2017 Military History Catalog

Military History UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS

2017

Military History CONTENTS Ways of War. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Ancient. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Napoleonic Era. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Colonial to Antebellum Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 American Civil War to Turn of the Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Twentieth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 New in Paperback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Coming Fall 2017. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

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On the cover and in the catalog: USS Franklin (CV-13), 1945. Naval History and Heritage Command 80-G-397939 A, National Archives and Records Administration. Opposite: Soviet officer (probably A. G. Yeremenko, Company political officer of the 220th Rifle Regiment, 4th Rifle Division, killed in action in 1942) leading his soldiers to the assault. USSR, Ukraine, Voroshilovgrad region, RIA Novosti archive

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Launched in 2016, books in this new series will

series will also explore the limits of this concept by

explore the extent to which the concept of “ways

contrasting or competing approaches to war that

of war” can accurately describe policies and

exist simultaneously within prevailing “ways of war.”

approaches to conflict. Included in this series

Together with the series editors, David J. Ulbrich

will be works that examine military doctrines

and Matthew S. Muehlbauer, the University of

and perspectives adopted by the armed forces or

Oklahoma Press invites proposals for the series.

nations and regions. Studies of specific military

Works on Russia, Australia, the Royal Air Force,

institutions will be included as well. Volumes in the

and American Airpower are forthcoming.

SERIES EDITORS DAVID J. ULBRICH AND MATTHEW S. MUEHLBAUER ARE COAUTHORS OF WAYS OF WAR: AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY FROM THE COLONIAL ERA TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.

Submissions for all topics should be sent to Adam C. Kane, Editor-in-Chief, University of Oklahoma Press (adam.kane@ou.edu).

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The Campaigns of Sargon II, King of Assyria, 721–705 b.c.

By Sarah C. Melville $32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5403-9 · 320 Pages Backed by an unparalleled military force, Sargon II outwitted and outfought powerful competitors to extend Assyrian territory and secure his throne. The Campaigns of Sargon II demonstrates how Sargon changed the geopolitical dynamics in the Near East, inspired a period of cultural florescence, established long-lasting Assyrian supremacy, and became one of the most influential kings of the ancient world.

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Muhammad Islam’s First Great General

By Richard A. Gabriel $24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3860-2 · 288 Pages In Muhammad: Islam’s First Great General, Richard A. Gabriel shows us a warrior never before seen in antiquity—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. Gabriel’s study portrays Muhammad as a revolutionary who introduced military innovations that transformed armies and warfare throughout the Arab world.

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Guibert Father of Napoleon’s Grande Armée

By Jonathan Abel $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5443-5 · 296 Pages If there was one man, other than Napoleon himself, who determined the course of the Napoleonic Wars, it was Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert. Taking in the full scope of the times, from the ideas of the Enlightenment to the passions of the French Revolution, Jonathan Abel’s Guibert is the first book in English to tell the remarkable story of the man who, through his pen and political activity, truly earned the title of Father of the Grande Armée.

Titan British Power in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon

By William R. Nester $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5205-9 · 376 Pages The interplay of individuals and events, the importance of conjunctures and contingency, the significance of Britain’s island character and resources: all come into play in Nester’s exploration of the art of British military diplomacy. The result is a comprehensive and insightful account of the endeavors of statesmen and generals to master the art of power in a complex battle for empire.

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The Man Who Captured Washington Major General Robert Ross and the War of 1812

By John McCavitt and Christopher T. George $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5164-9 · 312 Pages Despite a military career that included distinguished service in Europe and North Africa, Ross is better known for his actions than his name: his 1814 campaign in the Chesapeake Bay resulted in the burning of the White House and Capitol and the unsuccessful assault on Baltimore, immortalized in “The Star Spangled Banner.” The Man Who Captured Washington is the first in-depth biography of this important but largely forgotten historical figure.

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European Armies of the French Revolution, 1789–1802 Edited by Frederick C. Schneid S34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4039-1 · 288 Pages In nine essays by leading scholars, European Armies of the French Revolution, 1789– 1802 provides an authoritative, continent-wide analysis of the organization and constitution of these armies, the challenges they faced, and the impact they had on the French Revolutionary Wars and on European military practices.

The volume opens with editor Frederick C. Schneid’s substantial introduction, which reviews the strategies and policies of each participating state throughout the wars, establishing a clear context for the essays that follow.

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.

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Blücher 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 Blücher (1742–1819) 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 Blücher’s life and military career—and his impact on Napoleon.

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Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword The British Regiment on Campaign, 1808–1815

By Andrew Bamford $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4343-9 · 328 Pages Although an army’s 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.

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Outpost of Empire The Napoleonic Occupation of Andalucía, 1810–1812

By Charles J. Esdaile $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4278-4 · 512 Pages Napoleon’s forces invaded Spain in 1808, but two years went by before they overran the southern region of Andalucía. Situated at the farthest frontier of Napoleon’s “outer empire,” Andalucía remained under French control only briefly—for two-and-a-half years—and 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 Andalucía and the origins and results of the region’s complex and chaotic response.

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On Wellington A Critique of Waterloo Translated, edited, and annotated by Peter Hofschröer $32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4108-4 · 272 Pages Carl von Clausewitz, the Western world’s 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 Wellington’s actions. Now published for the first time in English, Hofschröer brings Clausewitz’s critique back into view with thorough annotation and contextual explanation.

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Wellingtons Two-Front War The Peninsular Campaigns, at Home and Abroad, 1808–1814

By Joshua Moon $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4157-2 · 272 Pages Sir Arthur Wellesley’s 1808–1814 campaigns against Napoleon’s forces in the Iberian Peninsula have drawn the attention of scholars and soldiers for two centuries. In Wellington’s Two-Front War, Joshua Moon not only surveys Wellington’s command of British forces against the French but also describes the battles Wellington fought in England—with an archaic military command structure, bureaucracy, and fickle public opinion.

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Napoleon’s 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 Napoleon’s most successful midrank officers.

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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.

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Standing in Their Own Light African American Patriots in the American Revolution

By Judith L. Van Buskirk $34.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5635-4 ∙ 312 Pages The Revolutionary War encompassed at least two struggles: one for freedom from British rule, and another, quieter but no less significant fight for the liberty of African Americans, thousands of whom fought in the Continental Army. Because these veterans left few letters or diaries, their story has remained largely untold. Standing in Their Own Light restores these African American patriots to their rightful place in the historical struggle for independence and the end of racial oppression.

“Hang Them All” George Wright and the Plateau Indian War, 1858

By Donald L. Cutler $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5337-7 · 392 Pages Col. George Wright’s campaign against the Yakima, Spokane, Coeur d’Alene, Palouse, and other Indian peoples of eastern Washington Territory was intended to punish them for a recent attack on another U.S. Army force.

Today, many critics view his actions as war crimes, but among white settlers and politicians of the time, Wright was a patriotic hero who helped open the Inland Northwest to settlement. “Hang Them All” offers a comprehensive account of Wright’s campaigns and explores the controversy surrounding his legacy.

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At Sword’s Point, Part 2 A Documentary History of the Utah War, 1858–1859

By William P. MacKinnon $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-386-8 · 704 Pages The Utah War—an unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormoncontrolled Utah Territory and the U.S. government—was the most extensive American military action between the U.S.-Mexican and Civil Wars. At Sword’s Point presents the first full history of the conflict through the voices of participants—leaders, soldiers, and civilians from both sides. MacKinnon’s lively narrative, continued in this second volume, links and explains these firsthand accounts to produce the most detailed, in-depth, and balanced view of the war to date.

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Kearny’s Dragoons Out West The Birth of the U.S. Cavalry

By Will Gorenfeld and John Gorenfeld $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5394-0 · 480 Pages Having banished eastern Native peoples to lands west of the Mississippi, President Andrew Jackson’s government by 1833 needed a new type of soldier to keep displaced Indians from returning home. And so the 1st Dragoons came into being. Will and John Gorenfeld tell their story—an epic of exploration, conquest, and diplomacy from the outposts of western history— in this book-length treatment of the force that became the U.S. Cavalry.

Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification A Guide

By Daniel M. Sivilich $34.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5158-8 · 232 Pages Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification: A Guide traces the history of musket balls and small shot, and explores their uses as lethal projectiles and in nonlethal alterations. Sivilich asks—and answers—a variety of questions to demonstrate how a musket ball found in a military context can help to interpret the site.

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The Army Surveys of Gold Rush California Reports of Topographical Engineers, 1849–1851 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 book’s 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.

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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.

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Connecticut Unscathed Victory in the Great Narragansett War, 1675–1676

By Jason W. Warren $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4475-7 · 240 Pages The conflict that historians have called King Philip’s 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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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 Prevost’s career, offers a reinterpretation of the general’s 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.

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, Clark’s name is all but forgotten today. William R. Nester resurrects the story of Clark’s triumphs and his downfall in this, the first full biography of the man in more than fifty years.

American Civil War to Turn of the Century Regular Army O! Soldiering on the Western Frontier, 1865–1891

By Douglas C. McChristian $45.00s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5695-8 ∙ 784 Pages “The drums they roll, upon my soul, for that’s the way we go,” runs the chorus in a Harrigan and Hart song from 1874. “Forty miles a day on beans and hay in the Regular Army O!” The last three words of that lyric aptly title Douglas C. McChristian’s remarkable work capturing the lot of soldiers posted to the West after the Civil War. At once panoramic and intimate, Regular Army O! uses the testimony of enlisted soldiers—drawn from more than 350 diaries, letters, and memoirs—to create a vivid picture of life in an evolving army on the western frontier.

War in the Southwest Borderlands, 1861–1867

By Andrew E. Masich $34.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5572-2 ∙ 464 Pages Still the least-understood theater of the Civil War, the Southwest Borderlands saw not only Union and Confederate forces clashing but Indians, Hispanos, and Anglos struggling for survival, power, and dominance on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Based on previously overlooked Indian Depredation Claim records and a wealth of other sources, this book is both a close-up history of the Civil War in the region and an examination of the war-making traditions of its diverse peoples.

Soldiers in the Southwest Borderlands, 1848–1886

By Janne Lahti $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5702-3 ∙ 248 Pages Most military biographies focus on officers, many of whom left diaries or wrote letters throughout their lives and careers. This collection offers new perspectives by focusing on the lives of enlisted soldiers from a variety of cultural and racial backgrounds. Comprised of ten biographies, Soldiers in the Southwest Borderlands showcases the scholarship of experts who have mined military records, descendants’ recollections, genealogical sources, and even folklore to tell common soldiers’ stories.

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A Surgeon with Custer at the Little Big Horn James DeWolf’s Diary and Letters, 1876

By James M. DeWold Edited by Todd E. Harburn $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5694-1 ∙ 288 Pages In spring 1876 a physician named James Madison DeWolf accepted the assignment of contract surgeon for the Seventh Cavalry, becoming one of three surgeons who accompanied Custer’s battalion at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Killed in the early stages of the battle, he might easily have become a mere footnote in the many chronicles of this epic campaign—but he left behind an eyewitness account in his diary and correspondence. A Surgeon with Custer at the Little Big Horn is the first annotated edition of these rare accounts since 1958, and the most complete treatment to date.

Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight Indian Views Edited by John H. Monnett $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5582-1 ∙ 248 Pages On December 21, 1866—during Red Cloud’s War (1866–1868)—a wellorganized force of 1,500 to 2,000 Oglala Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors annihilated a detachment of seventy-nine infantry and cavalry soldiers—among them Captain William Judd Fetterman—and two civilian contractors. In Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight, award-winning historian John H. Monnett presents these Native views, drawn from previously published sources as well as newly discovered interviews with Oglala and Cheyenne warriors and leaders.

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Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars Comparing Genocide and Conquest

By Edward Westermann $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5433-6 · 336 Pages As he prepared to wage his war of annihilation on the Eastern Front, Adolf Hitler repeatedly drew parallels between the Nazi quest for Lebensraum, or living space, in Eastern Europe and the United States’s westward expansion under the banner of Manifest Destiny. The peoples of Eastern Europe were, he said, his “redskins,” and for his colonial fantasy of a “German East” he claimed a historical precedent in the United States’s displacement and killing of the native population. Edward B. Westermann examines the validity, and value, of this claim in Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars.

Powder River Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War Paul L. Hedren $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5383-4 · 472 Pages Powder River: Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War recounts the wintertime Big Horn Expedition and its singular great battle. Historian Paul Hedren tracks both sides of the conflict through a rich array of primary source material, including the transcripts of Reynolds’s court-martial and Indian recollections. The disarray and incompetence of the war’s beginnings—officers who failed to take proper positions, disregard of orders to save provisions, failure to cooperate, and abandonment of the dead and a wounded soldier— in many ways anticipated the catastrophe that later occurred at the Little Big Horn.

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Road to War The 1871 Yellowstone Surveys

By M. John Lubetkin $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-429-2 · 312 Pages By 1870, only one group of American Indians in the 300,000 square miles of the Dakota and Montana Territories still held firm against being placed on reservations: a few thousand Teton Sioux and Northern Cheyennes, all followers of the charismatic Sitting Bull. It was then that Philadelphia’s Jay Cooke, “the financier of the Civil War,” a man who believed that he was “God’s chosen instrument,” funded a second transcontinental railroad. This line, the Northern Pacific, would follow the Yellowstone River through Montana, separating the last buffalo herds from Sitting Bull’s people and disrupting their way of life.

Slaughter at the Chapel The Battle of Ezra Church, 1864

By Gary Ecelbarger $26.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-5499-2 · 288 Pages The Battle of Ezra Church was one of the deadliest engagements in the Atlanta Campaign of the Civil War and continues to be one of the least understood. Both official and unofficial reports failed to illuminate the true bloodshed of the conflict: one of every three engaged Confederates was killed or wounded, including four generals. Nor do those reports acknowledge the flaws—let alone the ultimate failure—of Confederate commander John Bell Hood’s plan to thwart Union general William Tecumseh Sherman’s southward advance.

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Soldiering in the Shadow of Wounded Knee The 1891 Diary of Private Hartford G. Clark, Sixth U.S. Cavalry Edited by Jerome A. Greene $32.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-440-7 · 216 Pages In the aftermath of the December 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, U.S. Army troops braced for retaliation from Lakota Sioux Indians, who had just suffered the devastating loss of at least two hundred men, women, and children. Among the soldiers sent to guard the area around Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota, was twenty-two-year-old Private Hartford Geddings Clark (1869–1920) of the Sixth U.S. Cavalry. Within three days of the massacre, he began keeping a diary that he continued through 1891. Clark’s account—published here for the first time—offers a rare and intimate view of a soldier’s daily life set against the backdrop of a rapidly vanishing American frontier.

Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums Horse-Mounted Bands of the U.S. Army, 1820–1940

By Bruce P. Gleason $32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5479-4 · 264 Pages Stemming from the tradition of rallying troops and frightening enemies, mounted bands played a unique and distinctive role in American military history. Their fascinating story within the U.S. Army unfolds in this latest book from noted music historian and former army musician Bruce P. Gleason. Touching on anthropology, musicology, and the history of the United States and its military, Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums is an unparalleled account of mounted military bands and their cultural significance.

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Kill Jeff Davis The Union Raid on Richmond, 1864

By Bruce M. Venter $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-5153-3 · 384 Pages The ostensible goal of the controversial Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on Richmond was to free some 13,000 Union prisoners of war held in the Confederate capital. But orders found on the dead body of the raid’s subordinate commander, Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, point instead to a plot to capture or kill Confederate president Jefferson Davis and set Richmond ablaze. Kill Jeff Davis offers a fresh look at the failed raid and mines newly discovered documents and little-known sources to provide definitive answers.

Fort Bascom Soldiers, Comancheros, and Indians in the Canadian River Valley

By James Bailey Blackshear $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5209-7 · 272 Pages In Fort Bascom, James Bailey Blackshear presents the definitive history of this critical outpost in the American Southwest, along with a detailed view of army life on the late-nineteenth-century western frontier. Blackshear shows the difficulties of maintaining a post in a harsh environment where scarce water and forage, long supply lines, poorly constructed facilities, and monotonous duty tested soldiers’ endurance.

Photographing Custer’s Battlefield The Images of Kenneth F. Roahen

By Sandy Barnard $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5159-5 · 280 Pages In Photographing Custer’s Battlefield, Sandy Barnard, an expert on Custer and the Little Big Horn, presents the work of the site’s most dedicated photographer, U.S. Fish and Game agent Kenneth F. Roahen (1888– 1976), revealing further mysteries of the battlefield and showing how it has changed.

The Civil War Years in Utah The Kingdom of God and the Territory That Did Not Fight

By John Gary Maxwell $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4911-0 · 488 Pages While the Civil War spread death, tragedy, and sorrow across the continent, Utah Territory remained virtually untouched. Although the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—and its faithful—proudly praise the service of an 1862 Mormon cavalry company during the Civil War, Maxwell’s research exposes the relatively inconsequential contribution of these Nauvoo Legion soldiers.

Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance Other Sides of Civil War Texas Edited by Jesús F. de la Teja $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5182-3 · 296 Pages $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5183-0 · 296 Pages Concluding with an account of the origins of Juneteenth—the nationally celebrated holiday marking June 19, 1865, when emancipation was announced in Texas—Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance challenges the collective historical memory of Civil War Texas and its place in both the Confederacy and the United States. It provides material for a fresh narrative, one including people on the margins of history and dispelling the myth of a monolithically Confederate Texas.

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Blood on the Marias The Baker Massacre

By Paul R. Wylie $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5157-1 · 336 Pages While other scholars have written about the Baker Massacre in related contexts, Blood on the Marias gives this infamous event the definitive treatment it deserves. Baker’s inept command lit the spark of violence, but decades of tension between Piegans and whites set the stage for a brutal and too-oftenforgotten incident.

Through Indian Sign Language The Fort Sill Ledgers of Hugh Lenox Scott and Iseeo, 1889–1897 Edited by William C. Meadows $55.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4727-7 · 520 Pages The Scott ledgers contain an array of historical, linguistic, and ethnographic data—a wealth of primary-source material on Southern Plains Indian people.

Meadows describes Plains Indian Sign Language, its origins and history, and its significance to anthropologists. He also sketches the lives of Scott and Iseeo, explaining how they met, how Scott learned the language, and how their working relationship developed and served them both.

Health of the Seventh Cavalry A Medical History Edited by P. Willey and Douglas D. Scott $32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4839-7 · 480 Pages In Health of the Seventh Cavalry, editors P. Willey and Douglas D. Scott and their co-contributors—experts in history, medicine, human biology, epidemiology, and human osteology—examine the Seventh’s medical records to determine the health of the nineteenth-century U.S. Army, and the prevalence and treatment of the numerous conditions that plagued soldiers during the Indian Wars.

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.

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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 survey’s 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.

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Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey A Documentary History 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 1873—larger than all previous surveys combined—included “embedded” newspaper correspondents and 1,600 infantry and cavalry, the latter led by George Armstrong Custer.

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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. Longacre’s 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 Run—its drama and suspense as well as its practical and tactical underpinnings and ramifications.

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Soldiers in the Army of Freedom The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War’s 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.

A Corporal’s 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 (1840–1916) joined the Twelfth Massachusetts in 1861, he’d 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 Corporal’s Story, Kimball’s writings form a unique narrative of one man’s experience in the Civil War, viewed through a perspective enhanced by time and reflection.

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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. Greene—renowned specialist on the Indian wars—explores 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.

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 general’s great failing was losing control of his troops. The battlescarred fighter with his homespun aphorisms was neither an infallible warrior nor a heartless butcher, but a product of his time and his heritage.

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 AngloAmericans 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.

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 accounts—some grim, some circumspect, some even laced with humor—Mueller offers a unique take on the dramatic events that so shook the American public.

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Custer, the Seventh Cavalry, and the Little Big Horn A Bibliography

By Michael O’Keefe $125.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-404-9 · 720 Pages Since the shocking news first broke in 1876 of the Seventh Cavalry’s disastrous defeat at the Little Big Horn, fascination with the battle—and with Lieutenant George Armstrong Custer—has never ceased. Widespread interest in the subject has spawned a vast outpouring of literature, which only increases with time. This two-volume bibliography of Custer literature is the first to be published in some twenty-five years and the most complete ever assembled.

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Los Angeles in Civil War Days, 1860–1865

By John W. Robinson $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4312-5 · 204 Pages Most accounts of California’s role in the Civil War focus on the northern part of the state, San Francisco in particular. In Los Angeles in Civil War Days, John W. Robinson looks to the southern half and offers an enlightening sketch of Los Angeles and its people, politics, and economic trends from 1860 to 1865.

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 this unique contribution to American western history, Paul L. Hedren examines the war’s effects on the culture, environment, and geography of the northern Great Plains, their Native inhabitants, and the Anglo-American invaders.

Violent Encounters Interviews on Western Massacres

By Deborah Lawrence and Jon Lawrence $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4126-8 · 224 Pages Merciless killing in the nineteenth-century American West, as this unusual book shows, was not as simple as depicted in dime novels and movie Westerns. The scholars interviewed here, experts on violence in the West, embrace a wide range of approaches and perspectives and challenge both traditional views of western expansion and politically correct ideologies.

Twentieth Century Nine Days in May The Battles of the 4th Infantry Division on the Cambodian Border, 1967

By Warren K. Wilkins $34.95 Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5715-3 ∙ 432 Pages Nine Days in May is the first full account of these bitterly contested battles.

Fought between three American battalions and two North Vietnamese Army regiments, this prolonged, deadly encounter was one of the largest, most savage actions seen by elements of the storied 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam. Drawing on interviews with the participants, Warren K. Wilkins recreates the vicious fighting in gripping detail.

So Long for Now A Sailor’s Letters from the USS Franklin

By Jerry Rogers $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5632-3 ∙ 432 Pages So Long for Now reconstructs the lost world of a sailor’s daily life in World War II, piecing together letters from Elden’s family in Vega, Texas, and from his girlfriend, the untold stories behind Elden’s own letters, and the context of the war itself. Historian Jerry L. Rogers delves past censored letters limited to small talk and local gossip to conjure the danger, excitement, boredom, and sacrifices that sailors in the Pacific theater endured.

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Flying to Victory Raymond Collishaw and the Western Desert Campaign, 1940–1941

By Mike Bechthold $34.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5596-8 ∙ 296 Pages When World War II began in 1939, Air Commodore Collishaw commanded a Royal Air Force group in Egypt. Flying to Victory examines Raymond Collishaw’s contribution to the British system of tactical air support—a pattern of operations that eventually became standard in the Allied air forces and proved to be a key factor in the Allied victory.

Sign Talker Hugh Lenox Scott Remembers Indian Country

By Hugh Lenox Scott Edited by R. Eli Paul $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5354-4 · 272 Pages Sign Talker, an annotated edition of Scott’s memoirs, gives new insight into this soldier-diplomat’s experiences and accomplishments. As historians continue to debate the details of the Indian wars, and as we critically examine our nation’s current foreign policy, the unique legacy of General Scott provides a model of military leadership. Sign Talker restores an undervalued diplomat to well-deserved prominence in the story of U.S.-Indian relations.

Somewhere Over There The Letters, Diary, and Artwork of a World War I Corporal

By Francis H. Webster Edited by Darrek D. Orwig $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5172-4 · 296 Pages Using his skills as an illustrator, Webster documented firsthand the harsh realities of combat life and regularly submitted visual dispatches of his experiences back to an Iowa newspaper. The first published collection of Webster’s wartime chronicles, Somewhere Over There presents a unique view of World War I through a rare compilation of letters, diary entries, cartoons, sketches, and watercolors.

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Rediscovering Irregular Warfare Colin Gubbins and the Origins of Britain’s Special Operations Executive

By A. R. B. Linderman $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5167-0 · 288 Pages The history of the SOE’s doctrinal origins is Colin Gubbins’s story. By telling that story, Rediscovering Irregular Warfare amplifies and clarifies our understanding of the Second World War—and of doctrines of unconventional warfare in the twentieth century.

In Love and War The World War II Courtship Letters of a Nisei Couple

By Melody M. Miyamoto Walters $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4820-5 · 296 Pages In Love and War recounts the wartime experiences of author Melody M. Miyamoto Walters’s grandparents, two second-generation Japanese Americans, or Nisei, living in Hawaii. Their love story, narrated in letters they wrote each other from July 1941 to June 1943, offers a unique view of Hawaiian Nisei and the social and cultural history of territorial Hawaii during World War II.

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Brummett Echohawk Pawnee Thunderbird and Artist

By Kristin M. Youngbull $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4826-7 · 224 Pages A true American hero who earned a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and a Congressional Gold Medal, Brummett Echohawk was also a Pawnee on the European battlefields of World War II. This first book-length biography depicts Echohawk as a soldier, painter, writer, humorist, and actor profoundly shaped by his Pawnee heritage and a man who refused to be pigeonholed as an “Indian artist.”

Moroni and the Swastika Mormons in Nazi Germany

By David Conley Nelson $24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4668-3 · 432 Pages A page-turning historical narrative, this book is the first full account of how Mormons avoided Nazi persecution through skilled collaboration with Hitler’s regime, and then eschewed postwar shame by constructing an alternative history of wartime suffering and resistance.

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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 Truscott—despite his hardscrabble beginnings, patchy education, and questionable luck—not only made the rank of army lieutenant general, earning a reputation as one of World War II’s most effective officers along the way, but was also given an honorary promotion to four-star general seven years after his retirement.

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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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.

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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 Holiday’s 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.

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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. McCaffrey’s 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 broke”—to bet everything, even their lives.

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A Military History of the Cold War, 1944–1962

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.

The Complexity of Modern Asymmetric Warfare

By Max G. Manwaring $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4265-4 · 224 Pages Manwaring’s multidimensional paradigm offers military and civilian leaders a much needed blueprint for achieving strategic victories and ensuring global security now and in the future. It combines military and police efforts with politics, diplomacy, economics, psychology, and ethics. The challenge he presents to civilian and military leaders is to take probable enemy perspectives into consideration, and turn resultant conceptions into strategic victories.

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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 brigade’s actions loom large in marine lore. Historian and retired marine Kenneth W. Estes undertakes a fresh investigation of the marines’ and Eighth Army’s fight for Pusan.

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New in Paperback Fort Laramie Military Bastion of the High Plains

By Douglas C. McChristian $26.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5757-3 · 460 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 materials–including those at Fort Laramie National Historic Site–to present new data about the fort and new interpretations of historical events.

Californio Lancers The 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry in the Far West, 1863–1866

By Tom Prezelski $21.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5752-8 · 248 Pages Although some ten thousand Spanish-surnamed Americans served during the Civil War, their support of the Union is almost unknown in the popular imagination. Californio Lancers contributes to our understanding of the Civil War in the Far West and how it transformed the Mexican-American community.

William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest

By William Heath $26.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5750-4 · 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 (1770–1812) 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.

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Fatal Sunday George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle

By Mark E. Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone $26.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5748-1 · 624 Pages The Battle of Monmouth was critical to the success of the Revolution. It also marked a decisive turning point in the military career of George Washington.

Without the victory at Monmouth Courthouse, Washington’s critics might well have marshaled the political strength to replace him as the American commander-in-chief. Authors Mark Edward Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone argue that in political terms, the Battle of Monmouth constituted a pivotal moment in the War for Independence.

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A Dragon’s Head and a Serpent’s Tail Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598

By Kenneth M. Swope $24.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5581-4 ∙ 432 Pages Kenneth M. Swope has undertaken the first full-length scholarly study in English of this important conflict. Drawing on Korean, Japanese, and especially Chinese sources, he corrects the Japan-centered perspective of previous accounts and depicts China’s Emperor Wanli not as the selfindulgent ruler of received interpretations but rather one actively engaged in military affairs—and concerned especially with rescuing China’s client state of Korea.

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The Great Call-Up The Guard, the Border, and the Mexican Revolution

By Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler $26.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5592-0 · 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 Black Regulars, 1866–1898

By William A. Dobak and Thomas D. Phillips $21.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5753-5 ∙ 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 following three decades, the promise of Reconstruction gave way to the repressiveness of Jim Crow. 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.

Of Uncommon Birth Dakota Sons in Vietnam

By Mark St. Pierre $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5345-2 · 320 Pages A work of creative nonfiction inspired by the true story of two South Dakota teenagers, Mark St. Pierre’s Of Uncommon Birth draws upon extensive interviews and exhaustive research in military archives to present a harrowing story of two young men—one white, one Indian—caught in the vortex of the Vietnam War.

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Borrowed Soldiers Americans under British Command, 1918

By Mitchell A. Yockelson $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5349-0 · 332 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 war’s 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.

From POW to Blue Angel The Story of Commander Dusty Rhodes

By Jim Armstrong $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5342-1 · 320 Pages As only the third fighter pilot to become leader of the Blue Angels, Raleigh E. “Dusty” Rhodes helped develop the most famous aerobatics team ever formed. From POW to Blue Angel tells his story—a fast-paced drama teeming with action and human interest and capturing the initiative and tenacity of a true American hero.

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Napoleon in Italy The Sieges of Mantua, 1796–1799

By Phillip R. Cuccia $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5184-7 · 328 Pages In Napoleon in Italy, Phillip R. Cuccia brings to light two understudied aspects of these trying periods in Mantua’s 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.

The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France

By William R. Nester $29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5189-2 · 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 America’s destiny.

Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek

By Louis Kraft $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5188-5 · 336 Pages When Edward W. Wynkoop arrived in Colorado Territory during the 1858 gold rush, he was one of many ambitious newcomers seeking wealth in a promising land mostly inhabited by American Indians. After he worked as a miner, sheriff, bartender, and land speculator, Wynkoop’s life drastically changed after he joined the First Colorado Volunteers to fight for the Union during the Civil War.

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All for the King’s Shilling The British Soldier under Wellington, 1808–1814

By Edward J. Coss $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5177-9 · 392 Pages The British troops have long been branded by the Duke of Wellington’s own words—“scum of the earth”—and assumed to have been society’s ne’er-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 duke’s derision.

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Three Days in the Shenandoah Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester

By Gary Ecelbarger $21.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5186-1 · 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.

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Climax at Gallipoli The Failure of the August Offensive

By Rhys Crawley $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5206-6 · 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.

Bracketing the Enemy Forward Observers in World War II

By John R. Walker $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.

A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps My Mother’s Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, and a Life Remade

By Barbara Rylko-Bauer $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-5191-5 · 416 Pages Jadwiga Lenartowicz Rylko, was a young Polish Catholic physician in Lódz at the start of World War II. Suspected of resistance activities, she was arrested in January 1944. For the next fifteen months, she endured three Nazi concentration camps and a forty-two-day death march, spending part of this time working as a prisoner-doctor to Jewish slave laborers. A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps follows Jadzia from her childhood and medical training, through her wartime experiences, to her struggles to create a new life in the postwar world.

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All Canada in the Hands of the British General Jeffery Amherst and the 1760 Campaign to Conquer New France

By Douglas R. Cubbison $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.

Invasion of Laos, 1971 Lam Son 719

By Robert D. Sander $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4840-3 · 304 Pages 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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A Generous and Merciful Enemy Life for German Prisoners of War during the American Revolution

By Daniel Krebs $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.

Uncovering History Archaeological Investigations at the Little Bighorn

By Douglas D. Scott $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 battle’s debris—and 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 early-twentieth-century findings.

Terrible Justice Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 1854–1868

By Doreen Chaky $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4652-2 · 408 Pages Terrible Justice explores not only relations between the Sioux and their opponents but also the discord among Sioux bands themselves. Moving beyond earlier historians’ focus on the Brulé and Oglala bands, Chaky examines how the northern, southern, and Minnesota Sioux bands all became involved in and were affected by the U.S. invasion.

Columns of Vengeance Soldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 1863–1864

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 Minnesota—both whites and American Indians. In Columns of Vengeance, historian Paul N. Beck offers a reappraisal of the Punitive Expeditions of 1863 and 1864, the U.S. Army’s response to the Dakota War of 1862.

Dragoons in Apacheland Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 1846–1861

By William S. Kiser $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.

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No Turning Point The Saratoga Campaign in Perspective

By Theodore Corbett $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.

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Victory at Peleliu The 81st Infantry Division’s 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.

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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.

Hancock’s 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 Hancock’s efforts were counterproductive, brought untold misery to Indians and whites alike, and led to the wars of 1868.

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Never Come to Peace Again Pontiac’s 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 Pontiac’s Uprising, which lasted from 1763 until 1766, erupted out of this volatile atmosphere. Never Come to Peace Again, the first complete account of Pontiac’s 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.

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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.

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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.

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 (1828–90) 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.

Burgoyne and the Saratoga Campaign His Papers

By Douglas R. Cubbison $19.95s 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 Cubbison’s 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 Burgoyne’s 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.

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Apaches, the United States, and the Southwest Borderlands

By Janne Lahti $34.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5742-9 ∙ 384 Pages

Emory Upton Misunderstood Reformer

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Orozco The Life and Death of a Mexican Revolutionary

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Women of Empire Nineteenth-Century Army Officers’ Wives in India and the U.S. West

By Verity McInnis $32.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5774-0 ∙ 368 Pages

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