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Donovan's Devils : OSS commandos behind enemy lines--Europe, World War II / by Lulushi, Albert,author.(CARDINAL)635064;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-371) and index.Office of Strategic Services -- Irregular warfare in the early years of World War II -- The OSS operational groups -- Special operations in the Western Mediterranean -- Rescuing escaped prisoners of war -- Operations from Corsica -- The ill-fated Ginny Mission -- Operational groups in France -- Americans in Vercors -- Mission Walla Walla in Italy -- Mission Mangosteen-Chrysler -- Rescue missions in the Balkans -- Mission Peedee-Roanoke -- OSS investigations into war crimes -- Swift justice for the Ginny men -- No justice for Major Holohan -- Epilogue.

Subjects: Donovan, William J. (William Joseph), 1883-1959.; Holohan, William V.; United States. Office of Strategic Services; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;

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Scholars of mayhem : my father's secret war in Nazi-occupied France / by Guiet, Daniel(Daniel C.),author.(CARDINAL)785078; Smith, Timothy(Timothy K.),author.(CARDINAL)785079;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-241) and index.The story of Jean Claude Guiet and three other agents (codenamed Salesman) in a unit of Britain's Special Operations Executive that organized, armed, and commanded an underground army of 10,000 French Resistance fighters."The astonishing untold story of the author's father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German lines in France, whose epic feats of irregular warfare proved vital in keeping Nazi tanks away from Normandy after D-Day"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Guiet, Jean Claude.; Great Britain. Special Operations Executive; Spies; Espionage, American; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Espionage, British;

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Come retribution : the Confederate secret service and the assassination of Lincoln / by Tidwell, William A.(CARDINAL)195818; Hall, James O.(CARDINAL)737928; Gaddy, David Winfred.(CARDINAL)769249;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Intelligence service;

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American zealots : inside right-wing domestic terrorism / by Perliger, Arie,author.(CARDINAL)838368;

Includes bibliographical references and index."In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks originating from the far right of American politics have targeted religious and ethnic minorities, with a series of antigovernment militants, religious extremists, and lone-wolf mass shooters inspired by right-wing ideologies. The need to understand the nature and danger of far-right violence is greater than ever. In American Zealots, Arie Perliger provides awide-ranging and rigorously researched overview of right-wing domestic terrorism. He analyzes its historical roots, characteristics, tactics, rhetoric, and organization, assessing the current and future trajectory of the use of violence by the far right.Perliger draws on a comprehensive dataset of more than 5,000 attacks and their perpetrators between 1990 and 2018 in order to explore key trends in American right-wing terrorism. He describes the entire ideological spectrum of the American far right, including today's white supremacists, antigovernment groups, and antiabortion fundamentalists, as well as the histories of the KKK, skinheads, and neo-Nazis. Based on these findings, Perliger suggests counterterrorism policies that can respond effectively tothe far-right threat. A groundbreaking examination of violence spawned from right-wing ideologies, American Zealots is essential reading for everyone seeking to understand the transformation of domestic terrorism"--

Subjects: Domestic terrorism; Terrorism; Right and left (Political science);

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Lawrence of Arabia's war : the Arabs, the British and the remaking of the Middle East in WWI / by Faulkner, Neil,author.(CARDINAL)420835;

Includes bibliographical references and indexIntroduction -- Holy war? -- Young Turks -- Little Mehmet -- For sultan and caliph -- Sinai bridgehead -- The Battle of Romani -- The Arab revolt -- A crusader, an unknown desert, and a new way of war -- The gates of Palestine -- Aqaba -- Bull loose -- The railway war -- The Third Battle of Gaza -- Jerusalem -- The mountains of Moab -- Special operations -- Armageddon -- EpilogueRarely is a book published that revises our understanding of an entire world region and the history that has defined it. This groundbreaking volume makes just such a contribution. Neil Faulkner draws on ten years of field research to offer the first truly multidisciplinary history of the conflicts that raged in Sinai, Arabia, Palestine, and Syria during the First World War. In Lawrence of Arabia's War, the author rewrites the history of T.E. Lawrence's legendary military campaigns in the context of the Arab Revolt. He explores the intersections among the declining Ottoman Empire, the Bedouin tribes, nascent Arab nationalism, and Western imperial ambition. The book provides a new analysis of Ottoman resilience in the face of modern industrialized warfare, and it assesses the relative weight of conventional operations in Palestine and irregular warfare in Syria. Faulkner thus reassesses the historic roots of today's divided, fractious, war-torn Middle East

Subjects: Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888-1935.; World War, 1914-1918;

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The Civil War guerrilla : unfolding the black flag in history, memory, and myth / by Beilein, Joseph M.,Jr.,editor,author.(CARDINAL)329967; Hulbert, Matthew C.,editor,author.(CARDINAL)329968;

Includes bibliographical references and an index.Foreword / Christopher Phillips -- Introduction / Joseph M. Beilein Jr. and Matthew C. Hulbert -- The hard-line war : The ideological basis of irregular warfare in the western border states / Christopher Phillips -- Controlled chaos : Spatiotemporal patterns within Missouri's irregular Civil War / Andrew William Fialka -- Violence, conflict, and loyalty in the Carolina Piedmont : A comparative perspective / David Brown and Patrick J. Doyle -- Indians make the best guerrillas : Native Americans and the war for the desert southwest, 1861-1862 / Megan Kate Nelson -- The business of guerrilla memory : Selling massacres and the captivity narrative of Sergeant Thomas M. Goodman / Matthew C. Hulbert -- Tales of race, romance, and irregular warfare : Guerrillas fictionalized, 1862-1866 / John C. Inscoe -- In search of Manse Jolly : Mythology and facts in the hunt for a post-Civil War guerrilla / Rod Andrew Jr. -- "Nothing but truth is history" : William E. Connelley, William H. Gregg, and the pillaging of guerrilla history / Joseph M. Beilein Jr. -- Afterword / Victoria E. Bynum -- Acknowledgments -- List of contributors -- Index."Most Americans are familiar with major Civil War battles such as Manassas (Bull Run), Shiloh, and Gettysburg, which have been extensively analyzed by generations of historians. However, not all of the war's engagements were fought in a conventional manner by regular forces. Often referred to as "the wars within the war," guerrilla combat touched states from Virginia to New Mexico. Guerrillas fought for the Union, the Confederacy, their ethnic groups, their tribes, and their families. They were deadly forces that plundered, tortured, and terrorized those in their path, and their impact is not yet fully understood. In this richly diverse volume, Joseph M. Beilein Jr. and Matthew C. Hulbert assemble a team of both rising and eminent scholars to examine guerrilla warfare in the South during the Civil War. Together, they discuss irregular combat as practiced by various communities in multiple contexts, including how it was used by Native Americans, the factors that motivated raiders in the border states, and the women who participated as messengers, informants, collaborators, and combatants. They also explore how the Civil War guerrilla has been mythologized in history, literature, and folklore. The Civil War Guerrilla sheds new light on the ways in which thousands of men, women, and children experienced and remembered the Civil War as a conflict of irregular wills and tactics. Through thorough research and analysis, this timely book provides readers with a comprehensive examination of the guerrilla soldier and his role in the deadliest war in U.S. history."--Publisher's description.

Subjects: Guerrilla warfare; Guerrillas;

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April '65 : Confederate covert action in the American Civil War / by Tidwell, William A.(CARDINAL)195818;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-249) and index.Introduction: Come Retribution Revisited -- 1. Confederate Gold -- 2. The Organization of Secret Service -- 3. The Greenhow Organization -- 4. Sage and the Destructionists -- 5. The Confederate Secret Service in Canada -- 6. April '65 -- Appendix A: Table of Requests for Treasury Warrants for Secret Service Money -- Appendix B: Organization of Private Warfare / B.J. Sage -- Appendix C: Bill to Establish a Bureau for Special and Secret Service."William A. Tidwell establishes the existence of a Confederate Secret Service and clarifies the Confederate decision-making process to show the role played by Jefferson Davis in clandestine operations. While the book focuses on the Confederate Secret Service's involvement with the Lincoln assassination, the information presented has implications for various other aspects of the Civil War."--BOOK JACKET. "The most thorough description of the Confederate Secret Service to date, April '65 provides previously unknown records and traces the development of Confederate doctrine for the conduct of irregular warfare. In addition it describes Confederate motives and activities associated with the development of a major covert effort to promote the creation of a peace party in the North. It shows in detail how the Confederates planned to attack the military command and control in Washington and how they responded to the situation when the wartime attack evolved into a peacetime assassination. One of the most significant pieces of new information is how the Confederates were successful in influencing the history of the assassination."--BOOK JACKET.1480L

Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865;

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Border wars : the Civil War in Tennessee and Kentucky / by Dollar, Kent T.,editor.(CARDINAL)280908; Whiteaker, Larry H.(Larry Howard),1946-editor.(CARDINAL)773770; Dickinson, W. Calvin,editor.(CARDINAL)729964;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction / Kent T. Dollar and Larry H. Whiteaker -- Part I. Battles, skirmishes, and soldiers -- The militia spirit: Lexington and Clarksville militias and the making of Civil War armies / Aaron Astor -- Descent into anarchy: the evolution of irregular warfare in the lower Green River country of Kentucky / Scott A. Tarnowieckyi -- The 1861 campaign to liberate East Tennessee / Michael Toomey -- Guerrilla warfare and federal occupation in the Jackson Purchase region of Kentucky, 1862-1864 / Patricia A. Hoskins -- Our friends, the enemy: federal occupation and the unionist regiments of middle and west Tennessee / Derek W. Frisby -- Franklin: the thunder drum of war / Wiley Sword -- Part II. Leaders -- Reconsidering Felix Zollicoffer: the influence of weather and terrain in the rise and fall of a military commander in Appalachia / Brian D. McKnight -- Don Carlos Buell: misunderstood commander of the west / Stephen D. Engle -- Braxton Bragg and the Stones River Campaign / Earl J. Hess -- Mutual antagonists: Braxton Bragg, Frank Cheatham, and the Army of Tennessee / Christopher Losson -- Grant and Forrest: the command value of calluses / Jack Hurst -- "A fighting governor": Isham G. Harris and the Army of Tennessee / Sam Davis Elliott -- Revisiting the heartland from war to reconstruction: an afterword / Benjamin Franklin Cooling.

Subjects: Biographies.;

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The bloody crucible of courage : fighting methods and combat experience of the Civil War / by Nosworthy, Brent.(CARDINAL)772265;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 711-728) and index.Is the study of fighting methods meaningful? -- Advances in small arms, 1830-59 -- Developments in tactical doctrine, 1843-59 -- Artillery prior to the Civil War -- The reaction of the American military to European developments -- The development of the Ironclad, 1810-61 -- The crisis erupts -- The initial training effort -- Artillery and Ironclads at the beginning of the war -- Arming the infantry -- Unpreparedness : Bull Run and its aftermath -- The reality of the battlefield -- Life during the campaign -- The psychological basis of tactics -- Infantry doctrine -- Cavalry : the beginning -- Fighting in the West -- Irregular troops and guerrilla warfare -- River and coastal warfare -- Developments during the war -- Grand tactice during the Civil War -- American artillery doctrine -- Artillery in practice -- Artillery developments during the war -- Cavalry developments during the war -- Field fortifications -- Fighting in the wilderness -- The appearance of hasty entrenchments -- The advent of trench warfare -- The effectiveness of the rifle musket -- The bayonet : myth and utility -- Breechloaders and repeaters : the debate continues -- Tactical developments in European warfare, 1859-17 -- Conclusion.

Subjects: Confederate States of America. Army; Confederate States of America. Army; United States. Army; United States. Army; United States. Army;

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Evolution on demand : the changing roles of the U.S. Marine Corps in twenty-first century conflicts and beyond / by Siekiera, Joanna,editor.; Marine Corps University (U.S.).Press,issuing body.(CARDINAL)288577;

Includes bibliographical references.Keeping the gains: a barbell force design for the twenty-first century Marine Corps / Leo Spaeder -- The Marine Expeditionary Force is the Marine Corps' stand-in-force: the future of corps-level warfighting in the littorals / Brian Kerg -- Force design and maritime Southeast Asia: military diffusion or mutual inspiration? / Drake Long -- The logistical underpinning of combined operations: lessons from Burma / Rosella Cappella Zielinski, Ryan Grauer -- Ironclad commitment: U.S. Marines reinforcing U.S.-Philippine defense alliance / Amparo Pamela Fabe -- To the shores of Taiwan: preparing for a defensive paradigm in the Pacific / Zach Ota, Austin Duncan -- Marine logistics on the European front: delivering effects inland from the littorals / Sidharth Kaushal -- Owning the littorals: transforming Marine aviation in the twenty-first century / Kelly A. Grieco, Maximilian K. Bremer -- U.S. Marine Corps and stability policing: a necessary update to stability operations / Kurtis Kjobech, Joanna Siekiera -- The U.S. Marine Corps and irregular warfare in the twenty-first century / Preston McLaughlin -- Cyberspace as a critical component of future Marine Corps missions: why the U.S. Marines can be used as a role model for other NATO allies and like-minded partners in this domain / Joanna Siekiera, Arun Shankar -- Innovation in PME wargaming for innovation in warfare / James "Pigeon" Fielder -- Ender's legacy: digital wargaming in the twenty-first century / Kevin Williamson.

Subjects: United States. Marine Corps; United States. Marine Corps;

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