Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the early decades of the American Republic, American soldiers demonstrated and defined their beliefs about the nature of American republicanism and how they, as citizens and soldiers, were participants in the republican experiment through their service. In For Liberty and the Republic, Ricardo A. Herrera examines the relationship between soldier and citizen from the War of Independence through the first year of the Civil War. The work analyzes...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A joint profile of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and their armed forces commanders Alan Brooke and George C. Marshall evaluates the pivotal ways in which they determined the strategies of allied forces during World War II, in an account that reveals their divergent agendas and tense efforts to collaborate or outmaneuver each other.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
At a time when civilian periodicals faced strict censorship, US Army Chief of Staff George Marshall won the support of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to create an expansive troop-newspaper program. Both Marshall and FDR recognized that there was a second struggle taking place outside the battlefields of World War II--the war of words. While Hitler inundated the globe with propaganda, morale across the US Army dwindled. As the Axis blurred the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Duty. Honor. Country. That's West Point's motto, and every cadet who passes through its stone gates vows to live it. But on the eve of 9/11, as Dani, Hannah and Avery face four grueling years ahead, they realize they'll only survive if they do it together. Everyone knows Dani is going places. With athletic talent and a brilliant mind, she navigates West Point's predominantly male environment with wit and confidence, breaking stereotypes and embracing...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winner, Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2002, Non-Fiction
The story of Pec-Kosovo's most destroyed city during the wars in Serbia
For every survivor of a crime, there is a criminal who forces his way into the victim's thoughts long after the act has been committed.
Reporters weren't allowed into Kosovo during the war without the permission of the Yugoslavian government but Matthew McAllester went anyway. In Beyond the Mountains of the Damned he...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Suzanne Simons is a masterful storyteller. But make no mistake-Master of War is not a work of fiction….A powerful and true account."
-Wolf Blitzer, anchor, CNN's The Situation Room
Master of War is the riveting true story of Eric Prince, the ex-Navy SEAL who founded Blackwater and built the world's largest military contractor, privatizing war for client nations around the world. A CNN producer and anchor, Suzanne Simons is the first journalist...
Publisher
Reedsy
Pub. Date
c2022
Physical Desc
66 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
U.S. Navy veteran Jessica Pounds shares everything she learned in boot camp that will be helpful to new recruits who are about to head to training. Learning these valuable insights will help new recruits make the best of their eight weeks of training and put them ahead of others.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Stella di Imbrogliado has always made the most of bad situations – but when her life takes a major detour and her loved-ones betray her, she reroutes her journey altogether. With nothing left to lose, she departs her old life by enlisting in the U.S. Air Force.In this bizarre new world where orders are shouted, showers are a social event, and sweat is the ultimate beauty aid, she taps her unimagined strength and begins to see that her worst day...
Author
Language
English
Description
Cannon to the left of them; cannon to the right of them… The legend of an extraordinary defeat brought vividly to life
The cavalry charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War remains one of the most iconic disasters in British military history. Here bestseller John Harris casts a fresh view on the subject, rejecting conventional wisdom.
The calamity was, he argues, brought about by something much more complex than the usually suspected cause:...
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Adam Gamal and Kelly Kennedy's The Unit in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Unit" by Adam Gamal and Kelly Kennedy is a gripping account of Gamal's journey from a vegetable vendor in Alexandria, Egypt, to a key member of the US military's most secretive unit. The narrative follows Gamal's life, starting with his childhood in a culturally rich Alexandria, his family's emphasis on education and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Lessons from veterans and active duty service members in opposition to US interventionist military policy
Rules of Disengagement examines the reasons men and women in the military have disobeyed orders and resisted the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It takes readers into the courtroom where sailors, soldiers, and Marines have argued that these wars are illegal under international law and unconstitutional under US law. Through the voices of active...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1914 Scotland prepared for war.
Steel and Tartan charts the adventures of the 4th Battalion, Queens Own Cameron Highlanders – from their training in Bedford with the Highland Division through to five major engagements in France, including the Battle of Neuve Chapelle and the Battle of Loos, to eventual break-up in March 1916 at the hands of the British Army administrators. Of the 1,500 men who fought with the Battalion, over 250...
Author
Language
English
Description
Victory Rests with the Lord is a validation of Proverbs 21:31, The Horse is made ready for the day of battle, but victory rests with the Lord.
The commander of one of the most successful infantry companies during the Vietnam War makes a strong case that the war was winnable if God would have provided our leaders the wisdom and creativity to employ the correct tactics.
Victory Rests with the Lord explains why the most powerful military in the world...
Author
Language
English
Description
Foreign policy in peacetime and command decision in war have always been driven by intelligence, and yet this subject has often been overlooked in standard histories. Honorable Treachery fills in these details, dramatically recounting every important intelligence operation since our nation's birth. These include how in 1795 President Washington mounted a covert operation to ransom American hostages in the Middle East; how in 1897, Kaiser Wilhelm II's...
Author
Language
English
Description
The colourful characters and daring rescues of downed pilots engaged in the Secret War in North Vietnam and Laos are vividly captured by one who was there, in some of the most exciting stories ever written about aerial combat. Sandy Marrett and his squadron colleagues flew some of the most dangerous air missions of the war as on-scene commanders, in charge of rescuing the scores of US Navy and Air Force pilots shot down over North Vietnam and Laos....
Author
Language
English
Description
"Forging Peace" offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the British military intervention in Sierra Leone from 2000 to 2002, a crucial period that significantly impacted the trajectory of the country's civil war and its journey towards peace. The book meticulously examines the intervention without the use of interviews, instead relying on an extensive review of available documentation, military records, governmental archives, and media reports.The...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The men who fought in Napoleon's Grande Armée built a new empire that changed the world. Remarkably, the same men raised arms during the French Revolution for liberté, égalité, and fraternité. In just over a decade, these freedom fighters, who had once struggled to overthrow tyrants, rallied to the side of a man who wanted to dominate Europe. What was behind this drastic change of heart?
In this ground-breaking study, Michael J. Hughes...
Author
Language
English
Description
Formed by an elite cadre of government officials, the five member Black OPS team goes where the law can't - to seek retribution for acts of terror directed against Americans anywhere in the world.BLACK OPS - BOOK 3: AMERICANS TAKEN HOSTAGE IN GREECE! The Black OPS team's priority is to rescue a hostaged group of archaeological students, including the niece of the Secretary of State. Blood has already been spilled, and the students face an ever-receding...
20) Bullet Points 3
Author
Language
English
Description
The Bullet Points anthology offers classic stories alongside stories from up-and-coming authors, including: Harry Turtledove, "The Phantom Tolbukhin"; George Tomkyns Chesney, "The Battle of Dorking"; Mia Dalia, "Forget Me Not"; A. P. Howell, "Used Armor Smell"; M. V. Melcer, "Ships Made of Guns"; and Marc A. Criley, "The Golden Rays of the Morning Sun." This is an anthology based on Bullet Points, an online military science fiction magazine. Bullet...
In Interlibrary Loan Catalog
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by MetroShare Consortium can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan Catalog libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request