Army : an illustrated history : the US Army from 1775 to the twenty-first century / Chester G. Hearn with contributions by Robert F. Dorr.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780760347232
- ISBN: 0760347239
- Physical Description: 224 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 27 cm
- Publisher: Minneapolis MN, USA Zenith Press, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2014
Content descriptions
General Note: | "First edition published in 2006 by Zenith Press, an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group"--Title page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-220) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The formative years 1620-1814 -- Century of development 1814-1898 -- A flexing of power 1898-1918 -- World War II in Europe 1918-1945 -- World War II in the Pacific 1941-1945 -- Cold war : the Korean Conflict 1945-1952 -- Cold war : Vietnam 1952-1975 -- Enemies old and new 1975-2005 -- Moving toward the future -- Sustaining the force in the twenty-first century. |
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Subject: | United States. Army > History. United States. Army > History > Pictorial works. United States > History, Military. United States > History, Military > Pictorial works. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | UA 25 .H437 2015 | 30775305493174 | General Collection | Available | - |
Army : An Illustrated History
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Army : An Illustrated History
Get the complete story on the largest, oldest, and longest-serving branch of the US military. From the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary to the "Coalition of the Willing" in today's Iraq War, the United States Army has fulfilled its solemn charge for the past 235 years: to provide for the common defense, at home and abroad. To a significant degree, the US Army's story is the story of the United States, as becomes clear in this beautifully illustrated history of the military branch. From its beginnings as a rag-tag force of colonial militia to its current incarnation as the world's most powerful and sophisticated land-combat force, no detail is left unexplored in Army: An Illustrated History. With an emphasis on post-Vietnam operations and detailed information on the technological component of the force's current military might, military historian Chester Hearn, with contributions on the past ten years of the branch's history by Robert F. Dorr, follows the US 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.