Resultaten gefilterd op "Potomac Books"

Secrecy Wars

Philip H Melanson, Anthony Summers

• Hardcover | Engels
• The public and the media are fascinated by U.S. government secrets, real and imagined, yet very few people know how the process of obtaining formerly ... Lees meer

Why Nation-Building Matters

Keith W Mines

• Paperback | Engels
• A proposed doctrine and architecture in the core areas of building security forces, economic development, and political consolidation that blends soft... Lees meer

Wade Hampton

Walter Brian Cisco

• Paperback | Engels
• On the eve of the American Civil War, Wade Hampton, one of the wealthiest men in the South and indeed the United States, remained loyal to his native ... Lees meer

The Shadow Warriors of Nakano

Stephen Mercado

• Paperback | Engels
• In the history of the twentieth century, the role of the military intelligence services in the competition among nations is still murky. Among the wor... Lees meer

Molotov

Geoffrey Roberts

• Hardcover | Engels | Shapers of International History
• The orthodox view of Vyacheslav Molotov is that he was no more than Stalin's faithful servant; a dogmatic conservative communist of little or no imagi... Lees meer

From Pusan to Panmunjon

Paik Sun Yup

• Paperback | Engels | Memories of War
• This is the candid and revealing wartime memoir of the soldier who, at the age of just 32, became South Korea's first four-star general. The book brin... Lees meer

Presidents' Most Wanted

Nick Ragone

• Paperback | Engels | Most Wanted (Potomac)
• The presidency is a special office. Along with the vice president, the victorious candidate is our only nationally elected official, and the position ... Lees meer

War in European History, 1660-1792

Jeremy Black

• Paperback | Engels | Essential Bibliography
• The books in the Essential Bibliographies series include an essay by a noted scholar on the important historiographical issues and a pertinent bibliog... Lees meer

Patton's Photographs

Kevin Hymel

• Paperback | Engels
• While researching an article on Gen. George S. Patton, Kevin M. Hymel made an astonishing discovery. Browsing the Library of Congress's Patton index, ... Lees meer

The Marcel Network

Fred Coleman

• Hardcover | Engels
• Syrian immigrant Moussa Abadi was only 33, and his future wife, Odette Rosenstock, 28, when they found themselves trapped in Nazi-occupied France. Thi... Lees meer

Petain

Robert B Bruce

• Hardcover | Engels | Potomac's Military Profiles (Hardcover)
• Few figures in modern French history have aroused more controversy than Marshal Philippe Pétain, who rose from obscurity to great fame in the First Wo... Lees meer

Breeding Ground

Deepak Tripathi

• Hardcover | Engels
• Beginning with the Communist Saur Revolution of 1978 and continuing through Gen. David Petraeus's 2010 appointment replacing Stanley McChrystal as com... Lees meer

Bunker Hill to Bastogne

Briton Cooper Busch

• Paperback | Engels
• America's curiosity about elite military units is greater than ever in today's crisis-ridden world. And while numerous books have examined the various... Lees meer

The Mythology of American Politics

John T Bookman

• Paperback | Engels
• In this provocative set of essays, John Bookman delves beneath the transitory issues of the day to identify and respond to the fundamental, perennial ... Lees meer

The Castro Obsession

Don Bohning

• Hardcover | Engels
• At the height of the Cold War, the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations made removing Fidel Castro's regime one of their highest foreign policy prio... Lees meer

Pirate Hunting

Benerson Little

• Hardcover | Engels
• For thousands of years pirates, privateers, and seafaring raiders have terrorized the ocean voyager and coastal inhabitant, plundering ship and shore ... Lees meer

Virtual Caliphate

Yaakov Lappin

• Hardcover | Engels
• In 1924, the last caliphate--an Islamic state as envisioned by the Koran--was dismantled in Turkey. With no state in existence that matches the radica... Lees meer

Cushing: Civil War SEAL

Robert J Schneller

• Paperback | Engels | Military Profiles (Paperback)
• Though dismissed from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1861, William Barker Cushing soon rejoined the service and transformed himself from a renowned rabble-... Lees meer

Korean Unification

Jacques L Fuqua

• Hardcover | Engels
• Since the conclusion of World War II, the Korean people and the international community have contemplated a unified peninsula, but a divided Korea rem... Lees meer

100 Missions North (Revised)

Ken Bell

• Paperback | Engels
• In 100 Missions North , Ken Bell recounts the harrowing sorties that he and his comrades flew in F-105 Thunderchiefs, the famous "Thud", in 1966-67, w... Lees meer

Air Commanders

• Hardcover | Engels
• Air Commanders combines short military biographies and operational analyses to reveal how the personalities, attitudes, and life experiences of twelve... Lees meer

Cyberpower and National Security

Larry Wentz, Stuart H. Starr, Franklin D. Kramer

• Paperback | Engels
• The cyber domain is undergoing extraordinary changes that present both exceptional opportunities to and major challenges for users of cyberspace. The ... Lees meer

Pauline Frederick Reporting

Marilyn S Greenwald

• Hardcover | Engels
• Pauline Frederick Reporting is the biography of the life and career of the first woman to become a network news correspondent. After no less an author... Lees meer

Sunk in Kula Gulf

John J Domagalski

• Hardcover | Engels
• The early morning hours of July 6, 1943, found the USS Helena in what would later be known as the Battle of Kula Gulf. But the ship's participation in... Lees meer