100 Turning Points in Military History

100 Turning Points in Military History

Author: Alan Axelrod

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-08-26

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1493037463

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The typical military history presents a chronicle of battles and wars and the commanders and troops who fought them. This book takes a different approach. It presents battles and wars and people aplenty, but they are not its ultimate subjects. This book is about the turning points that not only make military history dynamic but crucial to the story of humanity and civilization. This book is about the decisions, acts, innovations, errors, ideas, successes, and failures that shaped the evolution of military art and science—strategy, tactics, and technology—and, in doing so, shaped the course of world history. Here are the 100 points—from the birth of warfare in the Battle of Megiddo, 1457 BC, to the ongoing evolution of military history on its newest battlefield, cyberspace—at which the path of the warrior decisively turned on its long journey to where we find ourselves today.


100 Turning Points in American History

100 Turning Points in American History

Author: Alan Axelrod

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-04-01

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1493037447

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Arnold J. Toynbee, the most famous professional historian of the twentieth century, is widely quoted as having declared that “History is just one damn thing after another.” This book argues that history is not about “things” at all but is all about turning points—the decisions, acts, innovations, errors, ideas, successes, and failures on which the shape of a nation’s life—our lives—depends. It presents the 100 points at which America’s path decisively turned on its way to where we find ourselves today. ● Columbus arrives in the New World ● The first slaves arrive in America ● Independence is declared ● Female suffragists meet in Seneca Falls ● Fort Sumter falls ● A transcontinental railroad is completed ● Edison lights his first electric lamp ● FDR offers a “New Deal” ● The B-29 Enola Gay drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima ● Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon ● President Nixon creates the EPA ● 9/11 … Obama … Sandy Hook … Russian election “meddling” … the Age of Trump … These and many more are the crucial “plot points” in our grand national story, and best-selling historian Alan Axelrod presents them here.


Turning Points In Military History

Turning Points In Military History

Author: William R. Weir

Publisher: Citadel Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780806526270

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Military historian William R. Weir looks at the key developments in armoury, men, and strategies that forever changed the evolution of war. Weir analyses the evolving interrelationships between these developments to give readers a thorough picture of this fascinating and important subject. Here are fifty turning points that radically changed the face of warfare and, ultimately, the course of history. From the development of basic weapons using wood or bronze to the advent of Smart Weapons, this is the definitve guide.


Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War

Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War

Author: Philip Michael Hett Bell

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780300148855

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In this gripping new look at the 20th century's most crucial conflict, historian Bell analyzes 12 unique turning points that determined the character and the ultimate outcome of the Second World War.


Gettysburg

Gettysburg

Author: Wayne Vansant

Publisher: Zenith Press

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 161058810X

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DIVThe Battle of Gettysburg is a landmark event in United States history. Widely recognized as the Civil War’s turning point, it accounted for the most casualties of any battle during the war and spelled the beginning of the end for the Confederacy./divDIV/divDIVIn this powerful graphic history, Wayne Vansant describes the history leading up to the Battle of Gettysburg, as well all of the major military events on July 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, including the famous fight for Little Round Top on the second day and the death march known as Pickett’s Charge on the third and final day.He paints portraits of each army’s leaders, such as Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet, George Meade, and the then little-known Joshua Chamberlain./divDIV/div Vansant concludes a few months later at the dedication of the Soldier’s National Cemetery in November, 1863, when Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most iconic speeches of all time, the Gettysburg Address. Gettysburg delivers one of the hallmark events of American history in an exciting and innovative format. DIV"Wayne Vansant has authored a graphic account of the Battle ofGettysburgwith rich illustrations and narrative that makes history come alive. This book will not only spark an interest in the terrible battle and sad aftermath, but will provide the reader with a good understanding of the men and armies memorialized atGettysburgNational Military Park today."- JohnHeiser, Historian, Gettysburg, PA/div


The Tet Offensive

The Tet Offensive

Author: Dale Anderson

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9780756518240

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Provides detailed information on the events leading up to and taking place during the Tet Offensive, a turning point in the struggle for the control of Vietnam. Includes source notes and timeline.


Moscow: The Turning Point?

Moscow: The Turning Point?

Author: Klaus Reinhardt

Publisher: Berg Publishers

Published: 1992-11-30

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13:

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Based on a wealth of source material, the author sets out to refute the widely held view among historians and military experts that the German defeat at Stalingrad in the winter of 1942/43 marked the turning-point in the war. He shows how Hitler's attempt to crush the Soviet Union in a Blitz campaign was doomed to failure from the beginning and how defeat outside Moscow compromised his plans for a successful conclusion to the war.


Turning Points of the American Civil War

Turning Points of the American Civil War

Author: Chris Mackowski

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0809336219

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Although most Americans believe that the Battle of Gettysburg was the only turning point of the Civil War, the war actually turned repeatedly. Turning Points of the American Civil War examines key shifts and the context surrounding them, demonstrating that the war was a continuum of watershed events.


American Military History Volume 1

American Military History Volume 1

Author: Army Center of Military History

Publisher:

Published: 2016-06-05

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9781944961404

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American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.


Saratoga

Saratoga

Author: Richard M. Ketchum

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

Published: 2014-08-26

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 1466879521

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Historian Richard M. Ketchum's Saratoga vividly details the turning point in America's Revolutionary War. In the summer of 1777 (twelve months after the Declaration of Independence) the British launched an invasion from Canada under General John Burgoyne. It was the campaign that was supposed to the rebellion, but it resulted in a series of battles that changed America's history and that of the world. Stirring narrative history, skillfully told through the perspective of those who fought in the campaign, Saratoga brings to life as never before the inspiring story of Americans who did their utmost in what seemed a lost cause, achieving what proved to be the crucial victory of the Revolution. A New York Times Notable Book, 1997 Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Award, 1997