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Pre-Owned Fighting Fire!: Ten of the Deadliest Fires in American History and How We Fought Them (Paperback) 1250073413 9781250073419

From colonial times to the modern day two things have remained constant in American history: the destructive power of fires and the bravery of those who fight them. Fighting Fire brings to life ten of the deadliest infernos this nation has ever... more

Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War (Paperback)

Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War explores the meaning of anxiety as expressed through the political and cultural language of the early cold war era. Cuordileone shows how the preoccupation with the soft malleable American... more

Pre-Owned The Littlest Vaquero: Texas First Cowboys and How They Helped Win the American Revolution (Hardcover) 1571681035 9781571681034

Relates the story of a young vaquero (the first Texas cowboy) on a cattle drive to supply Longhorn cattle to troops in Louisiana fighting the American Revolution. more

The Littlest Vaquero : Texas First Cowboys and How They Helped Win the American Revolution (Paperback)

Fictional account of a young vaquero (the first Texas cowboy) on a cattle drive to supply Longhorn cattle to troops in Louisiana fighting the American Revolution. While this is a fictional account the book is based on real places and real events that... more

Modern War Studies Fighting with the Soviets: The Failure of Operation FRANTIC 1944-1945 (Hardcover)

Fighting with the Soviets provides the first comprehensive look at Operation FRANTIC--an ambitious but doomed Allied enterprise that produced the war s only significant Soviet-American military venture and demonstrated just how complex and demanding... more

Pre-Owned The Rise of the G.I. Army 1940-1941: The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor (Hardcover) 0802147674 9780802147677

The dramatic untold story of how the American Army was mobilized from scattered outposts two years before Pearl Harbor into the disciplined and mobile fighting force that helped win World War II more

Smithsonian Artifacts from the American Past: The Spotsylvania Stump (Hardcover)

The bloody Battle of Spotsylvania Court House took place in May 1864. The frantic back-and-forth fighting at an area now called the Bloody Angle was among the fiercest single-day battles of the entire Civil War. How did the bullet-riddled stump of a... more

Vicksburg s Long Shadow : The Civil War Legacy of Race and Remembrance (Hardcover)

In this highly-anticipated new work Christopher Waldrep takes a fresh look at how the Vicksburg campaign was fought and remembered. He begins with a gripping account of the battle deftly recounting the experiences of African-American troops fighting... more

The Rise of the G.I. Army 1940-1941 (Hardcover)

The dramatic untold story of how the American Army was mobilized from scattered outposts two years before Pearl Harbor into the disciplined and mobile fighting force that helped win World War II more

North s Civil War: Constitutionalism in the Approach and Aftermath of the Civil War (Hardcover)

An original collection of essays revealing how constitutional issues bubbled under the surface of American politics since the founding of the nation led to the Civil War and reverberated for generations after the fighting ceased. The irreducibly... more