Don't Tread on Me A 400-Year History of America at War, from Indian Fighting to Terrorist Hunting

Name: Don't Tread on Me A 400-Year History of America at War, from Indian Fighting to Terrorist Hunting
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ISBN: 9781400053643

ISBN-10: 1400053641

ISBN-13: 9781400053643

Edition: N/A

Authors: H. W. Crocker

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"Don't Tread on Me" is a sweeping, colorful--and controversial--history of America's wars and foreign and military policy over the past four hundred years. Full of gripping battle scenes and contrarian arguments, this stirring book challenges Americans to rethink what they thought they knew about our nation at war.

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/27/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.21" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Prologue: The Summons of the Trumpet



The Gentle Art of Scalping



Wolfe's Triumph and Pontiac's Rebellion



"Disperse, Ye Rebels!"



Forged in Battle: From 1776 to Valley Forge



The World Turned Upside Down



The Founders' Foreign Entanglements



Madison's Wars



The Guns of Old Hickory



The Emerging Colossus



Military Holiday in Mexico



Wrecking the Furniture



"War Is Cruelty, You Cannot Refine It"



"War Means Fighting and Fighting Means Killing"



"For Every Southern Boy...It's Still Not Yet Two O'Clock on That July Afternoon in 1863"



"The Satisfaction That Proceeds from the Consciousness of Duty Faithfully Performed"



"But Westward, Look! The Land Is Bright"



"Half Devil and Half Child"



"Come On, You Sons of Bitches! Do You Want to Live Forever?"



A World Made Safe for War



Infamy



"The Great Crusade"



"Another Marine Reporting for Duty, Sir. I've Spent My Time in Hell"



"Retreat, Hell-We're Just Attacking in Another Direction"



The Long Twilight Struggle



America Resurgent


Epilogue: "Go Tell the Spartans"


Notes


Select Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index