William R. Nester Knihy

This book analyzes America's crusade against Jihadism. It addresses the successes and failures of Washington's counter-Jihadist strategy before and after September 11, and explores whether the United States should stay the course or cut its losses in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. číst celé

The book explores the military campaigns surrounding Fort Ticonderoga in 1758, highlighting strategic maneuvers, key battles, and the significance of the fort in the broader context of the French and Indian War. It delves into the experiences of soldiers, the challenges they faced, and the impact of these campaigns on the outcome of the war. Through detailed accounts and analysis, the narrative sheds light on the tactical decisions made by commanders and the fort's role as a pivotal location in colonial American history.

This text provides a balanced analysis of geopolitics and geoeconomics and their inter-relationship. Its presentation combines a theoretical approach with both historical and contemporary perspectives in order to comprehensively depict the evolution of the global political economy.

"A century and a half before the Kennedys and the Clintons, the Fremonts and the Custers were American power couples. Indeed, John and Jessie Fremont, and George and Libbie Custer pioneered the phenomenon. So what made the Fremonts and Custers so famous? In popular culture, the husbands became all-American if tarnished heroes. Fremont was renowned as "the Pathfinder" who mapped swaths of the West in five expeditions and helped lead America's conquest of California from Mexico. His fame and anti-slavery views got him nominated as the newborn Republican Party's presidential candidate in the 1856 election. During the Civil War, Custer was celebrated as the "boy-general" who led cavalry charges that routed rebel forces in a score or more combats. He achieved immortality for the "last stand" of him and 262 of his men against thousands of Indian warriors during the battle of the Bighorn, an epic defeat nearly as culturally powerful as America's Thermopylae, the Alamo. Fremont and Custer epitomized the themes and lived their own adventurous versions of the Odyssey and Iliad, respectively. But above all they helped spearhead "Manifest Destiny," the belief that Americans have a God-given right to expand their nation across the continent and even beyond to the ends of the earth. Then there were their wives. Although little known today, Jessie and Libbie were nearly as famous as their husbands. Each served as her husband's political muse, offering candid advice and spurring him to ever higher ambitions. Both were beautiful, vivacious women who loved entertaining and being the center of attention. They knew how to appropriately wield their charms so that they inspired admiration rather than unwanted advances from men or jealousy from women. They were courageous women who followed their husbands to war, the frontier, and even into the wilderness where they endured extremes of bone-numbing cold, stifling heat, deluges, and swarms of mosquitoes; resided in drafty tents or cabins; and at times feared being victims of violence. The Fremonts and Custers were powerhouses as literary as well as political couples. All four authored books and articles, although overall the ladies were better writers. Proudly backed by their wives, Fremont and Custer committed epic acts in epic times that brought them enormous fame. Yet eventually each self-destructed, Fremont with an accumulating series of disastrous decisions as an explorer, general, politician, and businessman; Custer spectacularly at the Little Bighorn. The reason was simple--serious character flaws made each man his own worst enemy. Had Shakespeare been born three centuries later, his plays on the Fremonts and Custers would likely rank with Macbeth, Lear, Hamlet, Richard III, or Julius Caesar. Hubris was the Achilles heel of both men. Becoming adored heroes at an early age warped each to believe that he could get away with anything. Once extolled as symbolizing America's greatest traits of courage, decisiveness, and ingenuity, with time John Fremont, George Custer, and, by extension their "enabling wives," have increasingly been reviled for representing imperialism, racism, and genocide. It is long past due for a critical reappraisal. As usual the truth shifts mostly far from the extremes. The Old West's First Power Couples neither celebrates nor demonizes John and Jessie Fremont, and George and Libbie Custer. Instead each is explored as an extraordinary, gifted, flawed, unique individual who was half of a unique couple that made history and advanced America's Manifest Destiny"-- Provided by publisher

Analyses Russia's historical position in the world and the rise and fall of the Soviet Union.

Many indeed, are the biographies of Winston Churchill, one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century. But what was that influence and how did he use it in the furtherance of his and his country's ambitions? For the first time, Professor William Nestor has delved into the life and actions of Churchill to examine just how skillfully he manipulated events to placed him in positions of power. His thirst for power stirred political controversy wherever he intruded. Those who had to deal directly with him either loved or hated him. His enemies condemned him for being an egoist, publicity hound, double-dealer, and Machiavellian, accusations that his friends and even he himself could not deny. He could only serve Britain as a statesman and a reformer because he was a wily politician who won sixteen of twenty-one elections that he contested between 1899 and 1955. The House of Commons was Churchill's political temple where he exalted in the speeches and harangues on the floor and the backroom horse-trading and camaraderie. Most of his life he was a Cassandra, warning against the threats of Communism, Nazism, and nuclear Armageddon. With his ability to think beyond mental boxes and connect far-flung dots, he clearly foretold events to which virtually everyone else was oblivious. Yet he was certainly not always right and was at times spectacularly wrong. This is the first book that explores how Churchill understood and asserted the art of power, mostly through hundreds of his own insights expressed through his speeches and writings

Explores all of Britain's key land and sea campaigns and the dynamic relation among them during the Age of Revolution and Napoleon. Reveals how two military geniuses were the reason why Britain and its allies vanquished France when and how they did.

No previous book has explored deeper or broader into Napoleon's seething labyrinth of a mind and revealed more of its complex, fascinating, provocative, and paradoxical dimensions. This is Napoleon as has never been seen before.

The narrative explores a significant uprising by Native American tribes against British colonial rule from 1763 to 1764, highlighting their strategic assaults on nine forts and successful sieges, including those of Forts Detroit and Pitt. This coalition achieved a negotiated peace that addressed many of their grievances, marking a rare triumph in Native American resistance. However, the initial victories were short-lived, as dwindling tribal enthusiasm and the relentless advance of settlers ultimately led to further loss of territory and autonomy for the tribes involved.

The book delves into the historical debate over the role of government in shaping the American economy, spanning from the colonial era to the 1990s. It examines contrasting viewpoints on government intervention versus collaboration with business, providing a comprehensive analysis of the ideological and political struggles surrounding industrial policy. By exploring both the chronological developments and the processes involved in policymaking, it offers a thorough understanding of America's industrial policies over nearly four centuries.