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Cambridge University Press Nazis and Good Neighbors The United States Campaign Against the Germans of Latin America in World War II
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Cambridge University Press Famine and Death in Occupied Greece 19411944 42 Cambridge Studies in Population Economy and Society in Past Time Series Number 42
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Cambridge University Press The Soviets the Munich Crisis and the Coming of World War II
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Cambridge University Press Strength through Joy
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Cambridge University Press The Myth of the Eastern Front
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Cambridge University Press A World at Total War
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Cambridge University Press Thailands Secret War OSS SOE and the Free Thai Underground During World War II Cambridge Military Histories
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Cambridge University Press Jewish Forced Labor Under the Nazis
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Cambridge University Press Fascisms European Empire Italian Occupation During the Second World War New Studies in European History
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Cambridge University Press America and the Return of Nazi Contraband
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Cambridge University Press Warfare in Independent Africa
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Cambridge University Press US Intelligence and the Nazis
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Cambridge University Press Americas Economic Way of War
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Cambridge University Press Arms Economics and British Strategy
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Cambridge University Press The Collins Class Submarine Story Steel Spies and Spin
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Cambridge University Press Triumph Forsaken The Vietnam War 19541965
Book SynopsisTriumph Forsaken, first published in 2007, overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. The book provides many new insights into the overthrow of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and the policy options that could have enabled South Vietnam to continue the war without a massive US troop infusion.Trade Review'The most noteworthy aspect of Triumph Forsaken is surely the depth and range of its research … Moyar has provided those who take their history seriously with a stunning performance, and plenty to think about.' James M. Murphy, The Times Literary Supplement'… one of the most important books ever written on the Vietnam War.' Mackubin Thomas Owens, The Weekly Standard'… akin to reading Euripides' tales of self-inflicted woe and missed chances.' Victor Davis Hanson, City Journal'… a brilliant analysis.' Lewis Sorley, Joint Force Quarterly'… definitive …' Guenter Lewy, New York Sun'… a landmark contribution …' Robert F. Turner, Historically Speaking'Moyar makes so many striking contrarian arguments that one hardly knows where to begin. … This is an important book, a history that serves as a mirror on the present.' Robert H. Scales, Wall Street Journal'… thought provoking, exhaustively researched, highly organized, and above all, outstanding.' Rick Baillergeon, History'Moyar, who has strong credentials, has an engaging writing style and supports his arguments with dispassionate research, unlike many earlier revisionists' works … Highly recommended.' Michael O'Donnell, Choice'Thoroughly researched and richly informative … A valuable appraisal.' George Cohen, Booklist'Better late than never.' Stuart Herrington, Parameters'… [a] definitive examination … It is essential reading for anyone wanting a fresh understanding of one of America's longest and most misunderstood conflicts.' Charles Melson, Marine Corps Gazette'Mark Moyar has amply demonstrated the courage of his convictions in this outstanding piece of work, undoubtedly the most important book on Vietnam since Guenter Lewy's America in Vietnam, which sheds important light on the years between the French defeat in Indochina and the beginning of the main US commitment to South East Asia.' The Royal Society for Asian AffairsTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Heritage; 2. Two Vietnams: July 1954–December 1955; 3. Peaceful coexistence: 1956–9; 4. Insurgency: 1960; 5. Commitment: 1961; 6. Rejuvenation: January–June 1962; 7. Attack: July–December 1962; 8. The battle of Ap Bac: January 1963; 9. Diem on trial: February–July 1963; 10. Betrayal: August 1963; 11. Self-destruction: September–November 2, 1963; 12. The return of the twelve warlords: November 3–December 1963; 13. Self-imposed restrictions: January–July 1964; 14. Signals: August–October 1964; 15. Invasion: November–December 1964; 16. The prize for victory: January–May 1965; 17. Decision: June–July 1965.
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Cambridge University Press Sport and the Military
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Cambridge University Press Extremely Violent Societies Mass Violence in the TwentiethCentury World
Book SynopsisTracing the roots of mass violence in the twentieth century, this book demonstrates that terms such as 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' are too narrow to explain the diverse causes of human destruction. The author explores periods of widespread bloodshed in countries such as Armenia and Bangladesh and anti-guerilla wars worldwide.Trade Review'In this pathbreaking book, Christian Gerlach undermines the tunnel-vision of mainstream genocide research. Introducing a challenging new theoretical approach, Gerlach convincingly demonstrates the messy, complex patterns of mass violence in the modern world. Everyone interested in these issues will enrich their understanding by engaging with his arguments and case-studies.' Martin Shaw, University of Sussex'A tour de force of thinking and research, Extremely Violent Societies is a bold and original analysis of mass violence in the twentieth century. Writing global history at its best, Christian Gerlach ranges from Ottoman Armenia to Nazi-occupied Europe, from Indonesia to East Pakistan and further to explore why, at particular times, these societies exploded in paroxysms of violence. In supplanting a simplistic, state- and ideology-centered genocide model with a multi-causal approach, he convincingly argues that complex processes during transitional crises enlist all social groups in producing these terrible outcomes. At once sober and humane, this book is a landmark in the scholarly analysis of the most troubling phenomenon of our times.' A. Dirk Moses, University of Sydney'After his remarkable study on the Holocaust, Christian Gerlach demonstrates in this very innovative book, his capacity to tackle mass violence from a comparative perspective. His approach is not only courageous and challenging, but also insightful and certainly deserves to be discussed in genocide scholarly circles and beyond.' Jacques Semelin, CERI-CNRS, Center for International Studies and ResearchTable of Contents1. Introduction: extremely violent societies; Part I. Participatory Violence: 2. A coalition for violence: mass slaughter in Indonesia, 1965–66; 3. Participating and profiteering: the destruction of the Armenians, 1915–23; Part II. The Crisis of Society: 4. From rivalries between elites to a crisis of society: mass violence and famine in Bangladesh (East Pakistan), 1971–77; 5. Sustainable violence: strategic resettlement, militias and 'development' in anti-guerrilla warfare; 6. What connects the fate of different victim groups? The German occupation and Greek society in crisis; Part III. General Observations: 7. The ethnization of history: the historiography of mass violence and national identity construction; 8. Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press Ghosts of War in Vietnam 27 Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare Series Number 27
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Cambridge University Press Iraq in Wartime Soldiering Martyrdom and Remembrance
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Cambridge University Press Inventing Vietnam The United States and State Building 19541968
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Cambridge University Press Britain and the Politics of Modernization in the Middle East 19451958 Cambridge Middle East Studies Series Number 4
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Cambridge University Press The Battle for Wau New Guineas Frontline 19421943 Australian Army History Series
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Cambridge University Press The Atrocity of Hunger
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Cambridge University Press Marché Noir
Book SynopsisMarché Noir explains how and why black markets in France became essential to ordinary consumers and to businesses to survive scarcity and German exploitation. Drawing on archival evidence and diverse records of personal experience, Kenneth Mouré explains the black market's critical role in everyday life in Vichy France.Trade Review'With immense research and compelling prose, Mouré analyzes how people of all kinds-rich and poor, rural and urban, producers and consumers, police and the policed, from Vichy officials and Nazi occupiers to Allied liberators-navigated the challenges and opportunities of France's wartime black-market economy. A superb integration of economic, social, and cultural history.' Herrick Chapman, New York University'Moure's compelling book on the black market focuses on a critical aspect of life in France during the German Occupation. Moure's vivid account brings his deep understanding of economics and of the war to his investigation of the black market and its profound impact on politics, economics and daily life. Vichy's failure to control and enforce a system meant to ensure basic living standards all but compelled producers, distributors and consumers to turn to the black market, widening divisions in French society.' Sarah Fishman, University of Houston'Mouré weaves powerful examples from a variety of sources - from police records to diaries, economic reports, and contemporary cartoons - and successfully explains the intricacies of economic factors in lay terms. This work offers a welcome and necessary addition to recent scholarship on the 'gray zone' that characterized French collaboration with Nazi Germany. … Highly recommended.' G. P. de Syon, ChoiceTable of Contents1. The black market in wartime France; 2. L'économie de misère; 3. Curing the thermometer: price controls and the black market; 4. La terre, elle, ne ment pas: agriculture and the black market; 5. Market forces: industry and commerce; 6. Consumers in a world of scarce goods; 7. Illegality normalized; 8. Liberating markets and consumers; 9. Justice for les profiteurs de la misère publique; 10. Black markets in wartime.
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Cambridge University Press Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany
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Cambridge University Press Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War
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Cambridge University Press Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War
Book SynopsisThe book examines US air power in the Vietnam War and the air wars that followed. The book introduces a new theory of tactical air power along with the operational and environmental factors that explain the effectiveness of modern air power.Trade Review‘Airpower history and theory tends to focus on “strategic” bombardment at the expense of operational and tactical airpower. Phil Haun’s book provides a welcome reprieve from that tendency given his important focus on airpower in support of the battlefield.’ Heather Venable, author of How the Few Became the Proud: Crafting the Marine Corps Mystique, 1874–1918‘A thoroughly researched, hard-hitting analysis of tactical air power in Vietnam, complete with a solid discussion of air power theory and an intriguing look at how the Southeast Asia experience has affected subsequent tactical air power applications.’ Mark Clodfelter, author of The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam‘Phil Haun has made a major contribution to our understanding of the Vietnam War. Air Power may not have won the Vietnam War, but the fact that there were no Dienbien Phus was clearly the result of massive American air power. Anyone interested in the war needs to read this book.’ Williamson Murray, author of A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World WarTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Tactical air power theory; 3. Vietnam and rolling thunder: 1965–1966; 4. Khe sanh and tet: 1967–1968; 5. Commando hunt I-III and cambodia: 1969–1970; 6. Commando hunt V-VII and lam son 719: 1971–1972; 7. Easter offensive and linebacker I & II: 1972–1973; 8. Analysis and conclusion; 9. Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press The Spanish Civil War Cambridge Essential Histories
Book SynopsisThis book is a general history of the Spanish Civil War, providing a clear and objective account of its origins in Spanish domestic affairs.Trade Review'Payne, drawing on his knowledge and research on Spanish history, has written a legible (rather than just academic) history of the origins, political and military development, and consequences of the Spanish Civil War. His familiarity with twentieth-century European history enables him to place it in a comparative perspective. An important and objective work that … will generate interesting debates.' Juan J. Linz, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political and Social Science, Yale University'Stanley Payne has written a fine introductory history of the Spanish Civil War. Based on an unrivalled mastery of the huge historiography of the topic, Payne's volume convincingly dispels many of the myths that still surround the fratricidal conflict. It will be indispensable not just to students but to anyone interested in understanding one of the bitterest wars of the twentieth century.' Julius Ruiz, University of Edinburgh'This is an extremely insightful book that has remarkably condensed analytical power. Payne's vast knowledge has generated an up-to-date and inclusive history of the Spanish conflict. He situates the Spanish Civil War in the context of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary confrontations in Europe, from the French Revolution to World War II. Furthermore, he succinctly and skillfully places the conflict within the long history of Spain. There is no better synthesis.' Michael Seidman, University of North Carolina Wilmington'It seems providential that one S. Payne should produce the most accomplished non-native writing on Spain's recent past. In his sixth decade of research, Stanley Payne has acquired wisdom beyond maturity. No living historian thinks so broadly or writes so cogently. Few authorities survey the scarred landscape of the tortured twentieth century with such a cool, forensic gaze. His standards of consideration and interpretation are elevated – and for readers, elevating. Perhaps surprisingly, this latest book is Payne's first comprehensive study of the Spanish Civil War. It prioritizes recent work without neglecting the packed storehouse of earlier scholarship. It should become an indispensable guide to its endlessly complex and supremely significant subject.' Rob Stradling, Professor Emeritus of History, Cardiff University'Essential for interwar and/or modern Spain graduate collections. Highly recommended.' Choice'Stanley Payne's study of the Spanish Civil War and the events leading up to that cataclysm is the latest work by one of America's premier historians of Europe.' Paul Gottfried, The American Conservative'The Spanish Civil War still excites strong passions … is a must-read for anyone wishing to understand that controversial event … Payne's book restores scholarly standards to a field that remains more than ever beset by ideological controversy.' Paul Gottfried, Chronicles MagazineTable of Contents1. Modernization and conflict in Spain; 2. From revolutionary insurrection to popular front; 3. The breakdown of democracy; 4. The military insurrection of the eighteenth of July; 5. The Battle of Madrid - the first turning point; 6. Revolution; 7. Terror; 8. A war of religion; 9. Franco's counter-revolution; 10. Foreign intervention and non-intervention; 11. Soviet policy in Spain, 1936–9; 12. The propaganda and culture war; 13. A second counter-revolution?: the power struggle in the republican zone; 14. The decisive northern campaigns of 1937–8; 15. The war at sea and in the air; 16. Civil wars within a civil war; 17. The war in perspective; 18. Costs and consequences: the long dictatorship.
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Cambridge University Press The IranIraq War
Book SynopsisThe Iran-Iraq War is one of the largest, yet least documented conflicts of the twentieth century. Drawing from an extensive cache of captured Iraqi government records, this book offers an unparalleled military and strategic account of the war through the lens of the Iraqi regime and its senior military commanders.Trade Review'This is a fascinating and revealing history of the Iran-Iraq War which draws on a wealth of captured Iraqi sources to provide a unique picture of Saddam Hussein's decision-making.' Nigel Ashton, London School of Economics and Political Science'Murray and Woods shed new light on the war and its conduct at the highest levels mainly from the Iraqi, but also from the Iranian point of view. The book serves as a valuable contribution to our understanding of the war that has important ramifications to contemporary military thinking. The authors deserve much praise for these new insights.' Amatzia Baram, University of Haifa, Israel'With unique access to vital source materials, Williamson Murray and Kevin Woods plumb the depths of the ruthlessness, fanaticism, operational incapacity and incompetence that shaped the eight-year Iran-Iraq War. There are lessons here on success and failure for us all to learn.' John Gooch, University of Leeds'This book provides a rich seam of material for anyone studying the period or subsequent Middle Eastern history and provides valuable insights into Saddam's attitudes; his enthusiasm for chemical weapons makes for particularly chilling reading … this is one of the most important studies to date on the strategic history and military aspects of the Iran-Iraq War … [It] will appeal not only to those interested in the conflict itself but should be essential reading for those studying its aftermath.' E. R. Hooton, The British Journal of Military History'This is an excellent book. Murray and Woods do not drown readers in the jargon of the subject, and they meticulously explain everything in their well-researched and enormously interesting work. They develop their themes rapidly and cleanly. Fully explained are the incompetence, factors of fear and coercion, useless battles, countless dead, and wholesale destruction, all driven by the leaders' egos on both sides and regardless of the treasures destroyed … a superb book, well written without biases and a breath of fresh air on a difficult subject, without the mist, fog, and haze that usually come with the literature in this field. Mandatory for graduate students. Summing up: highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' N. E. Bou-Nacklie, Choice'Williamson Murray and Kevin M. Woods have produced an exceptionally detailed and valuable book on the military dimensions of the Iran-Iraq War. This work has many positive aspects, but its most unique feature is the extensive use of previously unavailable captured Iraq documents … In sum, this book emerges as the definitive work on the Iraqi perspective of the Iran-Iraq war, and is probably the best study on military aspects of the conflict as a whole.' W. Andrew Terrill, Middle East JournalTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. A context of 'bitterness and anger'; 3. The opponents; 4. 1980: the Iraqi invasion begins; 5. 1981–2: stalemate; 6. Defeat and recovery; 7. 1983–4: a war of attrition; 8. 1985–6: dog days of a long war; 9. 1987–8: an end in sight?; 10. Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Battle for Moscow
Book SynopsisIn November 1941 Hitler ordered German forces to complete the final drive on the Soviet capital, now less than 100 kilometres away. Army Group Centre was pressed into the attack for one last attempt to break Soviet resistance before the onset of winter. From the German perspective the final drive on Moscow had all the ingredients of a dramatic final battle in the east, which, according to previous accounts, only failed at the gates of Moscow. David Stahel challenges this well-established narrative by demonstrating that the last German offensive of 1941 was a forlorn effort, undermined by operational weakness and poor logistics and driven forward by what he identifies as National Socialist military thinking. With unparalleled research from previously undocumented army files and soldiers' letters, Stahel takes a fresh look at the battle for Moscow, which even before the Soviet winter offensive, threatened disaster for Germany's war in the east.Trade Review'Another excellent account from David Stahel - whose thorough appraisal of the German sources leads to a perceptive overall analysis.' Michael Jones, author of Total War: From Stalingrad to Berlin and after Hitler'Stahel offers a fresh, definitive look at a major turning point of World War II, illustrating again why he is one of the world's foremost experts on Hitler's attack on Soviet Russia. His writing is taut, insights provocative, and research exhaustive. A masterful achievement!' Craig W. H. Luther, author of Barbarossa Unleashed'The Battle for Moscow was certainly one of the turning points of the Second World War. In this carefully constructed and well-researched account David Stahel explores the German options in what was clearly becoming an unwinnable campaign. This is solid military history revising what we thought we knew about the war in the East.' Richard Overy, author of The Bombing War: Europe, 1939–1945'Stahel convincingly argues that an overextended, exhausted and incompetently led Wehrmacht suffered inevitable defeat in front of Moscow. A crisp and judicious account that highlights the German high command's self-delusion.' Jeff Rutherford, author of Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front: The German Infantry's War, 1941–1944'… fast-paced and engagingly written, Stahel draws on many primary sources, ranging from letters sent by troops and the war diaries of commanders to previously undocumented army files. His voice remains clear, consistent, and authoritative throughout, as he presents his evidence and guides the reader through the myths and realities.' Curtis Hutchinson, Military History Monthly'Like the previous three books in the series, The Battle for Moscow is very highly recommended for buffs and scholars alike. Stahel's research, writing, and analysis give us a new and gripping account of one of the greatest and most momentous campaigns in history.' Scott Stephenson, Military Review'David Stahel's thoroughly researched, persuasively argued, and engagingly written work of strategic and operational history deserves a wide readership among military professionals and the interested public alike.' MacGregor Knox, RUSI Journal'This book covers Germany's Army Group Center for the month of November 1941 … Stahel's history is predominantly operational: the war as seen from the viewpoint of Army Group and Army commanders. He supplements this narrative with vignettes from the daily lives of cold and demoralized frontline German soldiers, but his theme lies elsewhere … he has made a powerful argument.' David R. Stone, Slavic Review'The Battle for Moscow establishes David Stahel alongside Robert Citino as the leading historians of the German Army and the war in the east. This is a superbly argued and crisply presented account of German operational warfare that exposes the strategic bankruptcy of 'Hitler's generals' and lays bare the dire effects of a Nazi 'ethos' on Wehrmacht operations in the east.' Edward Westermann, The Journal of Modern HistoryTable of Contents1. Parallel wars; 2. The stalled offensive; 3. Preparing the final showdown; 4. The Orsha conference; 5. Typhoon re-launched; 6. The long road to Moscow; 7. Victory at any price; 8. The frozen offensive; 9. Down to the wire; 10. To the gates of Moscow; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Allies in Memory
Book SynopsisSam Edwards uncovers the history of how, amidst the challenges and tensions of the Cold War, Americans and Europeans used acts of World War II commemoration as forums in which to discover, define and dispute the past and present of the transatlantic alliance.Trade Review'In this book Sam Edwards shows that he is a historian capable of investigating a complex history in a multifaceted way navigating his way through the tricky and occasionally overlapping narratives developed by each culture. He shows the way the memory of the war has grown and adapted, the inherently political biases of all forms of commemoration and the fact that messages are altered, created or reinforced to suit different cultures at different times. All this is done in a text that is engaging and readable. This is a major contribution to our understandings of war memory.' Mark Connolly, University of Kent'Drawing on an impressive array of primary and secondary sources Sam Edwards weaves together a brilliant and fascinating explanation of American and European commemorative representations of World War Two. Having embarked upon this challenging and difficult subject, Edwards consummates it with flair and insight. He explains both the complex interactions between those primarily responsible for constructing commemorative representations and the effects of feedback upon them of historical developments. All this will enthrall the reader.' Alan Dobson, Swansea University'Sam Edwards has provided a brilliant and fascinating study that causes us to rethink our understanding of the nature and purpose of commemoration and the relationship between Britain and the USA. Rising above and beyond traditional parochial interpretations, he demonstrates a rich and complex history of how we interpret our collective past, and shows how that has shaped transatlantic relationships since 1945. An exemplary piece of historical analysis and highly recommended.' John Buckley, University of Wolverhampton'This study of transatlantic commemoration demonstrates that the concerns of the present always shape the ways in which the past is recollected. Memorials erected by American veterans 'were not simply disinterested statements of remembrance honouring lost comrades, nor were they politically neutral expressions of grief and gratitude. Rather, these memorials encoded a set of historically specific attitudes and assumptions' regarding World War II and the continuing American military presence in Europe.' Patrick Hagopian, Lancaster University'This is a book of extraordinary scope. Sam Edwards leads us on a journey through the material remnants of war, charting the way that memorialization was plotted across the landscapes of southern Britain and France. From deserted airfield runways that once carried B17 bombers, to village churchyards, memorial gardens and landing beaches remade as cemeteries, Edwards explores the complex construction of memory and the politics that shape it. He examines the dynamic interplay of diverse memory agents, veterans recalling their own war experience, local communities creating a sense of heritage, and the cultural and political agencies that fund commemoration on both sides of the Atlantic. This book will be of interest to any scholar of the Second World War … Beautifully written, carefully researched and informed by a vast but never intrusive historiography, Allies in Memory is a welcome contribution to a long neglected field.' Bruce Scates, Monash University, Victoria'Well indexed, referenced, and appropriately illustrated … Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' Choice'This book is a latecomer to an intense wave of scholarly interest in commemoration, particularly of war and conflict, which began in the mid-1990s. … Edwards tells an important story and he does it with no small amount of verve.' Adam R. Seipp, The Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Remembrance and Reconstruction, c.1917–69: 1. Old World and New World: interwar transatlantic commemoration, c.1917–41; 2. 'Here we are together': air war and the anglicisation of American memory, c.1941–63; 3. 'These memories shall not be forgotten': D-Day and transatlantic memory, c.1944–69; Part II. Americanisation and Commercialisation, c.1964–2001: 4. 'It looks so different now': veterans' memory, c.1964–84; 5. 'The last good war': Vietnam, victory culture and the Americanisation of memory, c.1964–84; 6. 'One last look': the commercialisation of memory, c.1984–2001; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Operation Typhoon Hitlers March on Moscow October 1941
Book SynopsisIn October 1941 Hitler launched Operation Typhoon the German drive to capture Moscow and knock the Soviet Union out of the war. As the last chance to escape the dire implications of a winter campaign, Hitler directed seventy-five German divisions, almost two million men and three of Germany's four panzer groups into the offensive, resulting in huge victories at Viaz'ma and Briansk - among the biggest battles of the Second World War. David Stahel's groundbreaking new account of Operation Typhoon captures the perspectives of both the German high command and individual soldiers, revealing that despite success on the battlefield the wider German war effort was in far greater trouble than is often acknowledged. Germany's hopes of final victory depended on the success of the October offensive but the autumn conditions and the stubborn resistance of the Red Army ensured that the capture of Moscow was anything but certain.Trade Review'With a firm grasp of strategic, operational, economic, and logistical factors, Stahel has again laid bare German weaknesses and shattered the myth of the all-powerful Wehrmacht. The best sort of revisionism, Operation Typhoon dissects the material factors leading to ultimate German failure before Moscow, all the while integrating the personal aspect of the battle through deft use of the diaries and letters of German soldiers. An impressive achievement.' Stephen G. Fritz, author of Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East'David Stahel has written a detailed, carefully documented, and engaging analysis of the last great German offensive of 1941. All the elements of the German defeat are here, from macroeconomics, ideology, and criminality to logistics, intelligence, tactics, and weapons design. This is a fine complement to Stahel's works on Barbarossa and Kiev.' Geoffrey P. Megargee, author of War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941'Stahel's third book on Germany's 1941 Russian campaign demonstrates that focus on the operational level led to ignoring strategic considerations. Emphasis on force of will encouraged overlooking material problems. Defeat in front of Moscow was a consequence not of Hitler's interference, not even of Soviet resistance, but of the vaunted German army's internal weaknesses.' Dennis Showalter, author of Hitler's Panzers: The Lightning Attacks that Revolutionized Warfare'David Stahel's new book on Operation Typhoon is his best yet. Wedding detailed archival research, an intimate knowledge of the secondary sources, and a gripping narrative, Stahel has set a new standard for scholarship on the Eastern Front. No student of the massive conflict between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union should be without this book. A major addition to the literature.' Robert M. Citino, author of Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942'An in-depth new account.' Military History Magazine'[David Stahel] combines strategic and economic context, statistics, operational analysis, and tactical-level accounts from individual soldiers in constructing a layered but highly readable narrative. It is a remarkable feat.' World War II'Great detail … Stahel succeeds in provoking some interesting new perspectives and ideas.' Daniel Pilfold, The Second World War Military Operations Research Group'Stahel, as he has done with his previous two books, has fundamentally and correctly reinterpreted the latter stages of the Barbarossa campaign. It is a must read for general and military historians.' David Glantz, Journal of Military History'… a treasure trove of information regarding the late fall battles between the Germans and Soviets in 1941.' Adam Koeth, Armchair General'Stahel incorporates in quantity the voices of German soldiers and outside observers.' Evan Mawdsley, War in HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Contextualizing Barbarossa; 2. Operation Typhoon; 3. Viaz'ma and Briansk; 4. Carnage on the road to Moscow; 5. Bock's final triumph; 6. Exploiting the breach; 7. Weathering the storm; 8. Running on empty; 9. The eye of the storm; Conclusion; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Sisters in Arms
Book SynopsisDuring the Second World War many thousands of women joined the women's auxiliary services to perform important military tasks for the RAF, army and Royal Navy. This book traces the wartime history of these auxiliary services and the integration of women into the British armed forces.Trade Review'Beautifully written, Sisters in Arms braids together policy matters with personal experience in a highly engaging manner. It will become the standard 'go-to' work on the subject, and should be read by absolutely anyone interested in the social or the military aspects of the British wartime experience.' S. P. MacKenzie, author of Bomber Boys on Screen: RAF Bomber Command in Film and Television Drama'Crang's new history of militarised women in Second World War Britain shows us one of the ways that total war entails the remaking of society. Sisters in Arms tells both the stories of the women drawn into the military, and the wider story of how this reshaped wartime Britain.' Lucy Noakes, author of Dying for the Nation: Death, Grief and Bereavement in Second World War Britain'It's easy to forget the thousands of British women who volunteered for military service alongside the men in the Second World War. In this pioneering study, Jeremy Crang reconstructs in telling detail the life of the servicewoman in all three armed forces. This is a remarkably original story, scrupulously researched, and conveyed with humanity and intelligence.' Richard Overy, author of The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945'Jeremy Crang has produced a clear, wide-ranging and highly readable examination of the auxiliary women's services which draws on fascinating personal testimonies to reconstruct the experiences of members from recruitment through to demobilisation.' Juliette Pattinson, author of Women of War: Gender, Modernity and the First Aid Nursing YeomanryTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Prologue; 1. Revival; 2. Organisation and recruitment; 3. Training and selection; 4. Work; 5. Status and discipline; 6. Necessities of life; 7. Medical matters; 8. Off duty; 9. Overseas service; 10. Demobilisation and the creation of the permanent women's services; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press American Grand Strategy in the Mediterranean during World War II
Book SynopsisThis book argues that the United States had a powerful and sustained grand strategic approach to the countries of the Mediterranean during World War II and that, under the active leadership of Franklin Roosevelt, it attained substantial wartime and post-war advantage by pursuing this course.Trade Review'This book is a fine piece of research and analysis. Scholars of World War II, US diplomatic history, and twentieth-century international relations will all find much of value, and general readers and university students will also want to give close attention to Buchanan's work. Buchanan does an excellent job of showing the importance of the Mediterranean military-diplomatic-economic theater as it developed from 1940 to the early Cold War. Through this, he has produced a major work of research and interpretation on a vitally important subject.' David Mayers, Boston University'Among the many myths still alive from World War II is the belief that the Americans were reluctant participants in the Mediterranean war effort, pulled there by an ambitious Churchill. Andrew Buchanan demolishes that myth with a carefully constructed and convincing dissection of the American side of the story, to show that Roosevelt was happy to play a part in the Mediterranean because it would seal America's emergence post-war as the global successor to the collapsing British Empire. This is an original and path-breaking contribution to a subject long assumed to have been signed and sealed, and a challenge for historians to revisit other apparent certainties with the same critical acumen.' Richard Overy'Andrew Buchanan's study transforms our understanding both of America's wartime strategy and of the war in the Mediterranean. This important book deserves widespread attention.' Jeremy Black'In this fascinating and well-crafted study, Andrew Buchanan shows how the United States rose to become the predominant power in the Mediterranean region, and brings forward insights regarding the complex interconnections between the politics of liberation, American economic and cultural expansion, and Washington's strategic imperatives.' Matthew Jones, author of Britain, the United States and the Mediterranean War, 1942–1944'American Grand Strategy in the Mediterranean during World War II makes an important contribution to the existing historiography of the war. Buchanan advocates for a new interpretation of the events. Suggesting that the Mediterranean was not a 'peripheral' theater for the United States, he argues convincingly that America was an active participant in the region; gradually assumed the lead role, forcing the British to take a back seat; and had substantive grand strategic interests in the Mediterranean. Buchanan's book should appeal to a wide audience, including both interested lay readers and World War II scholars.' Mary Kathryn Barbier, H-Diplo'A major and important reinterpretation of US policies and strategies in the Mediterranean during World War II.' Mark Stoller, author of Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and US Strategy in World War II'American Grand Strategy in the Mediterranean during the Second World War makes an important contribution to the existing historiography of the war. Buchanan advocates for a new interpretation of the events. Suggesting that the Mediterranean was not a 'peripheral' theater for the United States, he argues convincingly that America was an active participant in the region; gradually assumed the lead role, forcing the British to take a back seat; and had substantive grand strategic interests in the Mediterranean. Buchanan's book should appeal to a wide audience, including both interested lay readers and World War II scholars.' Mary Kathryn Barbier, H-Diplo Roundtable Review'This is a fascinating and informative account of US involvement in the Mediterranean during World War Two. The book provides a wealth of detail drawn from the archives on the development of intra-administration policy in the US and especially on US relations with the British.' Dan Plesch, H-Diplo Roundtable Review'Regardless of whether readers share Buchanan's critical view of American globalism, they will profit from reading his well-written, thoroughly researched, and passionately argued book. He has succeeded in illuminating many hidden dimensions of a well-known episode in American foreign policy, and will inspire his readers to think harder about Roosevelt's geopolitical legacy.' Avshalom Rubin, H-Diplo Roundtable Review'Buchanan's book - which is well written and well researched - makes for fascinating reading … This is an important work. It not only fundamentally changes our understanding of the Roosevelt administration's wartime policy in the Mediterranean, but also places America's involvement in this region within the larger military, political and economic context of the war. Thanks to Buchanan's efforts, this much maligned and oft-overlooked 'peripheral theatre', may now take its rightful place as an integral part of the overarching effort to win the war in Europe.' David B. Woolner, H-Diplo Roundtable Review'This book succeeds as a comprehensive and convincing analysis of America's grand strategy in the Mediterranean. It is worthy of study by scholars of American diplomatic history, Anglo-U.S. relations, and, of course, the Mediterranean region during the Second World War. … scholars interested in the processes of peaceful power-transitions and how new global orders are constructed will find the work useful. Buchanan's engaging writing style will also appeal to even a casual reader of Second World War history interested in something beyond purely military-centric narratives of such an important period in human history.' Alexander Salt, Canadian Military HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. 'The president's personal policy'; 2. The decision for Torch; 3. Keeping Spain out of the war: Washington's appeasement of Franco; 4. Torch, Darlan, and the French Maghreb; 5. 'The intricacies of colonial rule'; 6. 'Senior partners?'; 7. 'An investment for the future'; 8. The Tehran Conference and the Anglo-American struggle over the invasion of southern France; 9. Helping De Gaulle get his 'talons pretty deeply dug into France'; 10. Italy 'enters the postwar period'; 11. Spain, Wolfram, and the 'liberal turn'; 12. The Culbertson Mission and the open door; 13. 'Balkan-phobia?' The United States, Yugoslavia, and Greece, 1940–5; 14. 'We have become Mediterraneanites'.
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Cambridge University Press Ghosts of War in Vietnam
Book SynopsisThis book is a fascinating study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War. Heonik Kwon illuminates critical issues of war and collective memory in Vietnam by examining stories about spirits of the war dead claiming social justice and about his own efforts to wrestle with the presence of ghosts.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'The voices of Americans lost, dead, maimed physically or psychologically, fill the bookshelves. For the most part the voices of Vietnamese, living or dead, are unavailable. In his powerfully moving and beautifully written book, The Ghosts of War in Vietnam, Heonik Kwon enables those voices to be heard. The ghosts of Vietnam's wars are not metaphorical but vital presences through which Vietnamese understand their recent history, reflect on all that has happened since and attempt to resolve the contradictions of the present. These are ghost stories that will haunt you. No other book I have read about contemporary Vietnam so thoroughly, painfully, and intelligently illuminates both the country's past and present. Ghost of War in Vietnam is an indispensable book.' Marilyn Young, New York UniversityReview of the hardback: 'Through a rich, supple and creative analysis of what the author persuasively argues is the omnipresence of ghosts and ghost stories in wartime and postwar Vietnam, Ghosts of War in Vietnam addresses the complexities of war and memory in Vietnam in ways that will undoubtedly have a transformative impact on the study of the American war in Vietnam, the relationship between decolonization and the Cold War and the nature of historical memory in the post Cold War era. It will without question become one of the indispensable works on war and memory in the modern era.' Mark Philip Bradley, Northwestern UniversityReview of the hardback: 'Heonik Kwon has written an outstanding book: Part history, part anthropology, part literary study, it opens up the study of the Vietnam War in a way that no other work of scholarship has done. By giving ghosts of many forms the place they deserve in the Vietnamese tragedy, Kwon tells us much that we need to know about the war, its aftermath, and about issues of death, displacement and commemoration in today's Vietnamese society.' O. A. Westad, Cold War Studies Centre, LSEReview of the hardback: 'Taking a unique approach to the cultural history of war, the author introduces stories about spirits claiming social justice and about his own efforts to wrestle with the physical and spiritual presence of ghosts.' The Times Higher Education SupplementReview of the hardback: 'This is a rare study that will open new avenues of inquiry in Vietnamese studies. Even more important, Kwon's methodology is groundbreaking in understanding not only the Vietnam War, but also war and society in the larger world community. Summing up: highly recommended. All levels/libraries.' Choice Reviews OnlineReview of the hardback: '… unique and revealing …' New York Review of BooksReview of the hardback: 'Kwon's book transcends its origins as an academic anthropological study to paint a profoundly moving psychic portrait of a war-damaged country that may never be at peace.' The ScotsmanReview of the hardback: 'Heonik Kwon throws the reader with such compulsion into the lives of the wandering spirits of the wars in Vietnam that it is almost impossible to put this original, imaginative, and sensitive book down. … Ghosts of War in Vietnam is anthropology at its best. It will without doubt become a classic text of anthropology, and I hope one that is crucial to international relations, religious studies, sociological theory, political science, cold war studies, and conflict, war, and peace studies.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute'… richly detailed narratives… a strong and unique contribution to a growing body of anthropological and historical literature on war memory in late socialist Vietnam …' Journal of Asian StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Ghosts of war; 2. Mass excavation; 3. Missing in action; 4. The phantom leg; 5. Death in the street; 6. Transforming ghosts; 7. Money for ghosts; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The IranIraq War A Military And Strategic History
Book SynopsisThe Iran-Iraq War is one of the largest, yet least documented conflicts of the twentieth century. Drawing from an extensive cache of captured Iraqi government records, this book offers an unparalleled military and strategic account of the war through the lens of the Iraqi regime and its senior military commanders.Trade Review'This is a fascinating and revealing history of the Iran-Iraq War which draws on a wealth of captured Iraqi sources to provide a unique picture of Saddam Hussein's decision-making.' Nigel Ashton, London School of Economics and Political Science'Murray and Woods shed new light on the war and its conduct at the highest levels mainly from the Iraqi, but also from the Iranian point of view. The book serves as a valuable contribution to our understanding of the war that has important ramifications to contemporary military thinking. The authors deserve much praise for these new insights.' Amatzia Baram, University of Haifa, Israel'With unique access to vital source materials, Williamson Murray and Kevin Woods plumb the depths of the ruthlessness, fanaticism, operational incapacity and incompetence that shaped the eight-year Iran-Iraq War. There are lessons here on success and failure for us all to learn.' John Gooch, University of Leeds'This book provides a rich seam of material for anyone studying the period or subsequent Middle Eastern history and provides valuable insights into Saddam's attitudes; his enthusiasm for chemical weapons makes for particularly chilling reading … this is one of the most important studies to date on the strategic history and military aspects of the Iran-Iraq War … [It] will appeal not only to those interested in the conflict itself but should be essential reading for those studying its aftermath.' E. R. Hooton, The British Journal of Military History'This is an excellent book. Murray and Woods do not drown readers in the jargon of the subject, and they meticulously explain everything in their well-researched and enormously interesting work. They develop their themes rapidly and cleanly. Fully explained are the incompetence, factors of fear and coercion, useless battles, countless dead, and wholesale destruction, all driven by the leaders' egos on both sides and regardless of the treasures destroyed … a superb book, well written without biases and a breath of fresh air on a difficult subject, without the mist, fog, and haze that usually come with the literature in this field. Mandatory for graduate students. Summing up: highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' N. E. Bou-Nacklie, Choice'Williamson Murray and Kevin M. Woods have produced an exceptionally detailed and valuable book on the military dimensions of the Iran-Iraq War. This work has many positive aspects, but its most unique feature is the extensive use of previously unavailable captured Iraq documents … In sum, this book emerges as the definitive work on the Iraqi perspective of the Iran-Iraq war, and is probably the best study on military aspects of the conflict as a whole.' W. Andrew Terrill, Middle East JournalTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. A context of 'bitterness and anger'; 3. The opponents; 4. 1980: the Iraqi invasion begins; 5. 1981–2: stalemate; 6. Defeat and recovery; 7. 1983–4: a war of attrition; 8. 1985–6: dog days of a long war; 9. 1987–8: an end in sight?; 10. Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press At Home and Under Fire Air Raids And Culture In Britain From The Great War To The Blitz
Book SynopsisThis book studies British civilians' experiences of, and responses to, air raids during the First and Second World Wars. Memories of the World War I bombings shaped British response to future wars and helped redefine a gendered understanding of how civilians should respond to modern war.Trade Review'Professor Grayzel shows that in order to understand the real impact of the Blitz, it is important to go back a quarter of a century to the first aerial assault on Britain. Drawing on a vast range of sources and utilizing the theoretical sophistication of a historian at the height of her powers, At Home and Under Fire also manages to make us recognize once more the unprecedented shock of death from above and engages our sympathy with the people first caught under the bombs.' Dr Adrian Gregory, University of Oxford'Throughout the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first, civilians have been the subject of aerial bombardment as combatant nations and groups have sought to win conflicts by inflicting death and injury on those at home 'behind the lines'. In this riveting study Susan Grayzel traces the origins of this all-too-familiar form of warfare back to the early twentieth century, showing the impact of aerial warfare on the home and on those within. Exploring the responses to this new threat to personal and national security from the state, the media, and individuals, this is truly a book for our times.' Lucy Noakes, University of Brighton'At Home and Under Fire is an exhaustively researched and illuminating analysis of the impact of air warfare on Britain in the twentieth century. Grayzel thoughtfully analyzes the political and cultural responses to and consequences of the bombing in World War I, examining the policy and public debates at the time and in the war's aftermath. She clearly demonstrates how weapons from the skies used against British civilians beginning in 1914 shaped interwar debates about controlling war, protecting civilian lives, and preparing for the war to come, and how these, in turn, informed responses to the massive attacks from the air in World War II. The book significantly enriches our understanding of the nature and consequences of 'Total War'.' Sonya O. Rose, Professor Emerita, University of Michigan'Susan Grayzel now offers a wider perspective on the impact of the bombing of civilians, by explaining the ways in which everyday life was first 'militarized' by the attacks in the First World War. [She] effectively illustrates how the extension of the scale of conflict significantly affected the British people's attitude to the state, and how they subsequently became far more tolerant of its intervention in their daily lives.' Ian Cawood, The Times Literary Supplement'[Grayzel's] book is a major achievement, providing us with a complexly argued and exhaustively researched account of British responses to the threat of aerial attack, one that illuminates the vital role of gender in how war was imagined and anticipated.' Geoffrey Field, Twentieth Century British History'Because of German attacks it was Britain that first had to cope with 'total war' and this book will greatly aid our understanding of how this important development occurred.' Contemporary Review'This detailed, well-written book chronicles the cultural transformation wrought by the air raid, in reality and in the British imagination, between the early Zeppelin raids of the First World War and the end of the Blitz in the Second … This is an exemplary monograph: deeply researched, attentive to the production and reception of culture, and elegantly argued. Its main claim is convincing, and its de-emphasizing of the uniqueness of the reaction to the Blitz is important.' Journal of British StudiesTable of Contents1. Modern war and the militarization of domestic life; 2. Destroying the innocent: the arrival of the air raid, 1914–16; 3. Redefining the battlezone: responding to intensified aerial warfare, 1917–18; 4. Writing and rewriting modern warfare: memory, representation, and the legacy of the air raid in interwar Britain; 5. Inventing civil defense: imagining and planning for the war to come; 6. Trying to prevent the war to come: efforts to remove the threat of air raids; 7. Facing the future of air power: responding to interwar air raids; 8. Preparing the public for the next war: the expansion of air raid precautions; 9. Protecting the innocent: gas masks and the domestication of air raid precautions; 10. Responding to the air war's return: the militarized domestic sphere from Munich to the Blitz; 11. Representing the new air war: morale and the domestication of the air raid in wartime popular culture; 12. Conclusion: air raids and the domestication of modern war.
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Cambridge University Press Combat and Morale in the North African Campaign The Eighth Army And The Path To El Alamein Cambridge Military Histories
Book SynopsisMilitary professionals and theorists have long understood the relevance of morale in war. Montgomery, the victor at El Alamein, said, following the battle, that 'the more fighting I see, the more I am convinced that the big thing in war is morale'. Jonathan Fennell, in examining the North African campaign through the lens of morale, challenges conventional explanations for Allied success in one of the most important and controversial campaigns in British and Commonwealth history. He introduces new sources, notably censorship summaries of soldiers' mail, and an innovative methodology that assesses troop morale not only on the evidence of personal observations and official reports but also on contemporaneously recorded rates of psychological breakdown, sickness, desertion and surrender. He shows for the first time that a major morale crisis and stunning recovery decisively affected Eighth Army's performance during the critical battles on the Gazala and El Alamein lines in 1942.Trade Review'[This] book is a tremendous work of scholarship. It is an archivally driven study that impresses the reader on nearly every page with the breadth and depth of its analysis. In many respects it sets a new standard for the study of the British and Commonwealth armies in the Second World War and the study of morale more generally in the twentieth century.' James Kitchen, English Historical Review'[A] path-breaking study … Through heroic labour in the archives in the UK and overseas, Fennell has constructed a richly detailed picture … This is an important book by a very promising historian.' Gary Sheffield, BBC History Magazine'A groundbreaking study … This is a major contribution to the historiography of the war in the desert.' Book Review Supplement, National Army Museum'… a model of primary investigation into a subject extensively wrapped in supposition and myth … The book makes a significant contribution not only to the history of the desert war but also to the methodology of military morale.' Dan Todman, Twentieth-Century British History'A fine piece of scholarship … The success of Fennell's work rests on … the scholarly effort and rigour poured into it through extensive archival investigations carried out in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.' Craig Stockings, Journal of Military History'[Fennell] marshals a considerable amount of evidence … [and] has made a major contribution to the debate over the desert war in this valuable study of the significance of morale in warfare.' Martin Kitchen, Cercles: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone'… Fennell has made a decided contribution to the literature of military history.' Stuart McClung, H-War (h-net.org/~war/)Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Morale crisis and recovery; 2. Technology, firepower and morale; 3. Quality of manpower and morale; 4. Environment, provisions and morale; 5. Welfare, education and morale; 6. Leadership, command and morale; 7. Training and morale; 8. In search of a theory to explain combat morale in the desert; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Red Terror and the Spanish Civil War Revolutionary Violence In Madrid
Book SynopsisThis book deals with one of most controversial issues of the Spanish Civil War (1936â9): the 'Red Terror'. Approximately 50,000 Spaniards were extrajudicially executed in Republican Spain following the failure of the military rebellion in July 1936. This mass killing of 'fascists' seriously undermined attempts by the legally constituted Republican government to present itself in foreign quarters as fighting a war for democracy. This study, based on a wealth of scholarship and archival sources, challenges the common view that executions were the work of criminal or anarchist 'uncontrollables'. Its focus is on Madrid, which witnessed at least 8,000 executions in 1936. It shows that the terror was organized and was carried out with the complicity of the police, and argues that terror was seen as integral to the antifascist war effort. Indeed, the elimination of the internal enemy - the 'Fifth Column' - was regarded as important as the war on the front line.Trade Review'The purpose of Julius Ruiz's study is not to present a lurid description of atrocities, as does much of the literature in this area, but to offer an in-depth study of the institutions and mechanisms of the Republican repression in Madrid. This makes it possible to reveal the structure and functioning of the terror, rather than dwelling on the pathos of victimization alone. Ruiz provides a kind of political history of Madrid on the eve of the Civil War and during the first six months of the conflict, revealing in detail the interplay, competition, and cooperation of the various Republican political forces in organizing and carrying out repression. No previous account has achieved this depth and quality of analysis. Ruiz offers a major contribution to the history of repression in the Civil War, a genuine research breakthrough.' Stanley G. Payne, University of Wisconsin, Madison'This excellent book carefully examines Madrid's 'Red Terror,' that is, the deaths of thousands of rightists in a city controlled by Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War. It provides new information and a convincing interpretation concerning many of the Terror's most important issues - the Soviet role, the Paracuellos massacres, Republican government complicity, participation of various forces of the left, and the influence of so-called uncontrollables. In an innovative manner, it demonstrates the cultural influence of Hollywood gangster films on the assassins, emphasizes the importance of the radio, and shows - in contrast to much of the literature - that the relationship between Nationalist and Republican atrocities was not direct, but rather was indirect. This is probably the best study of terror in a major city during the Spanish conflict.' Michael Seidman, University of North Carolina, Wilmington'His thoroughly researched and clear-eyed analysis of revolutionary terror and politically motivated killings in the city of Madrid goes a long way toward filling a noticeable gap in the historiography of the subject … The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War … provides the fullest and most factually reliable portrait of a particularly murky chapter of the Civil War.' George Esenwein, The Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. On the brink; 2. The military rebellion; 3. Antifascist Madrid; 4. Forging the new police; 5. The justice of the people; 6. If it is the will of the people…; 7. Popular tribunals and the Rearguard Vigilance Militias (MVR); 8. A fifth column?; 9. The prison problem; 10. Paracuellos; 11. The dirty war against the fifth column; 12. Dealing with the legacy of the terror: forced labor for fascists, 1937–9; Epilogue; Appendices.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of the Second World War
Book SynopsisThe conflict that ended in 1945 is often described as a ''total war'', unprecedented in both scale and character. Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War adopts a transnational approach to offer a comprehensive and global analysis of the war as an economic, social and cultural event. Across twenty-eight chapters and four key parts, the volume addresses complex themes such as the political economy of industrial war, the social practices of war, the moral economy of war and peace and the repercussions of catastrophic destruction. A team of nearly thirty leading historians together show how entire nations mobilized their economies and populations in the face of unimaginable violence, and how they dealt with the subsequent losses that followed. The volume concludes by considering the lasting impact of the conflict and the memory of war across different cultures of commemoration.Trade Review'This clearly written and well-presented book elaborates the harrowing complexities of the Second World War … This book is a rich resource. … Every library must, clearly, purchase a copy …' Penny Summerfield, Family and Community History'As an editor of several reference works, I find the ability of Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze to assemble such a superb range of authors and have them produce such high quality chapters for the third volume of Cambridge History of the Second World War to be nothing short of remarkable.' G. Kurt Piehler, Journal of World HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction to Volume 3 Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze; Part I. Political Economy: Introduction to Part I Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze; 1. The economics of the war with Germany Adam Tooze and Jamie Martin; 2. Finance for war in Asia and its aftermath Greg Huff; 3. War of the factories Jeff Fear; 4. Controlling resources: coal, iron-ore and oil in the Second World War David Edgerton; 5. The human fuel: food as global commodity and local scarcity Lizzie Collingham; 6. Knowledge economies Cathryn Carson; 7. Seaborne transport Michael Miller; Part II. The Social Practice of Total War, 1939–1945: Introduction to Part II Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze; 8. Death and survival in the Second World War Richard Bessel; 9. Battles for morale: an entangled history of total war in Europe, 1939–1945 Jochen Hellbeck; 10. The war of the cities: industrial labouring forces Rüdiger Hachtman; 11. The war of the villages: the interwar agrarian crisis and the Second World War Adam Tooze; 12. Hors de combat: mobilization and immobilization in total war Geoffrey Cocks; 13. Environments, states and societies at war Christopher Pearson; Part III. The Moral Economy of War: Introduction to Part III Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze; 14. Just and unjust wars: military – civil society – states Michael Geyer; 15. Wars of displacement: exile and uprooting in the 1940s Yasmin Khan; 16. Sexuality and sexual violence Sabine Frühstück; 17. A war for liberty: the law of conscientious objection in the Second World War Jeremy Kessler; 18. Bringing the dogs of war to heel: pacifism in the Second World War Devin Pendas; 19. Humanitarian politics and governance: international responses to the civilian toll in the Second World War Stephen Porter; Part IV. Illusive Peace: From War to Cold War: Introduction to Part IV Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze; 20. The rise and fall of central planning David Engerman; 21. Two types of new deal. The Second World War and the renegotiation of the social contract in Britain, Europe and America Timothy B. Smith; 22. Nationalism, decolonization, geopolitics and the Asian postwar Rana Mitter; 23. Making peace as a project of moral reconstruction Mark Bradley; Part V. In the Aftermath of Catastrophic Destruction: Introduction to Part V Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze; 24. Interpretations of catastrophe Peter Gordon; 25. The ghosts of war Monica Black; 26. Popular memory, popular culture: the war in the postwar world Lucy Noakes; 27. The Second World War in global memory space Jie-Hyun Lim; 28. Landscapes of destruction: capturing images and creating memory through photography Dorothee Brantz; Bibliographical essay; Index.
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Cambridge University Press After Saigons Fall
Few historians of the Vietnam War have covered the post-1975 era or engaged comprehensively with refugee politics, humanitarianism, and human rights as defining issues of the period. After Saigon''s Fall is the first major work to uncover this history. Amanda C. Demmer offers a new account of the post-War normalization of USVietnam relations by centering three major transformations of the late twentieth century: the reassertion of the US Congress in American foreign policy; the Indochinese diaspora and changing domestic and international refugee norms; and the intertwining of humanitarianism and the human rights movement. By tracing these domestic, regional, and global phenomena, After Saigon''s Fall captures the contingencies and contradictions inherent in US-Vietnamese normalization. Using previously untapped archives to recover a riveting narrative with both policymakers and nonstate advocates at its center, Demmer''s book also reveals much about US politics and society in the last
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Cambridge University Press The Intelligence War against the IRA
Book SynopsisThe exposure of two senior republicans as informers for British intelligence in 2005 led to a popular perception that the IRA had ''lost'' the intelligence war and was pressurised into peace. In this first in-depth study across the entire conflict, Thomas Leahy re-evaluates the successes and failures of Britain''s intelligence activities against the IRA, from the use of agents and informers to special-forces, surveillance and electronic intelligence. Using new interview material alongside memoirs and Irish and UK archival materials, he suggests that the IRA was not forced into peace by British intelligence. His work sheds new light on key questions in intelligence and security studies. How does British intelligence operate against paramilitaries? Is it effective? When should governments ''talk to terrorists''? And does regional variation explain the outcome of intelligence conflicts? This is a major contribution to the history of the conflict and of why peace emerged in Northern Ireland.Trade Review'An important and difficult subject, explored with skill and in very impressive, well-researched detail.' Richard English, author of Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA'Informers and agents are central to insurgencies. They can be devastatingly effective, yet inflict terrible suffering. Meticulously dissecting the intelligence war in different regions, Leahy's analysis of how informers and agents affected the strategic interaction between republicanism and the British state is a major contribution to scholarship on the Northern Ireland conflict.' Huw Bennett, author of Fighting the Mau Mau: The British Army and Counter-Insurgency in the Kenya Emergency'Thomas Leahy's study of the Intelligence War in Northern Ireland draws on rich new evidence from the archives to provide a well-paced, thought-provoking and richly-textured account of the impact of British Intelligence measures during the conflict. The author makes a compelling case for analysing both military and political intelligence together and offers a fresh new perspective on why it took so long to bring an end to the violence through a negotiated peace settlement.' Niall Ó Dochartaigh, author of From Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the Birth of the Irish Troubles'… sheds new light on how British intelligence used agents, informers, special-forces and surveillance in the city during the recent conflict.' Kevin Mullan, Derry Journal'… this is a well-informed, competent, accessible and engaging assessment of the role of intelligence in the periods before the IRA ceasefires. It will be useful for scholars not just of the 'Troubles' but of the role that terrorist groups and their leadership, state political actors, the security forces and intelligence can play in progress towards peace.' Samantha Newbery, Intelligence and National Security'… an easy read … this work should be recognised as a valuable contribution to our understanding of the Northern Ireland conflict and a timely disruption of a potentially dangerous consensus.' Patrick Mulroe, History Ireland'Thomas Leahy's The Intelligence War Against the IRA is an important new contribution to the growing, and changing, interpretations of The Troubles … a great addition to The Troubles canon. It is a well-researched study with a diverse range of secondary material, a wealth of archival evidence and interviews with significant figures on all sides of the conflict.' Nick Clifton, History@Kingston'This well-researched and argued study will interest students of Northern Ireland, political violence, and counterinsurgency.' A. H. Plunkett, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Intelligence War, August 1969 to July 1972: 1. British political, military and intelligence strategy towards the IRA, August 1969 to July 1972; 2. The Intelligence War part I, August 1969 to July 1972; 3. The IRA's ceasefire, 26 June to 9 July 1972; Part II. On the Verge of Defeat?: the Intelligence War Part II, July 1972 to December 1975: 4. British political, military and intelligence strategy towards the IRA, July 1972 to December 1975; 5. The Intelligence War part II: July 1972 to December 1975; 6. 'Everything is compromisable after the British Declaration of Intent': the IRA returns to ceasefire, December 1974 and December 1975; Part III. The Struggle to Contain the IRA, January 1976 to April 1998: 7. British political, military and intelligence strategy towards the IRA, 1976 to 1998; 8. The Intelligence War part III: Belfast and Derry city, January 1976 to August 1994; 9. The Intelligence War part III: the IRA in rural areas, England and the IRA leadership, January 1976 to August 1994; 10. 'It's the primacy of politics that's important': alternative reasons for the IRA's ceasefires in August 1994 and July 1997; Conclusion; Appendix 1. IRA 'intended target' killings by year in various geographical areas where the IRA operated, 1969 to 1994; Appendix 2. Seats won by Sinn Féin and the SDLP in district council elections between 1985 and 1997; Appendix 3. Other alleged agents and informers killed by the IRA.
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Cambridge University Press After Saigons Fall
Book SynopsisFew historians of the Vietnam War have covered the post-1975 era or engaged comprehensively with refugee politics, humanitarianism, and human rights as defining issues of the period. After Saigon''s Fall is the first major work to uncover this history. Amanda C. Demmer offers a new account of the post-War normalization of USVietnam relations by centering three major transformations of the late twentieth century: the reassertion of the US Congress in American foreign policy; the Indochinese diaspora and changing domestic and international refugee norms; and the intertwining of humanitarianism and the human rights movement. By tracing these domestic, regional, and global phenomena, After Saigon''s Fall captures the contingencies and contradictions inherent in US-Vietnamese normalization. Using previously untapped archives to recover a riveting narrative with both policymakers and nonstate advocates at its center, Demmer''s book also reveals much about US politics and society in the last Trade Review'1975 was not just the end of the Vietnam War, this path breaking book argues, but also the start of a new chapter in US-Vietnamese relations, entered on the messy politics of normalization. After Saigon's Fall will be essential reading for scholars of human rights, humanitarianism, and 20th century international history.' Julia F. Irwin, author of Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation's Humanitarian Awakening'Demmer's book beautifully evokes the bodies that loomed over efforts at US-Vietnamese normalization - the POW/MIAs for whom Americans demanded a 'full accounting' and the Vietnamese who migrated en masse to the United States in the decades following the war. As she illuminates the war's final chapter, Demmer exposes the myriad ways in which family reunification was at the center of reconciliation efforts after Saigon's fall.' Sarah Snyder, author of From Selma to Moscow: How Human Rights Activists Transformed U.S. Foreign Policy'Built on impressive research and showcasing incisive analysis, After Saigon's Fall shows how migration vitally shaped the post-war relationship between Vietnam and the United States. Astute and engaging, Amanda Demmer's book is a must read for scholars of immigration, the Cold War, and human rights and humanitarianism.' Carl J. Bon Tempo, author of Americans at the Gate: The United States and Refugees during the Cold War'In After Saigon's Fall, Amanda Demmer examines the interconnectedness of war and peace. By foregrounding refugees, the politics of humanitarianism, and the memory of war, she offers profound insights of how the aftermath of war is in many ways its continuation.' Judy Wu, author of Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism and Feminism during the Vietnam EraTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: 1. The fall of Saigon; 2. Human rights, refugees, and normalization; Part II: 3. Expanding the US agenda; 4. US-SRV cooperation; Part III: 5. Refugees and the road map; 6. Humanitarian issues, human rights, and ongoing normalization; Conclusion.
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Book SynopsisTrade Review“[Cam Simpson] has given us an anatomy of globalized labor at its most shameful ... By scraping away at layers of corporate misdirection, by asking and asking again and not letting go, Simpson reached something naked and ugly and unimpeachably true.” — New York Times Book Review “Simpson’s investigations into how these men ended up in Iraq helped launch a decade-long legal battle on behalf of the victims’ families... [he] tells a complex story about how the intersection of privatized wars and globalization heightens the vulnerability of transnational laborers.” — New Yorker “A modern David vs. Goliath tale that stretches from the towering mountains of Nepal to a courtroom in Texas, showing just how our wars are fought and how the value of a life seems to depend on where someone is born. Cam Simpson has done an incredible job uncovering the trail of international human trafficking that led to a horrific massacre in Iraq. Weaving together interviews from a decade of reporting and tens of thousands of pages of court papers, Simpson has created a compelling narrative that is both a tale of human redemption in the face of crushing grief and a riveting legal thriller.” — Kim Barker, author of The Taliban Shuffle “In The Girl from Kathmandu, one of America’s most decorated investigative journalists unearths an iconic story of our time: the hidden saga of how American taxpayers funded a corporate pipeline of human labor, from the Himalayas to the battlefield of Iraq.” — Evan Osnos, New Yorker staff writer, winner of the National Book Award and author of Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China. “A powerful, compelling story of how one courageous young Nepali woman challenged the rigid patriarchy of her homeland and a multinational corporation abroad in the pursuit of justice for her murdered husband. Along the way Cam Simpson exposes in vivid detail a lesser known collateral horror of America’s Iraq debacle: how the government and its contractors, in the name of private war and national security, aided and abetted the grotesque modern chain of slave labor. It may renew both your anger at the Iraq war catastrophe and your hope in the rule of law to hold the powerful accountable.” — Eric Westervelt, award-winning former Baghdad and Jerusalem Correspondent NPR News “The ensuing court battle and Kamala’s personal journey of redemption is a mind-boggling story that champions courage, perseverance, and resilience.” — Booklist “A powerful work of investigative journalism, one that speaks volumes about the business of war and of human slavery alike.” — Kirkus
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