Faced with conciliating or disagreeing with such stormy figures as Churchill, Roosevelt, and DeGaulle, and generals like Montgomery and Patton, General Eisenhower showed himself to be as skillful a diplomat as he was a strategist.Stephen E. Ambrose, associate editor of the General's official papers, analyzes his subject's decisions in The Supreme Commander, which Doubleday first published in 1970. Throughout the book Ambrose traces the steady development of Eisenhower's generalcy--from its dramatic beginnings through his time at the top post of Allied command.The New York Times Book Review said of The Supreme Commander, "It is Mr. Ambrose's special triumph that he has been able to fight through the memoranda, the directives, plans, reports, and official self-serving pieties of the World War II establishment to uncover the idiosyncratic people at its center. ... General Dwight Eisenhower comes remarkably alive. ...[Ambrose's] angle of sight is so fresh and lively that one reads as if one did not know what was coming next. It is better than that: One does know what's coming next--not only the winning of a war but the making of a general--but the interest is in seeing how."This study of Eisenhower's role in the world's biggest war is absorbing as reading and invaluable as a reference.Stephen E. Ambrose was Director Emeritus of the Eisenhower Center, Boyd Professor of History at the University of New Orleans, and president of the National D- Day Museum. He was the author of many books, most recently The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation: From the Louisana Purchase to Today. His compilation of 1,400 oral histories from American veterans and authorship of over 20 books established him as one of the foremost historians of the Second World War in Europe. He died October 13, 2002, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

    An updated and revised version of this classic compendium of the military history of the world.

    Kapitanleutnant Jochen Mohr commanded his German submarine and navigated it through the treacherous waters of one of the most destructive, savage wars the world has known.

    

    

    Alternately revered and vilified, MacArthur has seldom, if ever, been understood dispassionately, though more than twenty books have been written about him. This book, the first of a two-volume biography, is a portrait in depth of this military genius, from his early days down to Pearl Harbor. It is at once a chronicle of a full life and a history of the modern American army.Douglas MacArthur was born into a family steeped in military traditions. His father, Arthur, became famous through his service in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. His mother, Mary, a strong-willed woman, encouraged her son's ambition to enter West Point. When Douglas was about to take the stiff entrance examination, she admonished, "Doug, you'll win if you keep your nerve." He kept it, and won entrance, graduating first in his class in 1903.After a few incongenial years as an engineer, MacArthur was given an opportunity for leadership and administration -- his greatest talents -- and he rose steadily. By 1917, when the United States entered the World War, he was sufficiently well regarded to be appointed Chief of Staff of the crack 42nd (Rainbow) Division. Raised to the rank of Brigadier General in 1918, he led the 84th Infantry Brigade in numerous battles and subsequently was made commander of the 42nd Division. Later he administered an occupation district of the Rhineland after the Armistice. He returned home in 1919, decorated and famous.The years between the wars were often marred by disappointments. As superintendent of West point, MacArthur found his schemes for overdue reform frustrated by conservative officers. In 1922 he was sent to the Philippines, where (except for 1925-28) he served until he was appointed Chief of Staff by Hoover in 1930. While Chief of Staff, he was confronted by the difficulties of wrestling appropriations from an unwilling Congress. His tenure was marred, too, by the infamous "bonus marchers" incident, and by a growing coolness, after 1933, between himself and the Roosevelt administration. In 1935 he returned to the Philippines as military adviser to President Quezon. He retired from the American Army in 1937, staying on in the islands to serve Quezon.On July 26, 1941, MacArthur's career revived when Roosevelt appointed him commander of the newly formed United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE). War was imminent; MacArthur was ready. He immediately initiated a crash program to build up Filipino military strength. As Professor James concludes, "The eve of America's darkest hour was approaching . . . Those who knew the general well had no doubt that he would respond with vigor and brilliance."

    

    This battlefield guide is essential reading for anyone who is keen to understand the military history of the era, and is an invaluable companion for visitors to the many battlefields associated with Marlborough's triumphs.

    F. C. Fuller, a pioneer of mechanized warfare in Great Britain, was one of this century's most renowned military strategists and historians. In this magisterial work he spans military history from the Greeks to the end of World War II, describing tactics, battle lines, the day-to-day struggles while always relating affairs on the field to the larger questions of social, political, and economic change in Western civilization. A masterpiece of scholarship and biting prose. This is the 1970 abridged edition in two volumes of the original 1954 complete edition.

    The celebrated memoir of a World War 1 British air ace, Duncan Grinnell-Milne.

    capture of Cuba.