Critical Praise for Gene Smith On Until the Last Trumpet Sounds ""The best recent compact study of the commander of the American Expeditionary Force of World War I."" Booklist ""A six-star effort . . . captures Pershing better than anyone has before."" The Grand Rapids Press On The Shattered Dream ""A storyteller of history, Gene Smith is one of the very best in his field."" The Washington Post On When the Cheering Stopped ""A brilliantly written and dramatically effective work of history . . . Smith is a prodigious researcher, an artful writer."" The New York Times...
Critical Praise for Gene Smith On Until the Last Trumpet Sounds ""The best recent compact study of the commander of the American Expeditionary For...
Throughout history, rivers have been vital arteries of transportation, commerce, and communication and, consequently, are key military areas in times of conflict or war. Brown Water Warfare is the first history of riverine warfare as conducted by the U.S. Navy, R. Blake Dunnavent traces the evolution of riverine warfare in U.S. military operations from its informal inception in the 18th century to its establishment as a formal doctrine in the 20th century. As the key to understanding the emergence, development, and later adoption of this particular military strategy, he examines the conflicts...
Throughout history, rivers have been vital arteries of transportation, commerce, and communication and, consequently, are key military areas in times ...
Crisis at Sea is the first comprehensive history of the United States Navy in European waters during World War I. Drawing on vast American, British, German, French, and Italian sources, the author presents the U.S. Naval experience as America moved into the modern age of naval warfare. Not limited to an operations account of naval battles and strategies, this volume the second in a series examines diplomatic policies, cabinet decisions, logistics, the home front, support systems, and shipbuilding to illustrate the complexity and enormity of America s naval participation in World War I....
Crisis at Sea is the first comprehensive history of the United States Navy in European waters during World War I. Drawing on vast American, Bri...
March 1862. The Union ironclad warship, Monitor, with its two eleven inch Dahlgren smoothbores in a unique revolving turret assembly, leaves New York City under tow to serve blockade duty off the coast of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the Confederate ironclad Virginia (formerly the wooden frigate Merrimac) is raising havoc with Union blockaders in Hampton Roads. The inevitable showdown takes place on March 9th. For more than four hours the two ironclads battle furiously at close range. The Merrimac finally withdraws and returns to Norfolk to protect the river approaches to Richmond, leaving the...
March 1862. The Union ironclad warship, Monitor, with its two eleven inch Dahlgren smoothbores in a unique revolving turret assembly, leaves New York ...