World War II, with its multiple fronts, its massive battles, its appalling death toll, and its far-reaching consequences, continues to fascinate historians and the general public. More than 50 years after the war's end, new details and compelling stories are still coming to light. Many are being published in MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History.
Drawn from the pages of that award-winning, authoritative journal, nine vivid essays reveal little-known facts and events from both the European and Asian theaters. W.A.B. Douglas explains how the Nazis established a post in North American to obtain current weather information, an enormous advantage in battles. William H. Whyte gives an eyewitness account of patrolling Guadalcanal as a junior Marine officer. George Feifer describes Joseph Goebbels's race to complete one final motion picture for the Reich before its fall. Other renowned historians take us from Europe to the Asian theater, bringing the war and its key events to life.
Hit movies including Saving Private Ryan, Pearl Harbor, and Enemy at the Gates, as well as bestselling books such as D-Day June 6, 1944 and Blind Man's Bluff have sparked a revival of interest in World War II history among all ages. This second set of essays from No End Save Victory will find a large and appreciative audience eager to learn more about his most crucial of 20th-century conflicts.
Historians and inquisitive laymen alike love to ponder the dramatic what-ifs of history. In these never-before-published essays, some of the keenest minds of our time ask the big, tantalizing questions: Where might we be if history had not unfolded the way it did? Why, how, and when was our fortune made real? The answers are surprising, sometimes frightening, and always entertaining. This provocative collection of essays features today's foremost historians speculating on these what-ifs, providing a fascinating new perspective on history's most pivotal events.
The essays include:
* The Repulse of the English Fireships: The Spanish Armada Triumphs by Geoffrey Parker
* Unlikely Victory: Thirteen Ways the Americans Could Have Lost the Revolution by Thomas Fleming
* What the Fog Wrought: The Revolution's Dunkirk by David McCullough
* Ruler of the World: Napoleon's Missed Opportunities by Alistair Horne
* If the Lost Order Hadn't Been Lost: Robert E. Lee Humbles the Union by James M. McPherson
* A Confederate Cannae and Other Scenarios: How the Civil War Might Have Turned Out Differently by Stephen W. Sears
With My Face to the Enemy is a collection of powerful, insightful essays about the Civil War by some of the most renowned historians in their field.
Essayists include: Stephen W. Sears on Stonewall Jackson's last march; James M. McPherson on failed Southern strategies; Joseph T. Glattharr on Ulysses S. Grant at Vicksburg; and Noah Andre Trudeau on the Fort Pillow massacre.
Each of these absorbing pieces has appeared in print only once before: in the pages of the award-winning, authoritative MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. In each issue, MHQ brings the history of warfare and of society to life through vivid narrative accounts of the key events-some well known, some seemingly obscure-that have shaped the world we live in today.
Perhaps because it was fought on American soil, pitting brother against brother, friend against friend, freedom against slavery, and states' rights against the principle of union, the Civil War remains a powerful presence in the American imagination. For this reason, With My Face to the Enemy will find a large and appreciative audience, eager to hear what our era's most distinguished historical thinkers and writers have to say about a conflict that still echoes in our hearts and minds to this day.
Historians and inquisitive laymen alike love to ponder the dramatic what-ifs of history. In these never-before-published essays, some of the keenest minds of our time ask the big, tantalizing questions: Where might we be if history had not unfolded the way it did? Why, how, and when was our fortune made real? The answers are surprising, sometimes frightening, and always entertaining.
This provocative collection of essays features today's foremost historians speculating on these "what ifs", providing a fascinating new perspective on history's most pivotal events. The essays include:
* Infectious Alternatives: The Plague that Saved Jerusalem
by William H. McNeil
* No Glory That Was Greece: The Persians Win at Salamis
by Victor Davis Hanson
* Conquest Denied: Alexander the Great's Premature Death
by Josiah Ober
* Furor Teutonicus: The Teutoburg
by Lewis Lapham
* The Dark Ages Made Lighter: The Consequences of Two Defeats
by Barry S. Strauss
* The Death that Saved Europe: The Mongols Turn Back
by Cecilia Holland
* If Only It Had Not Been Such a Wet Summer
by Theodore K. Rabb
* The Immolation of Hern Cort
by Ross Hassig
Historians and inquisitive laymen alike love to ponder the dramatic what-ifs of history. In these never-before-published essays, some of the keenest minds of our time ask the big, tantalizing questions: Where might we be if history had not unfolded the way it did? Why, how, and when was our fortune made real? The answers are surprising, sometimes frightening, and always entertaining.
This provocative collection of essays features today's foremost historians speculating on these "what ifs", providing a fascinating new prospective on history's most pivotal events. The essays include:
The Peace of 1914: The World War that Wasn't by Robert Cowley
How Hitler Could Have Won the War: The Drive for the Middle East by John Keegan
Our Midway Disaster: Japan Springs a Trap, June 4, 1942 by Theodore F. Cook
D-Day Fails: Atomic Alternatives in Europe by Stephen E. Ambrose
Funeral in Berlin: The Cold War Turns Hot by David Clay Large
China Without Tears: If Chiang Hadn't Gambled in 1946 by Arthur Waldron
In addition to the essays are fascinating "sidebars" provided by such authors as James Chace, Ted Morgan, and others that illuminate in brief other world-changing episodes.
