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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time. War can settle disputes, topple tyrants, and bend the trajectory of civilization--sometimes to the breaking point. From Troy to Hiroshima, moments when war has ended in utter annihilation have reverberated through the centuries, signaling...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Julius Caesar was no aspiring autocrat seeking to realize the imperial future but an unusually successful republican leader who was measured against the Republic's traditions and its greatest heroes of the past. Catastrophe befell Rome not because Caesar (or anyone else) turned against the Republic, its norms and institutions, but because Caesar's extraordinary success mobilized a determined opposition which ultimately preferred to precipitate civil...
Author
Series
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
"In Stumbling Colossus, David Glantz explored why the Red Army was unprepared for the German blitzkrieg that nearly destroyed it and left more than 4 million of its soldiers dead by the end of 1941. In Colossus Reborn he recounts the miraculous resurrection of the Red Army, which, with a display of military strategy and operational prowess, stopped the Wehrmacht in its tracks and turned the tide of war."
"Beyond the battles themselves, Glantz also...
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Civil War in 15 objects: This video lecture highlights items from the Civil War that help humanize the time period and illustrate just how tragic and important the war was in history.
American Revolution: Focusing on some of the little-known events and facts about the American Revolution, this video lecture highlights America's great struggle for independence.
America in WWI: The issues that Americans faced during World War I are also being faced...
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The story of Rear Admiral Frederick Burdett Warder, who was known for his bravery during the Battle of Corregidor in the Philippines.
Rear Admiral Frederick Burdett Warder was known for both his bravery and his humility. Warder was Skipper of the USS Seawolf submarine during WWII. Then a Lieutenant Commander, Warder became known for his exploits during the Battle of Corregidor in the Philippines, in which the Seawolf sank several Japanese vessels...
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