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Soldiers of Barbarossa Combat, Genocide, and Everyday Experiences on the Eastern Front, June–December 1941 p.82
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Stackpole Books is a trade book publisher with a proud 90-year history of publishing titles in the categories of Outdoors, Crafts and Military History. Strong in Fly Fishing, Nature Guides, Civil War and World War II History, Military Reference and Specialty Crafts and Hobbies, we publish deep in our niche areas, releasing 60 new titles a year and maintaining a solid backlist of 1,500 titles. Founded in the late 1920s by the Stackpole family, the company grew under the leadership of three generations of Stackpoles. For more information on Stackpole Books and to view the imprint's full range of publishing, please visit stackpolebooks.com.
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Top Authors David Stahel David Stahel is the world’s leading authority on the first six months on the Eastern Front of World War II. He teaches European history at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia. His fellow historians have called Stahel’s work “remarkable” – “brilliant” – “impressive” – “refreshing” – “the best kind of revisionism” – “must read.” He lives in Australia. Michael Lee Lanning Michael Lee Lanning served more than twenty years in the U.S. Army. In Vietnam he commanded an infantry platoon, a recon platoon, and a rifle company. He has appeared on NPR, CBS, and the History Channel and has written twenty-five books, with more than a million copies of his books in print in fifteen countries and twelve languages.
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Since launching nearly four decades ago, Lyons Press has evolved into a leading publisher of high-quality books on fishing and hunting, nature, animals, military history, American history and sports. We publish classic military history titles like A Man Called Intrepid by William Stevenson and The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicx; riveting historical crime titles like The Cornbread Mafia by James Higdon and Theodore Roosevelt and the Assassin by Gerard Helferich; and important American history like Scott Farris’s Almost President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the Nation and Chris DeRose’s The President’s War, which details Abraham Lincoln’s dealings with his five presidential predecessors. For more information on Lyons Press and to view the imprint’s full range of publishing, please visit lyonspress.com.
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Top Authors Alan Axelrod Alan Axelrod is the author of many books on military history, including 100 Turning Points in American History (Lyons Press, 2019), Miracle at Belleau Wood (Lyons Press, 2018), The Battle of the Somme (Lyons Press, 2016), The Battle of Verdun (Lyons Press, 2016), and Selling the Great War: The Making of American Propaganda (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). William Reeder William Reeder is a retired U.S. Army colonel, highly decorated with extensive combat experience (Silver Star for gallantry, Valorous Unit Award, two Distinguished Flying Crosses for heroism, three Purple Hearts for wounds received in combat).He is also a former prisoner of war (POW) in Vietnam.
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Prometheus Books is committed to testing the boundaries of established thought and providing readers with thoughtful and authoritative books in a wide variety of categories. Publishing intelligent nonfiction for the thoughtful lay reader, Prometheus Books has focused on several core categories including popular science, critical thinking, philosophy, history, atheism, humanism, current events, psychology, and true crime. The imprint was founded in 1969 by the late philosopher Paul Kurtz. For more information on Prometheus Books and to view the imprint's full range of publishing, please visit prometheusbooks.com.
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Top Author Norman Desmarais Norman Desmarais is professor emeritus at Providence College and an active reenactor. He is a member of Le Régiment Bourbonnais, the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment and the Brigade of the American Revolution. He is the author of the Guide to the American Revolutionary War series (six volumes about the war on land and seven volumes about the war at sea and overseas). He is also the editor-inchief of The Brigade Dispatch, the journal the Brigade of the American Revolution and has translated the Gazette Françoise, the French newspaper published in Newport, RI by the French fleet that brought the Count de Rochambeau and 5800 troops to America in July 1780.
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Top Authors Jeremy Black Jeremy Black, former professor of history at the University of Exeter, is a prolific lecturer and writer, the author of over 100 books. Many concern aspects of eighteenth century British, European and American political, diplomatic and military history but he has also published on the history of the press, cartography, warfare, culture and on the nature and uses of history itself. Scott A. Silverstone Scott A. Silverstone is an ASU Future of War Fellow at New America and a professor of international relations at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
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Gettysburg Volume 3
By Thomas R. Flagel
Gettysburg is widely considered to be the turning point of the Civil War and one of the most epic clashes of arms in all of military history, from the legendary stand of Joshua Chamberlain to the disastrous Pickett’s Charge on the battle’s third and final day. In this installment in the Battle Briefings series, Thomas R. Flagel provides an accessible and informative introduction to the battle. Series: Battle Briefings Thomas Flagel is an associate professor of history at Columbia State Community College in Tennessee, USA. Specializing in war and memory, he has worked with several historic preservation groups including the Civil War Trust and the National Park Service. His previous books include The History Buff’s Guide to the Civil War, The History Buff’s Guide to World War II, and The History Buff’s Guide to Gettysburg.
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Imprint: Stackpole Books Series: Battle Briefings May 2019 96 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-3663-3 $16.95 / £12.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6785-9 $16.00 / £11.95
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Pickett’s Charge
Eyewitness Accounts at the Battle of Gettysburg, 2021 Edition Edited by Richard Rollins
At Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, Confederate soldiers launched one of history’s most famous infantry assaults: Pickett’s Charge. Using the participants’ own words, Richard Rollins deftly reconstructs that momentous event. Separate sections cover planning and preparation; the preliminary artillery barrage; the charges of Pickett’s, Pettigrew’s, and Trimble’s Divisions; and defensive actions up and down the Federal line. From the generals who devised the assault to the lower-level officers and men who bravely walked through shell and shot, Rollins offers a comprehensive, panoramic view of the charge, with more than 150 firsthand accounts—including accounts from Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Meade, and Hancock—many of them long forgotten and previously unpublished.
Imprint: Stackpole Books October 2021 432 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-3944-3 $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-0-8117-7013-2 $23.50 / £17.95
Richard Rollins was a respected Civil War scholar who wrote several books on the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Remembering the Civil War The Conflict as Told by Those Who Lived It By Michael Barton and Charles Kupfer
“For those who prefer their Civil War history ‘straight from the horse’s mouth,’ this is the book for them. Michael Barton and Charles Kupfer have raided the vast cache of memoirs, journals, documents, and first-hand action reports, and for us, picked the choicest morsels from the major events of the war. This is an ‘I was there’ book that vividly brings back those times and sits us in a front row seat. It is a most worthy addition to Civil War literature.”—John C. Waugh, author of The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox—Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan and Their Brothers In Remembering the Civil War, historians Michael Barton and Charles Kupfer carefully select excerpts from the memoirs of key participants and weave them together to tell the story of the war in a single volume. Contributors include Union generals Ulysses Grant, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, W.T. Sherman, Abner Doubleday, and Philip Sheridan. Confederate authors include Robert E. Lee, Gen. James Longstreet, Cpl. Sam Watkins, Lt. John W. Worsham, Col. Edward Porter Alexander, Capt. John Wilkinson, and Jefferson Davies. Personal documents provide soldiers’ perspectives of what fighting was like on the ground, as well as hospital and prison life. A comprehensive introduction and headnote for each excerpt provide background information and context. Michael L.Barton is professor emeritus of American Studies at Penn State Harrisburg, USA. Charles D. Kupfer is associate professor of American Studies, School of Humanities, and Director, Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies, at Penn State Harrisburg, USA.
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Imprint: Lyons Press June 2021 488 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5933-1 $19.95 / £14.95 Hardback (2020) 978-1-4930-4175-6 $34.95 / £27.00 eBook 978-1-4930-4176-3 $19.00 / £14.95
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Riders in the Storm
The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Black Cavalry Regiment in the Civil War By John D. Warner Jr. Final cover to follow
In the spring of 1864, the regiment journeyed south and fought in Grant’s siege of Petersburg, where it joined attacks that nearly took the city in June. The 5th was then abruptly sent to Maryland to guard Confederate prisoners of war, until Col. Charles Francis Adams advocated for, and was granted, a return to combat duty. As part of the mostly Black XXV Corps, the cavalrymen found themselves at the vanguard of the Union army as it captured Richmond. On April 3, 1865, the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment was among the first units to enter the burning Confederate capital, at once a hellscape of destruction and a heaven for liberated slaves. Denied the rapid demobilization granted white regiments, the 5th ended the war in Texas on the Mexican border.
Imprint: Stackpole Books April 2022 432 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-7085-9 $34.95 / £27.00 eBook 978-0-8117-7086-6 $33.00 / £25.00
In the spirit of the book One Gallant Rush and the movie Glory, Riders in the Storm covers—uncovers and indeed recovers— the story of the African-American cavalrymen of the 5th Massachusetts. Author John Warner has literal fingertip command of the primary sources, and after spending two decades researching letters, diaries, reports, newspapers, and more, he tells a story of resilience in the face of adversity, one that will resonate not just during the present moment of reckoning with race in the United States, but in the annals of American history for all time. John D. Warner Jr. has been Archivist of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA, for the past twenty-five years. A foreignservice graduate of Georgetown University, USA, Warner also holds a doctorate in history from Boston College, USA.
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Witness to Gettysburg
Inside the Battle That Changed the Course of the Civil War By Richard Wheeler
From the events that led to the clash at Gettysburg in July 1863 to the retreat of Robert E. Lee’s defeated Confederates, Richard Wheeler uses the words of participants—both Northern and Southern—to bring one of the Civil War’s bloodiest, most pivotal battles to life. Wheeler blends these compelling personal accounts into a startlingly vivid tapestry of war and a dramatic narrative that entertains as well as informs. This is eyewitness history at its best.
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Richard Wheeler was a military historian and author of several books about World War II and the Civil War.
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All for the Union
The Saga of One Northern Family Fighting the Civil War By John A. Simpson “This is regimental history at its most effective, shedding light not just on a unit with near-mythological skills but also offering insight into the war itself and the homefront it disrupted.”—Chris Mackowski, Ph.D., editor in chief, Emerging Civil War All for the Union is the dramatic story of four soldiers, all related, weaving their lives and wars into a tapestry of how one family navigated home front and battle front during the Civil War. Based on family letters, voluminous sources, and visits to homes and battlefields, it is a remarkable contribution to Civil War history. John A. Simpson earned a doctorate in history from the University of Oregon, USA, and has written extensively on the Civil War. Stackpole Books April 2022 • 400 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-7087-3 • $34.95 / £27.00 eBook 978-0-8117-7088-0 • $33.00 / £25.00
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All Roads Lead to Gettysburg
A New Look at the Civil War’s Pivotal Battle By Troy D. Harman Gettysburg Ranger and historian Troy Harman reframes the story of the Battle of Gettysburg from the historical view that it was an “accidental” battle to show that it was instead a logical and strategic clash, based on his years of researching the Civil War and studying the terrain of Gettysburg, south-central Pennsylvania, and northern Maryland. Troy D. Harman has, since 1989, worked at Gettysburg National Military Park, USA, where he has become one of the battlefield’s most popular and engaging rangers. He also has a devoted following on PCN, the Pennsylvania Cable Network. Stackpole Books July 2022 • 288 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-7063-7 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-0-8117-7065-1 • $28.50 / £21.95
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Andersonville Raiders
Yankee versus Yankee in the Civil War’s Most Notorious Prison Camp By Gary Morgan “The Raiders have been shrouded in mystery from the moment their bodies dangled from that makeshift gallows in 1864. Gary Morgan steers through a century and a half of myth and misinformation to reveal the real men and their stories. Exquisite detective work!” —Glen Swain, author of The Bloody 7th Here, for the first time in a century and a half, is the real story of the Andersonville Raiders. Relying on military records, diaries, memoirs, and a recently discovered trial transcript, author Gary Morgan has discovered a version of events that is markedly different from the version told in later day “memoirs” and repeated in the history books. Gary Morgan is a high-school history teacher in western Massachusetts, USA, a long-time member of the Salisbury Confederate Prison Association, and recipient of a 2017 Friends of Andersonville grant. Stackpole Books May 2020 • 240 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3884-2 • $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6891-7 • $26.50 / £19.95
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Civil War Myths and Legends
The True Stories behind History’s Mysteries, Second Edition By Michael R. Bradley Experience the Civil War’s most eerie occurrences, spooky events, unsolved mysteries, and myths and legends related and debunked. From the legend of the Yankee “human shield” behind Nathan Bedford Forrest’s saddle to the unexplained sinking of the Hunley, Civil War Myths and Legends makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the most fascinating and compelling stories of the war that almost tore America apart. Series: Myths and Mysteries Series Michael R. Bradley lives in Tullahoma, Tennessee, USA, on the former picket line of a Civil War fort. In addition to being a professor, he is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Southern Historical Association, American Association of University Professors and the Society for Military History. Globe Pequot July 2019 • 208 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-3976-0 • $18.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-4930-3977-7 • $18.00 / £13.95
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Civil War Stories
40 of the Greatest Tales about the War Between the States Edited by Lamar Underwood Between the first shots fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, the nation was irrevocably changed, as were the lives of the soldiers and civilians who lived through the war. This is an extraordinary collection of stories about that epochal conflict, bringing the victories and defeats, the valor and the heartbreak, alive with personal intensity. Includes entries by Ambrose Bierce, Stephan Crane, Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Walt Whitman, Frederick L. Hitchcock, Louisa May Alcott, Carlton McCarthy, Abner Doubleday, Theodore Roosevelt and many others. Lamar Underwood is the former editor-inchief of Sports Afield and Outdoor Life and former editorial director of the Outdoor Magazine Group of Harris Publications in New York, USA. Lyons Press October 2021 • 456 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6084-9 • $19.95 / £14.95 Hardback (2018) 978-1-4930-3200-6 • $22.95 / £17.95 eBook 978-1-4930-3201-3 • $19.00 / £14.95
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Colonel Hamilton and Colonel Burr
The Revolutionary War Lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr By Arthur S. Lefkowitz Although Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr ended their relationship with the famous duel in 1804, their roles during the Revolutionary War remain an important source of the HamiltonBurr conflict. Arthur Lefkowitz explores their roles, taking a fresh approach to the Revolution from the standpoint of two of its most interesting participants. Arthur S. Lefkowitz is an independent historian whose books tackle offbeat but interesting subjects that present a research challenge. Stackpole Books December 2020 • 280 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3857-6 • $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6854-2 • $26.50 / £19.95
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Don Troiani’s Gettysburg
36 Masterful Paintings and Riveting History of the Civil War’s Epic Battle By Don Troiani and Tom Huntington The latest book by preeminent Civil War artist and historian Don Troiani features 36 major paintings of the Gettysburg campaign and an introductory history of the battle by Civil War expert Tom Huntington. Each beautifully detailed and historically accurate painting is accompanied by a description of the scene and the historical figures taking part in the action. Don Troiani is well known for his extremely accurate historical and military paintings, scenes of great characters and grand action that defined the American Civil War. Tom Huntington is the author of Searching for George Gordon Meade: The Forgotten Victor of Gettysburg, as well as Guide to Gettysburg Battlefield Monuments, Pennsylvania Civil War Trails and Ben Franklin’s Philadelphia. Stackpole Books July 2019 • 144 pages
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Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures By Julie L. Holcomb “In Exploring the Civil War Through 50 Historic Treasures, Julie Holcomb takes a broad view of both the Civil War and what constitutes an object. The result is a rich and occasionally surprising discussion of the war that looks back to its roots and forward to its legacy.” —Pamela D. Toler, author of Heroines of Mercy Street: Real Nurses of the Civil War and Women Warriors: An Unexpected History Series: AASLH Exploring America’s Historic Treasures Julie Holcomb is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in Museum Studies at Baylor University in Waco, USA. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers July 2021 • 384 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-1855-9 • $42.00 / £32.00 eBook 978-1-5381-1856-6 • $40.00 / £31.00
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First for the Union
Marching for Union
By Darin Wipperman
By Randy Bishop
First for the Union is a monumental history of the Army of the Potomac’s First Corps—one of the finest corps in the entire Union army—well written and deftly told, an exciting story in itself and, like all great unit histories, one that is representative of the many other corps in the Union army. The Army of the Potomac’s First Corps was one of the best corps in the entire Union army. In September 1862, it was chosen to spearhead the Union attack at Antietam, fighting Stonewall Jackson’s men in the Cornfield and at the Dunker Church. In July 1863 at Gettysburg, its men were the first Union infantry to reach the battle, where they relieved the cavalry and fought off the Confederate onslaught all day before retreating to Cemetery Hill.
In January 1868, a Union veteran named Gilbert Bates set out from his Wisconsin farm for Vicksburg, Mississippi, to prove a point and win a bet: that he could safely walk across the post—Civil War South— alone, unarmed, with no money—while carrying the flag of the United States. The effort quickly riveted the attention of Americans everywhere, who weren’t yet sure the country could meaningfully reunite after their fratricidal war. Mark Twain believed Bates would be abused, attacked, possibly even scalped, during this time when the U.S. Army still occupied the South, resentment ran high, and groups like the KKK were spreading terror. This is a deeply researched book that taps into big-and-small-town newspaper coverage that described Bates’s journey across the American South and his reception.
Darin Wipperman most recently worked as a reporter and editor for weekly newspapers in New Hampshire, USA.
Randy Bishop is an award-winning highschool history, economics, and marketing teacher who has also taught at the community college and university levels.
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Life and Death in a Civil War Army Corps from Antietam to Gettysburg
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Myths of the Civil War
The Fact, Fiction, and Science behind the Civil War’s Most-Told Stories By Scott Hippensteel Combining science and history, Myths of the Civil War reexamines many of the things we “know” about the Civil War and convincingly argues that memoirs and histories have gotten it wrong. Scott Hippensteel takes on the many myths surrounding the Civil War and, using physics and mathematics, explodes them. Scott Hippensteel is an Associate Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA, where he focuses on coastal geology, geoarchaeology, and environmental micropaleontology. His early research involved the H. L. Hunley, the famous Confederate submarine, and used microfossils to interpret that great historical artifact. Stackpole Books January 2022 • 264 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3997-9 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6982-2 • $28.50 / £21.95
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Ranger Raid
The Legendary Robert Rogers and His Most Famous Frontier Battle By Phillip Thomas Tucker A figure of legendary, almost mythic proportions, Robert Rogers is widely considered the father of U.S. Army Rangers. He gained his fame during the French and Indian War, fighting in the American and Canadian wilderness for the British colonies and the English Empire against the French and Indians, but a decade later, during the Revolution, he was almost a man without a country. During the American Revolution, George Washington didn’t trust him—indeed, he had Rogers arrested in 1776—nor did the British, who, desperate, gave him a command anyway, and Rogers was pivotal in arresting and executing American spy Nathan Hale. However, Rogers’ saga begins in the French and Indian War in what was a true American Odyssey. Ranger Raid digs deep into Rogers’ most controversial battle: the raid on St. Francis in Canada during the French and Indian War. Phillip Thomas Tucker is a writer and historian who has written or edited more than 130 works of history. Stackpole Books August 2021 • 552 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3973-3 • $34.95 / £27.00 eBook 978-0-8117-6971-6 • $33.00 / £25.00
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The Second Battle of the Alamo How Two Women Saved Texas’s Most Famous Landmark
By Judy Alter and Debra L. Winegarten The story of the battle of the Alamo is one that Texans learn practically from birth, and the rallying cry “Remember the Alamo” resonates throughout American history. Anyone who visits the sacred shrine in San Antonio, Texas, also sees how little is left to remember. But what they don’t often learn is that the site was once almost lost to development when two women, Adina de Zavala and Clara Driscoll, stepped in to save it and ignited the Second Battle of the Alamo. Judy Alter is the author of over a hundred books, fiction, and non-fiction for both adults and young adults. TwoDot March 2020 • 184 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-3131-3 • $22.95 / £17.95 eBook 978-1-4930-3132-0 • $21.50 / £16.95
The Tenacious Nurse Nichols An Unsung Civil War Hero By Eileen Yanoviak There is only one known image of Lucy Higgs Nichols, a Civil War nurse who escaped slavery. In this captivating photograph dated to 1898, the elderly Lucy is the sole female and the only person of color. She stands stately in the middle of a large group of war veterans at a reunion that she diligently attended every year. Some of these soldiers were from the Indiana 23rd Regiment, the men who fiercely advocated for her Civil War nurse’s pension in the 1890s. Her story is remarkable—a journey from enslavement in Tennessee, to freedom and service among the ranks of the Union Army, and finally to independence and national recognition from the press, the Grand Army of the Republic, and even Congress. Despite considerable obstacles and unimaginable pain, Lucy achieved notoriety, nobility, and self-sufficiency in a post-Civil War era that often denied black Americans and women justice and opportunity. Eileen Yanoviak Ph.D. is the Director of the Carnegie Center for Art and History, USA. Lyons Press June 2022 • 224 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-5333-9 • $29.95 / £22.95
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Washington Roebling’s Civil War
From the Bloody Battlefield at Gettysburg to the Brooklyn Bridge By Diane Monroe Smith Washington Roebling is well known as the man who supervised construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. This is the story of Roebling’s Civil War service at Gettysburg and beyond, and how that service—as artilleryman, bridge builder, scout, balloonist, mapmaker, engineer, and staff officer—prepared him well for overseeing that monumental task. Diane Monroe Smith has been a volunteer guide at the Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Museum, USA, and has spoken widely on Chamberlain and Maine in the Civil War, including at National Park Service events, Civil War roundtables, and historical societies. Stackpole Books September 2019 • 464 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3788-3 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6782-8 • $28.50 / £21.95
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Washington’s Engineer
Louis Duportail and the Creation of an Army Corps By Norman Desmarais This is an unique biography about an overlooked, even obscure, French officer that was instrumental in the American cause for independence. As a complete biography, it covers Louis Deuportail’s time as the first Commandant of the Army Corps of Engineers, his return to France, and his service in the French army. Cementing his role in the seminal events of the era, readers will also learn of his problems under the Reign of Terror and his escape to the United States where he purchased a quiet farm near Valley Forge. It concludes with his unusual death at sea and the problems of settling his estate. Duportail died in the greatest anonymity, in the greatest indifference, without earthly burial, without military honors, a dedicated monument to his glory in service to France or the United States, and without intervention of his brothers in arms to honor and recall his memory. Norman Desmarais is professor emeritus at Providence College, USA, and an active reenactor. Prometheus May 2021 • 288 pages Hardback 978-1-63388-656-8 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-63388-657-5 • $28.50 / £21.95
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Evil Roman Emperors
The Shocking History of Ancient Rome’s Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero and More By Phillip Barlag
“Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. It’s important to study not just good leadership but bad leadership, too. In Evil Roman Emperors, Phillip Barlag gives us lots of lessons to heed in the modern age.”—Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, 11th secretary-general, NATO Nero fiddled while Rome burned. As catchy as that aphorism is, it’s sadly untrue, even if it has a nice ring to it. The one thing Nero is well-known for is the one thing he actually didn’t do. But fear not, the truth of his life, his rule and what he did with unrestrained power, is plenty weird, salacious and horrifying. And he is not alone. Roman history, from the very foundation of the city, is replete with people and stories that shock our modern sensibilities. Evil Roman Emperors puts the worst of Rome’s rulers in one place and offers a review of their lives and a historical context for what made them into what they became. It concludes by ranking them, counting down to the worst ruler in Rome’s long history. Phillip Barlag is an Executive Director at World 50, a Morgan Stanley company which initiates and facilitates the most interesting and influential business conversations in the world.
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Spare No One
Mass Violence in Roman Warfare By Gabriel Baker
“Spare No One is a must-read for anyone interested in the brutality of Roman warfare: it documents the acts of extreme violence carried out by Roman armies as a matter of routine in all periods, and it explains how and why victory on the battlefield was often followed by mass executions, the enslavement of civilian populations, or the looting and physical destruction of cities. A model of how to craft a narrative that combines careful readings of the ancient sources with modern parallels and interdisciplinary theoretical approaches, this book is an essential resource for the scholarly and general reader alike.”—Alexander Thein, University College Dublin This powerful book examines the ruthless but widely used tactics of mass killing, mass enslavement, and the destruction of cities in Roman warfare. Gabriel Baker convincingly shows that mass violence was vital to Roman military operations as commanders deliberately used brutal strategies to achieve their military objectives and political goals.
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield November 2020 292 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-1221-2 $36.00 / £28.00 Hardback (2011) 978-1-5381-1220-5 $89.00 / £68.00 eBook 978-1-5381-1222-9 $34.00 / £26.00
Series: War and Society Gabriel Baker holds a PhD in history from the University of Iowa and specializes in Roman and Hellenistic warfare. An earlier version of his biography and the first paperback printing incorrectly listed his affiliation as Georgetown University, which was the publisher’s error.
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The British Imperial Century, 1815-1914
A World History Perspective, Second Edition By Timothy H. Parsons
“Imperial history all too often masquerades as world history, while in reality presenting readers with the restricted view from the gunboat or the cabinet office. In this rich interpretation, written with admirable clarity and verve, Parsons offers a genuinely world historical perspective on Britain’s nineteenthcentury empire, one that pays as much attention to the experience of subject populations as to metropolitan elites.”— Peter Crooks, Trinity College Dublin The British Imperial Century, 1815-1914 provides a concise but comprehensive overview of the formation and administration of the empire from its origins in the early nineteenth century, to its climax at mid-century and ultimate denouement on the eve of the First World War. Considering the impact of British imperial rule and influence on subject peoples, Timothy H. Parsons explores the themes of cross-cultural social and environmental interaction from a world history perspective. He traces the transition from informal to formal empire, which broadened and intensified Britain’s relations with Asia, Africa, and the western hemisphere. The establishment of extensive colonies and protectorates in Africa, the occupation of Egypt, the declaration of the Raj in India, and increased economic and political intervention in Latin America and in the Chinese and Ottoman empires brought ever-larger numbers of non-European peoples and cultures under either the influence or direct authority of the British Crown. Series: Critical Issues in World and International History Timothy H. Parsons is professor of African history at Washington University, USA.
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The First Counterspy
Larry Haas, Bell Aircraft, and the FBI’s Attempt to Capture a Soviet Mole By Kay Haas and Walter W. Pickut The First Counterspy is the pulse-quickening and traumatic story of spy, counterspy, and an American family unwittingly caught in its web. Until this case, the FBI had never recruited civilian counterspies to catch a Soviet agent. The first two were Larry Haas, a leading aviation engineer at Bell Aviation, and Leona Franey, head librarian at Bell’s technical library. The FBI pitted them against a Soviet agent, Andrei Ivanovich Schevchenko, operating legally as one of the highest Soviet officials in the United States during WWII, and illegally as the secret head of a wide-ranging spy network hidden within the American aviation industry. Kay Haas is Larry Haas’s elder daughter. Walter Pickut is a freelance writer and the founding editor (now contributing editor) of the Jamestown Gazette, USA.
Spy Pilot
Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy By Francy Gary Powers Jr. and Keith Dunnavant, Foreword by Sergei Khrushchev Based on newly available information, the son of famed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers presents the facts and dispels misinformation about the Cold War espionage program that turned his father into a Cold War icon.. One of the most talked-about events of the Cold War was the downing of the American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960. Powers was captured by the KGB, subjected to a televised show trial, and imprisoned, all of which created an international incident. Soviet authorities eventually released him in exchange for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. Francis Gary Powers is a U-2 military pilot. Keith Dunnavant is an acclaimed popular historian.
Lyons Press May 2022 • 400 pages
Prometheus March 2019 • 312 pages
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The Yankee Commadante
The Untold Story of Courage, Passion, and One American’s Fight to Liberate Cuba By Tom Knisely Drawing on declassified FBI, CIA, and Army intelligence records as well as diaries, Pulitzer Prize–winning authors Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss skillfully reveal the inner workings of the Cuban Revolution while detailing the incredible love story of a rebel nurse and an American street hero who left their mark on history. Michael Sallah, co-winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, is the coauthor of Tiger Force. Mitch Weiss, co-winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, is the coauthor of Tiger Force, No Way Out and Hunting Che. Lyons Press May 2022 • 288 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5020-8 • $19.95 / £14.95 Hardback (2015) 978-0-7627-9287-0 • $26.95 / £20.95 eBook 978-1-4930-1646-4 • $19.00 / £14.95
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100 Turning Points in Military History
The Critical Decisions, Key Events, and Breakthrough Inventions and Discoveries That Shaped Warfare Around the World By Alan Axelrod The typical military history presents a chronicle of battles and wars and the commanders and troops who fought them. This book takes a different approach. It presents battles and wars and people aplenty, but they are not its ultimate subjects. This book is about the turning points that not only make military history dynamic but crucial to the story of humanity and civilization. This book is about the decisions, acts, innovations, errors, ideas, successes, and failures that shaped the evolution of military art and science—strategy, tactics, and technology— and, in doing so, shaped the course of world history. Here are the 100 points—from the birth of warfare in the Battle of Megiddo, 1457 BC, to the ongoing evolution of military history on its newest battlefield, cyberspace—at which the path of the warrior decisively turned on its long journey to where we find ourselves today. Alan Axelrod is the author of many books on military history, including 100 Turning Points in American History (Lyons Press, 2019), Miracle at Belleau Wood (Lyons Press, 2018), The Battle of the Somme (Lyons Press, 2016), The Battle of Verdun (Lyons Press, 2016), and Selling the Great War: The Making of American Propaganda (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
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The 25 Most Influential Aircraft of All Time By Walter J. Boyne and Philip Handleman
The 25 Most Influential Aircraft of All Time conveys the fascinating progression of flying technology from flimsy wood-and-fabric biplanes to thunderous supersonic wonders. Aviation’s most historically relevant and arguably most influential aircraft – planes like the elliptical-winged Spitfire, the blisteringly-fast X-15, and the ubiquitous Learjet – are dramatically showcased in individual chapters. Factors like performance, price, operational efficiency, and perceptions in popular culture are examined. People are just as important as hardware in the discussion of the world’s greatest aircraft. The larger-than-life characters who designed and built these aeronautical marvels – men like the reclusive Howard Hughes and the demanding Clarence “Kelly” Johnson – are an indispensable part of the story. So, too, are the fearless pilots like Charles Lindbergh and Chuck Yeager who gave life to the shining examples of a new and dynamic industry. The authors have flown or flown in many of the featured aircraft and they knew many of the luminous personalities involved, enabling them to share unique perspectives.
Imprint: Lyons Press March 2022 292 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6638-4 $21.95 / £16.95 Hardback (2018) 978-1-4930-2630-2 $35.00 / £27.00 eBook 978-1-4930-2631-9 $20.50 / £15.95
Walter J. Boyne is the former Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, USA, and the Chairman Emeritus of the National Aeronautic Association. Philip Handleman is President of Handleman Filmworks, an Emmy-winning independent production company. Mr. Handleman’s still photography graces the U.S. postage stamps that commemorate the 50th anniversaries of the Air Force and the Air Force Academy.
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Anatomy of Victory
Why the United States Triumphed in World War II, Fought to a Stalemate in Korea, Lost in Vietnam, and Failed in Iraq By John D. Caldwell This groundbreaking book provides the first systematic comparison of America’s modern wars, analyzing how and why the United States has moved from success to failure since WWII. As the United States enters a new period of uncertainty in the world, Caldwell makes the compelling case that leaders must think, plan, and prepare before shooting. John D. Caldwell (1940–2019) retired in 2007 after a fifty-year career in defense think tanks and aerospace companies. Rowman & Littlefield January 2019 • 568 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-1477-3 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-5381-1478-0 • $28.50 / £21.95
From Hitler’s Germany to Saddam’s Iraq The Enduring False Promise of Preventive War By Scott A. Silverstone “This is a powerful and provocative critique of the temptation to engage in preventive war against potential enemies. Whether you agree or disagree with Silverstone’s conclusions, you will benefit from his deep knowledge of history and his reminder to remain humble about one’s ability to predict the long-term outcome of the use of military force.” — Scott D. Sagan, Stanford University This book boldly challenges conventional wisdom about the value of preventive war, beginning with the rise of Hitler’s Germany through the disastrous invasion of Iraq. Silverstone argues that the Rhineland crisis leading up to WWII presents a critical case for studying power shifts among states—and the preventive war temptation that results. Scott A. Silverstone is an ASU Future of War Fellow at New America and a professor of international relations at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Rowman & Littlefield February 2019 • 336 pages Hardback 978-1-4422-7445-7 • $37.00 / £28.00 eBook 978-1-4422-7446-4 • $35.00 / £27.00
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An Introduction to the Causes of War
Patterns of Interstate Conflict from World War I to Iraq, Second Edition By Greg Cashman and Leonard C. Robinson This pioneering book, now thoroughly updated to incorporate important research, explains the causes of war through a sustained combination of theoretical insights and detailed case studies. Cashman and Robinson find that while all wars have multiple causes, certain factors typically combine in identifiable “dangerous patterns.” Through their examination of World War I, World War II in the Pacific, the Six-Day War, the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, the Iran-Iraq War, and the US invasion of Iraq, the authors lay out the complex multilevel processes by which disputes between countries erupt into bloody conflicts. Greg Cashman is professor emeritus of political science at Salisbury University, USA. Leonard C. Robinson is professor of political science at Salisbury University, USA. Rowman & Littlefield April 2021 • 466 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-2779-7 • $49.00 / £38.00 Hardback 978-1-5381-2778-0 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978-1-5381-2780-3 • $46.50 / £36.00
War and the Arc of Human Experience By Glenn Petersen Glenn Petersen flew seventy combat missions in Vietnam when he was nineteen, launching from an aircraft carrier in the Tonkin Gulf. He’d sought out the weighty responsibilities and hazardous work. But why? What did the cultural architecture of the society he grew up in have to do with the way he went to war? In this book he looks at the war from an anthropological perspective because that’s how he’s made his living in all the subsequent years: it’s how he sees the world. While anthropologists write about the military and war these days, they do so from the perspective of researchers. What makes this a fully original contribution is that Petersen brings to the page the classic methodology of ethnographers, participant observation—a kind of total immersion. Glenn Petersen is professor at the City University of New York’s Baruch College and Graduate Center, USA. Hamilton Books July 2021 • 302 pages Paperback 978-0-7618-7235-1 • $24.99 / £18.95 eBook 978-0-7618-7236-8 • $23.50 / £17.95
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What Do We Know about War?
War Stories
Edited by Sara McLaughlin Mitchell and John A. Vasquez
Edited by Lamar Underwood
Third Edition
This invaluable text assesses the current research and theory on the causes of both war and peace. In a completely new set of chapters, leading international relations scholars explore the role of territorial disputes, power, alliances, arms races, rivalry, and nuclear weapons in bringing about war; the outcomes and consequences of war; and the factors that promote peace, including democracy, norms, capitalist economies, and stable borders. The third edition includes a new section on emerging trends in research on cyber war, the environment and climate change, leaders, war financing, and trends in interstate conflict. Sara McLaughlin Mitchell is the F. Wendell Miller Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa, USA. She is the author of five books and more than fifty journal articles and book chapters. Rowman & Littlefield April 2021 • 466 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-4009-3 • $59.00 / £45.00 Hardback 978-1-5381-4008-6 • $118.00 / £91.00 eBook 978-1-5381-4010-9 • $56.00 / £43.00
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37 Epic Tales of Courage, Duty, and Valor
In War Stories - a jumbo book of great stories about the military and war - editor Lamar Underwood has pulled together the finest writings about war-fighting that capture readers’ imaginations. It includes legendary tales from the French and Indian Wars, the Civil War, the Great War, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq – more than 250 years of warfare from colonial times up through the present day. Series: Classic Lamar Underwood is the former editor in chief of Sports Afield and Outdoor Life, and also the editorial director of the Outdoor Magazine Group of Harris Publications in New York City, USA. Lyons Press October 2021 • 400 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6200-3 • $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-4930-2962-4 • $19.00 / £14.95
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War and Its Causes By Jeremy Black “A fascinating account of war as an institution by one of the preeminent students of the subject. By examining wars in their evolving cultural, political, and technological settings, Black offers important insights into the current practice of the use of force by states and intelligent speculation about the future.” —Richard Ned Lebow, King’s College London, UK This interdisciplinary book assesses the causes of war, considering what war actually is—key for understanding its causes. Black marshals global examples from the fifteenth century to the present, analyzing the three main types of war—between cultures, within cultures, and civil—emphasizing the social and cultural factors leading to conflict. Jeremy Black is professor emeritus of history at Exeter University, UK, and a 2018 Templeton Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Rowman & Littlefield January 2019 • 256 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-1791-0 • $30.00 / £22.95 Hardback 978-1-5381-1790-3 • $93.00 / £72.00 eBook 978-1-5381-1792-7 • $28.50 / £21.95
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The World at War, 1914– 1945 By Jeremy Black This text provides an innovative global military history that joins three periods— World War I, the interwar years, and World War II. Jeremy Black offers a comprehensive survey of both wars, comparing continuities and differences. He traces the causes of each war and assesses land, sea, and air warfare as separate dimensions. He argues that the unprecedented nature of the two wars owed much to the demographic and industrial strength of the states involved and their ability and determination to mobilize vast resources. Yet the demands of the world wars also posed major difficulties, not simply in sustaining the struggle but also in conceiving of practical strategies and operational methods in the heat and competition of ever-evolving conflict. In this process, resources, skills, leadership, morale, and alliance cohesion all proved significant. Jeremy Black is professor emeritus of history at Exeter University, UK, and a 2018 Templeton Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Rowman & Littlefield April 2019 • 362 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-0835-2 • $41.00 / £32.00 Hardback 978-1-5381-0834-5 • $103.00 / £79.00 eBook 978-1-5381-0836-9 • $39.00 / £30.00
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the world at war, 1914-1945
In this brief extract, Jeremy Black explores the political causes of the First World War
The prospect of major war was discussed and
their claims. So also did second-rank states.
planned for by many in the decades that closed
War and victories as a measure of national
for good with the beginning of fighting in
success constituted a key ideological and
1914; but the probable nature and, still more,
practical predisposition to struggle. This
consequences of the resulting conflict were
predisposition had a variety of bases, including
understood by few. War seemed likely because
the intellectual conviction that such struggle
both experience and assumptions led in that
was a central and inevitable feature of natural
direction. The experience of the previous
and human existence and development, as well
century had been that key issues were settled
as a cultural belief that struggle expressed and
by conflict, whether the two overthrows of
secured masculinity and thus kept both society
Napoleon I of France by a European alliance
and civilization dynamic. Doubt was presented
(1814 and, after his return from exile, 1815),
as female and was associated with weak
the unification of Italy (1860), the eventual
emotions and feelings. Belief in war, as an
maintenance of the American union in the face
expression of a martial spirit and an ideology
of the Civil War (1861–65), the transformation
of masculinity, was greatly sustained by
of Prussia into the German Empire thanks
popular literature in Europe, the United States,
to repeated triumphs in the Wars of German
and Japan. In Britain, those who volunteered
Unification (1864, 1866, 1870–71), or the rise
to fight in 1914–16 were the generation who
of Japan, with victories over China (1894–95)
would have grown up in the 1890s and 1900s
and Russia (1904–5). This process was also true
reading storybooks like Union Jack, Captain,
for other, lesser states, such as Italy, Serbia,
and Chums, and also the bellicose novels of G.
Greece, Romania, and Ethiopia, all of which
A. Henty. Although Britain was not bellicose as
traced their independence and expansion to
far as other European powers
success in recent warfare.
were concerned, these and other publications
Conversely, states that had failed in such
had promoted popular militarism, especially in
warfare, for example the Ottoman Empire
an imperial context.
(Turkey for short) or Bulgaria, both of which
Linked, for some, to these views was a sense
had been heavily
of anxiety based on the belief that the present
defeated in the conflicts of 1911–13, the Balkan
situation was necessarily unstable and also
Wars, saw such defeats as an encouragement to
prone to decline, decay, and degeneration.
reverse failure through subsequent struggles.
Such a fate apparently could only be avoided
Movements that lacked statehood, such as
by vigilance, effort, and sacrifice. This cultural
Irish and Polish nationalism, also looked to
anxiety was accentuated by concerns about
past defeats, notably unsuccessful rebellions
the alleged consequences of industrial society,
against British and Russian rule in 1798 and
urban living, and democratic populism.
1863 respectively, as a call for fresh valor.
These concerns were focused in some cases,
These movements (correctly) saw war between
notably Germany, by an opposition to the
the major states as an opportunity to press
left-wing politics believed to flow from these
developments. Socialism was seen on the political right wing as a threat to Germany’s ability and willingness to fight, and a similar view was held elsewhere. There were also doubts about the strength of masculinity in the face of cultural and social changes. These doubts were related to worries about national degeneration in the context of a belief in Darwinian competition between nations and races, a competition that was seen as inherently violent. This approach in fact rested on a false understanding and a corruption of Darwinian theory from “survival of the fittest,” which, as originally conceived, did not apply to states or peoples or groups within society, but to species and adaptations within species, for which the dynamics were different. Thus, Darwin’s arguments were misused to justify aggression and domination and to offer a misplaced clarity. These factors were accentuated by the apparent exigencies of an international system in which the only choice seemed to be between growth or decay, empire or impotence, and standing by allies or showing weakness. To fail to act was, allegedly, to be doomed to failure. Furthermore, the territorial expansionism of the imperialism of the period gave a tone of greater competition to international relations,
eventually be sustained as a system within Europe
with alliances of mutual restraint being replaced
itself.
by alliances focused on securing additional power.
These factors encouraged bellicosity, or at least
Expansionism rose from a belief that there was a
an acceptance that war might be noble and
simple choice of growth or decline, a belief that
strengthening as well as necessary; but, on a
encouraged a concern with relative position.
continuing pattern, they did not explain why
Existing pacts, such as the Triple Alliance of
large-scale conflict seemed more of a risk in the
Austria, Germany, and Italy, established in 1882,
1900s and early 1910s than earlier, nor why it
had often restrained allied states by joining
broke out in 1914 and not earlier. Such explanation
together powers with different interests, notably
in part rests on contrasting assumptions. In
Austria and Italy. However, these alliances
particular, there is a tension between a “systemic”
appeared inadequate in the 1900s and 1910s as
account of the outbreak of war, which would trace
anxieties grew about shifts in international
it to the nature of the competitive international
geopolitics and national politics.
system, and, alternatively, one that places greater
The imperial hopes, dreams, anticipations,
weight on the agency (actions) of particular
expectations, anxieties, and nightmares of the
powers. The latter is a more convincing account as
great European powers affected, and were affected
it makes greater allowance for the extent to which
by, the fate both of the non-European world and
individual leaders and specific policy-making
that of southeastern Europe, and to a degree not
groups took the key decisions, including the
seen before. In particular, anxieties in, and about,
crucial decisions of how, and when, to act. Insofar
the Balkans were to press directly and strongly on
as a systems approach is adopted, this account
competing European alliance systems, ensuring
is one that offers more for the role of strategic
that the limited wars and compromises at the
cultures and for the mismatch between them and
expense of others, seen with large-scale European
the disputes and uncertainties that might arise as
expansionism outside the Continent, could not
a result.
Above: Soldiers posing in a trench Below: The book’s cover
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The Greatest POW Escape Stories Ever Told By Keith Warren Lloyd A gripping collection that showcases twelve of the most famous prisoner of war escapes in the history of modern warfare. Although these stories feature escapees of different nationalities, ideologies and allegiances, the reader will be captured by the common traits shared by all of these brave soldiers: loyalty to country and cause, tenacity, resourcefulness and an abundant amount of courage. Keith Warren Lloyd is an author and historian, a professional firefighter, and a U.S. Navy veteran. Lyons Press February 2021 • 272 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-4994-3 • $19.95 / £14.95 eBook
The Greatest SAS Stories Ever Told
The Greatest Spy Stories Ever Told
By Tom McCarthy
Edited by Lamar Underwood
There is actually very little public information available about Britain’s Special Air Service, one of the world’s most effective elite fighting units. The SAS operates secretly everywhere in the world, often working with American forces in a number of roles that include covert reconnaissance, counterterrorism, direct action, hostage rescue and human intelligence gathering. The Greatest SAS Stories Ever Told is a recounting of the heroics that the normally staid and stiff-upper-lipped British take pride in NOT talking or writing about.
In The Greatest Spy Stories Ever Told, our editor has pulled together some of the finest writings about spies that capture readers imaginations. The one thing the heroes in this collection have in common is the ability to seamlessly shift identities. Each of the men and women in these stories had the courage to meet and study their enemies, gather critical intelligence, and then relay those secrets at risk of being exposed—to do what they had to because that was their duty and the lives of others meant more to them than their own.
Lyons Press July 2022 • 256 pages
Lamar Underwood is the former editor-in-chief of Sports Afield and Outdoor Life and former editorial director of the Outdoor Magazine Group of Harris Publications in New York, USA.
Paperback 978-1-4930-3141-2 • $18.95 / £14.95
Lyons Press November 2019 • 304 pages
Tom McCarthy is an awardwinning editor and writer who lives in Guilford, USA.
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Historical Dictionary of the Syrian Uprising and Civil War By Asaad Alsaleh Historical Dictionary of the Syrian Uprising and Civil War introduces readers to the events and main players that shaped the conflict in Syria since 15 March 2011, as the country entered a new era in its modern history. The “Syrian Revolution,” was part of the Arab Spring that was launched in Tunisia, Egypt, and other countries in the Middle East in late 2010. The Syrian situation turned into a winter, which merits such an all-encompassing book that reveals the complex dynamics of the Syrian civil war. Many of the key players, places, and unfolding events were making headlines for a short period before vanishing from memory, but this book records their emergence and influence. Series: Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest Asaad Alsaleh is a Syrian-American academic who was born and raised in Syria before moving to the United States in 2003. He is professor of modern Arabic literature, comparative literature, and cultural studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, USA. Rowman & Littlefield July 2021 • 440 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-2077-4 • $150.00 / £115.00 eBook 978-1-5381-2078-1 • $142.50 / £110.00
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The Official U.S. Army Tactics Field Manual By Department of the Army Tactics is the art and science of employing all available means to win battles and engagements. Specifically, it comprises the actions taken by a commander to arrange units and activities in relation to each other and the enemy. Filled with diagrams of attack plans, defensive strategies, and troop movements, U.S. Army Tactics Field Manual is the playbook the U.S. Army uses to employ available means to win in combat. This book provides combat-tested concepts and ideas modified to exploit emerging Army and joint capabilities. This book focuses on the organization of forces, minimum essential control measures, and general planning, preparation, and execution considerations for each type and form of combat operation. It is the common reference for all students of the tactical art, both in the field and the Army school system. Jeremy Black is professor emeritus of history at Exeter University, UK, and a 2018 Templeton Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Rowman & Littlefield July 2020 • 488 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-4868-7 • $21.95 / £16.95 eBook 978-1-4930-4869-4 • $20.50 / £15.95
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American Foreign Policy
Past, Present, and Future, Twelveth Edition By Glenn P. Hastedt
“[The book is] strongly grounded in empirical data while including sound descriptions of relevant theories and scholarly approaches to the study of American foreign policy.” —Rita Peters, Harvard University, USA
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Hastedt introduces students to America’s changing role in the world and provides them with the critical thinking skills needed to participate in the debate about the conduct and content of American foreign policy.
Paperback 978-1-5381-3612-6 $79.00 / £61.00 eBook 978-1-5381-3613-3 $75.00 / £58.00
This text does not try to present students with an answer on how best to move American foreign policy forward. Rather, it is designed to help students cultivate the critical thinking skills they need to develop their own answers and participate in current and future debates about the conduct and content of U.S. foreign policy. Glenn Hastedt holds a Ph.D. in political science from Indiana University, USA. Formerly the chair of the political science department at James Madison University, USA, he is now professor and chair of the justice studies department.
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Charles De Gaulle
A Thorn in the Side of Six American Presidents
The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Strategies for a World War
By William R. Keylor
By Jeremy Black
“In this elegantly written and extensively researched book, Keylor provides an excellent account of how six US presidents—from FDR and his stubborn refusal to recognize the leader of Free France to Richard Nixon and his embrace of the founder of the Fifth Republic— dealt with the de Gaulle challenge. At a time when the United States and Europe seem bound to drift further apart—as de Gaulle believed was inevitable—this is a must-read.” —Frédéric Bozo, Sorbonne, University of Paris III, France
“A fresh take on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, eschewing a grand, organizing narrative around dramatic, radical change or Napoleon’s alleged genius in favour of considering the nature, goals, course, and contemporary verdicts of the belligerents’ strategies and how these influenced subsequent strategic thinking. ” —Peter H. Wilson, University of Oxford, UK
William R. Keylor is professor emeritus at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, USA. He has received the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Methodist Scholar-Teacher Award; has been a Fulbright scholar; and has been awarded fellowships by the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and the Earhart Foundation. Rowman & Littlefield February 2021 • 376 pages Hardback 978-1-4422-3674-5 • $39.00 / £30.00 eBook 978-1-4422-3676-9 • $37.00 / £28.00
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This innovative book analyzes the strategic dimensions of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, critiquing Napoleon’s broader strategic weaknesses. The first history to look holistically at the strategies of the leading belligerents from a global perspective, it is an essential read for military professionals, students, and history buffs. Jeremy Black is professor emeritus of history at Exeter University, UK, and a 2018 Templeton Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Rowman & Littlefield January 2022 • 224 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-6370-2 • $32.00 / £25.00 Hardback 978-1-5381-6369-6 • $85.00 / £65.00 eBook 978-1-5381-6371-9 • $30.50 / £22.95
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High Tide in the Korean War How an Outnumbered American Regiment Defeated the Chinese at the Battle of Chipyong-ni By Leo Barron
By early 1951, American forces and their UN allies had been driven more than 100 miles down the Korean peninsula by the Chinese. The situation was bleak when Gen. Matthew Ridgway ordered a last stand at the village of Chipyong-ni. There a single regiment (the 23rd Infantry) of fewer than 5,000 U.S. soldiers defeated a Chinese division of 25,000 men in what has been called the Gettysburg of the Korean War. This is the page-turning history of one of the most important battles of the Korean War. Author Leo Barron draws from memoirs, interviews, unit reports, intelligence summaries, and personal research in South Korea. Leo Barron has quickly established himself as one of the finest young military historians writing today. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in history and served two tours in Iraq as an infantry and intelligence officer. He has written for Infantry, World War II, and World War II History magazines. His previous books are No Silent Night: The Christmas Battle for Bastogne (9780451414854) and Patton at the Battle of the Bulge (9780451467874).
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Circle of Fire
Geronimo and Sitting Bull
By John D. McDermott
By Bill Markley
“Circle of Fire will become the standard treatment of the subject. It is Indian Wars history at its best.” —Jerome A. Greene, Historian, National Park Service, USA
A profiling of two Native American leaders who left a lasting legacy: Geronimo and Sitting Bull.
The Indian War of 1865
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Leaders of the Legendary West
The year 1865 was bloody on the Plains as various Indian tribes, including the Southern Cheyenne and the Southern Sioux, joined with their northern relatives to wage war on the white man. They sought revenge for the 1864 massacre at Sand Creek, when John Chivington and his Colorado volunteers nearly wiped out a village of Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho. The violence in eastern Colorado spread westward to Fort Laramie and Fort Caspar in southeastern and central Wyoming, and then moved north to the lands along the WyomingMontana border.
Most Americans and many people worldwide have heard these two famous names. Today, however, the general public knows little about the lives of these great leaders. During the second half of the nineteenth century when they opposed white intrusion and expansion into their territories, just the mention of their names could spark fear or anger. After they surrendered to the army and lived in captivity, they evoked curiosity and sympathy for the plight of the American Indian. Author Bill Markley offers a thoughtful and entertaining examination of these legendary lives in this new joint biography of these two great leaders.
John D. McDermott is an independent historian, interpretive planner, and heritage tourism consultant.
A member of Western Writers of America, Bill Markley writes for True West, Wild West, and Roundup magazines.
Stackpole Books May 2020 • 304 pages
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Geronimo: Prisoner of Lies
The Seminole Struggle
By W. Michael Farmer
By John Missall and Mary Lou Missall
Will Rogers Medallion Award, Western Nonfiction
“A valuable and interesting book on a major period in the development of the Sunshine State. In a saga filed with double-dealings and atrocities, neither the Americans nor the Seminoles come through these pages as villains but rather human beings caught in conflicts with no happy endings.” —Sun-Sentinel
Twenty-Three Years as a Prisoner of War, 1886-1909
When Geronimo and his warriors surrendered to the US Army, General Miles made a number of promises for the surrender terms that were in fact false. Geromino: Prisoner of Lies provides insights into how Chiricahua prisoners of war lived while held in captivity by the United States Army in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as seen through the eyes of their war leader Geronimo. The indignities and lies they suffered, and how they maintained their tribal culture in the face of great pressure to change or vanish entirely, are brought to life and provided new context through this book. W. Michael Farmer combines over ten years of research into nineteenth century Apache history and culture with southwest living experience to fill his stories with a genuine sense of time and place. TwoDot November 2019 • 232 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-4200-5 • $26.95 / £20.95 eBook 978-1-4930-4201-2 • $26.00 / £19.95
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A History of America’s Longest Indian War
John Missall and Mary Lou Missall are historians and authors whose primary work focuses on the Seminole Indian Wars. Pineapple Press January 2020 • 416 pages Hardback 978-1-68334-059-1 • $35.00 / £27.00 eBook 978-1-68334-070-6 • $33.00 / £25.00
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Air Power’s Lost Cause The American Air Wars of Vietnam By Brian D. Laslie
“In Air Power’s Lost Cause, Brian Laslie offers an important and provocative argument that invites readers to reexamine the role of air power in the Vietnam War. Laslie places the entire air war in an intriguing new frame, making this book a must-read addition to the literature on air power and the Vietnam War.” —Michael W. Hankins, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Filling a substantial void in our understanding of the history of airpower in Vietnam, this book provides the first comprehensive treatment of the air wars in Vietnam. Brian Laslie traces the complete history of these air wars from the beginning of American involvement until final withdrawal. Detailing the competing roles and actions of the air elements of the United States Army, Navy, and Air Force, the author considers the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of war. He also looks at the air war from the perspective of the North Vietnamese Air Force. Most important for understanding the US defeat, Laslie illustrates the perils of a nation building a onedimensional fighting force capable of supporting only one type of war.
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Series: War and Society Brian D. Laslie is the Command Historian at the United States Air Force Academy. He is the author of The Air Force Way of War: U.S. Tactics and Training after Vietnam.
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Below: U.S. F-105 aircraft dropping bombs Overleaf: U.S. aircraft bombs NLF positions, 1965
air power’s lost cause
The American military became involved
is simply to indicate that Vietnam was a far-
no small part to the draft, the divide between
in Vietnam and the surrounding countries
off country on the other side of the world that
civilian and military was that much closer
because it fit into the larger Cold War policy of
had nothing to do with the daily lives of the
during Vietnam than it was in the post-
the containment of communism, even though
American people.
Vietnam and present-day all-volunteer force.
in the late 1950s, many Americans could not
This, of course, would change during the
America’s involvement—or rather, the series
locate the country of Vietnam on a map—not
ensuing decade.
of unfortunate events that slowly pulled the
unlike Americans in the twenty-first century
Over the course of the next eleven years, from
United States into a conflict in Southeast Asia—
trying to locate Afghanistan on September 10,
1961 to 1972, the country that one day would
began long before American forces arrived “in-
2001. This is not to say the American people
simply be Vietnam etched itself into the
country.”
were somehow oblivious to geography, or that
American psyche. It did so in a way that was
A starting date of October 24, 1954, is as good a
because your average American could not
much more powerful and more traumatic than
date as any to begin.
locate Vietnam, it was somehow not important
the later wars in Afghanistan or Iraq. The
During the Geneva Conference that ran from
to a larger military or diplomatic issue. This
simple reason for this seems to be that due in
April until July of that year,
participating
diplomats—including representatives from
to locate Charlie: “Well, we ask people, ‘Are you
the countries to be created out of French
the enemy?’ And whoever says yes, we shoot
Indochina, USA, United Kingdom, USSR, the
them.”
People’s Republic of China, and France—
The National Liberation Front was composed
decided to partition the State of Vietnam at the
of both regular forces (not to be confused
17th parallel and to create a three-mile-wide
with the regular forces of the Army of North
demilitarized zone. On this date in October
Vietnam) and guerrillas. Much later in the war,
1954, the United States moved to support forces
the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN), emerged
in the South.
as the primary opponent as the war escalated
The United States air arms, particularly the
throughout the 1960s, and as America became
USAF, became involved in South Vietnam a few
more deeply involved. Soviet support ensured
years later, in 1961. This inauspicious entry
that the North Vietnamese were equipped
into South Vietnam began with the Farm Gate
with the latest in Soviet air defense weapons.
operation—the training of South Vietnam’s
Throughout the duration of the war, the terms
Air Force (VNAF) pilots.1 The training mission
“VC” and “PAVN” were used interchangeably,
was clearly not a total war. One could argue
sometimes confusingly.
that initially it was not even a limited or small
When the US Air Force started operations in
war. Vietnam did not begin for the American
South Vietnam, according to a contemporary
military as a conflict that needed its latest, most
report, it faced somewhere in the neighborhood
technologically advanced assets; in fact, the
of 12,000 to 25,000 “hard-core” Viet Cong
Geneva Accords specifically prohibited those
guerrillas operating in the South, although
types of weapons when conducting operations
depending on the method of counting—and
in Vietnam. Article 17, section (a) stated, “With
the organization doing the counting—these
effect from the date of entry into force of the
numbers varied wildly. These figures remain
present Agreement, the introduction into
largely unreliable today. The same report cited
Viet-Nam of any reinforcements in the form
above—part of an official US Air Force history
of all types of arms, munitions and other war
series—indicated that between 1962 and 1963,
materiel, such as combat aircraft, naval craft,
US forces killed or wounded nearly 49,700 VC
pieces of ordnance, jet engines and jet weapons
despite their overall number remaining static.
and armored vehicles, is prohibited.”
In four months, one unit reported more than
Thus, in line with the Accords, American
4,000 dead Viet Cong. Lieutenant Colonel John
leadership initially prohibited jet aircraft
Paul Vann divided this number by 50 percent, but
from operating in the theater. Rather, early
still counted as many as 2,000 dead, a number
in the conflict the USAF conducted operations
that should have seriously hindered Viet Cong
exclusively with vintage, low-technology,
in the area, much less their expansion, but
propeller-driven
A-1
expand they did. If the low estimate of 12,000
Skyraiders and B-26 Invaders. These were used
aircraft,
including
and the high estimate of 25,000 are added to the
because they were the easiest aircraft with
claimed 49,700 casualties, it gives an unreliable
which to train South Vietnam pilots and also as
number of VC operating in South Vietnam
a means to ensure that the US military was not
somewhere between 61,700 and 74,700 between
in violation of the aforementioned agreement.
1961 and 1963. Again, all of these numbers are highly unreliable.
The Threat
It was clear from the beginning that no one had a good idea of how many VC were in South
Initially, United States advisors in South
Vietnam or who exactly was a VC. No matter
Vietnam faced the National Liberation Front
how many Viet Cong members were killed,
(NLF), more commonly called the Viet Cong, or
wounded, or captured, the organization had
“VC” for short.
no problem replacing those they had lost, for
In the military phonetic alphabet, the enemy
several reasons. These included a ready cadre
thus became “Victor Charlie,” or just “Charlie”
of replacements in North Vietnam that were
for short. As glibly stated in the 1987 film
prepared to move south and fill gaps in the
Good Morning, Vietnam, the purpose of the
ranks; a well-organized replacement system
American service member in Vietnam became
to mobilize and utilize these troops; a large
Air Power’s Lost Cause is the first comprehensive treatment of the air wars in Vietnam.”
portion of the Republic of Vietnam (South
level [sic] military units placed a levy against
Vietnam) that was sympathetic to their cause;
lower level units.” This is to say nothing of
and the fact that the more VC that were killed
the replacements flowing south from the
by the Americans or South Vietnam forces, the
Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North
more members of the South were driven into
Vietnam), but also through Laos and Cambodia.
the arms of the North.
The states bordering South Vietnam—Laos,
The report noted above was part of an Air
Cambodia, and North Vietnam—all provided
Force operation to document the history of the
some manner of sanctuary or logistical support
conflict in Vietnam as it occurred, aptly named
to the VC. What eventually became known
“The Contemporary Historical Examination
as the Ho Chi Minh Trail—noted as the “Laos
of Current Operations,” or CHECO for short.
Artery” and “Cambodian Artery” in earlier
Members of the program collected, analyzed,
contemporary reports—stretched from North
and published periodic reports detailing
Vietnam into Laos, south into Cambodia, and
the air campaign in South Vietnam. When
ran the length of South Vietnam’s border as
the war expanded, the CHECO reports also
far south as slightly northwest of Saigon,
expanded, and these publications continued
meaning that the artery pumping the lifeblood
throughout the conflict. An introduction in
of supplies into South Vietnam had numerous
the reports noted that “the value of collecting
capillaries
and documenting our SEA [Southeast Asia]
Nevertheless, compared to the US military in
experiences was recognized at an early date”
the 1960s, it was still a very rudimentary force,
and provided “timely and analytical studies of
but one that had no intention of attacking the
USAF combat operations.” Although classified
United States as a peer competitor. To win the
at the Secret and Top Secret levels, their
war, they simply had to not be defeated.
extending
into
the
country.
distribution to units both in-theater and back in the United States ranged from the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force down to the wing level, and even the history department at the US Air Force Academy, and provided ongoing commentary about the state of air force operations during the war. In total, the USAF produced some 250 separate CHECO reports throughout the war. A CHECO summary report produced in 1964 noted that “the VC had developed a highly effective replacement system whereby higher
Left (above): President Kennedy’s news conference, 23rd March 1963 Left (below): Vietnamese artillerymen fire from a mountain position during field training
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Blood in the Hills
The Story of Khe Sanh, the Most Savage Fight of the Vietnam War By Robert Maras and Charles W. Sasser Khe Sanh’s Hill Fights of 1967—as experienced by co-author Bobby Maras and told in this hour-by-hour, day-by-day account—were carnage on the ground, much of it hand-to-hand fighting in the dark. Thanks to the brave Marines of the 9th and 3rd, Khe Sanh survived the first concentrated attack by the North Vietnamese to invade the South. After the Hill Fights, American forces pulled back and held out against constant enemy shelling and frequent attacks until the siege was broken. Combining Maras’ personal experiences with the war’s bigger picture, Blood in the Hills honours the heroic actions of our soldiers and shows how Khe Sanh was microcosm of the entire Vietnam War. Charles W. Sasser is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army and former combat correspondent wounded in action. Robert Maras was a private first class, machinegunner with Weapons Platoon, Golf Company, 2nd Batallion, 3rd Marines during the Hill Fights at Khe Sanh. Lyons Press June 2020 • 304 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-4996-7 • $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-4930-1976-2 • $19.00 / £14.95
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Danger Close!
A Vietnam Memoir By Phil Gioia “Nearly three million Americans served in the Vietnam War. Each had his or her own take on what happened and why and many have tried to commit their war to paper. Phil Gioia has helped our understanding by detailing his days incountry and his informed perspectives in the midst of a fascinating, candid and brave memoir of a life of service. Bravo.” —Ken Burns, filmmaker Danger Close! recounts the Vietnam War from the unique boots-on-theground perspective of a young officer who served two tours in two different divisions. He tells his story thoughtfully, straightforwardly, and vividly, from the raw emotions of unearthing massacred human beings to the terrors of fighting in the dark, with tracers slicing the air. Phil Gioia served two combat tours in Vietnam between 1968 and 1970 and was awarded two Silver Stars, a Bronze Star, and two Purple Hearts. A graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, USA, he went on to earn a master’s in foreign service from Georgetown, USA, and an MBA from Stanford, USA. Stackpole Books June 2022 • 352 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-7120-7 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-0-8117-7121-4 • $28.50 / £21.95
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Death in the Highlands
The Siege of Special Forces Camp Plei Me By J. Keith Saliba “Military history at its best . . . a clear, detailed, and highly readable account of an important but little understood battle of the Vietnam War.” —Col. Andrew R. Finlayson, USMC (Ret.), author of Killer Kane: A Marine Long-Range Recon Team Leader in Vietnam, 1967–1968 and winner of the CIA’s Studies in Intelligence Award Death in the Highlands reconstructs a pivotal battle of the Vietnam War, the siege of the American Special Forces camp at Plei Me. Drawing on archival research and interviews with combat veterans, J. Keith Saliba describes the battle in vivid, gut-wrenching detail and illustrates where the siege fit in the war’s strategic picture. Dr. J. Keith Saliba is an associate professor of journalism at Jacksonville University, USA, where he teaches narrative nonfiction and media theory. Stackpole Books November 2020 • 280 pages
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Extraordinary Valor The Fight for Charlie Hill By William Reeder Jr. Extraordinary Valor is the true story of American Special Forces officer John Duffy, and South Vietnamese paratrooper, Le Van Me, as they fight to defend Charlie Hill, a key to holding Vietnam’s Central Highlands during North Vietnam’s 1972 Easter Offensive. The battalion has received the order to “Fight to the death” on Charlie Hill, and many of them do in fact die, as they make a last stand. William Reeder is a retired U.S. Army colonel, highly decorated with extensive combat experience (Silver Star for gallantry, Valorous Unit Award, two Distinguished Flying Crosses for heroism, three Purple Hearts for wounds received in combat).He is also a former prisoner of war (POW) in Vietnam. Lyons Press June 2022 • 256 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6367-3 • $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6368-0 • $26.50 / £19.95
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Killing for Show
Photography, War, and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq By Julian Stallabrass
“A huge achievement, equal to the subject. This illuminating book recognises the full diversity of photographic material to emerge from the conflicts and provides a more balanced account than any previously available. As a guide to these terrible events, Stallabrass is consistently attentive, judicious, and humane. There are memorable discussions of everything from the formal qualities of North Vietnamese photography to the politics and aesthetics of amateur photography in Iraq. ” —Malcolm Bull, Professor of Art and the History of Ideas, the Ruskin School, University of Oxford, UK In this fully illustrated and passionately argued account of war imagery, Julian Stallabrass tells the story of post-war conflict, how it was recorded and remembered through its iconic photography. The relationship between war and photograph is constantly in transition, forming new perspectives, provoking new challenges: what is allowed to be seen? Does an image have the power to change political opinion? How are images used to wage war? Stallabrass shows how photographs have become a vital weapon in the modern war: as propaganda—from closequarters fighting to the drone’s electronic vision—as well as a witness to the barbarity of events such as the My Lai massacre, the violent suppression of insurgent Fallujah or the atrocities in Abu Ghraib. Julian Stallabrass is a writer, photographer, curator and lecturer. He is Professor of art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, UK, and is the author of Art Incorporated (Oxford University Press).
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Land with No Sun
Misfire
By Ted G. Arthurs
By Bob Orkand and Lyman Duryea
A no-holds-barred, straight-in-your-face account of combat in Vietnam. You know it’s going to be hot when your brigade is referred to as a ‘Fireball’ unit. From May 1967 through May 1968, Ted Arthurs was in the thick of it, humping an eighty-pound rucksack through triple canopy jungle, chasing down the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. As sergeant major for a battalion of 800 men, it was his job to see them through this jungle hell and get them back home again.
Misfire combines insider knowledge of U.S. Army weapons development with firsthand combat experience in Vietnam to tell the story of the M16 in Vietnam. Even as it details the behind-the-scenes development, tests, and debates that brought this rifle into service, the book also describes men and M16s in action on the battlefield, never losing sight of the soldiers who carried M16s in the jungles of Vietnam and all too often suffered the consequences of decisions they had nothing to do with.
A Year in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne
Ted G. Arthurs was the Command Sergeant Major of the 4th Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam. He fought in the battles of Dak-to and the Tet Offensive. He lives in Florida. Stackpole Books August 2019 • 368 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-3847-7 • $21.95 / £16.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6878-8 • $20.50 / £15.95
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The Tragic Failure of the M16 in Vietnam
Bob Orkand, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, served with the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam. Colonel Lyman “Chan” Duryea was a retired U.S. Army colonel and decorated infantryman who served as a test officer with the U.S. Army Infantry Board in 1964-66 when M16 prototypes were being evaluated by the Army at Fort Benning. Stackpole Books September 2019 • 268 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3796-8 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6795-8 • $28.50 / £21.95
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Price of Loyalty
Tours of Duty
By Andrew L. Johns
By Michael Lee Lanning
This book explores how and why Vietnam loomed so large for Humphrey as vice president from 1964 through the 1968 election campaign against Richard Nixon. It assesses how Humphrey’s loyalty to Lyndon B. Johnson, who emerges as the villain of the story in many ways, would negatively affect his political ambitions. And it engages the disconnect between Humphrey’s principles and the intricate politics of his convoluted relationship with the president and his unsuccessful presidential campaign. It is a complex and frustrating narrative, the results of which would be tragic, not only for Humphrey’s presidential aspirations, but also for the war in Southeast Asia and the future of the United States.
These are the stories Vietnam vets tell over beers at Legion halls and VFW posts—stories of young men tangled up in the chaos of landing zones and nameless jungle hills, in the boredom of base camps, in the confusion of a controversial war. Raw, often gut-wrenching, sometimes funny, these war stories describe slices of individual tours of duty, from the firefights to the friendships, and capture the kaleidoscope of the American experience in Vietnam.
Hubert Humphrey’s Vietnam Conflict
Series: Vietnam: America in the War Years Andrew L. Johns is associate professor of history at Brigham Young University, USA, and the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies. Rowman & Littlefield • 186 pages Hardback 978-0-7425-4452-9 • $45.00 / £35.00 eBook 978-0-7425-4453-6 • $42.00 / £32.00
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The Best Vietnam War Stories from the Men Who Served
Michael Lee Lanning graduated from Texas A&M and served more than twenty years in the U.S. Army, including in Vietnam, where he commanded an infantry platoon, a recon platoon, and a rifle company. His other books include the classic memoir Vietnam, 1969-1970, which the New York Times called “one of the most honest and horrifying accounts of a combat soldier’s life to come out of the Vietnam War”. Stackpole Books September 2019 • 272 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-3848-4 • $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6879-5 • $19.00 / £14.95
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The Vietnam War
Vietnamization
By Ronald B. Frankum Jr.
By David L. Anderson
The latest entry in Stackpole’s Battle Briefings Series covers the Vietnam War, from its roots in the French war through the evacuation of the embassy. In between is the American Vietnam experience: the draft, the combat, the politics, and everything else. Here, in 176 pages, is the Vietnam War.
“Students and scholars of the Vietnam War have long benefitted from David Anderson, a leading authority on American intervention in Southeast Asia. Now we are once again in his debt. The history of Vietnamization has not been told like this. Tapping into archival sources in the Nixon era and his own personal experience serving during this critical period, Anderson has written a powerful history on the fraught withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam, and what that complicated process means for U.S. intervention today.” —LienHang T. Nguyen, Dorothy Borg Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia, Columbia University, USA
Volume 4
Series: Battle Briefings Ronald Frankum is professor of history at Millersville University, USA, and author of The Historical Dictionary of the War in Vietnam (2011) and Like Rolling Thunder: The Air War during the Vietnam War (2005). Stackpole Books December 2019 • 176 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-3664-0 • $16.95 / £12.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6786-6 • $16.00 / £11.95
Politics, Strategy, Legacy
Series: Vietnam: America in the War Years David L. Anderson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, USA, and Professor of History Emeritus at California State University, USA. Rowman & Littlefield December 2019 • 192 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-2936-4 • $40.00 / £31.00 eBook 978-1-5381-2937-1 • $38.00 / £29.00
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Warfighter
The Story of an American Fighting Man By Col. Jesse L. Johnson, With Alex Holstein In Warfighter, Colonel Jesse Loftis Johnson, one of the most decorated living American veterans, recounts the action-packed true-life tale of a man who stood and fought at the crossroads of history. From the jungles of Vietnam to the deserts of Iran and Iraq, never has a modern military memoir covered such a vast landscape of all-out warfare. Never has one man fought on the frontlines of so many of America’s most heroic battles. Colonel Johnson led the most elite forces on operations that defined eras past and present, mentoring young soldiers who would rise to become some of the greatest modern American generals. Colonel Jesse L. Johnson is one of the most highly decorated combat veterans living today. Colonel Jesse L. Johnson served a distinguished military career spanning thirty-four years on active duty. Lyons Press June 2022 • 272 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-6556-1 • $28.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6557-8 • $27.50 / £20.95
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The First World War A Concise Global History, Third Edition By William Kelleher Storey
“Storey’s concise global history of World War I is an accessible, readable history of the experiences and impacts of the Great War as it played out across the world. It addresses all of the traditional themes of significance while taking into account imperial and ecological issues that recent histories have urged us to consider. A timely addition to the vast literature of the war that will serve students well.” —Susan K. Kent, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA In a compact but comprehensive and clear narrative, this book explores the First World War from a genuinely global perspective. Putting a human face on the war, William Kelleher Storey takes into account individual decisions and experiences as well as environmental and technological factors, such as food, geography, manpower, and weapons. Series: Exploring World History William Kelleher Storey is professor of history at Millsaps College, USA. His books include Guns, Race, and Power in Colonial South Africa and Writing History: A Guide for Students.
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Surviving the Forgotten Genocide An Armenian Memoir
By John Minassian, Introduction by Wendy Lower and Anoush Baghdassarian, Foreword by Roderic Ai Camp
“We are more than a century past the beginning of the Armenian genocide. Our survivors are no longer with us—but their eyewitness accounts of how they overcame insurmountable suffering are as important now as ever before. John Minassian’s gripping story will take you inside the dayto-day journey of a young man from Gurun, witnessing the unthinkable.” —Carla Garapedian, Armenian Film Foundation The twentieth century was an era of genocide, which started with the Turkish destruction of more than one million Armenian men, women, and children—a modern process of total, violent erasure that began in 1895 and exploded under the cover of the First World War. John Minassian lived through this as a young man, witnessing the murder of his kin, concealing his identity as an orphan and laborer in Syria, and eventually immigrating to the United States to start his life anew. A rare testimony of a survivor of the Armenian genocide, one of just a handful of accounts in English, Minassian’s memoir is breathtaking in its vivid portraits of Armenian life and culture and poignant in its sensitive recollections of the many people who harmed and helped him. As well as a searing testimony, his memoir documents the wartime policies and behavior of Ottoman officials and their collaborators; the roles played by foreign armies and American missionaries; and the ultimate collapse of the empire. John Minassian, a young man when the Armenian genocide occurred, was one of only two survivors in his family. He ultimately was able to immigrate to the United States, where he lived until his death in 1991.
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The Battle of the Somme By Alan Axelrod The Battle of the Somme took place from July 1 through November 18, 1916, making 2016 the 100th anniversary of this major battle of World War I, the “war to end all wars,” as Woodrow Wilson called it. The book offers an exciting popular narrative, with emphasis on the key personalities and its strategic and political significance. The battle is set in the context of the history of modern warfare, technologically, culturally, and politically. Alan Axelrod is the author of many books on leadership, history, military history, biography, including How America Won World War I (Lyons Press, 2018). He was most recently a creative consultant and on-screen commentator for The Great War, on the PBS American Experience television series. Lyons Press January 2019 • 291 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-3799-5 • $18.95 / £14.95 Hardback (2017) 978-1-4930-1861-1 • $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-4930-2209-0 • $17.99 / £13.95
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First to Fight
An American Volunteer in the French Foreign Legion and the Lafayette Escadrille in World War I By Steven T. Tom First to Fight is a high-octane drama of a remarkable soldier and pilot who fought in the trenches and in the skies during World War I. It is the story of one of the first American fighter pilots at the dawn of aerial combat, the era of the Red Baron, with dogfighting biplanes high above the trench lines. But more than a World War I story, more than an aviation story, this is the story of an idealist who volunteered—long before his country drafted its first soldier—to fight, and ultimately die, in defense of civilization. Steven T. Tom is a retired U.S. Air Force officer who served for more than twenty years during the Cold War. Stackpole Books December 2019 • 320 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-3804-0 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6810-8 • $28.50 / £21.95
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British Offensives from Messines Ridge to Cambrai By Alan Warren “A powerful account of British campaigning on the Western Front in 1917–1918 that clarifies the operational consequences of deficiencies, including those of weapons and command.” —Jeremy Black, author of The Great War This book offers a fresh, critical history of the 1917 campaigns in Flanders and at Cambrai. Drawing on a rich array of sources, Warren provides a vivid account of two tragically mismanaged battles. Cambrai further underlined what went wrong for British forces at Passchendaele, thus more fully explaining the course of events on the Western front. Series: War and Society Alan Warren teaches politics and international relations at Monash University, USA. Rowman & Littlefield April 2021 • 268 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-4310-0 • $34.00 / £26.00 eBook 978-1-5381-4311-7 • $32.00 / £25.00
TR’s Last War
Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy By David Pietrusza In his lively, witty, blow-byblow style, David Pietrusza captures, through the lens of the Bull Moose, the 1916 presidential campaign, America’s entry into the Great War in 1917, Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, and the last years of one of American history’s greatest men, who said on his death bed at the age of sixty, “I promised myself that I would work up to the hilt until I was sixty, and I have done it. I have kept my promise….” Pietrusza not only transports readers with his dramatic portraits of TR, his hated rival Wilson, and politics in wild flux but also poignantly chronicles the horrific price a family pays in war. David Pietrusza has appeared on Good Morning America, Morning Joe, The Voice of America, The History Channel, ESPN, NPR and C-SPAN. Lyons Press January 2021 • 424 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-4912-7 • $19.95 / £14.95 Hardback (2019) 978-1-4930-2887-0 • $34.95 / £27.00 eBook 978-1-4930-2888-7 • $19.00 / £14.95
Yanks Behind the Line
How the Commission for Relief in Belgium Saved Millions from Starvation during World War I By Jeffrey B. Miller “Jeff Miller reminds us of an almost forgotten chapter from the history of World War I. The war not only cost the lives of millions of soldiers. For millions of civilians, it also meant deprivation, hardship, and hunger. In the territories of Belgium and northern France that were occupied by the Germans, American and Belgium relief organizations safeguarded the survival of the civil population. With his fascinating book, Miller raises a permanent monument to this remarkable humanitarian commitment.” —Jens Thiel, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany Jeffrey B. Miller has been a writer, magazine editor, and independent historian for more than forty years. Rowman & Littlefield December 2020 • 296 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-4164-9 • $29.00 / £21.95 Hardback 978-1-5381-4163-2 • $94.00 / £72.00 eBook 978-1-5381-4165-6 • $27.50 / £20.95
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The Blister Club
The Extraordinary Story of the Downed American Airmen Who Escaped to Safety in World War II By Michael Lee Lanning
During World War II, some 10,000 American bombers and fighters were shot down over Europe. Of the crews aboard, 26,000 men were killed, while 30,000 survived being shot down only to be captured and made prisoners of war. Against the longest of odds, nearly 3,000 airmen made it to the ground alive, evaded capture, and escaped to safety. These men proudly called themselves the Blister Club. Drawing on tens of thousands of pages of mostly untapped documents in the National Archives, Michael Lee Lanning tells the story of these courageous airmen. They had received escape-and-evasion (E & E) training, and some were lucky enough to land with their E-&-E kits—but all bets were off once they hit the ground. They landed after an air catastrophe. The geography was usually unfamiliar. Civilians might or might not be trustworthy. German soldiers and Gestapo agents hunted down airmen as well as civilians who dared help them. The Blister Club is history with a punch. With a historian’s eye, Lanning covers the hows and whys of escape-and-evasion and aerial combat in the European theater, but the book also vividly captures the stories of the airmen who did the escaping and evading, including that of a young pilot named Chuck Yeager, who, during his own escape, aided the French Resistance and helped another downed airman to safety—and then begged to fly again, eventually securing Eisenhower’s approval to return to the air, where he achieved ace status. Michael Lee Lanning, a graduate of Texas A&M, USA, served more than twenty years in the U.S. Army, retiring as a lieutenant colonel with the Senior Parachute Badge, Combat Infantryman’s Badge, Ranger Tab and Bronze Star. ROWM A N .C O M
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physical and mental conditioning, and more than a bit of luck to return to friendly lines. They travelled by bicycles, automobiles, trains, boats, and—as the name indicates—on their own feet to reach friendly or neutral territory. Rowman: For such an interesting and at-times remarkable
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topic, the escape lines from mainland Europe are little discussed in popular military history circles. Why do you think this is? Lanning: Throughout the war years every effort was made to keep the escape lines and their helpers as secret as possible. Even so, few of the lines, and even fewer of their civilian operatives, survived the war because German infiltrators and informants exposed them resulting in their execution or imprisonment. Many of the
Michael Lee Lanning, a veteran of the US Army,
related documents remained classified until
has written previously in brutal, brilliant detail
well into the 1970s.
of soldiers’ experiences in the Vietnam War.
about “the lines” and they are included in the
There are some books
bibliography. For his new project, The Blister Club (Stackpole Books, December 2021), the author has turned
Rowman:
his gaze to an oft-forgotten aspect of WWII. In
The sheer number of soldiers’ testimonies
this exclusive interview, NOW quizzed Lanning
you include in the book is astounding. How
on the remarkable premise of his book, the
challenging was it to source and collate all
terrifying odds that fallen airmen faced and
these testimonies?
the fates of the extraordinary civilians who assisted them.
Lanning: The book is based on more than 43,000
Rowman:
pages of documents on file in the National
Could you briefly explain the premise and focus
Archives. There are also web sites (listed in the
of your book, please?
Bibliography) that contain crew lists, dates, and limited information of the loss of aircraft and
Lanning:
crews. Most authors are challenged by having
During World War II, 11,000 U.S. bombers,
too little information. In this case, it was just
fighters, and transports were downed by
the opposite. I began one page and one report
enemy fire, mechanical problems, or accidents
at a time. When I found an individual report
over Nazi-occupied Europe. This book is the
of sufficient note and interest, I reproduced
story of the more than 3,000 Americans who
it and set it aside. When only a portion was
survived their bail outs and crash-landings
of interest, I typed that part into a file that
and overcame all but overwhelming odds
contained various subject heads.
in escaping and evading Germans and local
these later became chapters in the book, were
collaborators. The men who became members
combined with other subjects, or not included
of the Blister Club combined survival skills,
at all. Many reports mirrored others with near
Some of
Overleaf: The cockpit of a B-17 Flying Fortress
died in their planes. Of the 15,000 or so airmen
constant refrains of “hid and slept in a haystack” and in complaints about blistered feet.
Rowman:
who safely reached the ground, only a little more
Your book includes numerous remarkable MIS-X
than 3,000 safely evaded. Unfortunately, there
Rowman:
E&E reports. At what stage in the book’s writing
are no debriefing records of captured airmen
You mention in your book that the USAAF did
did you decide to include many of these reports
released after the war that revealed just how
not emphasise the odds for an airman being
in full, rather than quote from them?
they were caught by the Germans, often with the assistance of local collaborators, or those
shot down to maintain morale. How aware were soldiers of their relatively high odds of being
Lanning:
shot down over enemy territory while they flew
Early in the planning process I intended to
missions?
include many complete E&E Reports. After
Rowman:
seeking the rewards offered by the Nazis.
reviewing the documents, I saw there was too
You mention the authorities’ need to verify those
Lanning:
much repetition in the content and decided it
claiming to be part of the Blister Club, to ensure
Airmen were well aware of the chances of being
would be best to only include the most detailed
they were not actually German infiltrators. Did
shot down. All they had to do was look on the
and interesting reports to lead each chapter,
you come across any examples in the archives of
airfield tarmac and the vacant spaces of planes
trying to match stories that matched the
German infiltrators being caught?
that did not return and at the empty bunks of
chapter subject. Lanning:
their friends and squadron mates. Interestingly, however, in more than 3,000 E&E reports, there
Rowman:
U.S. Military Intelligence has always been
are fewer than a dozen accounts of crewmen
Do you have a sense of how likely US airmen
way overboard with their “need to know” and
who had fatalistic thoughts of being shot down.
were to be caught attempting an escape from
suspicions of infiltrators and spies. There is not
Nearly every airman thought “it can’t happen
occupied Europe? Presumably the majority were
a single instance where the Germans attempted
to me” — which explains why so many were
intercepted by German occupiers.
to infiltrate an agent under the guise of being a successful evader.
ill prepared when faced with jumping from a burning plane or crash landing into enemy
Lanning:
territory.
Of the 30,000 crewmen of downed planes, half
Rowman: The efforts of civilians in German-occupied countries to assist these fallen airmen were incredible. What were these civilians risking in providing such assistance? Presumably punishments would have been severe had they been caught? Lanning: The risks were simple and deadly—if you were caught assisting airmen in their evasion you were shot or hung. Your family may also be put to death or at least placed in concentration camps. Helpers were well aware of the dangers, but took risks to help downed airmen out of a sense of patriotism mixed with hatred for their German occupiers. Some of the younger helpers, in a manner that youths have always volunteered to march off to war, assisted out of a sense of adventure. Others of all ages simply saw the airmen as needing help and provided assistance because of feeling of responsibility to help those in need. Rowman: Were there any individual cases you would’ve liked to include in the book but ultimately didn’t, or couldn’t? Lanning: There was more than enough material for a far more lengthy book, or for a second volume. I included what I thought were the best descriptions and the most interesting. Rowman: The plight of Francis F. Higgins, who “carried a baby the entire way” over the Pyrenees, particularly caught my eye. Do you have any more information on his remarkable story? Lanning: The “baby story” is an example of some of the frustration in reviewing the E&E Reports. Often a phrase or sentence of remarkable interest is included with no addition details. Cross reference to other sources seldom added details. And, unfortunately, most of the Blister Club members are now deceased and cannot be
interviewed. So, to answer your question, “No, other than the baby being a part of group of Jews fleeing the Holocaust, there are no available details.”
Perhaps the baby, now
an aging adult, will read the book and let us know what happened. Rowman: Do you have any favourite individual stories unearthed while researching this book? Lanning: As a combat veteran myself, I am well aware of the humour
“The risks were simple and deadly— if you were caught assisting airmen in their evasion you were shot or hung.”
a GI can find in any situation, no matter how difficult or dangerous. Although, MIS-X edited out much of the humorous comments by the evaders, there were sufficient funny observations to make up a chapter. It is my favourite part of the manuscript. Rowman: Did many of the airmen who successfully evaded capture return to Europe after the war, to retrace their steps? Lanning: In the latter days of the war and in its immediate aftermath, MIS-X assisted successful evaders in contacting their helpers. This resulted in correspondence and later, when time and finances were available, many evaders did return to Europe to visit and thank their helpers. Exact numbers are not known but it likely easily numbers over one hundred. A few helpers also made their way to the States to visit “their airmen.” Rowman: Are there any other little-discussed elements of WWII, or any other conflict, you’d like to research and write about? Lanning: I have been emailing with (my editor) Dave Reisch on several topics related to WWII. I also have many other ideas for books on military and other matters. In fact, am traveling to Kansas next week to take a look at some archives that might make a book. ______________________________________
Above: The book’s cover Above left: German-occupied Europe, 1942
Michael Lee Lanning’s The Blister Club: The Extraordinary Story of the Downed American Airmen Who Escaped to Safety in World War II (Hardback, 9780811739740, £22.95) publishes December 2021.
Below left: Occupied Paris, 1940s. Travelling through Paris was an often essential - though risky - venture for fallen airmen
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Air Apaches
The Fighting Corsairs
By Jay Stout
By Jeff Dacus
Historian and aviator Jay Stout follows up his spellbinding account of the U.S. 303rd Bomb Group—Hell’s Angels—with the equally remarkable story of the Air Apaches in the Pacific. Air Apaches reconstructs the war of the 345th Bomb Group in impressively painstaking detail, capturing what it was like to be one of the young men flying low-level bombing and strafing missions and—if the missions weren’t dangerous enough—facing such challenges as kamikaze attacks and, if a pilot was shot down, primitive jungle conditions and a sword-brandishing enemy who did not treat downed airmen by the letter of the Geneva Convention. Air Apaches is more than the story of one unit in aerial combat in World War II. It is the story of men at war across all of history.
From a historian and columnist in Leatherneck and Armor magazines, this is the exciting, personal account of a Marine fighter squadron in the South Pacific during the critical days of 1943 when the tide turned against the Japanese. Based on individual interviews and wartime documents, this is a thrilling narrative of the Marines who lived, and died, during the toughest battles of the entire war. It looks at the war through the eyes of some of the greatest fighter pilots of all time, including Bob Hanson, the “Maharajah of Rabaul,” and highest scoring Corsair pilot in history.
The True Story of the 345th Bomb Group and Its Low, Fast, and Deadly Missions in World War II
Jay A. Stout is a retired Marine Corps fighter pilot with more than 4,500 flight hours and 37 combat missions during Operation Desert Storm. Stackpole Books April 2019 • 432 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3801-9 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6809-2 • $28.50 / £21.95
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The Men of Marine Fighting Squadron 215 in the Pacific during WWII
Jeff Dacus is a retired Master Sergeant of Marines who experienced tank combat in Operation Desert Storm. He is also a retired schoolteacher who taught U.S. history for 35 years and as an adjunct professor at the University of Portland, USA. Lyons Press October 2022 • 296 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6670-4 • $19.95 / £14.95 Hardback (2021) 978-1-4930-5508-1 • $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5509-8 • $19.00 / £14.95
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Fly Boy Heroes
The Stories of the Medal of Honor Recipients of the Air War against Japan By James H. Hallas Fly Boy Heroes is the story of the Pacific theater of World War II through the men who received the Medal of Honor in the air war against Japan. They included pilots and crewmen manning fighters, dive-bombers, flying boats and bombers. Some shot down large numbers of enemy aircraft in aerial combat. Who were these now largely forgotten men? Where did they come from? What inspired them to rise “above and beyond”? What, if anything, made them different? Virtually all had one thing in common: they always wanted to fly. They came from a generation that revered the aces of World War I, like Eddie Rickenbacker, the civilian flyer Charles Lindbergh, and the lost aviator Amelia Earhart—and then they blazed their own trail during World War II. James H. Hallas is a graduate of the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, USA, and was in the newspaper business for nearly forty years as reporter, editor, and publisher.
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Flying American Combat Aircraft of World War II 1939-45 2021 Edition
Edited by Robin Higham, Abigail T. Siddall and Carol Williams Riveting, first-person accounts that put the reader in the cockpit. Dozens of photographs of the planes and the pilots that flew and fought in the skies from Tokyo to Berlin. Find out what it was like to fly some of the all-time classic aircraft of World War II, including the P-51 Mustang, B-17 Flying Fortress, P-47 Thunderbolt, P-38 Lightning, P-40 Kittyhawk, and many more! Robin Higham served in the Royal Air Force during World War II and was a professor of history at Kansas State University, USA. The former editor of Aerospace Historian, he wrote or edited numerous works on aviation history. Stackpole Books October 2021 • 368 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-3987-0 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-0-8117-7011-8 • $23.50 / £17.95
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Gunslingers
Allied Fighter Boys of WWII By James P. Busha There have been many books written about the development of US airpower and the technological specifications of each American or Allied aircraft of WWII. This is not one of them. This book focuses on the young men who answered the call to duty and were literally transformed from “farm boys to fighter pilots.” It offers a rare glimpse of what it was like to fly a variety of frontline fighters in World War II, including P-39 Aircobras, P-40 Warhawks, P-38 Lightnings, P-47 Thunderbolts and P-51 Mustangs, among many others. James P. Busha, an experienced pilot and aviation writer who has been with the Experimental Aircraft Association since 2014. Lyons Press May 2022 • 328 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-6369-7 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6370-3 • $28.50 / £21.95
The Hidden Hindenburg
The Untold Story of the Tragedy, the Nazi Secrets, and the Quest to Rule the Skies By Michael McCarthy By the author of Ashes Under Water, here is one of the great untold stories of World War II. The Hidden Hindenburg at last reveals the cause of aviation’s most famous disaster and the duplicity that kept the truth from coming to light for three generations. It also finally catches up with a German legend who misled the world about the Hindenburg to bury his own Nazi connections. Drawing on previously unpublished documents from the National Archives in Washington, along with archival collections in Germany, this definitive account explores how the Hindenburg was connected to the Dachau concentration camp, a futuristic German rocket that terrified the Allies and a classified project that imported Nazi scientists to America after the war. Michael McCarthy worked for twenty-two years for the Wall Street Journal, as a reporter and editor in New York and Chicago. Lyons Press September 2022 • 328 pages
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Operation Tidal Wave
The Bloodiest Air Battle in the History of War By Vincent dePaul Lupiano Operation Tidal Wave tells the story of the bloodiest air battle in the history of war. It is about 1700 airmen who set out to bomb the oil refineries surrounding the city of Ploesti, Romania, on August 1, 1943. Success, they thought, would be a force in ending the war. Success instead was extremely limited and 500 airmen were killed, wounded, captured, or interned. Negligible damage resulted at the Ploesti refineries, and a few months later they were operating at one-hundred percent capacity. To show the asperity of the raid, five Congressional Medals of Honor were awarded, two posthumously. Vincent Lupiano is a specialist in corporate communications and speechwriting. For ten years, he was a speechwriter at IBM for senior executives and a script writer/film producer director for IBM corporate films. He was also a senior editor for an IBM management. Stackpole Books September 2020 • 320 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3855-2 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6851-1 • $28.50 / £21.95
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The Paratrooper Generals
Matthew Ridgway, Maxwell Taylor, and the American Airborne from D-Day through Normandy By Mitchell Yockelson Generals during World War II usually stayed to the rear, but not Matthew Ridgway and Maxwell Taylor. During D-Day and the Normandy campaign, these commanders of the 82nd “AllAmerican” and the 101st “Screaming Eagle” Airborne Divisions refused to remain behind the lines and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with their paratroopers in the thick of combat. The Paratrooper Generals is the first book to explore in depth the significant role these two division commanders played on D-Day, describing the extraordinary courage and leadership they demonstrated throughout the most important American campaign of World War II. Mitchell A. Yockelson is a military historian and archivist who has received the Army Historical Foundation’s Distinguished Writing Award. Lyons Press February 2021 • 272 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-5372-8 • $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5373-5 • $26.50 / £19.95
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Setting the Rising Sun
Halsey’s Aviators Strike Japan, Summer 1945 By Kevin A. Mahoney Setting the Rising Sun focuses on the U.S. Third Fleet’s carrier-based fighters during the last months of World War II. Kevin Mahoney recounts this vital period of the Pacific War, drawing on both American and Japanese perspectives to reconstruct intense combat missions and place them in the context of a war that was hurtling toward its conclusion. Kevin A. Mahoney, who holds degrees from George Washington University and Georgetown, USA, is an author and researcher with more than twenty years of experience in the history and museum fields. Stackpole Books June 2019 • 368 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-3842-2 • $32.95 / £25.00 eBook 978-0-8117-6842-9 • $31.00 / £23.95
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Solo into the Rising Sun
The Dangerous Missions of a U.S. Navy Bomber Squadron in World War II By Ed Kittrell When we think about World War II bombers, we picture formations of scores of bombers, escorted and protected by fighters, flying into enemy territory. In Europe and usually the Pacific, this was the standard approach, but some bomber squadrons flew a different kind of mission. This was the case for VPB-117 – the Blue Raiders – unique not only because its B-24 Liberators flew for the U.S. Navy and not the Army, but also because most of the Raiders’ missions entailed bombers venturing out over the Pacific, alone, to seek and destroy on longrange missions of a thousand miles out and a thousand back, often at altitudes close enough for sea spray to cloud their windows.
Target: America
Hitler’s Plan To Attack The United States By James Duffy “A solid analysis of Hitler’s wartime plans to invade the United States.” — World War II Magazine Did Hitler mean to pursue a conquest greater than Europe? In this startling reassessment of Hitler’s strategic aims, military historian James P. Duffy argues that Hitler intended to attack America once he had achieved his ambitions in the Eurasian heartland. Detailed here for the first time are the Third Reich’s plans for worldwide deployment of secret weapons emerging from wartime research. Duffy also recounts other Axis schemes to attack American cities through the use of multistage missiles, submarine-launched rockets, and suicide missions against ships in the New York harbor.
Ed Kittrell is a journalist who holds a master’s in journalism from Northwestern University, USA, and who worked as a newspaper reporter.
James P. Duffy is the author more than fifteen books, most on military history, including Hitler’s Secret Pirate Fleet: The Deadliest Ships of World War II and Target Hitler: The Plots to Kill Adolf Hitler.
Lyons Press August 2020 • 256 pages
Lyons Press February 2021 • 208 pages
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Churchill, Roosevelt and Company Studies in Character and Statecraft By Lewis E. Lehrman
“Rich in historical immediacy, Churchill, Roosevelt & Company demonstrates how generals, diplomats, spies, businessmen, economists, and other key figures served the needs of both Prime Minister and President in their unyielding defense of democratic government. Not least, the book delivers a powerful reminder of the contingent role of human interaction and personal chemistry in determining the course of historical events.”—Prof. Richard Carwardine, Rhodes Professor of American History at the University of Oxford, UK “I didn’t think much more of genuine value could be written about this glittering galere—one of the great ‘genius clusters’ of history—but this well-researched, well-written and profoundly thoughtful book proves me wrong.”—Prof. Andrew Roberts, King’s College London, author of Masters and Commanders: How Churchill, Roosevelt, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West
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Synthesizing an impressive variety of sources from memoirs and letters to histories and biographies, Lewis E. Lehrman explains how the Anglo-American alliance worked—and occasionally did not work—by presenting portraits and case studies of the men who worked the back channels and back rooms, the generals and the admirals, the secretaries and under secretaries, ambassadors and ministers, responsible for carrying out Roosevelt’s and Churchill’s agendas while also pursuing their own. Lewis E. Lehrman was presented the National Humanities Medal at the White House for his work on American history.
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Generals of the Bulge
Leadership in the U.S. Army’s Greatest Battle By Jerry D. Morelock, Foreword by Carlo D’Este, Introduction by Martin Blumenson
“This is great: One of the best books about the U.S. Army in World War II is revised, and made better. You can’t understand the war without reading this.” — Thomas E. Ricks, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Fiasco and The Generals The Battle of the Bulge lives in history as the U.S. Army’s largest and bloodiest battle of World War II. This innovative study of American military leadership in action during the battle examines the performance of six generals in the days and weeks after the German attack in December 1944. Generals covered include Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley, among other. Jerry D. Morelock, PhD, Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.), is a 1969 West Point graduate who served 36 years in uniform in numerous command and staff positions.
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Patton’s Last Gamble
The Disastrous Raid on POW Camp Hammelburg in World War II By Duane Schultz
“Students of military history, World War II, and Patton will find the book useful. Readers of all backgrounds will find the book a pleasure to read. The reader who finishes this book will learn more about Patton, World War II, and an obscure piece of its history.”—Military Review
Imprint: Stackpole Books
In March 1945, against the advice of his top subordinates, Gen. George Patton created a special task force to venture more than fifty miles behind enemy lines and liberate a POW camp near Hammelburg, Germany. The camp held some 1,500 American prisoners, including Patton’s son-in-law. Hampered by ambushes and a lack of fuel and even maps, the raid was a disaster, one of the worst mistakes of Patton’s legendary career. Out of some 300 men, only three dozen returned. Based on memoirs, diaries, combat reports, and interviews with survivors, Patton’s Last Gamble vividly recounts a mission Gen. Omar Bradley later said “began as a wild goose chase and ended in tragedy.”
Paperback 978-0-8117-7090-3 $21.95 / £16.95 Hardback (2018) 978-0-8117-1990-2 $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6595-4 $20.50 / £15.95
Duane Schultz is a graduate of Johns Hopkins, Syracuse, and American University, all USA. He has written for such magazines as World War II, World War II History and Military History Quarterly.
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Patton’s Madness
The Dark Side of a Battlefield Genius By Jim Sudmeier
“Impressively comprehensive. . . This portrait is neither a hagiography nor a hit job—the author does give Patton his due for all of his many virtues as a soldier, but he also punctures the mystique of invincibility that’s often seen in fawning biographies of the man.”—Kirkus
Imprint: Stackpole Books
Dwight Eisenhower called General George S. Patton “mentally unbalanced” and “just like a time bomb,” and indeed, the egotistical, mercurial, aggressive Patton is perhaps as well known for his questionable behavior and eccentric beliefs as for his daring battlefield exploits. In a brief but probing assessment of Patton’s life based on strong research in primary sources and knowledge of psychology, Jim Sudmeier considers the mind of Patton: what made this military genius tick? To what extent was Patton’s boldness and brilliance as a general, his willingness to welcome risk and danger, connected to his unstable personality? Sudmeier presents a myth-shattering reconsideration of one of military history’s most famous commanders.
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February 2020 280 pages
Jim Sudmeier is a scientist and writer. He holds degrees from Carleton College, USA and Princeton University, USA, has taught at UCLA, USA, and UC Riverside, USA, and has held a National Institutes of Health fellowship at University of Oxford, UK.
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Adolf Hitler
Alone against Hitler
By Steven P. Remy
By Jack Bray
Adolf Hitler was hardly the modern world’s only murderous tyrant and imperialist. Yet he and the regime he ruled over for 12 years exerted an enormous impact on the history of the 20th Century. We are still living with the consequences. Interpretations of his life and legacy continue to extert a range of influences – some beneficial and other deleterious – on our politics and popular culture.
“The Schuschnigg story is both fascinating and significant, throwing a unique light on one of the great crises of the past century. It needs to be much better known, and Jack Bray tells it fully and beautifully.”–G. J. Meyer, New York Times best-selling author of A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
A Reference Guide to His Life and Works
Adolf Hitler: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works captures Hitler’s life, his works, and legacy. It features a chronology, an introduction offers a brief account of his life, a dictionary section lists entries on people, places, and events related to him. A comprehensive bibliography offers a list of works by and about Hitler. Series: Significant Figures in World History
Kurt von Schuschnigg’s Fight to Save Austria from the Nazis
Alone Against Hitler tells the lesser-known but pivotal story of former Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg. As one of the first leaders to defy Adolf Hitler during the build-up to WWII, his is a story of lasting importance. Though young and untested upon entering office, von Schuschnigg courageously rejected the rising tide of Austrian Nazism, insisting on equal rights and respect for the Jewish minority.
Steven P. Remy is professor of History at the City University of New York, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, all USA.
Jack Bray was for many years a senior partner at the international law firm King & Spalding, and is now senior counsel there. Bray was regularly included in its annual list of Washington’s 30 best lawyers.
Rowman & Littlefield January 2022 • 294 pages
Prometheus July 2020 • 336 pages
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The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson The Baseball Legend’s Battle for Civil Rights during World War II By Michael Lee Lanning Eleven years before Rosa Parks resisted going to the back of the bus, a young black second lieutenant, hungry to fight Nazis in Europe, refused to move to the back of a U.S. Army bus in Texas and found himself court-martialed. The defiant soldier was Jack Roosevelt Robinson, already in 1944 a celebrated athlete in track and football and in a few years the man who would break Major League Baseball’s color barrier. This was the pivotal moment in Jackie Robinson’s pre-MLB career. Had he been found guilty, he would not have been the man who broke baseball’s color barrier. Had the incident never happened, he would’ve gone overseas with the Black Panther tank battalion—and who knows what after that. Having survived this crucible of unjust prosecution as an American soldier, Robinson—already a talented multisport athlete—became the ideal player to integrate baseball.
D-Day General
How Dutch Cota Saved Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944 By Noel F. Mehlo Jr. Norman Cota was a fighter—a fighting general, a D-Day general—and his contribution to D-Day will remain his rallying of demoralized troops and his blazing the trail toward the breakout and victory on Omaha. Ted Roosevelt Jr., who landed at Utah Beach, has always received credit as the D-Day general (like Cota, Roosevelt also demanded that he land on D-Day—and then died of a heart attack a month later), but Cota is the herogeneral of the day, having landed early on D-Day on bloody Omaha. Portrayed by Robert Mitchum in the grand D-Day film The Longest Day, Cota has not yet received his due—and there’s a campaign now afoot to award him a belated Medal of Honor. His story cries out to be told. Now, with the cooperation of the Cota family, Noel F. Mehlo Jr. tells the compelling story Dutch Cota on Omaha Beach, revealing new information and neverbefore-seen photos. Noel F. Mehlo Jr.’s career has spanned geology, transportation, and history.
Michael Lee Lanning, who graduated from Texas A&M, USA, served more than twenty years in the U.S. Army.
Stackpole Books July 2021 • 400 pages
Stackpole Books April 2022 • 296 pages
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From the Gridiron to the Battlefield
Minnesota’s March to a College Football Title and into World War II By Danny Spewak “Take it from a man who actually lived through and experienced those long ago times—this book has remarkably recaptured and eloquently reported what life was like for a young football player/ service man way back there during World War II.” —Marv Levy, Pro Football Hall of Fame, Class of 2001, U.S. Army Air Corps, 1943-1946 This book tells the story of the University of Minnesota’s remarkable 1941 football season as they chased a second consecutive national championship even as a divided country veered closer to total war, and chronicles the young players’ contributions to the war effort in the months and years that followed. Danny Spewak has a decade of experience as a news reporter at local television affiliates in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Buffalo, and midMissouri. Rowman & Littlefield November 2021 • 324 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-5762-6 • $35.00 / £27.00 eBook 978-1-5381-5763-3 • $33.00 / £25.00
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General of the Army
George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman By Ed Cray As the U.S. Army’s Chief of staff through World War II, George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959) organized the military mobilization of unprecedented number of Americans and shaped the Allied strategy that defeated first Nazi Germany, then Imperial Japan. As President Truman’s Secretary of State, and later as his Secretary of Defense during the Korean War, Marshall the statesman created the European Recovery Act (known as the Marshall Plan) and made possible the Berlin Airlift. Ed Cray, in this masterful biography, brings us face-to-face with a genuine American hero and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Ed Cray is the author of Chief Justice: A Biography of Earl Warren and Chrome Colossus: General Motors and Its Time, among other works. Lyons Press April 2020 • 864 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-4900-4 • $32.95 / £25.00 eBook 978-1-4616-6099-6 • $28.50 / £21.95
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Generals in the Making
How Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Their Peers Became the Commanders Who Won World War II By Benjamin Runkle Shakespeare famously wrote that some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Part military history and part group biography, Generals in the Making tells the amazing true story of how George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, George Patton and their peers became the greatest generation of senior commanders in military history. Benjamin Runkle is a former paratrooper and presidential speechwriter with a Harvard PhD and a Bronze Star from Operation Iraqi Freedom. He has served as an official in the US Department of Defense, as a director at the National Security Council, and as a professional staff member on the House Armed Services Committee.
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Hoover vs. Roosevelt
Two Presidents’ Battle over Feeding Europe and Going to War By Hal Elliott Wert Hoover vs. Roosevelt tells the story of how the U.S. entered World War II through the lens of Herbert Hoover. The debate over entering World War II before Pearl Harbor remains one of the most contentious in American history. Historian Arthur Schlesinger called it “the most savage political debate of my lifetime”—more vicious, that great scholar of American history thought, than the arguments over McCarthyism and Vietnam. Most accounts have focused on isolationism versus internationalism, Lindbergh versus Roosevelt, but the story is deeper and more complex than that and involves the transition of an older era of international relations—exemplified by Hoover, who believed in the Geneva Accord, the Hague Conventions, and public-private partnerships to address world crises—to the modern era of total war.
Stackpole Books October 2019 • 464 pages
Hal Elliott Wert, an Iowa native, is professor emeritus of history at the Kansas City Art Institute, USA.
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The Jagged Edge of Duty A Fighter Pilot’s World War II By Robert L. Richardson On the very first day of the invasion of Sicily, three months into his combat career, Allan Knepper flew his P-38 Lightning fighter in a squadron sent out to sweep the island and interdict German ground targets. Retreating German infantry unexpectedly pounded the American flyers. Knepper was one of two shot down; he was never found. Knepper’s story is the story-in-microcosm of thousands of American fighter pilots in World War II. Richardson recounts Knepper’s experiences from training through combat and uses them to discuss the aircraft, tactics and doctrine, training, base life, and aerial combat of the war. This is the intimate account of one pilot at war, but also the anatomy of the fighter-pilot experience in World War II. Robert Richardson lives in Spokane, Washington, USA. Stackpole Books November 2020 • 408 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-3960-3 • $21.95 / £16.95 Hardback (2017) 978-0-8117-1842-4 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6572-5 • $28.50 / £21.95
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The Medic
A World War II Story of Imprisonment, Hope, and Survival By Claire E. Swedberg From the Bataan Death March to Japanese prison camp to a “hell ship” and forced labor, American medic Henry Chamberlain survived the horrors of three and a half years of imprisonment during WWII. Claire Swedberg tells his story of excruciating hardship, abiding endurance, and transcendent courage beautifully, with great style and deep pathos. Claire E. Swedberg is an historical nonfiction author, journalist, and writing instructor. Stackpole Books August 2021 • 272 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3995-5 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6983-9 • $28.50 / £21.95
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The Partnership
George Marshall, Henry Stimson, and the Extraordinary Collaboration That Won World War II By Edward Farley Aldrich The Partnership shines a spotlight on two giants of U.S. history, Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Marshall and Secretary of War Henry Stimson, telling the fascinating stories of each man, the dramatic story of their collaboration to defeat the Axis—a master class in leadership and teamwork—and the epic story of the United States in World War II. Edward Farley Aldrich is an international banker and commodity specialist. Stackpole Books April 2022 • 528 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-7094-1 • $34.95 / £27.00 eBook 978-0-8117-7095-8 • $33.00
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Searching for Augusta
The Forgotten Angel of Bastogne By Martin King “One of the joys of studying history is that people emerge from the shadows whose actions that would otherwise have been forgotten demand our attention. One such is Augusta Chiwy, a Belgian nurse who found herself immersed in the horror of the Battle for Bastogne during Christmas 1944 and responded with spectacular courage and compassion. Chiwy’s story has now been revealed in full by the energetic researches of Martin King who has demonstrated that Chiwy should be counted as one of history’s true heroes.” —Peter Snow, Historian, Author, TV Presenter of 20th Century Battlefields Martin King is a highly qualified British Military Historian, author and lecturer who’s had the honor of reintroducing many US, British and German veterans to the WWII battlefields where they fought. He lives in Belgium, near Antwerp, where he spends his time writing, lecturing, working with veteran organizations and visiting European battlefields. Lyons Press April 2020 • 256 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-4942-4 • $16.95 / £12.95 eBook 978-1-4930-2908-2 • $14.99 / £11.95
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Barbed Wire University The Untold Story of the Interned Jewish Intellectuals Who Turned an Island Prison into the Most Remarkable School in the World By Dave Hannigan
“In Barbed Wire University, Dave Hannigan tells the remarkable but largely hidden story of a group of German Jewish artists and intellectuals who were interned by the British on the Isle of Man during World War II. His book is not only witty, highly readable, and entertaining from first page to last, but it fills in a gaping hole in our knowledge of how the British government responded to German aggression by imprisoning innocent men, most of them anti-Nazis, who had fled their homelands to seek refuge in Great Britain.” —David Nasaw, two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and author of, most recently, The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War Barbed Wire University tells the extraordinary tale of Winston Churchill’s internment of some of the most gifted Jewish refugee writers, professors, artists, and painters of their generation in a camp on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea. These were men who had fled Hitler’s Germany, found refuge in Britain, and then, in the hysteria of 1940, were held in captivity as a perceived security threat. They turned the camp— Hutchinson Camp—into a school, concert hall, and artistic community. Using memoirs and diaries, some of which have only recently become available in archives, Dave Hannigan pieces together a richly detailed account of what these remarkable men did during their time in captivity. This is a forgotten corner of World War II, and the way these men constructed a Bohemian idyll in the middle of the Irish Sea, their freedom taken from them, is an extraordinary tale of grit and creativity. Dave Hannigan is columnist with the Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland), the Evening Echo (Cork, Ireland) and the Irish Echo (New York, USA). ROWM A N .C O M
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The First Day on the Eastern Front
Germany Invades the Soviet Union, June 22, 1941 By Craig W.H. Luther
“Certainly the most complete, balanced, and, without question, the most thoroughly researched treatment of the first twentyone hours of Operation Barbarossa. Luther has captured the drama, shock, and devastation of those fateful hours like no one else. It is a powerful and enthralling read. Highly recommended.” —David Stahel, author of Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East “An extremely impressive, well-written, and well-researched account of a critical phase in the history of World War II in Europe. It addresses the first day of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941 in unprecedented detail, using both German and Russian primary materials. This book is a high-class offering.” —Jürgen Förster, contributor to Germany and the Second World War In the spirit of Martin Middlebrook’s classic First Day on the Somme, Craig Luther narrates the events of June 22, 1941, a day when German military might was at its peak and seemed as though it would easily conquer the Soviet Union, a day the common soldiers would remember for its tension and the frogs bellowing in the Polish marshlands. It was a day when the German blitzkrieg decimated Soviet command and control within hours and seemed like nothing would stop it from taking Moscow. Luther narrates June 22—one of the pivotal days of World War II—from high command down to the tanks and soldiers at the sharp end, covering strategy as well as tactics and the vivid personal stories of the men who crossed the border into the Soviet Union that fateful day. Craig Luther is a former Fulbright Scholar and is a recently retired U.S. Air Force historian. ROWM A N .C O M
Imprint: Stackpole Books January 2019 504 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3780-7 $39.95 / £31.00 eBook 978-0-8117-6765-1 $37.99 / £29.00
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The Pendulum
A Granddaughter’s Search for Her Family’s Forbidden Nazi Past By Julie Lindahl
“A book of immense courage, written with elegance and great power.” —Philippe Sands, author of East West Street, Professor at University College London, UK This gripping memoir traces Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahl’s journey to uncover her grandparents’ role in WWII as she is driven to understand why they became members of Hitler’s elite. Out of the unbearable heart of the story—the unclaimed guilt that devours a family through generations— emerges an unflinching will to learn the truth. Julie Lindahl is an author and educator living in Sweden. She is a contributor to WBUR Cognoscenti and has been featured on National Public Radio.
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield February 2022 256 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-5961-3 $19.95 / £14.95 Hardback (2019) 978-1-5381-1193-2 $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-5381-1194-9 $19.00 / £14.95
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Soldiers of Barbarossa
Combat, Genocide, and Everyday Experiences on the Eastern Front, June–December 1941 Edited by Craig W.H. Luther and David Stahel, Foreword by R. L. DiNardo
“David Stahel and Craig Luther, among the foremost experts on the German invasion of the Soviet Union, have assembled a dramatic, insightful, often shocking collection of accounts from more than two-hundred German soldiers who took part in the invasion. Soldiers of Barbarossa conveys the ferocity of the fighting, the harshness of the environment, the brutality of the Third Reich’s ideological ‘crusade’ in the East, and the calamity that befell the Wehrmacht as the Blitzkrieg failed for the first time. Students, experts, and laypeople alike will find Soldiers of Barbarossa compelling reading. ” —Ben Shepherd, author of Hitler’s Soldiers: The German Army in the Third Reich Operation Barbarossa—Germans versus Soviets in a no-holdsbarred battle for the soul of Europe—speaks to what it meant to be a soldier in World War II. Drawing from thousands of soldiers’ accounts, letters, and diaries, historians David Stahel and Craig Luther tell the story of Barbarossa but also the story of men at war in the twentieth century. Craig W.H. Luther is a former Fulbright Scholar and a retired U.S. Air Force historian. David Stahel teaches at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and the Australian Defence Force Academy.
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1943
Days of Peril, Year of Victory By Victor Brooks In this book, military historian Victor Brooks argues that the year 1943 marked a significant shift in the World War II balance of power from the Axis to Allied forces. Brooks presents a global narrative of the American experience of war during the year, ranging from the tiny blooddrenched island of Tarawa to the vast expanses of North Africa. At no other period was the course of the war in such precarious balance, the author argues, as both Axis and Allies possessed roughly equivalent power, and as both sides still had reasonable expectations that victory could be achieved. Victor Brooks teaches at Villanova University, USA, and is the author of several books. Lyons Press August 2021 • 248 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-4508-2 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-4930-4509-9 • $23.50 / £17.95
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The Battle of Prokhorovka The Tank Battle at Kursk, the Largest Clash of Armor in History By Christopher A. Lawrence The Battle of Kursk was one of the defining moments of World War II. In July 1943, German forces under Erich von Manstein--one of Germany’s best generals--launched a massive attack in an offensive code-named Citadel. A week later, the Soviets counterattacked, sparking a huge clash of tanks at Prokhorovka, the largest armor battle in history, pitting more than 600 Soviet tanks against some 300 German panzers. Though the Germans gained a tactical victory, destroying huge numbers of Soviet tanks, they failed to achieve their objectives, and in the end the battle marked a turning point on the Eastern Front. The Red Army gained the strategic initiative and would not lose it. Christopher A. Lawrence is president of The Dupuy Institute, an organization dedicated to scholarly research and analysis of military history and current armed conflict. Stackpole Books August 2019 • 656 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3807-1 • $44.95 / £35.00 eBook 978-0-8117-6812-2 • $42.50 / £33.00
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Blitzkrieg No Longer
D-Day
By Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.
By Nicholas A. Veronico
By 1943, the tide of World War II had started to turn against Germany. Defeated at Stalingrad, the Third Reich’s armies regrouped only to be defeated at Kursk. Elsewhere, the Germans surrendered in North Africa, met Allied invasions in Sicily and Italy, and saw their Luftwaffe and navy increasingly dominated by the Allies. The war would drag on for two more brutal years, but the end was now in sight. No longer could the Germans mount their feared blitzkrieg. Mitcham chronicles the turning-point year of 1943 with insight and drama.
Those who witnessed it never forgot it: the great armada of Allied ships that filled the English Channel on D-Day, June 6, 1944. From battleships, cruisers, and destroyers down to the much smaller landing ships and landing craft, these nearly 7,000 vessels bombarded the Normandy coast, ferried men, tanks, and equipment across the channel, and landed 150,000 troops—under withering German fire—on Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches in a single day. In numbers and scope, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. In this book, Veronico assembles photos of both the air and sea components of the D-Day invasion, giving the sailors and airmen their due and giving modern readers a vivid sense of what this monumental day was like in the air and at sea.
The German Wehrmacht in Battle, 1943
Samuel W. Mitcham Jr. is a former U.S. Army helicopter pilot. An internationally recognized authority on World War II and the Civil War, he has written numerous books. Rights: World, excl. UK Stackpole Books May 2019 • 320 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-3717-3 • $24.95 / £18.95 Hardback (2010) 978-0-8117-0533-2 • $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-0-8117-4206-1 • $26.99 / £20.95
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The Air and Sea Invasion of Normandy in Photos
Nicholas A. Veronico is public affairs officer for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and its SOFIA program (NASA’s airborne observatory). Stackpole Books August 2019 • 240 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3809-5 • $34.95 / £27.00 eBook 978-0-8117-6813-9 • $33.00 / £25.00
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Hitler’s Great Gamble
A New Look at German Strategy, Operation Barbarossa, and the Axis Defeat in World War II
The Men Who Killed the Luftwaffe
The U.S. Army Air Forces Against Germany in World War II
By James Ellman
By Jay A. Stout
“This startlingly original account places one of the key episodes of World War II in an entirely new light. Deeply researched and briskly written, it contradicts the standard view that Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union was an act of military madness. Ellman’s work reshapes our understanding of history--and shows how much remains to be learned about the 20th century’s great cataclysm.” — Stephen Kinzer, author of The True Flag and Poisoner in Chief
When World War II began, the United States’ air forces numbered only 45,000 men and a few thousand aircraft—hardly enough to defend the country, let alone defeat the German Luftwaffe, the world’s most formidable air force. Yet by war’s end, the Luftwaffe had been crushed, and the U.S. Army Air Forces had delivered the decisive blows. The Men Who Killed the Luftwaffe tells the story of the striking transformation—one of the marvels of modern warfare—that enabled the U.S. to crush the air forces of the Third Reich, while thrusting readers into whirling, heart-pounding accounts of aerial combat.
In Hitler’s Great Gamble, James Ellman argues that Barbarossa was a gamble, but a reasonable gamble spoiled not by strategic shortsightedness, but by diplomatic errors and poor execution. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources Hitler’s Great Gamble is a provocative work that will appeal to World War II enthusiasts and historians. James Ellman holds a bachelor’s degree in history and economics from Tufts University, USA, and an MBA from Harvard University, USA. Stackpole Books November 2019 • 272 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3849-1 • $34.95 / £27.00 eBook 978-0-8117-6848-1 • $33.00 / £25.00
Jay A. Stout is a retired Marine Corps fighter pilot with more than 4,500 flight hours and 37 combat missions during Operation Desert Storm. Stackpole Books February 2019 • 472 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-3716-6 • $24.95 / £18.95 Hardback (2011) 978-0-8117-0659-9 • $28.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-0-8117-4240-5 • $27.99 / £21.95
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Prelude to Stalingrad
The Red Army’s Attempt to Derail the German Drive to the Caucasus in World War II By Igor Sdvizhkov Edited and translated by Stuart Britton
In Prelude to Stalingrad, Igor Sdvizhkov reconstructs the fighting in the northern sector of the Case Blue offensive, near the city of Voronezh. Using German documents as well as previously classified Soviet sources, Sdvizhkov zooms in on the nine days of see-saw fighting—involving tens of thousands of men and hundreds of tanks and guns on both sides—that threatened to derail the German offensive north of Stalingrad. In response to the withdrawals and mass surrenders on the Eastern Front during the war’s early months a year before, Stalin ordered that no ground be given up, that his armies fight instead of pulling back, ensuring that the fighting would be brutal. Ultimately unsuccessful in denying the Germans a bridgehead on the Don River, the Red Army inflicted heavy losses. Igor Sdvizhkov is a graduate of Lipetsk Pedagogical Institute, Russia, and has taught at the secondary and university levels.
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Saving the Light at Chartres
How the Great Cathedral and Its Stained-Glass Treasures Were Rescued during World War II By Victor A. Pollak How Chartres Cathedral and its priceless stained glass survived World War II’s widespread destruction of cultural monuments is one of the great stories of recent history. Victor Pollak tells the story of how the cathedral’s treasures were spared and how an American soldier, Col. Welborn Griffith Jr., helped save it from destruction. Built around 1200 and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site that draws more than a million visitors and pilgrims each year, Chartres Cathedral is one of the jewels of Western Civilization. How Chartres Cathedral and its priceless stained glass (today the largest such collection in one location) survived World War II’s widespread destruction of cultural monuments is one of the great stories of recent history. Victor A. Pollak, an attorney in private practice as a partner in law firms in Chicago and Salt Lake City for more than thirty years, has received continuing professional recognition.
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Smashing Hitler’s Panzers
The Defeat of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division in the Battle of the Bulge By Steven Zaloga In his riveting new book, Steven Zaloga describes how American foot soldiers faced down Hitler’s elite armored spearhead—the Hitler Youth Panzer Division—in the snowy Ardennes forest during one of World War II’s biggest battles, the Battle of the Bulge. Zaloga carefully reconstructs how American G.I.s stymied Hitler’s panzers and grand plans. Steven Zaloga, an internationally recognized military historian, has written numerous books on the campaigns and tanks of World War II, including Armored Champion, Armored Thunderbolt, Armored Attack 1944, Armored Victory 1945 and Patton versus the Panzers. Stackpole Books January 2019 • 384 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3777-7 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6762-0 • $28.50 / £21.95
Stackpole Books May 2020 • 440 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3901-6 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6897-9 • $28.50 / £21.95
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Our People
Discovering Lithuania’s Hidden Holocaust By Rūta Vanagaitė and Efraim Zuroff
“Our People is a harrowing, but important, book that must be read. Uncompromising in its descriptions of the people who committed mass murder, of the Jewish communities they wiped out, of those who helped, and of those who stood by, it is also suffused with the humanity of the two narrators as they painfully learn what happened here in 1941 and what it means for a nation to face the truth of its murderous history.” —Philip Rubenstein, former director of the UK Parliamentary War Crimes Group This remarkable book traces the quest for the truth about the Holocaust in Lithuania by two ostensible enemies: Rūta, a descendant of the perpetrators; Efraim, a descendant of the victims. Rūta Vanagaitė, a successful Lithuanian writer, was motivated by her recent discoveries that some of her relatives had played a role in the mass murder of Jews and that Lithuanian officials had tried to hide the complicity of local collaborators. Efraim Zuroff, a noted Israeli Nazi hunter, had both professional and personal motivations. He had worked for years to bring Lithuanian war criminals to justice and to compel local authorities to tell the truth about the Holocaust in their country. The facts that his maternal grandparents were born in Lithuania and that he was named for a great-uncle who was murdered with his family in Vilnius with the active help of Lithuanians made his search personal as well. Rūta Vanagaitė became persona non grata in her homeland after this book was originally published in Lithuania. Efraim Zuroff is the chief Nazi hunter of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and director of the center’s Israel Office and Eastern European Affairs. A Holocaust historian, popular lecturer, and author, he lives in Jerusalem, Israel. ROWM A N .C O M
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Historical Dictionary of the Holocaust Third Edition
By Jack R. Fischel Beginning with the roots of antiSemitism in early Christian Europe, this book traces the evolution of the Jewish stereotype as the evil “other,” which culminated in Adolf Hitler’s war against the Jews, wherein he sought to eliminate through mass murder every Jewish man, woman and child. It includes most recent scholarship on the Holocaust which reflects the recent rise of NeoNazism, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia throughout the West. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of the Holocaust contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, issues, and events that led to the murder of six-million Jews, and millions of other groups by Nazi Germany. Series: Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest Jack R. Fischel is emeritus professor of history at Millersville University in Millersville, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Holocaust Fighters
Boxers, Resisters, and Avengers By Jeffrey Sussman “Holocaust Fighters is a powerful, moving, emotional, hard-hitting look at one of the darkest eras in history. It will brand its imprint in your mind and make you want to shout, ‘NEVER AGAIN!’”—Randy Gordon, host of Sirius XM’s “Friday Night Fights”, former New York State Athletic Commissioner and editor in chief of Ring Magazine This book shares the remarkable stories of boxers who had to fight for their lives while incarcerated in Nazi concentration camps. Alongside their stories are accounts of prisoners who resisted their captors and escaped the camps and those who sought revenge against the Nazis, creating a well-rounded portrait of those who fought against Nazi rule. Jeffrey Sussman is the author of 15 nonfiction books. Rowman & Littlefield December 2021 • 216 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-3982-0 • $36.00 / £28.00 eBook 978-1-5381-3983-7 • $34.00 / £26.00
Rowman & Littlefield May 2020 • 452 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-3015-5 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978-1-5381-3016-2 • $90.00 / £69.00
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Prelude to Stalingrad Marcus Levin, Norwegian Holocaust Humanitarian By Irene Levin Berman
“A Terrible and Terribly Interesting Epoch”
The Holocaust Diary of Lucien Dreyfus
In The Price of Survival: Marcus Levin, Norwegian Holocaust Humanitarian, Irene Levin Berman tells the story of her father’s heroic attempts to save the Jews of Norway, as well as hundreds of stateless refugees who had escaped other European countries in the 1930s, from deportation to Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Marcus Levin worked tirelessly to help Jews before and after the Nazis invaded Norway, and after the war he worked with the American Joint Distribution Committee and organizations in Norway such as the Jewish Social Unit to help find homes and jobs for the few Norwegian Jews who survived the concentration camps as well as about 600 stateless Displaced Persons. In 1962 Marcus Levin was awarded a gold Medal of Honor by King Olav of Norway in recognition of his efforts during WWII.
Edited by Alexandra Garbarini and Jean-Marc Dreyfus
Irene Levin Berman is author of We Are Going to Pick Potatoes: Norway and the Holocaust, the Untold Story and Norway Wasn’t Too Small: A Fact-Based Novel about Darkness and Survival.
Alexandra Garbarini is professor of history and Jewish studies at Williams College, USA.
Hamilton Books May 2019 • 112 pages Paperback 978-0-7618-7129-3 • $18.99 / £14.95 eBook 978-0-7618-7130-9 • $18.00 / £13.95
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“Lucien Dreyfus’s remarkable memoir of Jewish life in wartime France belongs on every bookshelf. Through the keen observations and sharp intellect of an insightful, acerbic Alsatian Jew taking refuge in southern France, we see the growing embrace of antisemitism in France on the one hand, and the courage and kindness of helpful neighbors on the other. Out of a deep knowledge of European culture and traditional Jewish texts, Dreyfus struggles to understand and give meaning to the events of his time. His memoir and the unusual story of the diary’s survival engages French history, Jewish culture, and the European tradition.” —Sara R. Horowitz, York University, UK
Jean-Marc Dreyfus is a professor at the University of Manchester and associate researcher at the Centre of History, SciencesPo Paris, France. Rowman & Littlefield January 2022 • 374 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-5502-8 • $49.00 / £38.00 eBook 978-1-5381-5503-5 • $46.50 / £36.00
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Avenging Pearl Harbor
The Saga of America’s Battleships in the Pacific War By Keith Warren Lloyd
Impeccably researched, Avenging Pearl Harbor is colorfully written, personal, chilling, visceral.
Imprint: Lyons Press
Historian Keith Warren Lloyd brings his gift for injecting life and personalities and heretofore untold stories of the men and women involved-–members of what became known as The Greatest Generation—whose heroism and sacrifice brought about the miraculous new life of a sleeping military force that was reeling and on its knees.
January 2022 352 pages
It is a story has never before been told in such detail and with such vibrancy.
Hardback 978-1-4930-5866-2 $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5867-9 $28.50 / £21.95
Keith Warren Lloyd is an author and historian, a U.S. Navy veteran, and a professional firefighter. Lloyd graduated from Arizona State University, USA, with a degree in Liberal Studies with an emphasis on history and political science.
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Uncommon Valor on Iwo Jima
The Stories of the Medal of Honor Recipients in the Marine Corps’ Bloodiest Battle of World War II By James H. Hallas
When the smoke cleared on Iwo Jima in March 1945, 19,000 American Marines had been wounded and 7,000 were dead, a casualty rate of nearly 39 percent. Lasting over a month, Iwo was the Marines’ bloodiest battle of the war and the only Pacific battle in which a U.S. landing force suffered more casualties than it inflicted. It was also the most highly decorated single engagement in Marine Corps history. This book focuses on the twenty-two Marines and five Navy personnel who received the Medal of Honor and the actions that earned the award. It provides accounts of men at war showing gallantry under fire in one of the country’s most storied engagements. James H. Hallas is a graduate of the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, USA, and has been in the weekly newspaper business for more than thirty years as reporter, editor, and publisher.
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Imprint: Stackpole Books November 2020 424 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-3959-7 $21.95 / £16.95 Hardback (2016) 978-0-8117-1795-3 $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6528-2 $28.50 / £21.95
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The Battle of Okinawa The Blood And The Bomb By George Feifer More people perished during the battle of Okinawa than in the ensuing bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. The Battle of Okinawa offers a stunning account of the last major campaign of World War II and the largest land-seaair engagement in history. Superbly researched and extraordinarily detailed, this masterpiece of military history is told at the level of the participants themselves, soldiers and civilians alike. In examining the disastrous collision of three disparate cultures—American, Japanese, and Okinawan—this book provides an unforgettable picture of men at war and also the context for understanding one of the most ominous events of this century: the decision to drop the atomic bomb. George Feifer has worked as a journalist, novelist, and translator in the United States, England and the former Soviet Union. Rights: World excl. UK Lyons Press March 2020 • 528 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-4875-5 • $22.95 / £17.95
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Crash Boat
Rescue and Peril in the Pacific During World War II By George D. Jepson This is the compelling story of an American crash boat crewed by unknown heroes during World War II in the South Pacific, whose dramatic rescues of downed pilots and clandestine missions off Japanese-held islands were done at great peril and with little fanfare. It chronicles ordinary young men doing extraordinary things, told to George D. Jepson by Earl A. McCandlish, commander of the 63-foot crash boat P-399. Nicknamed Sea Horse, the vessel and her crew were credited with over 30 rescues, fought a fierce gun battle with enemy forces, experienced life from another age in isolated native villages, were ordered on boondoggle missions, and played a supporting role in America’s return to the Philippines. George D. Jepson, editorial director for McBooks Press, previously worked as a journalist and corporate communicator. Lyons Press June 2021 • 248 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-5923-2 • $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5924-9 • $26.50 / £19.95
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Long Day’s Journey into War
Pearl Harbor and a World at War - December 7, 1940 By Stanley Weintraub
Long Day’s Journey Into War recaptures the whirlwind events sweeping the globe on the calendar day that may be the most momentous of the twentieth century. In this riveting recreation, the vast, worldwide scope of the major turning point of World War II comes to unforgettable life. In the kaleidoscope of Stanley Weintraub’s narrative, events reveal themselves in dramatic hour-by-hour simultaneous time as scenes shift from frontlines to home fronts. Meticulously researched, startling in its revelations and in its juxtaposition of events, Long Day’s Journey Into War is gripping, riveting history. Stanley Weintraub was Evan Pugh Professor of Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University, USA.
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The Indestructible Man
The Incredible True Story of the Legendary Sailor the Japanese Couldn’t Kill By Don Keith and David Rocco Dixie Kiefer’s reputation for durability began at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he broke an ankle and shattered a kneecap while playing football. After anti-submarine duty in World War I, he became a pioneer of naval aviation and had an elbow shattered by a plane that buzzed him as a joke. Kiefer’s first World War II assignment was executive officer of the carrier Yorktown. He earned the Distinguished Service Medal at the Coral Sea and the Navy Cross at Midway, where—as his ship was sinking—he suffered severe burns to his hands and a compound fracture of his foot. After recuperating, Kiefer took command of the Ticonderoga. In January 1945, Japanese kamikazes struck the carrier, killing and wounding hundreds. Kiefer broke his arm —but remained on the bridge for twelve hours, earning the Silver Star. Don Keith is a journalist with decades of experience across various media.
Saipan
The Battle That Doomed Japan in World War II By James H. Hallas The story of the Battle of Saipan has it all. Marines at war: on Pacific beaches, in hellish volcanic landscapes in places like Purple Heart Ridge, Death Valley, and Hell’s Pocket, under a commander known as “Howlin’ Mad.” Naval combat: carriers battling carriers from afar, fighters downing Japanese aircraft, submarines sinking carriers. Marinearmy rivalry. Fanatical Japanese defense and resistance. A turning point of the Pacific War. James Hallas reconstructs the full panorama of Saipan in a way that no recent chronicler of the battle has done. In its comprehensiveness, attention to detail, scope of research, and ultimate focus on the men who fought and won the battle on the beaches and at and above the sea, this is the definitive military history of the Battle of Saipan. James H. Hallas is a graduate of the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, USA, and has been in the weekly newspaper business for more than thirty years as reporter, editor, and publisher.
David Rocco retired from the New York Housing Authority after a career of twenty years.
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Scrimmage for War
Sea Cobra
By Bill McWilliams
By Buckner F. Melton Jr.
This is a different kind of war story, blending battle and gridiron—along with a strong dose of human interest, of college-aged young men unexpectedly caught up in the world war. This is a story of war and football, of Pearl Harbor and the first moments of the U.S. in World War II. It is a story of the very first days of World War II as experienced by a group of young men who witnessed it firsthand— and would soon be fighting it (indeed, who were already fighting it). This is a story of heroism, courage, self-sacrifice and duty in the maelstrom of war.
Sea Cobra tells the dramatic story of the ships and men of the famed Fast Carrier Task Force as fate lands them squarely in the path of this killer typhoon. Using survivors’ interviews and other firsthand accounts, seasoned historian and author Buckner F. Melton Jr. tells the story of a modern fleet encountering one of the most destructive forces of nature. As bomb- and gasoline-laden aircraft carriers—and destroyers critically low on fuel—are overtaken by towering waves and hundred-plus-knot winds, the fleet is pushed to the brink of disaster. Melton recounts the many heroic efforts in the fleet’s struggle to survive, and he also examines the ensuing court inquiry ordered by Admiral Chester Nimitz, as officials sought to make sense of this perilous mission.
A Story of Pearl Harbor, Football, and World War II
Bill McWilliams graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and went on to join the U.S. Air Force and complete a combat tour of 128 missions in Vietnam. He has written for numerous newspapers in California, Nevada, Texas and New Mexico. Stackpole Books December 2019 • 400 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3867-5 • $34.95 / £27.00 eBook 978-0-8117-6873-3 • $33.00 / £25.00
Admiral Halsey’s Task Force and the Great Pacific Typhoon
Buckner F. Melton Jr. is a historian and a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence and University Press Fellow at Mercer University, USA. Lyons Press November 2021 • 344 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5776-4 • $19.95 / £14.95 Hardback (2007) 978-1-59228-978-3 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-4617-4912-7 • $19.00 / £14.95
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Thunder on Bataan
The First American Tank Battles of World War II By Donald L. Caldwell “Thunder on Bataan is remarkable for its sharp descriptions of the desperate and little-known tank battles that ended only when Corregidor was surrendered. But it is equally remarkable for setting context, and for making the men who fought them—and who subsequently suffered horribly at the hands of their Japanese captors—real and believable. Thunder on Bataan is well-told history and is highly recommended.” —Jay A. Stout, LtCol (Ret), USMC, author of Air Apaches In an evocatively written book that conjures the sights, sounds, and smells of battle in the Philippines, Donald Caldwell brings to life the short but consequential combat history of the Provisional Tank Group—the first American armored unit to do battle in WWII—and tells the stories of the men who did the fighting and endured the harsh consequences. Donald L. Caldwell has been researching World War II for more than thirty years. He has written widely on the German Luftwaffe. Stackpole Books June 2019 • 320 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3771-5 • $32.95 / £25.00 eBook 978-0-8117-6741-5 • $31.00 / £23.95
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To Hell and Back
The Last Train from Hiroshima By Charles Pellegrino “I have travelled with Pellegrino to Japan to visit survivors of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Among that community he is well respected and considered an important voice for the history of these events. Pellegrino combines intense forensic detail—some of it new to history—with unfathomable heartbreak. The author unflinchingly chronicles these most devastating events in Japan, the only times nuclear weapons have been used against human beings, and begs us to hold hands and to pray that it never happens again. ” —James Cameron To Hell and Back offers readers a stunning, “you are there” time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino’s close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most authoritative ever written. Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspective Charles Pellegrino is the author of numerous books, including the New York Times bestseller Her Name. Rowman & Littlefield April 2019 • 448 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-2178-8 • $19.95 / £14.95 Hardback (2015) 978-1-4422-5058-1 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-4422-5983-6 • $18.50 / £13.95
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Atomic Bomb Island
Poisoning the Pacific
By Don A. Farrell
By Jon Mitchell, Foreword by John W. Dower
Tinian, the Last Stage of the Manhattan Project, and the Dropping of the Atomic Bombs on Japan in World War II
“Atomic Bomb Island is a triumph. It is based on extremely deep research that provides a new and vivid account of the servicemen and scientists who prepared and delivered of the atomic bombs to Hiroshima and Nagasaki from Tinian. It is packed with details and important insights about this vital, but little understood component of the Manhattan Project. The narrative makes many individual participants come to life and devolves into some highly fraught clashes among them that had material consequences in the course of history.” —Richard Frank, author of Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire Don A. Farrell has been researching the history of the Mariana Islands for forty years and has written ten previous books on the subject. Stackpole Books March 2021 • 464 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3961-0 • $39.95 / £31.00 eBook 978-0-8117-6931-0 • $38.00 / £29.00
The US Military’s Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange
Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, Second Place “Mitchell catalogues in detail the present-day victims of the poisoned Pacific: indigenous residents of Okinawa and various Pacific islands, forced to help clean up chemical spills, drink contaminated water, and deal with ruined soil and rampant disease; the waters of the Pacific Ocean itself, containing thousands of liters of leaking contaminated barrels; the unprotected American military personnel and their families stationed in Japan and exposed to dangerous chemicals that cause birth defects and cancer.”—Japan Times Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives Jon Mitchell is an investigative journalist with the Okinawa Times and winner of the 2015 Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan’s lifetime achievement award for press freedom. Rowman & Littlefield December 2020 • 320 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-3033-9 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-5381-3034-6 • $23.50 / £17.95
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