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79 MISC. UNITS, BATTLES, BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS: US AND ALLIES: WORLD WARS, MODERN CONFLICT * GERMANY IN WORLD WAR II: KNIGHT’S CROSS HOLDERS, BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS The Last Veterans of WorldWar II: Portraits andMemories Richard Bell. Chronicling the many faces of theWWII effort, these contemporary black- and-white portraits of the longest surviving veterans remind us that the war comprised a collection of Americans from all walks of life. This collection is inspiring for people of all ages and backgrounds. Size: 9”x9” • 89 b/w photos • 128pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-5362-8 hard • $24.99 Red Army Tank Commanders: The Armored Guards Richard Armstrong. Tank and mechanized forces spearhead Red Army operations from the gates of Stalingrad to the center of Berlin. This book profiles six Soviet commanders who rose to lead six tank armies created by the Red Army on the eastern front during WWII. Each commanders’ combat career is examined and reveals these lesser known leaders and their operations. Size: 6”x9” • 5maps • 476pp. ISBN: 0-88740-581-9 • hard • $24.95 Red Army Legacies: Essays on Forces, Capa- bilities & Personalities Richard Armstrong. For twenty-five years, it was the author’s job to watch and examine the Soviet Army for a possible conflict, and to understand the Soviet Army’s use of its combat experience. Armstrong’s eleven essays show how the Soviet Army used its “Red Army Legacy”. Size: 8.5”x11” • 256pp. ISBN: 0-88740-805-2 • hard • $24.95 MODERN CONFLICT U.S. Go Home: The US Military in France, 1945–1968 M. David Egan & D. Jean Egan with illustrations by Charles W. Tilley. This monumental book is built on research in 50 international archives and more than 400 interviews. It is the definitive work on the postwar American military deployment to France and contains authoritative text along with original, professionally made maps, diagrams, and illustrations. Size: 8.5”x11” • Over 230 b/w images • 592pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-6267-5 • hard • $49.99 Forgotten Heroes: 131 Men of the Korean War Awarded the Medal of Honor 1950-53 Kenneth N. Jordan. Forgotten Heroes contains all 131 Medal of Honor citations. Also included are the official communiqués for that day and newspaper accounts of various battles. Size: 6”x9” • 30 bw photos • 352pp. ISBN: 0-88740-807-9 • hard • $24.95 US Marine Corps in Vietnam: Vehicles, Weapons, and Equipment David Doyle. With over 200 archival photos, many never before published, the weapons, vehicles, and equipment of the Marines in theater are documented in this volume. Included are superb-quality photos and detailed captions, including photos from such leg- endary Marine Corps battles as Hue and Khe Sanh. Size: 9”x9” • Over 200 photos • 128pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-6260-6 • hard • $19.99 Heroes of Our Time: 239 Men of the Vietnam War Awarded the Medal of Honor 1964-72 Kenneth N. Jordan. Heroes of Our Time contains all 239 Medal of Honor citations, along with the citations are newspaper accounts of various battles. Size: 6”x9” • 30 bw photos • 368pp. ISBN: 0-88740-741-2 • hard • $24.95 Men of Honor: Thirty-Eight Highly Decorated Marines of WWII, Korea and Vietnam Kenneth N. Jordan. Men of Honor contains more than 100 official citations for bravery above and beyond the call of duty along with several eyewitness accounts. There are short biographies of all 38 men, newspaper articles, and photos. Size: 6”x9” • 48 bw photos • 320pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0247-7 • hard • $29.95 Valor in Action: The Medal of Honor Paintings of Col. Charles Waterhouse. Jane Waterhouse. At the age of 82, renowned illustrator and former US Marine Corps art- ist-in-residence Col. Charles Water- house set out to paint US Marines and Navy corpsmen engaged in the acts for which they were awarded the Medal of Honor. Valor in Action tells the true story of some amazing American heroes who went above and beyond the call of duty. Size: 9”x12”•430color/bwphotos•384pp. ISBN:978-0-7643-6017-6•hard•$100.00 Palace Gate: Under Siege in Hue City - Tet January 1968 Richard L. Brown. Air Force Lt. Col. Brown lived in the Hue MACV compound and remained in the city during the first seventeen days of the battle. These are his memoirs. Size: 6”x9” • 70 bw photos • 224pp. ISBN: 0-88740-745-5 • hard • $24.95 The Advisor: The Phoenix Program in Vietnam John L. Cook. From his arrival in war-torn Vietnam in 1968 to his reluctant departure twenty-five months later, Cook served as an advisor in the district of Di An and took part in the systematic operations of the Phoenix Program to destroy the Infrastructure, the political organization of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces. Size: 6”x9” • 70 color/bw photos/maps • 352pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0137-3 • hard • $35.00 Rescue Under Fire: The Story of Dust Off in Vietnam John L. Cook. This is the story of the men who risked everything to fly their evacuation helicopters into the teeth of the most intense fighting the war produced to achieve a single goal – evacuate the wounded. And that is what they did, day after day, night after night, under every condition imaginable. Size: 6”x9” • 100 bw photos • 208pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0461-5 • hard • $24.95 Year of the Horse: Vietnam - 1st Air Cavalry in the Highlands 1965-67 Kenneth D. Mertel. The day-by-day story of the Jumping Mustangs – 1st Ballalion, Airborne, 8th Cavalry, of the 1st Air Cavalry Division, written by the man who knows them best, 1st Air Cav Lt.Col. Kenneth Mertel. Mertel pays tribute to the many acts of heroism of his men, who lived, worked and fought together in some of the world’s most inhospitable conditions. Size: 6”x9” • 59 color photos/9maps • 384pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0138-1 • hard • $35.00 Forever Forward: K-9 Operations in Vietnam Mike Lemish. The first in-depth account of K-9 Operations during the Vietnam War, and provides a behind the scenes look at howAllied forces employed dog teams in a variety of roles, the evolution of the United States military working dog program, and the aftermath of Vietnam. Size: 6”x9” • 150 bw images • 256pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-3345-3 • hard • $29.99 Grunts: The Last US Draft, 1972 Ed Eckstein. This photojournalistic essay documents one of the last groups of civilians to be drafted into the US Army in 1972. The journey begins at an induction center in Philadelphia, where recruits swear alle- giance to the US, and undergo physical and mental examinations. The focus then shifts to Ft. Jackson, South Carolina, for orientation and the acquisition of uniforms and supplies. Size: 9”x9” • 116 b/w photos • 128pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-5302-4 • hard • $24.99 Along the Tigris: The 101st Airborne Division in Operation Iraqi Freedom Thomas L. Day. The story of 16,000 soldiers, from the training grounds of Fort Campbell, through the toughest battles in the blitz of Baghdad to the Nineveh province, where the 101st Airborne Division anchored for eight months after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Size: 6”x9” • 150 color photos • 400pp. ISBN: 0-7643-2620-1 • hard • $35.00 ExitWounds: Soldiers’ Stories—Life after IraqandAfghanistan JimLommas- son.Acompellingandtimelyworkpresenting the author/photographer’s portraits and interviewswithsoldiers,aswellasthesoldiers’ ownphotographs fromthewar zones. The stories expressed inwords and images are intimate,profoundandtimeless.Oursoldiers needtotell theirstories,andweneedtolisten. Size: 11”x8.5”•92 color images •208pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-4893-8•hard•$34.99 All of Which I Saw: With the US Marine Corps in Iraq Lucian Read. All of Which I Saw captures the United States Marine Corps during some of the most dramatic and important moments of the IraqWar. A singular, stunning, and indispensable record of the conflict of the Iraq War and the Marine Corps at war. Size: 103/4”x71/2”•172 images•224pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-5799-2 • hard • $34.99 GERMANY INWWII KNIGHT’S CROSS HOLDERS, BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS Heinrich Himmler: A Detailed History of His Offices, Commands, and Organizations in Nazi Germany Rolf Michaelis. Reichsführer-SS, Chief of German Police, Reich Commissar for theConsolidationof GermanNationhood,Reich Minister of the Interior, Commander of the Replacement Army, and Commander-in-Chief of Army Group Vistula—Heinrich Himmler ultimately combined inhispersonall the rolesnecessary for the implementationofNational-Socialist policy.All of his roles are described in detail for the first time in this book. Several of Himmler’s speeches intheir entirety roundout this importantwork. Size: 7”x10” • 275 b/w images • 392pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-5259-1 • hard cover • $49.99 Heinrich Himmler: A Photographic Chronicle of Hitler’s Reichsführer-SS Martin Månsson. Many books have been written about Hein- rich Himmler and the SS though, strangely, no photographic study has ever been assembled. Contained within this volume are over 380 photos of Himmler, illustrating his entire career – from a soldier during WWI through the years when he was the second most powerful man in Europe. Size: 8.5”x11” • 380 bw photos • 200pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1202-2 • hard • $59.95 Knights of the Reich: The Twenty-Seven Most Highly Decorated Soldiers of the Wehrmacht in WWII Günther Fraschka. Biographies of the twenty-seven Holders of the Diamonds to the Knight’s Cross from the Luftwaffe, Heer, Kriegsmarine and Waffen-SS: Mölders, Galland, Gollob, Marseille, Graf, Rommel, Luth, Nowotny, Schulz, Rudel, Graf Strachwitz, Gille, Hube, Kesselring, Lent, Dietrich, Model, Hartmann, Balck, Ramcke, Schnaufer, Brandi, Schorner, von Manteuffel, Tolsdorff, Mauss, von Saucken. Size: 6”x9” • 93 bw photos • 320pp. ISBN: 0-88740-580-0 • hard • $39.95