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Voices of D-Day
In 1983 the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans began a project to record the recollections of as many people as possible -- civilians as well as soldiers -- who …
War Stories
Henry Lasoski, an officer in the Polish army, was there on the first day of World War II, thrusting his bayonet awkwardly into a German soldier hours after Hitler's army invaded …
Handbook on German Military Forces
In March, 1945, the U.S. War Department issued a restricted document called Handbook on German Military Forces. The restricted classification was removed in 1953, but the handbook …
Upton and the Army
Emory Upton (1839-1881) was ""the epitome of a professional soldier,"" according to Stephen E. Ambrose. Indeed, his entire adult life was devoted to the single-minded pursuit of a …
Edge of the Sword
Ted Tunnell's superbly researched biography of Marshall H. Twitchell is a major addition to Reconstruction literature. New England native, Union soldier, Freedmen's Bureau agent, …
Parachute Infantry
An English literature major at Harvard with a talent for writing, twenty-one-year-old David Kenyon Webster volunteered for duty in the U.S. Army's parachute infantry in 1943 with …