Study prepared for U.S. Army War College Fourth Annual Conference on Strategy, "Strategy in Periods of Transition', February 1993. 40 p. ; 24 cm.

This history of World War II analyzes the factors that affected the war's outcome and the flawed Axis strategy that led to their defeat. It presents stories of many little-known individuals whose experiences displayed the epitome of courage and self-sacrifice. The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5 trillion, and claimed the lives of more than 50 million people. What were the factors ...

3. Aufl. 461 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

103 p. : krt. ; 19 cm.

At head of title: R.A. Hermes. 94 pages illustrations (maps) 23 cm

Deel II alleen op naam van M. Matloff. [2 dln.] : ill. ; 26 cm. + ill., krt.

5 preliminary leaves, 189, [1] pages plans, diagrams 22 cm

Profiles five-star general Douglas MacArthur, focusing on his contributions to military strategy and leadership, his role as an early proponent of the Air Force as an integral part of modern warfare, and his management of peace during the U.S. occupation of Japan. 1st ed. xviii, 198 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Met index. XVII, 364 p., [8] p. pl. : ill., krt. ; 24 cm.

156 pages 20 cm

"Nigel Hamilton's Mantle of Command drew on years of archival research and interviews to portray FDR in a tight close up, as he determined Allied strategy in the crucial initial phases of World War II. Commander in Chief reveals the astonishing sequel--suppressed by Winston Churchill in his memoirs--of Roosevelt's battles with Churchill to maintain that strategy. Roosevelt knew that the Allies should ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-188) and index. 192 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm.

Met lit. opg., index. xiii, 272 p. : ill. ; 22 cm

The civil rights movement that loomed over the 1950s and 1960s was the tip of an iceberg, the legal and political remnant of a broad, raucous, deeply American movement for social justice that flourished from the 1920s through the 1940s. This contentious mix of home-grown radicals, labor activists, newspaper editors, black workers, and intellectuals employed every strategy imaginable to take Dixie down, ...

1. Aufl. 240 pages : maps ; 22 cm

By exploring several historical cases (some as recent as the 1991 Persian Gulf War), the author examines why democratic and authoritarian governments alike will sometimes deliberately kill large numbers of civilians as a matter of military strategy. Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 2004. ix, 315 pages ; 25 cm.

Essays presented at the US Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., in April 1986. 348 pages : maps ; 23 cm

Discusses the resistance against the Nazis that developed in the year that followed Operation Valkyrie, the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944. Includes bibliographical references and index. 470 pages : illlustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Between July and December 1943, Japanese forces in Panay, the Philippines, perpetrated large-scale and widespread atrocities that deliberately targeted the civilian populace of the island. Houses were burned, crops destroyed, livestock slaughtered, and thousands of civilians of all ages and genders were killed. These atrocities were employed strategically as part of an anti-guerrilla campaign designed ...

Oorspr. uitg.: [S.l.] : Free Press, 1994. XII, 419 p., [8] p. pl. : ill. ; 25 cm

This text reassesses U.S. and Japanese strategy and offers interpretations of the Pacific War. Map on lining papers. xvi, 589 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.