Format:
Video disc
Title:
American military history : from Colonials to counterinsurgents.
ISBN:
9781629975108
Publication:
Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2018]
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 293 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
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Course No. 8706.
24 lectures (30 min. each).
Contents:
disc 1: 1. -- America : forged in war -- 2. George Washington takes command -- 3. Redcoats fall to the Continental Army -- 4. Andrew Jackson and the War of 1812 -- 5. The Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 -- 6. Opening volleys of the Civil War: 1861-1862 -- disc 2: 7. The Civil War's main front: 1862 -- 8. Vicksburg to Gettysburg: 1862-1863 -- 9. Chattanooga to Appomattox: 1863-1865 -- 10. The Spanish-American War of 1898 -- 11. American expeditionary forces: 1917-1918 -- 12. John J. Pershing, the Doughboys, and France -- disc 3: 13. From Pearl harbor to the Battle of Midway -- 14. War in North Africa and the South Pacific -- 15. Air power over Germany:toward Japan by sea -- 16. From Normandy to Berlin and Tokyo -- 17. Korea and the Cold War -- 18. The United States enters Vietnam -- disc 4: 19. Elusive victory in Southeast Asia -- 20. American Forces in Grenada and Panama -- 21. Knocking Iraq out of Kuwait -- 22. Balkan Wars: Bosnia and Kosovo -- 23. Afghanistan, Iraq, and terrorism -- 24. Facing wars past and future.
Summary:
A retired four-star general analyzes more than two centuries of America's wars, including his own.
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