Bücher der Reihe Texas A&M University Military History Series

Examines the economic, political, and cultural factors that influenced the unfolding of the fight for the Italian peninsula. This study provides documentation highlighting Axis defensive operations in Sicily, their takeover of Italy, and the internment of the Italian army along with data on economic conditions in German-occupied northern Italy.

Drawing on rare US Air Force files, recently declassified documents from the National Archives, records released since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the memories of airlift veterans themselves, Roger G. Miller provides an original study of the Berlin Airlift.

Late in 1940, the young men of the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment stepped off the trucks at Camp Bowie in Brownwood, Texas, ready to complete the training they would need for active duty in World War II. This title includes personal memoirs and oral history interviews of the "Lost Battalion" members.

A look at one of the US Army's bloodiest nightmares of World War II. In late 1944-1945, as the American army advanced into the woods south east of Aachen, Germany, they encountered a forest bristling with German troops. Unit after unit were subsequently chewed up by German infantry and artillery.

The army that engineered Mexico's independence was a melting pot of insurgent and royalist forces held together by the lure of rapid promotions and other military remuneration. William A. DePalo, Jr., studies the birth and tumultuous adolescence of the Mexican National Army.

Recounts the last high-casualty US action in the Vietnam War. This work presents a look at soldiers who performed in exemplary fashion under terrible circumstances.

At the end of the Great War, the US Army faced the challenge of integrating what it had learned in its war effort. This work traces the military's developments between the world wars through an examination of the army's primary doctrine manuals, the Field Service Regulations.