hombre de confianza de Somoza y uno de los participantes en la conjura contra la vida de Sandino y sus ...

Esta obra sobre el General Augusto César Sandino, publicada el mismo año de su asesinato en 1934, fue escrita por el periodista español, Ramón Belausteguigoitia quien hiciera una serie de entrevistas al mismo Sandino desde su cuartel general en Las Segovias. Aunque el subtítulo “La hora de la paz” no se correspondió con la formación de una brutal dictadura que se inicia con el asesinato mismo de Sandino, lo hemos dejado respetando la obra original. Se describe, desde las montañas de Las Segovias, la lucha heroica contra los marines gringos y sus cipayos nacionales, en defensa de...

This book is the story of a father and son from Newcastle, New South Wales. Edward Norman ‘Ted’ Murray and his son, George Arthur Murray, both elected to serve in Australia’s Air Force. Ted served in the Air Force during World War II from 1942-45. The context of his service was the switch in priority from the Empire Air Training Scheme to working with the United States to win the war in the Pacific. He joined in search of adventure. He trained diligently to become a Flight Engineer and served in the Northern Territory, New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria during the War. Due to ...

The Cold War drove military innovation and none more than the need to spy on Soviet Bloc countries in the 1950s. The best way to spy other than tap phones and have agents on the ground was from the air. For this several cutting edge aircraft were designed and built by the legendary Kelly Johnson and Lockheed Skunk works – which pushed the boundaries of technology. At the same time a secret airbase to test these revolutionary aircraft in the form of Area 51 came into being. Follow the exciting true story of some very famous aircraft that would fly faster and higher than anything seen ...

John Basilone was a man who embodied self-sacrifice. Prior to his passing, he engaged in several incredible battles with America’s foes in the Pacific Theater of World War II. It was during the heat of battle at Guadalcanal that this Marine proved himself a thousand times over. Under heavy fire, he left his position to run across hostile terrain to grab up much-needed ammunition so that he could resupply his gunners. In the end, only Basilone and two other men from his unit were left standing, but they nevertheless managed to hand the Japanese a stunning defeat.

El 13 de agosto de 1944, el joven piloto estadounidense Joe Moser, de solo 22 años, despegó para cumplir su misión número 44 sobre la Francia ocupada. Moser, quien pasó de ser un chico de granja a cumplir su sueño de pilotear un Lockheed P-38 Lightning, una de las armas más letales de las fuerzas aéreas estadounidenses contra la poderosa Luftwaffe alemana, muy pronto descubriría los horrores de la guerra: su avión fue derribado para posteriormente ser capturado y enviado a Buchenwald, el terrible campo de concentración nazi.

EL contenido de este libro corresponde exactamente al borrador mencionado en su última pagina, pues al pasarlo en limpio casi cuarenta y seis anos mas tarde, las únicas alteraciones efectuadas han sido correcciones ortográficas. Originalmente, por haber concluido el borrador. Unos tres meses antes de la fecha planeada, se proyectara salir para Nicaragua al cumplimiento del compromiso previamente contraído esperando pues salir a fines de febrero de 1934 para arreglar lo de la publicación del libro, de acuerdo con los deseos del General Sandino. Dolorosamente, el veintiuno de este mes ...

El autor de este libro: Gregorio Urbano Gilbert nació el 25 de mayo de 1899 en Puerto Plata, República Dominicana. Muy joven se trasladó a San Pedro de Macorís donde a los 17 años protagonizó un valiente episodio en el muelle de la ciudad al enfrentar solo y armado de un pequeño revólver a los invasores, hiriendo mortalmente a un oficial del Cuerpo de Infantería de la Marina de Estados Unidos de América. Recorrió el país unido a la guerrilla contra los invasores, finalmente fue apresado en Monte Cristi y condenado a muerte hasta su indulto en la Fortaleza Ozama el 2 de octubre d...

The P-38 Lightning was one of the fastest operational fighters of World War II, famous for its successes in North Africa and the Pacific. In The P-38 Lightning and the Men Who Flew It, Wolfgang W. E. Samuel shares the stories of the young men who climbed into the cockpits of the P-38 to fight for freedom, and of those who created, tested, and deployed these fearsome machines. The P-38 was the product of the Lockheed Corporation, the first fighter they ever built, principally conceptualized by Kelly Johnson, whose design was to meet Air Corps specifications. But it was no easy plane to fly.

Drawing from over two decades of service in the British Army, including five tours in Afghanistan and deployments in Bosnia and Sierra Leone, Captain Kailash Limbu shares the core principles that have shaped his journey as a soldier and a man. Through the metaphor of the khukuri, a symbolic and essential tool for every Gurkha, he illustrates how mindset and behaviour are crucial to overcoming challenges, achieving success and leading with honour.

S.A.S. Regiment - Operation Redfish One. Transcript of Time Based Data Recording for KOAS Report. I only recently ended up with this transcript, which was found in my uncle’s possessions after his death, some 14 years ago now. These 50 pages have been re-typed, keeping to the original as much as possible, with a view to publishing. Was this a real S.A.S. operation? It is unclear why my uncle should have a transcript of a military operation in Northern Ireland from March 1984. The only clue is that my uncle was actually in the SAS, it was long before 1984 it’s true. In fact he was a ...