Army: An Illustrated History of the U.S. Army from 1775 to the 21st Century - Hardcover

Hearn, Chester G.

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ISBN 10: 0760326800 ISBN 13: 9780760326800

Verlag: Motorbooks International, 2006

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a number of books chart US Army members, achivemnets, and battles, but few offer the general public a fine visual overview as does this...an outstanding survey. --Midwest Book Review

From its Revolutionary War beginnings as the Continental Army to its leadership of the "Coalition of the Willing" in today's Iraq, for more than 200 years the United States has fulfilled its solemn charge: to provide for the common defense, at home and abroad. Add to that legacy a present-day population of over one million soldiers (including active duty, National Guard, and reserves), and the U.S. Army is far and away the largest and most historically esteemed branch of the United States armed forces. To a significant degree the U.S. Army's story is the story of the United States -- a story that has been lauded in movies, detailed in books, and passed down from one generation to the next in the timeless retelling of stories of wars gone by, lives lost, and freedom won and protected. --Military History Online

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From its Revolutionary War beginnings as the Continental Army to its leadership of the ?Coalition of the Willing” in today’s Iraq, for more than 200 years the United States Army has fulfilled its solemn charge: to provide for the common defense, at home and abroad. To a significant degree the U.S. Army’s story is the story of the United States, as becomes clear in this absorbing, illustrated history of the U. S. Army from its beginnings in a rag-tag force of colonial militia to its current incarnation as the world’s most powerful and sophisticated land-combat force. With an emphasis on post-Vietnam operations and detailed information on the technological component of the force’s military might, distinguished historian Chester Hearn follows the U. S. Army through its combat history?the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Civil War, various Indian wars, the Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam, the first Gulf war, and Afghanistan and Iraq?offering a complete and thoroughly fascinating account of an armed force ever remaking itself to meet the challenges of an ever-changing world.

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• Verlag: Motorbooks International
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0760326800
• ISBN 13: 9780760326800
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192