Peter B. Lane served two tours as a fighter pilot in Vietnam and
then earned his doctorate in Eastern European history from the University
of Washington. He teaches history at the University of North Texas
and specializes in European history and the Bosnian Crisis.
Ronald E. Marcello received his Ph.D. from Duke University and is
a professor of history at the University of North Texas and director of
the Oral History Program, whre he has conducted more than 1,000 interviews
with World War II veterans. Coeditor of three books dealing with oral history
and military history, his academic specialty is the Age of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Description:
Few works of military history are able to move between the battlefield
and academia. But Warriors and Scholars takes the best from both
worlds by presenting the viewpoints of senior, eminent military
historians on topics of their specialty, alongside veteran accounts
for the modern war being discussed. Editors Peter Lane and Ronald Marcello
have added helpful contextual and commentary footnotes for student readers.
The papers, originally from the University of North Texas's annual Military
History Seminar, are organized chronologically from World War II to the
present day, making this a modern war reader of great use for the
professional and the student. Scholars and topics include David Glantz
on the Soviet Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945; Robert Divine on the decision
to use the atomic bomb; George Herring on Lyndon Baines Johnson as
Commander-in-Chief; and Brian Linn comparing the U.S. war and occupation in
Iraq with the 1899-1902 war in the Philippines.
Veterans and their topics include flying with the Bloody 100th by John
Luckadoo; an enlisted man in the Pacific theater of World War II, by
Roy Appleton; a POW in Vietnam, by David Winn; and Cold War duty in Moscow,
by Charles Hamm.
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