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"Comprises ... second edition of the official Directory of U.S. Army museums [by Office of Military History, U.S. Dept. of the Army] ... and a guide to historic sites on Army posts and reservations." vii, 116 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm

"This Southern state trained more troops than any other state in the nation. Can one still find the military posts and shipyards, the cemeteries and memorials, the convalescent units and R & R facilities today? This volume describes in detail both the state's 20-plus military sites and the eight little-known North Carolina Prisoner of War camps"-- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) ...

This is the first full-length study in English of the political and strategic influence of one of France's most controversial military leaders, General Maurice Gamelin (1872-1958). Gamelin was reviled by many of his contemporaries and denigrated by two generations of historians as 'the man who lost the Battle of France' in 1940. Here Gamelin is reappraised in the context of the unstable civil-military ...

The emotional toll of war can be as debilitating to soldiers as hunger, disease, and injury. Beginning in World War I, in an effort to boost soldiers' morale and remind them of the stakes of victory, the American military formalized a recreation program that sent respectable young women and famous entertainers overseas. Kara Dixon Vuic builds her narrative around the young women from across the United ...

The film Kiku and Isamu (1959) was one of the first cinematic depictions of mixed-race children in postwar Japan, telling the story of two protagonists facing abandonment by two different Black GI fathers and ostracism from Japanese society. Bringing together studies of the representations of the Hapa Japanese experience in culture, Hapa Japan: Identities & Representations (Volume 2) tackles everything ...

As the forward base and staging area for all U.S. military operations in the Pacific during World War II, Hawaii was the "first strange place" for close to a million soldiers, sailors, and marines on their way to the horrors of war. But Hawaii was also the first strange place on another kind of journey, toward the new American society that would begin to emerge in the postwar era. Unlike the rigid ...

"The first ever attack on Australia by a foreign power occurred at Darwin on February 19, 1942. The town was attacked in broad daylight by 188 bombers, dive bombers and fighters from the same Japanese Carrier Task Force that, two months earlier, had brought the United States into the war at Pearl Harbour. As at Pearl Harbour, early warnings were ignored or misinterpreted. Eight ships were sunk, 243 ...

"La décennie 1996-2007 au Congo-Kinshasa/R-D Congo est caractérisée par des violences récurrentes qui tendent à structurer son devenir--notamment dans sa partie orientale. Entre conflits locaux et guerre régionale, les populations y ont été fort malmenées, les femmes principalement mais aussi les jeunes voire les enfants embrigadés dans les milices des petits ou grands seigneurs de guerre. ...

It has been widely believed that the discipline of psychology in Germany was attacked, or even ceased to exist, under National Socialism. Indeed, faced with political persecution and anti-Semitism, many of the leading minds of the field were forced to emigrate. Yet in The Professionalization of Psychology in Nazi Germany, Ulfried Geuter shows that, rather than disappearing, German psychology rapidly ...

"This book tracks the tortuous negotiations between Washington and London, with FDR juggling strong domestic isolationist sentiment and the mandates of third-term politics before making a deal in which the British allowed the U.S. use of certain sea bases in exchange for 50 destroyers. Shogan argues that a pernicious precedent was set, enabling chief executives to override constitutional guidelines ...

"The book tells the story, largely unknown to Western readers, of the Soviet home front during World War II. After Hitler's invasion in 1941, German troops conquered the heartland of Soviet industry and agriculture and turned the occupied territories into mass killing fields. In one of the greatest wartime feats in history, Soviet workers rapidly evacuated factories, food, and people thousands of miles ...