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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephen E Ambrose |
| ISBN: | 1578060265 9781578060269 |
| OCLC Number: | 36783915 |
| Description: | xiii, 201 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Struggle for Vicksburg : the battles and siege that decided the Civil War -- Custer's Civil War -- "Just dumb luck" : American entry into World War II -- SIGINT : Deception and the liberation of western Europe -- D-Day revisited -- Victory in Europe : May 1945 -- The atomic bomb and its consequences -- General MacArthur : a profile -- A fateful friendship : Eisenhower and Patton -- The war on the homefront -- My Lai : atrocities in historical perspective -- The Christmas bombing -- Eisenhower and NATO -- The cold war in perspective -- War in the twenty-first century. |
| Responsibility: | Stephen E. Ambrose. |
Abstract:
Examines the history of American warfare from the Civil War through Vietnam and the Cold War, looking at the experiences of both leaders and the led and how American democracy defines itself through these conflicts.
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