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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 275307" data-attributes="member: 1131">Greetings!The Wars of America, by Robert Leckie; Copyright 1992, by Robert Leckie. New and updated edition published by Castle Books, 1998. 1281 pages. Hardcover.This excellent book by Robert Leckie covers the following:Part I: The Colonial WarsPart II: The War of the RevolutionPart III: The War of 1812Part IV: The War with MexicoPart V: The Civil WarPart VI: Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War and the Phillipine InsurrectionPart VII: World War IPart VIII: World War IIPart IX: The Korean WarPart X: World-wide Upheaval and the War in VietnamPart XI: 1981-1991: America Recoiling, ResurgentRobert Leckie is a Marine veteran of World War II, and a fine scholar. He has written over thirty books. He writes very much for the layman, and is quite accessible for younger readers. I read one of his books on the Carrier War in The Pacific when I was in gradeschool. His writing style is simple, direct, and smooth, without being overly complex, or jargon-laden. He has a great gift in this, in that his writing is elegantly simple, and yet remains quite useful for the scholar. I personally think that if you can write a book that an average teenager, housewife, or warehouseman can read, and a scholar or professor can read, and both can find great joy and value in reading, then that is a masterful accomplishment of writing. Such is the writing of Mr. Robert Leckie. I highly recommend any of his books, but this book in particular.The Wars of America provides an excellent one-volume work that covers every war that America has been involved in. In addition to learning about the particular battles that occured in the different wars, the reader also learns about the tactics and strategy involved, and the personalities and abilities of the commanders. In addition, Robert Leckie provides vivid accounts of the common soldier in battle, and an evocative picture of what kinds of struggles soldiers face in war. An altogether excellent book!Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>

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