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World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict inthe history of mankind. However, the half century that now separatesus from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge.While World War II continues to absorb… more

World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict inthe history of mankind. However, the half century that now separatesus from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge.While World War II continues to absorb… more

Well before the end of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, the U. S.Army Center of Military History committed itself to producing a comprehensiveand objective multivolume series of one of our nation’s most complicated andcontrovers… more

World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict inthe history of mankind. However, the half century that now separatesus from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge.While World War II continues to absorb… more

American Armies and Battlefields in Europe, a facsimile edition to commemorate the seventy-fifth birthday of the American Expeditionary Forces, is a unique volume that captures the AEF’s lessons of battle during World War I. Based on the se… more

“An excellent account … . His descriptions of the events sort out many confusions that appear in other studies.” —The Niagara Loyalist”Mr. Williams’s prose is clear and direct, his narrative thorough: He has visited the sites he wri… more

The horrific events of 11 September 2001 are seared into the memories of all Americans and many others around the world. The fall of the Twin Towers in New York, the attack on the Pentagon, the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in a field … more

In 1975, U.S. Army Center of Military History commissioned a report on the History of Strategic Air and Ballistic Missile Defense, Volume I (1945-1955) and Volume II (1956-1972), which was part of a larger study of the strategic arms compet… more

How have the U.S. Army Rangers acted as special operations forces in military operations since 1942? Hogan’s study examines the nature and purpose of the Rangers over the past fifty years and shows how they have served as scouts, raiders, a… more

When a war poses for its picture, it leaves to the artist the selection of theattitude in which the artist may desire to draw it. And this attitude is theartist’s point of view circumscribed by the boundaries of his ability and thenature of… more

Between 1917 and 1945, the U.S. Army’s concepts of armored warfare grew from a platform focus and a narrowly defined mission into a broad capability. Mobility, Shock, and Firepower: The Emergence of the U.S. Army’s Armor Branch, 1917–1945 c… more

A companion volume to Omaha Beachhead, this narrative rounds out the account of the landings at corps level and below and relates the course of VII Corps combat operations which resulted in the capture of Cherbourg on 27 June 1944.

World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict inthe history of mankind. However, the half century that now separatesus from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge.While World War II continues to absorb… more

Edgar F. Raines Jr.’s The Rucksack War: U.S. Army Operational Logistics in Grenada, 1983, the second volume in the U.S. Army Center of Military History’s Contingency Operations Series, provides an account of how Army logistics affected grou… more

Well before the end of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, the U. S.Army Center of Military History committed itself to producing a comprehensiveand objective multivolume series of one of our nation’s most complicated andcontrovers… more

This monograph focuses on the battles of Quang Tri City and Hue that took place during the 1968 Tet offensive . The offensive itself, an all-out effort by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces to overrun the major cities of South Vietnam, m… more

T he military engineers who supported the U.s. army in Vietnam wrote a proud record of achievement that spanned nearly two decades of war. starting with a handful of advisers in the mid-1950s, army engineers landed in force with U.s. ground… more

Revisiting this battle through the “eyes” of the men who were there, both leaders and rank-and-file soldiers, allows one insights into decision mak-ing under pressure and the human condition during battle. The campaign contains many lessons… more

A publication on American miliary history from the beginning to 1998.

In 1906 Maj. Eben Swift took twelve officer-students from Fort Leavenworth’s General Service and Staff School to the Chickamauga battlefield on the Army’s first official staff ride. Since that time Army educators have employed the staff rid… more