The M4 Sherman tank was the mainstay of the Western allies between 1942 and 1945.
Fast and modern it was better than most of the tanks Britain had to offer. The American Chief of Staff claimed in No……続きを見る
Written between 1939 and 1940, when Francis Scott Fitzgerald was working for Universal Studios, "The Pat Hobby Stories" is a fascinating study in self-satire that brings to life the Hollywood years ……続きを見る
An inside look at the renowned "Big Wall" era of Yosemite climbing, when legendary pioneers such as Yvon Chouinard, Royal Robbins, Steve Roper, Warren Harding, and more, achieved what others had onl……続きを見る
This study investigates the history of the Confederate Army of Tennessee from formation under command of Braxton Bragg through the eve of Chickamauga. The specific question to be answered is whether……続きを見る
出版社: West Virginia University Press
発売日: 2019年03月01日
2020 American Book Award winner, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award
2019 Weatherford Award winner, nonfiction
With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and ……続きを見る
A project of the Utah Women's History Association and cosponsored by the Utah State Historical Society, Paradigm or Paradox provides the first thorough survey of the complicated history of all Utah ……続きを見る
著者:Andy Horowitz
出版社: Harvard University Press
発売日: 2020年06月16日
The definitive history of Katrina: an epic of citymaking, revealing how engineers and oil executives, politicians and musicians, and neighbors black and white built New Orleans, then watched it sink……続きを見る
著者:Peter E. Davies
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2022年03月17日
Conceived during 1941 in case Germany occupied Britain, when US bombers would then have insufficient range to retaliate, the B-36 was to be primarily a '10,000-mile bomber' with heavy defensive arma……続きを見る
Illustrated throughout, this volume tells how, of the 325th FG's 537 aerial victories, 202 were scored by its 27 aces.
The 325th FG was activated under General Order number 50 on 30 July 1942 and se……続きを見る
A comprehensively illustrated account of the Atlanta-class cruisers, warships that found a surprising key role in the Pacific War as the US Navy's superb antiaircraft warships.
In the late 1930s, th……続きを見る
The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel……続きを見る
出版社: The University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2019年02月21日
American political history has been built around narratives of crisis, in which what "counts" are the moments when seemingly stable political orders collapse and new ones rise from the ashes. But wh……続きを見る
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the makingーfrom the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy
**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE • NAM……続きを見る
著者:J. Todd Moye
出版社: The University of North Carolina Press
発売日: 2016年08月26日
In the middle of the Mississippi Delta lies rural, black-majority Sunflower County. J. Todd Moye examines the social histories of civil rights and white resistance movements in Sunflower, tracing th……続きを見る
A U.S. Marine Corps veteran gives a personal account of his twenty-five years of service in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in this memoir.
From a Gulf War grunt to a full-fledged Marine Major in t……続きを見る
As World War I ended, the victors were developing a powerful new generation of 'hyper-dreadnoughts' and battlecruisers. Fully illustrated, this studies the big-gun warships that never were.
1918 was……続きを見る
著者:Jeremy Black
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2017年01月05日
The modern age of naval warfare began with the combination of steam power, iron warships, and modern artillery, which launched an intense period of international competition. Tracing naval warfare f……続きを見る
著者:Matt Dietz
出版社: University of North Texas Press
発売日: 2023年04月17日
US Air Force Forward Air Controllers (FACs) bridge the gap between air and land power. They operate in the grey area of the battlefield, serving as an aircrew who flies above the battlefield, spots ……続きを見る
著者:Annie Jacobsen
出版社: Little, Brown and Company
発売日: 2019年05月14日
From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units.
Surprise . . . your target. Kill . . . your enemy. Vanish . . . without a ……続きを見る
In nineteenth-century America, the law insisted that marriage was a permanent relationship defined by the husband's authority and the wife's dependence. Yet at the same time the law created the mean……続きを見る
Told through the eyes of current and former Navy SEALs, EYES ON TARGET is an inside account of some of the most harrowing missions in American history-including the mission to kill Osama bin Laden a……続きを見る
A radical explication of the ways anti-Black racial oppression has infused the US government’s anti-communist repression.
In the early twentieth century, two panics emerged in the United States. The……続きを見る
著者:Tracy B. Strong
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2019年11月26日
Citizenship is much more than the right to vote. It is a collection of political capacities constantly up for debate. From Socrates to contemporary American politics, the question of what it means t……続きを見る
**From the pre-eminent scholar of foreign policy, the classic work that defined soft power
“As brilliant as it is timely, Professor Nye’s book is must reading for anyone who cares about the success ……続きを見る
著者:Gil Troy
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
"They called it the Reagan revolution," Ronald Reagan noted in his Farewell Address. "Well, I'll accept that, but for me it always seemed more like the great rediscovery, a rediscovery of our values……続きを見る
A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial era
The twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transfo……続きを見る
A highly illustrated, authoritative exploration of Operation Apache Snow, including the infamous Battle of Hamburger Hill (Ap Bia Mountain), one of the most significant and well-known actions in the……続きを見る
The 84th Division in the Battle of Germany, November 1944 – May 1945, first published in 1946, is the account of the combat experiences of the noted "The Railsplitter Division" of the U.S. Army in t……続きを見る
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "The most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency yet published."ーThe Washington Post • ABest Book of the Year: The New Yorker and Financial Times •……続きを見る
An expertly written, illustrated new analysis of the Desert Storm air campaign fought against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which shattered the world's fourth-largest army and sixth-largest air force in ju……続きを見る