Presents a behind-the-scenes look at the classic spy television program "The Sandbaggers," and investigates the disappearance of the show's creator Ian Mackintosh, whose airplane vanished over the Gul
Although Theodore Roosevelt was not a wartime president, he took his role as commander in chief very seriously. In Command explores Roosevelt’s efforts to modernize the American military before,
The spectacular murder of a distinguished British scientist, his wife, and their young daughter in the depths of rural France in 1952 was one of the most notorious criminal cases in postwar Europe. It
John Yochelson was seventeen when he first heard President Kennedy’s call, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” Responding to the call to public service, h
Historians have long treated the patriotic anthems of the American Civil War as colorful, if largely insignificant, side notes. But beneath the songs’ inspirational surface is a far more complex story
An examination of the Japanese state of preparedness for large-scale natural disasters, and the ways in which the international community can supply aid.
Every ten years, political representation in the U.S. House of Representatives is redistributed among the fifty states. The process recently began anew with the 2010 census, in which the nation's pop
"Larry Minear has given voice to an entire generation of combat veterans whose experience will shape our society for decadesto Come. The confliets in Iraq and Afghanistan will henceforth serve as the
Amb. James F. Dobbins, former special envoy to Afghanistan and author of After the Taliban: Nation-Building in AfghanistanDr. Matthew J. Friedman, executive director. National Center for PTSD. U.S. D
As the bloodshed in Iraq intensified in 2005, Afghanistan quickly faded from the nation’s front pages to become the other war,” supposedly going well and largely ignored. In fact, the insurgency in Af
Today we face America’s most terrifying enemy ever: an indigenous insurgent army made up of millions of our own citizens. We snipe at each other from behind impregnable barricades of cynicism, mocking
Five studies by scholars at US universities or with international non-government organizations summarize the terrorism threat and the opportunities to counter it in three regions of Africa. They also
Africa is a continent of growing strategic importance in the global war on terrorism. Over the past decade, it has seen a significant number of terrorist attacks and operations, both north and south o
A career in the U. S. Army in the second half of the twentieth century was a passageway to every conceivable locale, hospitable and decidedly otherwise. Henry Gole’s experiences lead the reader throug
Despite the wake-up call of September 11, 2001, terrorism remains a dire threat to the security of all civilized nations, making it imperative for leaders to develop better national, regional, and glo
Despite the wake-up call of September 11, 2001, terrorism remains a dire threat to the security of all civilized nations, making it imperative for leaders to develop better national, regional, and glo
Presents essays and interviews profiling a variety of tennis greats, including John McEnroe, Arthur Ashe, Pete Sampras, Martina Navratilova, Bjorn Borg, and Rod Laver.
Paper edition reprint of a 1996 work, about which Book News wrote: "Dog stories for the war buff. Best we can say and it is not a trivial compliment is that few books cover the subject. On guard &
Intertwines the lives of a Holocaust concentration-camp survivor and a Polish Resistance fighter, whose paths finally crossed in 1975 in Lawrence, Kansas, after each had made a new life for himself in
No group is quotedand misquotedmore often than America’s founders. When a political controversy heats up, the nation’s speechwriters, politicians, reporters, editorial writers, and talking heads try t
Building the Nation draws from foreign-policy reports and interviews with U.S. military officers to investigate recent U.S.-led efforts to “nation-build” in Iraq and Afghanistan. Heather S
Approximately 2.5 million men and women have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in the service of the U.S. War on Terror. Marian Eide and Michael Gibler have collected and compiled personal combat accou
The Middle East is now in the eye of a storm. But as this storm abates, an opportunity forpeace and progress has emerged. The Egyptian revolution against Hosni Mubarak sregime may usher in an era of r
Poverty has been a fact of American life since the nation s founding; every Americanpresident has faced this scourge during his administration in one way or another.Whether bound up in the problems of
Mainstream thinking about changes in the balance of world power typically leaves out population, one of the primary components of power. And, as the authors contend, studies that do address internatio
George Washington became the first president of the US in 1789, the same year that the French Revolution began. Why didn't Washington seize control as Napoleon did? This book analyzes Washington and N
The Cold War was the defining feature of international relations during the last half of the twentieth century. Interpretations of how it ended thus remain crucial to an accurate understanding of glo
