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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... Bombs SECTION III : THE EARLY COLD WAR General Russell E. Dougherty , USAF ( Ret . ) Leadership During the Cold War : A Four - Star General's Perspective 104 SECTION IV : THE KOREAN WAR Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons , USMC ( Ret ...
... Bomb Group stationed in England, one of the initial units engaged in the aerial campaign against targets in Germany and Nazi-occupied countries. These two papers are very different yet are linked by the common word: sacrifice. Any ...
... bombs on target. He and others of his generation met the challenge. Luckadoo credits his survival to pure luck. Only four of the original forty members of his flying class who were assigned to the 100th Bomb Group completed a combat ...
... Bombed Targets ATLANTIC OCEAN Trondheim 300 NORWAY Oslo SWEDEN GREAT BRITAIN Baltic Sea DENMARK North Sea Liverpool IRELAND Wilhelmshaven Kiel Great Yarmouth * Hamburg Norwich . Cambridge • Thorpe Oxford⚫ Abbotts HOLLANDS Bournemouth ...
... Bomb Group ( Heavy ) flying B - 17s . Luckadoo later flew overseas to England with his group to enter combat with the 8th Air Force . Luckadoo's fate was to serve as a member of an air group that became known as “ The Bloody 100th ...
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 |