Military History

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2016

Military History

CONTENTS
Napoleonic Era. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Colonial to Antebellum Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
American Civil War to Turn of the Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Twentieth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
New in Paperback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Coming Fall 2016. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
For more than eighty-five years, the University of Oklahoma Press
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Price and availability subject to change without notice.
On the cover and in the catalog: Emanuel Leutze, Washington at the Battle of Monmouth,
1857. Courtesy of the Monmouth County Historical Association, Freehold, New
Jersey. Gift of the descendants of David Leavitt, 1937.

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Napoleonic Era
Titan
British Power in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon
By William R. Nester
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5205-9 376 Pages
The interplay of individuals and events, the importance of conjunctures and
contingency, the significance of Britains island character and resources: all come
into play in Nesters exploration of the art of British military diplomacy. The result
is a comprehensive and insightful account of the endeavors of statesmen and
generals to master the art of power in a complex battle for empire.

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The Man Who Captured Washington

Major General Robert Ross and the War of 1812
By John McCavitt and Christopher T. George
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5164-9 312 Pages
Despite a military career that included distinguished service in Europe and
North Africa, Ross is better known for his actions than his name: his 1814
campaign in the Chesapeake Bay resulted in the burning of the White House
and Capitol and the unsuccessful assault on Baltimore, immortalized in The
Star Spangled Banner. The Man Who Captured Washington is the first in-depth
biography of this important but largely forgotten historical figure.

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European Armies of the French Revolution, 17891802

Edited by Frederick C. Schneid
S34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4039-1 288 Pages
In nine essays by leading scholars, European Armies of the French Revolution, 1789
1802 provides an authoritative, continent-wide analysis of the organization and
constitution of these armies, the challenges they faced, and the impact they
had on the French Revolutionary Wars and on European military practices.
The volume opens with editor Frederick C. Schneids substantial introduction,
which reviews the strategies and policies of each participating state throughout
the wars, establishing a clear context for the essays that follow.

Women in the Peninsular War

By Charles J. Esdaile
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4478-8 336 Pages
In Women in the Peninsular War, Esdaile looks beyond the iconography. While
a handful of Spanish and Portuguese women became Agustina-like heroines,
a multitude became victims, and here both of these groups receive their due.
But Esdaile reveals a much more complicated picture in which women are
discovered to have experienced, responded to, and participated in the conflict
in various ways.

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Blcher
Scourge of Napoleon
By Michael V. Leggiere
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4409-2 568 Pages
One of the most colorful characters in the Napoleonic pantheon, Gebhard
Leberecht von Blcher (17421819) is best known as the Prussian general
who, along with the Duke of Wellington, defeated Napoleon at the Battle
of Waterloo. This magnificent biography by Michael V. Leggiere, an awardwinning historian of the Napoleonic Wars, is the first scholarly book in English
to explore Blchers life and military careerand his impact on Napoleon.

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Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword

The British Regiment on Campaign, 18081815
By Andrew Bamford
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4343-9 328 Pages
Although an armys success is often measured in battle outcomes, its victories
depend on strengths that may be less obvious on the field. In Sickness, Suffering,
and the Sword, military historian Andrew Bamford assesses the effectiveness of
the British Army in sustained campaigning during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Outpost of Empire
The Napoleonic Occupation of Andaluca, 18101812
By Charles J. Esdaile
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4278-4 512 Pages
Napoleons forces invaded Spain in 1808, but two years went by before they
overran the southern region of Andaluca. Situated at the farthest frontier of
Napoleons outer empire, Andaluca remained under French control only
brieflyfor two-and-a-half yearsand never experienced the normal functions
of French rule. In this groundbreaking examination of the Peninsular War,
Charles J. Esdaile moves beyond traditional military history to examine the
French occupation of Andaluca and the origins and results of the regions
complex and chaotic response.

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On Wellington
A Critique of Waterloo
Translated, edited, and annotated by Peter Hofschrer
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4108-4 272 Pages
Carl von Clausewitz, the Western worlds most renowned military theorist,
participated in the Waterloo campaign as a senior staff officer in the Prussian
army. His appraisal, offered here in an up-to-date and readable translation,
criticized the Duke of Wellingtons actions. Now published for the first time in
English, Hofschrer brings Clausewitzs critique back into view with thorough
annotation and contextual explanation.

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Wellingtons Two-Front War

The Peninsular Campaigns, at Home and Abroad, 18081814
By Joshua Moon
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4157-2 272 Pages
Sir Arthur Wellesleys 18081814 campaigns against Napoleons forces in
the Iberian Peninsula have drawn the attention of scholars and soldiers for
two centuries. In Wellingtons Two-Front War, Joshua Moon not only surveys
Wellingtons command of British forces against the French but also describes
the battles Wellington fought in Englandwith an archaic military command
structure, bureaucracy, and fickle public opinion.

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Napoleons Enfant Terrible

General Dominique Vandamme
By John G. Gallaher
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3875-6 384 Pages
A dedicated career soldier and excellent division and corps commander,
Dominique Vandamme was a thorn in the side of practically every officer he
served. Outspoken to a fault, he even criticized Napoleon, whom he never
forgave for not appointing him marshal. His military prowess so impressed the
emperor, however, that he returned Vandamme to command time and again.
In this first book-length study of Vandamme in English, John G. Gallaher traces
the career of one of Napoleons most successful midrank officers.

Architects of Empire
The Duke of Wellington and His Brothers
By John Severn
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3810-7 512 Pages
A soldier and statesman for the ages, the Duke of Wellington is a towering
figure in world history. John Severn now offers a fresh look at the man born
Arthur Wellesley to show that his career was very much a family affair, a lifelong
series of interactions with his brothers and their common Anglo-Irish heritage.
The untold story of a great family drama, Architects of Empire paints a new
picture of the era through the collective biography of Wellesley and his siblings.

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Fatal Sunday
George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle
By Mark E. Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5335-3 616 Pages
The Battle of Monmouth was critical to the success of the Revolution. It also
marked a decisive turning point in the military career of George Washington.
Without the victory at Monmouth Courthouse, Washingtons critics might
well have marshaled the political strength to replace him as the American
commander-in-chief. Authors Mark Edward Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone
argue that in political terms, the Battle of Monmouth constituted a pivotal
moment in the War for Independence.

Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification

A Guide
By Daniel M. Sivilich
$34.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5158-8 232 Pages
Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification: A Guide traces the history of musket balls
and small shot, and explores their uses as lethal projectiles and in nonlethal
alterations. Sivilich asksand answersa variety of questions to demonstrate
how a musket ball found in a military context can help to interpret the site.

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The Army Surveys of Gold Rush California

Reports of Topographical Engineers, 18491851
Edited by Gary Clayton Anderson and Laura Lee Anderson
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-430-8 256 Pages
Historian Gary Clayton Anderson and anthropologist Laura Lee Anderson
provide historical, geographic, and biographical context in the books
introduction and in headnotes and annotations for each journal. These
documents offer extraordinary firsthand views of the environment, natural
resources, geography, and early settlement, as well as the effects of disease on
Native and white populations.

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The Battle of Lake Champlain

A Brilliant and Extraordinary Victory
By John H. Schroeder
$26.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4693-5 184 Pages
On September 11, 1814, an American naval squadron under Master
Commandant Thomas Macdonough defeated a formidable British force on
Lake Champlain under the command of Captain George Downie. Examining
the naval and land campaign in strategic, political, and military terms, from
planning to execution to outcome, The Battle of Lake Champlain offers the most
thorough account written of this pivotal moment in American history.

William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest

By William Heath
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5119-9 520 Pages
Born to Anglo-American parents on the Appalachian frontier, captured
by the Miami Indians at the age of thirteen, and adopted into the tribe,
William Wells (17701812) moved between two cultures all his life but was
comfortable in neither. Vilified by some historians for his divided loyalties, he
remains relatively unknown even though he is worthy of comparison with such
famous frontiersmen as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett.

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Connecticut Unscathed
Victory in the Great Narragansett War, 16751676
By Jason W. Warren
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4475-7 240 Pages
The conflict that historians have called King Philips War still ranks as one of
the bloodiest per capita in American history. But because Connecticut lacked
a chronicler, its experience has gone largely untold. As Jason Warren makes
clear in Connecticut Unscathed, this imbalance has generated an incomplete
narrative of the war.

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Defender of Canada
Sir George Prevost and the War of 1812
By John R. Grodzinski
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4387-3 360 Pages
Defender of Canada, the first book-length examination of Prevosts career,
offers a reinterpretation of the generals military leadership in the War of
1812. Historian John R. Grodzinski shows that Prevost deserves far greater
credit for the successful defense of Canada than he has heretofore received.

George Rogers Clark

I Glory in War
By William R. Nester
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4294-4 384 Pages
George Rogers Clark led four victorious campaigns against the Indians and
British during the American Revolution. Although historians have ranked
him among the greatest rebel commanders, Clarks name is all but forgotten
today. William R. Nester resurrects the story of Clarks triumphs and his
downfall in this, the first full biography of the man in more than fifty years.

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A Perfect Gibraltar
The Battle for Monterrey, Mexico, 1846
By Christopher D. Dishman
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4140-4 344 Pages
For three days in the fall of 1846, U.S. and Mexican soldiers fought fiercely in
the picturesque city of Monterrey, turning the northern Mexican town, known
for its towering mountains and luxurious gardens, into one of the nineteenth
centurys most gruesome battlefields. Led by Brigadier General Zachary
Taylor, graduates of the new U.S. Military Academy encountered a city almost
perfectly protected by mountains, a river, and a vast plain. Monterreys ideal
defensive position inspired more than one U.S. soldier to call the city a
perfect Gibraltar.

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At Swords Point, Part 1

A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858
By William P. MacKinnon
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-353-0 544 Pages
The Utah War of 185758, the unprecedented armed confrontation between
Mormon Utah Territory and the U.S. government, was the most extensive
American military action between the Mexican and Civil wars. At Swords Point
presents in two volumes the first in-depth narrative and documentary history
of that extraordinary conflict.

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The Far Reaches of Empire

War in Nova Scotia, 17101760
By John Grenier
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3876-3 288 Pages
The Far Reaches of Empire chronicles the half century of Anglo-American efforts to
establish dominion in Nova Scotia, an important French foothold in the New
World. John Grenier examines the conflict of cultures and peoples in the colonial
Northeast through the lens of military history as he tells how Britons and Yankees
waged a tremendously efficient counterinsurgency that ultimately crushed every
remnant of Acadian, Indian, and French resistance in Nova Scotia.

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Kill Jeff Davis

The Union Raid on Richmond, 1864
By Bruce M. Venter
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-5153-3 384 Pages
The ostensible goal of the controversial Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on
Richmond was to free some 13,000 Union prisoners of war held in the
Confederate capital. But orders found on the dead body of the raids
subordinate commander, Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, point instead to a plot
to capture or kill Confederate president Jefferson Davis and set Richmond
ablaze. Kill Jeff Davis offers a fresh look at the failed raid and mines newly
discovered documents and little-known sources to provide definitive answers.

Fort Bascom
Soldiers, Comancheros, and Indians in the Canadian River Valley
By James Bailey Blackshear
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5209-7 272 Pages
In Fort Bascom, James Bailey Blackshear presents the definitive history of this
critical outpost in the American Southwest, along with a detailed view of army
life on the late-nineteenth-century western frontier. Blackshear shows the
difficulties of maintaining a post in a harsh environment where scarce water
and forage, long supply lines, poorly constructed facilities, and monotonous
duty tested soldiers endurance.

Photographing Custers Battlefield

The Images of Kenneth F. Roahen
By Sandy Barnard
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5159-5 280 Pages
In Photographing Custers Battlefield, Sandy Barnard, an expert on Custer and the
Little Big Horn, presents the work of the sites most dedicated photographer,
U.S. Fish and Game agent Kenneth F. Roahen (18881976), revealing further
mysteries of the battlefield and showing how it has changed.

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The Civil War Years in Utah

The Kingdom of God and the Territory That Did Not Fight
By John Gary Maxwell
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4911-0 488 Pages
While the Civil War spread death, tragedy, and sorrow across the continent, Utah
Territory remained virtually untouched. Although the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saintsand its faithfulproudly praise the service of an 1862 Mormon
cavalry company during the Civil War, Maxwells research exposes the relatively
inconsequential contribution of these Nauvoo Legion soldiers.

Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance

Other Sides of Civil War Texas
Edited by Jess F. de la Teja
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5182-3 296 Pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5183-0 296 Pages
Concluding with an account of the origins of Juneteenththe nationally
celebrated holiday marking June 19, 1865, when emancipation was
announced in TexasLone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance challenges
the collective historical memory of Civil War Texas and its place in both the
Confederacy and the United States. It provides material for a fresh narrative,
one including people on the margins of history and dispelling the myth of a
monolithically Confederate Texas.

Blood on the Marias

The Baker Massacre
By Paul R. Wylie
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5157-1 336 Pages
While other scholars have written about the Baker Massacre in related
contexts, Blood on the Marias gives this infamous event the definitive treatment
it deserves. Bakers inept command lit the spark of violence, but decades of
tension between Piegans and whites set the stage for a brutal and too-oftenforgotten incident.

Through Indian Sign Language

The Fort Sill Ledgers of Hugh Lenox Scott and Iseeo, 18891897
Edited by William C. Meadows
$55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4727-7 520 Pages
The Scott ledgers contain an array of historical, linguistic, and ethnographic
dataa wealth of primary-source material on Southern Plains Indian people.
Meadows describes Plains Indian Sign Language, its origins and history, and
its significance to anthropologists. He also sketches the lives of Scott and
Iseeo, explaining how they met, how Scott learned the language, and how
their working relationship developed and served them both.

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Californio Lancers
The 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry in the Far West, 18631866
By Tom Prezelski
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-436-0 248 Pages
Although some ten thousand Spanish-surnamed Americans served during
the Civil War, their support of the Union is almost unknown in the popular
imagination. Californio Lancers contributes to our understanding of the
Civil War in the Far West and how it transformed the Mexican-American
community.

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Health of the Seventh Cavalry

A Medical History
Edited by P. Willey and Douglas D. Scott
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4839-7 480 Pages
In Health of the Seventh Cavalry, editors P. Willey and Douglas D. Scott and their
co-contributorsexperts in history, medicine, human biology, epidemiology,
and human osteologyexamine the Sevenths medical records to determine the
health of the nineteenth-century U.S. Army, and the prevalence and treatment
of the numerous conditions that plagued soldiers during the Indian Wars.

The Gray Fox

George Crook and the Indian Wars
By Paul Magid
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4706-2 480 Pages
As Paul Magid portrays Crook in this highly readable second volume of a
projected three-volume biography, the general was an innovative and eccentric
soldier, with a complex and often contradictory personality, whose activities
often generated intense controversy. Though known for his uncompromising
ferocity in battle, he nevertheless respected his enemy and grew to know them.

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Before Custer
Surveying the Yellowstone, 1872
By M. John Lubetkin
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-431-5 328 Pages
The firsthand accounts compiled here by M. John Lubetkin document the
surveys three-month struggle with the Lakotas and other Plains Indian
people. Before Custer: Surveying the Yellowstone, 1872 tells of a little-known but
crucial episode in the history of westward expansion and Native peoples
efforts to halt that expansion.

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Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey

A Documentary History
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-422-3 320 pages
$125.00s Limited Edition 978-0-87062-427-8 320 pages
Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey examines the expedition told through
documents selected and interpreted by historian M. John Lubetkin.
The U.S. Army was determined to punish the Sioux, and the Northern
Pacific desperately needed to complete its engineering work and resume
construction. The expedition mounted in 1873larger than all previous
surveys combinedincluded embedded newspaper correspondents and
1,600 infantry and cavalry, the latter led by George Armstrong Custer.

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The Early Morning of War

Bull Run, 1861
By Edward G. Longacre
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4498-6 648 Pages
This crucial campaign receives its most complete and comprehensive
treatment in Edward G. Longacres The Early Morning of War. A magisterial
work by a veteran historian, The Early Morning of War blends narrative and
analysis to convey the full scope of the campaign of First Bull Runits
drama and suspense as well as its practical and tactical underpinnings and
ramifications.

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Soldiers in the Army of Freedom

The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil Wars First African American Combat Unit
By Ian Michael Spurgeon
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4618-8 400 Pages
Soldiers in the Army of Freedom is the first published account of this largely
forgotten regiment and, in particular, its contribution to Union victory in the
trans-Mississippi theater of the Civil War. As such, it restores the First Kansas
Colored Infantry to its rightful place in American history.

A Corporals Story
Civil War Recollections of the Twelfth Massachusetts
By George Kimball
Edited by Alan D. Gaff and Donald H. Gaff
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4480-1 368 Pages
When George Kimball (18401916) joined the Twelfth Massachusetts in
1861, hed been in the newspaper trade for five years. When he mustered
out three years later, having been wounded at Fredericksburg and again at
Gettysburg (mortally, it was mistakenly assumed at the time), he returned
to newspaper life. Collected in A Corporals Story, Kimballs writings form a
unique narrative of one mans experience in the Civil War, viewed through a
perspective enhanced by time and reflection.

American Carnage
Wounded Knee, 1890
By Jerome A. Greene
$34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4448-1 648 Pages
In this gripping tale, Jerome A. Greenerenowned specialist on the Indian
warsexplores why the bloody engagement happened and demonstrates
how it became a brutal massacre. Drawing on a wealth of sources, including
previously unknown testimonies, Greene examines the events from both
Native and non-Native perspectives, explaining the significance of treaties,
white settlement, political disputes, and the Ghost Dance as influential
factors in what eventually took place.

The River Was Dyed with Blood

Nathan Bedford Forrest and Fort Pillow
By Brian Steel Wills
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4453-5 288 Pages
In The River Was Dyed with Blood, best-selling Forrest biographer Brian Steel
Wills argues that although atrocities did occur after the fall of the fort,
Forrest did not order or intend a systematic execution of its defenders.
Rather, the generals great failing was losing control of his troops. The battlescarred fighter with his homespun aphorisms was neither an infallible warrior
nor a heartless butcher, but a product of his time and his heritage.

Battles and Massacres on the Southwestern Frontier

Historical and Archaeological Perspectives
By Ronald K. Wetherington and Frances Levine
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4440-5 260 Pages
This unique study centers on four critical engagements between AngloAmericans and American Indians on the southwestern frontier: the Battle
of Cieneguilla (1854), the Battle of Adobe Walls (1864), the Sand Creek
Massacre (1864), and the Mountain Meadows Massacre (1857). Editors
Ronald K. Wetherington and Frances Levine juxtapose historical and
archaeological perspectives on each event to untangle the ambiguity and
controversy that surround both historical and more contemporary accounts
of each of these violent outbreaks.

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Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud

Custer, the Press, and the Little Bighorn
By James E. Mueller
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4398-0 272 Pages
In Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud, James E. Mueller draws on exhaustive
research of period newspapers to explore press coverage of the famous battle.
As he analyzes a wide range of accountssome grim, some circumspect, some
even laced with humorMueller offers a unique take on the dramatic events
that so shook the American public.

Los Angeles in Civil War Days, 18601865

By John W. Robinson
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4312-5 204 Pages
Most accounts of Californias role in the Civil War focus on the northern part
of the state, San Francisco in particular. In Los Angeles in Civil War Days, John
W. Robinson looks to the southern half and offers an enlightening sketch of
Los Angeles and its people, politics, and economic trends from 1860 to 1865.

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Custer, the Seventh Cavalry, and the Little Big Horn

A Bibliography
By Michael OKeefe
$125.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-404-9 720 Pages
Since the shocking news first broke in 1876 of the Seventh Cavalrys disastrous
defeat at the Little Big Horn, fascination with the battleand with Lieutenant
George Armstrong Custerhas never ceased. Widespread interest in the
subject has spawned a vast outpouring of literature, which only increases
with time. This two-volume bibliography of Custer literature is the first to be
published in some twenty-five years and the most complete ever assembled.

After Custer
Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country
By Paul L. Hedren
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4216-2 272 Pages
Between 1876 and 1877, the U.S. Army battled Lakota Sioux and Northern
Cheyenne Indians in a series of vicious conflicts known today as the Great
Sioux War. After the defeat of Custer at the Little Big Horn in June 1876, the
army responded to its stunning loss by pouring fresh troops and resources
into the war effort. In this unique contribution to American western history,
Paul L. Hedren examines the wars effects on the culture, environment, and
geography of the northern Great Plains, their Native inhabitants, and the
Anglo-American invaders.

Violent Encounters
Interviews on Western Massacres
By Deborah Lawrence and Jon Lawrence
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4126-8 224 Pages
Merciless killing in the nineteenth-century American West, as this unusual
book shows, was not as simple as depicted in dime novels and movie
Westerns. The scholars interviewed here, experts on violence in the West,
embrace a wide range of approaches and perspectives and challenge both
traditional views of western expansion and politically correct ideologies.

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Our Centennial Indian War and the Life of General Custer

By Frances Fuller Victor
Introduction by Jerome A. Greene
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4173-2 208 Pages
Published even before the Great Sioux War had ended, Our Centennial
Indian War and the Life of General Custer was the first contemporary and
comprehensive account of the successive army operations in 1876 and early
1877. It was a major accomplishment. Victor drew information from a wide
range of sources to explain the lengthy, disjointed struggle between the army
and the Lakota-Cheyenne coalition.

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Red Clouds War

The Bozeman Trail, 18661868
By John D. McDermott
$75.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-376-9 704 Pages
On a cold December day in 1866, Captain William J. Fetterman disobeyed
orders and spurred his men across Lodge Trail Ridge in pursuit of a group
of retreating Lakota Sioux, Arapahos, and Cheyennes. He saw a perfect
opportunity to punish the tribes for harassing travelers on the Bozeman
Trail and attacking wood trains sent out from nearby Fort Phil Kearny. In a
sudden turn of events, his command was, within moments, annihilated. John
D. McDermotts spellbinding narrative offers a cautionary tale of hubris and
miscalculation.

War Party in Blue

Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army
By Mark van de Logt
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4139-8 368 Pages
In War Party in Blue, Mark van de Logt tells the story of the Pawnee scouts
from their perspective, detailing the battles in which they served and
recounting hitherto neglected episodes.

Beyond Bears Paw

The Nez Perce Indians in Canada
By Jerome A. Greene
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4068-1 264 Pages
Beyond Bears Paw is the first book to explore the fate of these nontreaty Nez
Perce Indians. Drawing on hitherto unexplored Canadian and U.S. sources,
including reminiscences of Nez Perce participants, Jerome A. Greene presents
an epic story of human endurance under duress.

Jayhawkers
The Civil War Brigade of James Henry Lane
By Bryce Benedict
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3999-9 352 Pages
Bringing to life an era of guerillas, bushwhackers, and slave stealers, Jayhawkers
also describes how Lanes brigade was organized and equipped and provides
details regarding staff and casualties. Assessing the extent to which the
jayhawkers followed accepted rules of warfare, Benedict argues that Lane set
a precedent for the Union Armys eventual adoption of hard tactics toward
civilians.

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Class and Race in the Frontier Army

Military Life in the West, 18701890
By Kevin Adams
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3981-4 296 Pages
Treating the army as a laboratory to better understand American society in
the Gilded Age, Adams suggests that military attitudes mirrored civilian life
in that erawith enlisted men, especially, illustrating the emerging classconsciousness among the working poor. Class and Race in the Frontier Army
offers fresh insight into the interplay of class, race, and ethnicity in latenineteenth-century America.

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Fort Laramie
Military Bastion of the High Plains
By Douglas C. McChristian
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-360-8 448 Pages
Douglas C. McChristian has written the first complete history of Fort Laramie,
chronicling every critical stage in its existence, including its addition to
the National Park System. He draws on an extraordinary array of archival
materialsincluding those at Fort Laramie National Historic Siteto present
new data about the fort and new interpretations of historical events.

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Powder River Odyssey

Nelson Coles Western Campaign of 1865
The Journals of Lyman G. Bennett and Other Eyewitness Accounts
By David E. Wagner
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-359-2 288 Pages
David E. Wagners Powder River Odyssey: Nelson Coles Western Campaign of 1865
tells the story of a largely forgotten campaign at the pivotal moment when the
Civil War ended and the Indian wars captured national attention.

The Fall of a Black Army Officer

Racism and the Myth of Henry O. Flipper
By Charles M. Robinson III
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3521-2 216 Pages
The Fall of a Black Army Officer boldly moves the arguments regarding racism
in both Lt. Flippers case and the frontier army in generalbeyond political
correctness. Solidly grounded in archival research, it is a thorough and
provocative reassessment of the Flipper affair, at last revealing the truth.

Stricken Field
The Little Bighorn since 1876
By Jerome A. Greene
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3791-9 384 Pages
Stricken Field is a cautionary tale. Greene elucidates the conflict between
the Park Services dual mission to provide public access while preserving
the integrity of a historical resource. He also traces the complex events
surrounding the site, including Indian protests in the 1970s and 1980s
that ultimately contributed to the 2003 dedication of a monument finally
recognizing the Lakotas, Northern Cheyennes, and other American Indians
who fought there.

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Uniforms, Arms, and Equipment , 2 volume set

The U.S. Army on the Western Frontier 18801892
By Douglas C. McChristian
$50.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-9961-0 664 Pages
Building on the success of his best-selling The U.S. Army in the West, 1870
1880: Uniforms, Arms, and Equipment, Douglas C. McChristian here presents
a two-volume comprehensive account of the evolution of military arms
and equipment during the years 18801892. The volumes are set against
the backdrop of the final decade of the Indian campaignsa key period of
transition in United States military history.

Twentieth Century
Somewhere Over There
The Letters, Diary, and Artwork of a World War I Corporal
By Francis H. Webster
Edited by Darrek D. Orwig
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5172-4 296 Pages
Using his skills as an illustrator, Webster documented firsthand the harsh
realities of combat life and regularly submitted visual dispatches of his
experiences back to an Iowa newspaper. The first published collection of
Websters wartime chronicles, Somewhere Over There presents a unique view
of World War I through a rare compilation of letters, diary entries, cartoons,
sketches, and watercolors.

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Rediscovering Irregular Warfare

Colin Gubbins and the Origins of Britains Special Operations Executive
By A. R. B. Linderman
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5167-0 288 Pages
The history of the SOEs doctrinal origins is Colin Gubbinss story. By
telling that story, Rediscovering Irregular Warfare amplifies and clarifies our
understanding of the Second World Warand of doctrines of unconventional
warfare in the twentieth century.

In Love and War

The World War II Courtship Letters of a Nisei Couple
By Melody M. Miyamoto Walters
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4820-5 296 Pages
In Love and War recounts the wartime experiences of author Melody
M. Miyamoto Walterss grandparents, two second-generation Japanese
Americans, or Nisei, living in Hawaii. Their love story, narrated in letters
they wrote each other from July 1941 to June 1943, offers a unique view of
Hawaiian Nisei and the social and cultural history of territorial Hawaii during
World War II.

Brummett Echohawk
Pawnee Thunderbird and Artist
By Kristin M. Youngbull
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4826-7 224 Pages
A true American hero who earned a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and a
Congressional Gold Medal, Brummett Echohawk was also a Pawnee on
the European battlefields of World War II. This first book-length biography
depicts Echohawk as a soldier, painter, writer, humorist, and actor
profoundly shaped by his Pawnee heritage and a man who refused to be
pigeonholed as an Indian artist.

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Moroni and the Swastika

Mormons in Nazi Germany
By David Conley Nelson
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4668-3 432 Pages
A page-turning historical narrative, this book is the first full account of how
Mormons avoided Nazi persecution through skilled collaboration with Hitlers
regime, and then eschewed postwar shame by constructing an alternative
history of wartime suffering and resistance.

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The Last Cavalryman

The Life of General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr.
By Harvey Ferguson
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4664-5 448 Pages
In this biography of Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., author Harvey Ferguson tells the
story of how Truscottdespite his hardscrabble beginnings, patchy education,
and questionable lucknot only made the rank of army lieutenant general,
earning a reputation as one of World War IIs most effective officers along
the way, but was also given an honorary promotion to four-star general seven
years after his retirement.

The Great Call-Up

The Guard, the Border, and the Mexican Revolution
By Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4645-4 576 Pages
On June 18, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson called up virtually the entire
army National Guard, some 150,000 men, to meet an armed threat to the
United States: border raids covertly sponsored by a Mexican government in
the throes of revolution. The Great Call-Up tells for the first time the complete
story of this unprecedented deployment.

The Second Pearl Harbor

The West Loch Disaster, May 21, 1944
By Gene Salecker
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4476-4 296 Pages
Military historian Gene Salecker recounts the events and conditions leading
up to the explosion, then re-creates the drama directly afterward: men
swimming through flaming oil, small craft desperately trying to rescue the
injured, and subsequent explosions throwing flaming debris everywhere. With
meticulous attention to detail the author explains why he and other historians
believe that the official explanation for the cause of the explosion, that a
mortar shell was accidentally detonated, is wrong.

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Special Operations in World War II

British and American Irregular Warfare
By Andrew L. Hargreaves
$36.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4396-5 352 Pages
In this book, Andrew L. Hargreaves not only describes tactics and operations
but also outlines the distinctions between commandos and special forces,
traces their evolution during the war, explains how the Anglo-American
alliance functioned in the creation and use of these units, looks at their
command and control arrangements, evaluates their impact, and assesses
their cost-effectiveness.

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Under the Eagle

Samuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker
By Samuel Holiday and Robert S. McPherson
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4389-7 288 Pages
Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the
Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit
secret communications on the battlefield. Based on extensive interviews with
Robert S. McPherson, Under the Eagle is Holidays vivid account of his own
story. It is the only book-length oral history of a Navajo code talker in which
the narrator relates his experiences in his own voice and words.

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Going for Broke

Japanese American Soldiers in the War against Nazi Germany
By James M. McCaffrey
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4337-8 408 Pages
In Going for Broke, historian James M. McCaffrey traces the experiences of
Japanese American soldiers in World War II, from training to some of the
deadliest combat in Europe. McCaffreys account makes clear that like other
American soldiers in World War II, the second generation Japanese Americans
relied on their personal determination, social values, and training to go for
broketo bet everything, even their lives.

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A Military History of the Cold War, 19441962

By Jonathan M. House
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4262-3 560 Pages
The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the 1950s
and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affected
millions of lives. This book is the first comprehensive, multinational overview
of military affairs during the early Cold War, beginning with conflicts during
World War II in Warsaw, Athens, and Saigon and ending with the Cuban
Missile Crisis.

The Complexity of Modern Asymmetric Warfare

By Max G. Manwaring
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4265-4 224 Pages
Manwarings multidimensional paradigm offers military and civilian leaders
a much needed blueprint for achieving strategic victories and ensuring global
security now and in the future. It combines military and police efforts with
politics, diplomacy, economics, psychology, and ethics. The challenge he
presents to civilian and military leaders is to take probable enemy perspectives
into consideration, and turn resultant conceptions into strategic victories.

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Into the Breach at Pusan

The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade in the Korean War
By Kenneth W. Estes
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4254-8 216 Pages
In the opening campaign of the Korean War, the First Provisional Marine
Brigade participated in a massive effort by United States and South Korean
forces in 1950 to turn back the North Korean invasion of the Republic of
Korea. The brigades actions loom large in marine lore. Historian and retired
marine Kenneth W. Estes undertakes a fresh investigation of the marines and
Eighth Armys fight for Pusan.

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After My Lai
My Year Commanding First Platoon, Charlie Company
By Gary W. Bray
$16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4045-2 184 Pages
In the fall of 1969, Gary Bray landed in South Vietnam as a recently married,
freshly minted second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. His assignment was not
enviable: leading the platoon whose former members had committed the
My Lai massacrethe murder of hundreds of Vietnamese civilianseighteen
months earlier. In this compelling memoir, he shares his experiences of
Vietnam in the direct wake of that terrible event.

Hero Street, U.S.A.

The Story of Little Mexicos Fallen Soldiers
By Marc Wilson
$19.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4012-4 224 Pages
Second Street in Silvis, Illinois, was a poor neighborhood during the Great
Depression that had become home to Mexicans fleeing revolution in their
homeland. In 1971 it was officially renamed Hero Street to commemorate
its claim to the highest per-capita casualty rate from any neighborhood during
World War II. Marc Wilson now tells the story of this community and the
young men it sent to fight for their adopted country.

On the Western Front with the Rainbow Division

A World War I Diary
By Vernon E. Kniptash
Edited by E. Bruce Geelhoed
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4032-2 256 Pages
With clarity and compelling detail, Kniptash describes the experiences of an
ordinary soldier thrust into the most violent conflict the world had seen. He
tells of his enthusiasm upon enlistment and of the horrors of combat that
followed, as well as the drudgery of daily routine. He renders unforgettable
profiles of his fellow soldiers and commanders, and manages despite the
strains of warfare to leaven his writing with humor.

Finding a Fallen Hero

The Death of a Ball Turret Gunner
By Bob Korkuc
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3892-3 272 Pages
Finding a Fallen Hero is a compelling story that blends a wartime drama with
a primer on specialized research. Author Bob Korkuc initially set out to
learn how his Uncle Tony came to rest at Arlington. In the process, he also
unraveled the mystery of what occurred over the skies of Germany half a
century ago.

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Volunteers on the Veld

Britains Citizen-Soldiers and the South African War, 18991902
By Stephen M. Miller
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3864-0 248 Pages
When the Second Boer War erupted in South Africa in 1899, Great Britain
was confident that victory would come quickly and decisively. Instead, the war
lasted for three grueling years. This book spotlights Britains citizen army to
show who these volunteers were, why they enlisted, how they were trained
and how they quickly became disillusioned when they found themselves
committed not to the supposed glories of conventional battle but instead to a
prolonged guerrilla war.

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Of Uncommon Birth
Dakota Sons in Vietnam
By Mark St. Pierre
$19.95s Paper 9780806153452 320 Pages
A work of creative nonfiction inspired by the true story of two South
Dakota teenagers, Mark St. Pierres Of Uncommon Birth draws upon extensive
interviews and exhaustive research in military archives to present a harrowing
story of two young menone white, one Indiancaught in the vortex of the
Vietnam War.

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Borrowed Soldiers
Americans under British Command, 1918
By Mitchell A. Yockelson
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5349-0 332 Pages
The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully
pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World
War I, an offensive that hastened the wars end. Yet despite the importance of
this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant attention
from historians. Mitchell A. Yockelson delivers a comprehensive study of the
first time American and British soldiers who fought together as a coalition
force more than twenty years before D-Day.

From POW to Blue Angel

The Story of Commander Dusty Rhodes
By Jim Armstrong
$19.95s Paper 9780806153421 320 Pages
As only the third fighter pilot to become leader of the Blue Angels, Raleigh
E. Dusty Rhodes helped develop the most famous aerobatics team ever
formed. From POW to Blue Angel tells his storya fast-paced drama teeming
with action and human interest and capturing the initiative and tenacity of a
true American hero.

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Napoleon in Italy
The Sieges of Mantua, 17961799
By Phillip R. Cuccia
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5184-7 328 Pages
In Napoleon in Italy, Phillip R. Cuccia brings to light two understudied
aspects of these trying periods in Mantuas history: siege warfare and the
conditions it created inside the city. Unlike other military histories of the era,
Napoleon in Italy brings to light the words of soldiers, leaders, and citizens
who experienced the sieges firsthand. Cuccia also shows how the sieges had
consequences long after they were over.

The French and Indian War and

the Conquest of New France
By William R. Nester
$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5189-2 400 Pages
In The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France, the only
comprehensive account from the French perspective, William R. Nester
explains how and why the French were defeated. He explores the fascinating
personalities and epic events that shaped French diplomacy, strategy, and
tactics and determined North Americas destiny.

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Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek

By Louis Kraft
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5188-5 336 Pages
When Edward W. Wynkoop arrived in Colorado Territory during the 1858
gold rush, he was one of many ambitious newcomers seeking wealth in a
promising land mostly inhabited by American Indians. After he worked as
a miner, sheriff, bartender, and land speculator, Wynkoops life drastically
changed after he joined the First Colorado Volunteers to fight for the Union
during the Civil War.

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All for the Kings Shilling

The British Soldier under Wellington, 18081814
By Edward J. Coss
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5177-9 392 Pages
The British troops have long been branded by the Duke of Wellingtons own
wordsscum of the earthand assumed to have been societys neer-dowells or criminals who enlisted to escape justice. Now Edward J. Coss shows
to the contrary that most of these redcoats were respectable laborers and
tradesmen and that it was mainly their working-class status that prompted
the dukes derision.

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Three Days in the Shenandoah

Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester
By Gary Ecelbarger
$21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5186-1 288 Pages
The battles of Front Royal and Winchester are the stuff of Civil War legend.
Stonewall Jackson swept away an isolated Union division under the command
of Nathaniel Banks and made his presence in the northern Shenandoah Valley
so frightful a prospect that it triggered an overreaction from President Lincoln,
yielding huge benefits for the Confederacy. Gary Ecelbarger has undertaken a
comprehensive reassessment of those battles to show their influence on both
war strategy and the continuation of the conflict.

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Climax at Gallipoli
The Failure of the August Offensive
By Rhys Crawley
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5206-6 376 Pages
Climax at Gallipoli examines the performance of the Allies Mediterranean
Expeditionary Force from the beginning of the Gallipoli Campaign to the
bitter end. Crawley reminds us that in 1915, the second year of the war, the
Allies were still trying to adapt to a new form of warfare, with static defense
replacing the maneuver and offensive strategies of earlier British doctrine.

Bracketing the Enemy

Forward Observers in World War II
By John R. Walker
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4843-4 300 Pages
After the end of World War II, General George Patton declared that artillery had
won the war. Yet howitzers did not achieve victory on their own. Crucial to the
success of these big guns were forward observers, artillerymen on the front lines
who directed the artillery fire. In Bracketing the Enemy, John R. Walker offers the
first full-length history of forward observer teams during World War II.

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A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps

My Mothers Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, and a Life Remade
By Barbara Rylko-Bauer
$19.95 Paper 9780806151915 416 Pages
Jadwiga Lenartowicz Rylko, was a young Polish Catholic physician in Ldz at
the start of World War II. Suspected of resistance activities, she was arrested in
January 1944. For the next fifteen months, she endured three Nazi concentration
camps and a forty-two-day death march, spending part of this time working as
a prisoner-doctor to Jewish slave laborers. A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps follows
Jadzia from her childhood and medical training, through her wartime experiences,
to her struggles to create a new life in the postwar world.

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All Canada in the Hands of the British

General Jeffery Amherst and the 1760 Campaign to Conquer New France
By Douglas R. Cubbison
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4849-6 304 Pages
Using archival materials, archaeological evidence, and the firsthand accounts
of junior provincial soldiers, Cubbison takes us from the eighteenth-century
antagonisms between the British and French in the New World through the
Seven Years War, to the final siege and its historic significance for colonial
Canada. In one of the most decisive victories of the Seven Years War, Amherst
was able, after a mere four weeks, to claim all of Canada.

Invasion of Laos, 1971

Lam Son 719
By Robert D. Sander
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4840-3 304 Pages
Sander chronicles not only the planning and execution of the operation but also the
maneuvers of the bastions of political and military power during the ten-year effort
to end Communist infiltration of South Vietnam, leading up to Lam Son 719. The
result is a picture from disparate perspectives: the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon
administrations; the South Vietnamese government led by President Nguyen Van
Thieu; and senior U.S. military commanders and army aviators.

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A Generous and Merciful Enemy

Life for German Prisoners of War during the American Revolution
By Daniel Krebs
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4844-1 396 Pages
Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities entered service as British
auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. Drawing on research in
German military records and common soldiers letters and diaries, Daniel Krebs
places the prisoners on center stage in A Generous and Merciful Enemy, portraying
them as individuals rather than simply as numbers in casualty lists.

Uncovering History
Archaeological Investigations at the Little Bighorn
By Douglas D. Scott
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4662-1 264 pages
Almost as soon as the last shot was fired in the Battle of the Little Bighorn,
the battlefield became an archaeological site. For many years afterward, as
fascination with the famed 1876 fight intensified, visitors to the area scavenged
the many relics left behind. It took decades, however, before researchers began
to tease information from the battles debrisand the new field of battlefield
archaeology began to emerge. In Uncovering History, renowned archaeologist
Douglas D. Scott offers a comprehensive account of investigations at the Little
Bighorn, from the earliest collecting efforts to early-twentieth-century findings.

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Terrible Justice
Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 18541868
By Doreen Chaky
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4652-2 408 Pages
Terrible Justice explores not only relations between the Sioux and their
opponents but also the discord among Sioux bands themselves. Moving
beyond earlier historians focus on the Brul and Oglala bands, Chaky
examines how the northern, southern, and Minnesota Sioux bands all became
involved in and were affected by the U.S. invasion.

Columns of Vengeance
Soldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 18631864
By Paul N. Beck
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4596-9 328 Pages
In summer 1862, Minnesotans found themselves fighting interconnected
warsthe first against the rebellious Southern states, and the second an
internal war against the Sioux. While the Civil War was more important to
the future of the United States, the Dakota War of 1862 proved far more
destructive to the people of Minnesotaboth whites and American Indians. In
Columns of Vengeance, historian Paul N. Beck offers a reappraisal of the Punitive
Expeditions of 1863 and 1864, the U.S. Armys response to the Dakota War
of 1862.

Dragoons in Apacheland
Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 18461861
By William S. Kiser
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4650-8 376 pages
In the fifteen years prior to the American Civil War, the U.S. Army established
a presence in the Apache Indian homeland of southern New Mexico. The
Apaches presented an obstacle to be overcome in making the region safe
for Anglo settlers. In Dragoons in Apacheland, Kiser recounts the conflicts that
ensued and examines how both Apache warriors and American troops shaped
the future of the Southwest Borderlands.

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No Turning Point
The Saratoga Campaign in Perspective
By Theodore Corbett
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4661-3 448 Pages
Setting the Battle of Saratoga in its social and political context, Theodore
Corbett examines Saratoga and its aftermath as part of ongoing conflicts
among the settlers of the Hudson and Champlain valleys of New York,
Canada, and Vermont. This long, more local view reveals that the American
victory actually resolved very little.

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Victory at Peleliu
The 81st Infantry Divisions Pacific Campaign
By Bobby C. Blair and John P. DeCioccio
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4680-5 320 Pages
When the 1st Marine Division began its invasion of Peleliu in September 1944,
the operation in the South Pacific was to take but four days. In fact, capturing
this small coral island in the Palaus with its strategic airstrip took two months
and involved some of the bloodiest fighting of the Second World War in the
Pacific. Now Bobby C. Blair and John Peter DeCioccio tell the story of this
campaign through the eyes of the 81st Infantry to offer a revised assessment.

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The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon

By Jeremy Black
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4458-0 304 Pages
The War of 1812 is etched into American memory with the burning of
the Capitol and the White House by British forces and the decisive naval
battle of New Orleans. Now a respected British military historian offers an
international perspective on the conflict to better gauge its significance.
In The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon, Jeremy Black provides a dramatic
account of the war framed within a wider political and economic context
than most American historians have previously considered.

Hancocks War
Conflict on the Southern Plains
By William Y. Chalfant
$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4459-7 296 pages
This first thorough scholarly history of the ill-conceived expedition
offers an unequivocal evaluation of military strategies and a culturally
sensitive interpretation of Indian motivations and reactions. Chalfant
explores the vastly different ways of life that separated the Cheyennes
and U.S. policymakers, and argues that neither side was willing or able to
understand the needs of the other. He shows how Hancocks efforts were
counterproductive, brought untold misery to Indians and whites alike, and
led to the wars of 1868.

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Never Come to Peace Again

Pontiacs Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America
By David Dixon
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4462-7 376 Pages
Prior to the American Revolution, the Ohio River Valley was a cauldron of
competing interests: Indian, colonial, and imperial. The conflict known as
Pontiacs Uprising, which lasted from 1763 until 1766, erupted out of this
volatile atmosphere. Never Come to Peace Again, the first complete account of
Pontiacs Uprising to appear in nearly fifty years, is a richly detailed account
of the causes, conduct, and consequences of events that proved pivotal in
American colonial history.

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Civil War Arkansas, 1863

The Battle for a State
By Mark K. Christ
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4433-7 336 Pages
The Arkansas River Valley is one of the most fertile regions in the South.
During the Civil War, the river also served as a vital artery for moving troops
and supplies. In 1863 the battle to wrest control of the valley was, in effect,
a battle for the state itself. In spite of its importance, however, this campaign
is often overshadowed by the siege of Vicksburg. Now Mark K. Christ offers
the first detailed military assessment of parallel events in Arkansas, describing
their consequences for both Union and Confederate powers.

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Once Upon a Time in War

The 99th Division in World War II
By Robert E. Humphrey
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4454-2 376 Pages
For the soldier on the front lines of World War II, a lifetime of terror and
suffering could be crammed into a few horrific hours of combat. This was
especially true for members of the 99th Infantry Division who repelled
the Germans in the Battle of the Bulge and engaged in some of the most
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George Crook
From the Redwoods to Appomattox
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Renowned for his prominent role in the Apache and Sioux wars, General
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opponents on the battlefield, in defeat the tribes found him a true friend and
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defense against political corruption and greed. George Crook offers insight into
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tribes and their ardent advocate.

Burgoyne and the Saratoga Campaign

His Papers
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In Burgoyne and the Saratoga Campaign, Douglas R. Cubbison presents the papers
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general of Canada, the British secretary of state for America, and the
commander of the British army during the Saratoga expedition.

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The Capture of Louisbourg, 1758

By Hugh Boscawen
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Hugh Boscawen, an experienced soldier and sailor, and a direct descendant
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fleet at Louisbourg, examines the pivotal 1758 Louisbourg campaign from
both the British and French perspectives. Drawing on myriad primary sources,
including previously unpublished correspondence, Boscawen also answers the
question What did the soldiers and sailors who fought there do all day?

Soldiers West
Biographies from the Military Frontier
Edited by Paul Andrew Hutton and Durwood Ball
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4465-8 420 Pages
Soldiers West views the turbulent history of the West from the perspective of
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Custer Reader
Edited by Paul Andrew Hutton
$26.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3465-9 608 Pages
George Armstrong Custer, Americas most famously unfortunate soldier,
has been the subject of scores of books, but The Custer Reader is unique as
a substantial source of classic writings about and by him. Here is Custer as
seen by himself, his contemporaries, and leading scholars. Combining firstperson narratives, essays, and photographs, this book provides a complete
introduction to Custers controversial personality and career and the
evolution of the Custer myth.

Phil Sheridan and His Army

By Paul A. Hutton
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3188-7 496 Pages
Paul Huttons study of Phil Sheridan in the West is authoritative, readable, and
an important contribution to the literature of westward expansion. Although
headquartered in Chicago, Sheridan played a crucial role in the opening of
the West. His command stretched from the Missouri to the Rockies and from
Mexico to Canada, and all the Indian Wars of the Great Plains fell under his
direction. Hutton ably narrates and interprets Sheridans western career from
the perspective of the top command rather than the battlefield leader. His book
is good history and good reading.Robert M. Utley

Deliverance from the Little Big Horn

Doctor Henry Porter and Custers Seventh Cavalry
By Joan Nabseth Stevenson
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4416-0 232 Pages
Of the three surgeons who accompanied Custers Seventh Cavalry on June 25,
1876, only the youngest, twenty-eight-year-old Henry Porter, survived that
days ordeal, riding through a gauntlet of Indian attackers and up the steep
bluffs to Major Marcus Renos hilltop position. But the story of Dr. Porters
wartime exploits goes far beyond the battle itself. In this compelling narrative
of military endurance and medical ingenuity, Joan Nabseth Stevenson opens a
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Torn by War
The Civil War Journal of Mary Adelia Byers
Edited by Samuel R. Phillips
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4395-8 248 Pages
The Civil War divided the nation, communities, and families. The town of
Batesville, Arkansas, found itself occupied three times by the Union army. This
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From Boer War to World War

Tactical Reform of the British Army, 19021914
By Spencer Jones
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4415-3 296 Pages
In October 1899, the British went to war against the South African Boer
republics of Transvaal and Orange Free State, expecting little resistance.
A string of early defeats in the Boer War shook the militarys confidence.
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By Sarah C. Melville
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Guibert
Father of Napoleons Grande Arme
By Jonathan Abel
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5443-5 320 Pages
Abel examines Guiberts life and explores how
his martial theories shaped the development of
Napoleans army, the campaigns they conducted,
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Hitlers Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars

Comparing Genocide and Conquest
By Edward Westermann
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5433-6 352 Pages
A comparative examination of Nazi eastward
expansion in World War II and U.S. westward
expansion between 1850 and 1890.

A narrative history of Col. George Wrights ruthless

and successful campaign to subdue the Indian
tribes of the Upper Columbia Plateau in 1858.

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A Documentary History of the
Utah War, 18581859
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The second installment of the comprehensive
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Out West with Kearny

Expeditions of the 1st U.S. Dragoons, 18331848
By Will Gorenfeld and John Gorenfeld
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5394-0 416 Pages
A narrative history of the First Dragoon Regiment
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Powder River

Slaughter at the Chapel

Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War

Paul L. Hedren
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5383-4 384 Pages

The Battle of Ezra Church, 1864

By Gary Ecelbarger
$26.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5499-2 272 Pages

A comprehensive account of the Battle of

Powder River, the opening battle of the Great
Sioux War in 1876.

A Civil War battle history of a pivotal and bloody

encounter during the 1864 Atlanta campaign.

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Soldiering in the Shadow

of Wounded Knee

Road to War
The 1871 Yellowstone Surveys
By M. John Lubetkin
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-429-2 312 Pages
A collection of key primary documents that explain
the 1871 Yellowstone River expedition to survey a
route for the Northern Pacific Railroad.

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The 1891 Diary of Private

Hartford G. Clark, Sixth U.S. Cavalry
Edited by Jerome A. Greene
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-440-7 208 Pages
A soldiers diary that chronicles day-to-day life at
the time of Wounded Knee.

Sign Talker

Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums

Hugh Lenox Scott Remembers Indian Country

By Hugh Lenox Scott
Edited by R. Eli Paul
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5354-4 312 Pages

Horse-Mounted Bands of the

U.S. Army, 18201940
By Bruce P. Gleason
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5479-4 296 Pages

An edited, annotated reproduction of that portion

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and service with Indian peoples.

A history of horse-mounted military bands and

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