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Heroism and sacrifice. Brutality and folly. Great leaders, great villains, pivotal moments, and events. Take a captivating, concise, and convenient look at how the world, the United States, and the lives we lead today have been changed by war and the military!

Military history is a fascinating, complex, and often contradictory subject. War and fighting between tribes, clans, groups, and countries has been with us forever. Wars cause political, social, and technological upheavals. From early Greeks and Romans to the great conquering militaries of the past, continuing on through the civil wars and world wars that shaped the boundaries of today’s nations, and to the modern weapons, technologies, guerrilla warfare, and terrorism currently reported in the nightly news, The Handy Military History Answer Book looks at the who, the what, the why, and the how of conflicts throughout history. It answers over 1,100 questions, from the most widely asked to the more obscure, such as:

Who cast the first stone (of human history)?

Is there anything to the story of Ancient Troy?

Could Alexander the Great have conquered the early Roman Republic?

How many men, and auxiliary fighters, were there in a Roman legion?

Which precious metal did the Vikings prefer above all others?

Do we even have his name—Genghis Khan—right?

Where did Richard the Lion-Heart get his nickname?

How long did it take to learn how to use the longbow?

Was Napoleon really not French?

When did George Washington have to alter all his plans: and how did he go about making the change?

What signals did Paul Revere watch for on the evening of April 18, 1775?

How many people died at the Siege of Fort Sumter?

What was the worst day of the Civil War, in the Far West?

Where was the world's first submarine deployed?

When were balloons first deployed in warfare?

Where did the name "Uncle Sam" come from?

What did Rasputin have to say about the approach of the First World War?

Why on earth did Hitler code-name his invasion of Russia for a German emperor who drowned?

How close did Hitler come to victory at Moscow in 1941?

What ten days decided the outcome of World War II?

What was so special about the B-24?

When did the Cold War commence?

What role will technology like the Internet play in future warfare?

How significant—to the United States—is the rise in China’s military power?

The weapons, leaders, soldiers, battles, tactics, strategies, blunders, technologies, and outcomes are all examined in The Handy Military History Answer Book. It investigates everything from the smallest miscalculations and maneuvers to the biggest invasions and battles, as well as the cutting-edge technologies and firepower that led to victories and helped change the world! This powerful primer on the military also includes a helpful bibliography and an extensive index, adding to its usefulness.

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Publié par	Visible Ink Press
Date de parution	23 mars 2015
Nombre de lectures	2
EAN13	9781578595501
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	4 Mo

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Sam Crompton, holding a powder horn, poses by the Soldier s Memorial in Northampton, Massachusetts ( photo: Dieu Etinde ).
Samuel Willard Crompton is the author or editor of many books written for a variety of publishers. Though he has written for children, teenagers, and adults, one of the constants of his career is that military topics have often played a major role. He has been a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow on several occasions, the most recent of which was The Civil War in Trans-National Perspective, held at New York University. Crompton teaches history at Holyoke Community College in his native Massachusetts.
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Contents
P HOTO C REDITS
D EDICATION
I NTRODUCTION
IRON, STONE, AND BRONZE: 3000 TO 320 B.C.E.
Prehistory
First Settlements
The Late Bronze Age
Hebrews and Jews
Greeks and Persians
Greek versus Greek
The Phalanx
Alexander
Alexander s Successors
EMPIRES AND BARBARIANS: 320 B.C.E. TO 800 C.E.
Early Rome
Punic Wars
Our Sea, the Mediterranean
Roman Civil War
The Roman Empire
Augustus Heirs
The Pax Romana
Barbarian Tribes and the Fall of Rome
The Byzantine Empire
The Arab Explosion
Charlemagne
THE WORLD ISLAND: 801 TO 1405
The Mongols
The Mongols in China
Tamerlane and Bayezid
HOLY WARS: 1095 TO 1453
The Normans
The First Crusade
Jihad
The Third Crusade
The Fourth Crusade
Philip versus John
Border Wars
The Hundred Years War
End of the Byzantine Empire
RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION WARFARE: 1454 TO 1648
Luther and Pope Leo X
Cort s and Montezuma
Magellan and Elcano
Henry, Charles, and Francis
The Terrible Turk
Catholic versus Protestant
The Rise of Russia
The Rise of England
Malta and Lepanto
The Spanish Armada
Religious Wars in France
The Thirty Years War
THE ENLIGHTENMENT: 1648 TO 1763
The Rise of France
The Short Peace
War of the Austrian Succession
French, Indians, English, and Americans
AGE OF REVOLUTION: 1763 TO 1799
Commander in Chief
The Times That Try Men s Souls
Year of the Hangman
Diplomats Abroad
The French Alliance
Benedict Arnold s Treason
Greene versus Cornwallis
The Revolution of 1789
THE NAPOLEONIC ERA: 1800 TO 1815
Barbary Pirates
France versus Everyone
Napoleon s Zenith
The Momentous Year
The American War
Exile to Elba
Rockets Red Glare
Napoleon s Last Gamble
NATIONALITIES AND GRIM PRACTICALITIES: 1815 TO 1860
Conservatives and Reactionaries
New Technologies
Revolutions, Again
Far Eastern Wars
Taiping Rebellion
Texas Revolution
U.S.-Mexican War
Revolutions of 1848
Crimean War
Garibaldi s Revolution
CIVIL WARS AND IMPERIAL GRABS: 1861 TO 1913
Union versus Confederacy
Vicksburg and Gettysburg
The Last Battles of the U.S. Civil War
The Rise of Prussia
Franco-Prussian War
Overseas Empires
The American Empire
The Zulu Wars
Endof-the-Century Conflicts
Russo- Japanese War
Balkan Wars
THE GREAT WAR: 1914 TO 1918
The Assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand
First Battles of World War I
The Eastern Front
War at Sea
Gallipoli
The Western Front in 1915
Meat Grinder
Battle of Jutland
T.E. Lawrence
Russia and America
Americans in Other Armies
The November Revolution
Sledgehammer Blows
Totaling the Losses
FROM COAL TO OIL: 1919 TO 1939
The Advent of Oil
Aircraft Carriers
The World in Depression
Natural Resources
Rise of the Dictators
Japan and China (361)
WORLD WAR II: 1939 TO 1945
Battle of France
So Many, So Much, So Few
FDR s Americans
Hunt for the Bismarck
Operation Barbarossa
Tora, Tora, Tora!
Germany First
Battle for North Africa
Offensive in Russia
Twin Disasters
Japanese High Tide
Miracle at Midway
The Allied Invasions
D-Day
Breakout
The Russian Onslaught
Battle of the Bulge
War in the Pacific
Hitler s Fall
Surrender of Japan
THE COLD WAR: 1945 TO 1980
China, Korea, and Vietnam
India, Israel, and Egypt
Summit Meetings
The Cuban Missile Crisis
China and Vietnam
The Six-Day War
Vietnam
The Explosions of 1968
Vietnam Again
Yom Kippur War
Nixon in China
Oil and the Arabs
The End of the Vietnam War
D tente and the Dictators
The Persian Gulf
RESOURCE WARS AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS: 1980 TO 2014
The Hostage Crisis
Lebanon War
Reagan and Gorbachev
Tiananmen Square
Fall of the Soviet Bloc
End of the Cold War
First Gulf War
9/11
The Future of War
F URTHER R EADING
T IMELINE
I NDEX
Photo Credits
Ad Meskens: p. 242 .
Bollweevil: p. 46 .
Adam Cuerdon: p. 276 .
Daderot: p. 288 .
Das Bundesarchiv: pp. 369 , 379 , 389 , 391 , 423 .
David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada: p. 72 .
Fanghong: p. 59 .
Gautier Poupeau from Paris, France: p. 35 .
Georges Jansoone (JoJan): p. 37 .
Hans J rn Storgaard Andersen: p. 477 .
Ilya Schurov: p. 506 .
Library of Congress: pp. 309 , 315 , 321 , 335 , 340 , 371 , 373 , 378 , 417 , 433 , 437 .
Louis le Grand: p. 42 .
Margaret Thatcher Foundation: p. 476 .
Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net ): p. 16 .
Moonik: p. 6 .
National Archives USA: p. 405 .
Nick-D: p. 410 .
Pavel Kazachkov: p. 118 (top).
Pete Souza: p. 503 .
Project Gutenberg: p. 248 .
RIA Novosti archive: pp. 380 , 383 .
TheMachineStops: p. 492 .
uncle.capung: p. 445 .
U.S. Air Force: p. 488 .
U.S. Army: pp. 414 , 419 , 431 , 470 , 494 .
U.S. Army Signal Corps: p. 393 .
U.S. Department of Defense: pp. 8 , 484 , 496 , 509 .
U.S. Marine Corps: p. 501 .
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration: pp. 297 , 475 .
U.S. Navy: pp. 386 , 400 , 421 , 435 .
U.S. public domain: pp. 27 , 99 , 110 , 112 , 114 , 120 , 125 , 127 , 131 , 134 , 136 , 139 , 144 , 146 , 149 , 151 , 158 , 163 , 168 , 182 , 189 , 198 , 207 , 234 , 251 , 255 , 259 , 260 , 264 , 267 , 270 , 272 , 284 , 293 , 296 , 304 , 306 , 330 , 332 , 345 , 350 .
Vassil: p. 80 .
Welcome Trust: p. 121 .
Witia: p. 250 .
Zhang Zhenshi: p. 362 .
All others images are in the public domain.
Dedication
This is for my beloved Charlotte, she who threaded her way through isolation, relocation, and single motherhood on the way toward peace, happiness, and the enjoyment of grandchildren.
Introduction
Hans, Tommy, Ivan, and Joe gather round the table to discuss their memories of the Second World War. For men who are often talkative at home, they are rather quiet, humble even, as they begin to talk with others who had incredibly important experiences at the same time they did, albeit in the service of different nations.
Hans, who still has the long, lean lines of a German athlete, declares that his people never supported the idea of war with the rest of Europe; they voted for Hitler because this seemed the only way out of the Great Depression, which, in 1932, was pretty awful. Hans admits that he signed up too quickly for the German infantry, and that he might have done better to hold off. War