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France, 1940:
National Failure and the Uses of Defeat

David Gordon
History Department
CUNY Graduate Center

Talk presented at a joint meeting of The Historical Society
(New York Section)
 and The New York Military Affairs Symposium
May 10, 2002

Korea, 1950-51
Table of Contents for
75 chapters!
The Changjin Journal

NEW
Chapter 75
NEW IN THIS ISSUE we provide initial directives of X Corps regarding protection of the MSR, regrouping of units in the Chosin Reservoir area, and activities at and south of Chinhung-ni where the Chinese had been attempting a deep envelopment.

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Air Force Combat Units of World War II
Complete 506 page work, keyword searchable

Edited by Maurer Maurer ; USAF Historical Division, Air University, Washington :Date: 1986

Click here to see the graphics from Steven J. Zaloga's Talk on February 2, 2001 on Operation Cobra.

Next at NYMAS
	Friday evening talk May 25, 2012 7 pm to 8:45 pm   Hunting Down the Jews: Vichy, the Nazis and Mafia Collaborators in Provence 1942-1944   Isaac Levendel Author   The Soldiers Sailors Club 283 Lexington Avenue (between 36th and 37th Streets) New York City

 

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Winter-Spring 2012
Date	Topic	Speaker	Affiliation
May 25	Hunting Down the Jews: Vichy, the Nazis and Mafia Collaborators in Provence 1942-1944	Isaac Levendel	Author
June 6 Please note this event is scheduled for downtown.  See this NYPL calendar	Writing the Gettysburg Address: The Mysteries of the Manuscripts	Martin P. Johnson	Miami University
June 8	Musahi: Major Problems in 'The Most Peaceful Valley in Afghanistan"	Martin Scott Catino	American Military University
June 22	The Rise and Fall of the Tankette, 1925-1940: A Forgotten Chapter in the Evolution of Armored Warfare	Paul V. Walsh	Author
Click here to see and/or print out a PDF of the latest NYMAS flyer with the calendar of talks from January to June, 2012 plus a membership form if you'd like to join and donate.

Updated Saturday, May 12, 2012 08:53 PM– Bob Rowen rrowen@nymas.org
 

NYMAS talks are free and open to the public.

NYMAS is supported in part by a grant from the
 New York Council for the Humanities.

Unless otherwise noted, these talks are held on Friday evenings at
The Soldiers', Sailors', Marines', Coast Guard and Airmens' Club
283 Lexington Avenue (between 36th and 37th Streets)
New York, NY 10016-3540
from 7:00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. These Friday lectures are usually held on the 2nd floor in the historic South Lounge.

 NYMAS is associated with the Society for Military History, Region 2.

Topics and speakers may be subject to change without notice. A current updated schedule is always available at this website (http//:nymas.org)
 

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Tentative Fall, 2012 Fridays 7 pm to 8:45 pm
	Topic	Speaker	Affiliation
Sept. 7	New York at War	Steven H. Jaffe	Independent Historian and Curator
Sept. 21	Meade at Gettysburg	Col. Kevin Farrell	United States Military Academy at West Point
Oct. 5	Saudi Arabia: Thinking about Nuclear Weapons	Norman Cigar	Marine Corps University
Oct. 19 (plus 1 to 5 pm on Sat. Oct 20)	NYMAS Fall Friday/Saturday Event Cyber Warfare
Nov. 2	Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway	Elliot Carlson	Author
Nov 16	Mussolini Warlord: Failed Dreams of Empire 1940-1943	H. James Burgwyn	Author
Nov 30	Verdun in Korea: the UN's Operation Showdown against the Chinese at Triangle Hill	Ed Chen	NYMAS Board / Scholar

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NEW Audio Podcast of Friday Evening Talk
Photo: Ching Wah Chin	Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades  1000-1300 recorded April 27, 2012 1 hr  33 min coming soon	John France Photo from author
	Flamethrower Tanks and Doctrine in WWII Technology recorded February 12, 2012 1 hr  33 min click here to listen	Major John P. Ringquist Photo: Ching Wah Chin
Click here for many more podcasts including:
	Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 recorded May 2, 2008 click here to listen	Max Hastings Photo: Random House
	Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor recorded April 12, 2008 click here to listen	Edward S. Miller Photo: Phil Gilson

 

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NYMAS presents Grant Check to Soldiers Sailors Club

Hazel Cathers, Executive Director of the The Soldiers’, Sailors’, Marines’, Coast Guard and Airmen’s Club of New York City receives a check from NYMAS boardmembers Allen Walberg (L) and Arnold Albert (R).    The funds come from a grant provided by the New York Council for the Humanities to NYMAS for the Soldiers Sailors Club generously providing space for NYMAS' Friday evening talks.

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NYMAS on
Axis Sally The American Voice of Nazi Germany  Author Richard Lucas' talk to NYMAS on May 20, 2011
The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception Author & former Deputy Undersecretary of the Army Thaddeus Holt's talk to NYMAS on Jun 4, 2004
Mussolini: The Secrets of His Death Enigma Books' publisher Robert Miller's talk to NYMAS on Jan 28, 2005
Click above for the complete online video of each talk to NYMAS

 

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The Arthur Goodzeit Award
2010	Hitler’s first war : Adolf Hitler, the men of the List Regiment, and the First World War by Thomas Weber (Oxford University Press, 2010)
2009	Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 by D. M. Giangreco (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2009)
2008	Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commanders’ War in Iraq by Col. Peter R Mansoor (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008}.
The Civil War Book Award
2009	West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace by Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2009).
2008	Lincoln and his Admirals by Craig Symonds (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Special Award
2009	David M. Glantz, Col., U.S.A. (Ret.) for a lifetime of scholarship in Soviet and Russian archives of the Red Army in World War II

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Newsletters from NYMAS now online Dozens of book reviews in military history.  Al Nofi, editor. All Google & On-site searchable   No. 42 - Autumn 2007 No. 43 - Winter 2007-2008 No. 44 - Spring 2008: Annual Civil War Issue No. 45 - Winter 2008-2009 Paid-up NYMAS members get the latest editions Now in Adobe Reader format If you don't have Adobe Reader, click below: An updated NYMAS Guide to Military History on the Web:  World War I (extensive) <<click here; thanks to NYMAS member Bob Bulko   Tom Wisker, NYMAS Board member and host of Weaponry for almost 30 years Weaponry military and aviation technology, history, hardware, policy, news, reviews, and analysis, all interspersed with totally inappropriate music.  Since 1982 WBAI, 99.5 FM or online, on Wednesday morning (Tuesday night, if you stay up) from 1:30 to 3:30 am. Weaponry is now available for download or play at any time. It's on the wbai.org site at archive.wbai.org

 

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From ‘Civil Warriors:
Three Lives..."
by Fernando Ortiz Jr.
Illustrated

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The 2010 NYMAS
Book Award
The winner of the year's Arthur Goodzeit Book Award is:

Hitler’s first war : Adolf Hitler, the men of the List Regiment, and the First World War / Thomas Weber. : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010, ©2010. xvi, 450 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.  ISBN: 9780199233205

 For more information, click here
 

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The 2010 Eugene Feit Award
 in Civil War Studies

To Eric Foner for The Fiery Trial
and for his lifetime contributions to the field of 19th Century American, Civil War and Global History

The fiery trial : Abraham Lincoln and American slavery / Eric Foner : New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2010. Description: xxi, 426 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. ISBN: 9780393066180

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From ‘Dagoes’ to ‘Nervy Spaniards’
American Soldiers’ Views of their Opponents, 1898
 Albert A. Nofi

Illustrated

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The 2009 NYMAS
Book Award
The winner of the year's Arthur Goodzeit Book Award is:

Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan
1945-1947
by D. M. Giangreco (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2009)
 

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The 2009 NYMAS
Civil War Book Award
The winner of the eighth annual NYMAS Civil War Book Award is:


West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace
by Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2009).

For more information, click here

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Special Award

David M. Glantz, Col., U.S.A. (Ret.)

The New York Military Affairs Symposium

honors

Col. DAVID M. GLANTZ

for a lifetime of scholarship
in Soviet and Russian archives
of the Red Army in World War II

 

2009

 

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A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
’Til I Come Marching Home
A Brief History of American Women in
World War II

by C. Kay Larson

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	Beyond Blackwater: Contractors on the Battlefield by Raymond Kimball A paper delivered to the NYMAS Fall Conference on October 13, 2007

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American Privateers in
the War Of 1812


Fulltext, documents and illustrations from a paper
by Bob Rowen
delivered to NYMAS on October 19, 2001 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

 

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Defending the Kremlin: The First Generation of Soviet Strategic Air Defense Systems 1950-60
 by Steven J. Zaloga
 

 

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The Tennessee River Campaign
Chapter IV: from
GREAT NECESSITIES:  THE LIFE, TIMES AND WRITINGS OF ANNA ELLA CARROLL,
1815-1894
by C. Kay Larson

The USAAF’s Other Very Heavy Bomber - the Consolidated B-32


Captioned visuals from Tom Wisker's February 24, 2006 talk

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The GI Offensive
in Europe
Fulltext of the talk given to NYMAS on April 25, 2006
 by Peter R. Mansoor, Colonel, U.S. Army

 

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Breaking Ranks:
 The History, Limitations, and Importance of American Active Duty Issue Advocacy

Billy Mitchell

Fulltext from the January 20, 2006 presentation by Raymond Kimball of the Iraq and Afghanistan
Veterans of America

The 2004 NYMAS
Book Award
The winner of the year's Arthur Goodzeit Book Award is:
Rethinking
Military History
Jeremy Black
New York, NY : Routledge, 2004, 272pp, 0415275342 (pbk.)
0415275334 (hardback)
For more information, click here

WHAT IS HISTORY?
HOW HISTORIANS WORK AND
THE SOURCES THEY USE
Complete slide component from the May 13, 2005 talk by
Don Bittner of the
US Marine Corps
Command and Staff College