The Echo of Battle

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674033523
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis The Echo of Battle by : Brian McAllister Linn

Download or read book The Echo of Battle written by Brian McAllister Linn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Lexington and Gettysburg to Normandy and Iraq, the wars of the United States have defined the nation. But after the guns fall silent, the army searches the lessons of past conflicts in order to prepare for the next clash of arms. In the echo of battle, the army develops the strategies, weapons, doctrine, and commanders that it hopes will guarantee a future victory. In the face of radically new ways of waging war, Brian Linn surveys the past assumptions--and errors--that underlie the army's many visions of warfare up to the present day. He explores the army's forgotten heritage of deterrence, its long experience with counter-guerrilla operations, and its successive efforts to transform itself. Distinguishing three martial traditions--each with its own concept of warfare, its own strategic views, and its own excuses for failure--he locates the visionaries who prepared the army for its battlefield triumphs and the reactionaries whose mistakes contributed to its defeats. Discussing commanders as diverse as Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton, and Colin Powell, and technologies from coastal artillery to the Abrams tank, he shows how leadership and weaponry have continually altered the army's approach to conflict. And he demonstrates the army's habit of preparing for wars that seldom occur, while ignoring those it must actually fight. Based on exhaustive research and interviews, The Echo of Battle provides an unprecedented reinterpretation of how the U.S. Army has waged war in the past and how it is meeting the new challenges of tomorrow.

The Odyssey of Echo Company

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476761914
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Book Synopsis The Odyssey of Echo Company by : Doug Stanton

Download or read book The Odyssey of Echo Company written by Doug Stanton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the American recon platoon of the 101st Airborne Division describes their sixty-day fight for survival during the 1968 Tet Offensive, tracing their postwar difficulties with acclimating into a peacetime America that did not want to hear their story.

Moment of Battle

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Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 034552697X
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Book Synopsis Moment of Battle by : Jim Lacey

Download or read book Moment of Battle written by Jim Lacey and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2013 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the twenty most crucial battles of all time, explaining how each conflict represents a historical epoch that triggered profound transformations and significantly shaped the development of the modern world.

Ripples of Battle

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385721943
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)

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Book Synopsis Ripples of Battle by : Victor Davis Hanson

Download or read book Ripples of Battle written by Victor Davis Hanson and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2004-10-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effects of war refuse to remain local: they persist through the centuries, sometimes in unlikely ways far removed from the military arena. In Ripples of Battle, the acclaimed historian Victor Davis Hanson weaves wide-ranging military and cultural history with his unparalleled gift for battle narrative as he illuminates the centrality of war in the human experience. The Athenian defeat at Delium in 424 BC brought tactical innovations to infantry fighting; it also assured the influence of the philosophy of Socrates, who fought well in the battle. Nearly twenty-three hundred years later, the carnage at Shiloh and the death of the brilliant Southern strategist Albert Sidney Johnson inspired a sense of fateful tragedy that would endure and stymie Southern culture for decades. The Northern victory would also bolster the reputation of William Tecumseh Sherman, and inspire Lew Wallace to pen the classic Ben Hur. And, perhaps most resonant for our time, the agony of Okinawa spurred the Japanese toward state-sanctioned suicide missions, a tactic so uncompromising and subversive, it haunts our view of non-Western combatants to this day.

The Ballot Box Battle

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Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0307792846
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ballot Box Battle by : Emily Arnold McCully

Download or read book The Ballot Box Battle written by Emily Arnold McCully and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated in full color. Just in time for the presidential election comes Caldecott medalist Emily Arnold McCully's stirring tale of a young girl's act of bravery inspired by the great Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It is the fall of 1880, and Cordelia is more interested in horse riding than in hearing her neighbor, Mrs. Stanton talk about her fight for women's suffrage. But on Election Day, Mrs. Stanton tells the heart-wrenching story of her childhood. Charged with the story's message, Cordelia determines to go with Mrs. Stanton to the polls in an attempt to vote--above the jeers and taunts of the male crowd. With faces, landscapes, and action scenes brought to life by McCully's virtuosic illustrations, Cordelia's turning-point experience is sure to inspire today's young girls (and boys) everywhere.

Chasing Ghosts

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Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597970158
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (979 download)

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Book Synopsis Chasing Ghosts by : John J. Tierney

Download or read book Chasing Ghosts written by John J. Tierney and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important military lessons for fighting today's insurgency in Iraq

Echo in Ramadi

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621577635
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Book Synopsis Echo in Ramadi by : Scott A. Huesing

Download or read book Echo in Ramadi written by Scott A. Huesing and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranked in the "Top 10 Military Books of 2018" by Military Times. "In war, destruction is everywhere. It eats everything around you. Sometimes it eats at you." —Major Scott Huesing, Echo Company Commander From the winter of 2006 through the spring of 2007, two-hundred-fifty Marines from Echo Company, Second Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment fought daily in the dangerous, dense city streets of Ramadi, Iraq during the Multi-National Forces Surge ordered by President George W. Bush. The Marines' mission: to kill or capture anti-Iraqi forces. Their experience: like being in Hell. Now Major Scott A. Huesing, the commander who led Echo Company through Ramadi, takes readers back to the streets of Ramadi in a visceral, gripping portrayal of modern urban combat. Bound together by brotherhood, honor, and the horror they faced, Echo's Marines battled day-to-day on the frontline of a totally different kind of war, without rules, built on chaos. In Echo in Ramadi, Huesing brings these resilient, resolute young men to life and shows how the savagery of urban combat left indelible scars on their bodies, psyches, and souls. Like war classics We Were Soldiers, The Yellow Birds, and Generation Kill, Echo in Ramadi is an unforgettable capsule of one company's experience of war that will leave readers stunned.

The Will to Battle

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Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1466858761
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis The Will to Battle by : Ada Palmer

Download or read book The Will to Battle written by Ada Palmer and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Will to Battle—the third book of 2017 John W. Campbell Award winner Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series—a political science fiction epic of extraordinary audacity “A cornucopia of dazzling, sharp ideas set in rich, wry prose that rewards rumination with layers of delight. Provocative, erudite, inventive, resplendent.” —Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are now figments of the past. Corruption, deception, and insurgency hum within the once steadfast leadership of the Hives, nations without fixed location. The heartbreaking truth is that for decades, even centuries, the leaders of the great Hives bought the world’s stability with a trickle of secret murders, mathematically planned. So that no faction could ever dominate. So that the balance held. The Hives’ façade of solidity is the only hope they have for maintaining a semblance of order, for preventing the public from succumbing to the savagery and bloodlust of wars past. But as the great secret becomes more and more widely known, that façade is slipping away. Just days earlier, the world was a pinnacle of human civilization. Now everyone—Hives and hiveless, Utopians and sensayers, emperors and the downtrodden, warriors and saints—scrambles to prepare for the seemingly inevitable war. “Seven Surrenders veers expertly between love, murder, mayhem, parenthood, theology, and high politics. I haven't had this much fun with a book in a long time.” —Max Gladstone, author of Three Parts Dead Terra Ignota Series 1. Too Like the Lightning 2. Seven Surrenders 3. The Will to Battle At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Phase Line Green

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Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612512755
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Book Synopsis Phase Line Green by : Nicholas Warr

Download or read book Phase Line Green written by Nicholas Warr and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bloody, month-long battle for the Citadel in Hue during 1968 pitted U.S. Marines against an entrenched, numerically superior North Vietnamese Army force. By official U.S. accounts it was a tactical and moral victory for the Marines and the United States. But a survivor's compulsion to square official accounts with his contrasting experience has produced an entirely different perspective of the battle, the most controversial to emerge from the Vietnam War in decades. In some of the most frank, vivid prose to come out of the war, author Nicholas Warr describes with urgency and outrage the Marines' savage house-to-house fighting, ordered without air, naval, or artillery support by officers with no experience in this type of deadly combat. Sparing few in the telling, including himself, Warr's shocking firsthand narrative of these desperate suicide charges, which devastated whole companies, takes the wraps off an incident that many would prefer to keep hidden. His account is sure to ignite heated debate among historians and military professionals. Despite senseless rules of engagement and unspeakable carnage, there were unforgettable acts of courage and self-sacrifice performed by ordinary men asked to accomplish the impossible, and Warr is at his best relating these stories. For example, there's the grenade-throwing mortarman who in a rage wipes out two machine-gun emplacements that had pinned down an entire company for days, and the fortunate grunt with thick glasses who stumbles blindly—without receiving a scratch—across a street littered with the dead and dying who hadn't made it. In describing the most vicious urban combat since World War II, this account offers an unparalleled view of how a small unit commander copes with the conflicting demands and responsibilities thrust upon him by the enemy, his men, and the chain of command.

It Happened on the Way to War

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408828235
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis It Happened on the Way to War by : Rye Barcott

Download or read book It Happened on the Way to War written by Rye Barcott and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about two forms of service that may appear contradictory: war-fighting and peacemaking, military service and social entrepreneurship. In 2001, Marine officer-in-training Rye Barcott cofounded a nongovernmental organization with two Kenyans in the Kibera slum of Nairobi. Their organization-Carolina for Kibera-grew to become a model of a global movement called participatory development, and Barcott continued volunteering with CFK while leading Marines in dangerous places. It Happened on the Way to War is a true story of heartbreak, courage, and the impact that small groups of committed citizens can make in the world.

ECHO 6

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Publisher : Echo Six: Black Ops
ISBN 13 : 9781911092605
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (926 download)

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Book Synopsis ECHO 6 by : Eric Meyer

Download or read book ECHO 6 written by Eric Meyer and published by Echo Six: Black Ops. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a blazing operation to destroy Syrian chemical weapons, it is time for Echo Six to take a well-earned furlough. Until Lieutenant-Commander Talley's girlfriend disappears in the war-torn city of Beirut. And Hezbollah kidnaps a senior member of the United Nations. NATO orders the elite Special Forces unit to locate and recover the diplomat. The trail leads to a Hezbollah refugee camp. Located on the Southern Lebanese border with Israel, it is home to some of the worst, most vicious fighters in the Middle East. The solution - to send in an elite force, men whose toughness and fighting skills are more than a match for the Islamic fundamentalists. These are the men of Echo Six. The action that follows is a bloody battle stretching from the city of Beirut, across Lebanon and even into Saudi Arabia. The cruel influence of Hezbollah stretches across the entire region, where they are renowned for trafficking women for guns and executing all who stand in their way. A violent story of heroism, deceit and betrayal. Echo Six: Black Ops VI Battle for Beirut is a worthy, action packed sequel to the best selling Echo Six - Black Ops novels.

Every Man's Battle

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Publisher : WaterBrook
ISBN 13 : 0307457974
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Every Man's Battle by : Stephen Arterburn

Download or read book Every Man's Battle written by Stephen Arterburn and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2009 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated for a new generation, a resource for overcoming sexual temptation shares the stories of men who have escaped sexual immorality and offers a practical plan for achieving sexual integrity.

The Battle of Bull Run

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Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1429620110
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Book Synopsis The Battle of Bull Run by : Allison Lassieur

Download or read book The Battle of Bull Run written by Allison Lassieur and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief description of the events surrounding the Battle of Bull Run during the Civil War with historical details from the perspective of a Union soldier, a Confederate soldier, and a civilian.

The Battle of Crécy, 1346

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
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Book Synopsis The Battle of Crécy, 1346 by : Andrew Ayton

Download or read book The Battle of Crécy, 1346 written by Andrew Ayton and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A momentous event that sent shock waves across Europe, the battle of Crecy marked a turning point in the English king's struggle with his Valois adversary. This book assesses the significance of Crecy, and offers interpretations of both the battle itself and the campaign that preceded it.

Echoes of War

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Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000065057
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Echoes of War by : Bernard Lovell

Download or read book Echoes of War written by Bernard Lovell and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August 1939 was a time of great flux. The fear of impending war fueled by the aggression of Nazi Germany forced many changes. Young people pursuing academic research were plunged into an entirely different kind of research and development. For Bernard Lovell, the war meant involvement in one of the most vital research projects of the war-radar.

Battle in the Civil War

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Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis Battle in the Civil War by : Paddy Griffith

Download or read book Battle in the Civil War written by Paddy Griffith and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battle in the Civil War is a step-by-step explanation of how the Blue and Gray armies squared up to fight each other; how they maneuvered on the battlefield and what happened when they came to close combat. It is a concise summary of the art of war in that conflict. Military historian Paddy Griffith looks at the problems faced by the commanders in this fascinating conflict and examines in detail how they overcame them. Working closely with illustrator Peter Dennis, Dr. Griffith reveals in a new and exciting way the mechanisms of command, the instruments of victory and of defeat during those four terrible years. This second edition is edited by John Curry as part of the History of Wargaming Project series of books.

Battle

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Publisher : DK
ISBN 13 : 9780756655785
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (557 download)

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Book Synopsis Battle by : R. G. Grant

Download or read book Battle written by R. G. Grant and published by DK. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring key developments in military technology from the discoveries of bronze and iron to the introduction of gunpowder and the creation of weapons of mass destruction, this work provides a dramatic overview of 5,000 years of armed combat. High school & older.