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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... West Wall " German defenders SWITZERLAND • Prague First Ukrainian Front ( Konev ) CZECHOSLOVAKIA Fourth Ukrainian Front ( Petrov ) AUSTRIA Vienna ITALY Bologna Ravenna Trieste YUGOSLAVIA 15 January MILES 0 50 Budapest HUNGARY Second ...
... Colonel Glantz presented this paper at the UNT Military History Seminar on September 15 , 2001 . from the Soviet Union's western borders to the immediate outskirts 5 сл Fact and Fancy : The Soviet Great Patriotic War , 1941-1945.
... western borders to the immediate outskirts of Leningrad, Moscow, and Rostov in the shockingly brief period of less than six months. Faced with this sudden, deep, and relentless German advance, the Red Army and the Soviet state were ...
... West. Eighty percent of the Wehrmacht fought in the East through 1942. After 1942, the figure declines to around 60 percent through 1945. Also , consider the tremendous mobilization effort of the Red 7 Fact and Fancy: The Soviet Great ...
... West today, and they give us a lot of the fresh source material. To look at the whole war briefly, basically campaign by campaign, the Soviets have divided it into three major segments for educational and analytical purposes. The first ...
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 |