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Rails of War Supplying the Americans and Their Allies in China-Burma-India

Hantzis Steven J.

ISBN: HB: 9781612348537, Casemate, Potomac Books, May 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Oppressive conditions, a thankless task, a theater of war long forgotten and barely even known at the time – nonetheless, as Rails of War demonstrates, without James Harry Hantzis and his fellow soldiers of the 721st Railway Operating Battalion, the...

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Christianity

Project Eagle The American Christians of North Korea in World War II

Kim Robert S.

ISBN: HB: 9781612348698, Casemate, Potomac Books, May 2017
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Robert S. Kim contributes to a fuller understanding of Asia in World War II by revealing the role of American Christian missionary families in the development of the Korean independence movement and the creation of the forgotten alliance between that...

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Nanoweapons A Growing Threat to Humanity

Del Monte Louis A.

ISBN: HB: 9781612348964, Casemate, Potomac Books, April 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Nanoweapons just might render humanity extinct in the near future – a notion that is frightening and shocking but potentially true. In Nanoweapons Louis A. Del Monte describes the most deadly generation of military weapons the world has ever encounte...

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Political Science

America

Loving and Leaving Washington Reflections on Public Service

Yochelson John

ISBN: HB: 9781612348247, Casemate, Potomac Books, September 2016
296 pp., 23x15 cm

John Yochelson was seventeen when he first heard President Kennedy's call, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country". Responding to the call to public service, he had a front-row seat from the mid-1970s through...

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Political Science

Chinese Nuclear Proliferation How Global Politics Is Transforming China's Weapons Buildup and Modernization

Turner Haynes Susan

ISBN: HB: 9781612348216, Casemate, Potomac Books, July 2016
208 pp., 23x15 cm

While the world's attention is focused on the nuclearization of North Korea and Iran and the nuclear brinkmanship between India and Pakistan, China is believed to have doubled the size of its nuclear arsenal, making it "the forgotten nuclear power",...

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Biography & Memoires

Amiable Scoundrel Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War

Kahan Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781612348148, Casemate, Potomac Books, July 2016
408 pp., 23x15 cm

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Military

Blinking Red Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11

Allen Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781612348230, ISBN: HB: 9781612346151, Casemate, Potomac Books, July 2016
280 pp., 23x15 cm

After the September 11 attacks, the 9/11 Commission argued that the United States needed a powerful leader, a spymaster, to forge the scattered intelligence bureaucracies into a singular enterprise to vanquish America's new enemies – stateless intern...

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Selling War A Critical Look at the Military's PR Machine

Alvarez Steven J.

ISBN: HB: 9781612347721, Casemate, Potomac Books, May 2016
384 pp., 23x15 cm

In the spring of 2004, army reservist and public affairs officer Steven J. Alvarez waited to be called up as the U.S. military stormed Baghdad and deposed Saddam Hussein. But soon after President Bush's famous PR stunt in which an aircraft carrier di...

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Military

Lavi The United States, Israel, and a Controversial Fighter Jet

Golan John W.

ISBN: HB: 9781612347226, Casemate, Potomac Books, February 2016
456 pp., 23x15 cm

The Lavi fighter program, the largest weapons-development effort ever undertaken by the State of Israel, envisioned a new generation of high-performance aircraft. In a controversial strategy, Israel Aircraft Industries intended to develop and manufac...

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Political Science

Orchestrating the Instruments of Power A Critical Examination of the U.S. National Security System

Worley Robert D.

ISBN: PB: 9781612347202, Casemate, Potomac Books, February 2016
432 pp., 23x15 cm

National security, a topic routinely discussed behind the closed doors of Washington's political scientists and policymakers, is believed to be an insider's game. All too often, such highly specialized knowledge is assumed to place issues beyond the...

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