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First World War Unseen Glass Plate Photographs of the Western Front

De Keyzer Carl, Van Reybrouck David

ISBN: HB: 9780226284286, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
280 pp., 32x22.8 cm, 20 colour plates, 80 halftones

A century after it began, we still struggle with the terrible reality of the First World War, often through republished photographs of its horrors: the muddy trenches, the devastated battlefields, the maimed survivors. Due to the crude film cameras u...

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Disease, War, and the Imperial State The Welfare of the British Armed Forces during the Seven Years' War

Charters Erica

ISBN: HB: 9780226180007, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 map, 1 table

The Seven Years' War, often called the first global war, spanned North America, the West Indies, Europe, and India. In these locations diseases such as scurvy, smallpox, and yellow fever killed far more than combat did, stretching the resources of Eu...

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WWII A Chronicle of Soldiering

Jones James

ISBN: PB: 9780226180939, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 3 maps, 1 line drawing

In 1975, James Jones – the American author whose novels "From Here to Eternity" and "The Thin Red Line" had made him the preeminent voice of the enlisted man in World War II – was chosen to write the text for an oversized coffee table book edited by...

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What Soldiers Do Sex and the American GI in World War II France

Roberts Mary Louise

ISBN: PB: 9780226923116, ISBN: HB: 9780226923093, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 23 halftones

How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly – but if you're the US Army...

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D-Day Through French Eyes Normandy 1944

Roberts Mary Louise

ISBN: HB: 9780226136998, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 2 line drawings

"Like big black umbrellas, they rain down on the fields across the way, and then disappear behind the black line of the hedges". Silent parachutes dotting the night sky – that's how one woman in Normandy in June of 1944 learned that the D-Day invasio...

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Success and Failure in Limited War Information and Strategy in the Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, and Iraq Wars

Bakich Spencer D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226107714, ISBN: HB: 9780226107684, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 5 tables

Common and destructive, limited wars are significant international events that pose a number of challenges to the states involved beyond simple victory or defeat. Chief among these challenges is the risk of escalation – be it in the scale, scope, cos...

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In the House of the Hangman The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943-1949

Olick Jeffrey K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226103341, ISBN: HB: 9780226626383, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

The central question for both the victors and the vanquished of World War II was just how widely the stain of guilt would spread over Germany. Political leaders and intellectuals on both sides of the conflict debated whether support for National Soci...

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Welcome Home, Boys! Military Victory Parades in New York City 1899-1946

Jobs Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9783593397450, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2013
276 pp., 21.5x14 cm

During the first half of the twentieth century military victory parades in New York became an iconic part of the American cultural memory – ticker tape and soldiers returning to their sweethearts symbolized the joy of a nation at peace. In this incis...

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Arc of War Origins, Escalation, and Transformation

Levy Jack S., Thompson William R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226476292, ISBN: HB: 9780226476285, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 43 tables, 11 line illus.

In this far-reaching exploration of the evolution of warfare in human history, Jack S. Levy and William R. Thompson provide insight into the perennial questions of why and how humans fight. Beginning with the origins of warfare among foraging groups,...

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All-Out for Victory! Magazine Advertising and the World War II Home Front

Bush Jones John

ISBN: HB: 9781584657682, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2009
340 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, many commercial advertisers and their Madison Avenue ad agencies instantly switched from selling products and services to selling the home front on ways to sup...

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