The Wars of America

A dramatic, but soundly researched, narrative history of America's armed conflicts and the political, cultural, and economic factors behind them since the earliest explorers and settlers arrived on the continent. This edition has been updated (2nd ed., 1981) to include the events of the last ten years in Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, and the Persian Gulf. A final chapter analyzes the self-destruction of the European communist world in the summer and fall of 1991, and speculates on its meaning for America. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.