{"title":"Alan Axelrod","description":"ALAN AXELROD is the author of The Real History of the American Revolution, What Every American Should Know about American History, Elizabeth I, CEO, and many other works. He is the president of The Ian Samuel Group, a book packager.","products":[{"product_id":"a-savage-empire-trappers-traders-tribes-and-the-wars-that-made-america-hardcover","title":"A Savage Empire: Trappers, Traders, Tribes, and the Wars That Made America - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA surprising and sweeping history that reveals the fur trade to be the driving force behind conquest, colonization, and revolution in early America \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCombining the epic saga of Hampton Sides's \u003ci\u003eBlood and Thunder \u003c\/i\u003ewith the natural history of Mark Kurlansky's \u003ci\u003eCod\u003c\/i\u003e, popular historian Alan Axelrod reveals the astonishingly vital role a small animal--the beaver--played in the creation of our nation. The author masterfully relays a story often neglected by conventional histories: how lust for fur trade riches moved monarchs and men to launch expeditions of discovery, finance massive corporate enterprises, and wage war. Deftly weaving cultural and military narratives, the author chronicles how Spanish, Dutch, French, English, and Native American tribes created and betrayed alliances based on trapping and trade disputes, producing a surprisingly complex series of loyalties that endured throughout the Revolution and beyond.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365887377631,"sku":"9780312576561","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/2DeDhrn8DH9780312576561.webp?v=1789073584"},{"product_id":"miracle-at-belleau-wood-the-birth-of-the-modern-u-s-marine-corps-paperback","title":"Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth Of The Modern U.S. Marine Corps - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow in paperback!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMilitary Book Club(R) Main Selection \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory Book Club(R) Featured Alternate\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe battle that transformed a group of common \u003cbr\u003esoldiers into the modern-day Marine Corps\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiracle at Belleau Wood \u003c\/i\u003ebegins in June 1918 at Les Mare Farm in France with just 200 U.S. marines, who spilled their blood to prevail against impossible odds, resisting an overwhelming German force of thousands and turned the battle back against the enemy, saved Paris, saved France, and saved the Allied hope of victory. Called \"the Gettysburg of the Great War\" by many at the time, it rescued America and its allies from almost certain defeat. This book tells the riveting story of the modern marines as America's fiercest and most effective warriors, the world's preeminent fighting elite. \u003ci\u003eMiracle at Belleau Wood\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of an epoch-making battle--a battle that elevated the Corps to legendary status and forever burned them into the American imagination. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiracle at Belleau Wood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Axelrod brings us back vividly to the shocking casualties of 'the war to end all wars.'\"\u003cbr\u003e-Bing West, author of \u003ci\u003eNo True Glory\u003c\/i\u003e, former Assistant Secretary of Defense\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Alan Axelrod has perfectly captured the embodiment of U.S. Marines and their unparalleled Esprit de Corps. . . . A must read!\"\u003cbr\u003e-Jay Kopelman, author of the best-selling \u003ci\u003eFrom Baghdad with Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Axelrod is one of America's great military historians. He's done it this time with riveting non-stop action that reads like the best of Hemingway's frontline reports plus the Marine Corps novels of W.E.B. Griffin. Axelrod pushes you right into the action, onto the battlefield, and never lets up.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Paul B. Farrell, JD, PhD, syndicated columnist for Dow Jones's \u003ci\u003eMarketWatch, \u003c\/i\u003e former Staff Sergeant in the US Marine Corps\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003ePatton: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Like Patton at his best: polished, precise, and persuasive.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCome on, you sons of bitches!Do you want to live forever?--First Sergeant Dan Daly, USMC, leading an assault against German machine guns in Belleau Wood Even before it was over at the end of June 1918, Americans were hailing the Battle of Belleau Wood as \"the Gettysburg of the Great War\"--World War I. U.S. Army general Robert L. Bullard put it this way: \"The marines didn't 'win the war' here, but they saved the Allies from defeat. Had they arrived a few hours later, I think that would have been the beginning of the end.\" Gettysburg? It was more like Thermopylae, 480 BC, when three hundred Spartans held back some say as many as a half million Persians. In 1918, throughout the nearly month-long struggle for a twisted patch of French woodland half the size of New York City's Central Park, the U.S. Marines were always outnumbered by the Germans, but, at the very start of the battle, overwhelmingly so. Just two hundred of them held off the leading edge of Crown Prince Rupprecht's entire army. Stunned by the casualties this tiny band inflicted on them, the German soldiers branded the marines Teufelhunden, and the men of the Marine Corps have proudly called themselves Devil Dogs ever since. Belleau Wood, the former hunting preserve of a Parisian aristocrat, lay little more than thirty miles northeast of Paris. Had the Germans broken through it in June 1918, they would almost surely have captured the French capital, and, with its fall, have knocked France out of the war, leaving the British and the newly arrived Americans little alternative but to surrender on the best terms they could get. In this, their maiden battle of World War I, the United States Marines made sure that the German army was stopped in Belleau Wood--before it could get to Paris. The victory was won at the terrible cost of about 40 percent marine casualties overall, with some companies being virtually wiped out. But the Battle of Belleau Wood burned the marines into the American imagination, instantly elevating the Corps to legendary status and forever transforming American military doctrine itself by demonstrating how the bold and efficient use of small, highly trained, utterly committed units could make the difference even in wars fought on the most massive of scales, bringing the battle to the enemy no matter how overwhelming the odds. This is the story of the epoch-making battle, the battle that made the modern Marine Corps, the battle that would form the heritage behind so many marine victories in later wars, at Tarawa and Iwo Jima, Pork Chop Hill, Khe Sanh, and at Fallujah.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAxelrod is one of America's great military historians. He's done it this time with riveting non-stop action that reads like the best of Hemingway's frontline reports plus the Marine Corps novels of W. E. B. Griffin. Axelrod pushes you right into the action, onto the battlefield, and never lets up. You become a firsthand witness to one of the world's great battles, proud and heart-pounding as the elite force, the Devil Dogs, are born in a small forest outside Paris. This is one book I wish I'd written! --Paul B. Farrell, J.D., Ph.D., is a syndicated columnist for Dow Jones's MarketWatch. He is the author of The Lazy Person's Guide to Investing and The Millionaire Code, a former investment banker with Morgan Stanley, and a former staff sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. \"Alan Axelrod has perfectly captured the embodiment of U.S. Marines and their unparalleled Esprit de Corps in his new book, Miracle at Belleau Wood. As a former Marine, I find Axelrod's descriptions of the combat in that bloody battle for which the Corps became legendary--and which is the foundation of its mythic lore--compelling and gut-wrenching. Miracle at Belleau Wood puts the reader in the front row, witness to the heroism and ups and downs endured by the Marines as they defeated the Germans at overwhelming odds. A must-read!\" --Lieutenant Colonel Jay Kopelman, USMCR (Ret.), best-selling author of From Baghdad, With Love \"Axelrod brings us back vividly to the shocking casualties of 'the war to end all wars, ' opening up fresh insights into the nature of the fighting and the decisions that shaped a generation.\" --Bing West is a correspondent for The Atlantic and the award-winning author of two books on the Iraq war. He is a former Marine in Vietnam and assistant secretary of defense.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367069417695,"sku":"9781493032891","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/3UAcM0VnNH9781493032891.webp?v=1789102303"},{"product_id":"generals-south-generals-north-the-commanders-of-the-civil-war-reconsidered-paperback","title":"Generals South, Generals North: The Commanders of the Civil War Reconsidered - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eGenerals South, Generals North highlights twenty-four commanders--twelve each from the Confederacy and the Union. Best-selling author and military historian Alan Axelrod presents a biography of each, narrates the major engagements in which each fought (emphasizing tactical leadership and outcome produced), and explores each man's ever-controversial reputation. His consequent rankings are based on both historical and modern-day sources.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith April 12, 2011, set to mark the 150th anniversary of Fort Sumter's fall and the start of the Civil War, the time has come for an assessment of the conflict's most important, influential, and controversial military leaders. Generals South, Generals North highlights twenty-four such commanders--twelve each from the Confederacy and the Union. Best-selling author and military historian Alan Axelrod presents a biography of each, narrates the major engagements in which each fought (emphasizing tactical leadership and outcome produced), and explores each man's ever-controversial reputation. His consequent rankings are based on both historical and modern-day sources. Every profile is accompanied by photographs of the general, additional illustrations such as battle depictions, and a map showing either a major engagement or the general's movements throughout the war. The result--a lively and comprehensive reference for all those interested in the Civil War and a beautiful addition to the library of general readers--is sure to start as many arguments as it settles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the time the Civil War was over, 583 generals had served in the Union army and 572 in the Confederate army. A few were brilliant. Many should never have held command. But others learned on the job and did their utmost--or even gave their utmost. All were faced with a mission daunting beyond our ability to imagine. They commanded regiments, brigades, divisions, corps, and armies bigger than any ever before fielded on the North American continent. Both sides started practically from scratch, building very large armies from forces miniscule or nonexistent and planning the strategy and tactics of warfare on a scale and of a nature no American had even contemplated. In Generals South, Generals North, best-selling author and military historian Alan Axelrod chooses the two dozen generals who had the greatest impact on the course and outcome of the war. He presents a biography of each, narrates the major engagements in which each fought, and explores the reputation of each based on historical sources as well as the opinions of current Civil War researchers. 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This book takes a different approach. It presents battles and wars and people aplenty, but they are not its ultimate subjects. This book is about the turning points that not only make military history dynamic but crucial to the story of humanity and civilization. This book is about the decisions, acts, innovations, errors, ideas, successes, and failures that shaped the evolution of military art and science--strategy, tactics, and technology--and, in doing so, shaped the course of world history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere are the 100 points--from the birth of warfare in the Battle of Megiddo, 1457 BC, to the ongoing evolution of military history on its newest battlefield, cyberspace--at which the path of the warrior decisively turned on its long journey to where we find ourselves today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eALAN AXELROD, PhD, is the author of many books on history, leadership, and military history, including How America Won World War I: The U.S. Military Victory in the Great War--the Causes, the Course, and the Consequences (2018), Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth of the Modern U.S. Marine Corps (Revised Edition, 2018), The Gilded Age (2018), Lost Destiny: Joe Kennedy Jr. and the Doomed WWII Mission to Save London (2015), and Generals South, Generals North: The Commanders of the Civil War Reconsidered (2011). He has taught at University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa), Lake Forest College (Lake Forest, Illinois), and Furman University (Greenville, South Carolina). He was most recently a creative consultant for \"The Great War\" in the PBS American Experience television series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Alan Axelrod's books About Miracle at Belleau Wood (Lyons Press): \"Axelrod brings us back vividly to the shocking casualties of 'the war to end all wars, ' opening up fresh insights into the nature of the fighting and the decisions that shaped a generation.\" --Bing West, award-winning author of ten best-selling books about the Marines in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan \"Axelrod is one of America's great military historians. He's done it this time with riveting non-stop action that reads like the best of Hemingway's frontline reports plus the Marine Corps novels of W. E. B. Griffin. Axelrod pushes you right into the action, onto the battlefield, and never lets up. You become a firsthand witness to one of the world's great battles, proud and heart-pounding as the elite force, the Devil Dogs, are born in a small forest outside Paris. This is one book I wish I'd written!\" --Paul B. Farrell, JD. PhD, syndicated columnist for DowJones's MarketWatch and former staff sergeant, USMC \"Alan Axelrod has perfectly captured the embodiment of U.S. Marines and their unparalleled esprit de corps ... As a former Marine, I find Axelrod's descriptions of the combat in that bloody battle for which the Corps became legendary--and which is the foundation of its mythic lore--compelling and gut-wrenching. Miracle at Belleau Wood puts the reader in the front row, witness to the heroism and ups and downs endured by the Marines as they defeated the Germans at overwhelming odds. A must read!\" --Lt. Col. Jay Kopelman, USMCR (Ret.), best-selling author of From Baghdad with Love In ''Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth of the Modern U.S. Marine Corps,\" Alan Axelrod has demonstrated his mastery at portraying battle at its most brutal and bloodiest. The fight for Belleau Wood is like a bayonet in the belly every step of the way. The distant mirror that Alan Axelrod shows us reflects the fearful face of life and death in World War I. --Paul Weishaupt, Marines: The Corps' Official Magazine, October-December 2007 About Patton's Drive: The Making of America's Greatest General (Lyons Press): \"Like Patton at his best: [Alan Axelrod's writing is] polished, precise, and persuasive.\"--Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51399515799775,"sku":"9781493059485","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/okP4ooIYfA9781493059485.webp?v=1789485983"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/alan-axelrod.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}