Palgrave MacMillan, 2008. — 204 p. — (Great Generals). Dubbed by the World War II press as "The G.I. General" because of his close identification with his men, Omar Nelson Bradley (1893-1981) rose to command the largest exclusively American field command in U.S. history during the European Campaign. Alan Axelrod applies his signature insight and compelling prose to the life,...
Palgrave MacMillan, 2005. — 205 p. — (Great Generals). General George S. Patton (1885-1945) embodied contradiction: a cavalryman steeped in romantic military tradition, he nevertheless pulled a reluctant American military into the most advanced realms of highly mobile armored warfare. An autocratic snob, Patton created unparalleled rapport and loyalty with the lowliest private in...
Harper, 2012. — 528 p. “Painstakingly researched and crafted, Larry Berman’s Zumwalt is a compelling and rich portrait of one of the nation’s great patriots.” —Walter Anderson, former editor and CEO of Parade Zumwalt is a compelling portrait of the controversial military man who is widely regarded as the founder of the modern U.S. Navy, Admiral Elmo Russell “Bud” Zumwalt. Chief of...
Potomac Books, 2008. — 252 p. Praise for his performance was precisely what George Smith Patton, Jr., had sought all his life. As a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute and West Point, he was already searching for what he called the undesirable difference that distinguished a great general from the good ones. He led a mechanized attack in Mexico and a tank battalion during...
Little, Brown, 2016. — 594 p. The author of the national best-seller The Admirals chronicles famous General Douglas MacArthur's amazing rise during World War II. World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. Macarthur at War will go deeper into this transformative period of his life than previous biographies, drilling into the...
Lnd.: McFarland, 2009. - 264 p.
One of the Civil War's most successful generals is heralded by military historians but never achieved the lasting fame of Grant, Lee, Jackson or Sherman. George Thomas's Southern birth, the ambition of fellow officers, and his action in the less-publicized Western Theater combined to keep him from attaining recognition. This comprehensive...
Penguin Books, 2012. — 432 p.
General David Petraeus is the most transformative leader the American military has seen since the generation of Marshall. In the New York Times bestseller All In, military expert Paula Broadwell examines Petraeus's career, his intellectual development as a military officer, and his impact on the U.S. military.Afforded extensive access by General...
Penguin Books, 2012. — 432 p.
General David Petraeus is the most transformative leader the American military has seen since the generation of Marshall. In the New York Times bestseller All In, military expert Paula Broadwell examines Petraeus's career, his intellectual development as a military officer, and his impact on the U.S. military.Afforded extensive access by General...
University Press of Kansas, 2015. — 432 p. George C. Marshall once called him "the brains of the army." And yet General Lesley J. McNair (1883-1944), a man so instrumental to America's military preparedness and Army modernization, remains little known today, his papers purportedly lost, destroyed by his wife in her grief at his death in Normandy. This book, the product of an...
Naval Institute Press, 2011. — 289 p. This fresh look at America's first sea warrior avoids the hero worship of past biographies and provides a more complete understanding of his accomplishments. Writing from the perspective of a naval officer with more than thirty years of experience and a seaman with a lifetime of sailing know-how, Callo examines Jones' extraordinary career...
Cooper Square Press, 2000. — 847 p. As the U.S. Army's Chief of Staff through World War II, George C. Marshall (1880-1959) organized the military mobilization of unprecedented numbers of Americans and decisively shaped the Allied strategy that defeated first Nazi Germany, then Imperial Japan. As President Truman's Secretary of State, and later as his Secretary of Defense during...
Chelsea House Publishers, 2009. — 120 p. — (Leaders of the Civil War Era). Ulysses S. Grant is a puzzling figure in American history. The 18th president of the United States had rampant corruption associated with his administration, but he was a decorated war hero famous for turning serious attacks by the Confederate army into victories for the Union and for implementing...
Penguin, 2011. — 112 p. In 1775, Paul Revere of Boston made his now-famous horseback ride warning colonists of an impending attack by the British. This event went largely unnoticed in history until Longfellow celebrated it in a poem in 1861. So who was Paul Revere? In addition to being an American patriot, he was a skilled silversmith and made false teeth from hippo tusks! This...
Stackpole Books, 2023. — 295 p. James Ellman digs deep, connects the dots, and concludes that General Douglas MacArthur was decidedly not a military genius. One of America's most controversial generals, Douglas MacArthur’s rise through the U.S. Army’s ranks was meteoric. However, he did not lead large formations of men in combat until he assumed command of forces in the...
Sterling Pub Co Inc, 1998 - 332 p. ISBN10: 185409484X ISBN13: 9781854094841 (eng)
See how Patton created and manipulated his armies for the challenging tasks at hand, how he structured his forces and kept them supplied with arms and food, and secured the men he needed from his superiors. ." . . this superb book tells more of Patton than any of his biographies ever written and...
Palgrave MacMillan, 2007. — 198 p. — (Great Generals). General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) is best remembered for his ability to adapt, a quality that catalyzed his greatest accomplishments. Adaptability has become an indispensable trait for military leadership in an era of technological leaps that guarantee the nature of war will radically change during the span of an ordinary...
University of Nebraska Press, 2009. - 328 p. Lt. Charles B. Gatewood (1853–96), an educated Virginian, served in the Sixth U.S. Cavalry as the commander of Indian scouts. Gatewood was largely accepted by the Native peoples with whom he worked because of his efforts to understand their cultures. It was precisely this connection between Gatewood and the Indians, and with Geronimo...
HarperCollins, 2010. — 336 p. From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of And the Sea Will Tell comes Hero Found: the incredible but true story of Dieter Dengler, the only pilot to escape captivity from a POW camp in the Laotian jungle during the Vietnam War. This amazing story of triumph over seemingly insurmountable odds has been filmed by Werner Herzog as both a...
Berkley Books, 2001. — 336 p. Tells the exciting true story of Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, a legendary Marine sniper in the Vietnam War. He's silent, invisible. He lies in one position for days, barely twitching a muscle, able to control his heartbeat and breathing. His record has never been matched: 93 confirmed kills. This is the story of Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, Marine...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011. — 424 p. Amid the aristocratic ranks of the Confederate cavalry, Nathan Bedford Forrest was untutored, all but unlettered, and regarded as no more than a guerrilla. His tactic was the headlong charge, mounted with such swiftness and ferocity that General Sherman called him a "devil" who should "be hunted down and killed if it costs 10,000...
Palgrave MacMillan, 2008. — 206 p. — (Great Generals). This persuasive biography sheds light on the nation's first modern combat commander who set the standard for today's four-star officers. Though the U.S. entered WWI with inadequate forces, in just over a year General John J. Pershing (1860-1948) had built and hurled a one million man army against forty battle-hardened German...
Open Road Media, 2013. — 352 p. Like many heroes of the Second World War, General Albert C. Wedemeyer’s career has been largely overshadowed by such well-known figures as Marshall, Patton, Montgomery, and Bradley. Wedemeyer’s legacy as the main planner of the D-Day invasion is almost completely forgotten today, eclipsed by politics and the capriciousness of human nature. Yet...
Palgrave MacMillan, 2006. — 193 p. — (Great Generals). A modest and unassuming man, General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) never lost a battle, leading the Union to victory over the Confederacy during the Civil War, ultimately becoming President of the reunited states. Grant revolutionized military warfare by creating new leadership tactics by integrating new technologies in...
University of Missouri Press, 2006. — 157 p. Missouri’s history is replete with strong and adventurous leaders, from Lewis and Clark to Harry S. Truman. It is no surprise, then, that the Show-Me State has produced a great number of military men and women, including thirty who attained the rank of general. In this clearly written and richly illustrated book, James F. Muench has...
Random House, 2014. — 432 p.
William Tecumseh Sherman was more than just one of our greatest generals. Fierce Patriot is a bold, revisionist portrait of how this iconic and enigmatic figure exerted an outsize impact on the American landscape—and the American character.
America’s first “celebrity” general, William Tecumseh Sherman was a man of many faces. Some of them were...
Thomas Nelson, 2011. — 288 p. Attentive to the last detail, rigid in his expectations of drill and execution, and fiercely protective of every man he commanded, General John J. Pershing helped shape the 20th century by leading American troops in a war that saved Europe. Alienating some and inspiring others, Pershing recognized the challenges of modern warfare and embraced them...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. — 308 p.
Unlike the flashy and self-promoting George Armstrong Custer, Civil War veteran and Indian fighter Ranald Slidell Mackenzie is not well known today. In the late nineteenth century, however, Mackenzie ranked among the best known and most effective of a group of young army colonels who led in the defeat of the Plains Indians and the...
Viking Adult, 1973. — 728 p. From the Casablanca Conference in January 1943 and the Allied decision to sift to the offensive in all theaters of the Second World War, to the surrender of Germany in May 1945 - the span of this enthralling third volume in the official biography of George C. Marshall - the Allies and the Axis troops fought flat out. It was during this period that...
New Word City, 2013. — 255 р. In the first contemporary biography of Benedict Arnold, prize-winning journalist and historian Willard Sterne Randall unearths startling new evidence on the most famous treason in American history, explaining why the man George Washington considered his best general changed sides in the American Revolution. Randall uncovers documents long...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 680 p. William Tecumseh Sherman, a West Point graduate and veteran of the Seminole War, became one of the best-known generals in the Civil War. His March to the Sea, which resulted in a devastated swath of the South from Atlanta to Savannah, cemented his place in history as the pioneer of total war. In The Scourge of War, preeminent military...
Palgrave MacMillan, 2008. — 204 p. This brief biography focuses more on the political career of general Andrew Jackson than on his military heroism at the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812. It nevertheless provides an overview of the martial events that made Jackson's rise to the presidency possible. Robert Remini is widely touted as one of the great historians of the...
Iuniverse, 1992. — 468 p. More than anyone else, Adm. Hyman G. Rickover made nuclear power a reality. Building on the scientific breakthroughs of the atomic bomb project, he created the nuclear Navy almost overnight, when nearly everyone else thought it was a pipe dream, and built the world's first commercial atomic power station. He did most of this in a single decade....
Сокращено из «The Rickover Effect: How one man made a difference» by Theodore Rockwell. Рассказ о жизни военного моряка с атомной подлодки. Жизнь одного человека, изменившего ход истории. Опубликовано в периодическом журнале Reader’s Digest за октябрь 1993 г.
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2006. — 322 p. Beginning with interviews with the last surviving drill instructors of World War II, this powerful oral history offers the voices of veterans from every major war of the last sixty years, concluding with accounts of what it takes to train marines for Iraq today. The Few and the Proud contains revelatory details about the vicious...
University Press of Kentucky, 2022. — x, 290 p. + 16 p. ill. — (American Warriors). — ISBN 978-0813182407, 978-0813182421, 978-0813182414. "Success in dealing with unknown ciphers is measured by these four things in the order named: perseverance, careful methods of analysis, intuition, luck." So begins the first chapter of Colonel Parker Hitt's 1916 Manual for the Solution of...
Palgrave MacMillan, 2007. — 205 p. — (Great Generals). Curtis Emerson LeMay (1906-1990) was a terrifying, complex, and brilliant general. In World War II, he ordered the firebombing of Tokyo and was in charge when Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was responsible for tens of thousands of civilian deaths--a fact he liked to celebrate by smoking Cuban cigars....
University of Missouri, 2010 - 288 p.
A German-born Union officer in the American Civil War, Maj. Gen. Peter Osterhaus served from the first clash in the western theater until the final surrender of the war. Osterhaus made a name for himself within the army as an energetic and resourceful commander who led his men from the front. He was one of the last surviving Union major...
Thomas Nelson, 2015. — 192 p. An exhilarating story of a young Navy SEAL whose relentless faith transformed his life and inspired everyone who knew his courageous story. In A Warrior's Faith, Ryan Job's close friend, Robert Vera, recounts how the highly decorated Navy SEAL's unstoppable sense of humor, positive attitude, and fierce determination helped him survive after being...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. — 295 p. General, soldier, businessman, traitor: these are all words associated with the name Benedict Arnold. One of America's greatest soldiers and most reviled traitors, he was also a significant and intriguing player in Canada's history. In Benedict Arnold Barry Wilson takes a fresh look at this controversial, fascinating, and...
Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. — 198 p. — (Great Generals). General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) famously said War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it. This statement has contributed to his mythic status as a grim-visaged Civil War character who embodied implacable war. Utilizing unique and highly successful maneuvering techniques, Sherman was an original, decisive, and...
Львів: Кальварія, 2013. — 264 с.
Цей новий погляд на першого морського воїна Америки уникає канонізації героя, притаманної минулим біографіям, і дає більш повне розуміння його досягнень. Пишучи з точки зору військово-морського офіцера з більш ніж тридцятирічним досвідом і моряка, який усе життя ходив під парусом, Калло досліджує незвичайну кар'єру Джонса, виходячи за межі його...
Москва: Молодая гвардия, 1990. — 336 с.: ил. — (Исторические портреты). — ISBN: 5-235-01027-2. Генерал Дуглас Макартур — один из самых видных деятелей американской истории новейшего времени. По выражению одного из ученых, его жизнь — это «одно из наиболее объемных зеркал», в котором отразилась целая эпоха. Следует добавить, что «зеркало» это было американцем, и «отражение»,...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 357 с. В аристократических рядах кавалерии Конфедерации Натан Бедфорд Форрест был необучаем, практически не обучен и считался не более чем партизаном. Его тактика заключалась в лобовом наступлении, совершаемом с такой стремительностью и свирепостью, что генерал Шерман назвал его «дьяволом»,...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 357 с. В аристократических рядах кавалерии Конфедерации Натан Бедфорд Форрест был необучаем, практически не обучен и считался не более чем партизаном. Его тактика заключалась в лобовом наступлении, совершаемом с такой стремительностью и свирепостью, что генерал Шерман назвал его «дьяволом»,...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 357 с. В аристократических рядах кавалерии Конфедерации Натан Бедфорд Форрест был необучаем, практически не обучен и считался не более чем партизаном. Его тактика заключалась в лобовом наступлении, совершаемом с такой стремительностью и свирепостью, что генерал Шерман назвал его «дьяволом»,...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 357 с. В аристократических рядах кавалерии Конфедерации Натан Бедфорд Форрест был необучаем, практически не обучен и считался не более чем партизаном. Его тактика заключалась в лобовом наступлении, совершаемом с такой стремительностью и свирепостью, что генерал Шерман назвал его «дьяволом»,...
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