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University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. Three quarters of a century later, the question persists: What kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? Where some historians have found explanations in the power of Hitler or the role of ideology, Robert M. Citino, the world's leading scholar on the subject, posits a more straightforward solution: Bewegungskrieg, the way of war cultivated by the Germans over the...
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Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"Victory in Vietnam is the People's Army of Vietnam's own account of two decades of struggle, now available for the first time in English. It is a definitive statement of the Vietnamese point of view concerning foreign intrusion in their country since before American involvement - and it reveals that many of the accepted truths in our own histories of the war are simply wrong."--BOOK JACKET.
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Series
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
On a cold day in early January 1864, Robert E. Lee wrote to Confederate president Jefferson Davis "The time is at hand when, if an attempt can be made to capture the enemy's forces at New Berne, it should be done." Over the next few months, Lee's dispatch would precipitate a momentous series of events as the Confederates, threatened by a supply crisis and an emerging peace movement, sought to seize Federal bases in eastern North Carolina. This book...
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Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House Burning, the author, a military historian argued that the conflict on the Korean peninsula in the middle of the twentieth century was first and foremost a war between Koreans that began in 1948. In the second volume of a monumental trilogy, he now shifts his focus to the twelve month period from North Korea's invasion of South Korea on June 25, 1950, through the end of June 1951, the most active phase of the...
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Stalingrad trilogy volume 1
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Stalingrad trilogy volume 2
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the inferno of combat that decimated the city of Stalingrad during the German offensive. The authors reconstruct the fighting hour by hour, street by street, and even building by building to reveal how Soviet defenders established killing zones throughout the city and repeatedly ambushed German spearheads.
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Stalingrad trilogy volume 3, 1
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2014]-
Language
English
Description
The campaign intended to secure the Wehrmacht's flanks had proven one front too many for the German Army. Now the offensive at Stalingrad, the epic lash that marked Germany's failure on the Eastern Front, was entering its grim final phase. In Book one of the third volume,, the "ground truth" to counter a half-century's worth of myth and misinformation of the beginning of the end of one of the most infamous battles of the Second World War and one...
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