Military History

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS

2015

Military History
CONTENTS
Campaigns and Commanders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Colonial to Pre-Civil War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Civil War. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Western Frontier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Custer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
World Wars I and II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Uniforms, Weapons, Equipment, and Battlefields . . . . . . 29
The Arthur H. Clark Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

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Campaigns and Commanders

The Battle of Lake Champlain
A Brilliant and Extraordinary Victory
By John H. Schroeder
$26.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4693-5 184 Pages
On September 11, 1814, an American naval squadron under Master
Commandant Thomas Macdonough defeated a formidable British force on
Lake Champlain under the command of Captain George Downie. Examining
the naval and land campaign in strategic, political, and military terms, from
planning to execution to outcome, The Battle of Lake Champlain offers the most
thorough account written of this pivotal moment in American history.

The Last Cavalryman

The Life of General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr.
By Harvey Ferguson
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4664-5 448 Pages
In this biography of Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., author Harvey Ferguson tells
the story of how Truscottdespite his hardscrabble beginnings, patchy
education, and questionable lucknot only made the rank of army lieutenant
general, earning a reputation as one of World War IIs most effective officers
along the way, but was also given an honorary promotion to four-star general
seven years after his retirement.

Soldiers in the Army of Freedom

The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil Wars First African American Combat Unit
By Ian Michael Spurgeon
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4618-8 400 Pages
Soldiers in the Army of Freedom is the first published account of this largely
forgotten regiment and, in particular, its contribution to Union victory in the
trans-Mississippi theater of the Civil War. As such, it restores the First Kansas
Colored Infantry to its rightful place in American history.

The Early Morning of War

Bull Run, 1861
By Edward G. Longacre
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4498-6 648 Pages
This crucial campaign receives its most complete and comprehensive
treatment in Edward G. Longacres The Early Morning of War. A magisterial
work by a veteran historian, The Early Morning of War blends narrative and
analysis to convey the full scope of the campaign of First Bull Runits
drama and suspense as well as its practical and tactical underpinnings and
ramifications.

Connecticut Unscathed
Victory in the Great Narragansett War, 16751676
By Jason W. Warren
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4475-7 240 Pages
The conflict that historians have called King Philips War still ranks as one of
the bloodiest per capita in American history. But because Connecticut lacked
a chronicler, its experience has gone largely untold. As Jason Warren makes
clear in Connecticut Unscathed, this imbalance has generated an incomplete
narrative of the war.

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Napoleon in Italy
The Sieges of Mantua, 17961799
By Phillip R. Cuccia
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4445-0 328 Pages
In Napoleon in Italy, Phillip R. Cuccia brings to light two understudied aspects
of these trying periods in Mantuas history: siege warfare and the conditions
it created inside the city. Unlike other military histories of the era, Napoleon in
Italy brings to light the words of soldiers, leaders, and citizens who experienced
the sieges firsthand. Cuccia also shows how the sieges had consequences long
after they were over.

All Canada in the Hands of the British

General Jeffery Amherst and the 1760 Campaign to Conquer New France
By Douglas R. Cubbison
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4427-6 304 Pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4849-6 304 Pages
Using archival materials, archaeological evidence, and the firsthand accounts
of junior provincial soldiers, Cubbison takes us from the eighteenth-century
antagonisms between the British and French in the New World through the
Seven Years War, to the final siege and its historic significance for colonial
Canada. In one of the most decisive victories of the Seven Years War, Amherst
was able, after a mere four weeks, to claim all of Canada. All Canada in
the Hands of the British will change how military historians and enthusiasts
understand the nature of British colonial battle strategy.

Climax at Gallipoli
The Failure of the August Offensive
By Rhys Crawley
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4426-9 376 Pages
Climax at Gallipoli examines the performance of the Allies Mediterranean
Expeditionary Force from the beginning of the Gallipoli Campaign to the
bitter end. Crawley reminds us that in 1915, the second year of the war, the
Allies were still trying to adapt to a new form of warfare, with static defense
replacing the maneuver and offensive strategies of earlier British doctrine.

Blucher
Scourge of Napoleon
By Michael V. Leggiere
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4409-2 568 Pages
One of the most colorful characters in the Napoleonic pantheon, Gebhard
Leberecht von Blcher (17421819) is best known as the Prussian general
who, along with the Duke of Wellington, defeated Napoleon at the Battle
of Waterloo. This magnificent biography by Michael V. Leggiere, an awardwinning historian of the Napoleonic Wars, is the first scholarly book in English
to explore Blchers life and military careerand his impact on Napoleon.

Defender of Canada
Sir George Prevost and the War of 1812
By John R. Grodzinski
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4387-3 360 Pages
Defender of Canada, the first book-length examination of Prevosts career, offers
a reinterpretation of the generals military leadership in the War of 1812.
Historian John R. Grodzinski shows that Prevost deserves far greater credit for
the successful defense of Canada than he has heretofore received.

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Special Operations in World War II

British and American Irregular Warfare
By Andrew L. Hargreaves
$36.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4396-5 352 Pages
In this book, Andrew L. Hargreaves not only describes tactics and operations
but also outlines the distinctions between commandos and special forces,
traces their evolution during the war, explains how the Anglo-American
alliance functioned in the creation and use of these units, looks at their
command and control arrangements, evaluates their impact, and assesses
their cost-effectiveness.

A Generous and Merciful Enemy

Life for German Prisoners of War during the American Revolution
By Daniel Krebs
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4356-9 392 Pages
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4844-1 396 Pages
Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities entered service as British
auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. Drawing on research in
German military records and common soldiers letters and diaries, Daniel
Krebs places the prisoners on center stage in A Generous and Merciful Enemy,
portraying them as individuals rather than simply as numbers in casualty lists.

Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword

The British Regiment on Campaign, 18081815
By Andrew Bamford
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4343-9 328 Pages
Although an armys success is often measured in battle outcomes, its victories
depend on strengths that may be less obvious on the field. In Sickness, Suffering,
and the Sword, military historian Andrew Bamford assesses the effectiveness of
the British Army in sustained campaigning during the Napoleonic Wars.

Going for Broke

Japanese American Soldiers in the War against Nazi Germany
By James M. McCaffrey
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4337-8 408 Pages
In Going for Broke, historian James M. McCaffrey traces the experiences of
Japanese American soldiers in World War II, from training to some of the
deadliest combat in Europe. McCaffreys account makes clear that like other
American soldiers in World War II, the second generation Japanese Americans
relied on their personal determination, social values, and training to go for
broketo bet everything, even their lives.

From Boer War to World War

Tactical Reform of the British Army, 19021914
By Spencer Jones
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4415-3 296 Pages
In October 1899, the British went to war against the South African Boer
republics of Transvaal and Orange Free State, expecting little resistance.
A string of early defeats in the Boer War shook the militarys confidence.
Historian Spencer Jones focuses on this bitter combat experience in From Boer
War to World War, showing how it crucially shaped the British Armys tactical
development in the years that followed.

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A Military History of the Cold War, 19441962

By Jonathan M. House
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4262-3 560 Pages
The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the 1950s
and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affected
millions of lives. This book is the first comprehensive, multinational overview
of military affairs during the early Cold War, beginning with conflicts during
World War II in Warsaw, Athens, and Saigon and ending with the Cuban
Missile Crisis.

Outpost of Empire
The Napoleonic Occupation of Andaluca, 18101812
By Charles J. Esdaile
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4278-4 512 Pages
Napoleons forces invaded Spain in 1808, but two years went by before they
overran the southern region of Andaluca. Situated at the farthest frontier of
Napoleons outer empire, Andaluca remained under French control only
brieflyfor two-and-a-half yearsand never experienced the normal functions
of French rule. In this groundbreaking examination of the Peninsular War,
Charles J. Esdaile moves beyond traditional military history to examine the
French occupation of Andaluca and the origins and results of the regions
complex and chaotic response.

No Turning Point
The Saratoga Campaign in Perspective
By Theodore Corbett
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4276-0 448 Pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4661-3 448 Pages
Setting the Battle of Saratoga in its social and political context, Theodore
Corbett examines Saratoga and its aftermath as part of ongoing conflicts
among the settlers of the Hudson and Champlain valleys of New York,
Canada, and Vermont. This long, more local view reveals that the American
victory actually resolved very little.

Into the Breach at Pusan

The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade in the Korean War
By Kenneth W. Estes
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4254-8 216 Pages
In the opening campaign of the Korean War, the First Provisional Marine
Brigade participated in a massive effort by United States and South Korean
forces in 1950 to turn back the North Korean invasion of the Republic of
Korea. The brigades actions loom large in marine lore. Historian and retired
marine Kenneth W. Estes undertakes a fresh investigation of the marines and
Eighth Armys fight for Pusan.

Victory at Peleliu
The 81st Infantry Divisions Pacific Campaign
By Bobby C. Blair and John P. DeCioccio
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4680-5 320 Pages
When the 1st Marine Division began its invasion of Peleliu in September 1944,
the operation in the South Pacific was to take but four days. In fact, capturing
this small coral island in the Palaus with its strategic airstrip took two months
and involved some of the bloodiest fighting of the Second World War in the
Pacific. Now Bobby C. Blair and John Peter DeCioccio tell the story of this
campaign through the eyes of the 81st Infantry to offer a revised assessment.
Victory at Peleliu demonstrates that without the armys help the marines could
not have succeeded on Peleliu.

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Wellingtons Two-Front War

The Peninsular Campaigns, at Home and Abroad, 18081814
By Joshua Moon
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4157-2 272 Pages
Sir Arthur Wellesleys 18081814 campaigns against Napoleons forces in
the Iberian Peninsula have drawn the attention of scholars and soldiers for
two centuries. Yet, until now, no study has focused on the problems that
Wellesley, later known as the Duke of Wellington, encountered on the home
front before his eventual triumph beyond the Pyrenees. In Wellingtons TwoFront War, Joshua Moon not only surveys Wellingtons command of British
forces against the French but also describes the battles Wellington fought
in Englandwith an archaic military command structure, bureaucracy, and
fickle public opinion.

Carrying the War to the Enemy

American Operational Art to 1945
By Michael R. Matheny
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4324-8 320 Pages
Military commanders turn tactics into strategic victory by means of
operational art, the knowledge and creative imagination commanders and
staff employ in designing, synchronizing, and conducting battles and major
operations to achieve strategic goals. Michael R. Matheny believes previous
studies have not appreciated the evolution of U.S. military thinking at the
operational level. In his revealing account, Matheny shows that it was at the
operational level, particularly in mounting joint and combined operations,
that senior American commanders excelledand laid a foundation for their
countrys victory in World War II.

The Capture of Louisbourg, 1758

By Hugh Boscawen
$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4413-9 408 Pages
Hugh Boscawen, an experienced soldier and sailor, and a direct descendant
of Admiral the Hon. Edward Boscawen, who commanded the Royal Navy
fleet at Louisbourg, examines the pivotal 1758 Louisbourg campaign from
both the British and French perspectives. Drawing on myriad primary sources,
including previously unpublished correspondence, Boscawen also answers
the question What did the soldiers and sailors who fought there do all day?
The result is the most comprehensive history of this strategically important
campaign ever written.

A Perfect Gibraltar
The Battle for Monterrey, Mexico, 1846
By Christopher D. Dishman
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4140-4 344 Pages
For three days in the fall of 1846, U.S. and Mexican soldiers fought fiercely in
the picturesque city of Monterrey, turning the northern Mexican town, known
for its towering mountains and luxurious gardens, into one of the nineteenth
centurys most gruesome battlefields. Led by Brigadier General Zachary
Taylor, graduates of the new U.S. Military Academy encountered a city almost
perfectly protected by mountains, a river, and a vast plain. Monterreys
ideal defensive position inspired more than one U.S. soldier to call the city
a perfect Gibraltar. Dishman has canvassed a wide range of Mexican and
American sources and walked Monterreys streets and battlefields.

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On Wellington
A Critique of Waterloo
By Carl von Clausewitz
Translated, edited, and annotated by Peter Hofschrer
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4108-4 272 Pages
Carl von Clausewitz, the Western worlds most renowned military theorist,
participated in the Waterloo campaign as a senior staff officer in the Prussian
army. His appraisal, offered here in an up-to-date and readable translation,
criticized the Duke of Wellingtons actions. Lord Liverpool sent his translation
of the manuscript to Wellington, who pronounced it a lying work. The
translated commentary was quickly buried in Wellingtons private papers,
where it languished for a century and a half. Now published for the first
time in English, Hofschrer brings Clausewitzs critique back into view with
thorough annotation and contextual explanation.

All for the Kings Shilling

The British Soldier under Wellington, 18081814
By Edward J. Coss
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4105-3 392 Pages
The British troops have long been branded by the Duke of Wellingtons own
wordsscum of the earthand assumed to have been societys neer-dowells or criminals who enlisted to escape justice. Now Edward J. Coss shows
to the contrary that most of these redcoats were respectable laborers and
tradesmen and that it was mainly their working-class status that prompted
the dukes derision. Driven into the army by unemployment in the wake of
Britains industrial revolution, they confronted wartime hardship with ethical
values and became formidable soldiers in the bargain.

Civil War Arkansas, 1863

The Battle for a State
By Mark K. Christ
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4433-7 336 Pages
The Arkansas River Valley is one of the most fertile regions in the South.
During the Civil War, the river also served as a vital artery for moving troops
and supplies. In 1863 the battle to wrest control of the valley was, in effect,
a battle for the state itself. In spite of its importance, however, this campaign
is often overshadowed by the siege of Vicksburg. Now Mark K. Christ offers
the first detailed military assessment of parallel events in Arkansas, describing
their consequences for both Union and Confederate powers.

The Royal American Regiment

An Atlantic Microcosm, 17551772
By Alexander V. Campbell
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4102-2 368 Pages
In the wake of Braddocks defeat at Fort Duquesne in 1755, the British army
raised the 60th, or Royal American, Regiment of Foot to fight the French
and Indian War. Each of the regiments four battalions saw action in pivotal
battles throughout the conflict. And as Alexander Campbell shows, the
inclusion of foreign mercenaries and immigrant colonists alongside British
volunteers made the RAR a microcosm of the Atlantic world. Not just a
potent, combat-ready force, it played a key role in trade, migration, Indian
diplomacy, and settlement.

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The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon

By Jeremy Black
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4458-0 304 Pages
The War of 1812 is etched into American memory with the burning of
the Capitol and the White House by British forces and the decisive naval
battle of New Orleans. Now a respected British military historian offers an
international perspective on the conflict to better gauge its significance.
In The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon, Jeremy Black provides a dramatic
account of the war framed within a wider political and economic context
than most American historians have previously considered.

A Dragons Head and a Serpents Tail

Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 15921598
By Kenneth M. Swope
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4056-8 432 Pages
The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary
military expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and
the most tragic for the Korean peninsula until the mid-twentieth century.
Japanese overlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi envisioned conquering Korea, Ming
China, and eventually all of Asia; but Koreas appeal to Chinas Emperor
Wanli for assistance triggered a six-year war involving hundreds of thousands
of soldiers and encompassing the whole region. Kenneth M. Swope has
undertaken the first full-length scholarly study in English of this important
conflict.

With Zeal and with Bayonets Only

The British Army on Campaign in North America, 17751783
By Matthew H. Spring
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4152-7 352 Pages
The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats
picked off by American sharpshooters. Now Matthew H. Spring reveals how
British infantry in the American Revolutionary War was really fought. This
groundbreaking book offers a new analysis of the British Army during the
American rebellion at both operational and tactical levels.

Once Upon a Time in War

The 99th Division in World War II
By Robert E. Humphrey
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4454-2 376 Pages
For the soldier on the front lines of World War II, a lifetime of terror and
suffering could be crammed into a few horrific hours of combat. This was
especially true for members of the 99th Infantry Division who repelled
the Germans in the Battle of the Bulge and engaged in some of the most
dramatic, hard-fought actions of the war. Once Upon a Time in War presents
a stirring view of combat from the perspective of the common soldier.

Borrowed Soldiers
Americans Under British Command, 1918
By Mitchell A. Yockelson
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3919-7 256 Pages
The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps
successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days
Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the wars end. Yet
despite the importance of this effort, the training and operation of II Corps
has received scant attention from historians. Mitchell A. Yockelson delivers
a comprehensive study of the first time American and British soldiers who
fought together as a coalition force more than twenty years before D-Day.

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The Far Reaches of Empire

War in Nova Scotia, 17101760
By John Grenier
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3876-3 288 Pages
The Far Reaches of Empire chronicles the half century of Anglo-American
efforts to establish dominion in Nova Scotia, an important French foothold
in the New World. John Grenier examines the conflict of cultures and
peoples in the colonial Northeast through the lens of military history
as he tells how Britons and Yankees waged a tremendously efficient
counterinsurgency that ultimately crushed every remnant of Acadian,
Indian, and French resistance in Nova Scotia.

Napoleons Enfant Terrible

General Dominique Vandamme
By John G. Gallaher
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3875-6 384 Pages
A dedicated career soldier and excellent division and corps commander,
Dominique Vandamme was a thorn in the side of practically every officer he
served. Outspoken to a fault, he even criticized Napoleon, whom he never
forgave for not appointing him marshal. His military prowess so impressed
the emperor, however, that he returned Vandamme to command time and
again. In this first book-length study of Vandamme in English, John G.
Gallaher traces the career of one of Napoleons most successful midrank
officers.

Three Days in the Shenandoah

Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester
By Gary Ecelbarger
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3886-2 288 Pages
The battles of Front Royal and Winchester are the stuff of Civil War legend.
Stonewall Jackson swept away an isolated Union division under the command
of Nathaniel Banks and made his presence in the northern Shenandoah Valley
so frightful a prospect that it triggered an overreaction from President Lincoln,
yielding huge benefits for the Confederacy. Gary Ecelbarger has undertaken a
comprehensive reassessment of those battles to show their influence on both
war strategy and the continuation of the conflict. Three Days in the Shenandoah
answers questions that have perplexed historians for generations.

George Thomas
Virginian for the Union
By Christopher J. Einolf
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4121-3 432 Pages
Most Southerners in the U.S. Army resigned their commissions to join the
Confederacy in 1861. But at least one son of a distinguished, slaveholding
Virginia family remained loyal to the Union. George H. Thomas fought for the
North and was transformed by his wartime experiences from a slaveholder to
a defender of civil rights. This book offers a fresh appraisal of an important
career and lends new insight into the inner conflicts of the Civil War.

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Volunteers on the Veld

Britains Citizen-Soldiers and the South African War, 18991902
By Stephen M. Miller
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3864-0 248 Pages
When the Second Boer War erupted in South Africa in 1899, Great Britain
was confident that victory would come quickly and decisively. Instead,
the war lasted for three grueling years. To achieve final victory, the British
government was forced to depend not only on its Regular Army but also
on a large volunteer force. This book spotlights Britains citizen army to
show who these volunteers were, why they enlisted, how they were trained
and how they quickly became disillusioned when they found themselves
committed not to the supposed glories of conventional battle but instead to a
prolonged guerrilla war.

Muhammad
Islams First Great General
By Richard A. Gabriel
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3860-2 288 Pages
In Muhammad: Islams First Great General, Richard A. Gabriel shows us a warrior
never before seen in antiquity as a leader of an all-new religious movement
who in a single decade fought eight major battles, led eighteen raids, and
planned thirty-eight other military operations. Gabriels study portrays
Muhammad as a revolutionary who introduced military innovations that
transformed armies and warfare throughout the Arab world.

The Black Hawk War of 1832

By Patrick J. Jung
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3994-4 288 Pages
In 1832, facing white expansion, the Sauk warrior Black Hawk attempted to
forge a pan-Indian alliance to preserve the homelands of the confederated
Sauk and Fox tribes on the eastern bank of the Mississippi. Patrick J. Jung
here re-examines the causes, course, and consequences of the ensuing
war with the United States, a conflict that decimated Black Hawks band.
Correcting mistakes that plagued previous histories, and drawing on recent
ethnohistorical interpretations, Jung shows that the outcome can be
understood only by discussing the complexity of intertribal rivalry, military
ineptitude, and racial dynamics.

William Harding Carter and the American Army

A Soldiers Story
By Ronald G. Machoian
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3746-9 320 Pages
In this first full-length biography of William Harding Carter, Ronald G.
Machoian explores Carters pivotal role in bringing the American military
into a new era and transforming a legion of citizen-soldiers into the modern
professional force we know today.

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Bayonets in the Wilderness

Anthony Waynes Legion in the Old Northwest
By Alan D. Gaff
$32.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3930-2 416 Pages
In Bayonets in the Wilderness, Alan D. Gaff explores a long-neglected period in
American history to tell the complete story of how the U.S. Army conquered
the first American frontier, the Northwest Territory. Waynes successful
campaign led to the creation of a standing army for the country and set the
standard for future conflicts and treaties with American Indians. Countering
the popular impression of Wayne as mad, Gaff depicts him as a thoughtful,
resolute, and diplomatic officer whose masterfully organized campaign
brought an end in 1794 to forty years of border fighting.

Never Come to Peace Again

Pontiacs Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America
By David Dixon
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4462-7 376 Pages
Prior to the American Revolution, the Ohio River Valley was a cauldron of
competing interests: Indian, colonial, and imperial. The conflict known as
Pontiacs Uprising, which lasted from 1763 until 1766, erupted out of this
volatile atmosphere. Never Come to Peace Again, the first complete account of
Pontiacs Uprising to appear in nearly fifty years, is a richly detailed account
of the causes, conduct, and consequences of events that proved pivotal in
American colonial history.

Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 18541856

By R. Eli Paul
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4275-3 256 Pages
In previous accounts, the U.S. Armys first clashes with the powerful Sioux
tribe appear as a set of irrational events with a cast of improbable characters:
a Mormon cow, a brash lieutenant, a drunken interpreter, an unfortunate
Brul chief, and an incorrigible army commander. R. Eli Paul shows instead
that the events that precipitated General William Harneys attack on Chief
Little Thunders Brul village foreshadowed the entire history of conflict
between the United States and the Lakota people.

The Uncivil War

Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 18611865
By Robert R. Mackey
$21.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3736-0 304 Pages
The Upper South Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia was the scene
of the most destructive war ever fought on American soil. Contending armies
swept across the region from the outset of the Civil War until its end, marking
their passage at Pea Ridge, Shiloh, Perryville, and Manassas. Alongside this
much-studied conflict, the Confederacy also waged an irregular war, based on
nineteenth-century principles of unconventional warfare. In The Uncivil War,
Robert R. Mackey outlines the Southern strategy of waging war across an
entire region, measures the Northern response, and explains the outcome.

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Blood in the Argonne

The Lost Battalion of World War I
By Alan D Gaff
$26.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3696-7 384 Pages
On October 2, 1918, Maj. Charles W. Whittlesey led the 77th Division in a
successful attack on German defenses in the Argonne Forest of northeastern
France. His unit, comprised of men of a wide mix of ethnic backgrounds from
New York City and the western states, was not a battalion nor was it ever
lost, but once a newspaper editor applied the term lost battalion to the
episode, it stuck. In this unique history of the Lost Battalion of World
War I, Alan D. Gaff tells for the first time the story of the 77th Division from
the perspective of the soldiers in the ranks.

Washita
The U.S. Army and the Southern Cheyennes, 18671869
By Jerome A. Greene
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061- 3885-5 304 Pages
On November 27, 1868, the U.S. Seventh Cavalry under Lt. Col. George
Armstrong Custer attacked a Southern Cheyenne village along the Washita
River in present-day western Oklahoma. The subsequent U.S. victory
signaled the end of the Cheyennes traditional way of life and resulted in the
death of Black Kettle, their most prominent peace chief. In this remarkably
balanced history, Jerome A. Greene describes the causes, conduct, and
consequences of the event even as he addresses the multiple controversies
surrounding the conflict.

Morning Star Dawn

The Powder River Expedition and the Northern Cheyennes, 1876
By Jerome A. Greene
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3548-9 304 Pages
From a recognized authority on the High Plains Indians wars comes this
narrative history blending both American Indian and U.S. Army perspectives
on the attack that destroyed the village of Northern Cheyenne chief Morning
Star. Of momentous significance for the Cheyennes as well as the army, this
November 1876 encounter, coming exactly six months to the day after the
Custer debacle at the Little Bighorn, was part of the Powder River Expedition
waged by Brigadier General George Crook against the Indians. Vital to the
larger context of the Great Sioux War, the attack on Morning Stars village
encouraged the eventual surrender of Crazy Horse and his Sioux followers.

Napoleon and Berlin

The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813
By Michael V. Leggiere
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3399-7 400 Pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4656-7 400 pages
At a time when Napoleon needed all his forces to reassert French dominance
in Central Europe, why did he fixate on the Prussian capital of Berlin? Instead
of concentrating his forces for a decisive showdown with the enemy, he
repeatedly detached large numbers of troops, under ineffective commanders,
toward the capture of Berlin. In Napoleon and Berlin, Michael V. Leggiere
explores Napoleons almost obsessive desire to capture Berlin and how this
strategy ultimately lost him all of Germany.

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William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest
By William Heath
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5119-9 520 Pages
Born to Anglo-American parents on the Appalachian frontier, captured
by the Miami Indians at the age of thirteen, and adopted into the tribe,
William Wells (17701812) moved between two cultures all his life but was
comfortable in neither. Vilified by some historians for his divided loyalties, he
remains relatively unknown even though he is worthy of comparison with such
famous frontiersmen as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett.
Women in the Peninsular War
By Charles J. Esdaile
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4478-8 336 Pages
In Women in the Peninsular War, Esdaile looks beyond the iconography. While
a handful of Spanish and Portuguese women became Agustina-like heroines,
a multitude became victims, and here both of these groups receive their due.
But Esdaile reveals a much more complicated picture in which women are
discovered to have experienced, responded to, and participated in the conflict
in various ways.

The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France
By William R. Nester
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4435-1 400 Pages
In The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France, the only
comprehensive account from the French perspective, William R. Nester
explains how and why the French were defeated. He explores the fascinating
personalities and epic events that shaped French diplomacy, strategy, and
tactics and determined North Americas destiny.

Burgoyne and the Saratoga Campaign

His Papers
By Douglas R. Cubbison
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4461-0 400 Pages
In Burgoyne and the Saratoga Campaign, Douglas R. Cubbison presents the papers
that Burgoyne gathered preparatory to his appearance before Parliament,
together with Cubbisons own interpretive narrative of the campaign, based
on these documents and other sources. The papers, most of them published
here for the first time, comprise Burgoynes correspondence with the governor
general of Canada, the British secretary of state for America, and the
commander of the British army during the Saratoga expedition.

George Rogers Clark

I Glory in War
By William R. Nester
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4294-4 384 Pages
George Rogers Clark led four victorious campaigns against the Indians and
British during the American Revolution. Although historians have ranked
him among the greatest rebel commanders, Clarks name is all but forgotten
today. William R. Nester resurrects the story of Clarks triumphs and his
downfall in this, the first full biography of the man in more than fifty years.

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Mr. Jeffersons Hammer

William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy
By Robert M. Owens
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4198-5 344 Pages
Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office,
William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before
becoming the ninth president of the United States in 1841, Harrison was
instrumental in shaping the early years of westward expansion. Robert M.
Owens now explores that era through the lens of Harrisons career, providing
a new synthesis of his role in the political development of Indiana Territory
and in shaping Indian policy in the Old Northwest.

Architects of Empire
The Duke of Wellington and His Brothers
By John Severn
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3810-7 512 Pages
A soldier and statesman for the ages, the Duke of Wellington is a towering
figure in world history. John Severn now offers a fresh look at the man born
Arthur Wellesley to show that his career was very much a family affair, a
lifelong series of interactions with his brothers and their common Anglo-Irish
heritage. The untold story of a great family drama, Architects of Empire paints
a new picture of the era through the collective biography of Wellesley and his
siblings.

So Far From God

The U.S. War with Mexico, 18461848
By John S. D. Eisenhower
$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3279-2 464 Pages
The Mexican-American War of the 1840s, precipitated by border disputes
and the U.S. annexation of Texas, ended with the military occupation of
Mexico City by General Winfield Scott. In the subsequent treaty, the United
States gained territory that would become California, Nevada, New Mexico,
Arizona, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. In this highly readable
account, John S.D. Eisenhower provides a comprehensive survey of this
frequently overlooked war.

Agent of Destiny
The Life and Times of General Winfield Scott
By John S. D. Eisenhower
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3128-3 496 Pages
The hero of the War of 1812, the conqueror of Mexico City in the MexicanAmerican War, and Abraham Lincolns top soldier during the first six months
of the Civil War, General Winfield Scott was a seminal force in the early
expansion and consolidation of the American republic. John S. D. Eisenhower
explores how Scott, who served under fourteen presidents, played a leading
role in the development of the United States Army from a tiny, loosely
organized, politics-dominated establishment to a disciplined professional
force capable of effective and sustained campaigning.

A Hessian Diary of the American Revolution

By Johann Conrad Dhla
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2530-5 300 Pages
This unique diary, written by one of the thirty thousand Hessian troops whose
services were sold to George III to suppress the American Revolution, is the
most complete and informative primary account of the Revolution from the
common soldiers point of view. Johann Conrad Dhla describes not just
military activities but also events leading up to the Revolution, American
customs, the cities and regions that he visited, and incidents in other parts of
the world that affected the war.

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Civil War
A Corporals Story
Civil War Recollections of the Twelfth Massachusetts
By George Kimball
Edited by Alan D. Gaff and Donald H. Gaff
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4480-1 368 Pages
When George Kimball (18401916) joined the Twelfth Massachusetts in
1861, hed been in the newspaper trade for five years. When he mustered
out three years later, having been wounded at Fredericksburg and again at
Gettysburg (mortally, it was mistakenly assumed at the time), he returned
to newspaper life. Collected in A Corporals Story, Kimballs writings form a
unique narrative of one mans experience in the Civil War, viewed through a
perspective enhanced by time and reflection.

The River Was Dyed with Blood

Nathan Bedford Forrest and Fort Pillow
By Brian Steel Wills
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4453-5 288 Pages
In The River Was Dyed with Blood, best-selling Forrest biographer Brian Steel
Wills argues that although atrocities did occur after the fall of the fort, Forrest
did not order or intend a systematic execution of its defenders. Rather, the
generals great failing was losing control of his troops. The battle-scarred
fighter with his homespun aphorisms was neither an infallible warrior nor a
heartless butcher, but a product of his time and his heritage.

Torn by War
The Civil War Journal of Mary Adelia Byers
Edited by Samuel R. Phillips
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4395-8 248 Pages
The Civil War divided the nation, communities, and families. The town of
Batesville, Arkansas, found itself occupied three times by the Union army. This
compelling book gives a unique perspective on the wars western edge through
the diary of Mary Adelia Byers (18471918), who began recording her
thoughts and observations during the Union occupation of Batesville in 1862.

Lincolns Cavalrymen
A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of the Potomac, 18611865
By Edward G. Longacre
$21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4229-4 488 Pages
Lincolns Cavalrymen describes the organizational, administrative, and
operational history of the mounted arm of Mr. Lincolns Army. Historian
Edward G. Longacre consulted at least fifty manuscript collections pertaining
to general officers of cavalry, as well as the unpublished letters and diaries of
more than 450 officers and enlisted men, representing almost every mounted
unit in the Army of the Potomac. The result is the most comprehensive history
of the Union cavalry to date.

Lees Cavalrymen
A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of Northern Virginia, 18611865
By Edward G. Longacre
$21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4230-8 484 Pages
Since the first histories of the Civil War appeared after Appomattox, the
cavalry has received intermittent, uneven, and even romanticized coverage.
Historian Edward G. Longacre has corrected this oversight. Lees Cavalrymen,
not only details the organizational and operational history of the mounted
arm of the Army of Northern Virginia but also examines the personal
experiences of officers and men. A provocative analysis of the mounted armys
organization, leadership, and tactics, Lees Cavalrymen is a study that no Civil
War enthusiast will want to miss.

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The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War

By Clarissa W. Confer
$16.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4267-8 216 Pages
This book offers a broad overview of the Civil War as it affected the
Cherokeesa social history of a people plunged into crisis. The Cherokee Nation
in the Civil War shows how the Cherokee people, who had only just begun to
recover from the ordeal of removal, faced an equally devastating upheaval in
the Civil War. Clarissa W. Confer illustrates how the Cherokee Nation, with
its sovereign status and distinct culture, had a wartime experience unlike that
of any other group of people and suffered perhaps the greatest losses of land,
population, and sovereignty.

George Crook
From the Redwoods to Appomattox
By Paul Magid
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4441-4 416 Pages
Renowned for his prominent role in the Apache and Sioux wars, General
George Crook (182890) was considered by William Tecumseh Sherman to
be his greatest Indian-fighting general. Although Crook was feared by Indian
opponents on the battlefield, in defeat the tribes found him a true friend and
advocate who earned their trust and friendship when he spoke out in their
defense against political corruption and greed. George Crook offers insight into
the influences that later would make this general both a nemesis of the Indian
tribes and their ardent advocate.

Marching with the First Nebraska

A Civil War Diary
By August Scherneckau
Edited by James E. Potter and Edith Robbins
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3808-4 368 Pages
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4120-6 368 Pages
German immigrant August Scherneckau served with the First Nebraska
Volunteers from 1862 through 1865. Depicting the units service in Missouri,
Arkansas, and Nebraska Territory, he offers detail, insight, and literary quality
matched by few other accounts of the Civil War in the West. His observations
provide new perspective on campaigns, military strategy, leadership, politics,
ethnicity, emancipation, and many other topics.

The Civil War in Arizona

The Story of the California Volunteers, 18611865
By Andrew E. Masich
$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3900-5 384 Pages
Bull Run, Gettysburg, Appomattox. For Americans, these battlegrounds, all
located in the eastern United States, will forever be associated with the Civil
War. But few realize that the Civil War was also fought far to the west of these
sites. The westernmost battle of the war took place in the remote deserts of
the future state of Arizona. In this first book-length account of the Civil War
in Arizona, Andrew E. Masich offers both a lively narrative history of the allbut-forgotten California Column in wartime Arizona and a rare compilation
of letters written by the volunteer soldiers who served in the U.S. Army from
1861 to 1866.

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The Irish General

Thomas Francis Meagher
By Paul R. Wylie
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4185-5 416 Pages
Irish patriot, Civil War general, frontier governorThomas Francis Meagher
played key roles in three major historical arenas. Today he is hailed as a hero
by some, condemned as a drunkard by others. Paul R. Wylie now offers a
definitive biography of this nineteenth-century figure who has long remained
an enigma.

Return to Bull Run

The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas
By John J. Hennessy
$26.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3187-0 624 Pages
This comprehensively researched, well-written book represents the
definitive account of Robert E. Lees triumph over Union leader John Pope
in the summer of 1862. . . . Lees strategic skills, and the capabilities of his
principal subordinates James Longstreet and Stonewall Jackson, brought the
Confederates onto the field of Second Manassas at the right places and times
against a Union army that knew how to fight, but not yet how to win.
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William Clarke Quantrill

His Life and Times
By Albert Castel
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3081-1 272 Pages
In William Clarke Quantrill, Albert Castels classic biography, the story of
Quantrill and his men comes alive through facts verified from firsthand,
original sources. Castel traces Quantrills rise to power, from Kansas border
ruffian and Confederate Army captain to lawless leader of the most
formidable band of revolver fighters the West ever knew. During the Civil
War Quantrill and his men descended on Lawrence, Kansas, and carried out a
frightful massacre of the civilian population.

General Stand Waties Confederate Indians

By Frank Cunningham
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3035-4 272 Pages
This is the story of Stand Watie, the only Indian to attain the rank of general
in the Confederate Army. An aristocratic, prosperous slaveholding planter and
leader of the Cherokee mixed bloods, Watie was recruited in Indian Territory
by Albert Pike to fight the Union forces on the western front. He organized
the First Cherokee Rifles on July 29, 1861, and was commissioned a colonel.
In 1864, after battling at Wilsons Creek and Pea Ridge, he became brigadier
general. Watie was the last Confederate general to lay down his arms in
surrender, two months after Appomattox.

The Fighting Men of the Civil War

By William C. Davis
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3060-6 256 Pages
Even though the Civil War is among the best-documented wars in world
history, the story of the individual soldier is not well documented. What is the
story of the men in blue and gray? In The Fighting Men of the Civil War, William
C. Davis shows us that for these soldiers the Civil War was far removed from
politics, from the great question of slavery, even from the movement of
armies. Shifting his focus from the officer to the men in the ranks, he begins
with enlistment and training, follows with life in the camp and on the march,
and concludes with experiences of combat, imprisonment, and sickness.
Following the men through a wealth of anecdotes and firsthand accounts,
Davis brings us the reality of war.

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Three Years with Quantrill

A True Story
By John McCorkle
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3056-9 240 Pages
This famous memoir by John McCorkle, is the best published account by a
scout who rode with Quantrill. John McCorkle was a young Missouri farmer
of Southern sympathies. After serving briefly in the pro-Confederate Missouri
State Guard, he became a prominent member of William Clarke Quantrills
infamous guerrillas, who took advantage of the turmoil in the MissouriKansas borderland to prey on pro-Union people.

Western Frontier
The Great Call-Up
The Guard, the Border, and the Mexican Revolution
By Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4645-4 576 Pages
On June 18, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson called up virtually the entire
army National Guard, some 150,000 men, to meet an armed threat to the
United States: border raids covertly sponsored by a Mexican government in
the throes of revolution. The Great Call-Up tells for the first time the complete
story of this unprecedented deployment.

The Gray Fox

George Crook and the Indian Wars
By Paul Magid
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4706-2 480 Pages
As Paul Magid portrays Crook in this highly readable second volume of
a projected three-volume biography, the general was an innovative and
eccentric soldier, with a complex and often contradictory personality,
whose activities often generated intense controversy. Though known for his
uncompromising ferocity in battle, he nevertheless respected his enemy and
grew to know them.

American Carnage
Wounded Knee, 1890
By Jerome A. Greene
$34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4448-1 648 Pages
In this gripping tale, Jerome A. Greenerenowned specialist on the Indian
warsexplores why the bloody engagement happened and demonstrates
how it became a brutal massacre. Drawing on a wealth of sources, including
previously unknown testimonies, Greene examines the events from both
Native and non-Native perspectives, explaining the significance of treaties,
white settlement, political disputes, and the Ghost Dance as influential
factors in what eventually took place.

Tom Horn in Life and Legend

By Larry D. Ball
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4425-2 568 Pages
Lawman, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw, and assassin, this darkly
enigmatic figure has fascinated Americans ever since his death by hanging
the day before his forty-third birthday. In this masterful historical biography,
Larry Ball, a distinguished historian of western lawmen and outlaws, presents
the definitive account of Horns career.

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Battles and Massacres on the Southwestern Frontier

Historical and Archaeological Perspectives
By Ronald K. Wetherington and Frances Levine
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4440-5 260 Pages
This unique study centers on four critical engagements between Anglo-Americans
and American Indians on the southwestern frontier: the Battle of Cieneguilla
(1854), the Battle of Adobe Walls (1864), the Sand Creek Massacre (1864), and
the Mountain Meadows Massacre (1857). Editors Ronald K. Wetherington and
Frances Levine juxtapose historical and archaeological perspectives on each event
to untangle the ambiguity and controversy that surround both historical and
more contemporary accounts of each of these violent outbreaks.

Hancocks War
Conflict on the Southern Plains
By William Y. Chalfant
$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4459-7 296 pages
This first thorough scholarly history of the ill-conceived expedition offers
an unequivocal evaluation of military strategies and a culturally sensitive
interpretation of Indian motivations and reactions. Chalfant explores the vastly
different ways of life that separated the Cheyennes and U.S. policymakers, and
argues that neither side was willing or able to understand the needs of the other.
He shows how Hancocks efforts were counterproductive, brought untold misery
to Indians and whites alike, and led to the wars of 1868.

Columns of Vengeance
Soldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 18631864
By Paul N. Beck
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4596-9 328 Pages
In summer 1862, Minnesotans found themselves fighting interconnected wars
the first against the rebellious Southern states, and the second an internal war
against the Sioux. While the Civil War was more important to the future of the
United States, the Dakota War of 1862 proved far more destructive to the people
of Minnesotaboth whites and American Indians. It led to U.S. military action
against the Sioux, divided the Dakotas over whether to fight or not, and left
hundreds of white settlers dead. In Columns of Vengeance, historian Paul N. Beck
offers a reappraisal of the Punitive Expeditions of 1863 and 1864, the U.S. Armys
response to the Dakota War of 1862.

Dragoons in Apacheland
Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 18461861
By William S. Kiser
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4314-9 376 Pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4650-8 376 pages
In the fifteen years prior to the American Civil War, the U.S. Army established a
presence in the Apache Indian homeland of southern New Mexico. The Apaches
presented an obstacle to be overcome in making the region safe for Anglo
settlers. In Dragoons in Apacheland, Kiser recounts the conflicts that ensued and
examines how both Apache warriors and American troops shaped the future of
the Southwest Borderlands.

Our Centennial Indian War and the Life of General Custer

By Frances Fuller Victor
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4173-2 208 Pages
Published even before the Great Sioux War had ended, Our Centennial Indian
War and the Life of General Custer was the first contemporary and comprehensive
account of the successive army operations in 1876 and early 1877. It was a
major accomplishment. Victor drew information from a wide range of sources
to explain the lengthy, disjointed struggle between the army and the LakotaCheyenne coalition.

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Child of the Fighting Tenth

On the Frontier with the Buffalo Soldiers
By Forrestine C. Hooker
Edited by Steve Wilson
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4080- 3 296 Pages
The compelling yet humorous stories told in Child of the Fighting Tenth capture
the drama of the settlement of the American West, the Indian wars on the
plains, and the Geronimo campaign in the Southwest and Mexico as seen
through the eyes of a young girl. In this memoir, Birdie Cooper draws us into
her world, offering a vibrant portrait of behind-the-scenes life on the western
frontier. Steve Wilson edited the manuscript into publishable form.

Great Sioux War Orders of Battle

How the United States Army Waged War on the Northern Plains, 18761877
By Paul L. Hedren
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4322-4 240 Pages
The Great Sioux War pitted almost one-third of the U.S. Army against Lakota
Sioux and Northern Cheyennes. By the time it ended, this war had played out
on twenty-seven different battlefields, resulted in hundreds of casualties, cost
millions of dollars, and transformed the landscape and the lives of survivors
on both sides. In this compelling sourcebook, Paul Hedren uses extensive
documentation to demonstrate that the American army adapted quickly to
the challenges of fighting this unconventional war and was more effectively
led and better equipped than is customarily believed.

Texas Devils
Rangers and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 18461861
By Michael L. Collins
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4132-9 328 Pages
The Texas Rangers have been the source of tall tales and the stuff of legend
as well as a growing darker reputation. But the story of the Rangers along the
Mexican border between Texas statehood and the onset of the Civil War has
been largely overlookeduntil now. This engaging history pulls readers back
to a chaotic time along the lower Rio Grande in the mid-nineteenth century.
Texas Devils challenges the time-honored image of good guys in white hats
to reveal the more complicated and sobering reality behind the Ranger Myth.

Soldiers West
Biographies from the Military Frontier, Second Edition
Edited by Paul Andrew Hutton and Durwood Ball
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4465-8 420 Pages
Soldiers West views the turbulent history of the West from the perspective of
fifteen senior army officersincluding Philip H. Sheridan, George Armstrong
Custer, and Nelson A. Mileswho were assigned to bring order to the
region. This revised edition of Paul Andrew Huttons popular work adds five
new biographies, and essays from the first edition have been updated to
incorporate recent scholarship.

Class and Race in the Frontier Army

Military Life in the West, 18701890
By Kevin Adams
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3981-4 296 Pages
Class and Race in the Frontier Army marks the first application of recent research
on class, race, and ethnicity to the social and cultural history of military life
on the western frontier. Adams draws on a wealth of military records and
soldiers diaries and letters to reconstruct everyday army lifefrom work and
leisure to consumption, intellectual pursuits, and political activityand shows
that an inflexible class barrier stood between officers and enlisted men.

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Gall
Lakota War Chief
By Robert W. Larson
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4036-0 320 Pages
Robert W. Larson sorts through contrasting views of Gall to determine the
real character of this legendary Sioux. This first-ever scholarly biography also
focuses on the actions Gall took during his final years on the reservation,
unraveling his last fourteen years to better understand his previous forty.

Washita Memories
Eyewitness Views of Custers Attack on Black Kettles Village
By Richard G. Hardorff
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3759-9 464 Pages
$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3990-6 464 Pages
The Battle of the Washita is one of the most tragicand disturbingevents
in American history. On November 27, 1868, the U.S. Cavalry under Lt. Col.
George Armstrong Custer attacked a peaceful Southern Cheyenne village along
the Washita River in present-day western Oklahoma. This U.S. victory signaled
the end of the Cheyennes traditional way of life and resulted in the death of
Black Kettle, their most prominent peace chief. In this documentary history,
Richard G. Hardorff presents a broad range of views of the Washita battle.

Inkpaduta
Dakota Leader
By Paul N. Beck
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3950-0 176 Pages
Leader of the Santee Sioux, Inkpaduta participated in some of the most
decisive battles of the northern Great Plains, including Custers defeat at the
Little Bighorn. But the attack in 1857 on forty white settlers known as the
Spirit Lake Massacre gave Inkpaduta the reputation of being the most brutal
of all the Sioux leaders. Paul N. Beck now challenges a century and a half of
bias to reassess the life and legacy of this important Dakota leader.

Crazy Horse
A Lakota Life
By Kingsley M. Bray
$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3986-9 528 Pages
Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life corrects older, idealized accountsand draws on a
greater variety of sources than other recent biographiesto expose the real
Crazy Horse: not the brash Sioux warrior we have come to expect, but a
modest, reflective man whose courage was anchored in Lakota piety.

Making Peace with Cochise

The 1872 Journal of Captain Joseph Alton Sladen
Edited by Edwin R. Sweeney
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3978-4 208 Pages
In the autumn of 1872, Brigadier General Oliver O. Howard and his aid-decamp, Lieutenant Joseph Alton Sladen, entered Arizonas rocky Dragoon
Mountains in search of the elusive Chiricahua Apache chief, Cochise. They
sought to convince him that the bloody fighting between his people and the
Americans must stop. Cochise had already reached that conclusion, but he
had found no American official he could trust. Sladen, Howards devoted
aide, maintained a journal during their two-month quest from Fort Tularosa,
New Mexico, to Cochises stronghold. Joseph Sladens journalenriched
by Edwin R. Sweeneys introduction, epilogue, and lively notesis a unique
source on Chiricahua lifeways and an engrossing tale of travel and adventure.

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Victorio
Apache Warrior and Chief
By Kathleen P. Chamberlain
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3843-5 272 Pages
A steadfast champion of his people during the wars with encroaching
Anglo-Americans, the Apache chief Victorio deserves as much attention as
his better-known contemporaries Cochise and Geronimo. In presenting the
story of this nineteenth-century Warm Springs Apache warrior, Kathleen P.
Chamberlain expands our understanding of Victorios role in the Apache wars
and brings him into the center of events.

The Buffalo Soldiers

A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West
Revised Edition
By William H. Leckie and Shirley A. Leckie
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3840-4 336 Pages
Originally published in 1967, William H. Leckies The Buffalo Soldiers was the
first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African American units
in the conquest of the West. Decades later, with sales of more than 75,000
copies, The Buffalo Soldiers has become a classic. Now, in a newly revised
edition, the authors have expanded the original research to explore more
deeply the lives of buffalo soldiers in the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments.

Finding Sand Creek

History, Archaeology, and the 1864 Massacre Site
By Jerome A. Greene and Douglas D. Scott
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3801-5 240 Pages
In Finding Sand Creek, Jerome A. Greene and Douglas D. Scott tell the story of
how a dedicated group of people used a variety of methods to pinpoint the
site of the Sand Creek Massacre. Drawing on oral histories, written records,
and archeological fieldwork, Greene and Scott present a wealth of evidence to
verify their conclusions.

Yellowstone Command
Colonel Nelson A. Miles and the Great Sioux War, 18761877
By Jerome A. Greene
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3755-1 352 Pages
Yellowstone Command is the first detailed account of the harrowing 18761877
campaigns. Drawing from Indian testimonies and many previously untapped
sources, Jerome A. Greene reconstructs the ambitious battles of Colonel Miles
and his foot soldiers. This paper edition of Yellowstone Command features a new
preface by the author.

Fort Bowie, Arizona

Combat Post of the Southwest, 18581894
By Douglas C. McChristian
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3781-0 336 Pages
Fort Bowie, in present-day Arizona, was established in 1862 at the site of the
famous Battle of Apache Pass, where U.S. troops clashed with Apache chief
Cochise and his warriors. The forts dual purpose was to guard the invaluable
water supply at Apache Spring and to control Indians in the developing
southwestern region. Douglas C. McChristians Fort Bowie, Arizona, spans
nearly four decades to provide a fascinating account of the many complex
events surrounding the small combat post.

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Fort Robinson and the American Century, 19001948

By Thomas R. Buecker
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3646-2 288 Pages
Most fort histories end when the military lowers the flag for the last time
and the soldiers march out. In contrast, Fort Robinsonoccupied and used
for more than fifty years since its abandonment by the U.S. armyhas taken
on new roles. This book recounts the story of this famous northwestern
Nebraska army post as it underwent remarkable transformation in the
first half of the twentieth century. Fort Robinson and the American Century,
19001948, is based on more than twenty years of archival research as well
as the personal recollections of the men and women who served at the fort.
More than ninety photographs and five maps supplement the narrative.

Mormons at the Missouri

Winter Quarters, 18461852
By Richard E Bennett
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3615-8 360 Pages
The Mormon trek westward from Illinois to the Salt Lake Valley was an
enduring accomplishment of American overland trail migration; however,
their wintering at the Missouri River near present-day Omaha was a feat
of faith and perseverance. Richard E. Bennett presents new facts and
ideas that challenge old assumptionsparticularly that life on the frontier
encouraged American individualism.

Fort Robinson and the American West, 18741899

By Thomas R. Buecker
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3534-2 320 Pages
In Fort Robinson and the American West, 18741899, Thomas R. Buecker
explores both the larger story of the Nebraska fort and the particulars of
daily life and work at the fort. Buecker draws on historic reminiscences,
government records, reports, correspondence, and other official accounts
to render a thorough yet lively depiction.

Cheyennes and Horse Soldiers

The 1857 Expedition and the Battle of Solomons Fork
By William Y. Chalfant
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3500-7 440 Pages
In July 1857, the first major battle between the U.S. Army and the Cheyenne
Indians took place in present-day northwest Kansas. The Cheyennes had
formed a grand line of battle such as was never again seen in Plains Indians
wars. But they had not seen sabres before, and when the cavalry charged,
sabres drawn, they panicked. William Y. Chalfant re-creates the human
dimensions of a battle that was as much a clash of cultures as it was a
clash of the U.S. cavalry and Cheyenne warriors.

Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees

A Narrative of Indian Captivity
By Sarah F. Wakefield
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3431-4 192 Pages
The Dakota War (1862) was a searing event in Minnesota history as well
as a seminal l event in the lives of Dakota people. Sarah F. Wakefield was
caught up in this revolt. A young doctors wife and the mother of two
small children, Wakefield published her unusual account of the war and
her captivity shortly after the hanging of thirty-eight Dakotas accused
of participation in the Sioux uprising. In a distinctive and compelling
voice, Wakefield blames the government for the war and then relates her
and her familys ordeal, as well as Chaskas and his familys help and
ultimate sacrifice.

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The Black Regulars, 18661898

By William A. Dobak and Thomas D. Phillips
$26.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3340-9 384 Pages
Black soldiers first entered the regular army of the United States in the
summer of 1866. While their segregated regiments served in the American
West for the next three decades, the promise of the Reconstruction era
gave way to the repressiveness of Jim Crow. But black men found a degree
of equality in the service: the army treated them no worse than it did their
white counterparts. In The Black Regulars, 18661898, the authors shed new
light on the military justice system, relations between black troops and
their mostly white civilian neighbors, their professional reputations, and
what veterans faced when they left the army for civilian life.

General Crook and the Western Frontier

By Charles M. Robinson, III
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3358-4 420 Pages
General George Crook was one of the most prominent soldiers in the
frontier West. General William T. Sherman called him the greatest Indian
fighter and manager the army ever had. General Crook and the Western
Frontier, the first full-scale biography of Crook, uses contemporary
manuscripts and primary sources to illuminate the generals personal life
and military career.

The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West

By Michael L. Tate
$26.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3173-3 454 Pages
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3386-7 454 Pages
Books, art, and movies most often portray the frontier army in continuous
conflict with Native Americans. In truth, the army spent only a small
part of its frontier duty fighting Indians. The Frontier Army in the Settlement
of the West examines the armys nonmartial contributions to western
development. Dispelling timeworn stereotypes, Tate shows that the army
conducted explorations, compiled scientific and artistic records, built
roads, aided overland travelers, and improved river transportation.

Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 18481861

By Durwood Ball
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3312-6 324 Pages
Deployed to posts from the Missouri River to the Pacific in 1848, the
United States Army undertook an old mission on frontiers new to the
United States: occupying the western territories; suppressing American
Indian resistance; keeping the peace among feuding Indians, Hispanics,
and Anglos; and consolidating United States sovereignty in the region.

The United States Infantry

An Illustrated History, 17751918
By Gregory J.W. Urwin
$16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3217-4 176 Pages
American infantrymen served their country in the fury of battle with
muskets, rifles, bayonets, and bare hands. Gregory J.W. Urwin narrates the
history of these men from their colonial origins through the War of 1812,
the Mexican War, Civil War, the Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War,
and finally to their painful coming of age in 1918, as a world-class combat
force on the fields of France in World War I. He describes their strategic
and tactical challenges and documents how military leaders responded to
changes and implemented new policies. Thirty-two color plates by illustrator
Darby Erd accurately depict uniforms, arms, and accoutrements. Eight maps
of campaigns and more than one hundred black-and-white illustrations
accompany the narrative.

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Phil Sheridan and His Army

By Paul A. Hutton
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3188-7 496 Pages
Paul Huttons study of Phil Sheridan in the West is authoritative, readable, and
an important contribution to the literature of westward expansion. Although
headquartered in Chicago, Sheridan played a crucial role in the opening of
the West. His command stretched from the Missouri to the Rockies and from
Mexico to Canada, and all the Indian Wars of the Great Plains fell under his
direction. Hutton ably narrates and interprets Sheridans western career from
the perspective of the top command rather than the battlefield leader. His book
is good history and good reading.Robert M. Utley

Custer
Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud
Custer, the Press, and the Little Bighorn
By James E. Mueller
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4398-0 272 Pages
In Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud, James E. Mueller draws on exhaustive
research of period newspapers to explore press coverage of the famous battle.
As he analyzes a wide range of accountssome grim, some circumspect, some
even laced with humorMueller offers a unique take on the dramatic events
that so shook the American public.

Uncovering History
Archaeological Investigations at the Little Bighorn
By Douglas D. Scott
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4350-7 264 Pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4662-1 264 pages
Almost as soon as the last shot was fired in the Battle of the Little Bighorn,
the battlefield became an archaeological site. For many years afterward,
as fascination with the famed 1876 fight intensified, visitors to the area
scavenged the many relics left behind. It took decades, however, before
researchers began to tease information from the battles debrisand the
new field of battlefield archaeology began to emerge. In Uncovering History,
renowned archaeologist Douglas D. Scott offers a comprehensive account of
investigations at the Little Bighorn, from the earliest collecting efforts to earlytwentieth-century findings.

Deliverance from the Little Big Horn

Doctor Henry Porter and Custers Seventh Cavalry
By Joan Nabseth Stevenson
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4416-0 232 Pages
Of the three surgeons who accompanied Custers Seventh Cavalry on June 25,
1876, only the youngest, twenty-eight-year-old Henry Porter, survived that
days ordeal, riding through a gauntlet of Indian attackers and up the steep
bluffs to Major Marcus Renos hilltop position. But the story of Dr. Porters
wartime exploits goes far beyond the battle itself. In this compelling narrative
of military endurance and medical ingenuity, Joan Nabseth Stevenson opens a
new window on the Battle of the Little Big Horn by re-creating the desperate
struggle for survival during the fight and in its wake.

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Military Register of Custers Last Command

By Roger L. Williams
$39.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4274-6 432 Pages
Military Register of Custers Last Command presents for the first time the complete
military history of every enlisted man on the regimental rolls, with particular
attention devoted to the well-known campaigns from the Washita to Wounded
Knee. As the first in-depth analysis of the statistics related to the battle, Military
Register of Custers Last Command is the most extensive work available on the 7th
Cavalry. With its exhaustive bibliography, it will stand as a definitive resource for
historians and enthusiasts and a tribute to all enlisted soldiers on the western
frontier.

After Custer
Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country
By Paul L. Hedren
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4216-2 272 Pages
Between 1876 and 1877, the U.S. Army battled Lakota Sioux and Northern
Cheyenne Indians in a series of vicious conflicts known today as the Great Sioux
War. After the defeat of Custer at the Little Big Horn in June 1876, the army
responded to its stunning loss by pouring fresh troops and resources into the
war effort. In the end, the U.S. Army prevailed, but at a significant cost. In this
unique contribution to American western history, Paul L. Hedren examines the
wars effects on the culture, environment, and geography of the northern Great
Plains, their Native inhabitants, and the Anglo-American invaders.

Stricken Field
The Little Bighorn since 1876
By Jerome A. Greene
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3791-9 384 Pages
The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument is the site of one of Americas
most famous armed struggles, but the events surrounding Custers defeat there in
1876 are only the beginning of the story. As park custodians, American Indians,
and others have contested how the site should be preserved and interpreted
for posterity, the Little Bighorn has turned into a battlefield in more ways than
one. In Stricken Field, one of Americas foremost military historians offers the
first comprehensive history of the site and its administration in more than half a
century.

Where Custer Fell

Photographs of the Little Bighorn Battlefield Then and Now
By James S. Brust, Brian C. Pohanka, and Sandy Barnard
$26.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3834-3 272 Pages
To create Where Custer Fell, authors James S. Brust, Brian C. Pohanka, and Sandy
Barnard searched for elusive documents and photographs, made countless trips
to the battlefield, and scrutinized all available sources. Each chapter begins
with a concise, lively description of an episode in the battle. The narratives are
graphically illustrated by historical photos, which are presented alongside modern
photos of the same location on the battlefield. The book also features detailed
maps and photographs of battle participants and the early photographers who
attempted to tell their story.

The Custer Reader

Edited by Paul Andrew Hutton
$26.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3465-9 608 Pages
George Armstrong Custer, Americas most famously unfortunate soldier, has been
the subject of scores of books, but The Custer Reader is unique as a substantial
source of classic writings about and by him. Here is Custer as seen by himself,
his contemporaries, and leading scholars. Combining first-person narratives,
essays, and photographs, this book provides a complete introduction to Custers
controversial personality and career and the evolution of the Custer myth.

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They Died with Custer

Soldiers Bones from the Battle of the Little Bighorn
By Douglas D. Scott, Melissa A. Connor, and P. Willey
$21.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3507-6 432 Pages
Dead men tell no tales, and the soldiers who rode and died with George
Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn have been silent statistics
for more than a hundred years. By blending historical sources, archaeological
evidence, and painstaking analysis of the skeletal remains, Douglas D. Scott,
P. Willey, and Melissa A. Connor reconstruct biographies of many of the
individual soldiers, identifying age, height, possible race, state of health, and
the specific way each died. They also link reactions to the battle over the years
to shifts in American views regarding the appropriate treatment of the dead.

Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn

By Douglas D. Scott, Melissa A. Connor, and Dick Harmon
$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3292-1 310 Pages
Based on the archaeological evidence presented in this book, we know more
about the weapons used against the Custer and the Cavalry, where many
of the men fought, how they died, what happened to their bodies, how the
troopers were deployed, and what kind of clothing they wore.

Fort Laramie and the Great Sioux War

By Paul L. Hedren
$21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3049-1 336 Pages
Fort Laramies role in the Great Sioux War has been underestimated far
too long . . . . All of the major battles and many of the minor skirmishes fall
into place because of Hedrens systematic approach and his thorough use of
officials records. Montana: The Magazine of Western History

Archaeology, History, and Custers Last Battle

The Little Big Horn Reexamined
By Richard A. Fox, Jr.
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2998-3 416 Pages
$24.95s DVD 978-0-8061-9958-0 40 minutes
By revealing patterns found in artifacts unearthed and adding Indian
accounts, Fox shows how Custers last battle was fought. The new findings
stand in bold contrast to conventional views about the battle. Custer, as Fox
shows, maintained his offensive until late in the fight. Then the end came
suddenly, unexpectedly, and without the gallant last stand myth. The DVD
complements and updates Foxs landmark book, Archaeology, History, and
Custers Last Battle.

World Wars I and II

The Second Pearl Harbor
The West Loch Disaster, May 21, 1944
By Gene Salecker
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4476-4 296 Pages
Military historian Gene Salecker recounts the events and conditions leading
up to the explosion, then re-creates the drama directly afterward: men
swimming through flaming oil, small craft desperately trying to rescue the
injured, and subsequent explosions throwing flaming debris everywhere. With
meticulous attention to detail the author explains why he and other historians
believe that the official explanation for the cause of the explosion, that a
mortar shell was accidentally detonated, is wrong.

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Under the Eagle

Samuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker
By Samuel Holiday and Robert S. McPherson
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4389-7 288 Pages
Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the
Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit
secret communications on the battlefield. Based on extensive interviews with
Robert S. McPherson, Under the Eagle is Holidays vivid account of his own
story. It is the only book-length oral history of a Navajo code talker in which
the narrator relates his experiences in his own voice and words.

Bracketing the Enemy

Forward Observers in World War II
By John R. Walker
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4380-4 300 Pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4843-4 300 Pages
After the end of World War II, General George Patton declared that artillery
had won the war. Yet howitzers did not achieve victory on their own. Crucial
to the success of these big guns were forward observers, artillerymen on
the front lines who directed the artillery fire. In Bracketing the Enemy, John R.
Walker offers the first full-length history of forward observer teams during
World War II.

Zhukov
By Otto P. Chaney
$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4460-3 560 Pages
Zhukovs career spanned most of the Soviet period, reflecting the turmoil of
the civil war, the hardships endured by the Russian people in World War II,
the brief postwar optimism evidenced by the friendship between Zhukov and
Eisenhower, repression in Poland and Hungary, and the rise and fall of such
political figures as Stalin, Beria, and Krushchev. The story of Russias greatest
soldier thus offers many insights into the history of the Soviet Union itself.

Wavell in the Middle East, 19391941

A Study in Generalship
By Harold E. Raugh, Jr.
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4305-7 364 Pages
This masterly study of generalship covers two years of intense operational
activity during which Field Marshal Wavell, as Commander-in-Chief,
Middle East, was at one point conducting no fewer than five campaigns
simultaneously. Two of those campaigns will stand in history as truly great
victories, and onethe campaign in Greece in 1941as a source of endless
controversy.

On the Western Front with the Rainbow Division

A World War I Diary
By Vernon E. Kniptash
Edited by E. Bruce Geelhoed
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4032-2 256 Pages
With clarity and compelling detail, Kniptash describes the experiences of an
ordinary soldier thrust into the most violent conflict the world had seen. He
tells of his enthusiasm upon enlistment and of the horrors of combat that
followed, as well as the drudgery of daily routine. He renders unforgettable
profiles of his fellow soldiers and commanders, and manages despite the
strains of warfare to leaven his writing with humor.

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Hero Street, U.S.A.

The Story of Little Mexicos Fallen Soldiers
By Marc Wilson
$19.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4012-4 224 Pages
Second Street in Silvis, Illinois, was a poor neighborhood during the Great
Depression that had become home to Mexicans fleeing revolution in their
homeland. In 1971 it was officially renamed Hero Street to commemorate
its claim to the highest per-capita casualty rate from any neighborhood during
World War II. Marc Wilson now tells the story of this community and the young
men it sent to fight for their adopted country.

Battleship Oklahoma BB-37

By Jeff Phister with Thomas Hone and Paul Goodyear
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3917-3 256 Pages
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3936-4 256 Pages
On a quiet Sunday morning in 1941, a ship designed to keep the peace was
suddenly attacked. This book tells the remarkable story of a battleship, its brave
crew, and how their lives were intertwined.
Phister weaves the personal narratives of surviving crewmen with the necessary
technical information to recreate the attack and demonstrate the full scope of its
devastation. Captured Japanese photographs and dozens of historic U.S. Navy
photographs deepen our understanding of this monumental event.

Shot at and Missed

Recollections of a World War II Bombardier
By Jack R. Myers
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3695-0 320 Pages
In this riveting narrative, Jack R. Myers recounts his experiences as a B-17
bombardier during World War II. Commissioned a second lieutenant in 1944 at
age twenty, Myers began flying missions with the 2nd Bomb Group, U.S. Fifteenth
Air Force. He learned firsthand the exhilarationand terrorof being shot at and
missed.

The Wrong Stuff

The Adventures and Misadventures of an 8th Air Force Aviator
By Truman Smith
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3422-2 368 Pages
Between April and July 1944, Truman Smith Flew thirty-five bombing missions over
France and Germany. He was only twenty years old. Although barely adults, Smith
and his peers worried about cramming a lifetimes worth of experience into every
free night, each knowing he probably would not survive the next bombing mission.
Written with blunt honesty, wry humor, and insight, The Wrong Stuff is Smiths
gripping memoir of that time. In a new preface, the author comments with equal
honesty and humor on the impact this book has had on his life.

Vietnam
Invasion of Laos, 1971
Lam Son 719
By Robert D. Sander
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4437-5 304 Pages
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4840-3 304 Pages
Drawing on archives and interviews, and firsthand testimony and reports, Sander
chronicles not only the planning and execution of the operation but also the
maneuvers of the bastions of political and military power during the ten-year
effort to end Communist infiltration of South Vietnam, leading up to Lam Son
719. The result is a picture from disparate perspectives: the Kennedy, Johnson,
and Nixon administrations; the South Vietnamese government led by President
Nguyen Van Thieu; and senior U.S. military commanders and army aviators.

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Not All Heroes

An Unapologetic Memoir of the Vietnam War, 19711972
By Gary E. Skogen
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-9834059-6-2 258 Pages
This unconventional, unheroic, and unapologetic book is not a typical
Vietnam memoir. Together with 80 percent of the two million men and
women who served in Vietnam, Skogen spent his time behind the scenes at a
large support base. He spent his year investigating the men who endangered
the lives of their fellow soldiers by giving themselves over to unrestrained
drug use.

After My Lai
My Year Commanding First Platoon, Charlie Company
By Gary W. Bray
$16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4045-2 184 Pages
In the fall of 1969, Gary Bray landed in South Vietnam as a recently
married, freshly minted second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. His assignment
was not enviable: leading the platoon whose former members had
committed the My Lai massacrethe murder of hundreds of Vietnamese
civilianseighteen months earlier. In this compelling memoir, he shares his
experiences of Vietnam in the direct wake of that terrible event.

Uniforms, Weapons,
Equipment, and Battlefields
Uniforms, Arms, and Equipment
The U.S. Army on the Western Frontier 18801892
Volume 1: Headgear, Clothing and Footwear
Volume 2: Weapons and Accouterments
By Douglas C. McChristian
$50.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-9961-0 640 Pages, 2 Volume Set
Douglas C. McChristian presents a two-volume comprehensive account of
the evolution of military arms and equipment during the years 1880-1892.
The volumes are set against the backdrop of the final decade of the Indian
campaignsa key period of transition in United States military history.

The U. S. Army in the West, 18701880

Uniforms, Weapons, and Equipment
By Douglas C. McChristian
$29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3782-7 316 Pages
In The U.S. Army in the West, 18701880, Douglas C. McChristian describes
the development of army uniforms, equipment, and small arms during a
pivotal decade of experimentation and against the backdrop of the Indian
campaigns in the West. Lavishly illustrated with more than two hundred
photographs, this book is an invaluable reference for collectors, curators,
and students of militaria and of the colorful frontier era.

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Before Custer
Surveying the Yellowstone, 1872
By M. John Lubetkin
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-431-5 328 Pages
The firsthand accounts compiled here by M. John Lubetkin document the
surveys three-month struggle with the Lakotas and other Plains Indian
people. Before Custer: Surveying the Yellowstone, 1872 tells of a little-known but
crucial episode in the history of westward expansion and Native peoples
efforts to halt that expansion.

The Army Surveys of Gold Rush California

Reports of Topographical Engineers, 18491851
Edited by Gary Clayton Anderson and Laura Lee Anderson
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-430-8 256 Pages
Historian Gary Clayton Anderson and anthropologist Laura Lee Anderson
provide historical, geographic, and biographical context in the books
introduction and in headnotes and annotations for each journal. These
documents offer extraordinary firsthand views of the environment, natural
resources, geography, and early settlement, as well as the effects of disease on
Native and white populations.

Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey

A Documentary History
By M. John Lubetkin
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-422-3 320 pages
$125.00s Limited Edition 978-0-87062-427-8 320 pages
Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey examines the expedition told through
documents selected and interpreted by historian M. John Lubetkin.
The U.S. Army was determined to punish the Sioux, and the Northern
Pacific desperately needed to complete its engineering work and resume
construction. The expedition mounted in 1873larger than all previous
surveys combinedincluded embedded newspaper correspondents and
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The Bozeman Trail, 18661868 (2 Vols.)
By John D. McDermott
$75.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-376-9 704 Pages
On a cold December day in 1866, Captain William J. Fetterman disobeyed
orders and spurred his men across Lodge Trail Ridge in pursuit of a group
of retreating Lakota Sioux, Arapahos, and Cheyennes. He saw a perfect
opportunity to punish the tribes for harassing travelers on the Bozeman
Trail and attacking wood trains sent out from nearby Fort Phil Kearny. In a
sudden turn of events, his command was, within moments, annihilated. John
D. McDermotts spellbinding narrative offers a cautionary tale of hubris and
miscalculation.

Patrick Connors War

The 1865 Powder River Indian Expedition
By David E. Wagner
$26.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-393-6 296 Pages
$125.00s Special Edition 978-0-87062-395-0 296 Pages
The summer of 1865 marked the transition from the Civil War to Indian war
on the western plains. With the rest of the countrys attention still focused on
the East, the U.S. Army began an often forgotten campaign against the Sioux,
Cheyenne, and Arapaho. Led by Gen. Patrick Connor, the Powder River Indian
Expedition into Wyoming sought to punish tribes for raids earlier that year.
Patrick Connors War describes the troops movement into hostile territory while
struggling with bad weather, supply shortages, and communication problems.

The Nauvoo Legion in Illinois

A History of the Mormon Militia, 18411846
By Richard Bennett, Susan Easton Black, and Donald Q. Cannon
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-382-0 440 Pages
When the Mormons established their theocratic city of Nauvoo on the banks
of the Mississippi in 1839, they made self-defense a priority. Organized under
Illinois law, the Nauvoo Legion was a city militia made up primarily of Latter-day
Saints. This comprehensive work on the history, structure, and purpose of the
Nauvoo Legion traces its unique story from its founding to the Mormon exodus
in 1846. Impeccably researched and honestly told, this groundbreaking study
fills a major gap in Latter-day Saint church history and adds a significant chapter
to the annals of American militias.

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Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake
George R. Maxwell, Civil War Hero and Federal Marshal among the Mormons
By John Gary Maxwell
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-388-2 384 Pages
Following distinguished Civil War service that took one of his legs and rendered
an arm useless, General George R. Maxwell was sent to Utah Territory and
chargedfirst as Register of Land, then as U.S. marshalwith bringing the
Mormons into compliance with federal law. John Gary Maxwells biography of
General Maxwell (no relation) both celebrates an unsung war hero and presents
the history of the longest episode of civil disobedience in U.S. history from the
point of view of this young, non-Mormon who lived through it.

At Standing Rock and Wounded Knee

The Journals and Papers of Father Francis M. Craft, 18881890
Edited and annotated by Thomas W. Foley
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-372-1 288 Pages
During the turbulent final years of the Indian Wars, a young Catholic priest
entered service as a missionary to the Sioux Indians in Dakota Territory. Father
Francis M. Craft rode a three-hundred-mile circuit on the Standing Rock
Reservation and, in 1890, was a witness to events at Wounded Knee, where he
sustained serious wounds. His journals provide valuable insights into reservation
life, including the federal acquisition of Sioux lands and tensions between the
Catholic Church and the Indian Bureau.

Fort Laramie
Military Bastion of the High Plains
By Douglas C. McChristian
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-360-8 448 Pages
Douglas C. McChristian has written the first complete history of Fort Laramie,
chronicling every critical stage in its existence, including its addition to
the National Park System. He draws on an extraordinary array of archival
materialsincluding those at Fort Laramie National Historic Siteto present
new data about the fort and new interpretations of historical events.

Powder River Odyssey

Nelson Coles Western Campaign of 1865
The Journals of Lyman G. Bennett and Other Eyewitness Accounts
By David E. Wagner
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-359-2 288 Pages
Powder River Odyssey: Nelson Coles Western Campaign of 1865 tells the story
of a largely forgotten campaign at the pivotal moment when the Civil War
ended and the Indian wars captured national attention. Lyman G. Bennett
documents the experience of the 1,400 men of the Powder River Expeditions
Eastern Division as they trudged through largely unexplored territory and
faced off with American Indians determined to keep their hunting grounds.

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At Swords Point, Part 1

A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858
By William P. MacKinnon
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-353-0 544 Pages
The Utah War of 185758, the unprecedented armed confrontation between
Mormon Utah Territory and the U.S. government, was the most extensive
American military action between the Mexican and Civil wars. At Swords Point
presents in two volumes the first in-depth narrative and documentary history
of that extraordinary conflict.

History May Be Searched in Vain

A Military History of the Mormon Battalion
By Col. Sherman L. Fleek
$37.50s Cloth 978-0-87062-343-1 415 Pages
The Mormon battalion was unique in federal service, having been recruited
solely from one religious body and having a religious title as the unit
designation. Serving in the Mexican War, they marched across the Southwest
to California. Strangely, though, the battalions story has not been told from
the perspective of the profession of arms. Since it did not engage in battle,
military historians have paid little attention to it. For the first time the
battalions history is related from a military perspective.

Guarding the Overland Trails

The Eleventh Ohio Cavalry in the Civil War
By Robert Huhn Jones
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The thunder of the greater war drowned out the violent and deadly war in
the West along the overland roads. And it has continued to do so. While
both the Civil War and nineteenth-century western history have provided
fertile fields for historical investigation, few historians have focused on the
plight of the overland roads during the Civil War or the impact of the war
on the area they crossed.

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