Many Americans, argues Michael C.C. Adams, think of the Civil War as more glorious, less awful, than the reality. Tourists flock to battlefields, their perceptions of the war often shaped by reenactors who work hard for verisimilitude but who cannot ultimately simulate the horro…
Janina Struk has traced and studied thousands of soldiers' images, and 'Private Pictures' follows this unacknowledged genre of photography from the origins of popular photography at the time of the Boer War to the digital age.
Janina Struk has traced and studied thousands of soldiers' images, and 'Private Pictures' follows this unacknowledged genre of photography from the origins of popular photography at the time of the Boer War to the digital age.
Snapshots taken by American soldiers of Iraqi prisoners stripped naked, humiliated and tortured shocked the world in 2004 and more have followed from the conflict in Afghanistan, but whether the public have been horrified by the soldiers' conduct or the fact they have taken pict…
"Masters of the Air is the story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes readers on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describ…
"An examination of the role of the French Army in French West Africa and its relations with its African soldiers from the end of World War II to the final demobilization of African troops from the French Army in 1964"--Provided by publisher
"An examination of the role of the French Army in French West Africa and its relations with its African soldiers from the end of World War II to the final demobilization of African troops from the French Army in 1964"--Provided by publisher
"[This book] is the first ethnography to examine the everyday lives of the soldiers, families, and communities who personally bear the burden of America's most recent wars."--Jacket.
Making War at Fort Hood offers an illuminating look at war through the daily lives of the people whose job it is to produce it. Kenneth MacLeish conducted a year of intensive fieldwork among soldiers and their families at and around the US Army's Fort Hood in central Texas. He s…
When we first meet him, Jacob is an elderly man with an air of bitter loneliness, who claims to have had a secret past with an unbelievable story that he has kept to himself for over 40 years--a tale that he is at long last able to tell. And so, meeting every week for over a yea…
The memoir of Special Operations Direct Action Sniper Nicholas Irving, the 3rd Ranger Battalion's deadliest sniper with 33 confirmed kills. Irving shares the story of his extraordinary career, including his deployment to Afghanistan in the summer of 2009, when he set another rec…
Jennine Hurl-Eamon examines the relationships between soldiers and their wives during the long 18th century in Britain, particularly focusing on the wives who stayed at home while their husbands went to war.
Jennine Hurl-Eamon examines the relationships between soldiers and their wives during the long 18th century in Britain, particularly focusing on the wives who stayed at home while their husbands went to war.
