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Korea, 1950-51
Table of Contents for
75 chapters!
The Changjin Journal
NEW
Chapter 76
NEW IN THIS ISSUE The foundation of this issue began some years ago after the publication of my e-book The Chosin Chronology: Battle of the Changjin Reservoir 1950 wherein the sacrifice of Task Force Faith was addressed in the summary.
Robert Miller new Executive Director of NYMAS 
NYC, Oct. 19, 2012 - The NYMAS Board of Directors today elected Robert Miller, publisher of Enigma Books, as Executive Director of NYMAS. Miller succeeds Daniel David, formerly of Skye Books, who remains head of the NYMAS Book Awards Committee.
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
 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
In Memoriam Eugene Feit
1948-2010 
Outstanding attorney, history scholar and NYMAS' most extraordinary
Executive Director, leader,
and author of the NYMAS By-laws.
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REVIEW by George A. Rasula
THE COLDEST WINTER
by David Halberstam
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
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.
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A Brief Introduction to the Why We Fight series
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
THE IRISH CIVIL WAR, 1922-1923
Full text and illustrations from Paul V. Walsh's talk on December 11, 1998
Complete slide presentation from
Nov. 22, 2002 talk:
Pope v. Lee:
The Second Manassas Campaign
NYMAS is associated with the Society for Military History Region 2.
Complete slide component from the Jan. 23, 2004, presentation
Information Warfare:
What it Is, Isn’t, and How it Shapes National Security
by Dr. Daniel Kuehl of
National Defense University 
The Fall 2006 Conference
October 20-21, 2006
Click here for details & reading list
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
The Battle
of the Boyne
Fulltext of the recent paper presented to NYMAS by
Roger Kennedy
Jessie James
Complete slide component from the October 1, 2004 talk by Capt. Clay Mountcastle of the
USMA at West Point
The Union War against Confederate Guerrillas
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
"All Germany listens to The Fuhrer on the People's Radio" Gray and Black Radio Propaganda against Nazi Germany
Fulltext of the recent paper
by Bob Rowen NEW
Now readable & printable
in Adobe Reader
Complete slide component from the Feb. 20, 2004 presentation
by Norman Friedman
Author / NYMAS
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America First:
the Anti-War Movement,
Charles Lindbergh
and the Second World War
1940-1941
Fulltext of the paper presented to NYMAS by
David Gordon
History Department
Bronx Community College / CUNY Graduate Center on September 26, 2003
1916:
The Year Germany Was Defeated
Complete slide component from the November 19, 2004 talk by Chuck Steele of the
USMA History Department
at West Point
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This Week at NYMAS | Friday evening talk
May 24, 2013
7 pm to 8:45 pm | 
See also the speaker's website. | Roman
Warfare Adrian Goldsworthy
Historian and Author
The Soldiers Sailors Club
283 Lexington Avenue
(between 36th and 37th Streets)
New York City |
Winter-Spring, 2013
Fridays 7 pm to 8:45 pm | | | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation | | May 24 | Roman Warfare | Adrian Goldsworthy | Historian and Author | | May 31 | Allied Master Strategists:
The Combined Chiefs of Staff
in World War II | David Rigby | Author | | June 14 | The End of War? | John Horgan | Stevens Institute of Technology |
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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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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. |
| | 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
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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 1982WBAI, 99.5 FM or online,
on Wednesday morning
(Tuesday night, if you stay up)
from 1:00 to 2:00 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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| A NYMAS Fulltext Resource 
DEFENSE, REACTION AND PASSIVITY:
BRITISH STRATEGY
TOWARD NEW YORK AND NEW ENGLAND
IN THE WAR OF 1812
James P. Werbaneth
American Military University
La Roche College
The 2011 NYMAS
Book Award
The winner of the year's
Arthur Goodzeit Book Award is:
 Fighting for MacArthur : the Navy and Marine Corps’ desperate defense of the Philippines /
John Gordon:
Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, 2011.
For more information,
click here
The 2011 Eugene Feit Award
in Civil War Studies 
The Union war /
Gary W. Gallagher:
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
For more information,
click here
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource 
From ‘Civil Warriors:
Three Lives..."
by Fernando Ortiz Jr.
Illustrated
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
From ‘Dagoes’ to ‘Nervy Spaniards’
American Soldiers’ Views of their Opponents, 1898
Albert A. Nofi Illustrated
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
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
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)
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).
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
For more information, click here
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
’Til I Come Marching Home
A Brief History of American Women in
World War II
by C. Kay Larson
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
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
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
Defending the Kremlin: The First Generation of Soviet Strategic Air Defense Systems 1950-60
by Steven J. Zaloga
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
 
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
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
 The GI Offensive
in Europe
Fulltext of the talk given to NYMAS on April 25, 2006
by Peter R. Mansoor, Colonel, U.S. Army
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
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
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
Springing to the Call
a Documentary View of Women in the American Civil War
edited by C. Kay Larson
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
Women’s War Work
Edited By
Lady Randolph Churchill 1916
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