uscpress.com - Military History https://uscpress.com/ F Troop and Other Citadel Stories https://uscpress.com/book-post/4486174/F-Troop-and-Other-Citadel-Stories
Short stories about character-building experiences at the storied military academy in the 1960s

From its founding in 1842 the Citadel has been steeped in tradition. There have been chan…]]>
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Recent Themes in Military History https://uscpress.com/book-post/4485907/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…]]>
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Battle Exhortation https://uscpress.com/book-post/4485916/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…]]>
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Caissons Go Rolling Along https://uscpress.com/book-post/4485999/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…]]>
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Among the Nightmare Fighters https://uscpress.com/book-post/4486036/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…]]>
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Promotion or the Bottom of the River https://uscpress.com/book-post/4486062/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…]]>
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War Is Not Just for Heroes https://uscpress.com/book-post/4486064/War-Is-Not-Just-for-Heroes
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…]]>
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Soldier of the South https://uscpress.com/book-post/4486701/Soldier-of-the-South
Military biography of Lt. Gen. Richard H. Anderson, whose career led him from West Point to Mexico, Charleston to Appomattox

Soldier of the South is the first comprehensive examination…]]>
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Dearest Mama https://uscpress.com/book-post/4486690/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…]]>
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Otherwise, I'm Fine https://uscpress.com/book-post/4486686/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…]]>
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