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Article: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
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- Naval War College Review
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- April 1, 2001
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Chambers, John Whiteclay, II, ed. in chief. The Oxford Companion to American Military History. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999. 916pp. $60
The value of an "Oxford Companion" reference can be essentially taken for granted, and its self-description can be accepted at face value: "Drawing on the most current scholarship in the field and in a number of cases advancing that scholarship, The Oxford Companion to American Military History provides a comprehensive, one-volume guide to the study of war, peace, and the military throughout American history." Its entries (over a thousand) are distributed among the categories of "Historical Action and Events," "The Armed ...