Most histories of the Civil War explain victory and defeat in terms of the skill of commanders and their troops. Intelli
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Truth is stranger than fiction. Some incidents of the war are so bizarre or so brave that no reputable fiction writer wo
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During the bloody years of the First English Civil War, as the battles of Edgehill, Newbury and Naseby raged, another wa
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The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in support of a Marxist-Leninist government, and the subsequent nine-year conflict w
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In this compelling book Stanley G. Payne offers the first comprehensive narrative of Soviet and Communist intervention i
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Despite a wealth of books on the campaigns of the American Civil War, the subject of combined or joint operations has be
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At the height of the Cold War, the United States Army secretly began work on a base embedded deep in the Greenland ice c
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This unique history of the Civil War considers the impact of nineteenth-century American secret societies on the path to
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It wasn't only combat that killed during the Civil War! Among white Federalist troops alone, there were 1,213,685
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