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  • Dak To and the Border Battles of Vietnam, 1967-1968
    Michael A. Eggleston
    In 1967, the North Vietnamese launched a series of offensives in the Central Highlands along the border with South Vietnam--a strategic move intended to draw U.S. and South Vietnamese forces away from major cities before the Tet Offensive. A series of bloody engagements known as 'the border battles' followed, with the principle action taking place at Dak To. Drawing on the w...
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    43,94 €

  • The 5th Marine Regiment Devil Dogs in World War I
    Michael A. Eggleston
    More than 8,000 men served in the Fifth Marine Regiment during World War I and the occupation of Germany. Marine units were among the first to arrive in war-torn Europe in 1917, and they sustained greater casualties than other American units. This book tells the story of the 'Devil Dogs' in World War I and the years after through the recollections of veterans recorded over t...
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    51,41 €

  • Exiting Vietnam
    Michael A. Eggleston
    Although the Paris Peace Accords ended direct United States military involvement in Vietnam on January 27, 1973, the process of withdrawal lasted over three years. This illuminating volume chronicles this withdrawal, its background, and its impact through a combination of official history and first-person accounts from key players at every level. Brief historical narrative...
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    42,86 €

  • President Lincoln’s Recruiter
    Michael A. Eggleston
    Historians have often marginalized the effect of African American troops on the outcome of the Civil War. While many histories briefly mention the service of the blacks, few reveal their impact. Lorenzo Thomas was one of the most exceptional people to serve in that war, but no biography of his life has been written. Most of his career was spent as an administrator in the U. ...
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    42,93 €

  • The Tenth Minnesota Volunteers, 1862-1865
    Michael A. Eggleston
    The Civil War experience of the 10th Minnesota Volunteer Regiment resembles that of few other regiments. On the day the 10th Minnesota first mustered at Fort Snelling in August 1862, the Sioux Indian War broke out in western Minnesota. Soldiers who signed up to fight the Confederacy instead found themselves marching to defend the frontier and spending a year fighting two cam...
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    58,59 €

  • The White Man’s Fight
    Michael A. Eggleston / Michael AEggleston
    'The American negroes are the only people in the history of the world. . . . that ever became free without any effort on their own.' W. E. Woodward stated this in his biography of General Ulysses S. Grant. Nothing could be farther from the truth as will be seen in this history which will show that the African Americans fighting in the Civil War may have been the deciding facto...
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    21,61 €