""An important contribution both to the literature of war and to the analysis and making of defense policy.""-Washington Post Book World ""Fine military history, good reading and challenging intellectual stimulation.""-Army ""Presented here is a discussion of ten military battles, each representing one of the first battles or campaigns in the nine wars in which the U.S. Army has fought from 1776 through Vietnam. Each chapter treats a single battle and is written by a historian with acknowledged specialization in that period of military history. These evaluations are stimulating, comparable pic.

America's first battle: Long Island, 27 August 1776 /Ira D. Gruber -- The Battle of Queenston Heights, 13 October 1812 / Theodore J. Crackel -- The battles on the Rio Grande: Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, 8-9 May 1846 / K. Jack Bauer -- First Bull Run, 19 July 1861 / W. Glenn Robertson -- San Juan Hill and El Caney, 1-2 July 1898 / Graham A. Cosmas -- Cantigny, 28-31 May 1918 / Allan R. Millett -- Buna, 19 November 1942-2 January 1943: a "Leavenworth nightmare" / Jay Luvaas -- Kasserine Pass, 30 January-22 February 1943 / Martin Blumenson -- Task Force Smith and the 24th Division: delay and withdrawal, 5-19 July 1950 / Roy K. Flint -- The 1st Cavalry and the Ia Drang Valley, 18 october-24 November 1965 / George C. Herring -- First battles in retrospect / John Shy.

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