A mother. A child. An accident. A promise. A mother’s journey takes her to heaven where she discover... more

"Stokesbury’s rare combination of scholarship and readability merits the highest recommendation." --Booklist In...... more

fielding and sustaining an army, and of maintaining morale -- Stokesbury also brings the reader to the Peace of Paris in 1783...... more

, Stokesbury sketches the ever-changing circumstances, tools, and social purposes of warfare to reveal its essential continuity of...... more

Leon Stokesbury s best from fifty years of published work. The selections from his earlier volumes are as fully realized as...... more

the time of this death, as Leon Stokesbury asserts in his introduction, Stanford was the best poet in America under the...... more

As pungent and concise as his short histories of both world wars, Stokesbury s survey of the half war takes a broad...... more

, and -- most lethal of all -- poison gas, all received their first widespread use. Professor Stokesbury analyzes these...... more

Despite the numerous books on World War II, until now there has been no one-volume survey that was b... more