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General Editor: The Modern War Studies series provides a forum for the best of the new military Theodore A. Wilson history. The scope of this series is global, University of Kansas comparative, and comprehensive. It em- braces topics as diverse as operations; Series Editors: biography; strategy and ; civil- Raymond A. Callahan military relations; institutional, organiza- University of Delaware tional, and social history; and the impact of technology on warfare from the mid- Jacob W. Kipp eighteenth century to the present. Command & College,

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New Books American Airpower Strategy in From Defeat to Victory World War II The Eastern Front, Summer 1944 Bombs, Cities, Civilians, and Oil Decisive and Indecisive Military Conrad C. Crane Operations, Volume 2 “Crane combines new findings, a complete Charles J. Dick grasp of the latest scholarship, and an “From Defeat to Victory analyzes how the Red awareness of the difficult choices facing Army transformed itself from a beaten army to a military strategists. This will be one of the conquering army while raged, not merely most significant air power books of the through its willingness to expend human life decade.”—Richard R. Muller, USAF School of without regard, but by developing fundamen- Advanced Air and Space Studies tally sound doctrine, which enabled it to plan 288 pages, illustrated and conduct successful large-scale operations in (2209) $34.95 cloth 1943–1945 in ways that it could not in 1941–1942. He shows that besides learning From Victory to Stalemate from German successes, the Red Army also The Western Front, Summer 1944 brought its own ideas to the battlefield and was Decisive and Indecisive Military able to combine the two to beat the Germans at Operations, Volume 1 their own game by superior strategy, by taking Charles J. Dick advantage of German mistakes, and by utilizing superior material resources.”—Roger R. Reese, “C. J. Dick’s perceptive analysis of the opera- author of Why Stalin’s Soldiers Fought: The Red tional art as waged by Allied forces during the Army’s Military Effectiveness in World War II summer and fall of 1944 is a significant 368 pages, illustrated contribution to our understanding of some of (2295) $39.95 cloth the decisive campaigns of World War II. He details the doctrine, organization, training, and leadership of the Allied armies, as Triumph at Imphal-Kohima well as evaluating their strengths and How the Indian Army Finally weaknesses before and during battle. In the Stopped the Japanese Juggernaut unending debate over operational concepts, Raymond Callahan Dick is an unapologetic champion of maneu- “An astonishingly good and much-needed ver warfare. As importantly, his evaluation of book, written by a master in his field generalship, the challenges of coalition who is also blessed with the rare skill of warfare, and the impact of intelligence and brevity. The book is lively and beauti- logistics on the operational level of war make fully written, and his judgments about this book a valuable addition to professional the Japanese, British, and American military reading lists.”—Peter Mansoor, commanders are sound. It is written author of The GI in Europe: The both for historians and a much wider Triumph of American Divisions, readership.”—Robert Lyman, author of 1941–1945 Slim, Master of War and Japan’s Last Bid 480 pages, illustrated for Victory: The Invasion of India, 1944 (2293) $39.95 cloth 208 pages, illustrated (2427) $26.95 cloth

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The Battle for Belorussia Stalin’s World War II Evacuations The Red Army’s Forgotten Campaign Triumph and Troubles in Kirov of October 1943–April 1944 Larry E. Holmes David M. Glantz “Larry Holmes tells a gripping tale of the “Glantz’s unrivalled command of Soviet sources rescue, evacuation, and resettlement of Soviet has produced a body of work that has industry and people during World War II fundamentally revised our knowledge of the from the frontline territories soon to be Eastern Front in World War II. By providing a overrun by Again the Nazis. His book contains comprehensive, accurate perspective on the valuable lessons for a contemporary world war the fought, he has almost once again facing a vast refugee crisis amid the single-handedly corrected a one-sided German horrors of war and mass displacement.” focus that distorted western understanding.” —Wendy Z. Goldman, Paul Mellon Distin- —Slavic Review guished Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon “Indisputably the West’s foremost expert on University the subject.”—The Atlantic 240 pages, illustrated “Glantz is the world’s top scholar of the (2395) $39.95 cloth Soviet–German War.” —Journal of Military History and American 784 pages, illustrated Democracy (2329) $39.95 cloth From World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Stalingrad William A. Taylor David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House “Who serves in the United States military? The long-awaited one-volume campaign Why do they serve? How do they serve? A history from the leading experts on the serious and honest examination of these decisive clash of Nazi and Soviet forces at immensely important questions is critical to Stalingrad; an abridged edition of the current and future discussion of transforming, five-volume Stalingrad Trilogy. overhauling, or drawing-down the American “As always, Glantz and House have produced a military. William A. Taylor’s Military Service thoroughly researched and detailed account of and American Democracy is essential to this the Stalingrad campaign that offers cogent discussion. Perceptive and persuasive, Taylor analysis of both German and Soviet strengths insightfully places the evolution of American and weaknesses.”—Stephen G. Fritz, author policies amidst the of Ostkrieg: Hitler’s War of Extermination in distinctive clash between American security the East needs and individual freedom in a free 640 pages, illustrated society.”—William Thomas Allison, Profes- (2382) $34.95 cloth sor of History, Georgia Southern University 336 pages, illustrated (2320) $34.95 cloth

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The 1929 Sino-Soviet War The Fighting Sullivans The War Nobody Knew How Hollywood and the Military Make Michael M. Walker Heroes “In telling the story of the Sino-Soviet conflict, Bruce Kuklick Walker takes a wide-ranging approach that “This is a much-needed collective biography encompasses international politics of the of a classic World War II story. It blends region among China, Japan, and the USSR traditional biography with important concepts while simultaneously providing a wealth of of memory. It clearly adds to our understand- detail on the domestic politics affecting ing of the important period and the efforts of decision-making. The military aspects of the the government and media to create heroes war are equally thoroughly documented from and write the story of the ‘Greatest Genera- the quality of leadership to the tactics and tion.’ Highly recommended.”—Kyle Longley, technology that determined the outcome. This author of The Morenci Marines: A Tale of Small work will be the standard for a long time to Town America and the come.”—Roger R. Reese, author of Why 232 pages, illustrated Stalin’s Soldiers Fought: The Red Army’s (2354) $27.95 cloth Military Effectiveness in World War II 416 pages, illustrated Grant Invades Tennessee (2375) $39.95 cloth The 1862 for Forts Henry and Donelson A Military History of Timothy B. Smith Afghanistan “Victories at Fort Henry and Donelson in From the Great Game to the Global February 1862 were the first major steps on the War on Terror North’s long, hard road to victory in the Western Ali Ahmad Jalali . They also demonstrated how effective “Ali Ahmad Jalali has written an important and properly executed joint operations could be timely book. He provides new and valuable during the Civil War and served to catapult an insights into the long arc of military history obscure, but eminently able general named inside his native Afghanistan. Jalali writes Ulysses S. Grant to prominence. In Grant Invades with unique expertise and authority having Tennessee, Timothy B. Smith provides a superb served in the Afghan Army in the 1960s and account of the operations that determined the 1970s, part of the anti-Soviet resistance, and fate of Henry and Donelson, one that is as as a cabinet minister in post-Taliban Kabul. effective in chronicling the harsh conditions the What sets this book apart is the depth of his men in the ranks endured during the campaign analysis, primary sourcing, and placement of as it is in explaining the command decisions that the current American/NATO war in Afghani- shaped its outcome. Compellingly written and stan in its proper historical context. Jalali’s thoroughly researched, this is not only the new deeply researched book is the testament of a standard study of Fort Henry and Fort true scholar.”—J. Kael Weston, author of The Donelson, but a work that belongs on the Mirror Test: America at War in Iraq and bookshelf of every Civil War enthusiast.” Afghanistan —Ethan S. Rafuse, author of Robert E. Lee and 656 pages, illustrated the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863–1865 (2407) $34.95 cloth 526 pages, illustrated (2313) $34.95 cloth

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Losing Binh Dinh MacArthur’s The Failure of Pacification and Viet- Generals namization, 1969–1971 Stephen R. Taaffe Kevin M. Boylan “A terrific study of America’s military leader- “Boylan’s careful and well-documented analysis ship during the Korean War. Taaffe is of US and South Vietnamese counterinsur- remarkably even-handed, providing praise gency efforts in Binh Dinh province is a where it is appropriate and criticism where it powerful and convincing refutation of those is deserved. The book offers insights into Revisionists who have counter-factually topics ranging from the critical tactical and asserted that the US had won the war by strategic decisions of the war to the impact of 1970—only to have it lost because of the more petty politics and personal relationships. failure of Congress to support Saigon after the Beautifully-written and thoroughly-re- 1973 Paris agreement. His writing is clear and searched, MacArthur’s Korean War Generals graceful, turning a tragic topic into a good offers lessons that still resonate today for the read. I wish this book had been in print when Korean Peninsula and beyond.”—Mitchell I was writing my books.”—Jeffrey Kimball, Lerner, Director of Korean Studies, The Ohio author of Nixon’s Vietnam War; The Vietnam State University War Files; and co-author of Nixon’s Nuclear 256 pages, illustrated Specter (2221) $34.95 cloth 376 pages, illustrated (2352) $34.95 cloth The Rabbi Saved by Hitler’s Soldiers NEW IN PAPERBACK Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn and Daily Life in Wartime Japan, His Astonishing Rescue 1940–1945 Bryan Mark Rigg Samuel Hideo Yamashita “Rigg has written another compelling book on the Holocaust. Part action thriller and part “This is a very important book, the best study indictment, Rigg not only narrates the in English of how Japanese people conducted incredible story of the rescue of the themselves during the war. As a child living in Lubavitcher Rebbe from almost certain death Japan at that time, I experienced much of in wartime , he probes the Rebbe’s what Yamashita writes about. His empirical much more problematic post-rescue role. data as well as broad observations are Certain to generate controversy, his work impeccable. The book will make a major demands to be read.”—Robert M. Citino, contribution not only to the study of the author of Retreats: Fighting a Second World War but also to twentieth- Lost War, 1943 century world history.”—Akira Iriye, author of Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific 510 pages, illustrated (2261) $49.95 cloth (unjacketed) War and Power and Culture: The Japanese- (2262) $24.95 paper American War, 1941–1945 256 pages, illustrated (2462) $22.95 paper

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The Big Red One Pershing’s Crusaders America’s Legendary 1st Infantry The American Soldier in World War I Division Richard S. Faulkner Centenial Edition, 1917–2017 “We’ve been waiting for nearly a century for a James Scott Wheeler thorough, deeply researched, authoritative “An exceptionally fine work of scholarship, writ- social history of that massive, path-breaking ten with a storyteller’s verve. The Big Red One is army. Richard S. Faulkner has finally not just a vivid account of the nation’s most provided it. This superb study is absolutely venerable division, but a compelling yarn for essential reading for anyone interested in anyone interested in the history of the U.S. America’s first great expeditionary army.” Army.”—, author of An Army at —Mark E. Grotelueschen, author of The AEF Dawn and In the Company of Soldiers Way of War: The American Army and Combat Published in collaboration with the Cantigny in World War I First Division Foundation and the Cantigny 776 pages, illustrated Military History Series, edited by Paul H. Herbert (2373) $39.95 cloth 712 pages, illustrated (2452) $39.95 cloth Vietnam’s High Ground Armed Struggle for the Central Battle Studies Highlands, 1954–1965 Ardant du Picq J. P. Harris Translated, edited, and with an Introduction “Harris has produced a carefully documented by Roger J. Spiller and lucidly written study of the early years of “Ardant du Picq’s Battle Studies stands as the first the Vietnam War in the strategically impor- study of human behavior at the sharp end of a tant central highlands. He expands our modern industrial battlefield. His focus was no understanding of the conflict prior to 1965, a less unique: the fear that ultimately shapes relatively understudied subject, and offers a performance in combat. Spiller’s introduction, fresh analysis of the 1965 Pleiku campaign, brilliantly contextualizing du Picq’s pioneering which culminated in the famous battles in the insight, combines with his polished translation Ia Drang river valley. An illumnating good and annotations to make this the definitive read ”—Andrew J. Birtle, author of U.S. Army English version of a seminal analysis of men in and Contingency Operations war.”—Dennis Showalter, author of The Wars of Doctrine, 1942–1976 German Unification and founding editor of War 552 pages, illustrated in History (2283) $45.00 cloth 240 pages, illustrated (2391) $34.95 cloth (unjacketed) Spying Through a Glass Darkly (2392) $17.95 paper American Espionage against the Soviet Union, 1945–1946 David Alvarez and Eduard Mark “The last big piece of missing American intelligence history”—Tom Powers, author of Intelligence Matters 256 pages, illustrated (2192) $34.95 cloth

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World War II The Mediterranean Air War Barbarossa 1941 Airpower and Allied Victory in Reframing Hitler’s Invasion of Stalin’s World War II Soviet Empire Robert S. Ehlers, Jr. Frank Ellis “Robert S. Ehlers has given us another important A fresh new study which relies on an study of an underappreciated topic. His exceptionally wide range of newly discovered examination of airpower in the Mediterranean German and recently declassified Russian theater in the Second World War is far more sources, reframes our understanding of the than a study of aviation in war: it is an analysis of German invasion from developments that the development and implementation of were taking place in and the Soviet combined-arms warfare, and the leverage it Union before 1941 and concludes with an affords when done properly. The book is analysis of the Stalin Attack thesis, namely the brimming with insights about command, brilliantly provocative claim made by the control, leadership—indeed all the challenges Soviet defector, Viktor Suvorov, that Stalin posed by inter-operating military instruments in was planning to attack Germany but was a theater of war. These insights are just as useful pre-empted by the start of Barbarossa. One of for contemporary practitioners and defense the new sources is a diary kept by a German analysts as they are for students of history.” soldier who served in 20th Panzer Division —Tami Davis Biddle, author of Rhetoric and from the start of Barbarossa to February 1942. Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and 520 pages, illustrated American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, (2145) $39.95 cloth 1914–1945 and Chair of Aerospace Studies, US Army War College Hoover’s Secret War against 536 pages, illustrated Axis Spies (2075) $39.95 cloth FBI Counterespionage during World War II History Book Club Selection Raymond J. Batvinis The Battle for Leningrad, “J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI had a busy Second 1941–1944 World War. There were vicious battles against David M. Glantz Britain’s MI-6, America’s OSS, the War “An original and important contribution. Department and grasping double agents. Drawing upon previously unavailable or Then there were the Germans and the neglected Soviet and German sources, it Japanese. Raymond Batvinis recounts this provides a major corrective to the shortcom- history with the insight of someone who has ings of previous accounts and will stand as a himself been in the game.”—Mark E. Stout, significant and durable achievement on a Director of Global Security Studies, Johns subject that continues to fascinate.”—John Hopkins University and former Historian, Erickson, author of The Road to Stalingrad International Spy Museum 704 pages, illustrated 352 pages, illustrated (1208) $39.95 cloth (1952) $37.50 cloth

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Main Selection of the History Book Club Endgame at Stalingrad When Titans Clashed Book One: November 1942 How the Red Army Stopped Hitler The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 3 Revised and Expanded Edition David M. Glantz with Jonathan M. House David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House 656 pages, illustrated “The best book yet published on the epic (1954) $39.95 cloth Russo-German War of 1941–1945 and the first written entirely from the Soviet point of Endgame at Stalingrad view, drawn completely from Russian archives Book Two: December 1942– only recently declassified.”—World War II February 1943 576 pages, illustrated The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 3 (2120) $45.00 cloth David M. Glantz with Jonathan M. House (2121) $19.95 paper 760 pages, illustrated (1955) $39.95 cloth Main Selection of the Military Book Club Book One offers the definitive account—the To the Gates of Stalingrad “ground truth” to counter a half-century’s Soviet-German Combat Operations, worth of myth and misinformation—of the April–August 1942 beginning of the end of one of the most The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume I infamous battles of the Second World War. In David M. Glantz Book Two, Glantz and House conclude their with Jonathan M. House definitive history with a closely observed ac- count of the final ten weeks of the campaign. “No previous work matches, or even ap- Together, Book One and Book Two complete proaches, the accuracy, detail, and fresh a vivid and detailed picture of the Axis defeat interpretation offered in this book. The trilogy that would prove decisive. is an essential addition to the library of any insti- tution whose students study World War II. It is indeed a monumental work.”—Slavic Review Companion to Endgame at 678 pages, illustrated Stalingrad (1630) $39.95 cloth David M. Glantz This volume provides two major categories of Armageddon in Stalingrad documentary materials hitherto unavailable to September–November 1942 researchers. The first consists of extensive records from the combat journal of the German The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 2 Sixth Army, only recently rediscovered and David M. Glantz published. The second is a vast amount of with Jonathan M. House newly released Soviet and Russian archival “A magisterial study that will be indispensable material. Together, they offer concrete reading for all serious students of the evidence for the conclusions put forward in battle.”—Michael K. Jones, author of Volume 3. Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed 850 pages, 54 maps 920 pages, illustrated (1956) $70.00 cloth (unjacketed) (1664) $39.95 cloth

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History Book Club Selection “David Glantz is the foremost Western Stumbling Colossus interpreter of the Soviet military in the The Red Army on the Eve of World War Second World War.” David M. Glantz —Journal of Military History “The most thorough and intensive examination of the state of the Red Army in 1941 yet to appear. Glantz investigates every aspect of the Colossus Reborn Soviet military establishment, command, The Red Army at War, 1941–1943 deployment, mobilization, reserves, the Soviet David M. Glantz soldier himself, and above all, combat readiness, “A superb historian and a brilliant detective.” using Soviet and German archives.”—John —New York Review of Books Erickson, author of The Road to Stalingrad 392 pages, illustrated “Indisputably the West’s foremost expert on the (1789) $34.95 paper subject.”—The Atlantic 816 pages, illustrated Main Selection of the History Book Club (1353) $39.95 cloth Zhukov’s Greatest Defeat Companion to Colossus Reborn The Red Army’s Epic Disaster in Key Documents and Statistics Operation Mars, 1942 David M. Glantz David M. Glantz A volume for anyone who would like a richer “The Soviet dead, missing and wounded in and more complete documentary and Operation Mars were estimated at a staggering statistical foundation for Colossus Reborn. Its 335,000. Drawing upon recently declassified contents include key documents relating to the Russian archival materials, Glantz describes every-day lives of the Red Army’s soldiers, a the appalling carnage that occurred in the full roster of the senior command cadre forests, mud, fog, freezing temperatures and during wartime, a description of the army’s raging snowstorms of western Russia.” weaponry and equipment, and an exhaustively —New York Times Book Review detailed listing of the Red Army’s and NKVD’s 448 pages, illustrated order of battle at six crucial points from June (1417) $22.50 paper 22, 1941, through December 31, 1943. 224 pages Red Storm over the Balkans (1359) $39.95 cloth The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944 Main Selection of the History Book Club David M. Glantz The Battle of Kursk “Glantz’s study corrects a sixty-year misinter- David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House pretation of Soviet Army operations along the “The definitive analysis of Kursk. Ranks among Romanian approaches to the Balkans in 1944 the decade’s most distinguished works of and adds tremendously to our understanding military history.”—Dennis Showalter in the of the war’s conduct in the east.”—Roger Reese, History Book Club Review author of Red Commanders: A Social History of 496 pages, illustrated the Soviet Army Officer Corps, 1918–1991 (1335) $18.95 paper 462 pages, illustrated (1465) $39.95 cloth

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Stopping the Panzers Attack of the Airacobras The Untold Story of D-Day Soviet Aces, American P-39s, and the Marc Milner Air War against Germany “Presents a gripping, superbly researched Dmitriy Loza narrative of the fighting in Normandy, with a Translated and edited by James F. Gebhardt salutary stress on the vital role of the Cana- Foreword by Frank Borman dian Third Division.”—Michigan War Studies Introduction by Von Hardesty Review “Based on interviews with Soviet veterans and 400 pages, illustrated extensive access to squadron histories and log (2003) $34.95 cloth books, this account provides a rare and insightful look at what it was like to live and The Red Army and the Great fight in this victorious air unit.”—Air Classics Terror 386 pages, illustrated Stalin’s Purge of the Soviet Military (1654) $24.95 paper Peter Whitewood “In his sweeping new history of the Red Army, Wings, Women, and War Whitewood rejects the simplistic, but popular Soviet Airwomen in World War II Combat idea that Stalin purged the military in order to Reina Pennington consolidate his own power. Rather, he sets the Foreword by John Erickson execution of Tukhachevskii, and other officers “Pennington conveys wholly fresh, vivid, often and the the purge of the army within a long unique and revealing insights. It is impossible and troubled relationship between the army not to be stirred, even appalled, by the fate of and the state.”—Russian Review some of these women. This deeply moving 432 pages, illustrated book will make a considerable impact.” (2117) $37.50 cloth —John Erickson, author of The Road to Stalingrad 312 pages, illustrated Selection of the Military Book Club (1554) $24.95 paper Why Stalin’s Soldiers Fought The Red Army’s Military Effectiveness Stalin’s Secret War in World War II Soviet Counterintelligence against the Roger R. Reese Nazis, 1941–1945 “Encyclopedic in scope, Why Stalin’s Soldiers Robert W. Stephan Fought solidifies Reese’s reputation as one of “An indispensable account of this dimension of the foremost scholars on the social history the war on the Eastern Front, and a valuable of the Red Army in both and war. primer for all those who wish to understand Comprehensive, thoughtful, and perceptive, it how to conduct intelligence and counterintel- will likely stand as a classic in its genre for ligence operations. Needless to say this topic years to come.”—David M. Glantz, author of is of immense relevance to American forces The Stalingrad Trilogy and intelligence agencies today.”—Parameters 398 pages, illustrated “A powerful view of Soviet counterintelligence (1776) $37.50 cloth efforts—the best we are likely to see for some time to come.”—Journal of Military History 364 pages, illustrated (1824) $24.95 paper

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Through the Maelstrom The Stalingrad Cauldron A Red Army Soldier’s War on the Inside the Encirclement and Eastern Front, 1942–1945 Destruction of the 6th Army Boris Gorbachevsky Frank Ellis Translated and edited by Stuart Britton “Characterized by sound scholarship, clarity, Foreword by David M. Glantz and acute attention to detail, Ellis’s work adds “A work that not only brings to life the daily substantially to our understanding of the experiences of a Soviet soldier on the Eastern Battle of Stalingrad and the travails of the Front, but also provides a window into Soviet troops who fought, suffered, and often society during the struggle to defend the perished in the fighting.”—David M. Glantz, Motherland. Masterful and balanced. . . . A author of The Stalingrad Trilogy must-read for scholars of the Eastern Front 512 pages, illustrated and those interested in the role of the (1901) $39.95 cloth Communist Party in the Red Army during World War II.”—Army History NEW IN PAPERBACK 496 pages, illustrated Military Book Club Selection (1605) $36.95 cloth (2107) $29.95 paper 800 Days on the Eastern Front A Russian Soldier Remembers Red Phoenix Rising World War II The Soviet Air Force in World War II Nikolai Litvin Von Hardesty and Ilya Grinberg Translated and edited by Stuart Britton “A definitive overview, now extensively “Absorbing and thought-provoking, Litvin’s revised, using three decades worth of newly story reveals the perseverance, resourcefulness, available Russian materials to become more and astonishing toughness of the typical Red definitive than ever.”—World War II Army soldier. A must-read for anyone Magazine interested in the Eastern Front.”—Reina Pennington, author of Wings, Women, and “A groundbreaking work.”—Russian Review War: Soviet Airwomen in World War II Combat 448 pages, illustrated (1828) $39.95 cloth 176 pages, illustrated (1517) $24.95 cloth (2443) $19.95 paper The Hundred Day Winter War Finland’s Gallant Stand against the History Book Club Selection Soviet Army Stopped at Stalingrad Gordon F. Sander The Luftwaffe and Hitler’s Defeat in “An exciting, imaginative, and wide-ranging the East, 1942–1943 account of the Winter War. Sander’s gripping Joel S. A. Hayward study of this short but epic conflict is hard to “This is a model of its kind, which ought to set Evan Mawdsley, put down.”— general editor an agenda for the reconstruction of the air of the Cambridge History of the Second narrative in this and other theatres in the World War greatest of air wars.”—Richard Overy, War 400 pages, illustrated in History (1910) $39.95 cloth 412 pages, illustrated (1146) $24.95 paper

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Battalion Commanders at War History Book Club Selection U.S. Army Tactical Leadership in the In Deadly Combat Mediterranean Theater, 1942–1943 A German Soldier’s Memoir of the Steven Thomas Barry Eastern Front “Reverberates with the crack, boom, and rattle Gottlob Herbert Bidermann of combat. Essential reading for students of Translated and edited by Derek S. Zumbro World War II and all aspiring military “An unforgettable account of life and death professionals.”—Michael D. Doubler, author under almost impossible circumstances. of Closing with the Enemy: How GIs Fought the Released for the first time in English, War in Europe, 1944–1945 Bidermann’s story offers battle descriptions 288 pages, illustrated of unprecedented detail.”—History Book (1899) $39.95 cloth Club Review 346 pages, illustrated Making Patton (1122) $19.95 paper A Classic ’s Epic Journey to the Silver Screen Mussolini’s Death March Nicholas Evan Sarantakes Eyewitness Accounts of Italian “Reveals Patton as both an iconic marker of Soldiers on the Eastern Front America’s mythic self-image in the post-World Nuto Revelli War II era and a sophisticated meditation on Translated with an Introduction by the challenges of command in the crucible of John Penuel war.”—Dennis Showalter, author of Patton and “A worthwhile read for those wanting to Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century understand the Second World War from the 272 pages, illustrated perspective of the Italian army. The book is (1862) $34.95 cloth not only a window onto the wretched lives of the Italian soldiers on the Russian front, but The North African Air Campaign also onto the Italian war experience in other U.S. Army Air Forces from El Alamein theaters.”—Journal of Military History to Salerno 640 pages, illustrated Christopher M. Rein (1908) $45.00 cloth “A thorough, comprehensive, judicious, and utterly riveting account of how the USAAF Germany and the Axis Powers adapted pre-war airpower theory to the tactical From Coalition to Collapse realities of WWII’s Mediterranean battlefield. Richard L. DiNardo Despite the adaptive successes of this impor- Foreword by Dennis Showalter tant period, Rein argues that the USAF made “An exceptionally informative and valuable some critical strategic and organizational exploration of one of the major reasons for decisions and drew some theoretical conclu- German defeat—and one of the most striking sions that had adverse consequences through- contrasts between the Allied and Axis war out the and beyond.”—Douglas efforts.”—World War II Porch, author of The Path to Victory: The 320 pages, illustrated Mediterranean Theater in World War II (1412) $45.00 cloth 320 pages, illustrated (1878) $39.95 cloth

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Winner of the Colby Award History Book Club Selection Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers Military Book Club Selection Reader’s Subscription Selection The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the Hitler Strikes Poland German Military , Ideology, and Atrocity Bryan Mark Rigg Alexander B. Rossino “The revelation that Germans of Jewish blood, “Up to now, Operation Tannenberg, the Nazi knowing the Nazi regime for what it was, assault on Poland, has been overshadowed by served Hitler as uniformed members of his the enormous literature on Operation armed forces must come as a profound shock. Barbarossa. Rossino’s book more than corrects It will surprise even professional historians of that imbalance with a gripping account that the Nazi years.”—John Keegan, author of The conveys a real feel for those grim times and Face of Battle and The Second World War places.”—Michael Burleigh, author of The Third Reich: A New History 496 pages, illustrated (1178) $29.95 cloth 360 pages, illustrated (1358) $18.95 paper (1392) $22.50 paper

NEW IN PAPERBACK Hitler’s Generals on Trial The Last War Crimes Tribunal at History Book Club Selection Nuremberg Lives of Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers Valerie Geneviève Hébert Untold Tales of Men of Jewish Descent “A sophisticated contribution to the emerging Who Fought for the Third Reich literature about the didactic value of war Bryan Mark Rigg crimes trials and a cautionary tale of direct “Fascinating and powerful. Rigg’s remarkable relevance to the work of international book deftly relates the deeply troubling stories prosecutors.”—Lawrence Douglas, author of of Jewish men wrestling with race and identity The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and under a madman.”—W. E. B. Griffin, author History in the Trials of the Holocaust of The Brotherhood of War 376 pages, illustrated 328 pages, illustrated (1698) $39.95 cloth (1638) $29.95 cloth (2340) $24.95 paper The Bombing of Auschwitz Should the Allies Have Attempted It? Victory at Mortain Edited by Michael J. Neufeld and Stopping Hitler’s Panzer Michael Berenbaum Counteroffensive “An intense book and one that deserves a wide Mark J. Reardon readership. . . . It cuts to the core of Allied policy on Jewish affairs during the war and on “Highly recommended. Reardon uses firsthand the changes that have transpired in attitudes accounts by more than two hundred American toward the Holocaust since the war ended.” soldiers.”—Military History —Jewish Book World 384 pages, illustrated 368 pages, illustrated (1158) $39.95 cloth (1280) $22.50 paper (1295) $16.95 paper

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NEW IN PAPERBACK Main Selection of the Military Book Club Winner of the Society for Military History Death of the Wehrmacht Distinguished Book Award The German Campaigns of 1942 The Wehrmacht Retreats Robert M. Citino Fighting a Lost War, 1943 “This is a winner across the board by one of the Robert M. Citino masters of operational history. It solidifies “Essential reading for anyone interested in the Citino’s position among the very best scholars military campaigns of the war. Whether the who have written on the ‘German way of reader is a serious military historian, a serving war.’ ”—Dennis Showalter, author of Patton soldier, or the casual military history buff, the and Rommel prose is perfect. Added benefits are excellent 448 pages, illustrated photos and maps. . . . Citino’s contribution (1531) $34.95 cloth (1791) $24.95 paper stands as the definitive operational analysis of the Wehrmacht in 1943.”—Army Main Selection of the Military Book Club 440 pages, illustrated (1826) $34.95 cloth The German Way of War (2343) $26.95 paper From the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich Wolfram von Richthofen Robert M. Citino Master of the German Air War “Takes the reader on a sweeping march through James S. Corum 300 years of Prussian/German military history “The first full-length biography of von and operational thought. Citino does an Richthofen vividly portrays his role as a exceptional job explaining the operational fighter pilot, engineer, aircraft developer, conduct of the German army during both tactician, and senior air commander in seven world wars and how its style of fighting major air campaigns from 1936 to 1944. An eventually contributed to the defeat of the essential book for students of the air forces of Third Reich.”—Armor World War II.”—The Past in Review 448 pages, illustrated 416 pages, illustrated (1624) $24.95 paper (1598) $34.95 cloth Forgotten Survivors Hitler’s Police Battalions Polish Christians Remember the Nazi Enforcing Racial War in the East Occupation Edward B. Westermann Edited by Richard C. Lukas Foreword by Dennis Showalter “Lukas pays special attention to the sufferings “The first truly comprehensive analysis of how the of Poland’s Catholic majority, presenting German police came to be transformed into an stories from the resistance and the risings, essentially militarized murder machine in the from Auschwitz and Mauthausen, and from service of National Socialist ideology. An out- the death marches and forced labor camps. A standing work of scrupulous research, profound wonderful testament to the survival of the insight, and balanced judgment.”—Gerhard L. human spirit in adversity.”—Norman Davies, Weinberg, author of A World at Arms author of God’s Playground: A History of Poland 256 pages, illustrated 240 pages, illustrated (1724) $29.95 paper (1350) $40.00 cloth

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Marshall and His Generals NEW IN PAPERBACK U.S. Army Commanders in World War II Main Selection of the Military Book Club Stephen R. Taaffe Corps Commanders of the Bulge “Provides a collective portrait of the ground Six American Generals and Victory in army’s senior officer corps that is searching the Ardennes and complex.”— Pacific Historical Review Harold R. Winton 432 pages, illustrated (1942) $24.95 paper “An exceptional work that deftly blends biography, military history, and story-telling to Flak illuminate the largest battle fought by the U.S. German Anti-Aircraft Defenses, Army in World War II. Winton’s group portrait of six American corps commanders enhances 1914–1945 our understanding of this epic fight.”—Rick Edward B. Westermann Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of An “A major and convincing contribution to our Army at Dawn knowledge of the German military and aerial 528 pages, illustrated warfare.”—International History Review (1508) $39.95 cloth “This book will stand for years as the definitive (2384) $34.95 paper history of flak and air defense in Europe in World War II.”—James Corum, author of Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award The Luftwaffe Main Selection of the History Book Club 448 pages, illustrated (1420) $24.95 paper Inside Hitler’s High Command Geoffrey P. Megargee Arming Against Hitler “Comprehensive, well written, important. France and the Limits of Military Planning Megargee does a first-rate job in describing Eugenia C. Kiesling the personalities of the high command and “A brilliantly written and important book that their relationships.”—James S. Corum, adds substantially to our understanding of the author of The Roots of Blitzkrieg French experience in 1928–1939.”—Robert 352 pages, illustrated (1015) $34.95 cloth Doughty, author of The Seeds of Disaster (1187) $18.95 paper 274 pages (1109) $24.95 paper Winner of the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award The and America’s School for War Contingent Victory Fort Leavenworth, Officer , Why Japanese Defeat Was Not and Victory in World War II Inevitable Peter J. Schifferle Michael W. Myers “Our current senior military leadership should “Serious students of the Second World War will consult this brilliant book as it considers changes find The Pacific War and Contingent Victory in military education needed to confront the well worth careful Study.” challenges of the twenty-first century.”—Peter R. —Michigan War Studies Review Mansoor, author of The GI Offensive in Europe 208 pages, illustrated 310 pages, illustrated (2087) $34.95 cloth (1714) $39.95 cloth

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Hell in Hürtgen Forest Battlefield Chaplains The Ordeal and Triumph of an Catholic Priests in World War II American Infantry Regiment Donald F. Crosby, S.J. Robert Sterling Rush Foreword by Martin Blumenson “Convincingly challenges popular beliefs on “Crosby gives us a story never before told, in a motivation in battle. Professional soldiers style characteristic of the finest examples of simply cannot ignore the lessons of this America’s vast World War II literature.” provocative, benchmark study.”—Michael D. —Eric Hammel, author of Guadalcanal Doubler, author of Closing with the Enemy: 328 pages, illustrated How GIs Fought the War in Europe, 1944–1945 (0814) $24.95 paper 432 pages, illustrated (1360) $19.95 paper Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award and the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award D-Day 1944 History Book Club Selection Edited by Theodore A. Wilson The GI Offensive in Europe Foreword by John S.D. Eisenhower The Triumph of American Infantry “Contains essays by the world’s leading Divisions scholars on the invasion of France, covering Peter R. Mansoor all aspects of the greatest amphibious assault in history, combining new information and “From the mobilization of an ill-trained and scholarship in a highly readable and instructive poorly equipped army in 1940 to the volume. Recommended without hesitation.” juggernaut of 69 infantry divisions by 1945, —Stephen E. Ambrose, author of The Great Mansoor provides a thoughtful and highly and Noble Undertaking readable analysis along the bloody road to 390 pages, illustrated victory over the German army. A powerful (0674) $22.50 paper story; strongly recommended.”—Library Journal Main Selection of the Military Book Club 362 pages, illustrated Battle for the Ruhr (1226) $22.50 paper The German Army’s Final Defeat in Winner of the Forrest C. Pogue Prize the West Winner of the New York Military Affairs Derek S. Zumbro Symposium Best Book Award “Superbly written and researched, this is one of Main Selection of the Military Book Club the best books about the closing days of World Closing with the Enemy War II. Zumbro does a brilliant job of telling How GIs Fought the War in Europe, the story of the collapse of the Third Reich 1944–1945 from the German perspective.”—James S. Michael D. Doubler Corum, author of The Roots of Blitzkrieg “The best single book I have ever read on the 464 pages, illustrated GI and his officers. Destined to become a (1490) $34.95 cloth military classic.”—Stephen E. Ambrose, author of D-Day, June 6, 1944 368 pages, illustrated (0744) $24.95 paper

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Clash of Empires in South China The OSS in Burma The Allied Nations’ with Jungle War against the Japanese Japan, 1935–1941 Troy J. Sacquety Franco David Macri “Sacquety’s vivid and fascinating tale depicts “Sophisticated, pioneering, and a significant Detachment 101’s evolution from an idiosyn- contribution to the field of World War II cratic, dysfunctional outfit conducting studies. Macri’s research is meticulous, small-scale sabotage to a disciplined and exhaustive, and well balanced; his writing is effective clandestine organization running cogent and smooth. An admirable work.” major guerrilla operations behind Japanese —Miles Maochun Yu, author of The Dragon’s lines.”—Edward J. Drea, author of Japan’s War: Allied Operations and the Fate of China Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853­–1945 480 pages, illustrated 336 pages, illustrated (1877) $45.00 cloth (1909) $24.95 cloth (2108) $34.95 paper (2018) $24.95 paper

NEW IN PAPERBACK The Making of a Paratrooper Airborne Training and Combat in Winner of the Air Force Historical Foundation’s Best Air Power Book Award World War II Targeting the Third Reich Kurt Gabel Air Intelligence and the Allied Bombing Edited and with an Introduction and an epilogue by William C. Mitchell Campaigns Robert S. Ehlers Jr. Foreword by Theodore A. Wilson “This is a splendid book that adds much new “A magnificent book. Quite possibly the best material to the history of air intelligence.” combat memoir I’ve ever read.”—Stephen E. —Intelligencer: Journal of U.S. Intelligence Ambrose, author of Band of Brothers: E Studies Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest 440 pages, illustrated (1682) $45.00 cloth 288 pages, illustrated (2144) $35.00 paper (2137) $19.95 paper

Sacrificing Childhood Holocaust versus Wehrmacht Children and the Soviet State in the How Hitler’s “Final Solution” Great Patriotic War Undermined the German War Effort Julie K. deGraffenried Yaron Pasher “An engaging and heartrending account of “Pasher’s carefully conceived study covers the Soviet children at war that reminds us of the critical issues in depth and within their conflict’s horror and brutality. DeGraffenried broader wartime context and does so in a clear brings to life the small people whose heroism and convincing fashion. This is a book that and endurance simply beggars belief.”—Olga should attract considerable favorable attention.” —Gerhard L. Weinberg, author of A World at Kucherenko, author of Little Soldiers: How Arms: A Global History of World War II Soviet Children Went to War, 1941–1945 384 pages, illustrated 264 pages, illustrated (2006) $34.95 cloth (2002) $37.50 cloth

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NEW IN PAPERBACK Allies against the Rising Sun MacArthur’s Airman The United States, the British Nations, and the Defeat of Imperial Japan General George C. Kenney and the Nicholas Evan Sarantakes War in the Southwest Pacific “A superb analysis of strategic decision making Thomas E. Griffith, Jr. and the interplay of national interests.” “In his nuanced assessment of Kenney and his —Military Review times, Griffith confirms the importance of “Brilliantly fills a major void in the literature on Kenney in airpower history and sheds light on the Pacific War. The story that emerges comes how airpower became integrated into the alive with a cast of characters as colorful as conduct of military operations.”—Joint Force the new canvas is broad.”—Richard B. Frank, Quarterly author of Downfall: The End of the Imperial 352 pages, illustrate (2446) $29.95 paper Japanese Empire 480 pages, illustrated (1669) $39.95 cloth General Walter Krueger Unsung Hero of the Pacific War Yamashita’s Ghost Kevin C. Holzimmer War Crimes, MacArthur’s Justice, and “This important volume makes a convincing Command Accountability case for Krueger in the pantheon of American Allan A. Ryan military heroes.”—Army “It’s impossible to read this gripping historical “Holzimmer has done a remarkable job of account without reflecting on how the United setting the record straight. Anyone interested States has pursued the current war on in the Second World War in the Pacific, or the terror.”—Michael Schaller, author of Douglas exercise of senior level command, would be MacArthur: Far Eastern General well served to read this work.”—Journal of 408 pages, illustrated Military History (1881) $34.95 cloth 344 pages, illustrated (2014) $22.50 paper (1500) $39.95 cloth MacArthur’s Jungle War MacArthur’s ULTRA The 1944 New Guinea Campaign Codebreaking and the War against Stephen R. Taaffe Japan, 1942–1945 “Writing with verve and imagination, Taaffe’s Edward J. Drea compelling reassessment of MacArthur’s 1944 “This important study belongs in all World New Guinea operations brings to life the officers War II collections.”—Library Journal and men behind MacArthur’s shining success.” “A superb book that will surely be the prime —Edward J. Drea, author of MacArthur’s ULTRA reference work on the subject for years to 328 pages come.”—Cryptologia (0870) $45.00 cloth 312 pages, illustrated (0576) $16.95 paper

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The Russian Army in the NEW IN PAPERBACK Great War Doughboys on the Great War The Eastern Front, 1914–1917 How American Soldiers Viewed Their David R. Stone Military Experience “A detailed account of the Imperial Russian Edward A. Gutiérrez Army during the Great War. . . clarifies the “What gives Gutiérrez’s book such striking titanic struggle on the Easter Front.” dimension, and what brings it alive are the —NYMAS Review voices of the soldiers mingled throughout the 368 pages, illustrated pages.”—American Historical Review (2095) $34.95 cloth 320 pages, illustrated (1990) $34.95 cloth Thunder and Flames (2444) $19.95 paper Americans in the Crucible of Combat, 1917–1918 Scarlet Fields Edward G. Lengel The Combat Memoir of a World War I “Lengel has done an admirable job cutting Hero through the decades of legend and half-truths John Lewis Barkley surrounding the American Expeditionary Introduction and notes by Steven Trout Forces in the First World War. Students of Afterword by Joan Barkley Wells the war will owe him a great debt for this “Barkley was one of the outstanding heroes of comprehensive and effective book.” the American Expeditionary Force in World —Michael S. Neiberg, author of Dance of the War I and his excellent memoir is one of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I most readable and detailed accounts of an 472 pages, illustrated American soldier’s experiences to emerge from (2084) $39.95 cloth it.”—Edward M. Coffman, author of The War to End All Wars Russia’s Sisters of Mercy and 278 pages, illustrated the Great War (2019) $17.95 paper More Than Binding Men’s Wounds Harlem’s Rattlers and the Laurie S. Stoff Great War “Stoff’s work is path-breaking in telling a story The Undaunted 369th Regiment and that’s never been told before. She has gathered the African American Quest for Equality a host of scattered sources and produced a John H. Morrow, Jr. and Jeffrey T. Sammons compelling account of how women caught up “This is undoubtedly one of the best books in Russia’s Great War understood themselves published in recent years on American and their place in Russian society.”—David R. military history.”—Robert A. Doughty, author Stone, author of The Russian Army in the Great of Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and War: The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 Operations in the Great War 356 pages, illustrated 528 pages, illustrated (2125) $34.95 cloth (1957) $34.95 cloth (2138) $26.95 paper

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America’s Deadliest Battle Devil Dogs Chronicle Meuse-Argonne, 1918 Voices of the 4th Marine Brigade in Robert H. Ferrell World War I “Ferrell has masterfully portrayed America’s Edited by George B. Clark culminating campaign in World War I in all of “Clark uses the Marines’ own words to its complexity while never forgetting that beautifully craft the human story of unfath- people planned and fought the battle. . . . A omable bravery and sacrifice. This is one of significant book about a very significant those books that the military historian must battle.”—Edward M. Coffman, author of The have in his library.”— Richard Camp, War to End All Wars author of Devil Dogs at Belleau Wood 208 pages, illustrated 424 pages, illustrated (1857) $22.50 paper (1896) $39.95 cloth

They Fought for the Motherland Military Book Club Selection Russia’s Women Soldiers in World War I Blood on the Snow and the Revolution The Carpathian Winter War of 1915 Laurie S. Stoff Graydon A. Tunstall “The first comprehensive study of the first “With bold, powerful brush strokes, Tunstall systematic mobilization of women for war by paints a picture of horrendous death in the a modern government.”—SEER Carpathian Mountains. Austria-Hungary and 304 pages Russia each lost about one million men, (1485) $39.95 cloth making the battle more costly than the better known ones of Verdun and the Somme 1916. The AEF and Coalition Warmaking, Meticulously researched and well written, this 1917–1918 is military history at its finest. A must read.” David F. Trask —Holger H. Herwig, author of The Marne, 1914 “An important book. Trask’s work adds in a 272 pages, illustrated significant way to the necessary questioning (1720) $45.00 cloth of American military and diplomatic history (1858) $24.95 paper in the twentieth century.”—Reviews in American History A Yankee Ace in the RAF 248 pages, illustrated The World War I Letters of Captain (1115) $22.50 paper Bogart Rogers Edited by John H. Morrow, Jr., and Winner of the Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize Earl Rogers The Romanian Battlefront in “Lucid, reflective, highly articulate, and World War I touched with flashes of humor, these letters Glenn E. Torrey illuminate the challenges of aviation training, “An excellent account that greatly adds to the daily life at the aerodrome, the liberating historical literature of World War I and to wonders of flight, and the sobering truths of a that of southeastern Europe.”—Slavic Review devastating war.”—Over the Front 440 pages, illustrated 276 pages, illustrated (1839) $50.00 cloth (0798) $29.95 cloth (2017) $29.95 paper (2143) $19.95 paper

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Vietnam The Morenci Marines Vietnam Rough Riders A Tale of Small Town America and the A Convoy Commander’s Memoir Vietnam War Frank McAdams Kyle Longley “Sheds light on a neglected but timely aspect A moving chronicle of nine Marines from the of military operations, while reminding us of Arizona mining community of Morenci and just how diverse the experiences of American their transformation from high school boys to soldiers were. A masterful must-read.” soldiers in Vietnam. Drawing on personal —William Thomas Allison, author of Military interviews and correspondence that sheds new Justice in Vietnam light on the Morenci Nine, Longley has written “Having myself fought the same enemy, in the a book as much about loss, grief, and guilt as same area, while providing security for the about the battlefield. same rough riders, McAdams’s story “Longley has produced something all too rare rings true—and it’s told in a way that keeps in the field of military history, not only a work the pages turning.”—Charles S. Robb, former that focuses on the soul of warfare—the U.S. Senator and Governor of Virginia reality of young men and their lives in a brutal 280 pages, illustrated environment—but also a work that eloquently (1898) $34.95 cloth addresses many of the main historiographical themes of the conflict, from race, to class, to The Vietnam War from the societal motivation.”—Andrew Wiest, author Rear Echelon of The Boys of 67: Charlie Company’s War in Vietnam An Intelligence Officer’s Memoir, 368 pages, illustrated 1972–1973 (2110) $22.95 paper Timothy J. Lomperis “An inspired and compelling personal perspec- ARVN tive on what was surely the ultimate tipping point in the Vietnam war . . . written with Life and Death in the South elegance and with an eye to small details and Vietnamese Army telling human moments.”—Frank Snepp, Robert K. Brigham author of Decent Interval: An Insider’s Account “As we struggle to help create a new army in of Saigon’s Indecent End Told by the CIA’s Chief Iraq today, we can find in Brigham’s narrative Strategy Analyst in Vietnam a host of insights and lessons that could “An engagingly written, often touching, candid have direct application in Southwest Asia. I and revealing memoir.”—Lewis Sorley, recommend it unreservedly to today’s armor author of A Better War: The Unexamined officer of any grade. . . . This book serves as a Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last great case study in how not to build an army, an Years in Vietnam extremely valuable lesson for today.”—Armor 272 pages, illustrated 192 pages, illustrated (1809) $34.95 cloth (1433) $40.00 cloth

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Winner of the Henry Adams Prize Soldiering On in a Dying War Main Selection of the Military Book Club The True Story of the Firebase Pace Selection of the History Book Club Incidents and the Vietnam Drawdown Vietnam William J. Shkurti The History of an Unwinnable War, “Uncompromisingly honest, free of cant, very 1945–1975 reflective, and investigating every relevant John Prados factor, Shkurti dissects the late-war U.S. army “Ambitiously conceived, robustly argued, and in convincing detail. . . . A spectacular book.” eminently readable. A remarkable achieve- —John Prados, author of Vietnam: The History ment.”—Journal of Military History of an Unwinnable War “If you only had to have one book on the Vietnam 360 pages, illustrated War, this is the one.”—The Veteran, VVAW (1781) $34.95 cloth “This important and provocative work should be read by anyone studying the war, whether The Vietnam War on Trial in academia or from personal interest.” The My Lai Massacre and the Court- —Library Journal Martial of Lieutenant Calley “This is the book we’ve been waiting for. It is Michal R. Belknap the new standard.”—Vietnam “A wise, discerning, and powerful account of a “A terrific read, full of revelations and astute notable trial that illuminates the larger meaning interpretations, and destined to become a of the Vietnam War. Belknap’s extraordinary classic.”—Larry Berman, author of No Peace, No analysis of the My Lai story skillfully explores Honor: Nixon, Kissinger and Betrayal in Vietnam the atrocities, the cover-up, and the political 696 pages, illustrated manipulation of the affair, and takes us beyond (1634) $39.95 cloth contemporary journalism to the complex (1940) $24.95 paper history of what happened-and why.”—Stanley Kutler, author of The Wars of Watergate Launch the Intruders 272 pages A Naval Attack Squadron in the (1212) $19.95 paper Vietnam War, 1972 Carol Reardon Facing My Lai “One of the finest cockpit views of the air war Moving Beyond the Massacre over Vietnam ever written. Reardon tells us Edited by David L. Anderson the whole story of the war—from the missions “An all-encompassing, multidimensional flown and bombs dropped to the plight of the examination of the massacre by a distinguished enlisted bomb handler and the story of the group of historians, military journalists, poets, wives left behind. Her sensitivity for detail and and novelists.”—Kirkus Reviews context makes this book soar far above your “What is impressive about this excellent book is typical squadron history or pilot memoir.” that all sides of the arguments are presented. —John Sherwood, author of Afterburner: Readers will find it hard to put down.”—Vietnam Naval Aviators and the Vietnam War Contributors include Stephen Ambrose, 440 pages, illustrated Seymour Hersh, David Halberstam, Tim O’Brien. (1677) $19.95 paper 258 pages (0864) $34.95 cloth (1057) $17.95 paper

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America’s Last Vietnam Battle Winner of the Marine Corps Historical Foundation’s Halting Hanoi’s 1972 Easter Offensive General Wallace M. Greene, Jr., Award Dale Andradé No Shining Armor “One of the best books on the Vietnam War.” The Marines at War in Vietnam —Washington Post Book World An Oral History “A masterful account of the last great engage- Otto J. Lehrack ment of the Vietnam War in which American “Many have tried to write about Vietnam, but forces participated. . . . Andradé does his few—if any—can match the power, the candor, subject proud and sets a high standard for any and the understated eloquence of Marines who follow.”—Kirkus Reviews telling their own stories in their own words.” “Andradé gives us the full panorama of this —Col. John G. Miller, author of The Bridge important campaign, and does it in a style at Dong Ha of classic military history.”—Journal of 422 pages, illustrated Military History (0534) $17.95 paper 500 pages, illustrated (1131) $35.00 paper Decent Interval An Insider’s Account of Saigon’s Abandoning Vietnam Indecent End Told by the CIA’s Chief How America Left and South Vietnam Strategy Analyst in Vietnam Lost Its War Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition James H. Willbanks Frank Snepp “An engaging and thoughtful analysis of With a new foreword by Gloria Emerson Vietnamization. As Willbanks demonstrates, “A great service to everyone’s understanding of no expenditure of firepower, blood, or what happened in Vietnam in the spring of personal heroics can redeem flawed strategies 1975. . . . Other accounts of that time will and policies.”—Vietnam have to be measured against what Snepp, from 384 pages, illustrated his unique and highly informed vantage point, (1623) $24.95 paper has produced.”—Kevin Buckley, New York Times Book Review NEW IN PAPERBACK 636 pages, illustrated (1213) $40.00 paper Victory in Vietnam The Official History of the People’s Army of Vietnam, 1954-1975 Vietnamese Women at War Military History Institute of Vietnam Fighting for Ho Chi Minh and the Revolution Translated by Merle L. Pribbenow Sandra C. Taylor “A rare insiders’ account of the history of the People’s Army of Vietnam. Carefully translated “Proves that the Vietnam conflict was truly a by Merle Pribbenow, it is chock-full of details revolutionary ‘people’s war’—not merely for about Hanoi’s decisions on war and politics. men but also for women. The general public Highly recommended.”—Douglas Pike, and the specialist can both benefit from reading this book.”— author of PAVN: People’s Army of Vietnam Journal of Military History 182 pages, illustrated 512 pages, 1 map (1256) $19.95 paper (2187) $39.95 paper

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Nixon’s Nuclear Specter Peacekeepers and Conquerors The Secret Alert of 1969, Madman The Army Officer Corps on the Diplomacy, and the Vietnam War American Frontier, 1821–1846 William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball Samuel J. Watson “I didn’t know any of this as I was copying the “Brilliant and path-breaking. . . . Essential top secret Pentagon Papers that fall, but if I reading for anyone interested in the origins of had I would have given the Papers to the the military profession in the United States, newspapers right away—rather than two years civil-military relations, the general role of the later, after waiting in vain for Congress to act federal government on the frontiers, and the on them—in desperate hopes of heading off army’s long-neglected but vitally important massive escalation and possible nuclear war. A constabulary and nation-building mission.” gripping and essential read!”—Daniel Ellsberg, —William B. Skelton, author of An American author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Profession of Arms: The Army Officer Corps, Pentagon Papers 1784–1861 464 pages, illustrated “This study places Watson at the forefront of (2082) $39.95 cloth military historians of this time period. I highly recommend it.”—Timothy D. Johnson, Friended at the Front author of Winfield Scott: The Quest for Military Social Media in the American War Zone Glory Lisa Ellen Silvestri 688 pages, illustrated “As Silvestri demonstrates, technology has indeed (1915) $49.95 cloth blurred the distinctions between the front lines and the home front in contemporary Jackson’s Sword warfare. Her example of Marines storing their The Army Officer Corps on the digital cameras in their extra grenade pouches American Frontier, 1810–1821 is a powerful reminder of the revolution which Samuel J. Watson has spurred communications and social changes “Watson’s finely crafted and long anticipated that Silvestri adeptly illustrates. Timely, study presents a masterful analysis of the insightful, and provocative, her book is a professional development of the U.S. Army significant contribution to our understanding and its multifaceted role in the expansion and of social media, 21st century war, and the protection of the young republic’s southern dynamic relationship between the two.” and western borders. It has much to offer —William Taylor, USMC and author of Every Western, Southern, diplomatic, and political Citizen a Soldier: The Campaign for Universal historians.”—James C. Bradford, editor of A Military Training after World War II Companion to American Military History 256 pages, illustrated 512 pages, illustrated (2136) $29.95 cloth (1884) $39.95 cloth

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Operation Anaconda The Soviet-Afghan War America’s First Major Battle in How a Superpower Fought and Lost Afghanistan The Russian General Staff Lester W. Grau and Dodge Billingsley Translated and Edited by Lester W. Grau “A gripping tale of adventure and a strong and Michael A. Gress contribution to the history of Operation “Includes numerous evaluations and comments Enduring Freedom.”—Hy S. Rothstein, by the editors that are just as valuable as the author of Afghanistan and the Troubled Future Russian text. . . . Reading [this book] may of help us avoid the costly mistakes made by the Includes a documentary on DVD that features Soviets.”—Marine Corps Gazette interviews with soldiers, provides additional 392 pages, illustrated information on major phases of the battle, and (1186) $19.95 paper presents insightful commentary by the authors. 464 pages, illustrated U.S. Presidents and Latin (1801) $39.95 cloth American Interventions Pursuing Regime Change in the The Cambodian Wars Cold War Clashing Armies and CIA Covert Michael Grow Operations “A stunning account that defines for our Kenneth Conboy lifetime the meaning of the term ‘hegemony,’ “A riveting, brilliantly researched, and with a graceful, inviting style that foregoes the invaluable contribution to our understanding strident tone of much of the literature on of this benighted land.”—Frank Snepp, intervention. . . . Should be at the top of author of Decent Interval Washington’s reading list.”—Lars Schoultz, 464 pages, illustrated author of Beneath the United States: A History (1900) $39.95 cloth of U.S. Policy toward Latin America 304 pages Airpower in Small Wars (1586) $40.00 cloth (1888) $19.95 paper Fighting Insurgents and Terrorists James S. Corum and Wray R. Johnson The Enemy of My Enemy “An extraordinarily timely and illuminating work. With the United States embroiled in a The Alarming Convergence of Militant new era of quasi-imperial small wars, Corum Islam and the Extreme Right and Johnson make a major contribution to George Michael our understanding of what airpower can and “At once fascinating, shocking, and deeply cannot do in such conflicts.”—Andrew J. disturbing, this book should be required Bacevich, author of American Empire: The reading for anyone concerned about the Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy future of this country and the West.” 560 pages, illustrated —Steven Emerson, author of American Jihad: (1240) $24.95 paper The Terrorists Living among Us 406 pages (1444) $34.95 cloth

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Military Tribunals and U.S. Army Doctrine Presidential Power From the to the American Revolution to the War on War on Terror Terrorism Walter E. Kretchik Louis Fisher “Kretchik’s comprehensive study traces the “Fisher’s riveting account is at once authorita- most important intellectual threads that have tive and invaluable as a guide to the perplex- shaped the Army’s performance in both peace ing problem of coping with real and imagined and war and deflates the myth that the United terrorism in our time. Superb.”—Stanley Kutler, States Army thrives on chaos and cares little author of Abuse of Power for doctrine.”—Conrad Crane, coauthor of 296 pages Counterinsurgency (Army/Marine Field (1376) $22.50 paper Manual 3-24) 408 pages, illustrated U.S. Army Special Warfare (1806) $39.95 cloth Its Origins Enduring Battle Revised Edition American Soldiers in Three Wars, Alfred H. Paddock, Jr. 1776–1945 “More than simply an impressive history, it is Christopher H. Hamner also an invaluable guide to understanding the mistakes of the past as well as the promise of “Hamner has created an American counterpart the future.”—Colonel Mike Haas, author of In to John Keegan’s The Face of Battle. An the Devil’s Shadow: UN Special Operations excellent and valuable addition to the growing during the Korean War literature on combat motivation and the experience of soldiers in battle.”—Peter R. 248 pages, illustrated (1177) $39.95 cloth Mansoor, author of The GI Offensive in Europe “Superb.”—Wall Street Journal Moral Issues in Military 294 pages (1775) $29.95 cloth Decision Making Second Edition, Revised Winner of the Army Historical Foundation Anthony E. Hartle Distinguished Book Award “A clear, concise, and cogent study of the Main Selection of the Military Book Club History Book Club Selection professional military ethic in a time of great international turmoil. Warmly recommended!” American Soldiers —James H. Toner, author of True Faith and Ground Combat in the World Wars, Allegiance: The Burden of Military Ethics Korea, and Vietnam 272 pages Peter S. Kindsvatter (1320) $39.95 cloth (unjacketed) “A superb, compelling analysis of twentieth- (1321) $19.95 paper century American combat troops that never loses sight of the individual soldier. An important, meticulously documented contri- bution to our understanding of men-at-arms.” —Rick Atkinson, author of An Army at Dawn 480 pages, illustrated (1416) $22.50 paper

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