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Eyes On The Horizon : Serving On The Frontlines Of National Security

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General Richard B. Myers with Malcolm McConnell
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Book, 1st ed, Threshold, 2009
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Myers, Richard B., · 1942- · Military leadership · United States. · Joint Chiefs of Staff · Chairmen · Biography · Generals · United States · National security · Strategy · Iraq War, 2003- · Myers, Richard B., 1942- · McConnell, Malcolm
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The Gamble : General David Petraeus And The American Military Adventure In Iraq, 2006-2008

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Thomas E. Ricks
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Book, Penguin Press, 2009
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Ricks uses hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with top officers in Iraq and extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to document the inside story of the Iraq War since late 2005 as only he can, examining the events that took place as the military was forced to reckon with itself, the surge was launched, and a very different war began. Many of Petraeus?s closest advisers went to Iraq extremely pessimistic, doubting that the surge would have any effect, and his own boss was so skeptical that he dispatched an admiral to Baghdad in the summer of 2007 to come up with a strategy to replace Petraeus?s. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Petraeus, David Howell · Military leadership · Iraq War, 2003- · Campaigns · United States · History, Military · 21st century · Ricks, Thomas E
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(LOWER LEVEL) DS79.76 .R537 2009 AVAILABLE

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The Illustrious Dead

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Stephan Talty
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Book, 1st ed, Crown Publishers, 2009
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?Jack Weatherford,author of the New York Times bestseller Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World In a masterful dual narrative that pits the heights of human ambition and achievement against the supremacy of nature, New York Times bestselling author Stephan Talty tells the story of a mighty ruler and a tiny microbe, antagonists whose struggle would shape the modern world. A tale of two unstoppable forces meeting on the road to Moscow in an epic clash of killer microbe and peerless army, The Illustrious Dead is a historical whodunit in which a million lives hang in the balance. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Napoleon · I, · Emperor of the French, · 1769-1821 · Military leadership · France. · Armée · History · Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 · Campaigns · Russia · Medical and sanitary affairs · History, Military · 1801-1917 · Talty, Stephan
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Counter-thrust : From The Peninsula To The Antietam

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Benjamin Franklin Cooling
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Book, University of Nebraska Press, 2007
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McClellan?s drive to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond and describing the Confederate hero?s long-dreamt-of offensive to reclaim central and northern Virginia before crossing the Potomac.Counter-Thrust also provides a window into the Union?s internal conflict at building a successful military leadership team during this defining period. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Lee, Robert E. · (Robert Edward), · 1807-1870 · Military leadership · McClellan, George Brinton, · 1826-1885 · Military leadership · Pope, John, · 1822-1892 · Confederate States of America. · Army of Northern Virginia · History · Offensive (Military science) · 19th century · Virginia · Civil War, 1861-1865 · Campaigns · Maryland · United States · Cooling, B. Franklin
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(LOWER LEVEL) E473.7 .C66 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E473.7 .C66 2007	AVAILABLE

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Hannibal : Rome’s Greatest Enemy

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Dexter Hoyos
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Book, Bristol Phoenix, 2008
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The issue of whether he might indeed have changed history had he postponed conflict with Rome and concentrated first on Carthage?s own prosperity and safety is explored in this volume as vigorously as the military questions. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Hannibal, · 247-182 B.C · 247-182 B.C. · Military leadership · Generals · Tunisia · Carthage (Extinct city) · Rome · History · Republic, 265-30 B.C · Hoyos, B. D. 1944-
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(LOWER LEVEL) DG249 .H69 2008 AVAILABLE

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Tried By War : Abraham Lincoln As Commander In Chief

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James M. McPherson
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Book, Penguin Press, 2008
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James McPherson, a bestselling historian of the Civil War, illuminates how Lincoln worked with?and often against? In essence, Lincoln invented the idea of commander in chief, as neither the Constitution nor existing legislation specified how the president ought to declare war or dictate strategy. To be sure, the Union?s campaigns often went awry, sometimes horribly so, but McPherson makes clear how the missteps arose from the all-too-common moments when Lincoln could neither threaten nor cajole his commanders to follow his orders. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Lincoln, Abraham, · 1809-1865 · Military leadership · Executive power · United States · History · 19th century · Presidents · Biography · Civil War, 1861-1865 · Politics and government · 1861-1865 · McPherson, James M
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(LOWER LEVEL) E457.2 .M478 2008 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E457.2 .M478 2008	AVAILABLE

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Our Lincoln : New Perspectives On Lincoln And His World

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edited by Eric Foner
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Book, 1st ed, W.W. Norton, 2008
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Our best historians offer fresh insights on Abraham Lincoln and his time to mark the upcoming bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth. Undeterred, the contributors to Our Lincoln believe it is possible even now, especially if the starting point is the interaction between the life and the times. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Lincoln, Abraham, · 1809-1865 · Political and social views · Military leadership · Presidents · United States · Biography · History · 19th century · Civil War, 1861-1865 · Politics and government · 1861-1865 · Foner, Eric
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(LOWER LEVEL) E457 .O97 2008 AVAILABLE

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Grant And Lee : Victorious American And Vanquished Virginian

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Edward H. Bonekemper, III
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Book, Praeger, 2008
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Unlike most analyses, Bonekemper clarifies the impact both generals had on the outcome of the Civil War - namely, the assistance that Lee provided to Grant by Lee’s excessive casualties in Virginia, the consequent drain of Confederate resources from Grant’s battlefronts, and Lee’s refusal and delay of reinforcements to the combat areas where Grant was operating. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Grant, Ulysses S. · (Ulysses Simpson), · 1822-1885 · Military leadership · Lee, Robert E. · (Robert Edward), · 1807-1870 · Military leadership · Influence · United States. · Army · Biography · Confederate States of America. · Command of troops · Case studies · Generals · United States · Confederate States of America · History · Civil War, 1861-1865 · Campaigns · Bonekemper, Edward H
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(LOWER LEVEL) E470 .B677 2008 AVAILABLE

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The Wars Against Napoleon : Debunking The Myth Of The Napoleonic Wars

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Michel Franceschi and Ben Weider ; translated by Jonathan M. House
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Book, 1st ed, Savas Beatie, 2007
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Popular and scholarly history presents a one-dimensional image of Napoleon as an inveterate instigator of war who repeatedly sought large-scale military conquests. Lavishly illustrated, persuasively argued, and carefully illustrated with original maps and battle diagrams, The Wars Against Napoleon presents a courageous and uniquely accurate historical idea that will surely arouse vigorous debate within the international historical community. REVIEWS “Weider and Franceschi’s outstanding new “must read” book shatters the myth of the so-called “Napoleonic Wars” and compels a long-overdue reevaluation of the image of Napoleon as simply a “war loving conqueror.” (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Napoleon · I, · Emperor of the French, · 1769-1821 · Military leadership · Emperors · France · Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 · Campaigns · Foreign relations · 1789-1815 · Europe · Politics and government · History · Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815 · History, Military · Franceschi, Michel · Weider, Ben, 1923-
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(LOWER LEVEL) DC202.7 .F7312 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	DC202.7 .F7312 2007	AVAILABLE

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President Lincoln : The Duty Of A Statesman

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William Lee Miller
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Book, 1st ed, Alfred A. Knopf, 2008
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The American president has come to be the most powerful figure in the world?and back in the nineteenth century a great man held that office. Here is the realistic war leader persisting after multiple defeats, pressing his generals to take the battle to the enemy, insisting that the objective was the destruction of Lee?s army and not the capture of territory, saying that breath alone kills no rebels, remarking that he regretted war does not admit of holy days, asking whether one could believe that he would strike lighter blows rather than heavier ones, or leave any card unplayed. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Lincoln, Abraham, · 1809-1865 · Military leadership · Ethics · Political leadership · United States · Case studies · Command of troops · Presidents · Biography · Politics and government · 1861-1865 · History · Civil War, 1861-1865 · Moral and ethical aspects · Miller, William Lee
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(LOWER LEVEL) E457.2 .M645 2008 AVAILABLE

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General Lee’s Army : From Victory To Collapse

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Joseph T. Glatthaar
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Book, 1st Free Press hardcover ed, Free Press, 2008
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“You would be surprised to see what men we have in the ranks,” Virginia cavalryman Thomas Rowland informed his mother in May 1861, just after joining the Army of Northern Virginia. Even in 1865, facing certain defeat after the loss of 30,000 men, a Louisiana private fighting in Lee’s army still had hope. The history of Lee’s army is a powerful lens on the entire war. General Lee’s Army is a masterpiece of scholarship and vivid storytelling, narrated as much as possible in the words of the enlisted men and their officers. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Lee, Robert E. · (Robert Edward), · 1807-1870 · Military leadership · Confederate States of America. · Army of Northern Virginia · Soldiers · Confederate States of America · Attitudes · Psychology · Social conditions · United States · History · Civil War, 1861-1865 · Campaigns · Virginia · Regimental histories · Glatthaar, Joseph T., 1956-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E470.2 .G58 2008 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E470.2 .G58 2008	AVAILABLE

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Simón Bolívar : A Life

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John Lynch
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Book, Yale University Press, 2007
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Sim (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Bolívar, Simón, · 1783-1830 · Military leadership · Revolutionaries · South America · Biography · Heads of state · History · Wars of Independence, 1806-1830 · Lynch, John, 1927-
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(LOWER LEVEL) F2235.3 .L97 2007 AVAILABLE

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The First Total War

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Book, Mariner Book/Houghton Mifflin, 2008
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The twentieth century is usually seen as “the century of total war,” but as the historian David Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon actually began much earlier, in the age of Napoleon. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Napoleon · I, · Emperor of the French, · 1769-1821 · Military leadership · Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 · Military history, Modern · War and society · History · France · History, Military · 1789-1815 · Europe · Bell, David Avrom
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(LOWER LEVEL) DC202.1 .B39 2008 AVAILABLE

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The Greatest Battle : Stalin, Hitler, And The Desperate Struggle For Moscow That Changed The Course Of World War II

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Andrew Nagorski
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Book, 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed, Simon & Schuster, 2007
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The Battle for Moscow was the deadliest battle of World War II–and the deadliest battle of all time. In the end, the German drive fell short, but Stalin’s regime was so embarrassed by how close they came, by the mistakes the Soviet dictator made that allowed them to do so, and the behavior of many of its own citizens, that the battle was given short shrift in their history books. Hitler was so overconfident–even though his generals warned him–that the German army went into battle in the Russian fall with no winter clothes. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Stalin, Joseph, · 1879-1953 · Military leadership · Hitler, Adolf, · 1889-1945 · Moscow, Battle of, Moscow, Russia, 1941-1942 · Nagorski, Andrew
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(LOWER LEVEL) D764.3.M6 N33 2007 AVAILABLE

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Manifest Ambition : James K. Polk And Civil-military Relations During The Mexican War

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John C. Pinheiro
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Book, Praeger Security International, 2007
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The Mexican War is known for the invaluable experience it provided to future Civil War officers and as an example of America’s drive to fulfill her “Manifest Destiny.” Instead, it examines civil-military clashes during the war in light of Jacksonian politics and the American citizen-soldier tradition, looking both at events that shed light on civilian authority over the military and at the far reaching impact of political ambition during this period (specifically, presidential power and the quest for the presidency). (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Polk, James K. · (James Knox), · 1795-1849 · Political and social views · Military leadership · Jackson, Andrew, · 1767-1845 · Influence · United States. · Army · History · Mexican War, 1846-1848 · Civil-military relations · United States · 19th century · Causes · Social aspects · Soldiers · 19th century · Presidents · Biography · Politics and government · 1845-1849 · Pinheiro, John C
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(LOWER LEVEL) E417 .P56 2007 AVAILABLE

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