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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
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Professional Journal of the United States Army
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Military Review
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
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Eastern Epic
Author: Compton MackenziePublisher:
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages :
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Review of Current Military Literature
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
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Quarterly Review of Military Literature
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Fortitudine
Author: The American Experience in World War II: The United States and the road to war in Europe
Author: Walter L. HixsonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415940290
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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The War Against Japan: The surrender of Japan
Author: Stanley Woodburn KirbyPublisher:
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Inferno
Author: Max HastingsPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307957187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1091
Book Description
From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war. Now, for the first time, he gives us a magnificent, single-volume history of the entire war. Through his strikingly detailed stories of everyday people—of soldiers, sailors and airmen; British housewives and Indian peasants; SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad, some of whom resorted to cannibalism during the two-year siege; Japanese suicide pilots and American carrier crews—Hastings provides a singularly intimate portrait of the world at war. He simultaneously traces the major developments—Hitler’s refusal to retreat from the Soviet Union until it was too late; Stalin’s ruthlessness in using his greater population to wear down the German army; Churchill’s leadership in the dark days of 1940 and 1941; Roosevelt’s steady hand before and after the United States entered the war—and puts them in real human context. Hastings also illuminates some of the darker and less explored regions under the war’s penumbra, including the conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland, during which the Finns fiercely and surprisingly resisted Stalin’s invading Red Army; and the Bengal famine in 1943 and 1944, when at least one million people died in what turned out to be, in Nehru’s words, “the final epitaph of British rule” in India. Remarkably informed and wide-ranging, Inferno is both elegantly written and cogently argued. Above all, it is a new and essential understanding of one of the greatest and bloodiest events of the twentieth century.
The American Military Tradition
Author: John M. CarrollPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461644100
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In The American Military Tradition historians John M. Carroll and Colin F. Baxter gather an esteemed group of military historians to explore the pivotal issues and themes in American warfare from the Colonial era to the present conflict in Iraq. From the reliance on militia and the Minutemen of the American Revolution to the all-volunteer specialized troops of today, these twelve essays analyze the continuities and changes in the conduct of war over the past three centuries. In this completely revised second edition, new essays explore Napoleonic warfare, the American Civil War, the Plains Wars in the West, the War against Japan, the nuclear arms race, and the War on Terror. The book, while not avoiding the nature of battle, goes beyond tactics and strategy to include the enormous social and political impact of America's wars.