Bøger i Texas A&M University Military History Series serien

Late in 1940, the young men of the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment stepped off the trucks at Camp Bowie in Brownwood, Texas, ready to complete the training they would need for active duty in World War II. This title includes personal memoirs and oral history interviews of the "Lost Battalion" members.

Drawing on rare US Air Force files, recently declassified documents from the National Archives, records released since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the memories of airlift veterans themselves, Roger G. Miller provides an original study of the Berlin Airlift.

Recounts the last high-casualty US action in the Vietnam War. This work presents a look at soldiers who performed in exemplary fashion under terrible circumstances.

At the end of the Great War, the US Army faced the challenge of integrating what it had learned in its war effort. This work traces the military's developments between the world wars through an examination of the army's primary doctrine manuals, the Field Service Regulations.

The army that engineered Mexico's independence was a melting pot of insurgent and royalist forces held together by the lure of rapid promotions and other military remuneration. William A. DePalo, Jr., studies the birth and tumultuous adolescence of the Mexican National Army.

A look at one of the US Army's bloodiest nightmares of World War II. In late 1944-1945, as the American army advanced into the woods south east of Aachen, Germany, they encountered a forest bristling with German troops. Unit after unit were subsequently chewed up by German infantry and artillery.

From chaotic security planning to personal debates on the principles of democracy, the authors discuss how Iraqis perceived the value of their first post-Saddam elections and the political future of their country as it tries to reinvent itself in the wake of a dictator's fall. It gives a personal perspective on the second stage of the war in Iraq.

Examines how civil rights advocates' demands for equal opportunity shaped the U S Naval Academy's evolution. This book analyzes how changes in the Academy's policies and culture affected the lives of black midshipmen, as well as how black midshipmen effected change in the Academy's policies and culture.

Col James V. Young spent almost 20 years in Asia, including 14 in Korea. In this text, he writes with the expertise of an old Korea hand about a period that saw South Korea develop from an agrarian economy to a modern industrial state.

Earning glory on the fields of battle, Simon Bolivar, who fought to free South America from Spanish rule from 1810 to 1826, was one of the most influential figures in Latin American history. This book covers his whole story, drawing from writings left by Bolivar, his allies and his enemies.

In this consideration of combat leadership, Kenneth E. Hamburger details the actions of the units involved in the Korean War battles of Twin Tunnels and Chipyong-ni in February 1951. He offers stories of men sustaining themselves and one another to the limits of human indurance.

Between 1950 and 1953, 138,600 US Army National Guardsmen were called up for federal service. This text explores some of the more obscure aspects of the Korean conflict, focusing on what it meant to be a citizen-soldier caught up in an international struggle that raged both hot and cold.

The stories of three survivors of the Vietnam War. Huynh Van Chinh and Tran Van Phuc, who had been colonels in the Army of Vietnam, lived through the torture of the ""reeducation camps"" and finally found freedom in America. Le Nguyen Binh tells of his dangerous escape from Vietnam.

Examines the economic, political, and cultural factors that influenced the unfolding of the fight for the Italian peninsula. This study provides documentation highlighting Axis defensive operations in Sicily, their takeover of Italy, and the internment of the Italian army along with data on economic conditions in German-occupied northern Italy.