A Guide to the Sources of United States Military History: Supplement II

Engineering & Transportation

Higham, Robin

Engineering

Shoe String Pr Inc

The third supplement to a guide published 15 years ago, marks, in essence 20 years of coverage of American military history, and reflects the efforts of the publisher and editors to provide recapitulation of important works noted in the original volume and the first two supplements. In 24 subject areas, contributing authors give their assessments and recommendations of works in their fields that have had special continuing value and influence; numbered lists of sources follow the commentaries. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

A Guide to the Sources of United States Military History: Supplement III

Archon Books

Making official history from all over the world accessible, this volume and its companion complement and bring Robin Higham's 1970 classic work, Official Histories, up to date. Each chapter, written by the staff of the relevant historical office, gives both historiographical background and information on the volumes published by that office. Covering the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific Rim, this volume provides a plethora of information, as does the companion volume on Europe, Russia, Africa, the Middle East, and India
Buried in official history volumes is a lot of fine and useful history, and official volumes deserve to be perused. This book will make those histories available to scholars and graduate students and will be especially useful to those concerned with military, social, and diplomatic history as well as medicine.

Official Military Historical Offices and Sources: Volume II: The Western Hemisphere and the Pacific Rim

History

Military

Greenwood

This book provides students, faculty, and general readers with specific information and insights into the ways in which official military history has been written and why. Coverage is international in scope. The volume serves as an introduction to two forthcoming books: Official Military Histories Since 1967: Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and India and Official Military Histories Since 1967: The Western Hemisphere and the Pacific Rim. Together, the three books will provide the only comprehensive source of information on historical offices and official histories since Robin Higham's classic book, Official Histories, was published in 1970.
Together, the three books will provide the only comprehensive source of information on historical offices and official histories since Robin Higham's classic book, Official Histories, was published in 1970.

The Writing of Official Military History: (Contributions in Military Studies)

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Praeger

History of air power, origins and concepts, First World was, Baptism of an ancillary service, inter war years, Second World War land based air power, Cold and Limited Warfare since 1945, legacy

Air Power a Concise History

St.Martin's Press

Soviet Aviation And Air Power: A Historical View

This book is the story of Russian aviation and Soviet Russia's progress in preparing its strength as an air power. It discusses the Russia-Germany connect post 1919, how Russians gained expertise from German know-how, and post World War II progress from Stalin to Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.

Kipp, Jacob W

Europe

Routledge

Product Description This book is the story of Russian aviation and Soviet Russia's progress in preparing its strength as an air power. It discusses the Russia-Germany connect post 1919, how Russians gained expertise from German know-how, and post World War II progress from Stalin to Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. About the Author "Robin Higham, professor of history at Kansas State University and editor of the publications Military Affairs and Aerospace Historian, is the author of Air Power: A Concise History, a selection of both the History Book Club and the Flying Book Club. Jacob W. Kipp, associate professor of history at Kansas State University, received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1970. Professor Kipp has been a Fulbright-Hays fellow in Poland, an IREX fellow in the USSR, and a Kosciuszko fellow in Poland. He has published articles on Russian and Soviet naval and administrative history in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Journal of Modern History, Military Affairs, and U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings."

Russian Aviation and Air Power in the Twentieth Century (Studies in Air Power)

In the light of new archival material the editors take a fresh look at Russian aviation in the twentieth century.

Hardesty, Von

Greenwood, John

Reference

Examines Britain's unsuccessful attempts in 1940 and 1941 to provide Greece with military aid

Diary of a Disaster: British Aid to Greece, 1940-1941

Americas

Univ Pr of Kentucky

On October 28, 1940, the Italian army under Benito Mussolini invaded Greece. The British had insisted on guaranteeing Greek and Turkish neutrality, despite the fact that Greece was never more than a limited campaign in an unlimited war as far as they were concerned. The British, however, were never quite sure that Greece was not their last foothold in Europe, and they harbored dreams of holding on to this last bastion of civilization and of protecting it with a diplomatic and military alliance―a Balkan bloc. These dreams bore little relation to military and economic realities, and so the stage was set for tragedy.In Diary of a Disaster, Robin Higham details the unfolding events from the invasion, though the Italian defeat and the subsequent German invasion, until the British evacuation at the end of April 1941. The Greek army, while tough, was small and based largely upon reserves. They were also largely equipped with obsolete French, Polish, and Czech arms for which there was now no other source than captured Italian materiel. Transportation was also lacking as Greece lacked all-weather roads over much of the country, had no all-weather airport, and only one rail line connecting Athens with Salonika and Florina in the north.Added to the woes of the Greek military, the British commander-in-chief for the Middle East, Sir Archibald Wavell, faced huge logistical challenges as well. Based in Cairo, he was responsible for a huge theatre of operation, from hostile Vichy French forces in Syria to the Boers in South Africa nearly six thousand miles away. His air force was comprised of only a handful of modern aircraft with biplanes and outdated, early monoplanes making up the bulk of his force. Radar was also unavailable to him. His navy was woefully short on destroyers and often incommunicado while at sea. While Wavell had roughly 500,000 men under his command, he was severely limited in how he could use them. The South Africans could only be deployed in East Africa and the Austrians and New Zealanders could not be employed without the consent of their home governments. In short, Churchill had instructed Wavell to offer support that he did not really have and could not afford to give to the Greeks.Higham walks readers through these events as they unfold like a modern Greek tragedy. Using the format of a diary, he recounts day-by-day the British efforts though the failure of Operation Lustre, which no one outside of London thought had any chance of stemming the Nazi tide in Greece.

University Press of Kentucky

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A Guide to the Sources of United States Military History: Supplement II

A Guide to the Sources of United States Military History: Supplement III

Official Military Historical Offices and Sources: Volume II: The Western Hemisphere and the Pacific Rim

The Writing of Official Military History: (Contributions in Military Studies)

Air Power a Concise History

Soviet Aviation And Air Power: A Historical View

Soviet Aviation And Air Power: A Historical View

Russian Aviation and Air Power in the Twentieth Century (Studies in Air Power)

Diary of a Disaster: British Aid to Greece, 1940-1941

Diary of a Disaster: British Aid to Greece, 1940-1941