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Continuing from Book I (Hessian John, 19th Century Military Surgeon, that ended in 1849) and Book II (Hessian John, Army Surgeon in the Pioneer West that ended in 1861), 44-year-old Mississippi plantation-owner Johann becomes a Confederate Army surgeon helping to organize the Souths medical corps and serving briefly as a Southern spy in the Unions medical headquarters in Washington. While in the Union Army, he serves as a battlefield surgeon in the...
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'Necessity is the mother of invention' and nothing is more necessary than victory in war. Driven by the need to defeat Hitler's Nazis and Japanese Imperial ambitions, the period 1939 1945 saw huge and unprecedented leaps in the invention and development of war winning weapons and technology.
Well=known author and military expert David Wragg has studied the whole range of land, sea and air technical innovations that originated during the Second World...
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"Winner of the 1993 Quincy Wright Award for the Best Book in International Affairs by a Midwest Scholar" Michael N. Barnett is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin. The dissertation on which this book was based won the 1991 Gabriel Almond Prize of the American Political Science Association.
What determines the strategies by which a state mobilizes resources for war? And does war preparation strengthen or weaken...
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Rough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy makers' idealized conceptions of Cold War middle-class masculinity directly affected whom they targeted for conscription and also for deferment. Federal officials believed that college educated men could protect the nation from the threat of communism more effectively as civilians than as soldiers. The...
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Seventh Company's Lieutenant Morozova and Sergeant Rozhkov fight to survive in a frighteningly possible real future. One where autonomous war machines roam the battlefield, enemies without fear that do not stop until destroyed.
A full throttle, combat-grade military action, "Year One: The Last War," collects the stories from Mission One, Regroup, and Break Out into one volume, expanding the explosive ongoing story of a future Russian civil war.
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