Potomac Books
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Crucible of Fire: Nineteenth-Century Urban Fires and the Making of the Modern Fire Service
$29.95 Add to cartCrucible of Fire is an eye-opening look at today’s fire service and a thorough examination of what firefighters, civic leaders, and ordinary citizens can do to protect their homes and communities from
- Author: Hensler, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1597976849
- Language: English
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Information Operations: Warfare and the Hard Reality of Soft Power
$26.95 Add to cartThe modern means of communication have turned the world into an information fishbowl and, in terms of foreign policy and national security in post-Cold War power politics, helped transform internation… [more below]
- Series: Issues in Twenty-First Century Warfare
- Author: Armistead, E. Leigh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1574886991
- Language: English
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Insurgency and Terrorism: From Revolution to Apocalypse, Second Edition, Revised
$24.95 Add to cartA systematic, comprehensive, and straightforward textbook for analyzing and comparing insurgencies and terrorist movements, Insurgency and Terrorism was first published in 1990 to broad acclaim. Obser… [more below]
- Author: O’Neill, Bard E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574881728
- Language: English
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The Gas and Flame Men: Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service During World War I
$32.95 Add to cartWhen the United States officially entered World War I in 1917, it was woefully underprepared for chemical warfare, in which the British, French, and Germans had been engaged since 1915. In response, t… [more below]
- Author: Leeke, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1640126058
- Language: English
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Quest for the Presidency: The Storied and Surprising History of Presidential Campaigns in America
$36.95 Add to cartQuest for the Presidency gathers in a single volume the compelling stories behind every presidential campaign in American history, from 1789 through 2020. Bob Riel takes us inside the 1800 clash betwe… [more below]
- Author: Riel, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1640122303
- Language: English
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Forbidden Memory: Tibet During the Cultural Revolution
$39.95 Add to cartAccess the glossary of Tibetan terms.
Access the glossary of Chinese and English terms.
Access the Index. When Red Guards arrived in Tibet in 1966, intent on creating a classless society, they unleash… [more below]- Author: Woeser, Tsering
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1612349692
- Language: English
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Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela
$21.95 Add to cartBeneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude–the world’s largest reserves–an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist g… [more below]
- Author: Gallegos, Raúl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1640122133
- Language: English
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Coaching Winning Model United Nations Teams: A Teacher’s Guide
$24.95 Add to cartBy some counts, Model United Nations (MUN) has become the single most popular extracurricular academic activity among high school students. More than two million high school and college students have … [more below]
- Author: Mickolus, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1612346030
- Language: English
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Empire of Terror: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
$34.95 Add to cartIn Empire of Terror Mark D. Silinsky argues that Iran is one of the United States’ deadliest enemies. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, known as the Guards, bring Iran’s sway over much of the gre… [more below]
- Author: Silinsky, Mark D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 164012313X
- Language: English
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Union General: Samuel Ryan Curtis and Victory in the West
$34.95 Add to cart2023 A. M. Pate, Jr. Award in Civil War History
Union General is the first biography of Samuel Ryan Curtis, the most important and most successful general on either side in the Civil War west of the M- Author: Shea, William L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640125183
- Language: English
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Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident
$27.95 Add to cartThe true story that inspired the feature film Bridge of Spies
In this new edition of his classic 1970 memoir about the notorious U-2 incident, pilot Francis Gary Powers reveals the full story of what- Author: Powers, Francis Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1574884220
- Language: English
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The First Resort of Kings: American Cultural Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century
$39.95 Add to cartDuring the last five decades, U.S. cultural diplomacy programs have withered because of politics and accidents of history that have subordinated cultural diplomacy to public relations campaigning, now… [more below]
- Author: Arndt, Richard T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1597970042
- Language: English
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The Sea Rover’s Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730
$21.95 Add to cart. . . .rich in colourful detail, and displays impressive knowledge of sailing and fighting skills. –Richard Hill, The Naval Review
Accessible to both the general and the more scholarly reader, it will
- Author: Little, Benerson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1574889117
- Language: English
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The Minute Men: The First Fight: Myths and Realities of the American Revolution
$19.95 Add to cartThe concept of the farmer and shopkeeper pulling rifles off pegs on the wall to fight the British has been the typical image of the American minuteman. The fact that he may have had military training … [more below]
- Series: History of War
- Author: Galvin, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1597970700
- Language: English
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Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence
$26.95 Add to cartA thoroughly updated revision of the first comprehensive overview of intelligence designed for both the student and the general reader, Silent Warfare is an insider’s guide to a shadowy, often misunde… [more below]
- Author: Shulsky, Abram N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: May 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1574883453
- Language: English
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The Kennedys in the World: How Jack, Bobby, and Ted Remade America’s Empire
$36.95 Add to cartThe Kennedys in the World tells a new, rich, fascinating, and consequential story about Jack, Bobby, and Ted Kennedy. From an early age the brothers developed a deep understanding of the different peo… [more below]
- Author: Haas, Lawrence J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1640123849
- Language: English
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A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution
$26.95 Add to cart2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
In this timely and provocative book, Damon Root reveals how Frederick Douglass’s fight for an antislavery Constitution helped to shape the course of American hi- Author: Root, Damon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1640122354
- Language: English
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Peacekeepers at War: Beirut 1983–The Marine Commander Tells His Story
$36.95 Add to cartOn October 23, 1983, nearly simultaneous suicide truck bombings killed 241 U.S. peacekeepers in their barracks at the Beirut International Airport (BIA) and 58 French paratroopers at their headquarter… [more below]
- Author: Geraghty, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1597974250
- Language: English
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White Tigers: My Secret War in North Korea
$21.95 Add to cartOperating from a clandestine camp on an island off western North Korea, Army Lt. Ben Malcom coordinated the intelligence activities of eleven partisan battalions, including the famous White Tigers. Wi… [more below]
- Series: Memories of War
- Author: Malcom, Ben S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1574886053
- Language: English
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Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines
$49.95 Add to cartSubmarines had a vital, if often unheralded, role in the superpower navies during the Cold War. Their crews carried out intelligence-collection operations, sought out and stood ready to destroy opposi… [more below]
- Author: Polmar, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574885308
- Language: English
