University Press Of Kansas: 325 books
Thunder and Flames
Americans in the Crucible of Combat, 1917-1918
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2015
November 1917. The American troops were poorly trained, deficient in military equipment and doctrine, not remotely ready for armed conflict on a large scale—and they'd arrived on the Western front to help the French push back the Germans. The story of what happened next—the American Expeditionary...
The Morenci Marines
A Tale of Small Town America and the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
In 1966, nine young men left the Arizona desert mining camp of Morenci to serve their country in the far-flung jungles of Vietnam, in danger zones from Hue to Khe Sanh. Ultimately, only three survived. Each battled survivor's guilt, difficult re-entries into civilian life, and traumas from personally...
by Samuel Hideo Yamashita
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
The population of wartime Japan (1940–1945) has remained a largely faceless enemy to most Americans thanks to the distortions of US wartime propaganda, popular culture, and news reports. At a time when this country’s wartime experiences are slowly and belatedly coming into focus, this remarkable...
The Seventh West Virginia Infantry
An Embattled Union Regiment from the Civil War's Most Divided State
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Though calling itself “The Bloody Seventh” after only a few minor skirmishes, the Seventh West Virginia Infantry earned its nickname many times over during the course of the Civil War. Fighting in more battles and suffering more losses than any other West Virginia regiment, the unit was the most...
Losing Binh Dinh
The Failure of Pacification and Vietnamization, 1969-1971
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Americans have fought two prolonged battles over Vietnam—one in southeast Asia and one, ongoing even now, at home—over whether the war was unnecessary, unjust, and unwinnable. Revisionist historians who reject this view have formulated many contra-factual scenarios for how the war might have been...
Triumph at Imphal-Kohima
How the Indian Army Finally Stopped the Japanese Juggernaut
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
In the spring of 1944, on the eastern front of India near the Burmese border, the seemingly unstoppable Imperial Japanese Army suffered the worst defeat in its history at the hands of Lieutenant General William Slim’s British XIV Army, most of whose units were drawn from the little-esteemed Indian...
Launch the Intruders
A Naval Attack Squadron in the Vietnam War, 1972
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Each pilot and bombardier/navigator sat side by side in an all-weather jet built for low-level bombing runs, precision targeting, and night strikes. Their success—and their very lives—depended on teamwork in flying their versatile A-6 Intruders. And when the North Vietnamese mounted a major offensive...
The Devils We Know
Us and Them in America's Raucous Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Is there an American culture? Certainly, says James Morone. Americans are fighting over it now. They have been fighting over it since the first Puritan stepped ashore. Americans hate government (no national health insurance!) and call for more of it (lock 'em up!). They prize democracy (power to the...
Democratic Beginnings
Founding the Western States
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
State constitutions are blueprints for government institutions, declarations of collective identity, statements of principle, values, and goals. It naturally follows, and this book demonstrates, that the founding documents and the conventions that produced them reflect the emerging dynamics of American...
The Supreme Court
An Essential History, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
For more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation’s history. Now a veteran team of talented historians—including the editors of the acclaimed Landmark Law Cases and American Society series—have updated the most...
The Fighting Sullivans
How Hollywood and the Military Make Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
In November of 1942, the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa, were killed when a Japanese torpedo sank their ship during the most ferocious naval engagement fought in the South Pacific. The family's loss, the most extraordinary for the United States in its military history, was immortalized—and...
The Wehrmacht Retreats
Fighting a Lost War, 1943
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Arthur Goodzeit Award
Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of twentieth-century industrialized warfare. In his new study, prizewinning author...
The Pacific War and Contingent Victory
Why Japanese Defeat Was Not Inevitable
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
About the Allies' victory in the Pacific in WWII, it goes almost without question that Japan's defeat was inevitable in the face of overwhelming American military might and economic power. But the outcome, Michael W. Myers contends, was actually anything but inevitable. This book is Myers's thorough...
The Big Red One
America's Legendary 1st Infantry Division?Centennial Edition, 1917-2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
“No mission too difficult, no sacrifice too great— Duty First!” For a century, from the Western Front of World War I to the wars of the 21st century, this motto has spurred the soldiers who wear the shoulder patch bearing the Big Red One. In this comprehensive history of America's 1st Infantry...