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Operation Squarepeg
The Allied Invasion of the Green Islands, February 1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
In late January 1944 a force of New Zealand soldiers and Allied specialists undertook a daring behind the lines reconnaissance of the Japanese-held Green Islands of Papua New Guinea. The New Zealand Army’s largest amphibious operation of World War II followed two weeks later. The Japanese contested...
The Boston Marine Barracks
A History, 1799-1974
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
The Boston Marine Barracks is one of the oldest in the United States: it stands within eyeshot of the USS Constitution. Lt. Col. John R. Yates, Jr., the last commanding officer of the Barracks when it closed in 1974, researched the hundreds of letters left behind by previous Barracks commanders, their...
"Get the hell off this ship!"
Memoir of a USS Liscome Bay Survivor in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
James Claude Beasley was a typical American teenager in the 1940s—a child of the Great Depression with an abiding commitment to family and country. With the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted in the Navy at 18. His plainspoken, personal memoir recounts three years of service (1942–1945), from...
The Last Civil War Veterans
The Lives of the Final Survivors, State by State
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
“It really matters very little who died last,” wrote Civil War historian William Marvel, “but for some reason we seem fascinated with knowing.” Drawing on a wide range of sources including correspondence with descendants, this book covers the last living Civil War veterans in each state, providing...
Horses and Mules in the Civil War
A Complete History with a Roster of More Than 700 War Horses
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Horses and mules served during the Civil War in greater number and suffered more casualties than the men of the Union and Confederate armies combined. Using firsthand accounts, this history addresses the many uses of equines during the war, the methods by which they were obtained, their costs, their...
Conduct Unbecoming
Fifteen Military Criminals, Rogues and Victims of Justice from the Revolutionary War to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Men and women who serve in the armed forces are subject to a different legal code than those they protect. Throughout American history, some have—through action or failure to act or by circumstances—found themselves facing prosecution by the United States military. One measure of a nation’s...
Chasing Mosby, Killing Booth
The 16th New York Volunteer Cavalry
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Near the end of the Civil War, Army Chief of Staff Henry W. Halleck described the 16th New York Volunteer Cavalry as “cowed and useless” after they were “cut up” by Confederate Colonel John Mosby’s Rangers. The following April the New Yorkers made their place in history when 26 men led by...
The Nixon White House Redecoration and Acquisition Program
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
A positive legacy of the troubled Nixon administration—and one virtually unknown to the American public—is the extensive acquisition of valuable art and antiques for the White House and the redecoration of the executive mansion by Pat Nixon. With the help of an aggressive curator, Clement Conger,...
The Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-1949
Survivors' Accounts of Japanese Invasion and Enslavement of Europeans and the Revolution That Created Free Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Following their invasion of Java on March 1, 1942, the Japanese began a process of Japanization of the archipelago, banning every remnant of Dutch rule. Over the next three years, more than 100,000 Dutch citizens were shipped to Japanese internment camps and more than four million romushas, forced...
by Bruce Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri during 1863, the middle year of the war. This work explores the tactics with which each side attempted to gain advantage, with regional differences as influenced by the personalities of local commanders. An enormous...
by David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
In the late 19th century Ohio was reeling from a wave of lynchings and other acts of racially motivated mob violence. Many of these acts were attributed to well-known and respected men and women yet few of them were ever prosecuted—some were even lauded for taking the law into their own hands. In...
The Trunk Dripped Blood
Five Sensational Murder Cases of the Early 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
A trunk dripping blood, discovered at a railway station in Stockton in 1906, launched one of the most famous murder investigations in California history—still debated by crime historians. In 1913, the dismembered body of a young pregnant woman, found in the East River, was traced back to her killer...
Police Violence in America, 1869-1920
256 Incidents Involving Death or Injury
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Police violence is not a new phenomenon. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, police officers in America assaulted or killed many ordinary citizens, often during improper detainments or arrests where no threat existed or no crime had been committed. Based on hundreds of newspaper accounts from...
Legal Executions in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri
A Comprehensive Registry, 1866-1965
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
In the five state region of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri, 1027 men and women are known to have been legally hanged, gassed or electrocuted for capital crimes during the century after the Civil War. Drawing on thousands of hours of research, this comprehensive record covers each execution...