"Between 1936 and 1938, some 3,000 young Americans sailed to France and crossed the Pyrenees to take part in the brutal civil war raging in Spain. Virtually all joined the International Brigades, formed under the auspices of the Soviet-led Comintern and largely directed by Commu…
"The 16-man Black Hawk Counter Narcotics Infantry Team served as an advisory and training unit for the Afghanistan National Army during a poppy eradication operation in Helmand province in 2008 and 2009. This book chronicles their mission in a little known theater of the Afghani…
"Five days after the outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914, American Kiffin Rockwell was on a ship headed for France. The United States would not join the war for nearly three years, but Rockwell believed it was time to fight. He joined the elite French Foreign Legion an…
Igniting the Internet is one of the first books to examine in depth the development and consequences of Internet-born politics in the twenty-first century. It takes up the new wave of South Korean youth activism that originated online in 2002, when the country's dynamic cybersp…
"In Borrowed Soldiers, Mitchell A. Yockelson delivers a comprehensive study of the first time American and British soldiers fought together as a coalition force - more than twenty years before D-Day. He follows the two divisions that comprised II Corps, the 27th and 30th, from t…
"The fifteen essays in this volume offer a comprehensive look at the role of American military forces in Germany. The American military forces in the Federal Republic of Germany after WWII played an important role not just in the NATO military alliance but also in German-America…
Whirlwind is the first book to tell the complete, awe-inspiring story of the Allied air war against Japan--the most important strategic bombing campaign in history. From the audacious Doolittle raid in 1942 to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, award-winning h…
Recounts the experiences of a World War II American GI who served with Patton's famed 3rd Army on the forefront of the Allied push through France and Germany and at the site of the Dachau concentration camp.
Paris, 1991. Hélène steht in der Empfangshalle des amerikanischen Hospitals, als vor ihr ein Mann zusammenbricht. Sein Blick brennt sich in ihre Augen. Das ist die erste Begegnung zwischen der 30-jährigen Innenarchitekten die ihre Unfruchtbarkeit überwinden will und dem vom Irak…
I. US Organizing for Remembrance II. Germany Organizing for Remembrance III. Anzio/Nettuno: Space of Triumph IV. Paul Manship: The Best of American Art? V. Postlude: Eric Gugler's Monumental Dreams VI. Impruneta. An Example of American Modern Classicism VII. Impruneta's Patrioti…
