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  • United States Marine Reconnaissance in the Vietnam War
    Leo J. Daugherty
    Tracing the history of U.S. Marine Force and Battalion Reconnaissance from its formation in 1898 through its operations during the Vietnam War (1963-1971), this book provides insight into Force Recon’s selection, training and deployment. Emphasis on actions with the South Vietnamese ARVN highlights important lessons for today’s Special Forces community, illustrating the inte...
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    58,99 €

  • Counterinsurgency and the United States Marine Corps
    Leo J. Daugherty / Rhonda L. Smith-Daugherty
    Volume 2 continues the history of the U.S. Marine Corps’ involvement in 'small wars' after World War II, beginning with advisory efforts with the Netherlands Marine Korps (1943-1946). The authors describe counterinsurgency efforts during the Korean War (1950-1953), the development of vertical assault tactics in the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, counterinsurgency in Southeast ...
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    110,57 €

  • Counterinsurgency and the United States Marine Corps
    Leo J. Daugherty
    From the turn of the 20th century until the end of World War II, the United States Marine Corps fought a series of 'small wars,' starting in the Philippines in 1899, and ending in the islands of the southwest Pacific in 1945. Through this experience, the Marines perfected the prosecution of such wars in its famed Small Wars Manual, written for Marine Corps schools in the lat...
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    110,35 €

  • The Assassination of Shakespeare’s Patron
    Leo Daugherty
    Lord Ferdinando Stanley was the fifth earl of Derby, a leading claimant to the throne. Considered a man who had everything, he was also the patron of the company of players which was fortunate enough to include William Shakespeare. One April Fool’s Day, 1594, he was reportedly approached by a witch (one of the famous legion of 'Lancashire witches') and they engaged in brief con...
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    135,49 €

  • William Shakespeare, Richard Barnfield, and the Sixth Earl of Derby
    Leo Daugherty
    This book is the first to argue that the Rival Poet of Shakespeare’s Sonnets is the well-known young Elizabethan writer Richard Barnfield (1574-1620), long suspected to have been one of Shakespeare’s 'private friends' (as they were termed by Francis Meres in 1598), with whom (as Meres also tells us) Shakespeare shared some of his sonnets. This is also the first book to argue th...
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    118,86 €

  • Pioneers of Amphibious Warfare, 1898-1945
    Leo J. Daugherty
    The planning that allowed for the successful amphibious landings at the end of World War II actually began during the 1880s as the Marine Corps sought to define its role in the new Steel Navy. Officers braved skepticism, indifference and outright opposition to develop an amphibious warfare doctrine, with each service contributing. From the 1898 war with Spain through the dis...
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    73,94 €

  • The Marine Corps and the State Department
    Leo J. Daugherty
    This work is a complete history of the partnership between the Department of State and the United States Marine Corps. From its formation in 1775, the Corps developed a close working relationship with the diplomatic service of the Continental Congress and later, in 1798, with the newly created United States Department of State. The Marines accompanied U.S. diplomats to Franc...
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    73,78 €

  • The Allied Resupply Effort in the China-Burma-India Theater During World War II
    Leo J. Daugherty
    Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 secured for Chiang Kai-shek’s Chinese Nationalist forces what no amount of pleading had been able to produce: an influx of U.S. supplies. This volume explores the strategies of the Allies in China, Burma and India in World War II and the politically charged campaign waged in that theater. After an overview of the Allied situation in ea...
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    42,62 €