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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... served in the military and nearly all being avid readers of the subject. Each seminar, a Saturday morning and an early afternoon experience, features a leading scholar, usually a military historian, and when time permits, a military ...
... serving as Chief of the General Staff. The document is a proposal that he submitted through Minister of Defense [Semyon] Timoshenko to Stalin. The document, which I have seen in the original, proposed that the Red Army launch a ...
... served Hitler. That operation, until very recently, was part of the tabula rasa of operations on the Eastern Front. We are just now receiving adequate information about the fate of the 2nd Shock Army. To consider the issue of historical ...
... serving in the Wehrmacht, and the Russians have not forgotten this. The Soviet Union emerged as one of the world's dominant superpowers and, of course, the dominant power in Eurasia. There is a saying that is ubiquitous in Soviet ...
... served in all theaters and forged a tradition of service to the nation. David Braden also left the academic life of a college student to join the U. S. Army Air Forces Reserve. He was soon activated and trained as a navigator with a B ...
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 |