Military forces and sectors

In light of technological advances and multiplying irregular conflicts, conventional wisdom suggests airpower as the ideal, low-cost means of conducting modern warfareand the air control method adopted by the British between the two world wars seems to back this up.

In July 1941, the Soviet Union was in mortal danger.

Luftwaffe commander Wolfram von Richthofen was a brilliant master of the tactical and operational air war and one of the key catalysts in the resurrection of Germanys air force.

For Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht replaced brilliant victories and huge territorial gains with stalemates and strategic retreats.

We arent home yet, Major Paul Darling reminds his team at the end of a sixteen-hour day.

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA groundbreaking account of the Soviet Air Force in World War II, the original version of this book, Red Phoenix, was hailed by the Washington Post as both "e;brilliant"e; and "e;monumental.

Winner: Richard Barksdale Harwell AwardWinner: Emerging Civil War Book AwardOn a cold day in early January 1864, Robert E.

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.

With Allied armies poised on the banks of the Rhine, Nazi Germany tottered on the brink of collapse.

When the German Wehrmacht swarmed across Eastern Europe, an elite corps followed close at its heels.

Honorable Mention: Theodore and Franklin D.

Throughout history, battlefields have placed a soldiers instinct for self-preservation in direct opposition to the armys insistence that he do his duty and put himself in harms way.

Strange sounds resembling the remote rumble of distant thunder were audible.

Prolific munitions production keyed Americas triumph in World War II but so did the complex economic controls needed to sustain that production.

The 4th Marine Brigade, with roughly 10,000 men, was the only large Marine unit to see major action in World War I.

An in-depth, finely detailed portrait of the German Army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its final collapse in 1918, this volume offers the most comprehensive account ever given of one of the critical pillars of the German Empireand a chief architect of the military and political realities of late nineteenth-century Europe.

A Military History of India since 1972 is a definitive work of military history that gives the Indian military its rightful place as a key contributor to Indian democracy.

Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardMost histories of the U.

In 1972, America was completing its withdrawal from the long and divisive war in Vietnam.

After World War I, the U.

Stone & Stone Editor’s ChoiceBy the summer of 1944, the war in Europe had reached a critical point.

Stone & Stone Editor’s ChoiceBy the summer of 1944, the war in Europe had reached a critical point.

General George C.

In the hell that was World War II, the Eastern Front was its heart of fire and ice.

Resistance is a product of will times means, Carl von Clausewitz postulated in his treatise On War.

The population of wartime Japan (19401945) has remained a largely faceless enemy to most Americans thanks to the distortions of US wartime propaganda, popular culture, and news reports.

The monumental battles of World War IIs Eastern FrontMoscow, Stalingrad, Kurskare etched into the historical record.

The engines are started, twenty shiny propellers glistening in the sun, forty exhausts rumbling and belching blue smoke.

The memoir of paratrooper Kurt Gabela German Jew who emigrated to the US in 1938, joined the 513th Regiment of the 17th Airborne Division, and fought against his former countrymen in the Battle of the Bulge.

Winner: Southern Historical Association Smith Award for Best Book in European HistoryWinner: Southern Conference on Slavic Studies Book AwardThey are war stories, filled with danger and deprivation, excitement and opportunity, sorrow and trauma, scandal and controversyand because they are the war stories of nurses, they remain largely untold.

Operation Barbarossa, Hitlers plan for invading the Soviet Union, has by now become a familiar tale of overreach, with the Germans blinded to their coming defeat by their initial victory, and the Soviet Union pushing back from the brink of destruction with courageous exploits both reckless and relentless.

A full century later, our picture of World War I remains one of wholesale, pointless slaughter in the trenches of the Western front.

About the Allies victory in the Pacific in WWII, it goes almost without question that Japans defeat was inevitable in the face of overwhelming American military might and economic power.

Winner: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardWinner: Master Corporal Jan Stanislaw Jakobczak Memorial Book AwardNovember 1917.

The train was packed with men.

Winner: Norman B.

Winner: George Pendleton PrizeScribes Award, Honorable MentionSilver Gavel Award, FinalistI dont blame my executioners.

Brigadier General James L.

Winner: Guittard Book Award for Historical ScholarshipDuring the Soviet Unions Great Patriotic War, from 1941 to 1945, as many as 24 million of its citizens died.

"e;It is impossible to reproduce the state of mind of the men who waged war in 1917 and 1918,"e; Edward Coffman wrote in The War to End All Wars.

Iva Ikuku Toguri (1916-2006) was an American citizen, born on the 4th of July.

Japans invasion of China in 1937 saw most major campaigns north of the Yangtze River, where Chinese industry was concentrated.

Winner: Air Force Historical Foundation AwardWhen large formations of Allied four-engine bombers finally flew over Europe, it marked the beginning of the end for the Third Reich.

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleOn June 11, 1937, a closed military court ordered the execution of a group of the Soviet Union's most talented and experienced army officers, including Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevskii; all were charged with participating in a Nazi plot to overthrow the regime of Joseph Stalin.

On first publication, this uncommonly concise and readable account of Soviet Russias clash with Nazi Germany utterly changed our understanding of World War II on Germanys Eastern Front, immediately earning its place among top-shelf histories of the world war.

Without what the Allies learned in the Mediterranean air war in 1942-1944, the Normandy landingsand so, perhaps, the Second World War IIwould have ended differently.

George C.

One could not choose a worse place for fighting the Japanese, said Winston Churchill of North Burma, deeming it the most forbidding fighting country imaginable.

In 1941, as Nazi Germany began its disastrous campaign against the Soviet Union, Hitlers other campaign, to exterminate European Jewry, was also commencing in earnest.

The world was at war, America precariously poised on the sidelines.