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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... success; most did not. One of the biggest gaps in the historical record relates to the fighting around Smolensk in ... successes when it began its final assault on Moscow. The opposing Red Army simply had been decimated in fruitless ...
... success he achieved on the road to Moscow in October and November 1941. In the last analysis, he probably could not have achieved more. The last “what-if” is what if Moscow fell. It did not, of course, and “what-ifs” are somewhat ...
... success with issuing the stand-fast order in December 1941 conditioned him to act in a similar fashion in 1942, 1943, and 1944 with increasingly disastrous effect. I will track this issue of stand-fast orders and their utility as I go ...
... success that they achieved surprised them. They encircled far more Germans than they expected. They then, characteristically, decided to exploit it and ordered one offensive after another throughout December 1942 and January 1943 until ...
... success. They committed a total of five Fronts in the Leningrad region. Zhukov masterminded this offensive and called it Operation Polar Star. It was designed to destroy Army Group North and relieve Leningrad. This operation had no code ...
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 |