From Colonel Robert Dalessandro, director of the U.S. Army's Center of Military History, comes and amazing new account of the First World War.
 The Great War: A World War I Collector's Vault offers a dramatic new way to experience the breadth and the scope of the "War to End War," from the corridors of power where statesmen and royalty watched the course of battle, to the muddy trenches where the soldiers fought, struggled, and longed for home. Tucked inside the book you'll find replicas of wartime artifacts: aircraft silhouette cards, tank blueprints, a German field-engineering manual, a mimeographed Trench Order and Sector Map, orders from HQ, a press pass into the Versailles Treaty negotiations, and more.
 Along with these pieces of history, you'll be immersed in a gripping narrative, richly illustrated by seldom-seen images.
 Lear the story of the Great War as only an award-winning military historian could tell it. The Great War: A World War I Collector' Vault is you exclusive invitation to explore the defining conflict of the 20th century.
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Chapter 1: Our Last Summer — The world stage before August 1914: a political and socio-economic overview; the Balkan Crisis and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; the politics and science of mobilization; the war by the years</li> <li>
Chapter 2: A War of Attrition — The war before the entry of the United States; 1914 and the violation of Belgium; 1915 stalemate and other fronts; and the bloody Somme.</li> <li>
Chapter 3: The Yanks Are Coming — America's entry into the war; the arrival of American troops; the 1918 Allied advance; the American Meuse-Argonne campaign.</li> <li>
Chapter 4: The Armistice — The day the war ended; the Versailles Treaty; the Watch on the Rhine; the occupation of Germany; Plan 1919, and Europe redrawn.</li>
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The Great War: A World War I Historical Collection

History

Mahan, Erin R.

Dalessandro, Col Robert J

Military

Whitman Publishing

In the 100 Greatest Military Photographs, one of America's best-know military historians takes you on a personal guided tour of images that have shaped, changed, and defined how we think of war and soldering. This dramatically illustrated coffee-table book is by Robert J. Dalessandro, chief historian and director of one of the nations's most prestigious military history organizations. Inside, the reader will find famous photographs and paintings dating from the early 19th century to today. "Each of the 100 Greatest was voted into place by historians, artists, and members of the United States military," says Whitman publisher Dennis Tucker. "The 100 Greatest Military Photographs is not just a fancy picture book. It's a time machine that takes you to a hundred different points in American and world history." Readers will travel back to before the Civil War and to the growing pains of our defiant young nation. Relive the drama and upheaval of the Civil War...the rallying cries of America's war with Spain...the emotional years of World War II...famous scenes of modern-day battle...and many points in between. Battleships and battalions, officers and enlisted, big guns in battle and quiet moments of reflection — all of these and more await the reader among the 100 Greatest Military Photographs.

100 Greatest Military Photographs

Morelock, Jerry D.

Dalessandro, Robert J.

Whitman Pub Llc

In the controversial legacy of the Nixon presidency, the administration's effort to curb and control the spread of the world's weapons of mass destruction is often overlooked. And yet by the time President Nixon left office under the cloud of the Watergate scandal, his actions on this front had surpassed those of all his predecessors combined and laid the foundations of WMD arms control and nonproliferation policies that persist to this day. In Averting Doomsday, Patrick Garrity and Erin Mahan explore and assess Nixon's record, addressing not only nuclear but also biological and chemical weapons. Drawing substantially on presidential recordings and other primary sources not widely consulted, the authors shed new light on milestones such as the first SALT agreement on strategic nuclear weapons and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, as well as the renunciation of US offensive biological weapons and a Seabed treaty. The WMD-control landscape had accumulated many divergent visions and interests over time--technical, diplomatic, domestic political, and utopian. The Nixon administration had to adjust to and build on this eclectic foundation, creating a new layer of policies to deal with WMD that substantially set the course--and perhaps limited the options--for future administrations in ways that are still with us. Miller Center Studies on the Presidency

Averting Doomsday: Arms Control during the Nixon Presidency (Miller Center Studies on the Presidency)

Garrity, Patrick J.

Americas

University of Virginia Press

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