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Fighting Power
Nazi-Organized Recreation and Entertainment in the Third Reich
This book explores the activities of the Nazi regime's vast leisure programme. Shortly after coming to power in Germany, it began a large-scale undertaking to bring happiness and a …
Israeli Air Force Operations in the 1948 War
Operation HOREV – the Israeli winter offensive from December 1948 until January 1949 – practically ended Israel’s War for Independence (also known as the 1948 Arab-Israeli War), …
Doctor in the XIVth Army
Charles Evans records his passage from idyllic youth, fresh from Oxford in 1939, into the harsh reality of a junior doctor in Burma. Beautifully written and elegantly vivid, his …
Waffen-SS in Normandy
An examination of how the Waffen-SS fared in Normandy in June 1944 and whether they deserve their reputation of being the ultimate fighting soldiers. One of the greatest …
Coexistence in the Aftermath of Mass Violence
Coexistence in the Aftermath of Mass Violence demonstrates how imagination, empathy, and resilience contribute to the processes of social repair after ethnic and political …
Vietnam War in American Childhood
For American children raised exclusively in wartime-that is, a Cold War containing monolithic communism turned hot in the jungles of Southeast Asia-and the first to grow up with …
Fragile and Failing States
Rescue in the Valley of the Tigers
"Rescue in the Valley of the Tigers" describes the evolution of a young American from carefree college student to seasoned military adviser in South Vietnam at the height of the …
Doctrine and Reform in the British Cavalry 1880-1918
A prevalent view among historians is that both horsed cavalry and the cavalry charge became obviously obsolete in the second half of the nineteenth century in the face of increased …
African American Troops in World War II
A concise history of the service records and combat experience of the African American troops who rose above discrimination to fight for the Allied cause and paved the way for …
Eyewitness in the Crimea
Provides access to the thoughts of an officer at the forefront of the fighting in the Crimea. By turns gripping and analytical, colorful and bleak, the letters of George Frederick …