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. |
From inside the book
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... never returned . Of the total Wehrmacht casualties of 13 million , 10 million , or 80 percent , were lost in the East . If one walks through any German cemetery today , one will see inscribed on numerous tombstones : " Fallen nach Osten ...
... never studied that neglected theater of operations . The Germans intended to take Leningrad in the summer of 1942. They moved [ Field Marshal Erich ] von Manstein's 11th Army out of the Crimea after it seized Sevastopol , and in doing ...
... never been able to stop the Wehrmacht at the tactical depth, the operational depth, or even the strategic depth. Was it now being called upon to do this in the summer of 1943? The answer is “no.” Stalin adopted the proper strategy in ...
... never been done before, and that is why it is something of an exercise in “Monday morning quarterbacking” to say, as von Manstein or other German generals did: “We should never have done that. It was foredoomed.”9 There was not a single ...
... never ceased to amaze me, after joining the Air Corps more than eighty years after the Civil War, how we would spend such an inordinate amount of time in the barracks refighting and debating the so-called “War Between the States ...
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 |