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Firsthand accounts of war in the Pacific theater from an intrepid reporter of World War II combat

War Is Not Just for Heroes rescues the incredible true stories of US Marine Corps. Writ…]]> Tue, 06 May 2025 08:10:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3945294/Court-Martial-at-Parris-Island
The definitive account of a tragic episode in U.S. Marine Corps history and its aftermath

On the night of April 8, 1956, marine drill instructor Matthew McKeon led Platoon 71 on a force…]]> Tue, 06 May 2025 08:10:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3945326/Recent-Themes-in-Military-History
An inviting survey of recent developments in military history from leading voices in the field

Described as "the New York Review of Books for history,"Historically Speaking has emerged…]]> Tue, 06 May 2025 08:10:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3945335/Battle-Exhortation
A commanding study of the motivational speech of military leaders across the centuries

In this groundbreaking examination of the symbolic strategies used to prepare troops for imminent…]]> Tue, 06 May 2025 08:10:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3945418/Caissons-Go-Rolling-Along
An engrossing portrait of war-torn Europe written by one of South Carolina's most distinguished military officers of the last century.

Major General Johnson Hagood (1873-1948) was one o…]]> Tue, 06 May 2025 08:10:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3945455/Among-the-Nightmare-Fighters
In the first comprehensive study of the American male poets of World War II, Diederik Oostdijk gives voice to the literary men still considered to be a part of the Silent Generation. Focusing…]]> Tue, 06 May 2025 08:10:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3945481/Promotion-or-the-Bottom-of-the-River
South Carolinian Alexander F. Warley (1823-1895) was an exceptional naval officer who enjoyed a robust life of far-flung adventures at sea during several dramatic periods in American maritime…]]> Tue, 06 May 2025 08:10:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3946107/Dearest-Mama
A cache of letters leads to a journey of discovery that reveals the long and lasting consequences of war

William S. Walker never knew his uncle, Fletcher "Bud" Blanton. Blanton had bee…]]> Tue, 06 May 2025 08:10:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3946103/Otherwise-Im-Fine
A daughter's story of unresolved grief and a family's hard-won healing

When her husband Bill died in 1969, Tina Presnell gathered her three children. "We won't talk about this," she sa…]]> Tue, 06 May 2025 08:10:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3945830/The-Best-Gun-in-the-World
A thoroughly researched account of weapons innovation and industrialization during the Civil War

A year after seceding from the Union, South Carolina and the Confederate States governme…]]> Tue, 06 May 2025 08:10:55 -0700