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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... later Marshal Georgi] Zhukov, which had devastating impacts on the Red Army in terms of casualties and losses. This largely explains why, beginning on October 1, the Wehrmacht enjoyed spectacular successes when it began its final ...
... later, 7 Editor's note: See David M. Glantz, Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942 (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1999). my book on Mars was published, and the door slammed 18 World ...
... later, and the Allies understood that, which is why the intelligence exchanges with the Russians began to erode.11 If one looks at the Winter Campaign of 1943–1944, one will find much of the same effect seen in the campaign that ...
... later, Stalin opened his assault on Berlin with Zhukov and [Marshal Ivan] Konev's Fronts.13 That particular item is worthy of considerably more investigation. I think it has an immense message about the intention of the Soviet high ...
... 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 . " Operating from an airfield near the English ...
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 |