Civil War Weapons

Repeating and breechloading rifles that could shoot up to seven times faster than the standard muzzle-loader of the American Civil War might have given Northerners the victory in the first year of the four-year war. Even though the repeaters were a Union monopoly that had been patented before the war, few were deployed until the final year of fighting. Manufacturers could not understand the bureaucratic resistance and historians have argued over it ever since. That's because they did not know that the Confederate Secret Service was involved. Southerners operated clandestinely to cause the ...

The factual stories in 125 Civil War Stories and Facts will help you learn Civil War history. The stories are informative and entertaining. It’s a fun way to learn about the Civil War. * Does reading about Civil War history from long and dry academic-like books bog you down and cause you to lose interest? * Would you like to read interesting stories based on facts of the Civil War, stories that inform you and move along with the war’s history? Does having to read from cover to cover tire you and cause you to drag through a history book? * Would you prefer the freedom to skip around in a...

The story of a Green Beret commander's heroism during the Vietnam War, and the long fight to recognize his bravery. When Col. Paris Davis was selected to lead one of the Green Beret A-teams organizing resistance to Communist incursions into South Vietnam, his commanding officer warned him that...

In the year 2280, an alien fleet stole our Earth. For 50 years they hunted us. For 50 years they enslaved us. For 50 years we lived in fear. Nothing lasts forever. They can try to quell us. They can try to break us. They can chase us to the ends of the Earth. They can chase us to the ends of the universe. We've won our first battle. We've earned our first taste of hope. What was theirs will soon be ours. We are the rebellion. Our story continues.

World War II's most important battle was fought two months before the war began... It is July 1939⸺An unmarked aircraft carrying a secret cargo has crashed on a Far Eastern mountain, its wreckage scattered on a towering ridge. With the world at the brink of war, four strangers are drawn to that mountain by an ancient prophecy. The Spanish missionary flees his nation's civil war after losing the woman he loved in the fires of Guernica. The Baltistani hunter scours the Himalaya for his sister's murderers. The American reporter tracks the Axis document that killed her journalist husband. The...

Viktor Bout an international Russian arms dealer known by many as the Merchant of Death used his air transport companies to smuggle weapons around the world during the 1990s and 2000s. The movie Lord of War is based on his life being an international weapons trafficker. In March 2008, Bout was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand for allegedly conspiring with United States undercover sources to provide surface to air missiles and other high-power weapons to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Colombia to be used against U.S. military forces. Bout was later extradited, convicted ...

Describes the ambivalence of observers that the Civil War was won by automation and mechanization, not heroism and gallantry. Discusses many of the same issues many people have with internet efficiencies conquering many fields and delivering outsized profits with employees being unimportant to the success, profits, and growth of these companies.

Facing an insurmountable deficit in resources compared to the Union navy, the Confederacy resorted to unorthodox forms of warfare to combat enemy forces. Perhaps the most energetic and effective torpedo corps and secret service company organized during the American Civil War, the Singer Secret Service Corps, led by Texan inventor and entrepreneur Edgar Collins Singer, developed and deployed submarines, underwater weaponry, and explosive devices.

Thomas B. Allen’s expertise in military history and strategy is combined with Roger MacBride Allen’s knowledge of technology to reveal a lesser-known yet fascinating side of the 16th president of the United States. Their authoritative narrative reveals Lincoln as our nation’s first hands-on commander in chief, whose appreciation for the power of technology plays a critical role in the North’s Civil War victory over the less-developed South.

Civil War Battles is an informative introduction to the subject. For four straight years, the people of the United States fought against one another in a brutal civil war that resulted in the deaths of approximately 620,000 men in uniform. Between 1861 and 1865, more Americans died during this bloody conflict than in all other American wars combined. With fighting across the South and in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Kentucky, some battles proved to be key in the overall outcome of the war.

World War II's most important battle was fought two months before the war began... It is July 1939⸺A Nazi Condor aircraft carrying 25 lead canisters and 12 Japanese imperial marines has crashed on a Far Eastern mountain, its wreckage scattered on a towering ridge. With the world at the brink of war, four strangers are drawn to that mountain by an ancient prophecy. The Spanish missionary flees his nation's civil war after losing the woman he loved in the fires of Guernica. The Baltistani hunter scours the Himalaya for his sister's murderers. The American reporter tracks the Axis document ...