Catholic chaplains shared fully in the lot of the common soldier in World War II - in Pacific island jungles, Europe's battered cities, North African deserts, and the oceans in between. And like the c
During much of the Cold War, America's first line of defense was in outer space: a network of secret satellites that could provide instant warning of an enemy missile launch. The presence of these inf
In this volume of the publisher's "Modern War Studies" series, Rein (history, US Air Force Academy) begins his introduction with core questions: What should the Air Force do? What can it do? What has
Using recently declassified documents from President Lyndon Johnson's administration, the author provides a comprehensive account of the Pueblo incident in 1968.
A powerful German counterattack in Normandy in August 1944 might have been one of the Wehrmacht's great shining moments in the Second World War. The odds were certainly in their favor. Determined to d
