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Oblivion
"On Saturday, January 14, 1950, at 6:18 P.M., Cadet Richard Cox left his room at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to go to dinner with an unidentified visitor. The man was supposedly someone Cox had known when they served in an intelligence unit in Germany. Cox never returned. In 1957, Richard Cox was declared legally dead, and the files were closed. It was as if he had vanished off the face of the earth." "Then in 1985, thirty-five years after Cox's disappearance, a retired history teacher named Marshall Jacobs decided to pursue the mystery as a research project. Through the Freedom of Information Act, he obtained voluminous once-secret files from the Army and FBI. Jacobs plunged int...
War of Words
A shrewd politician, Abraham Lincoln recognized the power of the press. He knew that, at most, a few thousand people might hear one of his speeches in person, but countless readers across the nation would absorb his message through newspapers. While he was always under fire by some hostile portion of the openly partisan nineteenth-century media, through the careful cultivation of relationships Lincoln successfully wooed numerous prominent newspapermen into aiding his agenda. Whether he was editing his own speech in a newspaper office or inviting reporters to the White House to leak a story, the President skillfully steered the Union through the perils of war by playing his own version of the public relations game.
Brave Decisions
BRAVE DECISIONS presents true stories of men in American history who met the moral challenge and did "the right thing." Having the courage to choose the right path, these fifteen men, including Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Douglas MacArthur, and Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., have become American heroes. Their dilemmas did not involve simple choices of honor and dishonor but hard, courageous, and ethical paths that had both professional and personal consequences. BRAVE DECISIONS highlights leaders who recognized the right course.
From the Hudson to the Yalu
The author uses his own experiences as a narrative framework for this chronicle of the Korean War years. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Brave Decisions
Brave Decisions is entertaining military history of a different sort. Accompany Stonewall Jackson to Chancellorsville, John J. Pershing to France, and a young Norman Schwarzkopf to Vietnam and learn what it takes to make a real hero - a person who recognizes the right thing and has the courage to do it.
The Korean War
This compelling photographic history examines the war in its entirety, from its causes and protagonists to the strategies, weapons and battles. Goldstein and Maihafer have collected more than 450 vivid photographs, many never before seen by the general public. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Korean conflict, The Korean War remembers the experience of the American fighting man in "the forgotten war."
Victory at Any Cost
Many people do not understand why America lost the Viet Nam War. Author Cecil B. Currey makes one primary reason clear: North Viet Nam's Senior Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap. Victory at Any Cost tells the full story of the man who fought three of the world's great powers--and beat them all.
Crimson Sky
Exciting accounts of a key crossroads in military aviation history
Lincoln's Greatest Speech
In the tradition of Wills's "Lincoln at Gettysburg, Lincoln's Greatest Speech" combines impeccable scholarship and lively, engaging writing to reveal the full meaning of one of the greatest speeches in the nation's history.
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