This highly useful book is a collection of essays by eleven prominent American military historians assessing the first battles of nine wars in which the U.S. Army has fought. Each essay is written within a similar framework, examining how the U.S. Army prepares during peacetime, mobilizes for war, fights its first battle, and subsequently adapts to the exigencies of the conflict. America’s First Battles shows clearly the price of unpreparedness.
Author: Charles E. Heller and William A. Stofft
ISBN-10: 0700602771
ISBN-13: 9780700602773