Warriors and Scholars: A Modern War ReaderPeter B. Lane, Ronald E. Marcello University of North Texas Press, 2005 - 288 pages Few works of military history are able to move between the battlefield and academia. But Warriors and Scholars takes the best from both worlds by presenting the viewpoints of senior, eminent military historians on topics of their specialty, alongside veteran accounts for the modern war being discussed. Editors Peter Lane and Ronald Marcello have added helpful contextual and commentary footnotes for student readers. The papers, originally from the University of North Texas's annual Military History Seminar, are organized chronologically from World War II to the present day, making this a modern war reader of great use for the professional and the student. Scholars and topics include David Glantz on the Soviet Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945; Robert Divine on the decision to use the atomic bomb; George Herring on Lyndon Baines Johnson as Commander-in-Chief; and Brian Linn comparing the U.S. war and occupation in Iraq with the 1899-1902 war in the Philippines. Veterans and their topics include flying with the Bloody 100th by John Luckadoo; an enlisted man in the Pacific theater of World War II, by Roy Appleton; a POW in Vietnam, by David Winn; and Cold War duty in Moscow, by Charles Hamm. This book pairs eminent military historians and veterans discussing key military engagements and themes, from World War II to the present. Inside are such illustrious names in military history as David Glantz (Soviet warfare in WWII), Robert Divine (decision to use atomic bomb), George Herring (Johnson as commander-in-chief), and Brian Linn (comparing occupation in Philippines 1899-1902 with current occupation in Iraq). Within each military period in question is a veteran's narrative account, giving an "I was there" perspective of the war being discussed. |
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... march toward Kiev, Hitler issued his infamous order to General Heinz Guderian to turn his panzers southward to deal with the Soviet Southwestern Front defending Kiev.3 After dealing with the Soviet Southwestern Front, the Wehrmacht ...
... March 1942, Stalin's great winter campaign faltered, creating a front overlapping German and Soviet forces, both exhausted, extending all the way from Leningrad to the Black Sea. There were also two, mostly neglected, operations during ...
... March west of Budapest in a drive for Vienna. Vienna fell on April 13. Then, and only then, three days later, Stalin opened his assault on Berlin with Zhukov and [Marshal Ivan] Konev's Fronts.13 That particular item is worthy of ...
... on the Regensburg - to - Africa shuttle in August 1943 ; seven over Bremen on October 8 , 1943 ; twelve over Münster on October 10 , 1943 ; fifteen over Berlin on March 6, 1944, and another nine over the 28 Life in the Bloody 100th.
... March 6, 1944, and another nine over the same target on May 24, 1944; and fourteen over Ruhland on September 11, 1944. Luckadoo was one of the few original pilots of the 100th to survive twenty-five missions. His decorations, which were ...
Contents
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THE EARLY COLD WAR | 102 |
THE KOREAN WAR | 125 |
THE VIETNAM WAR | 166 |
THE LATE COLD WAR | 206 |
TERRORISM | 227 |
Index | 275 |