James R. Arnold, Author John Wiley & Sons $40 (388p) ISBN 978-0-471-33364-7
Created in 1855 by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, the 2nd United States Cavalry was led by Col. Albert Sidney Johnston, Lt. Col. Robert E. Lee and Maj. George H. Thomas. Arnold (Grant Wins the War) chronicles the birth and pre-Civil War service...
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James R. Arnold, Author John Wiley & Sons $30 (387p) ISBN 978-0-471-15727-4
More than any other element, Union control of the Mississippi River, according to Arnold (Presidents Under Fire), determined the outcome of the Civil War. The capture of the port of Vicksburg was essential, for without Vicksburg, supplies from the...
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James R. Arnold, Author William Morrow & Company $25 (444p) ISBN 978-0-688-09640-3
This impressively detailed study traces the gradual U.S. entanglement in Vietnam, from the early days of the Truman administration to the early 1960s when the South Vietnamese government formally requested that President Kennedy send U.S. Special...
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James R. Arnold, Author Crown Publishers $27.5 (352p) ISBN 978-0-517-58863-5
Arnold ( The First Domino: Eisenhower, the Military, and America's Intervention in Vietnam ) here offers four case studies of American presidents as commanders in chief while the country was at war. He suggests that there is no single blueprint for...
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James R. Arnold. Bloomsbury Press, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-1-60819-024-9
After acquiring the Philippines from Spain in 1898 and pacifying the north, U.S. forces turned to the south, dominated by the Moros, unruly Islamic tribes whose culture Americans little understood. In this excellent mixture of political and military
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