The Wars of America - Hardcover

Leckie, Robert

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"Leckie treats not the causes of our wars, nor the controversies that have always attended them, nor their results, so often equivocal, debatable, or flatly disappointing, but the manner in which they were fought, their leadership, their pages of glory and of shame."--Allan Nevins, Saturday Review. . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: PART 1.) The Colonial wars -- PART 2.) The war of the Revolution -- PART 3.) The War of 1812 -- PART 4.) The war with Mexico -- PART 5.) The Civil War -- PART 6.) Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War and the Philippine insurrection -- PART 7.) World War I -- PART 8.) World War II -- PART 9.) The Korean War -- PART 10.) World-wide upheaval and the war in Vietname -- PART 11.) 1981-1991: American recoiling, resurgent: East European revolt, terrorism, Libya, Grenada, Panama, The Persian Gulf, and the collapse of the U.S.S.R.

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ISBN 10:  0060168315 ISBN 13:  9780060168315
Publisher: Harpercollins, 1992
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