Don't Tread on Me: A 400-Year History of America at War, from Indian Fighting to Terrorist Hunting

The Fighting Men Who Made America Great

In this stirring and contrarian modern classic, bestselling author H. W. Crocker III unfolds four hundred years of American military history, revealing how Americans were born Indian fighters whose military prowess carved out first a continental and then a global empire-a Pax Americana that made the modern world.

From the seventeenth century on, he argues, Americans have shown a jealous regard for their freedom-and have backed it up with an unheralded ...