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Military History Newsletter December 2019

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Welcome to the first issue of the WarScholar newsletter.  The Marines in Iraq and Spitfires over Europe this week. I interviewed Ed Darak about his book on the Marines fight in Anbar in 2006-2007. Listen here. I also interviewed Andrew Critchell about his history of ten Spitfires fighting the German Luftwaffe in WII. Read it here.

And in our book list below we give you everything you could ask for in military history. Tactics, war movies, logistics, ancient, WWII, Samurai clans, Crusaders, Napoleonic artillery and more. Enjoy! Click here for a list of relevant books being published between January and June 2020.

AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, AND SYRIA – MODERN WARFARE

This is Minuteman

Night Letters

ANCIENT WARFARE

Brill’s Companion to Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean

The Persian War in Herodotus and Other Ancient Voices

Ancient Egyptian Warfare

ASIAN AND AFRICAN PRE-MODERN WARFARE

The Remarkable History of the Yagyu Clan – William De Lange

GENERAL MILITARY HISTORY

Delivering Victory

MECHANIZED WARFARE, ARTILLERY, AND TANK STUDIES – MODERN

German Military Vehicles in the Spanish Civil War

MEDIEVAL AND DARK AGES WARFARE

Recalcitrant Crusaders?

Britain in the Age of Arthur

MILITARY AVIATION

The Messerschmitt Bf 109 E – David Johnston

MODERN MILITARY STUDIES

The Culture of Military Organizations

MODERN WARFARE/20TH-21ST CENTURY

Insurgency and War in Nigeria

Laying the Past to Rest

No Barrier Can Contain It

NAPOLEONIC WARS/19TH CENTURY WARFARE

The French Artillery of the Napoleonic War

NATIVE AMERICAN WARS

Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica

NAVAL SHIP STUDIES

US Landing Craft of World War II, Vol 1

RENAISSANCE WARFARE

Warfare and Politics

TERRORISM AND WAR

Terrorist Decision-Making

UNITED STATES CIVIL WAR

The Second American Revolution

Caught in the Maelstrom

The Visible Confederacy

Living by Inches

WAR AND CULTURE

The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918-1939

WAR ART, LITERATURE, AND MOVIES

Nightmares in the Dream Sanctuary

Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America

WORLD WAR I

Rumors of the Great War

Ireland and the Great War

Little Italy in the Great War

WORLD WAR II

Courage and Fear

Blind Bombing

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20th Century military history papers

Links to a few new working papers from the Woodrow Wilson Center Press about 20th century warfare issues

Bay of Pigs – https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/new-russian-evidence-soviet-cuban-relations-1960-61-when-nikita-met-fidel-the-bay-pigs

Vietnam War – https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/the-origins-north-korea-vietnam-solidarity-the-vietnam-war-and-the-dprk

Khmer Rouge – https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/the-chinese-communist-partys-relationship-the-khmer-rouge-the-1970s-ideological-victory

20th Century US Warfare history book – “Crash Course” (Rutgers University Press, 2018) – H. Bruce Franklin interview

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H Bruce Franklin was an US Air Force navigator and intelligence officer but then became an anti-war activist. He’s written nineteen books and hundreds of articles and we talk about his latest book about the wars of the United States in the 20th century.

1:01 – Bruce talks about how he got into studying and writing on war. He talks about his influences when he was young.

2:01 – Bruce talks about the book and his life experiences that led to writing this book starting with when he was eleven on the day of the end of WWII. When he got older he joined the Air Force as a navigator. He talks about his reconnaissance and provocation missions over the Soviet Union.

8:37 – Bruce talks about his time with the Strategic Air Command and their efficiency and proficiency.

10:21 – Bruce talks about his first mission as a combat ready navigator and being part of a four plane cell. The mission almost resulted in an air collision.

13:49 – Bruce talks about the military-industrial complex and how it’s affected the wars the US has been part of.

25:58 – Bruce talks about the events that switched his political thinking on war.

27: 29 – Bruce mentions the anti-napalm movement.

31:53 – Bruce talks about the Korean War.

40:17 – Bruce talks about the historical archival material that he used for the book.

46:01 – Bruce talks about an interesting episode associated with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

56:00 – Bruce talks about 1991, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and the peace dividend.

1:01:56 – He has a website at HBRuceFranklin.com where people can find information on all his books. It also has an events page.

Links of interest

https://www.hbrucefranklin.com/

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/crash-course/9781978800939

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Guests: H. Bruce Franklin

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