University Press Of Kansas imprint: 325 books
Battalion Commanders at War
U.S. Army Tactical Leadership in the Mediterranean Theater, 1942-1943
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award
Most histories of the U.S. Army in World War II view the Mediterranean Theater of Operations primarily as a deadly training ground for very green forces, where lessons learned on the beaches of Oran, in the hills of the Kasserine Pass area,...
Decent Interval
An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Widely regarded as a classic on the Vietnam War, Decent Interval provides a scathing critique of the CIA's role in and final departure from that conflict. Still the most detailed and respected account of America’s final days in Vietnam, the book was written at great risk and ultimately at great...
The Fight for the Old North State
The Civil War in North Carolina, January-May 1864
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
On a cold day in early January 1864, Robert E. Lee wrote to Confederate president Jefferson Davis “The time is at hand when, if an attempt can be made to capture the enemy’s forces at New Berne, it should be done.” Over the next few months, Lee’s dispatch would precipitate a momentous series...
Abandoning Vietnam
How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Did America's departure from Vietnam produce the "peace with honor" promised by President Richard Nixon or was that simply an empty wish meant to distract war-weary Americans from a tragic "defeat with shame"? While James Willbanks doesn't offer any easy answers to that question,...
Military Justice in Vietnam
The Rule of Law in an American War
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
The My Lai Massacre was the most publicized incident subjected to military law during the Vietnam War, but military lawyers in all the service branches had their hands full with less-publicized desertions, drug use, rapes, fraggings, black marketeering, and even small claims. William Allison reveals...
by Martin P. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Four score and seven years ago . . . .
Are any six words better known, of greater import, or from a more crucial moment in our nation's history? And yet after 150 years the dramatic and surprising story of how Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address has never been fully told. Until now.
Martin...
Germany and the Axis Powers
From Coalition to Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
It seemed that whenever Mussolini acted on his own, it was bad news for Hitler. Indeed, the Fuhrer's relations with his Axis partners were fraught with an almost total lack of coordination. Compared to the Allies, the coalition was hardly an alliance at all. Focusing on Germany's military relations...
Military Service and American Democracy
From World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
“When I became secretary of defense,” Ashton B. Carter said when announcing that the Pentagon would open all combat jobs to women, “I made a commitment to building America’s force of the future. In the twenty-first century, that requires drawing strength from the broadest possible pool of...
by Willem L. Oltmans
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
In March 1964 the Dutch journalist Willem Oltmans (1925–2004) encountered Marguerite Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother, at JFK International Airport. In April 1977, he found himself testifying before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA). In the thirteen years between these two...
The CIA and Congress
The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
D.B. Hardeman Prize
From its inception more than half a century ago and for decades afterward, the Central Intelligence Agency was deeply shrouded in secrecy, with little or no real oversight by Congress—or so many Americans believe. David M. Barrett reveals, however, that during the agency's...
by Donald A. Zinman
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
It was during the Depression, with the Republican regime in disarray, that Franklin D. Roosevelt came into office with a mandate to change the role of government. His was one of the presidencies—like Jefferson’s, Jackson’s, and Lincoln’s before his, and Reagan’s after—that transformed...
Presidential War Power
Third Edition, Revised
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
A classic and bestselling work by one of America's top Constitutional scholars, Presidential War Power garnered the lead review in the New York Times Book Review and raised essential issues that have only become more timely, relevant, and controversial in our post-9/11 era.
In this third edition,...
Lincoln and the Border States
Preserving the Union
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Adopting a new approach to an American icon, an award-winning scholar reexamines the life of Abraham Lincoln to demonstrate how his remarkable political acumen and leadership skills evolved during the intense partisan conflict in pre-Civil War Illinois. By describing Lincoln's rise from obscurity...
Beyond the Borders of the Law
Critical Legal Histories of the North American West
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
In the American imagination “the West” denotes a border—between civilization and wilderness, past and future, native and newcomer—and its lawlessness is legendary. In fact, there was an abundance of law in the West, as in all borderland regions of vying and overlapping claims, jurisdictions,...