Legacies of War – serie
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Eyewitness to Genocide
The Operation Reinhard Death Camp Trials, 1955-1966
Häftad, 2016
297 kr
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One of the deadliest phases of the Holocaust, the Nazi regime’s “Operation Reinhard” produced three major death camps–Belzec, Treblinka, and Sobibor–which claimed the lives of 1.8 million Jews. In the 1960s, a small measure of justice came for those victims when a score of defendants who had been …
Citizen of the Shadows
The Lives and Lies of Lothar Witzke
Av Paul D. Friedland, Robert N. Hornick
Inbunden, 2025
787 kr
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One of the most notorious German spies of the twentieth century, Lothar Witzke lived a life that reads like a thriller. Convicted of espionage in 1918, he was the only German spy sentenced to death by the United States during World War I. After the war, he was pardoned by President Calvin Coolidge, …
Change and Conflict in the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps Since 1945
Inbunden, 2014
719 kr
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Army chaplains have long played an integral part in America’s armed forces. In addition to conducting chapel activities on military installations and providing moral and spiritual support on the battlefield, they conduct memorial services for fallen soldiers, minister to survivors, offer counsel on …
D-Day Remembered
The Normandy Landings in American Collective Memory
Inbunden, 2016
403 kr
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D-Day, the Allied invasion of northwestern France in June 1944, has remained in the forefront of American memories of the Second World War to this day. Depictions in books, news stories, documentaries, museums, monuments, memorial celebrations, speeches, games, and Hollywood spectaculars have …
American War in Viet Nam
Cultural Memories at the Turn of the Century
Inbunden, 2017
403 kr
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After more than four decades, the Viet Nam War continues to haunt our national memory, culture, politics, and military actions. In this probing interdisciplinary study, Susan Lyn Eastman examines a range of cultural productions—from memorials and poetry to cinematic and fictional narratives—that …
World War I Memoirs of Robert P. Patterson
A Captain in the Great War
Häftad, 2019
232 kr
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A journalist once called Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson “the toughest man in Washington” for his fervid efforts in managing U.S. mobilization in World War II. The World War I Memoirs of Robert P. Patterson: A Captain in the Great War recounts Patterson’s own formative military …
William Howard Taft and the Philippines
A Blueprint for Empire
Inbunden, 2020
819 kr
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Born in Civil War–era Cincinnati in 1857, William Howard Taft rose rapidly through legal, judicial, and political ranks, graduating from Yale and becoming a judge while still in his twenties. In 1900, President William McKinley appointed Taft to head a commission charged with preparing the …
Peace in the Mountains
Northern Appalachian Students Protest the Vietnam War
Av Tom Weyant
Inbunden, 2020
587 kr
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Peace in the Mountains analyzes student activism at the University of Pittsburgh, Ohio University, and West Virginia University during the Vietnam War era. Drawing from a wide variety of sources including memoirs, periodicals, archival manuscript collections, and college newspapers such as The Pitt …
Arming America Through the Centuries
War, Business, and Building a National Security State
Inbunden, 2022
645 kr
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While many associate the concept commonly referred to as the 'military-industrial complex' with President Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1961 farewell address, the roots of it existed two hundred years earlier. This concept, as Benjamin Franklin Cooling writes, was 'part of historical lore' as a burgeoning …
Last Letter
A Father's Struggle, a Daughter's Quest, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust
Häftad, 2021
291 kr
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Born a German Jew in 1915, Rudy Baum was eighty-six years old when he sealed the garage door of his Dallas home, turned on the car ignition, and tried to end his life. After confronting her father's attempted suicide, Karen Baum Gordon, Rudy's daughter, began a sincere effort to understand the …
Pogiebait's War
A Son's Quest for His Father's Wartime Life
Häftad, 2023
368 kr
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Jack H. McCall Sr. was a born storyteller, an inveterate practical joker, and a proud Tennessean whose flaws included a considerable taste for candy, or “pogiebait” in Marine parlance. Like so many other able-bodied young people in on the eve of World War II, he decided to enlist in the wake of the …
Training for Atomic Warfare
US Army Doctrine and Education in the Early Cold War, 1945-1963
Av Brad Hardy
Inbunden, 2025
880 kr
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In the early days of the Cold War, the United States Army underwent a fundamental shift in its strategic thinking. While World War II was won on a doctrinal paradigm of combined arms, the US Army of the 1950s believed that atomic weapons would change how international conflicts were won and lost. …
Citizen of the Shadows
The Lives and Lies of Lothar Witzke
Av Paul D. Friedland, Robert N. Hornick
Häftad, 2025
352 kr
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One of the most notorious German spies of the twentieth century, Lothar Witzke lived a life that reads like a thriller. Convicted of espionage in 1918, he was the only German spy sentenced to death by the United States during World War I. After the war, he was pardoned by President Calvin Coolidge, …
Land of Dreams
An Immigrant's Journey from War-Torn Vietnam to America
Av C. L. Hoang
Häftad, 2026
214 kr
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Fifty years on from the Vietnam War, it can be easy to overlook the civilian lives that were forever changed by this endlessly debated global conflict. In Land of Dreams: An Immigrant's Journey from War-Torn Vietnam to America, author C. L. Hoang recalls memories of how the war dramatically …
Artifacts of War
The National Park Service and Stewardship of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection, 1982–1992
Inbunden, 2027
477 kr
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Designed by Maya Lin as a space for personal reflection rather than heroic triumph, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, dedicated in 1982, invited intimate acts of remembrance from the beginning. Visitors left deeply personal objects—sometimes thousands in a single week—at the wall: worn combat boots, …
Arming the Nation for War
Mobilization, Supply, and the American War Effort in World War II
Av Robert P. Patterson, Brian Waddell
Inbunden, 2014
568 kr
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A decorated World War I veteran, Federal Judge Robert P. Patterson knew all too well the needs of soldiers on the battlefield. He was thus dismayed by America’s lack of military preparedness when a second great war engulfed Europe in 1939–40. With the international crisis worsening, Patterson even …
