Modern warfare Books
Michigan State University Press Voices from the Underground v 1 Insider Stories
Book SynopsisOffers a collection of histories of underground papers from the Vietnam Era as written and told by key staff members of the time. Their stories represent a wide range of publications: countercultural, gay, lesbian, feminist, Puerto Rican, Native American, Black, socialist, Southern consciousness, prisoners' rights, New Age, rank-and-file, military, and more.
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MP-OSU Oregon State Universi Here on the Edge How a Small Group of World War
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Bauhan Pub Dear Mary Letters Home from the 10th Mountain
Book SynopsisLetters from WWII service in Italy to a beloved wife back home
£18.05
MP-NEV University of Nevada Embattled Memories Contested Meanings in Korean
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MP-NEV University of Nevada Gernika 1937 The Market Day Massacre
Book SynopsisTrade Review”In Gernika, 1937: The Market Day Massacre, historian Xabier Irujo reveals the hitherto unknown fact that the destruction of the historic Basque town of Guernica was planned by Nazi minister Hermann Goring as a gift for Hitler’s birthday.”-The New York Review of Books“The book helps elucidate highly controversial topics about the undeclared war that Germany and Italy fought in the Basque Country and it makes a significant contribution to the study of warfare prior to the Second World War.”—Professor Angel Vinas, Center for Basque Studies Newsletter, Fall 2015
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Japanese Americans and World War II
Book SynopsisLike its predecessors, this fourth edition of Japanese Americans and World War II is intended as a succinct and affordable supplement to history and political science texts that minimize or neglect the Nikkei (Japanese American) experience in World War II. As was hoped, the first two editions of this publication found an enthusiastic reception by instructors and students alike at the high school, community college, and university level. In addition, the expanded third edition found a new readership beyond the classroom, in members of and visitors to museums, such as the Japanese American Museum in Los Angeles, and interpretive centers at former concentration camp sites administered by the National Park Service at Manzanar, Tule Lake, and others (some in progress). In response to the supportive and constructive feedback of students, instructors, and lay readers, we at Harlan Davidson undertook a bold and sweeping redesign of the third edition that saw our wellTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 “Yellow Peril”: Issei Pioneers and the Anti-Chinese Legacy 3 The Movement for Japanese Exclusion 6 “200 Percent” American: Emergence of the Nisei 9 War Hysteria. Racism, and Political Expedience 12 Executive Order 9066: “Military Necessity”? 15 Mass Removal of “All Persons of Japanese Ancestry” 18 Administering the Concentration Camps 21 Life Behind Barbed Wire 23 Violence and Death by Deadly Force 26 The Botched Loyalty Questionnaire 29 Nikkei Soldiers and Draft Resisters 32 The Wartime Supreme Court Test Cases 35 Release and Return 38 Recovery: “Model” or “Marginal” Minority? 42 Breaking the Silence: Nikkei Confront the Nightmare 44 The Movement for Redress 48 The Commission’s Report and Recommendations 51 “Military Necessity” and the Coram Nobis Cases 53 Epilogue 55 Note on Terminology 68 Selected Bibliography 69 General Work on Japanese American History 69 The World War II Incarceration of Japanese Americans 72 Postwar Recovery and the Redress Movement 83 Films, Videos, and DVDs 84 Web Sites and the Internet 86 Index 88 Map, Documents (Executive Order 9066, and Instructions to implement Civilian Exclusion Order No. 108), and Photographs follow page 56
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The United States at War 1941 1945
Book SynopsisThis 3rd edition presents a concise overview of how the war was fought as well as a consideration of the ways in which Americans regarded allies and enemies, embraced heroes, and viewed the war''s purpose. Making the important distinction between popular notions and military and political realities, Gary Hess helps today''s readers to better understand the complexity of the conflict. Updated to incorporate the latest scholarship, this latest edition also includes new material to underscore more fully the moral dimensions of the war, including the American decision to use the atomic bomb, the ruthless campaigns of both the Germans and Russians in Eastern Europe, American reaction to the Holocaust as well as the government''s post-war tolerance and protection of Nazis deemed valuable to Cold War research and intelligence. Enhanced coverage of specific topics including the Bataan Death March, the Battle of the Bulge, and the Allied uncovering of concentration camps rounds out the narraTable of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition ix Chapter One. To Pearl Harbor: The United States and World Crisis 1 The Arsenal of Democracy: The War in Europe 3 “Not Enough Ships": The Effort to Restrain Japan 8 Chapter Two. Allied Defeats and the Axis Ascendancy, 1941-1942 20 The Nazi Empire at Its Peak 20 Japan’s Imperial Conquests 24 Defeat and Surrender in the Philippines 25 Popular Perceptions and Expectations 34 Chapter Three. The War in Europe: The Turn of the Tide 38 The Debate over Strategy 38 The North African Invasion 41 The Eastern Front: The Russian Victory at Stalingrad 45 The Battle of the Atlantic 49 The Air War: The Bombing of Germany 51 The Cross-Channel Invasion: D-Day 53 Chapter Four. The Pacific Theater: The War against Japan, 1942-1945 59 “Our War”: Characteristics and Popular Perceptions 61 Midway: The End of Japan’s Naval Invincibility 65 Guadalcanal: The First Offensive 69 The Island Campaign, 1943-1944 72 Iwo Jima and Okinawa 79 Japan 1945: The Refusal to Surrender 84 Chapter Five. The Diplomatic Front: Roosevelt and the American Vision of the Postwar World 87 The United Nations 90 Soviet-American Cooperation 92 China’s International Status 98 The End of Colonialism 102 Chapter Six. The Dilemmas of Victory 109 Victory in Europe and the Extent of Nazi Tyranny 110 “The Greatest Thing in History”: The Atomic Bomb and Japan’s Surrender 114 Hiroshima and Magasaki: The Lingering Questions 117 A People Victorious: America at the End of the War 125 Conclusion: Why the Allies Won 127 Bibliographical Essay 146 Index 167 Photographs follow page 86 Maps: Europe under the Axis 21 Japan’s Empire, 1942 26 Allied Offensives, 1942-1945 39 U.S. Offensive against Japan 60
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Mosaic Press Resistance and Survival
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Random House Publishing Group Sixty Days In Combat An Infantrymans Memoir of World War II in Europe
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Random House Publishing Group Blood Trails The Combat Diary of a Foot Soldier
Book SynopsisBAPTISM BY FIREChris Ronnau volunteered for the Army and was sent to Vietnam in January 1967, armed with an M-14 rifle and American Express traveler’s checks. But the latter soon proved particularly pointless as the private first class found himself in the thick of two pivotal, fiercely fought Big Red One operations, going head-to-head against crack Viet cong and NVA troops in the notorious Iron Triangle and along the treacherous Cambodian border near Tay Ninh.Patrols, ambushes, plunging down VC tunnels, search and destroy missions-there were many ways to drive the enemy from his own backyard, as Ronnau quickly discovered. Based on the journal Ronnau kept in Vietnam, Blood Trails captures the hellish jungle war in all its stark life-and-death immediacy. This wrenching chronicle is also stirring testimony to the quiet courage of those unsung American heroes, many not yet twenty-one, who had a job to do and did it without complaint-fighting, sacrificing, and dying f
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Presidio Press With the Old Breed
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific—the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary—into terms we mortals can grasp.”—Tom HanksIn The Wall Street Journal, Victor Davis Hanson named With the Old Breed one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, The Good War. Now E. B. Sledge’s acclaimed first-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns to thrill, edify, and inspire a new generation. An Alabama boy steeped in American history and enamored of such heroes as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene B. Sledge became part of the war’s famous 1st Marine Division—3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. Even after intense training, he was shocked to be thrown into the battle of Peleliu, where “the world was a nightmare of flashes, explosions, and snapping bullets.” By the time Sledge hit the hell of Okinawa, he was a combat vet, still filled with fear but no longer with panic. Based on notes Sledge secretly kept in a copy of the New Testament, With the Old Breed captures with utter simplicity and searing honesty the experience of a soldier in the fierce Pacific Theater. Here is what saved, threatened, and changed his life. Here, too, is the story of how he learned to hate and kill—and came to love—his fellow man.“In all the literature on the Second World War, there is not a more honest, realistic or moving memoir than Eugene Sledge’s. This is the real deal, the real war: unvarnished, brutal, without a shred of sentimentality or false patriotism, a profound primer on what it actually was like to be in that war. It is a classic that will outlive all the armchair generals’ safe accounts of—not the ‘good war’—but the worst war ever.”—Ken Burns
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Crecy Publishing We Speak from the Air
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Bartleby Press World War II Through Russian Eyes
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Griffon International Limited Overlord
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Griffon International Limited THE MIGHTY EIGHTH
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Avonmore Books Darwins Air War 19421945
Book SynopsisThis is the most authoritative work on Darwin's air war, and has been compiled from a wide range of sources worldwide, including Japan. This edition contains many new photos, most of them from private collections. The entire scope of Darwin's air war is covered, beginning with the pre-war defence build-up.Trade Review…as authoritative an account as we are likely to see and is well-written in a style that makes it an easy read. Although expensive, it is well worth the investment for both serious air historians and the more casual reader. * The RAF Historical Journal *…very well-researched and presented book […] It is an authoritative account as we are likely to see and is well-written in a style that makes it easy to read. * Aeroplane Magazine *...this is as authoritative account as we are likely to see and is well written in a style that makes it an easy read […] well worth the investment for both serious air historians and the more casual reader. * Flypast Magazine 12/04/2021 *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 The Defence Build-up Chapter 2 Desperate Times Chapter 3 19 February 1942 Chapter 4 Aftermath Chapter 5 Into Combat Chapter 6 Changes in the Air Chapter 7 Striking Back Chapter 8 Changing Fortunes Chapter 9 A Show of Force Chapter 10 The Heavy Bombers Chapter 11 Liberators Chapter 12 The Offensive Rolls On Chapter 13 Game Over Pilot Profiles Appendices Index
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BookBaby Memoir of a German Army Officer
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BookBaby Touching the Enemy
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Hitlers VWeapons
Book SynopsisDetails all the measures, both on the land and in the air, taken to defend the United Kingdom from the German long-range weapons. Contains an appendix that lists all of the major V2 incident, as well as another that records all V2 strikes in the UK in chronological order and with geographical information.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Naval Eyewitnesses
Book SynopsisLife at sea as it was experienced by naval and merchant seamen during the Second World War.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Weapons of the Battle of the Bulge
Book SynopsisThis book will showcase all the weapons used by the soldiers in the Bulge. From rifles and heavy machine guns and mortars and artillery, as well as armored cars, self-propelled artillery and tanks.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd How the World Allowed Hitler to Proceed with the
Book SynopsisThis book is unique in that rather than describing the historical details of the Holocaust, it examines how the Holocaust was allowed to happen.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Hitlers Traitors
Book SynopsisThis collection of vivid essays examines some of the most fascinating aspects of the German resistance to Hitler.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The First Atomic Bomb
Book SynopsisA highly accurate, thoroughly researched, alternate history.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Relics of the Reich
Book SynopsisRelics of the Reich is the story of what happened to the buildings the Nazis left behind
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Drop Zone Burma
Book SynopsisDemonstrates the brave determination of the air and ground crews who fought what was one of the wars most difficult battles.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Fallen Few of the Battle of Britain
Book SynopsisThe complete biographies of all the 544 British and Commonwealth pilots killed during the Battle of Britain 1940.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Bombers over Sand and Snow
Book SynopsisA little-known story of the bombers that supported Montgomerys North African Campaign Flying in support of the Allied campaign to take Italy and Eastern Europe.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Stopping Hitler
Book SynopsisIt details the various plans made for Home Defence between 1939 and 1945.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Fighting Through to Hitlers Germany
Book SynopsisAfter landing on D-Day, 1st Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment fought through France, Holland and into Germany as part of the 3rd (British) Infantry Division. Ever cheerful, the Battalion were opposed by an increasingly ruthless enemy determined to deny the invader their homeland.As the campaign developed, 1 Suffolk acquired an enviable reputation for getting the job done with the minimum of fuss. Inevitably casualties mounted up and, of the 850 who landed on D-Day, just 178 were still serving on VE-Day; 215 had been killed and 640 wounded.The Battalion's success was due in large measure to fine leadership and all four commanding officers went on to enjoy distinguished careers. But without the stalwart fighting spirit and comradeship of all ranks none of the Battalion's achievements would have been possible.This fine book draws on the testimonies of officers and men who served in this historic campaign. Recognition of the fighting record of 1 Suffolk is long overdue and the author is to b
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Tuskegee Airmen
Book SynopsisThe history of 332nd Fighter Group - only segregated Fighter Group that served in combat during the Second World War.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Hitlers Last Days
Book SynopsisA fresh look at the Hitler's final days using a diverse range of research material.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Churchills German Spy
Book SynopsisCompared to many of MI5''s other double agents, HARLEQUIN's career was very short-lived, lasting only for a few months in 1943. However, during that time he provided insights into the various parties involved in the Appeasement process in 1938; the Czech crisis of 1939; the enterprises of a Franco-American businessman who hosted the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's marriage in France; the espionage activities of an aristocratic German family; Admiral Canaris, the head of the Abwehr many of the Abwehr's personalities with whom he had come into contact or had known about and the agents he employed as well as relations between the disparate organisations of the German intelligence services the Abwehr, Gestapo, and Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the intelligence arm of the SS. Furthermore, he revealed the German Armistice Commission's involvement in espionage and their links to the Abwehr. MI5 shared this intelligence with the FBI and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) before HARLEQUIN reques
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Hitlers Oil Broker
Book SynopsisThe story of Thoms Brown, Hitler's oil 'broker', sought to develop Iraq oil for Germany but fell out with Hitler over alleged Jewish origins.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Saving the Schindlers Daughter
Book SynopsisThe courageous life of Lore Schindler, an orphaned Jewish girl who grew up in WWII France.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Hitlers Imperfect Victories
Book SynopsisComprehensive analysis of Hitler's role as supreme military leader of the Third Reich.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Hitlers Command
Book SynopsisThird book in a three part in depth study on Hitler's looking at Hitler's influence on the Wehrmacht.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Hitlers Last Chance
Book SynopsisThe story behind one of the last propaganda films made and shown in the Third Reich.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Price of Victory
Book SynopsisA controversial new study of the Red Army's irrecoverable casualties during the Second World War.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Alastair Denniston
Book SynopsisA ground-breaking biography of the man who led Britain's code-breaking efforts in both world wars.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd A Photographic History of Amphibious Warfare
Book SynopsisHeavily illustrated history of Second World War amphibious operations.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Nazi Spies and Collaborators in Britain 19391945
Book SynopsisReveals the scale of Nazi subversion and spying in Britain during WW2.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Chindit Affair
Book SynopsisSuperbly, graphically and sensitively written.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Doenitz UBoats Convoys
Book SynopsisUnique combined account of the Battle of the Atlantic from both the German and British viewpoints
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd In the Service of the Emperor
Book SynopsisCovers the dramatic 15 years of Japanese Empire expansion.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Radioman TwentyFive Years in the Marine Corps
Book SynopsisFull career arc of a Marine--from lowly grunt to decorated air officer--spanning 1987 to 2013.
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Sourcebooks, Inc Best Little Stories from WWII More Than 100 True
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Barcharts, Inc World War II Quick Study Academic
Book SynopsisOne of history's most defining moments comes to life in this jam-packed, 3-panel guideâdesigned for students and history buffs alike! The entire war, from its beginnings to the final days, is comprehensively examined on each jam-packed page; important names, dates, countries and battles are listed and described in full detail within an easy-to-use format.
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