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An unflinching examination of the moral and professional dilemmas
faced by physicians who took part in the Manhattan Project. After
his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of
private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive
contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather's
role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it turned
out, had been a significant figure. A talented ob-gyn radiologist,
he cared for the scientists on the project, organized safety and
evacuation plans for the Trinity test at Alamogordo, escorted the
"Little Boy" bomb from Los Alamos to the Pacific Islands, and was
one of the first Americans to enter the irradiated ruins of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Participation on the project challenged Dr.
Nolan's instincts as a healer. He and his medical colleagues were
often conflicted, torn between their duty and desire to win the war
and their oaths to protect life. Atomic Doctors follows these
physicians as they sought to maximize the health and safety of
those exposed to nuclear radiation, all the while serving leaders
determined to minimize delays and maintain secrecy. Called upon
both to guard against the harmful effects of radiation and to
downplay its hazards, doctors struggled with the ethics of ending
the deadliest of all wars using the most lethal of all weapons.
Their work became a very human drama of ideals, co-optation, and
complicity. A vital and vivid account of a largely unknown chapter
in atomic history, Atomic Doctors is a profound meditation on the
moral dilemmas that ordinary people face in extraordinary times.
Submarines and U-boats-killers beneath the waves
Newbolt's excellent overview of the undersea conflict of the First
World War is an essential book for any student of the subject. The
author, a recognised authority on naval and maritime history,
considers the evolution of the submarine as a weapon of naval
warfare before turning his attention to the use of the submariner
service during the war. The operations of British submarine bases
are described as are the policies of the government of the day
regarding the use of submarines in war. Tactical issues concerning
the engagement of submarines against warships and vice-versa are
also considered. The book describes the activities of British
submarines in the Baltic and Mediterranean, and particularly as
they were employed in the Dardanelles initiative. An important
focus of Newbolt's book is the destructive influence of the highly
effective German U-Boat blockade in the Atlantic Ocean. Whilst
submarines were employed by the Royal Navy it would be fair to note
that the principal objective of the Allies was to pursue the
destruction of enemy submarines. The activities of anti-submarine
trawlers, smacks and drifters is discussed as are the more
aggressive roles of the destroyers, P-Boats, Q-Boats and the
activities of the Auxiliary Patrol. Newbolt concludes with the work
of the ultimate submarine killer-the submarine itself, before
describing the closing stages of the war with the destruction of
enemy bases in Belgium. Recommended.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
Eddie Slovik was the most famous American soldier to come out of
World War Two. Or was infamous a better description? For 24 year
old Slovik, Polish-American, petty thief and ex-con, was the only
Allied soldier to be shot for desertion in the course of that long
conflict. For nearly ten years the US Dept. of Defence tried to
keep the Slovik case secret and even when it was revealed the
American military hid the place of the condemned man's burial for a
further thirty years. Thus when the details of the Slovik case were
finally brought out into the open, there was much talk of an
official cover-up. Now veteran military historian, Charles Whiting
has attempted to dig up the final truth. He reveals in this fast
paced intriguing book that Slovik was not the innocent victim that
his advocate had maintained he was. In that year in which he was
sentenced to death for desertion in the 'face of the enemy', he
played a calculating game with the US Army -and lost. Whiting also
reveals another secret: the man who would approve Slovik's death
sentence and have him shot in a remote French mountain village,
General (and future President) Dwight D. Eisenhower was also under
a sentence of death that winter himself.
The quantity of journalism produced during World War I was unlike
anything the then-budding mass media had ever seen. Correspondents
at the front were dispatching voluminous reports on a daily basis,
and though much of it was subject to censorship, it all eventually
became available. It remains the most extraordinary firsthand look
at the war that we have. Published immediately after the cessation
of hostilities and compiled from those original journalistic
sources-American, British, French, German, and others-this is an
astonishing contemporary perspective on the Great War. This replica
of the first 1919 edition includes all the original maps, photos,
and illustrations, lending an even greater immediacy to readers a
century later. Volume IX covers the war in Italy and the war at
sea, including submarine warfare, from August 1914 through November
1918. American journalist and historian FRANCIS WHITING HALSEY
(1851-1919) was literary editor of The New York Times from 1892
through 1896. He wrote and lectured extensively on history; his
works include, as editor, the two-volume Great Epochs in American
History Described by Famous Writers, From Columbus to Roosevelt
(1912), and, as writer, the 10-volume Seeing Europe with Famous
Authors (1914).
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The main objective of the book is to allocate the grass roots
initiatives of remembering the Holocaust victims in a particular
region of Russia which has a very diverse ethnic structure and
little presence of Jews at the same time. It aims to find out how
such individual initiatives correspond to the official Russian
hero-orientated concept of remembering the Second World war with
almost no attention to the memory of war victims, including
Holocaust victims. North Caucasus became the last address of
thousands of Soviet Jews, both evacuees and locals. While there was
almost no attention paid to the Holocaust victims in the official
Soviet propaganda in the postwar period, local activists and
historians together with the members of Jewish communities
preserved Holocaust memory by installing small obelisks at the
killing sites, writing novels and making documentaries, teaching
about the Holocaust at schools and making small thematic
exhibitions in the local and school museums. Individual types of
grass roots activities in the region on remembering Holocaust
victims are analyzed in each chapter of the book.
Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this
major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger
Afflerbach argues that the outcome of the war was actually in the
balance until relatively late in the war. Using new evidence from
diaries, letters and memoirs, he fundamentally revises our
understanding of German strategy from the decision to go to war and
the failure of the western offensive to the radicalisation of
Germany's war effort under Hindenburg and Ludendorff and the
ultimate collapse of the Central Powers. He uncovers the struggles
in wartime Germany between supporters of peace and hardliners who
wanted to fight to the finish. He suggests that Germany was not
nearly as committed to all-out conquest as previous accounts argue.
Numerous German peace advances could have offered the opportunity
to end the war before it dragged Europe into the abyss.
The war of 1914-1918 was the first great general conflict to be
fought between highly industrial societies able to manufacture and
transport immense quantities of goods over land and sea. Yet the
armies of the First World War were too vast in scale, their
movements too complex, and the infrastructure upon which they
depended too specialised to be operated by professional soldiers
alone. In Civilian Expertise at War, Christopher Phillips examines
the relationship between industrial society and industrial warfare
through the lens of Britain's transport experts. He analyses the
multiple connections between the army, the government, and the
senior executives of some of pre-war Britain's largest industrial
enterprises to illustrate the British army's evolving understanding
both of industrial warfare's particular character and of the role
to be played by non-military experts in the prosecution of such a
conflict. This book reveals that Britain's transport experts were a
key component of Britain's conduct of the First World War. It
demonstrates that a pre-existing professional relationship between
the army, government, and private enterprise existed before 1914,
and that these bonds were strengthened by the outbreak of war. It
charts the range of wartime roles into which Britain's transport
experts were thrust in the opening years of the conflict, as both
military and political leaders grasped with the challenges before
them. It details the application of recognisably civilian
technologies and methods to the prosecution of war and documents
how - in the conflict's principal theatre, the western front - the
freedom of action for Britain's transport experts was constrained
by the political and military requirements of coalition warfare.
Christopher Phillips is a lecturer in international security in the
Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University.
First published in 2002. From the foreword: "This insightful work
by David N. Spires holds many lessons in tactical air-ground
operations. Despite peacetime rivalries in the drafting of service
doctrine, in World War II the immense pressures of wartime drove
army and air commanders to cooperate in the effective prosecution
of battlefield operations. In northwest Europe during the war, the
combination of the U.S. Third Army commanded by Lt. Gen. George S.
Patton and the XIX Tactical Air Command led by Brig. Gen. Otto P.
Weyland proved to be the most effective allied air-ground team of
World War II. The great success of Patton's drive across France,
ultimately crossing the Rhine, and then racing across southern
Germany, owed a great deal to Weyland's airmen of the XIX Tactical
Air Command. This deft cooperation paved the way for allied victory
in Westren Europe and today remains a classic example of air-ground
effectiveness. It forever highlighted the importance of air-ground
commanders working closely together on the battlefield. The Air
Force is indebted to David N. Spires for chronicling this landmark
story of air-ground cooperation."
The end of a dynasty
It is likely that few of those who contributed to the outbreak of
the First World War would have imagined its consequences or
predicted which nations would prevail, which would fall in defeat
and which would all but cease to exist. Very few would have
foreseen the fall of so many of the royal houses of Europe and yet
this came to pass; most prominent among them were the Romanovs of
Russia. It was almost inconceivable that the Tsar, who ruled over a
vast territory and many millions of subjects, would be murdered (or
executed, according to one's sensibility) with all of his immediate
family such a short time from when the power and influence of the
Romanovs had seemed immutable. But this was an age of global
warfare on an industrial scale, and of revolution and political
change that would affect the nature of war and peace for a century
to come. This highly regarded book considers in detail the downfall
of the Russian Imperial family, and the authors have drawn upon
eyewitness testimony of those who were close to these historic
events. The narrative follows the Romanovs to their deaths, ordered
by Lenin, in a Yekaterinburg cellar, so preventing the Tsar
becoming a figure for the White Russians to rally around. An
essential and recommended work for any student of the fall of
monarchy, Russian involvement in the Great War and the rise of
Bolshevism.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
The quantity of journalism produced during World War I was unlike
anything the then-budding mass media had ever seen. Correspondents
at the front were dispatching voluminous reports on a daily basis,
and though much of it was subject to censorship, it all eventually
became available. It remains the most extraordinary firsthand look
at the war that we have. Published immediately after the cessation
of hostilities and compiled from those original journalistic
sources-American, British, French, German, and others-this is an
astonishing contemporary perspective on the Great War. This replica
of the first 1919 edition includes all the original maps, photos,
and illustrations, lending an even greater immediacy to readers a
century later. Volume VIII covers the war against German ally
Turkey and the war in the Balkans and Greece, from August 1914 to
October 1918. American journalist and historian FRANCIS WHITING
HALSEY (1851-1919) was literary editor of The New York Times from
1892 through 1896. He wrote and lectured extensively on history;
his works include, as editor, the two-volume Great Epochs in
American History Described by Famous Writers, From Columbus to
Roosevelt (1912), and, as writer, the 10-volume Seeing Europe with
Famous Authors (1914).
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