2016 Military History Catalog

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For more than eighty-five years, the University of Oklahoma Press

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On the cover and in the catalog : Emanuel Leutze, Washington at the Battle of Monmouth,

1857. Courtesy of the Monmouth County Historical Association, Freehold, New

Jersey. Gift of the descendants of David Leavitt, 1937.

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CONTENTS

Napoleonic Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Colonial to Antebellum Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

American Civil War to Turn of the Century . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Twentieth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

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Napoleonic Era Titan

British Power in the Age of Revolution and NapoleonBy William R. Nester

$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5205-9 · 376 Pages

The interplay of individuals and events, the importance of conjunctures and

contingency, the significance of Britain’s island character and resources: all come

into play in Nester’s exploration of the art of British military diplomacy. The result

is a comprehensive and insightful account of the endeavors of statesmen and

generals to master the art of power in a complex battle for empire.

➢CAMPAIGNS AND COMMANDERS

The Man Who Captured WashingtonMajor General Robert Ross and the War of 1812

By John McCavitt and Christopher T. George

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5164-9 · 312 Pages

Despite a military career that included distinguished service in Europe and

North Africa, Ross is better known for his actions than his name: his 1814

campaign in the Chesapeake Bay resulted in the burning of the White House

and Capitol and the unsuccessful assault on Baltimore, immortalized in “The

Star Spangled Banner.” The Man Who Captured Washington is the first in-depth

biography of this important but largely forgotten historical figure.


European Armies of the French Revolution, 1789–1802Edited by Frederick C. Schneid

S34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4039-1 · 288 Pages

In nine essays by leading scholars, European Armies of the French Revolution, 1789–

1802 provides an authoritative, continent-wide analysis of the organization and

constitution of these armies, the challenges they faced, and the impact they

had on the French Revolutionary Wars and on European military practices. The volume opens with editor Frederick C. Schneid’s substantial introduction,

which reviews the strategies and policies of each participating state throughout

the wars, establishing a clear context for the essays that follow.

Women in the Peninsular WarBy Charles J. Esdaile

$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4478-8 · 336 Pages

In Women in the Peninsular War , Esdaile looks beyond the iconography. While

a handful of Spanish and Portuguese women became Agustina-like heroines,

a multitude became victims, and here both of these groups receive their due.

But Esdaile reveals a much more complicated picture in which women are

discovered to have experienced, responded to, and participated in the conflict

in various ways.


BlücherScourge of Napoleon

By Michael V. Leggiere

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4409-2 · 568 Pages

One of the most colorful characters in the Napoleonic pantheon, Gebhard

Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819) is best known as the Prussian general

who, along with the Duke of Wellington, defeated Napoleon at the Battle

of Waterloo. This magnificent biography by Michael V. Leggiere, an award-

winning historian of the Napoleonic Wars, is the first scholarly book in English

to explore Blücher’s life and military career—and his impact on Napoleon.


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Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword The British Regiment on Campaign, 1808–1815

By Andrew Bamford

$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4343-9 · 328 Pages

Although an army’s success is often measured in battle outcomes, its victories

depend on strengths that may be less obvious on the field. In Sickness, Suffering,

and the Sword , military historian Andrew Bamford assesses the effectiveness of

the British Army in sustained campaigning during the Napoleonic Wars.


Outpost of Empire The Napoleonic Occupation of Andalucía, 1810–1812

By Charles J. Esdaile$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4278-4 · 512 Pages

Napoleon’s forces invaded Spain in 1808, but two years went by before they

overran the southern region of Andalucía. Situated at the farthest frontier of

Napoleon’s “outer empire,” Andalucía remained under French control only

briefly—for two-and-a-half years—and never experienced the normal functions

of French rule. In this groundbreaking examination of the Peninsular War,

Charles J. Esdaile moves beyond traditional military history to examine the

French occupation of Andalucía and the origins and results of the region’s

complex and chaotic response.


On WellingtonA Critique of Waterloo

Translated, edited, and annotated by Peter Hofschröer

$32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4108-4 · 272 Pages

Carl von Clausewitz, the Western world’s most renowned military theorist,

participated in the Waterloo campaign as a senior staff officer in the Prussian

army. His appraisal, offered here in an up-to-date and readable translation,

criticized the Duke of Wellington’s actions. Now published for the first time in

English, Hofschröer brings Clausewitz’s critique back into view with thorough

annotation and contextual explanation.


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Wellingtons Two-Front War The Peninsular Campaigns, at Home and Abroad, 1808–1814

By Joshua Moon

$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4157-2 · 272 Pages

Sir Arthur Wellesley’s 1808–1814 campaigns against Napoleon’s forces in

the Iberian Peninsula have drawn the attention of scholars and soldiers for

two centuries. In Wellington’s Two-Front War , Joshua Moon not only surveys

Wellington’s command of British forces against the French but also describes

the battles Wellington fought in England—with an archaic military command

structure, bureaucracy, and fickle public opinion.


Napoleon’s Enfant TerribleGeneral Dominique Vandamme

By John G. Gallaher

$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3875-6 · 384 Pages

A dedicated career soldier and excellent division and corps commander,

Dominique Vandamme was a thorn in the side of practically every officer he

served. Outspoken to a fault, he even criticized Napoleon, whom he never

forgave for not appointing him marshal. His military prowess so impressed the

emperor, however, that he returned Vandamme to command time and again.

In this first book-length study of Vandamme in English, John G. Gallaher traces

the career of one of Napoleon’s most successful midrank officers.

Architects of Empire The Duke of Wellington and His Brothers

By John Severn

$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3810-7 · 512 Pages

A soldier and statesman for the ages, the Duke of Wellington is a towering

figure in world history. John Severn now offers a fresh look at the man born

Arthur Wellesley to show that his career was very much a family affair, a lifelong

series of interactions with his brothers and their common Anglo-Irish heritage. The untold story of a great family drama, Architects of Empire paints a new

picture of the era through the collective biography of Wellesley and his siblings.

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Colonial to Antebellum Period➢CAMPAIGNS AND COMMANDERS

Fatal Sunday George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle

By Mark E. Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone

$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5335-3 · 616 Pages

The Battle of Monmouth was critical to the success of the Revolution. It also

marked a decisive turning point in the military career of George Washington.

Without the victory at Monmouth Courthouse, Washington’s critics might

well have marshaled the political strength to replace him as the American

commander-in-chief. Authors Mark Edward Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone

argue that in political terms, the Battle of Monmouth constituted a pivotalmoment in the War for Independence.

Musket Ball and Small Shot IdentificationA Guide

By Daniel M. Sivilich

$34.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5158-8 · 232 Pages

Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification: A Guide traces the history of musket balls

and small shot, and explores their uses as lethal projectiles and in nonlethal

alterations. Sivilich asks—and answers—a variety of questions to demonstrate

how a musket ball found in a military context can help to interpret the site.

❧ THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY

The Army Surveys of Gold Rush CaliforniaReports of Topographical Engineers, 1849–1851

Edited by Gary Clayton Anderson and Laura Lee Anderson

$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-430-8 · 256 Pages

Historian Gary Clayton Anderson and anthropologist Laura Lee Anderson

provide historical, geographic, and biographical context in the book’s

introduction and in headnotes and annotations for each journal. Thesedocuments offer extraordinary firsthand views of the environment, natural

resources, geography, and early settlement, as well as the effects of disease on

Native and white populations.


The Battle of Lake ChamplainA “Brilliant and Extraordinary Victory”

By John H. Schroeder

$26.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4693-5 · 184 PagesOn September 11, 1814, an American naval squadron under Master

Commandant Thomas Macdonough defeated a formidable British force on

Lake Champlain under the command of Captain George Downie. Examining

the naval and land campaign in strategic, political, and military terms, from

planning to execution to outcome, The Battle of Lake Champlain offers the most

thorough account written of this pivotal moment in American history.

William Wells and the Struggle for the Old NorthwestBy William Heath

$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5119-9 · 520 Pages

Born to Anglo-American parents on the Appalachian frontier, captured

by the Miami Indians at the age of thirteen, and adopted into the tribe,

William Wells (1770–1812) moved between two cultures all his life but was

comfortable in neither. Vilified by some historians for his divided loyalties, he

remains relatively unknown even though he is worthy of comparison with such

famous frontiersmen as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett.


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Connecticut Unscathed Victory in the Great Narragansett War, 1675–1676

By Jason W. Warren

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4475-7 · 240 Pages

The conflict that historians have called King Philip’s War still ranks as one of

the bloodiest per capita in American history. But because Connecticut lacked

a chronicler, its experience has gone largely untold. As Jason Warren makes

clear in Connecticut Unscathed , this imbalance has generated an incomplete

narrative of the war.


Defender of Canada

Sir George Prevost and the War of 1812By John R. Grodzinski

$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4387-3 · 360 Pages

Defender of Canada, the first book-length examination of Prevost’s career,

offers a reinterpretation of the general’s military leadership in the War of

1812. Historian John R. Grodzinski shows that Prevost deserves far greater

credit for the successful defense of Canada than he has heretofore received.

George Rogers Clark“I Glory in War”

By William R. Nester

$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4294-4 · 384 Pages

George Rogers Clark led four victorious campaigns against the Indians and

British during the American Revolution. Although historians have ranked

him among the greatest rebel commanders, Clark’s name is all but forgotten

today. William R. Nester resurrects the story of Clark’s triumphs and his

downfall in this, the first full biography of the man in more than fifty years.


A Perfect Gibraltar The Battle for Monterrey, Mexico, 1846

By Christopher D. Dishman

$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4140-4 · 344 Pages

For three days in the fall of 1846, U.S. and Mexican soldiers fought fiercely in

the picturesque city of Monterrey, turning the northern Mexican town, known

for its towering mountains and luxurious gardens, into one of the nineteenth

century’s most gruesome battlefields. Led by Brigadier General Zachary

Taylor, graduates of the new U.S. Military Academy encountered a city almost

perfectly protected by mountains, a river, and a vast plain. Monterrey’s idealdefensive position inspired more than one U.S. soldier to call the city “a

perfect Gibraltar.”


At Sword’s Point, Part 1A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858

By William P. MacKinnon

$45.00s Cloth • 978-0-87062-353-0 • 544 Pages

The Utah War of 1857–58, the unprecedented armed confrontation betweenMormon Utah Territory and the U.S. government, was the most extensive

American military action between the Mexican and Civil wars. At Sword’s Point

presents in two volumes the first in-depth narrative and documentary history

of that extraordinary conflict.


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The Far Reaches of Empire War in Nova Scotia, 1710–1760

By John Grenier

$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3876-3 · 288 Pages

The Far Reaches of Empire chronicles the half century of Anglo-American efforts to

establish dominion in Nova Scotia, an important French foothold in the New

World. John Grenier examines the conflict of cultures and peoples in the colonial

Northeast through the lens of military history as he tells how Britons and Yankees

waged a tremendously efficient counterinsurgency that ultimately crushed every

remnant of Acadian, Indian, and French resistance in Nova Scotia.

American Civil War toTurn of the Century➢CAMPAIGNS AND COMMANDERS

Kill Jeff Davis The Union Raid on Richmond, 1864

By Bruce M. Venter

$29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-5153-3 · 384 Pages

The ostensible goal of the controversial Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on

Richmond was to free some 13,000 Union prisoners of war held in the

Confederate capital. But orders found on the dead body of the raid’s

subordinate commander, Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, point instead to a plot

to capture or kill Confederate president Jefferson Davis and set Richmond

ablaze. Kill Jeff Davis offers a fresh look at the failed raid and mines newly

discovered documents and little-known sources to provide definitive answers.

Fort Bascom

Soldiers, Comancheros, and Indians in the Canadian River Valley By James Bailey Blackshear

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5209-7 · 272 Pages

In Fort Bascom, James Bailey Blackshear presents the definitive history of this

critical outpost in the American Southwest, along with a detailed view of army

life on the late-nineteenth-century western frontier. Blackshear shows the

difficulties of maintaining a post in a harsh environment where scarce water

and forage, long supply lines, poorly constructed facilities, and monotonous

duty tested soldiers’ endurance.

Photographing Custer’s Battlefield The Images of Kenneth F. Roahen

By Sandy Barnard

$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5159-5 · 280 Pages

In Photographing Custer’s Battlefield , Sandy Barnard, an expert on Custer and the

Little Big Horn, presents the work of the site’s most dedicated photographer,

U.S. Fish and Game agent Kenneth F. Roahen (1888–1976), revealing further

mysteries of the battlefield and showing how it has changed.

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The Civil War Years in Utah The Kingdom of God and the Territory That Did Not Fight

By John Gary Maxwell

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4911-0 · 488 Pages

While the Civil War spread death, tragedy, and sorrow across the continent, Utah Territory remained virtually untouched. Although the Church of Jesus Christ of

Latter-day Saints—and its faithful—proudly praise the service of an 1862 Mormon

cavalry company during the Civil War, Maxwell’s research exposes the relatively

inconsequential contribution of these Nauvoo Legion soldiers.

Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and ResistanceOther Sides of Civil War Texas

Edited by Jesús F. de la Teja

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5182-3 · 296 Pages

$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5183-0 · 296 Pages

Concluding with an account of the origins of Juneteenth—the nationally

celebrated holiday marking June 19, 1865, when emancipation was

announced in Texas—Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance challenges

the collective historical memory of Civil War Texas and its place in both the

Confederacy and the United States. It provides material for a fresh narrative,

one including people on the margins of history and dispelling the myth of a

monolithically Confederate Texas.

Blood on the Marias The Baker MassacreBy Paul R. Wylie

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5157-1 · 336 Pages

While other scholars have written about the Baker Massacre in related

contexts, Blood on the Marias gives this infamous event the definitive treatment

it deserves. Baker’s inept command lit the spark of violence, but decades of

tension between Piegans and whites set the stage for a brutal and too-often-

forgotten incident.

Through Indian Sign Language The Fort Sill Ledgers of Hugh Lenox Scott and Iseeo, 1889–1897

Edited by William C. Meadows

$55.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4727-7 · 520 Pages

The Scott ledgers contain an array of historical, linguistic, and ethnographic

data—a wealth of primary-source material on Southern Plains Indian people.

Meadows describes Plains Indian Sign Language, its origins and history, and

its significance to anthropologists. He also sketches the lives of Scott and

Iseeo, explaining how they met, how Scott learned the language, and how

their working relationship developed and served them both.

❧ THE ARTHUR H CLARK COMPANY

Californio Lancers The 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry in the Far West, 1863–1866

By Tom Prezelski

$32.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-436-0 · 248 Pages

Although some ten thousand Spanish-surnamed Americans served during

the Civil War, their support of the Union is almost unknown in the popular

imagination. Californio Lancers contributes to our understanding of theCivil War in the Far West and how it transformed the Mexican-American

community.


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Health of the Seventh CavalryA Medical History

Edited by P. Willey and Douglas D. Scott

$32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4839-7 · 480 Pages

In Health of the Seventh Cavalry , editors P. Willey and Douglas D. Scott and theirco-contributors—experts in history, medicine, human biology, epidemiology,

and human osteology—examine the Seventh’s medical records to determine the

health of the nineteenth-century U.S. Army, and the prevalence and treatment

of the numerous conditions that plagued soldiers during the Indian Wars.

The Gray Fox George Crook and the Indian Wars

By Paul Magid

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4706-2 · 480 Pages

As Paul Magid portrays Crook in this highly readable second volume of a

projected three-volume biography, the general was an innovative and eccentric

soldier, with a complex and often contradictory personality, whose activities

often generated intense controversy. Though known for his uncompromising

ferocity in battle, he nevertheless respected his enemy and grew to know them.


Before Custer Surveying the Yellowstone, 1872

By M. John Lubetkin$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-431-5 · 328 Pages

The firsthand accounts compiled here by M. John Lubetkin document the

survey’s three-month struggle with the Lakotas and other Plains Indian

people. Before Custer: Surveying the Yellowstone, 1872 tells of a little-known but

crucial episode in the history of westward expansion and Native peoples’

efforts to halt that expansion.


Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone SurveyA Documentary History

$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-422-3 · 320 pages

$125.00s Limited Edition · 978-0-87062-427-8 · 320 pages

Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey examines the expedition told through

documents selected and interpreted by historian M. John Lubetkin.

The U.S. Army was determined to punish the Sioux, and the Northern

Pacific desperately needed to complete its engineering work and resume

construction. The expedition mounted in 1873—larger than all previous

surveys combined—included “embedded” newspaper correspondents and

1,600 infantry and cavalry, the latter led by George Armstrong Custer.


The Early Morning of War Bull Run, 1861

By Edward G. Longacre

$29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4498-6 · 648 Pages

This crucial campaign receives its most complete and comprehensive

treatment in Edward G. Longacre’s The Early Morning of War . A magisterial

work by a veteran historian, The Early Morning of War blends narrative and

analysis to convey the full scope of the campaign of First Bull Run—its

drama and suspense as well as its practical and tactical underpinnings and

ramifications.


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Soldiers in the Army of Freedom The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War’s First African American Combat Unit

By Ian Michael Spurgeon

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4618-8 · 400 Pages

Soldiers in the Army of Freedom is the first published account of this largely

forgotten regiment and, in particular, its contribution to Union victory in the

trans-Mississippi theater of the Civil War. As such, it restores the First Kansas

Colored Infantry to its rightful place in American history.

A Corporal’s Story Civil War Recollections of the Twelfth Massachusetts

By George Kimball

Edited by Alan D. Gaff and Donald H. Gaff

$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4480-1 · 368 Pages

When George Kimball (1840–1916) joined the Twelfth Massachusetts in

1861, he’d been in the newspaper trade for five years. When he mustered

out three years later, having been wounded at Fredericksburg and again at

Gettysburg (mortally, it was mistakenly assumed at the time), he returned

to newspaper life. Collected in A Corporal’s Story , Kimball’s writings form a

unique narrative of one man’s experience in the Civil War, viewed through a

perspective enhanced by time and reflection.

American Carnage Wounded Knee, 1890

By Jerome A. Greene

$34.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4448-1 · 648 Pages

In this gripping tale, Jerome A. Greene—renowned specialist on the Indian

wars—explores why the bloody engagement happened and demonstrates

how it became a brutal massacre. Drawing on a wealth of sources, including

previously unknown testimonies, Greene examines the events from both

Native and non-Native perspectives, explaining the significance of treaties,

white settlement, political disputes, and the Ghost Dance as influentialfactors in what eventually took place.

The River Was Dyed with BloodNathan Bedford Forrest and Fort Pillow

By Brian Steel Wills

$29.95 Cloth • 978-0-8061-4453-5 · 288 Pages

In The River Was Dyed with Blood , best-selling Forrest biographer Brian Steel

Wills argues that although atrocities did occur after the fall of the fort,

Forrest did not order or intend a systematic execution of its defenders.

Rather, the general’s great failing was losing control of his troops. The battle-scarred fighter with his homespun aphorisms was neither an infallible warrior

nor a heartless butcher, but a product of his time and his heritage.

Battles and Massacres on the Southwestern Frontier Historical and Archaeological Perspectives

By Ronald K. Wetherington and Frances Levine

$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4440-5 · 260 Pages

This unique study centers on four critical engagements between Anglo-

Americans and American Indians on the southwestern frontier: the Battleof Cieneguilla (1854), the Battle of Adobe Walls (1864), the Sand Creek

Massacre (1864), and the Mountain Meadows Massacre (1857). Editors

Ronald K. Wetherington and Frances Levine juxtapose historical and

archaeological perspectives on each event to untangle the ambiguity and

controversy that surround both historical and more contemporary accounts

of each of these violent outbreaks.


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Shooting Arrows and Slinging MudCuster, the Press, and the Little Bighorn

By James E. Mueller

$29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4398-0 · 272 Pages

In Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud , James E. Mueller draws on exhaustiveresearch of period newspapers to explore press coverage of the famous battle.

As he analyzes a wide range of accounts—some grim, some circumspect, some

even laced with humor—Mueller offers a unique take on the dramatic events

that so shook the American public.

Los Angeles in Civil War Days, 1860–1865By John W. Robinson

$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4312-5 · 204 Pages

Most accounts of California’s role in the Civil War focus on the northern part

of the state, San Francisco in particular. In Los Angeles in Civil War Days, John

W. Robinson looks to the southern half and offers an enlightening sketch of

Los Angeles and its people, politics, and economic trends from 1860 to 1865.


Custer, the Seventh Cavalry, and the Little Big HornA Bibliography

By Michael O’Keefe

$125.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-404-9 · 720 Pages

Since the shocking news first broke in 1876 of the Seventh Cavalry’s disastrous

defeat at the Little Big Horn, fascination with the battle—and with Lieutenant

George Armstrong Custer—has never ceased. Widespread interest in the

subject has spawned a vast outpouring of literature, which only increases

with time. This two-volume bibliography of Custer literature is the first to be

published in some twenty-five years and the most complete ever assembled.

After CusterLoss and Transformation in Sioux Country

By Paul L. Hedren

$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4216-2 · 272 Pages

Between 1876 and 1877, the U.S. Army battled Lakota Sioux and Northern

Cheyenne Indians in a series of vicious conflicts known today as the Great

Sioux War. After the defeat of Custer at the Little Big Horn in June 1876, the

army responded to its stunning loss by pouring fresh troops and resources

into the war effort. In this unique contribution to American western history,

Paul L. Hedren examines the war’s effects on the culture, environment, and

geography of the northern Great Plains, their Native inhabitants, and the

Anglo-American invaders.

Violent EncountersInterviews on Western Massacres

By Deborah Lawrence and Jon Lawrence

$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4126-8 · 224 Pages

Merciless killing in the nineteenth-century American West, as this unusual

book shows, was not as simple as depicted in dime novels and movie

Westerns. The scholars interviewed here, experts on violence in the West,

embrace a wide range of approaches and perspectives and challenge both

traditional views of western expansion and politically correct ideologies.


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Our Centennial Indian War and the Life of General CusterBy Frances Fuller Victor

Introduction by Jerome A. Greene

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4173-2 · 208 Pages

Published even before the Great Sioux War had ended, Our CentennialIndian War and the Life of General Custer was the first contemporary and

comprehensive account of the successive army operations in 1876 and early

1877. It was a major accomplishment. Victor drew information from a wide

range of sources to explain the lengthy, disjointed struggle between the army

and the Lakota-Cheyenne coalition.


Red Cloud’s War The Bozeman Trail, 1866–1868

By John D. McDermott

$75.00s Cloth • 978-0-87062-376-9 • 704 Pages

On a cold December day in 1866, Captain William J. Fetterman disobeyed

orders and spurred his men across Lodge Trail Ridge in pursuit of a group

of retreating Lakota Sioux, Arapahos, and Cheyennes. He saw a perfect

opportunity to punish the tribes for harassing travelers on the Bozeman

Trail and attacking wood trains sent out from nearby Fort Phil Kearny. In a

sudden turn of events, his command was, within moments, annihilated. John

D. McDermott’s spellbinding narrative offers a cautionary tale of hubris and

miscalculation.

War Party in BluePawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army

By Mark van de Logt

$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4139-8 · 368 Pages

In War Party in Blue, Mark van de Logt tells the story of the Pawnee scouts

from their perspective, detailing the battles in which they served and

recounting hitherto neglected episodes.

Beyond Bear’s Paw The Nez Perce Indians in Canada

By Jerome A. Greene

$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4068-1 · 264 Pages

Beyond Bear’s Paw is the first book to explore the fate of these “nontreaty” Nez

Perce Indians. Drawing on hitherto unexplored Canadian and U.S. sources,

including reminiscences of Nez Perce participants, Jerome A. Greene presents

an epic story of human endurance under duress.

Jayhawkers The Civil War Brigade of James Henry Lane

By Bryce Benedict

$32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3999-9 · 352 Pages

Bringing to life an era of guerillas, bushwhackers, and slave stealers, Jayhawkers

also describes how Lane’s brigade was organized and equipped and provides

details regarding staff and casualties. Assessing the extent to which the

jayhawkers followed accepted rules of warfare, Benedict argues that Lane set

a precedent for the Union Army’s eventual adoption of “hard” tactics toward

civilians.


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Class and Race in the Frontier ArmyMilitary Life in the West, 1870–1890

By Kevin Adams

$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3981-4 · 296 Pages

Treating the army as a laboratory to better understand American society inthe Gilded Age, Adams suggests that military attitudes mirrored civilian life

in that era—with enlisted men, especially, illustrating the emerging class-

consciousness among the working poor. Class and Race in the Frontier Army

offers fresh insight into the interplay of class, race, and ethnicity in late-

nineteenth-century America.


Fort LaramieMilitary Bastion of the High Plains

By Douglas C. McChristian

$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-360-8 · 448 Pages

Douglas C. McChristian has written the first complete history of Fort Laramie,

chronicling every critical stage in its existence, including its addition to

the National Park System. He draws on an extraordinary array of archival

materials–including those at Fort Laramie National Historic Site–to present

new data about the fort and new interpretations of historical events.


Powder River OdysseyNelson Cole’s Western Campaign of 1865

The Journals of Lyman G. Bennett and Other Eyewitness Accounts

By David E. Wagner

$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-359-2 · 288 Pages

David E. Wagner’s Powder River Odyssey: Nelson Cole’s Western Campaign of 1865

tells the story of a largely forgotten campaign at the pivotal moment when the

Civil War ended and the Indian wars captured national attention.

The Fall of a Black Army OfficerRacism and the Myth of Henry O. Flipper

By Charles M. Robinson III

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3521-2 · 216 Pages

The Fall of a Black Army Officer boldly moves the arguments regarding racism—

in both Lt. Flipper’s case and the frontier army in general—beyond political

correctness. Solidly grounded in archival research, it is a thorough and

provocative reassessment of the Flipper affair, at last revealing the truth.

Stricken Field The Little Bighorn since 1876

By Jerome A. Greene

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3791-9 · 384 Pages

Stricken Field is a cautionary tale. Greene elucidates the conflict between

the Park Service’s dual mission to provide public access while preserving

the integrity of a historical resource. He also traces the complex events

surrounding the site, including Indian protests in the 1970s and 1980s

that ultimately contributed to the 2003 dedication of a monument finally

recognizing the Lakotas, Northern Cheyennes, and other American Indians

who fought there.


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Uniforms, Arms, and Equipment , 2 volume set The U.S. Army on the Western Frontier 1880–1892

By Douglas C. McChristian

$50.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-9961-0 · 664 Pages

Building on the success of his best-selling The U.S. Army in the West, 1870–1880: Uniforms, Arms, and Equipment , Douglas C. McChristian here presents

a two-volume comprehensive account of the evolution of military arms

and equipment during the years 1880–1892. The volumes are set against

the backdrop of the final decade of the Indian campaigns—a key period of

transition in United States military history.

Twentieth CenturySomewhere Over There The Letters, Diary, and Artwork of a World War I Corporal

By Francis H. Webster

Edited by Darrek D. Orwig

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5172-4 · 296 Pages

Using his skills as an illustrator, Webster documented firsthand the harsh

realities of combat life and regularly submitted visual dispatches of his

experiences back to an Iowa newspaper. The first published collection of

Webster’s wartime chronicles, Somewhere Over There presents a unique view

of World War I through a rare compilation of letters, diary entries, cartoons,sketches, and watercolors.


Rediscovering Irregular WarfareColin Gubbins and the Origins of Britain’s Special Operations Executive

By A. R. B. Linderman

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5167-0 · 288 Pages

The history of the SOE’s doctrinal origins is Colin Gubbins’s story. By

telling that story, Rediscovering Irregular Warfare amplifies and clarifies ourunderstanding of the Second World War—and of doctrines of unconventional

warfare in the twentieth century.

In Love and War The World War II Courtship Letters of a Nisei Couple

By Melody M. Miyamoto Walters

$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4820-5 · 296 Pages

In Love and War recounts the wartime experiences of author Melody

M. Miyamoto Walters’s grandparents, two second-generation JapaneseAmericans, or Nisei, living in Hawaii. Their love story, narrated in letters

they wrote each other from July 1941 to June 1943, offers a unique view of

Hawaiian Nisei and the social and cultural history of territorial Hawaii during

World War II.

Brummett EchohawkPawnee Thunderbird and Artist

By Kristin M. Youngbull

$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4826-7 · 224 Pages

A true American hero who earned a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and aCongressional Gold Medal, Brummett Echohawk was also a Pawnee on

the European battlefields of World War II. This first book-length biography

depicts Echohawk as a soldier, painter, writer, humorist, and actor

profoundly shaped by his Pawnee heritage and a man who refused to be

pigeonholed as an “Indian artist.”


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Moroni and the SwastikaMormons in Nazi Germany

By David Conley Nelson

$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4668-3 · 432 Pages

A page-turning historical narrative, this book is the first full account of howMormons avoided Nazi persecution through skilled collaboration with Hitler’s

regime, and then eschewed postwar shame by constructing an alternative

history of wartime suffering and resistance.


The Last Cavalryman The Life of General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr.

By Harvey Ferguson

$29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4664-5 · 448 Pages

In this biography of Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., author Harvey Ferguson tells the

story of how Truscott—despite his hardscrabble beginnings, patchy education,

and questionable luck—not only made the rank of army lieutenant general,

earning a reputation as one of World War II’s most effective officers along

the way, but was also given an honorary promotion to four-star general seven

years after his retirement.

The Great Call-Up The Guard, the Border, and the Mexican Revolution

By Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4645-4 · 576 Pages

On June 18, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson called up virtually the entire

army National Guard, some 150,000 men, to meet an armed threat to the

United States: border raids covertly sponsored by a Mexican government in

the throes of revolution. The Great Call-Up tells for the first time the complete

story of this unprecedented deployment.

The Second Pearl Harbor The West Loch Disaster, May 21, 1944

By Gene Salecker

$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4476-4 · 296 Pages

Military historian Gene Salecker recounts the events and conditions leading

up to the explosion, then re-creates the drama directly afterward: men

swimming through flaming oil, small craft desperately trying to rescue the

injured, and subsequent explosions throwing flaming debris everywhere. With

meticulous attention to detail the author explains why he and other historians

believe that the official explanation for the cause of the explosion, that a

mortar shell was accidentally detonated, is wrong.


Special Operations in World War IIBritish and American Irregular Warfare

By Andrew L. Hargreaves

$36.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4396-5 · 352 Pages

In this book, Andrew L. Hargreaves not only describes tactics and operations

but also outlines the distinctions between commandos and special forces,

traces their evolution during the war, explains how the Anglo-American

alliance functioned in the creation and use of these units, looks at theircommand and control arrangements, evaluates their impact, and assesses

their cost-effectiveness.


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Under the EagleSamuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker

By Samuel Holiday and Robert S. McPherson

$19.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4389-7 · 288 Pages

Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by theMarine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit

secret communications on the battlefield. Based on extensive interviews with

Robert S. McPherson, Under the Eagle is Holiday’s vivid account of his own

story. It is the only book-length oral history of a Navajo code talker in which

the narrator relates his experiences in his own voice and words.


Going for Broke Japanese American Soldiers in the War against Nazi Germany

By James M. McCaffrey

$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4337-8 · 408 Pages

In Going for Broke, historian James M. McCaffrey traces the experiences of

Japanese American soldiers in World War II, from training to some of the

deadliest combat in Europe. McCaffrey’s account makes clear that like other

American soldiers in World War II, the second generation Japanese Americans

relied on their personal determination, social values, and training to “go for

broke”—to bet everything, even their lives.


A Military History of the Cold War, 1944–1962By Jonathan M. House

$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4262-3 · 560 Pages

The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the 1950s

and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affected

millions of lives. This book is the first comprehensive, multinational overview

of military affairs during the early Cold War, beginning with conflicts during

World War II in Warsaw, Athens, and Saigon and ending with the Cuban

Missile Crisis.

The Complexity of Modern Asymmetric WarfareBy Max G. Manwaring

$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4265-4 · 224 Pages

Manwaring’s multidimensional paradigm offers military and civilian leaders

a much needed blueprint for achieving strategic victories and ensuring global

security now and in the future. It combines military and police efforts with

politics, diplomacy, economics, psychology, and ethics. The challenge he

presents to civilian and military leaders is to take probable enemy perspectives

into consideration, and turn resultant conceptions into strategic victories.


Into the Breach at Pusan The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade in the Korean War

By Kenneth W. Estes

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4254-8 · 216 Pages

In the opening campaign of the Korean War, the First Provisional Marine

Brigade participated in a massive effort by United States and South Korean

forces in 1950 to turn back the North Korean invasion of the Republic of

Korea. The brigade’s actions loom large in marine lore. Historian and retired

marine Kenneth W. Estes undertakes a fresh investigation of the marines’ and

Eighth Army’s fight for Pusan.


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After My LaiMy Year Commanding First Platoon, Charlie Company

By Gary W. Bray

$16.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4045-2 · 184 Pages

In the fall of 1969, Gary Bray landed in South Vietnam as a recently married,freshly minted second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. His assignment was not

enviable: leading the platoon whose former members had committed the

My Lai massacre—the murder of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians—eighteen

months earlier. In this compelling memoir, he shares his experiences of

Vietnam in the direct wake of that terrible event.

Hero Street, U.S.A. The Story of Little Mexico’s Fallen Soldiers

By Marc Wilson

$19.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4012-4 · 224 Pages

Second Street in Silvis, Illinois, was a poor neighborhood during the Great

Depression that had become home to Mexicans fleeing revolution in their

homeland. In 1971 it was officially renamed “Hero Street” to commemorate

its claim to the highest per-capita casualty rate from any neighborhood during

World War II. Marc Wilson now tells the story of this community and the

young men it sent to fight for their adopted country.

On the Western Front with the Rainbow DivisionA World War I Diary

By Vernon E. Kniptash

Edited by E. Bruce Geelhoed

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4032-2 · 256 Pages

With clarity and compelling detail, Kniptash describes the experiences of an

ordinary soldier thrust into the most violent conflict the world had seen. He

tells of his enthusiasm upon enlistment and of the horrors of combat that

followed, as well as the drudgery of daily routine. He renders unforgettable

profiles of his fellow soldiers and commanders, and manages despite the

strains of warfare to leaven his writing with humor.

Finding a Fallen Hero The Death of a Ball Turret Gunner

By Bob Korkuc

$29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3892-3 · 272 Pages

Finding a Fallen Hero is a compelling story that blends a wartime drama with

a primer on specialized research. Author Bob Korkuc initially set out to

learn how his Uncle Tony came to rest at Arlington. In the process, he also

unraveled the mystery of what occurred over the skies of Germany half a

century ago.


Volunteers on the VeldBritain’s Citizen-Soldiers and the South African War, 1899–1902

By Stephen M. Miller

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3864-0 · 248 Pages

When the Second Boer War erupted in South Africa in 1899, Great Britain

was confident that victory would come quickly and decisively. Instead, the war

lasted for three grueling years. This book spotlights Britain’s “citizen army” toshow who these volunteers were, why they enlisted, how they were trained—

and how they quickly became disillusioned when they found themselves

committed not to the supposed glories of conventional battle but instead to a

prolonged guerrilla war.


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New in PaperbackOf Uncommon Birth

Dakota Sons in VietnamBy Mark St. Pierre

$19.95s Paper · 9780806153452 · 320 Pages

A work of creative nonfiction inspired by the true story of two South

Dakota teenagers, Mark St. Pierre’s Of Uncommon Birth draws upon extensive

interviews and exhaustive research in military archives to present a harrowing

story of two young men—one white, one Indian—caught in the vortex of the

Vietnam War.


Borrowed SoldiersAmericans under British Command, 1918

By Mitchell A. Yockelson

$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5349-0 · 332 Pages

The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully

pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World

War I, an offensive that hastened the war’s end. Yet despite the importance of

this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant attention

from historians. Mitchell A. Yockelson delivers a comprehensive study of the

first time American and British soldiers who fought together as a coalitionforce more than twenty years before D-Day.

From POW to Blue Angel The Story of Commander Dusty Rhodes

By Jim Armstrong

$19.95s Paper · 9780806153421 · 320 Pages

As only the third fighter pilot to become leader of the Blue Angels, Raleigh

E. “Dusty” Rhodes helped develop the most famous aerobatics team ever

formed. From POW to Blue Angel tells his story—a fast-paced drama teemingwith action and human interest and capturing the initiative and tenacity of a

true American hero.


Napoleon in Italy The Sieges of Mantua, 1796–1799

By Phillip R. Cuccia

$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5184-7 · 328 Pages

In Napoleon in Italy , Phillip R. Cuccia brings to light two understudied

aspects of these trying periods in Mantua’s history: siege warfare and the

conditions it created inside the city. Unlike other military histories of the era,

Napoleon in Italy brings to light the words of soldiers, leaders, and citizens

who experienced the sieges firsthand. Cuccia also shows how the sieges had

consequences long after they were over.

The French and Indian War andthe Conquest of New FranceBy William R. Nester

$29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5189-2 · 400 PagesIn The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France, the only

comprehensive account from the French perspective, William R. Nester

explains how and why the French were defeated. He explores the fascinating

personalities and epic events that shaped French diplomacy, strategy, and

tactics and determined North America’s destiny.


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Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand CreekBy Louis Kraft

$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5188-5 · 336 Pages

When Edward W. Wynkoop arrived in Colorado Territory during the 1858

gold rush, he was one of many ambitious newcomers seeking wealth in apromising land mostly inhabited by American Indians. After he worked as

a miner, sheriff, bartender, and land speculator, Wynkoop’s life drastically

changed after he joined the First Colorado Volunteers to fight for the Union

during the Civil War.


All for the King’s Shilling The British Soldier under Wellington, 1808–1814

By Edward J. Coss

$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5177-9 · 392 Pages

The British troops have long been branded by the Duke of Wellington’s own

words—“scum of the earth”—and assumed to have been society’s ne’er-do-

wells or criminals who enlisted to escape justice. Now Edward J. Coss shows

to the contrary that most of these redcoats were respectable laborers and

tradesmen and that it was mainly their working-class status that prompted

the duke’s derision.


Three Days in the ShenandoahStonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester

By Gary Ecelbarger

$21.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5186-1 · 288 Pages

The battles of Front Royal and Winchester are the stuff of Civil War legend.

Stonewall Jackson swept away an isolated Union division under the command

of Nathaniel Banks and made his presence in the northern Shenandoah Valley

so frightful a prospect that it triggered an overreaction from President Lincoln,

yielding huge benefits for the Confederacy. Gary Ecelbarger has undertaken a

comprehensive reassessment of those battles to show their influence on bothwar strategy and the continuation of the conflict.


Climax at Gallipoli The Failure of the August Offensive

By Rhys Crawley

$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5206-6 · 376 Pages

Climax at Gallipoli examines the performance of the Allies’ Mediterranean

Expeditionary Force from the beginning of the Gallipoli Campaign to thebitter end. Crawley reminds us that in 1915, the second year of the war, the

Allies were still trying to adapt to a new form of warfare, with static defense

replacing the maneuver and offensive strategies of earlier British doctrine.

Bracketing the EnemyForward Observers in World War II

By John R. Walker

$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4843-4 · 300 Pages

After the end of World War II, General George Patton declared that artillery had

won the war. Yet howitzers did not achieve victory on their own. Crucial to the

success of these big guns were forward observers, artillerymen on the front lines

who directed the artillery fire. In Bracketing the Enemy, John R. Walker offers the

first full-length history of forward observer teams during World War II.


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A Polish Doctor in the Nazi CampsMy Mother’s Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, and a Life Remade

By Barbara Rylko-Bauer

$19.95 Paper · 9780806151915 · 416 Pages

Jadwiga Lenartowicz Rylko, was a young Polish Catholic physician in Lódz atthe start of World War II. Suspected of resistance activities, she was arrested in

January 1944. For the next fifteen months, she endured three Nazi concentration

camps and a forty-two-day death march, spending part of this time working as

a prisoner-doctor to Jewish slave laborers. A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps follows

Jadzia from her childhood and medical training, through her wartime experiences,

to her struggles to create a new life in the postwar world.


All Canada in the Hands of the BritishGeneral Jeffery Amherst and the 1760 Campaign to Conquer New France

By Douglas R. Cubbison

$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4849-6 · 304 Pages

Using archival materials, archaeological evidence, and the firsthand accounts

of junior provincial soldiers, Cubbison takes us from the eighteenth-century

antagonisms between the British and French in the New World through the

Seven Years’ War, to the final siege and its historic significance for colonial

Canada. In one of the most decisive victories of the Seven Years’ War, Amherst

was able, after a mere four weeks, to claim all of Canada.

Invasion of Laos, 1971Lam Son 719

By Robert D. Sander

$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4840-3 · 304 Pages

Sander chronicles not only the planning and execution of the operation but also the

maneuvers of the bastions of political and military power during the ten-year effort

to end Communist infiltration of South Vietnam, leading up to Lam Son 719. The

result is a picture from disparate perspectives: the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon

administrations; the South Vietnamese government led by President Nguyen Van Thieu; and senior U.S. military commanders and army aviators.


A Generous and Merciful EnemyLife for German Prisoners of War during the American Revolution

By Daniel Krebs

$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4844-1 · 396 Pages

Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities entered service as British

auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. Drawing on research in

German military records and common soldiers’ letters and diaries, Daniel Krebs

places the prisoners on center stage in A Generous and Merciful Enemy , portraying

them as individuals rather than simply as numbers in casualty lists.

Uncovering HistoryArchaeological Investigations at the Little Bighorn

By Douglas D. Scott

$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4662-1 · 264 pages

Almost as soon as the last shot was fired in the Battle of the Little Bighorn,

the battlefield became an archaeological site. For many years afterward, asfascination with the famed 1876 fight intensified, visitors to the area scavenged

the many relics left behind. It took decades, however, before researchers began

to tease information from the battle’s debris—and the new field of battlefield

archaeology began to emerge. In Uncovering History , renowned archaeologist

Douglas D. Scott offers a comprehensive account of investigations at the Little

Bighorn, from the earliest collecting efforts to early-twentieth-century findings.


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Terrible JusticeSioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 1854–1868

By Doreen Chaky

$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4652-2 · 408 Pages

Terrible Justice explores not only relations between the Sioux and theiropponents but also the discord among Sioux bands themselves. Moving

beyond earlier historians’ focus on the Brulé and Oglala bands, Chaky

examines how the northern, southern, and Minnesota Sioux bands all became

involved in and were affected by the U.S. invasion.

Columns of VengeanceSoldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 1863–1864

By Paul N. Beck

$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4596-9· 328 Pages

In summer 1862, Minnesotans found themselves fighting interconnected

wars—the first against the rebellious Southern states, and the second an

internal war against the Sioux. While the Civil War was more important to

the future of the United States, the Dakota War of 1862 proved far more

destructive to the people of Minnesota—both whites and American Indians. In

Columns of Vengeance, historian Paul N. Beck offers a reappraisal of the Punitive

Expeditions of 1863 and 1864, the U.S. Army’s response to the Dakota War

of 1862.

Dragoons in ApachelandConquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 1846–1861By William S. Kiser

$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4650-8 · 376 pages

In the fifteen years prior to the American Civil War, the U.S. Army established

a presence in the Apache Indian homeland of southern New Mexico. The

Apaches presented an obstacle to be overcome in making the region safe

for Anglo settlers. In Dragoons in Apacheland , Kiser recounts the conflicts that

ensued and examines how both Apache warriors and American troops shaped

the future of the Southwest Borderlands.


No Turning Point The Saratoga Campaign in Perspective

By Theodore Corbett

$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4661-3 · 448 Pages

Setting the Battle of Saratoga in its social and political context, Theodore

Corbett examines Saratoga and its aftermath as part of ongoing conflicts

among the settlers of the Hudson and Champlain valleys of New York,

Canada, and Vermont. This long, more local view reveals that the Americanvictory actually resolved very little.


Victory at Peleliu The 81st Infantry Division’s Pacific Campaign

By Bobby C. Blair and John P. DeCioccio

$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4680-5 · 320 Pages

When the 1st Marine Division began its invasion of Peleliu in September 1944,

the operation in the South Pacific was to take but four days. In fact, capturingthis small coral island in the Palaus with its strategic airstrip took two months

and involved some of the bloodiest fighting of the Second World War in the

Pacific. Now Bobby C. Blair and John Peter DeCioccio tell the story of this

campaign through the eyes of the 81st Infantry to offer a revised assessment.


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The War of 1812 in the Age of NapoleonBy Jeremy Black

$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4458-0 · 304 Pages

The War of 1812 is etched into American memory with the burning of

the Capitol and the White House by British forces and the decisive naval

battle of New Orleans. Now a respected British military historian offers an

international perspective on the conflict to better gauge its significance.

In The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon, Jeremy Black provides a dramatic

account of the war framed within a wider political and economic context

than most American historians have previously considered.

Hancock’s WarConflict on the Southern Plains

By William Y. Chalfant

$26.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4459-7 · 296 pages

This first thorough scholarly history of the ill-conceived expedition

offers an unequivocal evaluation of military strategies and a culturally

sensitive interpretation of Indian motivations and reactions. Chalfant

explores the vastly different ways of life that separated the Cheyennes

and U.S. policymakers, and argues that neither side was willing or able to

understand the needs of the other. He shows how Hancock’s efforts were

counterproductive, brought untold misery to Indians and whites alike, and

led to the wars of 1868.


Never Come to Peace AgainPontiac’s Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America

By David Dixon

$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4462-7 · 376 Pages

Prior to the American Revolution, the Ohio River Valley was a cauldron of

competing interests: Indian, colonial, and imperial. The conflict known as

Pontiac’s Uprising, which lasted from 1763 until 1766, erupted out of thisvolatile atmosphere. Never Come to Peace Again, the first complete account of

Pontiac’s Uprising to appear in nearly fifty years, is a richly detailed account

of the causes, conduct, and consequences of events that proved pivotal in

American colonial history.


Civil War Arkansas, 1863 The Battle for a State

By Mark K. Christ

$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4433-7 · 336 Pages

The Arkansas River Valley is one of the most fertile regions in the South.

During the Civil War, the river also served as a vital artery for moving troops

and supplies. In 1863 the battle to wrest control of the valley was, in effect,

a battle for the state itself. In spite of its importance, however, this campaign

is often overshadowed by the siege of Vicksburg. Now Mark K. Christ offers

the first detailed military assessment of parallel events in Arkansas, describing

their consequences for both Union and Confederate powers.


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Once Upon a Time in War The 99th Division in World War II

By Robert E. Humphrey

$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4454-2 · 376 Pages

For the soldier on the front lines of World War II, a lifetime of terror and

suffering could be crammed into a few horrific hours of combat. This was

especially true for members of the 99th Infantry Division who repelled

the Germans in the Battle of the Bulge and engaged in some of the most

dramatic, hard-fought actions of the war. Once Upon a Time in War presents a

stirring view of combat from the perspective of the common soldier.

George CrookFrom the Redwoods to Appomattox

By Paul Magid

$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4441-4 · 416 Pages

Renowned for his prominent role in the Apache and Sioux wars, General

George Crook (1828–90) was considered by William Tecumseh Sherman to

be his greatest Indian-fighting general. Although Crook was feared by Indian

opponents on the battlefield, in defeat the tribes found him a true friend and

advocate who earned their trust and friendship when he spoke out in their

defense against political corruption and greed. George Crook offers insight into

the influences that later would make this general both a nemesis of the Indian

tribes and their ardent advocate.

Burgoyne and the Saratoga CampaignHis Papers

By Douglas R. Cubbison

$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4461-0 · 400 Pages

In Burgoyne and the Saratoga Campaign, Douglas R. Cubbison presents the papers

that Burgoyne gathered preparatory to his appearance before Parliament,

together with Cubbison’s own interpretive narrative of the campaign, based

on these documents and other sources. The papers, most of them publishedhere for the first time, comprise Burgoyne’s correspondence with the governor

general of Canada, the British secretary of state for America, and the

commander of the British army during the Saratoga expedition.


The Capture of Louisbourg, 1758By Hugh Boscawen

$26.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4413-9 · 408 Pages

Hugh Boscawen, an experienced soldier and sailor, and a direct descendant

of Admiral the Hon. Edward Boscawen, who commanded the Royal Navy

fleet at Louisbourg, examines the pivotal 1758 Louisbourg campaign from

both the British and French perspectives. Drawing on myriad primary sources,

including previously unpublished correspondence, Boscawen also answers the

question “What did the soldiers and sailors who fought there do all day?”

Soldiers WestBiographies from the Military Frontier

Edited by Paul Andrew Hutton and Durwood Ball

$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4465-8 · 420 PagesSoldiers West views the turbulent history of the West from the perspective of

fifteen senior army officers—including Philip H. Sheridan, George Armstrong

Custer, and Nelson A. Miles—who were assigned to bring order to the

region. This revised edition of Paul Andrew Hutton’s popular work adds five

new biographies, and essays from the first edition have been updated to

incorporate recent scholarship.


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Custer ReaderEdited by Paul Andrew Hutton

$26.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3465-9 · 608 Pages

George Armstrong Custer, America’s most famously unfortunate soldier,

has been the subject of scores of books, but The Custer Reader is unique asa substantial source of classic writings about and by him. Here is Custer as

seen by himself, his contemporaries, and leading scholars. Combining first-

person narratives, essays, and photographs, this book provides a complete

introduction to Custer’s controversial personality and career and the

evolution of the Custer myth.

Phil Sheridan and His ArmyBy Paul A. Hutton

$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3188-7 · 496 Pages

“Paul Hutton’s study of Phil Sheridan in the West is authoritative, readable, and

an important contribution to the literature of westward expansion. Although

headquartered in Chicago, Sheridan played a crucial role in the opening of

the West. His command stretched from the Missouri to the Rockies and from

Mexico to Canada, and all the Indian Wars of the Great Plains fell under his

direction. Hutton ably narrates and interprets Sheridan’s western career from

the perspective of the top command rather than the battlefield leader. His book

is good history and good reading.”—Robert M. Utley

Deliverance from the Little Big HornDoctor Henry Porter and Custer’s Seventh Cavalry By Joan Nabseth Stevenson

$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4416-0 · 232 Pages

Of the three surgeons who accompanied Custer’s Seventh Cavalry on June 25,

1876, only the youngest, twenty-eight-year-old Henry Porter, survived that

day’s ordeal, riding through a gauntlet of Indian attackers and up the steep

bluffs to Major Marcus Reno’s hilltop position. But the story of Dr. Porter’s

wartime exploits goes far beyond the battle itself. In this compelling narrative

of military endurance and medical ingenuity, Joan Nabseth Stevenson opens a

new window on the Battle of the Little Big Horn by re-creating the desperatestruggle for survival during the fight and in its wake.

Torn by War The Civil War Journal of Mary Adelia Byers

Edited by Samuel R. Phillips

$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4395-8 · 248 Pages

The Civil War divided the nation, communities, and families. The town of

Batesville, Arkansas, found itself occupied three times by the Union army. This

compelling book gives a unique perspective on the war’s western edge throughthe diary of Mary Adelia Byers (1847–1918), who began recording her thoughts

and observations during the Union occupation of Batesville in 1862.


From Boer War to World War Tactical Reform of the British Army, 1902–1914

By Spencer Jones

$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4415-3 · 296 Pages

In October 1899, the British went to war against the South African Boerrepublics of Transvaal and Orange Free State, expecting little resistance.

A string of early defeats in the Boer War shook the military’s confidence.

Historian Spencer Jones focuses on this bitter combat experience in From Boer

War to World War , showing how it crucially shaped the British Army’s tactical

development in the years that followed.


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The Campaigns of Sargon II,King of Assyria, 722–705 B.C.By Sarah C. Melville

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5403-9 · 320 Pages

A first-ever military study of Sargon II, the storied

leader of the Assyrians who molded the ancient

world’s most successful military empire to that time.


GuibertFather of Napoleon’s Grande Armée

By Jonathan Abel

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5443-5 · 320 Pages

Abel examines Guibert’s life and explores how

his martial theories shaped the development of

Napolean’s army, the campaigns they conducted,

and the early successes it enjoyed.


Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian WarsComparing Genocide and Conquest

By Edward Westermann

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5433-6 · 352 Pages

A comparative examination of Nazi eastward

expansion in World War II and U.S. westward

expansion between 1850 and 1890.

“Hang Them All”George Wright and the Plateau Indian War, 1858

By Donald L. Cutler

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5337-7 · 280 Pages

A narrative history of Col. George Wright’s ruthless

and successful campaign to subdue the Indian

tribes of the Upper Columbia Plateau in 1858.


At Sword’s Point, Part 2A Documentary History of the

Utah War, 1858–1859

By William P. MacKinnon

$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-386-8 · 704 Pages

The second installment of the comprehensive

documentary history of the Utah War, At Sword’s Point .

Out West with Kearny

Expeditions of the 1st U.S. Dragoons, 1833–1848By Will Gorenfeld and John Gorenfeld

$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5394-0 · 416 Pages

A narrative history of the First Dragoon Regiment

between 1833 and 1845, intended to show the

contributions made by the First Dragoons and the

impact they had on the overall westward expansion

of the United States.

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Powder RiverDisastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War

Paul L. Hedren

$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5383-4 · 384 Pages

A comprehensive account of the Battle of

Powder River, the opening battle of the Great

Sioux War in 1876.


Road to War The 1871 Yellowstone Surveys

By M. John Lubetkin

$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-429-2 · 312 Pages

A collection of key primary documents that explain

the 1871 Yellowstone River expedition to survey a

route for the Northern Pacific Railroad.

Sign Talker

Hugh Lenox Scott Remembers Indian Country By Hugh Lenox Scott

Edited by R. Eli Paul

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5354-4 · 312 Pages

An edited, annotated reproduction of that portion

of Hugh Lennox Scott’s 1928 autobiography, Some

Memories of a Soldier, pertaining to his early career

and service with Indian peoples.

Slaughter at the Chapel The Battle of Ezra Church, 1864

By Gary Ecelbarger

$26.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5499-2 · 272 Pages

A Civil War battle history of a pivotal and bloody

encounter during the 1864 Atlanta campaign.


Soldiering in the Shadow

of Wounded Knee The 1891 Diary of Private

Hartford G. Clark, Sixth U.S. Cavalry

Edited by Jerome A. Greene

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-440-7 · 208 Pages

A soldier’s diary that chronicles day-to-day life at

the time of Wounded Knee.

Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums

Horse-Mounted Bands of theU.S. Army, 1820–1940

By Bruce P. Gleason

$32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5479-4 · 296 Pages

A history of horse-mounted military bands and

field musicians from the War of 1812 to WWII.

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