A military historian and author of How Wars Are Won offers an objective analysis of America's role in world affairs, looking at the enduring ideals and institutions that set America apart, American actions and decisions from its early days to the end of the Cold War, and the policies developed in the wake of September 11. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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Recensione:
“Makes one of the strongest cases yet for American exceptionalism.” —Washington Times
“A readable narrative history that . . . includes events frequently slighted in politically correct texts." —The Weekly Standard
L'autore:
Bevin Alexander is the author of eight books of military history, including How Wars Are Won, How Hitler Could Have Won World War II, and Lost Victories, which was named by the Civil War Book Review as one of the seventeen books that have most transformed Civil War scholarship. He was an adviser to the Rand Corporation for a recent study on future warfare and a participant in a recent war game simulation run by the Training and Doctrine Command of the U.S. Army. His battle studies of the Korean War, written during his decorated service as a combat historian, are stored in the National Archives in Washington, D.C. He lives in Bremo Bluff, Virginia.
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- EditoreThree Rivers Pr
- Data di pubblicazione2006
- ISBN 10 1400052890
- ISBN 13 9781400052899
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine308
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