NYMAS is devoted to increasing public
knowledge, awareness, and understanding
of the interrelationship of war, society, and
culture through the presentation and
dissemination of diverse scholarly viewpoints.
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Gregory McNiff is the new Executive Director of NYMAS

Gregory McNiff is a Managing Director in the New York office of the Blueshirt Group. He has more than 25 years of technology and telecom experience. Prior to joining the Blueshirt Group, Greg worked at Nomura as a sell-side equity research analyst covering the communications infrastructure sector. Greg also has experience in early stage venture capital, investment banking, and corporate strategy. Greg holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, an M. Litt. in Shakespeare Studies from the University of St. Andrews and a B.A. in Classical Languages from Columbia.
Greg has been fascinated by military history since his first exposure to Thucydides’ The History of the Peloponnesian War in high school. He is extremely appreciative of the opportunities NYMAS offers the public to hear and learn from first rate scholars throughout the world. He hopes to extend NYMAS’ programs to a wider audience so as to foster a greater appreciation for the benefits of studying military history. When not reading about military history, he is most likely writing overdue book reviews for the NYMAS newsletter.
Jerry Trombella became Executive Director of NYMAS in 2016
Nov 18, 2016, NYC: Meeting in the aftermath of the loss of Bob Miller, the Directors unanimously elected Jerry Trombella as NYMAS Executive Director.
Jerry is Dean of Research and Planning at Hudson County Community College. He holds a B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton with a triple major in History, Political Science and Classical Studies, an M.B.A. in Business Computer Information Systems from Hofstra University, an M.P.A in Public Administration with a specialization in Public Finance from the State University of New York at Albany, and a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from Seton Hall University, where he periodically teaches a graduate course in higher education organization and governance.
Jerry has 25 years of experience in higher education administration, including the areas of institutional research, institutional assessment, planning, budgeting, financial aid leveraging, decision analytics and information systems. In addition his administrative and teaching duties, Jerry is doing research in the economics of higher education and in colleges and universities as complex systems.
Jerry has a longstanding interest in military history, and is especially appreciative of the NYMAS interdisciplinary approach in seeking to understand issues associated with military affairs. His current research focus within military history involves predictive models of combat using historical data, based more on his longstanding interest in wargaming than in a belief in their utility. Job responsibilities, time, and financing permitting, he hopes to extend current research associated with predictive combat modeling into a formal proposal for an eventual second PhD in military history.

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.
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In Memoriam
Robert Miller
1945-2016
Publisher, author, history scholar and
NYMAS' outstanding Executive Director since 2012.
On Saturday, Nov. 5 at 1pm at the Soldiers Sailors Club
a Memorial and Remembrance for Robert Miller was held.
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Robert Miller became 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

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

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
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
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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
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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January 6, 2023 |
NYMAS Spring 2023 Schedule (conrmed)
YMAS Spring 2023 Schedule (conrmed)
Armada:
The Spanish Enterprise and England's Deliverance in 1588
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Geoffrey Parker
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Ohio State University
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January 14, 2023 Saturday
3:00 PM ET
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Blood and Ruins:
The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945
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Richard Overy |
University of Exeter |
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January 20, 2023 |
Debate:
Did Rome Have
a Grand Strategy? |
James Lacey, Ph.D., Horner Chair of War Studies, Professor of Strategic Studies and Political Economy at Marine Corps War College
&
Michael Taylor
Assistant Professor. History, University of Albany
&
with special guest
Edward Luttwak
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January 27, 2023 |
Heavy Metal: The Hard Days and Nights of the Shipyard Workers Who Build America's Supercarriers
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Mike Fabey |
Independent Scholar |
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February 4, 2023
Saturday
1PM ET |
D'Erlon's Attack at Waterloo |
Andrew Field |
Waterloo author and independent military historian
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February 10, 2023 |
The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution
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Benjamin L. Carp |
Daniel M. Lyons Associate Professor of American History at
Brooklyn College |
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February 17, 2023 |
War of Supply: World War II Allied Logistics in the Mediterranean
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David Dworak |
Deputy Provost, US Army War College |
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February 24, 2023 |
Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
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Peter Westwick |
University of Southern California and director of the Aerospace History Project at the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West |
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March
3, 2023 |
History of Battle: Understanding Conflict from Hastings to Helmand
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Drs Graeme Callister / Rachel Whitbread |
York St John University
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March
10, 2023 |
Parker Hitt: The Father of American Military Cryptology
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Betsy Rohaly Smoot |
Intelligence historian, former NSA |
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March
17, 2023
Friday, 1:00 PM
ET |
Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921
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Antony Beevor |
Independent Scholar
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March
24, 2023 |
The Battle of Crecy
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Michael Livingston
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The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina |

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April 1, 2023
Saturday,
1:00 PM
ET
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Command: The Politics of Military Operation
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Sir Lawrence Freedman |
King's College London |
Command: The Politics of Military Operation
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April 14, 2023 |
Faustian Bargain:
The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War
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Ian Ona Johnson
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Notre Dame University |
Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War
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April 21, 2023 |
The Mongol Storm:
Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
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Nic Morton |
Nottingham Trent University
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The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
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April 29, 2023 Saturday
1:00 PM
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Conquering the Ocean: The Roman Invasion of Britain
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Richard Hingley |
University of Durham |
Conquering the Ocean: The Roman Invasion of Britain
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May 6,
2023
Saturday
1:00 PM
ET |
Original Sin: Power, Technology, and War in Outer Space |
Bleddyn Bowen |
University of Leicester |
Original Sin: Power, Technology, and War in Outer Space
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May 12,
2023 |
Armies, Plagues, and Politics: Explaining the Rise and Fall of the Assyrian Empire
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Eckart Frahm |
Yale University |
Armies, Plagues, and Politics: Explaining the Rise and Fall of the Assyrian Empire
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May 19,
2023 |
The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution, |
Kevin Weddle |
US Army War College (Winner: 2021 Gilder-Lehrman Prize for Military History) |
The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution
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May 26, 2023 |
General Grant and the Verdict of History: Memoir, Memory, and the Civil War
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Frank Varney |
Independent Scholar
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General Grant and the Verdict of History: Memoir, Memory, and the Civil War
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NYMAS papers of the last 26 years
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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
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Jim Quinn
Civil Warrior
Fredericksburg to Spotsylvania
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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
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Al Nofi
Operations & Webmaster: Bob Rowen
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Board of Directors
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Constance Alburger
Bob Bulko
Ed Chen
Ching Wah Chin
Ted Cook
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On the Crest of Fear:
The V-2s, the Battle of the Bulge, and the Closing Months of the Second World War
recorded
March 1, 2019
1 hour and 47 mins

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Tami Davis Biddle
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Tower of Skulls:
A History of the Asia-Pacific War,
July 1937-May 1942
recorded Match 6, 2020
1 hour and 31 mins

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Richard B. Frank
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The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War,
1945-1947
Special introduction by
Benn Steil of the Council on Foreign Relations / NYMAS Board
recorded January 10, 2020
1 hour and 43 mins

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Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
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What Russia
Can Teach Us
about War
Recorded Jun 1, 2018
1 hour and 35 mins

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Reina Pennington
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Elvis's Army:
Cold War GIs
and the Atomic Battlefield
recorded March 2, 2018
1 hour and 31 mins

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Brian McAllister Linn
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The Great War and Ireland's 1916
Easter Rising
recorded November 11, 2016
1 hour and 41 mins

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Paul V. Walsh
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The Politics of James Bond:
From Fleming's Novels
to the Big Screen
recorded April 1, 2016
1 hour and 48 mins

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Jeremy Black MBE
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An Examination of British Cryptography during the Second World War
recorded November 7, 2014
1 hr 30 min

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Aki Snyder
Photo: Ching Wah Chin |
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Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army
recorded March 14, 2014
1 hr 34 min

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Kayla Williams
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The Devil's Garden:
Rommel's Desperate Defense of Omaha Beach on D-Day
recorded June 6, 2014
1 hr 38 min

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Steven Zaloga
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The First Century of Gunpowder Artillery in Europe - Innovation and Effectiveness:
1326-1450
recorded May 17, 2013
1 hr 35 min

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Clifford J. Rogers
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Roman Warfare
recorded May 24, 2013
1 hr 47 min

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Adrian Goldsworthy
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Retribution:
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recorded May 2, 2008

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Max Hastings
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Bankrupting the Enemy:
The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan
Before Pearl Harbor
recorded April 12, 2008

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Edward S. Miller
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NYMAS presents Grant Check
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Axis Sally
The American Voice of Nazi Germany
Author Richard Lucas' talk to NYMAS on May 20, 2011
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The Deceivers:
Allied Military Deception
Author & former Deputy Undersecretary of the Army Thaddeus Holt's
talk to NYMAS on Jun 4, 2004
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Mussolini:
The Secrets of His Death
Enigma Books' publisher Robert Miller's talk to NYMAS on Jan 28, 2005 |
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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
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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 1982
WBAI, 99.5 FM or online,
on Wednesday morning
(Tuesday night, if you stay up)
from 1:00 to 2:00 am.
Note: Tom's currently
on medical leave
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22 years of outstanding speakers and topics
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The 2018 NYMAS /
Arthur Goodzeit
Book Award

Futile Exercise?
The British Army’s Preparations for War, 1902-1914,
by Simon Batten.
Warwick, Eng.: Helion / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2018.
For more information,
click here
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The 2018 NYMAS / Eugene Feit Award
in Civil War Studies

The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies
by Peter S. Carmichael
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
For more information,
click here
The 2017 NYMAS /
Arthur Goodzeit
Book Award
for
The 1929 Sino-Soviet War: The War Nobody Knew
by
Michael M. Walker
University Press of Kansas, 2017
978-0700623754

For more information,
click here
The 2017 NYMAS / Eugene Feit Award
in Civil War Studies

Civil War Logistics:A Study of Military Transportation
by
Earl J. Hess
LSU Press, 2017.
13: 978-0807167502
For more information,
click here
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The 2016 NYMAS /
Arthur Goodzeit
Book Award

Titan: The Art of British Power in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon
by William R. Nester
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016
For more information,
click here
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The 2016 NYMAS / Eugene Feit Award
in Civil War Studies

City of Sedition: The History of New York City during the Civil War
by John Strausbaugh
New York, Grand Central Publishing, 2016.
For more information,
click here
The 2015 NYMAS /
Arthur Goodzeit
Book Award
The Ottoman Endgame: War Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East,1908-1923, by Sean McMeekin.
New York: Penguin, 2015
For more information,
click here
The 2015 NYMAS / Eugene Feit Award
in Civil War Studies

For Brotherhood and Duty: The Civil War History of the West Point Class of 1862,
by Brian R. McEnany. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
For more information,
click here


Some Thoughts on
the Japanese A6M Series
Shipboard Fighter
by Dwight Cox
A NYMAS Full Text Resource
The 2014 NYMAS /
Arthur Goodzeit Book Award

The Schlieffen Plan: International Perspectives on the German Strategy for World War I / edited by Hans Ehlert, Michael Epkenhans, and Gerhard P. Gross, with an Engish translation edited by David T. Zabecki. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014)
For more information,
click here
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource 
The Welles Mission to Rome: February-March 1940
FDR’s Diplomatic Initiative
to Mussolini
by Robert L. Miller, 2008
The 2012 NYMAS
Book Award
The Arthur Goodzeit Award

The Wehrmacht retreats : fighting a lost war, 1943 by Robert M. Citino. (Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2012)
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
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
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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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