University Of Missouri Press: 246 books
In the Company of Generals
The World War I Diary of Pierpont L. Stackpole
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Pierpont Stackpole was a Boston lawyer who in January 1918 became aide to Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett, soon to be commander of the first American corps in France. Stackpole’s diary, published here for the first time, is a major eyewitness account of the American Expeditionary Forces’ experience...
Dogface Soldier
The Life of General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
On July 11, 1943, General Lucian Truscott received the Army's second-highest decoration, the Distinguished Service Cross, for valor in action in Sicily. During his career he also received the Army Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of...
Unjustly Dishonored
An African American Division in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
For nearly one hundred years, the 92nd Division of the U.S. Army in World War I has been remembered as a military failure. The division should have been historically significant. It was the only African American division of the American Expeditionary Forces in France. Comprised of nearly twenty-eight...
Soldiers and Statesmen
Reflections on Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Which generals were most influential in World War II? Did Winston Churchill really see himself as culturally "half American"? What really caused the break between Harry S. Truman and Dwight Eisenhower? In Soldiers and Statesmen, John S. D. Eisenhower answers these questions and more, offering...
American Girls, Beer, and Glenn Miller
GI Morale in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
"Cooke's examination of the Special Services and PX System during World War II, a subject previously overlooked by scholars, shows that these goods and services kept the armed forces' spirits up under the alienating conditions of global war."—Dennis Showalter, author of Patton and Rommel:...
Omar Nelson Bradley
America's GI General, 1893-1981
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
When Omar Nelson Bradley began his military career more than a century ago, the army rode horses into combat and had less than 200,000 men. No one had heard of mustard gas. At the height of his career, Bradley (known as “Brad” and “The GI’s General”) led 1.23 million men as commander of...
A Tale of Two Colonies
What Really Happened in Virginia and Bermuda?
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
In 1609, two years after its English founding, colonists struggled to stay alive in a tiny fort at Jamestown.John Smith fought to keep order, battling both English and Indians. When he left, desperate colonists ate lizards, rats, and human flesh. Surviving accounts of the “Starving Time” differ,...
Shades of Blue and Gray
An Introductory Military History of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
An introductory military history of the American Civil War, Shades of Blue and Gray places the 1861-1865 conflict within the broad context of evolving warfare. Emphasizing technology and its significant impact, Hattaway includes valuable material on land and sea mines, minesweepers, hand grenades,...
Yankee Warhorse
A Biography of Major General Peter Osterhaus
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
A German-born Union officer in the American Civil War, Maj. Gen. Peter Osterhaus served from the first clash in the western theater until the final surrender of the war. Osterhaus made a name for himself within the army as an energetic and resourceful commander who led his men from the front. He was...
Your Brother in Arms
A Union Soldier's Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
George P. McClelland, a member of the 155th Pennsylvania Infantry in the Civil War, witnessed some of the war’s most pivotal battles during his two and a half years of Union service. Death and destruction surrounded this young soldier, who endured the challenges of front line combat in the conflict...
Modernist Travel Writing
Intellectuals Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
As the study of travel writing has grown in recent years, scholars have largely ignored the literature of modernist writers. Modernist Travel Writing: Intellectuals Abroad, by David Farley, addresses this gap by examining the ways in which a number of writers employed the techniques and stylistic...
Rafts and Other Rivercraft
in Huckleberry Finn
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The raft that carries Huck and Jim down the Mississippi River is often seen as a symbol of adventure and freedom, but the physical specifics of the raft itself are rarely considered. Peter Beidler shows that understanding the material world of Huckleberry Finn, its limitations and possibilities, is...
by Ronald D. Srigley
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus’ contributions to political and cultural analysis make him one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. Camus’ writing has been heavily researched and analyzed in academia, with many scholars concentrating on the formal tri-part structure he adhered...
Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition
Explorations in Modern Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Twentieth-century political philosopher Eric Voegelin is best known as a severe critic of modernity. Much of his work argues that modernity is a Gnostic revolt against the fundamental structure of reality. For Voegelin, “Gnosticism” is the belief that human beings can transform the nature of reality...