University Press of Kansas
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Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why
$27.99 Add to cartThe Warren Commission’s major conclusion was that Lee Harvey Oswald was the “lone assassin” of President John F. Kennedy. Gerald McKnight rebuts that view in a meticulous and devastating dissection of… [more below]
- Author: McKnight, Gerald D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0700619399
- Language: English
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Hell, No, We Didn’t Go!: Firsthand Accounts of Vietnam War Protest and Resistance
$34.99 Add to cartAs long as there have been wars, there has been conscription. And conscription has never been popular.
When asked in a Gallup poll taken in August 1965 whether the US decision to send troops to Vietnam
- Author: Greenbaum, Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0700636307
- Language: English
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The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth
$24.99 Add to cartThe Civil War’s single-shot, muzzle-loading musket revolutionized warfare-or so we’ve been told for years. Noted historian Earl J. Hess forcefully challenges that claim, offering a new, clear-eyed, an… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Hess, Earl J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 11 2016
- ISBN10: 0700623833
- Language: English
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Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson
$56.98 Add to cartWinner: Albert Castel Book Award
Winner: Tennessee History Book Award Winner: Emerging Civil War Book Award Winner: Douglas Southall Freeman History Award When General Ulysses S. Grant targeted Forts- Series: Modern War Studies
- Author: Smith, Timothy B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 526
- Publish Date: October 29 2021
- ISBN10: 0700633162
- Language: English
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The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice
$27.99 Add to cartFor more than four decades beginning in 1944, the Hanford nuclear weapons facility in southeastern Washington State secretly blanketed much of the Pacific Northwest with low-dose ionizing radiation, t… [more below]
- Author: Pritikin, Trisha T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0700629041
- Language: English
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Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation
$27.99 Add to cartFletcher Pratt Award
McLemore Prize In the spring of 1862, there was no more important place in the western Confederacy–perhaps in all the South–than the tiny town of Corinth, Mississippi. Major Gen- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Smith, Timothy B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0700623450
- Language: English
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The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23-July 4, 1863
$99.98 Add to cartIn The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23-July 4, 1863, noted Civil War scholar Timothy B. Smith offers the first comprehensive account of the siege that … [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies
- Author: Smith, Timothy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: June 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0700632255
- Language: English
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The Union Assaults at Vicksburg: Grant Attacks Pemberton, May 17-22, 1863
$116.65 Add to cartIt was the third week of May 1863, and after seven months and six attempts, Ulysses S. Grant was finally at the doorstep of Vicksburg. What followed was a series of attacks and maneuvers against the l… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies
- Author: Smith, Timothy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: January 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0700629068
- Language: English
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Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War
$63.32 Add to cartTo Jefferson Davis, he was the “Stonewall of the West”; to Robert E. Lee, he was “a meteor shining from a clouded sky”; and to Braxton Bragg, he was an officer “ever alive to a success.” He was Patric… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: April 08 1997
- ISBN10: 0700609342
- Language: English
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No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas
$27.99 Add to cartFinalist: Lambda Literary Award for LBGTQ Nonfiction
Winner: Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize
A Kansas Notable Book
Far from the coastal centers of culture and politics, Kansas stands a
- Author: Janovy, C. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: March 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0700628347
- Language: English
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Stand in the Fire: Three American Soldiers and Their Wars, 1900-1950
$27.99 Add to cartFrom the first shot fired by his grandfather on a jungle trail in 1903 to the day his father captured plans for the Chinese invasion of South Korea, William Crawford Woods’s family has fought in nearl
- Author: Woods, William Crawford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0700634630
- Language: English
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Into the Sunset: Emmett Dalton and the End of the Dalton Gang
$22.99 Add to cartOn October 5, 1892, the last of the major outlaw gangs of the Old West was destroyed in a gun battle in Coffeyville, a small town in southeastern Kansas. When the smoke cleared, eight men were dead an
- Author: Shaw, Ian W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0700635505
- Language: English
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Shiloh: Conquer or Perish
$32.99 Add to cartRichard B. Harwell Award
Tennessee History Book Award Doughlas Southall Freeman Award A critical moment in the Civil War, the Battle of Shiloh has been the subject of many books. However, none has tol- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Smith, Timothy B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 606
- Publish Date: October 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0700623477
- Language: English
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Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942
$27.99 Add to cartFor Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht replaced brilliant victories and huge territorial gains with stalemates… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Citino, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 22 2007
- ISBN10: 0700617914
- Language: English
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In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier’s Memoir of the Eastern Front
$54.98 Add to cartIn the hell that was World War II, the Eastern Front was its heart of fire and ice. Gottlob Herbert Bidermann served in that lethal theater from 1941 to 1945, and his memoir of those years recaptures … [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Bidermann, Gottlob Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0700611223
- Language: English
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The Day That Shook America: A Concise History of 9/11
$91.65 Add to cartOn September 11, 2001, author J. Samuel Walker was far from home when he learned of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Stricken by incredulity and anxiety, he found the … [more below]
- Author: Walker, J. Samuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0700632611
- Language: English
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Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills
$74.98 Add to cartLong before the coming of Euro-Americans, native inhabitants of what is now Kansas left their mark on the land: carvings in the soft orange and red sandstone of the state&fsquo;s Smoky Hills. Though n… [more below]
- Author: Buchanan, Rex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0700628428
- Language: English
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Red Phoenix Rising: The Soviet Air Force in World War II
$27.99 Add to cartChoice Outstanding Academic Title
A groundbreaking account of the Soviet Air Force in World War II, the original version of this book, Red Phoenix, was hailed by the Washington Post as both “brilliant- Series: Modern War Studies
- Author: Hardesty, Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 070063293X
- Language: English
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The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943
$27.99 Add to cartArthur Goodzeit Award
Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and t- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Citino, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: September 16 2016
- ISBN10: 0700623434
- Language: English
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Kansas City’s Montgall Avenue: Black Leaders and the Street They Called Home
$24.99 Add to cartA few blocks southeast of the famed intersection of 18th and Vine in Kansas City, Missouri, just a stone’s throw from Charlie Parker’s old stomping grounds and the current home of the vaunted American
- Author: Carr, Margie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0700634673
- Language: English
