Traces the strategic and ideological development of the United States Army as an institution from the seventeenth century to the present "Age of Overkill"

History of the United States Army

Science & Math

Weigley, Russell F.

Technology

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Details key issues and events that have governed the development of military strategy and policy making in the United States since colonial days

The American way of war;: A history of United States military strategy and policy (The Wars of the United States)

History

Military

Macmillan

Quartermaster General of the Union Army, A Biography of M.C. Meigs

Quartermaster General of Union Army: Biography of M.C. Meigs

Columbia University Press

Indiana Univ. Pr

"The publication of Eisenhower's Lieutenants is an event of significance in American military writing.... admirable... clearly the product of exhaustive, painstaking research." ―The New York Times Book Review
"... the best account we have of the World War II campaigns from Normandy to the Elbe." ―American Historical Review
"... precisely informative and broadly rewarding." ―Kirkus Reviews
"... an outstanding and highly recommended work." ―Journal of American History
"... by the dean of American military historians... " ―Washington Post Bookworld
CONTENTS Preface
Part One: The Armies
Part Two: Normandy
Part Three: France
Part Four: The Disputed Middle Ground
Part Five: Germany
Epilogue Notes and Sources Index

Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaigns of France and Germany, 1944-45

Americas

Indiana University Press

"The crowning achievement of one of America’s most distinguished military historians." ―Lincoln Prize jury
"Readers will find much to debate in this book―including... its affirmation that, because of emancipation, ‘the Civil War calls for a rethinking of the attitude... that war is always futile, that its rewards never match its cost, that any conflict [must be] immediately decisive and virtually without loss of American lives.’" ―Gary W. Gallagher

A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865

The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo

"One of the most interesting, important, and ambitious books about the conduct, and perhaps the ultimate futility, of war." ―Gunther E. Rothenberg
"[A] highly scholarly and wonderfully absorbing study." ―John Bayley, The London Review of Books
"What Russell F. Weigley writes, the rest of us read. The Age of Battles is a persuasive reminder that even in the age of ‘rational’ warfare, one can honestly wonder why war seemed an unavoidable policy choice." ―Allan R. Millett, The Journal of American History

"... a strong and stimulating book. It has no rival in either scope or quality. For libraries, history buffs, and armchair warriors, it is a must. For political science students, career diplomats, and officers in the armed services, its reading should be required." ―History
"A particularly timely account." ―Kansas City Times
"It reads easily but is not a popularized history... nor does the book become a history of battles.... Weigley’s analyses and interpretations are searching, competent, and useful." ―Perspective

The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy

A Great Civil War is a major new interpretation of the events which continue to dominate the American imagination and identity nearly 150 years after the war’s end. In personal as well as historical terms, more even than the war for independence, the Civil War has been the defining experience of American democracy.
A lifelong student of both strategy and tactics, Weigley also brings to his account a deep understanding of the importance of individuals from generals to captains to privates. He can put the reader on the battlefield as well as anyone who has ever written about war. All of the important engagements are covered, and he does it countless times in A Great Civil War. From Fort Sumter to the early clashes in the West and border states to the naval encounters in the East and on through the great and horrible battles whose names resound in American history—Shiloh, Corinth, Bull Run, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Antietam, Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Appomattox. A brilliant narrator of battle action and historical events, Weigley is never content merely to tell a good story. Every student of war will find new insights and interpretations at the strategic and the tactical level. There are firm judgments throughout of the leaders on both sides of the conflict.
A Great Civil War also analyzes the politics of both sides in relationship to battlefield situations. Weigley is unique in his ability to put all of the pieces on the board at once; the reader understands as never before how war and politics (and individuals) interacted to produce the infinitely complex story which is the Civil War.
As with any major work, there are themes and subtexts, explicit and implicit: 
Both sides began the war with strategic and tactical concepts based on Napoleon which were already obsolete because of changes in technology—and both sides struggled throughout the war to develop new strategic and tactical procedures. 
The Civil War was great not only in the massiveness of the slaughter and destruction. It was, for all its horror, a war about values—democracy and the freeing of the slaves—that was worth the effort. 
The South, despite its powerful defense, was ultimately ambivalent about leaving the Union and gave up more easily than might have been expected. 
Finally, there is an intimacy, a sense of personal urgency, in Weigley’s grand account. He is connected by blood as well as profession. Jacob Weigley, the author’s great grandfather, visited Gettysburg soon after the battle and wrote about it to his brother Francis, who was serving with the 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry; Francis later died in a Confederate prison camp. Then and now the Weigleys live in Pennsylvania, and the war and its lessons remain part of the family’s living memory, as it is also the nation’s.

<li>An illustrated, encyclopedic data reference to all U.S. Army World War II ground combat force units from battalion through division, 1939-1946 </li>
<li>Weapons, equipment, vehicles, and combat photographs </li>
<li>Thoroughly updated with newly uncovered unit data collected over the twenty years since publication of the original Order of Battle, U.S. Army, World War II Includes: 
</li>
<li>Units </li>
<li>Overseas Service </li>
<li>Ports of Embarkation </li>
<li>Insignia </li>
<li>Combat Narratives </li>
<li>Organizational Charts </li>
<li>Campaigns </li>
<li>Stateside Service </li>
<li>Post, Camps, &amp; Stations</li>

World War II Order of Battle: An Encyclopedic Reference to U.S. Army Ground Forces from Battalion through Division, 1939-1946 (REVISED EDITION) (Stackpole Military Classics)

STANTON, SHELBY L.

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History of the United States Army

The American way of war;: A history of United States military strategy and policy (The Wars of the United States)

Quartermaster General of Union Army: Biography of M.C. Meigs

History of the United States Army

Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaigns of France and Germany, 1944-45

A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865

The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo

The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy

A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865

World War II Order of Battle: An Encyclopedic Reference to U.S. Army Ground Forces from Battalion through Division, 1939-1946 (REVISED EDITION) (Stackpole Military Classics)