Overview :After winning the presidency by a razor-thin victory on November 8, 1960 over Richard Nixon, Dwight D. Eisenhower's former vice president, J... Read More
Overview :Dwight D. Eisenhower once remarked that "the history of alliances is a history of failure." This provocative, absorbing work, based on a stu... Read More
Overview :Italy, from the toe to the Alps, was the scene of the longest, bloodiest, most frustrating, and least understood series of battles fought by... Read More
Overview :It was the greatest single battle the U.S. Army ever fought. More than a million GIs were involved and nearly 80,000 became casualties. The ... Read More
Overview :Which generals were most influential in World War II? Did Winston Churchill really see himself as culturally "half American"? What really ca... Read More
Overview :The United States began its involvement in the Mexican Revolution in 1913 with President Woodrow Wilson's decision to remove Victoriana Huer... Read More
Overview :Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman earned a place in history as "the first modern general," yet behind his reputation as a fierce wa... Read More
Overview :In the perfect match of subject and author, John S. D. Eisenhower, a noted military historian, presents the definitive account of the birth ... Read More
Overview :The hero of the War of 1812, the conqueror of Mexico City in the Mexican-American War, and Abraham Lincoln's top soldier during the first si... Read More
Overview :The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation's highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lea... Read More
Overview :It was the greatest single battle the U.S. Army ever fought. More than a million GIs were involved and nearly 80,000 became casualties. The ... Read More