Few works of military history are able to move between the battlefield 
and the university. But Warriors and Scholars takes the best from both 
worlds by presenting scholarship from eminent historians on topics of 
their specialty, alongside veteran accounts for the war being discussed. 
Editors Peter B. Lane and Ronald E. Marcello have added helpful 
contextual and commentary footnotes for student readers.

    The papers, originally from the University of North Texas's annual 
Military History Seminar, are organized chronologically from World 
War II to the present day, making this a modern war reader of great 
use for the professional and the student. Scholars and topics include 
David Glantz on the Soviet Great Patriotic War, 1941–1945; Robert 
Divine on the decision to use the atomic bomb; George Herring on 
Lyndon Baines Johnson as Commander-in-Chief; and Brian Linn 
comparing the U.S. war and occupation in Iraq with the 1899–1902 
war in the Philippines.

    Veterans and their topics include flying with the Bloody 100th by 
John Luckadoo; an enlisted man in the Pacific theater of World War II, 
by Roy Appleton; a POW in Vietnam, by David Winn; and Cold War 
duty in Moscow, by Charles Hamm.

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PETER B. LANE served two tours as a fighter pilot in Vietnam and 
then earned his doctorate in Eastern European history from the 
University of Washington. He teaches history at the University of North 
Texas and specializes in European history and the Bosnian crisis. 
RONALD E. MARCELLO received his Ph.D. from Duke University and 
is professor of history at the University of North Texas and director of 
the Oral History Program, where he has conducted over 1,000 
interviews with World War II veterans. Coeditor of three books dealing 
with oral history and military history, his academic specialty is the Age 
of Franklin D. Roosevelt.



What people are saying about this book

"The Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War was a war of unprecedented 
brutality. As many as 35 million Russian soldiers and civilians, almost 4 
million German soldiers, and countless German civilians, died. The searing 
effect of this terrible war on the Soviet soul endured for generations through 
today, shaping the development of the postwar Soviet Union and ultimately, I 
believe, contributing to its demise in 1991."—From Col. David M. Glantz, 
"Fact and Fancy: The Soviet Great Patriotic War, 1941–1945"

"Whatever his wishes, LBJ is remembered as a war president, and among 
America's commanders-in-chief, he generally rates with the least effective. 
He is scored, on the one side, as the stereotypical, shoot-from-the-hip Texan, 
the warmonger who destroyed Vietnam to save his own ego, and from the 
other side as a timid, 'political' war leader who refused to do what was 
necessary to win an eminently winnable war. Such criticisms tell a great deal 
about the way Johnson fought the war, but they do not get at the fundamental 
problems of his war leadership."—From Dr. George C. Herring, "The 
Reluctant Warrior: LBJ as Commander-in-Chief"