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(0)Geoffrey Wawro
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English
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"The heroic American contribution to World War I is one of the great stories of the twentieth century, and yet is largely overlooked by history. In Sons of Freedom, historian Geoffrey Wawro presents the dramatic narrative of the courageous American troops who took up arms in a conflict 4,000 miles across the Atlantic, and in doing so ensured the Allies' victory. Historians have long dismissed the American war effort as too little too late: a delayed...
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English
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"The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe. As prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 652 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
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The Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it began. In its time it sparked budget deficits, campus protests, and an erosion of US influence around the world. Long after the last helicopter evacuated Saigon, Americans have continued to battle over whether it was ever a winnable war. Based on thousands of pages of military, diplomatic, and intelligence documents, Geoffrey Wawro's The Vietnam War offers a definitive account...
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Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
702 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Wawro offers an unprecedented history of our involvement in the Middle East that traces our current quandaries there--in Iraq, Israel, Iran, Afghanistan, and elsewhere--back to their roots almost a century ago.