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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... course offerings attract large numbers of eager students majoring in history and other disciplines. The faculty's publications have begun to attract national notice, as has their sustained support of the World War II Oral History ...
... course, and “what-ifs” are somewhat vacuous intellectual exercises. Had Moscow fallen in November or December 1941, it is now my opinion that Moscow could have turned into Stalingrad a year earlier. The second campaign in the initial ...
... course, they were mistaken. The attacks occurred at Khar'kov and in the Crimea, and they were complete military fiascoes. They occurred in May 1942 and cost the Red Army somewhere in the neighborhood of 500,000 men. That, of course, was ...
... course , he paid the price for those mistakes at Stalingrad in November . I use the Leningrad diversion because I just did a book on Leningrad , and it was educational because I had never studied that neglected theater of operations ...
... course, he pushed the German army to the limits of its endurance in the ensuing winter operations.8 We have heard for many years about how Hitler condemned the 6th Army at Stalingrad to destruction by simply not permitting it to break ...
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 |