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Chickamauga Campaign - Glory or the Grave The Breakthrough, the Union Collapse, and the Defense of Horseshoe Ridge, September 20, 1863

Powell David A.

ISBN: PB: 9781611213836, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
744 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 37 maps, 40 images

Now in paperback, "Glory or the Grave: The Breakthrough, the Union Collapse, and the Defense of Horseshoe Ridge, September 20, 1863" is the second volume in The Chickamauga Campaign, David Powell's magnificent three-volume study of this overlooked an...

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Under the Crescent Moon The Eleventh Corps in the American Civil War, 1862-1864. From the Defenses of Washington to Chancellorsville

Pula James S.

ISBN: HB: 9781611213379, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 maps, 40 illus.

The Eleventh Corps served in the Army of the Potomac for just twelve months (September 1862 – August 1863), but during that time played a pivotal role in the critical battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, hastened westward to reinforce a Union...

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In the Shadows of Victory II America's Forgotten Military Leaders, The Spanish-American War to World War II

Phillips Thomas D.

ISBN: HB: 9781612005461, Casemate, November 2017
288 pp., 21x15 cm, 30 illus.

During the course of America's existence, history has enshrined an exceptional few military leaders in the public's collective consciousness while sometimes ignoring others often equally as deserving, relegating them to footnotes at best. Though the...

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Domestic Subjects Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature

Piatote Beth H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300227079, Yale University Press, August 2017
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

Amid the decline of U.S. military campaigns against Native Americans in the late nineteenth century, assimilation policy arose as the new front in the Indian Wars, with its weapons the deployment of culture and law, and its locus the American Indian...

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Twenty-Two on Peleliu Four Pacific Campaigns with the Corps: The Memoirs of an Old Breed Marine

Peto George, Margaritis Peter

ISBN: HB: 9781612005270, Casemate, August 2017
368 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm, 30 illus.

On September 15, 1944, the U.S. First Marine Division landed on a small island in the Central Pacific called Peleliu as a prelude to the liberation of the Philippines. Among the first wave of Marines that hit the beach that day was 22-year-old George...

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Battle above the Clouds Lifting the Siege of Chattanooga and the Battle of Lookout Mountain, October 16 - November 24, 1863

Powell David A.

ISBN: PB: 9781611213775, Casemate, Savas Beatie, August 2017
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 images and maps

In October 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland was besieged in Chattanooga, all but surrounded by familiar opponents: The Confederate Army of Tennessee. The Federals were surviving by the narrowest of margins, thanks only to a trickle of supplies...

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New Math A Political History

Phillips Christopher J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226421490, ISBN: HB: 9780226184968, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 6 line drawings

An era of sweeping cultural change in America, the postwar years saw the rise of beatniks and hippies, the birth of feminism, and the release of the first video game. It was also the era of new math. Introduced to US schools in the late 1950s and 196...

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Omaha Beach Tuesday 6th June 1944

Prime Christophe

ISBN: PB: 9782815103046, Casemate, OREP, August 2016
128 pp., 26.5x20 cm

Tuesday, June 6th 1944. It is dawn and the German lookouts on sentry along the beach of Sables d'Or at the Pointe du Hoc spot some worrying silhouettes in the distance. An incredible number of masts and ships begin to appear as the mist rises. It is...

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Revolutions Without Borders The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World

Polasky Janet

ISBN: PB: 9780300219845, ISBN: HB: 9780300208948, Yale University Press, July 2016
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Nation-based histories cannot do justice to the rowdy, radical interchange of ideas around the Atlantic world during the tumultuous years from 1776 to 1804. National borders were powerless to restrict the flow of enticing new visions of human rights...

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Words, Works, and Ways of Knowing The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England before the Civil War

Paretsky Sara

ISBN: HB: 9780226337746, University of Chicago Press, July 2016
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Crime writer Sara Paretsky is known the world over for her acclaimed series of mysteries starring Chicago Private Investigator V. I. Warshawski, now in its seventeenth installment. Paretsky's work has long been inflected with history – for her charac...

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