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West Point History of World War II, Vol. 1

Author : The United States Military Academy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476782744

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West Point History of World War II, Vol. 1 by The United States Military Academy Pdf

An outstanding new military history of the first half of World War II, featuring a rich array of images, exclusive graphics, superb new maps, and expert analysis commissioned by the United States Military Academy to teach the art of war to West Point cadets. Since 1836, United States Military Academy texts have been the gold standard for teaching military history and the operational art of war. Now the USMA has developed a new military history series for the public featuring the story of World War II in two volumes, of which this is the first. The West Point History of World War II combines the expertise of preeminent historians with hundreds of maps and images, many created for this volume or selected from Army collections. The first volume offers a balanced narrative analyzing the rising tide of Axis conquest from 1939 to mid-1942, ranging from battlefield decisions to operational and strategic plans, all set in their proper political context. The closing chapter provides a thematic treatment of the mobilization of the warring nations’ economies and home fronts for the conduct of total war. The West Point History of World War II has been tested, checked, and polished by West Point cadets, faculty, and graduates to make this the best military history of its kind.

West Point History of World War II, Vol. 2

Author : The United States Military Academy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476782782

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West Point History of World War II, Vol. 2 by The United States Military Academy Pdf

The definitive, must-have military history of World War II—spanning 1942 until the end of the war—packed with the same expert analysis, exclusive tactical maps, unique graphics, and historical images used by The United States Military Academy at West Point to teach the art of war to its own cadets. Since its founding, West Point has taught its cadets the history of warfare, and since 1847 it has done so through a singular text, The West Point History of Warfare. That text has been updated repeatedly, and now through a unique partnership with West Point graduates, The West Point History of Warfare has been completely rewritten. Volume 1 concluded with the midpoint of World War II in 1942, which is where this latest edition begins, covering all aspects of the war in chapters such as “Strategic Seapower and Airpower” by Richard J. Overy, “The Defeat of Japan” by Robert W. Love, Jr., “The Allies Turn the Tide” by Robert M. Citino, and “Occupation, Demobilization, and Assessing Victory” by Steve R. Waddell. As with previous volumes, The West Point History of World War II, Volume 2 boasts rich, full-color illustrations with unique tactical maps created by expert cartographers in collaboration with West Point’s military historians, as well as dozens of graphics uniquely created for this volume and hundreds of historical images, many of which are from the West Point archives. Authoritative, compelling, a goldmine for history lovers, this essential resource belongs in the library of every serious student of World War II.

Duty, Honor, Country

Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801867125

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Duty, Honor, Country by Stephen E. Ambrose Pdf

A New York Times bestselling author writes about West Point. This new paperback edition of Stephen E. Ambrose's highly regarded history of the United States Military Academy features the original foreword by Dwight D. Eisenhower and a new afterword by former West Point superintendent Andrew J. Goodpaster.

The West Point History of the Civil War

Author : The United States Military Academy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476782621

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The West Point History of the Civil War by The United States Military Academy Pdf

An authorized military account of the Civil War combines the expertise of preeminent historians with images and maps from West Point archives to explain the tactics, decisions, and consequences of the military campaigns.

West Point History of the American Revolution

Author : The United States Military Academy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476782751

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West Point History of the American Revolution by The United States Military Academy Pdf

Warfare in colonial North America: paths to revolution / Samuel J. Watson -- The origins of the American Revolution and the opening moves / Edward G. Lengel -- From defeat to victory in the north: 1777-1778 / Edward G. Lengel -- The war in Georgia and the Carolinas / Stephen Conway -- Yorktown, the peace, and why the British failed / Stephen Conway -- To the Constitution and beyond: creating a national state / Samuel J. Watson

Honor Untarnished

Author : Donald V. Bennett
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429970792

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Honor Untarnished by Donald V. Bennett Pdf

What the bestsellers Flags of Our Fathers was to Iwo Jima and Duty to the mission of the Enola Gay, Honor Untarnished is to the World War II tour of duty of young graduate of a West Point. Whether it was fighting Rommel's fierce Afrika Korps hitting the beaches of Normandy on D Day, surviving the Battle of the Bulge, or just being in the next room during the infamous "slapping incident" of Blood-n-Guts General George Patton, Donald Bennett experienced the fiery crucible of World War II and survived to tell about it. As a recent graduate of West Point, First Lieutenant Bennett was given the charge of training inexperienced and scared recruits, and leading them into battle against the Axis forces. From orientation at Fort Sill, Oklahoma through the fiercest battles of the war right up to the liberation of the death camps and our complicit confrontation with the Soviet Union over Eastern Europe, Don Bennett, not yet thirty, preserved the honor of the corps, and the liberty of the free world. Lindbergh, Patton, Bradley, and Eisenhower are just names in a history book to most-but to Don Bennett they were personal acquaintances. This is the story of D Day, the Bulge, and the rest of the war. It differs from many recent books on similar events ... because Don Bennett was actually there! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

West Point History of World War II

Author : The United States Military Academy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476782737

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Atlas for the Great War

Author : Thomas E. Griess
Publisher : Square One Publishers, Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780757001598

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Atlas for the Great War by Thomas E. Griess Pdf

​*** OVER 210,000 WEST POINT MILITARY HISTORY SERIES SETS IN PRINT ​*** World War I marked the end of the old military order and the beginning of the era of mechanized warfare. This is a thorough examination of the campaigns of the "war to end all wars." It analyzes the development of military theory and practice from the prewar period of Bismark's Prussia to the creation of the League of Nations.

A History of Dentistry in the US Army to World War II

Author : John M. Hyson,Joseph W. A. Whitehorne,John T. Greenwood
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0160821592

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A History of Dentistry in the US Army to World War II by John M. Hyson,Joseph W. A. Whitehorne,John T. Greenwood Pdf

A detailed history of the development of military dentistry in the United States, from beginnings in the early 17th century, through the professionalization of dentistry in the 19th century, dental care on both sides of the Civil War, the establishment of the US Army Dental Corps in 1909, and the expansion of the Corps through World War I and afterward, to the verge of the Second World War.

Looking for the Good War

Author : Elizabeth D. Samet
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374716127

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Looking for the Good War by Elizabeth D. Samet Pdf

“A remarkable book, from its title and subtitle to its last words . . . A stirring indictment of American sentimentality about war.” —Robert G. Kaiser, The Washington Post In Looking for the Good War, Elizabeth D. Samet reexamines the literature, art, and culture that emerged after World War II, bringing her expertise as a professor of English at West Point to bear on the complexity of the postwar period in national life. She exposes the confusion about American identity that was expressed during and immediately after the war, and the deep national ambivalence toward war, violence, and veterans—all of which were suppressed in subsequent decades by a dangerously sentimental attitude toward the United States’ “exceptional” history and destiny. Samet finds the war's ambivalent legacy in some of its most heavily mythologized figures: the war correspondent epitomized by Ernie Pyle, the character of the erstwhile G.I. turned either cop or criminal in the pulp fiction and feature films of the late 1940s, the disaffected Civil War veteran who looms so large on the screen in the Cold War Western, and the resurgent military hero of the post-Vietnam period. Taken together, these figures reveal key elements of postwar attitudes toward violence, liberty, and nation—attitudes that have shaped domestic and foreign policy and that respond in various ways to various assumptions about national identity and purpose established or affirmed by World War II. As the United States reassesses its roles in Afghanistan and the Middle East, the time has come to rethink our national mythology: the way that World War II shaped our sense of national destiny, our beliefs about the use of American military force throughout the world, and our inability to accept the realities of the twenty-first century’s decades of devastating conflict.

West Point History of World War II, Vol. 1

Author : The United States Military Academy
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1476782733

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West Point History of World War II, Vol. 1 by The United States Military Academy Pdf

An outstanding new military history of the first half of World War II, featuring a rich array of images, exclusive graphics, superb new maps, and expert analysis commissioned by the United States Military Academy to teach the art of war to West Point cadets. Since 1836, United States Military Academy texts have been the gold standard for teaching military history and the operational art of war. Now the USMA has developed a new military history series for the public featuring the story of World War II in two volumes, of which this is the first. The West Point History of World War II combines the expertise of preeminent historians with hundreds of maps and images, many created for this volume or selected from Army collections. The first volume offers a balanced narrative analyzing the rising tide of Axis conquest from 1939 to mid-1942, ranging from battlefield decisions to operational and strategic plans, all set in their proper political context. The closing chapter provides a thematic treatment of the mobilization of the warring nations’ economies and home fronts for the conduct of total war. The West Point History of World War II has been tested, checked, and polished by West Point cadets, faculty, and graduates to make this the best military history of its kind.

The West Point History of World War II: The road to war

Author : United States Military Academy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : LCCN:2015031711

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Black '41

Author : Bill Yenne
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803234147

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Black '41 by Bill Yenne Pdf

Originally published: New York: Wiley, 1991.

The Long Gray Line

Author : Rick Atkinson
Publisher : Picador
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429979047

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The Long Gray Line by Rick Atkinson Pdf

The New York Times bestseller about West Point's Class of 1966, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Rick Atkinson. "A story of epic proportions [and] an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction."—The Boston Globe A classic of its kind, The Long Gray Line is the twenty-five-year saga of the West Point class of 1966. With a novelist's eye for detail, Rick Atkinson (author of the Liberation Trilogy) illuminates this powerful story through the lives of three classmates and the women they loved—from the boisterous cadet years, to the fires of Vietnam, to the hard peace and internal struggles that followed the war. The rich cast of characters also includes Douglas MacArthur, William C. Westmoreland, and a score of other memorable figures. The class of 1966 straddled a fault line in American history, and Atkinson's masterly book speaks for a generation of American men and women about innocence, patriotism, and the price we pay for our dreams

The Oxford Illustrated History of World War Two

Author : Richard Overy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191045387

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The Oxford Illustrated History of World War Two by Richard Overy Pdf

World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations since hostilities formally ended in 1945 and the conflict is now a lived memory for only a few. And this growing distance in time has allowed historians to think differently about how to describe it, how to explain its course, and what subjects to focus on when considering the wartime experience. For instance, as World War Two recedes ever further into the past, even a question as apparently basic as when it began and ended becomes less certain. Was it 1939, when the war in Europe began? Or the summer of 1941, with the beginning of Hitler's war against the Soviet Union? Or did it become truly global only when the Japanese brought the USA into the war at the end of 1941? And what of the long conflict in East Asia, beginning with the Japanese aggression in China in the early 1930s and only ending with the triumph of the Chinese Communists in 1949? In The Oxford Illustrated History of World War Two a team of leading historians re-assesses the conflict for a new generation, exploring the course of the war not just in terms of the Allied response but also from the viewpoint of the Axis aggressor states. Under Richard Overy's expert editorial guidance, the contributions take us from the genesis of war, through the action in the major theatres of conflict by land, sea, and air, to assessments of fighting power and military and technical innovation, the economics of total war, the culture and propaganda of war, and the experience of war (and genocide) for both combatants and civilians, concluding with an account of the transition from World War to Cold War in the late 1940s. Together, they provide a stimulating and thought-provoking new interpretation of one of the most terrible and fascinating episodes in world history.