Military History

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS

2017
 Military History

CONTENTS

Ways of War. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Ancient. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Napoleonic Era. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Colonial to

Antebellum Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

American Civil War to Turn of the Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Twentieth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

New in Paperback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Coming Fall 2017. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

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officer of the 220th Rifle Regiment, 4th Rifle Division, killed in action in 1942) leading his soldiers to the assault. USSR,
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ways of
WAR S E R I E S
Launched in 2016, books in this new series will
explore the extent to which the concept of ways
of war can accurately describe policies and
approaches to conflict. Included in this series
will be works that examine military doctrines
and perspectives adopted by the armed forces or
nations and regions. Studies of specific military
institutions will be included as well. Volumes in the
series will also explore the limits of this concept by
contrasting or competing approaches to war that
exist simultaneously within prevailing ways of war.
Together with the series editors, David J. Ulbrich
and Matthew S. Muehlbauer, the University of
Oklahoma Press invites proposals for the series.
Works on Russia, Australia, the Royal Air Force,
and American Airpower are forthcoming.

SERIES EDITORS
DAVID J. ULBRICH AND MATTHEW S. MUEHLBAUER ARE COAUTHORS OF
WAYS OF WAR: AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY FROM THE COLONIAL ERA TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.

Submissions for all topics should be sent to

Adam C. Kane, Editor-in-Chief, University of Oklahoma Press (adam.kane@ou.edu).
Visit oupress.com for more information.
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Ancient
CAMPAIGNS AND COMMANDERS
The Campaigns of Sargon II, King of Assyria, 721705 b.c.
By Sarah C. Melville
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5403-9 320 Pages
Backed by an unparalleled military force, Sargon II outwitted and outfought
powerful competitors to extend Assyrian territory and secure his throne. The
Campaigns of Sargon II demonstrates how Sargon changed the geopolitical
dynamics in the Near East, inspired a period of cultural florescence,
established long-lasting Assyrian supremacy, and became one of the most
influential kings of the ancient world.

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Muhammad
Islams First Great General
By Richard A. Gabriel
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3860-2 288 Pages
In Muhammad: Islams First Great General, Richard A. Gabriel shows us a warrior
never before seen in antiquitya leader of an all-new religious movement who
in a single decade fought eight major battles, led eighteen raids, and planned
thirty-eight other military operations. Gabriels study portrays Muhammad as
a revolutionary who introduced military innovations that transformed armies
and warfare throughout the Arab world.

Napoleonic Era
CAMPAIGNS AND COMMANDERS
Guibert
Father of Napoleons Grande Arme
By Jonathan Abel
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5443-5 296 Pages
If there was one man, other than Napoleon himself, who determined the
course of the Napoleonic Wars, it was Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte
de Guibert. Taking in the full scope of the times, from the ideas of the
Enlightenment to the passions of the French Revolution, Jonathan Abels
Guibert is the first book in English to tell the remarkable story of the man who,
through his pen and political activity, truly earned the title of Father of the
Grande Arme.

Titan
British Power in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon
By William R. Nester
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5205-9 376 Pages
The interplay of individuals and events, the importance of conjunctures and
contingency, the significance of Britains island character and resources:
all come into play in Nesters exploration of the art of British military
diplomacy. The result is a comprehensive and insightful account of the
endeavors of statesmen and generals to master the art of power in a
complex battle for empire.
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The Man Who Captured Washington
Major General Robert Ross and the War of 1812
By John McCavitt and Christopher T. George
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5164-9 312 Pages
Despite a military career that included distinguished service in Europe and
North Africa, Ross is better known for his actions than his name: his 1814
campaign in the Chesapeake Bay resulted in the burning of the White House
and Capitol and the unsuccessful assault on Baltimore, immortalized in The
Star Spangled Banner. The Man Who Captured Washington is the first in-depth
biography of this important but largely forgotten historical figure.

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European Armies of the French Revolution, 17891802
Edited by Frederick C. Schneid
S34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4039-1 288 Pages
In nine essays by leading scholars, European Armies of the French Revolution, 1789
1802 provides an authoritative, continent-wide analysis of the organization and
constitution of these armies, the challenges they faced, and the impact they
had on the French Revolutionary Wars and on European military practices.
The volume opens with editor Frederick C. Schneids substantial introduction,
which reviews the strategies and policies of each participating state throughout
the wars, establishing a clear context for the essays that follow.

Women in the Peninsular War

By Charles J. Esdaile
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4478-8 336 Pages
In Women in the Peninsular War, Esdaile looks beyond the iconography. While
a handful of Spanish and Portuguese women became Agustina-like heroines,
a multitude became victims, and here both of these groups receive their due.
But Esdaile reveals a much more complicated picture in which women are
discovered to have experienced, responded to, and participated in the conflict
in various ways.

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Blcher
Scourge of Napoleon
By Michael V. Leggiere
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4409-2 568 Pages
One of the most colorful characters in the Napoleonic pantheon, Gebhard
Leberecht von Blcher (17421819) is best known as the Prussian general
who, along with the Duke of Wellington, defeated Napoleon at the Battle
of Waterloo. This magnificent biography by Michael V. Leggiere, an award-
winning historian of the Napoleonic Wars, is the first scholarly book in English
to explore Blchers life and military careerand his impact on Napoleon.

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Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword
The British Regiment on Campaign, 18081815
By Andrew Bamford
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4343-9 328 Pages
Although an armys success is often measured in battle outcomes, its victories
depend on strengths that may be less obvious on the field. In Sickness, Suffering,
and the Sword, military historian Andrew Bamford assesses the effectiveness of
the British Army in sustained campaigning during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Outpost of Empire
The Napoleonic Occupation of Andaluca, 18101812
By Charles J. Esdaile
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4278-4 512 Pages
Napoleons forces invaded Spain in 1808, but two years went by before they
overran the southern region of Andaluca. Situated at the farthest frontier of
Napoleons outer empire, Andaluca remained under French control only
brieflyfor two-and-a-half yearsand never experienced the normal functions
of French rule. In this groundbreaking examination of the Peninsular War,
Charles J. Esdaile moves beyond traditional military history to examine the
French occupation of Andaluca and the origins and results of the regions
complex and chaotic response.

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On Wellington
A Critique of Waterloo
Translated, edited, and annotated by Peter Hofschrer
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4108-4 272 Pages
Carl von Clausewitz, the Western worlds most renowned military theorist,
participated in the Waterloo campaign as a senior staff officer in the Prussian
army. His appraisal, offered here in an up-to-date and readable translation,
criticized the Duke of Wellingtons actions. Now published for the first time in
English, Hofschrer brings Clausewitzs critique back into view with thorough
annotation and contextual explanation.

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Wellingtons Two-Front War
The Peninsular Campaigns, at Home and Abroad, 18081814
By Joshua Moon
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4157-2 272 Pages
Sir Arthur Wellesleys 18081814 campaigns against Napoleons forces in
the Iberian Peninsula have drawn the attention of scholars and soldiers for
two centuries. In Wellingtons Two-Front War, Joshua Moon not only surveys
Wellingtons command of British forces against the French but also describes
the battles Wellington fought in Englandwith an archaic military command
structure, bureaucracy, and fickle public opinion.

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Napoleons Enfant Terrible
General Dominique Vandamme
By John G. Gallaher
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3875-6 384 Pages
A dedicated career soldier and excellent division and corps commander,
Dominique Vandamme was a thorn in the side of practically every officer he
served. Outspoken to a fault, he even criticized Napoleon, whom he never
forgave for not appointing him marshal. His military prowess so impressed the
emperor, however, that he returned Vandamme to command time and again. In
this first book-length study of Vandamme in English, John G. Gallaher traces the
career of one of Napoleons most successful midrank officers.

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Architects of Empire
The Duke of Wellington and His Brothers
By John Severn
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3810-7 512 Pages
A soldier and statesman for the ages, the Duke of Wellington is a towering
figure in world history. John Severn now offers a fresh look at the man born
Arthur Wellesley to show that his career was very much a family affair, a
lifelong series of interactions with his brothers and their common Anglo-Irish
heritage. The untold story of a great family drama, Architects of Empire paints
a new picture of the era through the collective biography of Wellesley and his
siblings.

Colonial to
Antebellum Period
CAMPAIGNS AND COMMANDERS
Standing in Their Own Light
African American Patriots in the American Revolution
By Judith L. Van Buskirk
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5635-4 312 Pages
The Revolutionary War encompassed at least two struggles: one for
freedom from British rule, and another, quieter but no less significant fight
for the liberty of African Americans, thousands of whom fought in the
Continental Army. Because these veterans left few letters or diaries, their
story has remained largely untold. Standing in Their Own Light restores these
African American patriots to their rightful place in the historical struggle for
independence and the end of racial oppression.

Hang Them All

George Wright and the Plateau Indian War, 1858
By Donald L. Cutler
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5337-7 392 Pages
Col. George Wrights campaign against the Yakima, Spokane, Coeur dAlene,
Palouse, and other Indian peoples of eastern Washington Territory was
intended to punish them for a recent attack on another U.S. Army force.
Today, many critics view his actions as war crimes, but among white settlers
and politicians of the time, Wright was a patriotic hero who helped open the
Inland Northwest to settlement. Hang Them All offers a comprehensive
account of Wrights campaigns and explores the controversy surrounding his
legacy.

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At Swords Point, Part 2
A Documentary History of the Utah War, 18581859
By William P. MacKinnon
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-386-8 704 Pages
The Utah Waran unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormon-
controlled Utah Territory and the U.S. governmentwas the most extensive
American military action between the U.S.-Mexican and Civil Wars. At
Swords Point presents the first full history of the conflict through the voices of
participantsleaders, soldiers, and civilians from both sides. MacKinnons
lively narrative, continued in this second volume, links and explains these
firsthand accounts to produce the most detailed, in-depth, and balanced
view of the war to date.
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Kearnys Dragoons Out West

The Birth of the U.S. Cavalry
By Will Gorenfeld and John Gorenfeld
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5394-0 480 Pages
Having banished eastern Native peoples to lands west of the Mississippi,
President Andrew Jacksons government by 1833 needed a new type of
soldier to keep displaced Indians from returning home. And so the 1st
Dragoons came into being. Will and John Gorenfeld tell their storyan epic of
exploration, conquest, and diplomacy from the outposts of western history
in this book-length treatment of the force that became the U.S. Cavalry.

Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification

A Guide
By Daniel M. Sivilich
$34.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5158-8 232 Pages
Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification: A Guide traces the history of musket balls
and small shot, and explores their uses as lethal projectiles and in nonlethal
alterations. Sivilich asksand answersa variety of questions to demonstrate
how a musket ball found in a military context can help to interpret the site.

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The Army Surveys of Gold Rush California
Reports of Topographical Engineers, 18491851
Edited by Gary Clayton Anderson and Laura Lee Anderson
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-430-8 256 Pages
Historian Gary Clayton Anderson and anthropologist Laura Lee Anderson
provide historical, geographic, and biographical context in the books
introduction and in headnotes and annotations for each journal. These
documents offer extraordinary firsthand views of the environment, natural
resources, geography, and early settlement, as well as the effects of disease on
Native and white populations.

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The Battle of Lake Champlain
A Brilliant and Extraordinary Victory
By John H. Schroeder
$26.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4693-5 184 Pages
On September 11, 1814, an American naval squadron under Master
Commandant Thomas Macdonough defeated a formidable British force on
Lake Champlain under the command of Captain George Downie. Examining
the naval and land campaign in strategic, political, and military terms, from
planning to execution to outcome, The Battle of Lake Champlain offers the most
thorough account written of this pivotal moment in American history.

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Connecticut Unscathed
Victory in the Great Narragansett War, 16751676
By Jason W. Warren
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4475-7 240 Pages
The conflict that historians have called King Philips War still ranks as one of
the bloodiest per capita in American history. But because Connecticut lacked
a chronicler, its experience has gone largely untold. As Jason Warren makes
clear in Connecticut Unscathed, this imbalance has generated an incomplete
narrative of the war.
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Defender of Canada
Sir George Prevost and the War of 1812
By John R. Grodzinski
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4387-3 360 Pages
Defender of Canada, the first book-length examination of Prevosts career,
offers a reinterpretation of the generals military leadership in the War of
1812. Historian John R. Grodzinski shows that Prevost deserves far greater
credit for the successful defense of Canada than he has heretofore received.

George Rogers Clark

I Glory in War
By William R. Nester
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4294-4 384 Pages
George Rogers Clark led four victorious campaigns against the Indians and
British during the American Revolution. Although historians have ranked
him among the greatest rebel commanders, Clarks name is all but forgotten
today. William R. Nester resurrects the story of Clarks triumphs and his
downfall in this, the first full biography of the man in more than fifty years.

American Civil War to

Turn of the Century
Regular Army O!
Soldiering on the Western Frontier, 18651891
By Douglas C. McChristian
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-5695-8 784 Pages
The drums they roll, upon my soul, for thats the way we go, runs the
chorus in a Harrigan and Hart song from 1874. Forty miles a day on
beans and hay in the Regular Army O! The last three words of that lyric
aptly title Douglas C. McChristians remarkable work capturing the lot of
soldiers posted to the West after the Civil War. At once panoramic and
intimate, Regular Army O! uses the testimony of enlisted soldiersdrawn
from more than 350 diaries, letters, and memoirsto create a vivid picture
of life in an evolving army on the western frontier.

War in the Southwest Borderlands, 18611867

By Andrew E. Masich
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5572-2 464 Pages
Still the least-understood theater of the Civil War, the Southwest
Borderlands saw not only Union and Confederate forces clashing but
Indians, Hispanos, and Anglos struggling for survival, power, and
dominance on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Based on previously
overlooked Indian Depredation Claim records and a wealth of other
sources, this book is both a close-up history of the Civil War in the region
and an examination of the war-making traditions of its diverse peoples.

Soldiers in the Southwest Borderlands, 18481886

By Janne Lahti
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5702-3 248 Pages
Most military biographies focus on officers, many of whom left diaries or
wrote letters throughout their lives and careers. This collection offers new
perspectives by focusing on the lives of enlisted soldiers from a variety of
cultural and racial backgrounds. Comprised of ten biographies, Soldiers
in the Southwest Borderlands showcases the scholarship of experts who have
mined military records, descendants recollections, genealogical sources,
and even folklore to tell common soldiers stories.
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A Surgeon with Custer at the Little Big Horn

James DeWolfs Diary and Letters, 1876
By James M. DeWold
Edited by Todd E. Harburn
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5694-1 288 Pages
In spring 1876 a physician named James Madison DeWolf accepted the
assignment of contract surgeon for the Seventh Cavalry, becoming one of
three surgeons who accompanied Custers battalion at the Battle of the Little
Big Horn. Killed in the early stages of the battle, he might easily have become
a mere footnote in the many chronicles of this epic campaignbut he left
behind an eyewitness account in his diary and correspondence. A Surgeon with
Custer at the Little Big Horn is the first annotated edition of these rare accounts
since 1958, and the most complete treatment to date.

Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight

Indian Views
Edited by John H. Monnett
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5582-1 248 Pages
On December 21, 1866during Red Clouds War (18661868)a well-
organized force of 1,500 to 2,000 Oglala Lakota, Northern Cheyenne,
and Arapaho warriors annihilated a detachment of seventy-nine infantry
and cavalry soldiersamong them Captain William Judd Fettermanand
two civilian contractors. In Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight, award-winning
historian John H. Monnett presents these Native views, drawn from previously
published sources as well as newly discovered interviews with Oglala and
Cheyenne warriors and leaders.

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Hitlers Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars
Comparing Genocide and Conquest
By Edward Westermann
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5433-6 336 Pages
As he prepared to wage his war of annihilation on the Eastern Front, Adolf
Hitler repeatedly drew parallels between the Nazi quest for Lebensraum, or
living space, in Eastern Europe and the United Statess westward expansion
under the banner of Manifest Destiny. The peoples of Eastern Europe were,
he said, his redskins, and for his colonial fantasy of a German East he
claimed a historical precedent in the United Statess displacement and killing
of the native population. Edward B. Westermann examines the validity, and
value, of this claim in Hitlers Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars.

Powder River
Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War
Paul L. Hedren
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5383-4 472 Pages
Powder River: Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War recounts the wintertime
Big Horn Expedition and its singular great battle. Historian Paul Hedren
tracks both sides of the conflict through a rich array of primary source
material, including the transcripts of Reynoldss court-martial and Indian
recollections. The disarray and incompetence of the wars beginningsofficers
who failed to take proper positions, disregard of orders to save provisions,
failure to cooperate, and abandonment of the dead and a wounded soldier
in many ways anticipated the catastrophe that later occurred at the Little Big
Horn.
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Road to War
The 1871 Yellowstone Surveys
By M. John Lubetkin
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-429-2 312 Pages
By 1870, only one group of American Indians in the 300,000 square miles
of the Dakota and Montana Territories still held firm against being placed
on reservations: a few thousand Teton Sioux and Northern Cheyennes, all
followers of the charismatic Sitting Bull. It was then that Philadelphias Jay
Cooke, the financier of the Civil War, a man who believed that he was Gods
chosen instrument, funded a second transcontinental railroad. This line,
the Northern Pacific, would follow the Yellowstone River through Montana,
separating the last buffalo herds from Sitting Bulls people and disrupting
their way of life.

Slaughter at the Chapel

The Battle of Ezra Church, 1864
By Gary Ecelbarger
$26.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-5499-2 288 Pages
The Battle of Ezra Church was one of the deadliest engagements in the
Atlanta Campaign of the Civil War and continues to be one of the least
understood. Both official and unofficial reports failed to illuminate the true
bloodshed of the conflict: one of every three engaged Confederates was killed
or wounded, including four generals. Nor do those reports acknowledge
the flawslet alone the ultimate failureof Confederate commander John
Bell Hoods plan to thwart Union general William Tecumseh Shermans
southward advance.

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Soldiering in the Shadow of Wounded Knee
The 1891 Diary of Private
Hartford G. Clark, Sixth U.S. Cavalry
Edited by Jerome A. Greene
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-440-7 216 Pages
In the aftermath of the December 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, U.S. Army
troops braced for retaliation from Lakota Sioux Indians, who had just suffered
the devastating loss of at least two hundred men, women, and children. Among
the soldiers sent to guard the area around Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota,
was twenty-two-year-old Private Hartford Geddings Clark (18691920) of
the Sixth U.S. Cavalry. Within three days of the massacre, he began keeping a
diary that he continued through 1891. Clarks accountpublished here for the
first timeoffers a rare and intimate view of a soldiers daily life set against the
backdrop of a rapidly vanishing American frontier.

Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums

Horse-Mounted Bands of the U.S. Army, 18201940
By Bruce P. Gleason
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5479-4 264 Pages
Stemming from the tradition of rallying troops and frightening enemies,
mounted bands played a unique and distinctive role in American military
history. Their fascinating story within the U.S. Army unfolds in this latest
book from noted music historian and former army musician Bruce P.
Gleason. Touching on anthropology, musicology, and the history of
the United States and its military, Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums is
an unparalleled account of mounted military bands and their cultural
significance.
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Kill Jeff Davis
The Union Raid on Richmond, 1864
By Bruce M. Venter
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-5153-3 384 Pages
The ostensible goal of the controversial Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on
Richmond was to free some 13,000 Union prisoners of war held in the
Confederate capital. But orders found on the dead body of the raids
subordinate commander, Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, point instead to a plot
to capture or kill Confederate president Jefferson Davis and set Richmond
ablaze. Kill Jeff Davis offers a fresh look at the failed raid and mines newly
discovered documents and little-known sources to provide definitive
answers.

Fort Bascom
Soldiers, Comancheros, and Indians in the Canadian River Valley
By James Bailey Blackshear
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5209-7 272 Pages
In Fort Bascom, James Bailey Blackshear presents the definitive history of
this critical outpost in the American Southwest, along with a detailed view
of army life on the late-nineteenth-century western frontier. Blackshear
shows the difficulties of maintaining a post in a harsh environment where
scarce water and forage, long supply lines, poorly constructed facilities,
and monotonous duty tested soldiers endurance.

Photographing Custers Battlefield

The Images of Kenneth F. Roahen
By Sandy Barnard
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5159-5 280 Pages
In Photographing Custers Battlefield, Sandy Barnard, an expert on Custer
and the Little Big Horn, presents the work of the sites most dedicated
photographer, U.S. Fish and Game agent Kenneth F. Roahen (1888
1976), revealing further mysteries of the battlefield and showing how it
has changed.

The Civil War Years in Utah

The Kingdom of God and the Territory That Did Not Fight
By John Gary Maxwell
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4911-0 488 Pages
While the Civil War spread death, tragedy, and sorrow across the
continent, Utah Territory remained virtually untouched. Although the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saintsand its faithfulproudly
praise the service of an 1862 Mormon cavalry company during the
Civil War, Maxwells research exposes the relatively inconsequential
contribution of these Nauvoo Legion soldiers.

Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance

Other Sides of Civil War Texas
Edited by Jess F. de la Teja
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5182-3 296 Pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5183-0 296 Pages
Concluding with an account of the origins of Juneteenththe nationally
celebrated holiday marking June 19, 1865, when emancipation was
announced in TexasLone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance challenges
the collective historical memory of Civil War Texas and its place in both
the Confederacy and the United States. It provides material for a fresh
narrative, one including people on the margins of history and dispelling
the myth of a monolithically Confederate Texas.
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Blood on the Marias

The Baker Massacre
By Paul R. Wylie
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5157-1 336 Pages
While other scholars have written about the Baker Massacre in related
contexts, Blood on the Marias gives this infamous event the definitive treatment
it deserves. Bakers inept command lit the spark of violence, but decades of
tension between Piegans and whites set the stage for a brutal and too-often-
forgotten incident.

Through Indian Sign Language

The Fort Sill Ledgers of Hugh Lenox Scott and Iseeo, 18891897
Edited by William C. Meadows
$55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4727-7 520 Pages
The Scott ledgers contain an array of historical, linguistic, and ethnographic
dataa wealth of primary-source material on Southern Plains Indian people.
Meadows describes Plains Indian Sign Language, its origins and history, and
its significance to anthropologists. He also sketches the lives of Scott and
Iseeo, explaining how they met, how Scott learned the language, and how
their working relationship developed and served them both.

Health of the Seventh Cavalry

A Medical History
Edited by P. Willey and Douglas D. Scott
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4839-7 480 Pages
In Health of the Seventh Cavalry, editors P. Willey and Douglas D. Scott and their
co-contributorsexperts in history, medicine, human biology, epidemiology,
and human osteologyexamine the Sevenths medical records to determine
the health of the nineteenth-century U.S. Army, and the prevalence and
treatment of the numerous conditions that plagued soldiers during the Indian
Wars.

The Gray Fox

George Crook and the Indian Wars
By Paul Magid
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4706-2 480 Pages
As Paul Magid portrays Crook in this highly readable second volume of
a projected three-volume biography, the general was an innovative and
eccentric soldier, with a complex and often contradictory personality,
whose activities often generated intense controversy. Though known for his
uncompromising ferocity in battle, he nevertheless respected his enemy and
grew to know them.

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Before Custer
Surveying the Yellowstone, 1872
By M. John Lubetkin
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-431-5 328 Pages
The firsthand accounts compiled here by M. John Lubetkin document the
surveys three-month struggle with the Lakotas and other Plains Indian
people. Before Custer: Surveying the Yellowstone, 1872 tells of a little-known but
crucial episode in the history of westward expansion and Native peoples
efforts to halt that expansion.
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Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey
A Documentary History
M. John Lubetkin
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-422-3 320 Pages
$125.00s Limited Edition 978-0-87062-427-8 320 Pages
Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey examines the expedition told through
documents selected and interpreted by historian M. John Lubetkin.
The U.S. Army was determined to punish the Sioux, and the Northern
Pacific desperately needed to complete its engineering work and resume
construction. The expedition mounted in 1873larger than all previous
surveys combinedincluded embedded newspaper correspondents and
1,600 infantry and cavalry, the latter led by George Armstrong Custer.

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The Early Morning of War
Bull Run, 1861
By Edward G. Longacre
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4498-6 648 Pages
This crucial campaign receives its most complete and comprehensive
treatment in Edward G. Longacres The Early Morning of War. A magisterial
work by a veteran historian, The Early Morning of War blends narrative and
analysis to convey the full scope of the campaign of First Bull Runits
drama and suspense as well as its practical and tactical underpinnings and
ramifications.

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Soldiers in the Army of Freedom
The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil Wars First African American Combat Unit
By Ian Michael Spurgeon
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4618-8 400 Pages
Soldiers in the Army of Freedom is the first published account of this largely
forgotten regiment and, in particular, its contribution to Union victory in the
trans-Mississippi theater of the Civil War. As such, it restores the First Kansas
Colored Infantry to its rightful place in American history.

A Corporals Story
Civil War Recollections of the Twelfth Massachusetts
By George Kimball
Edited by Alan D. Gaff and Donald H. Gaff
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4480-1 368 Pages
When George Kimball (18401916) joined the Twelfth Massachusetts in
1861, hed been in the newspaper trade for five years. When he mustered
out three years later, having been wounded at Fredericksburg and again at
Gettysburg (mortally, it was mistakenly assumed at the time), he returned
to newspaper life. Collected in A Corporals Story, Kimballs writings form a
unique narrative of one mans experience in the Civil War, viewed through a
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American Carnage
Wounded Knee, 1890
By Jerome A. Greene
$34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4448-1 648 Pages
In this gripping tale, Jerome A. Greenerenowned specialist on the Indian
warsexplores why the bloody engagement happened and demonstrates
how it became a brutal massacre. Drawing on a wealth of sources, including
previously unknown testimonies, Greene examines the events from both
Native and non-Native perspectives, explaining the significance of treaties,
white settlement, political disputes, and the Ghost Dance as influential
factors in what eventually took place.

The River Was Dyed with Blood

Nathan Bedford Forrest and Fort Pillow
By Brian Steel Wills
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4453-5 288 Pages
In The River Was Dyed with Blood, best-selling Forrest biographer Brian Steel
Wills argues that although atrocities did occur after the fall of the fort,
Forrest did not order or intend a systematic execution of its defenders.
Rather, the generals great failing was losing control of his troops. The battle-
scarred fighter with his homespun aphorisms was neither an infallible warrior
nor a heartless butcher, but a product of his time and his heritage.

Battles and Massacres on the Southwestern Frontier

Historical and Archaeological Perspectives
By Ronald K. Wetherington and Frances Levine
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4440-5 260 Pages
This unique study centers on four critical engagements between Anglo-
Americans and American Indians on the southwestern frontier: the Battle
of Cieneguilla (1854), the Battle of Adobe Walls (1864), the Sand Creek
Massacre (1864), and the Mountain Meadows Massacre (1857). Editors
Ronald K. Wetherington and Frances Levine juxtapose historical and
archaeological perspectives on each event to untangle the ambiguity and
controversy that surround both historical and more contemporary accounts
of each of these violent outbreaks.

Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud

Custer, the Press, and the Little Bighorn
By James E. Mueller
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4398-0 272 Pages
In Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud, James E. Mueller draws on exhaustive
research of period newspapers to explore press coverage of the famous battle.
As he analyzes a wide range of accountssome grim, some circumspect, some
even laced with humorMueller offers a unique take on the dramatic events
that so shook the American public.

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Custer, the Seventh Cavalry, and the Little Big Horn
A Bibliography
By Michael OKeefe
$125.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-404-9 720 Pages
Since the shocking news first broke in 1876 of the Seventh Cavalrys
disastrous defeat at the Little Big Horn, fascination with the battleand
with Lieutenant George Armstrong Custerhas never ceased. Widespread
interest in the subject has spawned a vast outpouring of literature, which only
increases with time. This two-volume bibliography of Custer literature is the
first to be published in some twenty-five years and the most complete ever
assembled.
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Los Angeles in Civil War Days, 18601865

By John W. Robinson
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4312-5 204 Pages
Most accounts of Californias role in the Civil War focus on the northern part
of the state, San Francisco in particular. In Los Angeles in Civil War Days, John
W. Robinson looks to the southern half and offers an enlightening sketch of
Los Angeles and its people, politics, and economic trends from 1860 to 1865.

After Custer
Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country
By Paul L. Hedren
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4216-2 272 Pages
Between 1876 and 1877, the U.S. Army battled Lakota Sioux and Northern
Cheyenne Indians in a series of vicious conflicts known today as the Great
Sioux War. After the defeat of Custer at the Little Big Horn in June 1876, the
army responded to its stunning loss by pouring fresh troops and resources
into the war effort. In this unique contribution to American western history,
Paul L. Hedren examines the wars effects on the culture, environment, and
geography of the northern Great Plains, their Native inhabitants, and the
Anglo-American invaders.

Violent Encounters
Interviews on Western Massacres
By Deborah Lawrence and Jon Lawrence
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4126-8 224 Pages
Merciless killing in the nineteenth-century American West, as this unusual
book shows, was not as simple as depicted in dime novels and movie
Westerns. The scholars interviewed here, experts on violence in the West,
embrace a wide range of approaches and perspectives and challenge both
traditional views of western expansion and politically correct ideologies.

Twentieth Century
Nine Days in May
The Battles of the 4th Infantry Division on the Cambodian Border, 1967
By Warren K. Wilkins
$34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-5715-3 432 Pages
Nine Days in May is the first full account of these bitterly contested battles.
Fought between three American battalions and two North Vietnamese
Army regiments, this prolonged, deadly encounter was one of the largest,
most savage actions seen by elements of the storied 4th Infantry Division in
Vietnam. Drawing on interviews with the participants, Warren K. Wilkins
recreates the vicious fighting in gripping detail.

So Long for Now

A Sailors Letters from the USS Franklin
By Jerry Rogers
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5632-3 432 Pages
So Long for Now reconstructs the lost world of a sailors daily life in World War
II, piecing together letters from Eldens family in Vega, Texas, and from his
girlfriend, the untold stories behind Eldens own letters, and the context of
the war itself. Historian Jerry L. Rogers delves past censored letters limited to
small talk and local gossip to conjure the danger, excitement, boredom, and
sacrifices that sailors in the Pacific theater endured.
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Flying to Victory
Raymond Collishaw and the Western Desert Campaign, 19401941
By Mike Bechthold
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5596-8 296 Pages
When World War II began in 1939, Air Commodore Collishaw commanded a
Royal Air Force group in Egypt. Flying to Victory examines Raymond Collishaws
contribution to the British system of tactical air supporta pattern of
operations that eventually became standard in the Allied air forces and
proved to be a key factor in the Allied victory.

Sign Talker
Hugh Lenox Scott Remembers Indian Country
By Hugh Lenox Scott
Edited by R. Eli Paul
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5354-4 272 Pages
Sign Talker, an annotated edition of Scotts memoirs, gives new insight into
this soldier-diplomats experiences and accomplishments. As historians
continue to debate the details of the Indian wars, and as we critically examine
our nations current foreign policy, the unique legacy of General Scott
provides a model of military leadership. Sign Talker restores an undervalued
diplomat to well-deserved prominence in the story of U.S.-Indian relations.

Somewhere Over There

The Letters, Diary, and Artwork of a World War I Corporal
By Francis H. Webster
Edited by Darrek D. Orwig
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5172-4 296 Pages
Using his skills as an illustrator, Webster documented firsthand the harsh
realities of combat life and regularly submitted visual dispatches of his
experiences back to an Iowa newspaper. The first published collection of
Websters wartime chronicles, Somewhere Over There presents a unique view
of World War I through a rare compilation of letters, diary entries, cartoons,
sketches, and watercolors.

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Rediscovering Irregular Warfare
Colin Gubbins and the Origins of Britains Special Operations Executive
By A. R. B. Linderman
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5167-0 288 Pages
The history of the SOEs doctrinal origins is Colin Gubbinss story. By
telling that story, Rediscovering Irregular Warfare amplifies and clarifies our
understanding of the Second World Warand of doctrines of unconventional
warfare in the twentieth century.

In Love and War

The World War II Courtship Letters of a Nisei Couple
By Melody M. Miyamoto Walters
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4820-5 296 Pages
In Love and War recounts the wartime experiences of author Melody M.
Miyamoto Walterss grandparents, two second-generation Japanese
Americans, or Nisei, living in Hawaii. Their love story, narrated in letters
they wrote each other from July 1941 to June 1943, offers a unique view of
Hawaiian Nisei and the social and cultural history of territorial Hawaii during
World War II.
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Brummett Echohawk
Pawnee Thunderbird and Artist
By Kristin M. Youngbull
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4826-7 224 Pages
A true American hero who earned a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and a
Congressional Gold Medal, Brummett Echohawk was also a Pawnee on
the European battlefields of World War II. This first book-length biography
depicts Echohawk as a soldier, painter, writer, humorist, and actor profoundly
shaped by his Pawnee heritage and a man who refused to be pigeonholed as
an Indian artist.

Moroni and the Swastika

Mormons in Nazi Germany
By David Conley Nelson
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4668-3 432 Pages
A page-turning historical narrative, this book is the first full account of how
Mormons avoided Nazi persecution through skilled collaboration with Hitlers
regime, and then eschewed postwar shame by constructing an alternative
history of wartime suffering and resistance.

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The Last Cavalryman
The Life of General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr.
By Harvey Ferguson
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4664-5 448 Pages
In this biography of Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., author Harvey Ferguson tells the
story of how Truscottdespite his hardscrabble beginnings, patchy education,
and questionable lucknot only made the rank of army lieutenant general,
earning a reputation as one of World War IIs most effective officers along
the way, but was also given an honorary promotion to four-star general seven
years after his retirement.

The Second Pearl Harbor

The West Loch Disaster, May 21, 1944
By Gene Salecker
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4476-4 296 Pages
Military historian Gene Salecker recounts the events and conditions leading
up to the explosion, then re-creates the drama directly afterward: men
swimming through flaming oil, small craft desperately trying to rescue the
injured, and subsequent explosions throwing flaming debris everywhere. With
meticulous attention to detail the author explains why he and other historians
believe that the official explanation for the cause of the explosion, that a
mortar shell was accidentally detonated, is wrong.

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Special Operations in World War II
British and American Irregular Warfare
By Andrew L. Hargreaves
$36.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4396-5 352 Pages
In this book, Andrew L. Hargreaves not only describes tactics and operations
but also outlines the distinctions between commandos and special forces,
traces their evolution during the war, explains how the Anglo-American
alliance functioned in the creation and use of these units, looks at their
command and control arrangements, evaluates their impact, and assesses
their cost-effectiveness.
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Under the Eagle

Samuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker
By Samuel Holiday and Robert S. McPherson
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4389-7 288 Pages
Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the
Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit
secret communications on the battlefield. Based on extensive interviews
with Robert S. McPherson, Under the Eagle is Holidays vivid account of his
own story. It is the only book-length oral history of a Navajo code talker in
which the narrator relates his experiences in his own voice and words.

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Going for Broke
Japanese American Soldiers in the War against Nazi Germany
By James M. McCaffrey
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4337-8 408 Pages
In Going for Broke, historian James M. McCaffrey traces the experiences of
Japanese American soldiers in World War II, from training to some of the
deadliest combat in Europe. McCaffreys account makes clear that like
other American soldiers in World War II, the second generation Japanese
Americans relied on their personal determination, social values, and
training to go for broketo bet everything, even their lives.

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A Military History of the Cold War, 19441962
By Jonathan M. House
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4262-3 560 Pages
The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the
1950s and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements
that affected millions of lives. This book is the first comprehensive,
multinational overview of military affairs during the early Cold War,
beginning with conflicts during World War II in Warsaw, Athens, and
Saigon and ending with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The Complexity of Modern Asymmetric Warfare

By Max G. Manwaring
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4265-4 224 Pages
Manwarings multidimensional paradigm offers military and civilian leaders
a much needed blueprint for achieving strategic victories and ensuring
global security now and in the future. It combines military and police
efforts with politics, diplomacy, economics, psychology, and ethics. The
challenge he presents to civilian and military leaders is to take probable
enemy perspectives into consideration, and turn resultant conceptions into
strategic victories.

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Into the Breach at Pusan
The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade in the Korean War
By Kenneth W. Estes
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4254-8 216 Pages
In the opening campaign of the Korean War, the First Provisional Marine
Brigade participated in a massive effort by United States and South Korean
forces in 1950 to turn back the North Korean invasion of the Republic
of Korea. The brigades actions loom large in marine lore. Historian and
retired marine Kenneth W. Estes undertakes a fresh investigation of the
marines and Eighth Armys fight for Pusan.
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Fort Laramie
Military Bastion of the High Plains
By Douglas C. McChristian
$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5757-3 460 Pages
Douglas C. McChristian has written the first complete history of Fort Laramie,
chronicling every critical stage in its existence, including its addition to
the National Park System. He draws on an extraordinary array of archival
materialsincluding those at Fort Laramie National Historic Siteto present
new data about the fort and new interpretations of historical events.

Californio Lancers
The 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry in the Far West, 18631866
By Tom Prezelski
$21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5752-8 248 Pages
Although some ten thousand Spanish-surnamed Americans served during
the Civil War, their support of the Union is almost unknown in the popular
imagination. Californio Lancers contributes to our understanding of the
Civil War in the Far West and how it transformed the Mexican-American
community.

William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest

By William Heath
$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5750-4 520 Pages
Born to Anglo-American parents on the Appalachian frontier, captured
by the Miami Indians at the age of thirteen, and adopted into the tribe,
William Wells (17701812) moved between two cultures all his life but was
comfortable in neither. Vilified by some historians for his divided loyalties, he
remains relatively unknown even though he is worthy of comparison with such
famous frontiersmen as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett.

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Fatal Sunday
George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle
By Mark E. Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone
$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5748-1 624 Pages
The Battle of Monmouth was critical to the success of the Revolution. It also
marked a decisive turning point in the military career of George Washington.
Without the victory at Monmouth Courthouse, Washingtons critics might
well have marshaled the political strength to replace him as the American
commander-in-chief. Authors Mark Edward Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone
argue that in political terms, the Battle of Monmouth constituted a pivotal
moment in the War for Independence.

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A Dragons Head and a Serpents Tail
Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 15921598
By Kenneth M. Swope
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5581-4 432 Pages
Kenneth M. Swope has undertaken the first full-length scholarly study
in English of this important conflict. Drawing on Korean, Japanese, and
especially Chinese sources, he corrects the Japan-centered perspective of
previous accounts and depicts Chinas Emperor Wanli not as the self-
indulgent ruler of received interpretations but rather one actively engaged in
military affairsand concerned especially with rescuing Chinas client state
of Korea.
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The Great Call-Up

The Guard, the Border, and the Mexican Revolution
By Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler
$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5592-0 576 Pages
On June 18, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson called up virtually the entire
army National Guard, some 150,000 men, to meet an armed threat to the
United States: border raids covertly sponsored by a Mexican government in
the throes of revolution. The Great Call-Up tells for the first time the complete
story of this unprecedented deployment.

The Black Regulars, 18661898

By William A. Dobak and Thomas D. Phillips
$21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5753-5 384 Pages
Black soldiers first entered the regular army of the United States in the
summer of 1866. While their segregated regiments served in the American
West for the following three decades, the promise of Reconstruction gave way
to the repressiveness of Jim Crow. The authors shed new light on the military
justice system, relations between black troops and their mostly white civilian
neighbors, their professional reputations, and what veterans faced when they
left the army for civilian life.

Of Uncommon Birth
Dakota Sons in Vietnam
By Mark St. Pierre
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5345-2 320 Pages
A work of creative nonfiction inspired by the true story of two South
Dakota teenagers, Mark St. Pierres Of Uncommon Birth draws upon extensive
interviews and exhaustive research in military archives to present a harrowing
story of two young menone white, one Indiancaught in the vortex of the
Vietnam War.

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Borrowed Soldiers
Americans under British Command, 1918
By Mitchell A. Yockelson
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5349-0 332 Pages
The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully
pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World
War I, an offensive that hastened the wars end. Yet despite the importance of
this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant attention
from historians. Mitchell A. Yockelson delivers a comprehensive study of the
first time American and British soldiers who fought together as a coalition
force more than twenty years before D-Day.

From POW to Blue Angel

The Story of Commander Dusty Rhodes
By Jim Armstrong
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5342-1 320 Pages
As only the third fighter pilot to become leader of the Blue Angels, Raleigh
E. Dusty Rhodes helped develop the most famous aerobatics team ever
formed. From POW to Blue Angel tells his storya fast-paced drama teeming
with action and human interest and capturing the initiative and tenacity of a
true American hero.
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Napoleon in Italy
The Sieges of Mantua, 17961799
By Phillip R. Cuccia
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5184-7 328 Pages
In Napoleon in Italy, Phillip R. Cuccia brings to light two understudied aspects
of these trying periods in Mantuas history: siege warfare and the conditions
it created inside the city. Unlike other military histories of the era, Napoleon in
Italy brings to light the words of soldiers, leaders, and citizens who experienced
the sieges firsthand. Cuccia also shows how the sieges had consequences long
after they were over.

The French and Indian War and

the Conquest of New France
By William R. Nester
$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5189-2 400 Pages
In The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France, the only
comprehensive account from the French perspective, William R. Nester
explains how and why the French were defeated. He explores the fascinating
personalities and epic events that shaped French diplomacy, strategy, and
tactics and determined North Americas destiny.

Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek

By Louis Kraft
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5188-5 336 Pages
When Edward W. Wynkoop arrived in Colorado Territory during the 1858
gold rush, he was one of many ambitious newcomers seeking wealth in a
promising land mostly inhabited by American Indians. After he worked as
a miner, sheriff, bartender, and land speculator, Wynkoops life drastically
changed after he joined the First Colorado Volunteers to fight for the Union
during the Civil War.

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All for the Kings Shilling
The British Soldier under Wellington, 18081814
By Edward J. Coss
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5177-9 392 Pages
The British troops have long been branded by the Duke of Wellingtons own
wordsscum of the earthand assumed to have been societys neer-do-
wells or criminals who enlisted to escape justice. Now Edward J. Coss shows
to the contrary that most of these redcoats were respectable laborers and
tradesmen and that it was mainly their working-class status that prompted
the dukes derision.

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Three Days in the Shenandoah
Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester
By Gary Ecelbarger
$21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5186-1 288 Pages
The battles of Front Royal and Winchester are the stuff of Civil War legend.
Stonewall Jackson swept away an isolated Union division under the command
of Nathaniel Banks and made his presence in the northern Shenandoah Valley
so frightful a prospect that it triggered an overreaction from President Lincoln,
yielding huge benefits for the Confederacy. Gary Ecelbarger has undertaken a
comprehensive reassessment of those battles to show their influence on both
war strategy and the continuation of the conflict.
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Climax at Gallipoli
The Failure of the August Offensive
By Rhys Crawley
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5206-6 376 Pages
Climax at Gallipoli examines the performance of the Allies Mediterranean
Expeditionary Force from the beginning of the Gallipoli Campaign to the
bitter end. Crawley reminds us that in 1915, the second year of the war, the
Allies were still trying to adapt to a new form of warfare, with static defense
replacing the maneuver and offensive strategies of earlier British doctrine.

Bracketing the Enemy

Forward Observers in World War II
By John R. Walker
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4843-4 300 Pages
After the end of World War II, General George Patton declared that artillery
had won the war. Yet howitzers did not achieve victory on their own. Crucial to
the success of these big guns were forward observers, artillerymen on the front
lines who directed the artillery fire. In Bracketing the Enemy, John R. Walker offers
the first full-length history of forward observer teams during World War II.

A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps

My Mothers Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, and a Life Remade
By Barbara Rylko-Bauer
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-5191-5 416 Pages
Jadwiga Lenartowicz Rylko, was a young Polish Catholic physician in Ldz
at the start of World War II. Suspected of resistance activities, she was
arrested in January 1944. For the next fifteen months, she endured three
Nazi concentration camps and a forty-two-day death march, spending part
of this time working as a prisoner-doctor to Jewish slave laborers. A Polish
Doctor in the Nazi Camps follows Jadzia from her childhood and medical
training, through her wartime experiences, to her struggles to create a new
life in the postwar world.

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All Canada in the Hands of the British
General Jeffery Amherst and the 1760 Campaign to Conquer New France
By Douglas R. Cubbison
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4849-6 304 Pages
Using archival materials, archaeological evidence, and the firsthand accounts
of junior provincial soldiers, Cubbison takes us from the eighteenth-century
antagonisms between the British and French in the New World through the
Seven Years War, to the final siege and its historic significance for colonial
Canada. In one of the most decisive victories of the Seven Years War,
Amherst was able, after a mere four weeks, to claim all of Canada.

Invasion of Laos, 1971

Lam Son 719
By Robert D. Sander
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4840-3 304 Pages
Sander chronicles not only the planning and execution of the operation but
also the maneuvers of the bastions of political and military power during
the ten-year effort to end Communist infiltration of South Vietnam, leading
up to Lam Son 719. The result is a picture from disparate perspectives:
the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations; the South Vietnamese
government led by President Nguyen Van Thieu; and senior U.S. military
commanders and army aviators.
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A Generous and Merciful Enemy
Life for German Prisoners of War during the American Revolution
By Daniel Krebs
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4844-1 396 Pages
Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities entered service as British
auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. Drawing on research in
German military records and common soldiers letters and diaries, Daniel Krebs
places the prisoners on center stage in A Generous and Merciful Enemy, portraying
them as individuals rather than simply as numbers in casualty lists.

Uncovering History
Archaeological Investigations at the Little Bighorn
By Douglas D. Scott
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4662-1 264 pages
Almost as soon as the last shot was fired in the Battle of the Little Bighorn,
the battlefield became an archaeological site. For many years afterward, as
fascination with the famed 1876 fight intensified, visitors to the area scavenged
the many relics left behind. It took decades, however, before researchers began
to tease information from the battles debrisand the new field of battlefield
archaeology began to emerge. In Uncovering History, renowned archaeologist
Douglas D. Scott offers a comprehensive account of investigations at the Little
Bighorn, from the earliest collecting efforts to early-twentieth-century findings.

Terrible Justice
Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 18541868
By Doreen Chaky
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4652-2 408 Pages
Terrible Justice explores not only relations between the Sioux and their opponents
but also the discord among Sioux bands themselves. Moving beyond earlier
historians focus on the Brul and Oglala bands, Chaky examines how the
northern, southern, and Minnesota Sioux bands all became involved in and
were affected by the U.S. invasion.

Columns of Vengeance
Soldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 18631864
By Paul N. Beck
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4596-9 328 Pages
In summer 1862, Minnesotans found themselves fighting interconnected
warsthe first against the rebellious Southern states, and the second an internal
war against the Sioux. While the Civil War was more important to the future
of the United States, the Dakota War of 1862 proved far more destructive to
the people of Minnesotaboth whites and American Indians. In Columns of
Vengeance, historian Paul N. Beck offers a reappraisal of the Punitive Expeditions
of 1863 and 1864, the U.S. Armys response to the Dakota War of 1862.

Dragoons in Apacheland
Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 18461861
By William S. Kiser
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4650-8 376 pages
In the fifteen years prior to the American Civil War, the U.S. Army established a
presence in the Apache Indian homeland of southern New Mexico. The Apaches
presented an obstacle to be overcome in making the region safe for Anglo
settlers. In Dragoons in Apacheland, Kiser recounts the conflicts that ensued and
examines how both Apache warriors and American troops shaped the future of
the Southwest Borderlands.
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No Turning Point
The Saratoga Campaign in Perspective
By Theodore Corbett
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4661-3 448 Pages
Setting the Battle of Saratoga in its social and political context, Theodore
Corbett examines Saratoga and its aftermath as part of ongoing conflicts among
the settlers of the Hudson and Champlain valleys of New York, Canada, and
Vermont. This long, more local view reveals that the American victory actually
resolved very little.

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Victory at Peleliu
The 81st Infantry Divisions Pacific Campaign
By Bobby C. Blair and John P. DeCioccio
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4680-5 320 Pages
When the 1st Marine Division began its invasion of Peleliu in September 1944,
the operation in the South Pacific was to take but four days. In fact, capturing
this small coral island in the Palaus with its strategic airstrip took two months
and involved some of the bloodiest fighting of the Second World War in the
Pacific. Now Bobby C. Blair and John Peter DeCioccio tell the story of this
campaign through the eyes of the 81st Infantry to offer a revised assessment.

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The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon
By Jeremy Black
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4458-0 304 Pages
The War of 1812 is etched into American memory with the burning of the
Capitol and the White House by British forces and the decisive naval battle of
New Orleans. Now a respected British military historian offers an international
perspective on the conflict to better gauge its significance. In The War of 1812 in
the Age of Napoleon, Jeremy Black provides a dramatic account of the war framed
within a wider political and economic context than most American historians
have previously considered.

Hancocks War
Conflict on the Southern Plains
By William Y. Chalfant
$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4459-7 296 Pages
This first thorough scholarly history of the ill-conceived expedition offers
an unequivocal evaluation of military strategies and a culturally sensitive
interpretation of Indian motivations and reactions. Chalfant explores the vastly
different ways of life that separated the Cheyennes and U.S. policymakers, and
argues that neither side was willing or able to understand the needs of the other.
He shows how Hancocks efforts were counterproductive, brought untold misery
to Indians and whites alike, and led to the wars of 1868.

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Never Come to Peace Again
Pontiacs Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America
By David Dixon
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4462-7 376 Pages
Prior to the American Revolution, the Ohio River Valley was a cauldron of
competing interests: Indian, colonial, and imperial. The conflict known as
Pontiacs Uprising, which lasted from 1763 until 1766, erupted out of this
volatile atmosphere. Never Come to Peace Again, the first complete account of
Pontiacs Uprising to appear in nearly fifty years, is a richly detailed account
of the causes, conduct, and consequences of events that proved pivotal in
American colonial history.
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Civil War Arkansas, 1863
The Battle for a State
By Mark K. Christ
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4433-7 336 Pages
The Arkansas River Valley is one of the most fertile regions in the South.
During the Civil War, the river also served as a vital artery for moving troops
and supplies. In 1863 the battle to wrest control of the valley was, in effect,
a battle for the state itself. In spite of its importance, however, this campaign
is often overshadowed by the siege of Vicksburg. Now Mark K. Christ
offers the first detailed military assessment of parallel events in Arkansas,
describing their consequences for both Union and Confederate powers.

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Once Upon a Time in War
The 99th Division in World War II
By Robert E. Humphrey
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4454-2 376 Pages
For the soldier on the front lines of World War II, a lifetime of terror and
suffering could be crammed into a few horrific hours of combat. This was
especially true for members of the 99th Infantry Division who repelled
the Germans in the Battle of the Bulge and engaged in some of the most
dramatic, hard-fought actions of the war. Once Upon a Time in War presents a
stirring view of combat from the perspective of the common soldier.

George Crook
From the Redwoods to Appomattox
By Paul Magid
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4441-4 416 Pages
Renowned for his prominent role in the Apache and Sioux wars, General
George Crook (182890) was considered by William Tecumseh Sherman to
be his greatest Indian-fighting general. Although Crook was feared by Indian
opponents on the battlefield, in defeat the tribes found him a true friend and
advocate who earned their trust and friendship when he spoke out in their
defense against political corruption and greed. George Crook offers insight
into the influences that later would make this general both a nemesis of the
Indian tribes and their ardent advocate.

Burgoyne and the Saratoga Campaign

His Papers
By Douglas R. Cubbison
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4461-0 400 Pages
In Burgoyne and the Saratoga Campaign, Douglas R. Cubbison presents the
papers that Burgoyne gathered preparatory to his appearance before
Parliament, together with Cubbisons own interpretive narrative of the
campaign, based on these documents and other sources. The papers,
most of them published here for the first time, comprise Burgoynes
correspondence with the governor general of Canada, the British secretary
of state for America, and the commander of the British army during the
Saratoga expedition.
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