Since 1983, the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans has been engaged in a project to collect on audiotape and videotape the recollections of as many people as possible - soldiers as well as civilians - who were involved in one of the most historic events of the ce…
A young peasant couple from southwest France wed just prior to to war's eruption in 1914 is forced to conduct their marriage mostly by correspondence. Civilians and combatants alike maintained bonds of emotional commitment and suffered the inevitable miseries of extended absence…
A young peasant couple from southwest France wed just prior to to war's eruption in 1914 is forced to conduct their marriage mostly by correspondence. Civilians and combatants alike maintained bonds of emotional commitment and suffered the inevitable miseries of extended absence…
How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? If you're the US Army in 1944, one of your approaches is dangling the lure of beautiful French women, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. Roberts tells the troubling sto…
How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? If you're the US Army in 1944, one of your approaches is dangling the lure of beautiful French women, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. Roberts tells the troubling sto…
How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? If you're the US Army in 1944, one of your approaches is dangling the lure of beautiful French women, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. Roberts tells the troubling sto…
"From a MacArthur Fellow and the author of The Good Soldiers, a profound look at life after war No journalist has reckoned with the psychology of war as intimately as David Finkel. In The Good Soldiers, his bestselling account from the front lines of Baghdad, Finkel shadowed the…
Grunt's-eye report from the battlefield in the spirit of The Red Badge of Courage and All Quiet on the Western Front'the only known account by a common soldier of the campaigns of Napoleon's Grand Army between 1806 and 1813. When eighteen-year-old German stonemason Jakob Walter …
The only known memoir by a draftee of the campaigns of Napoleon's Grand Army between 1806 and 1813.
An investigation of men whom the Nazis classified as Jews or "partial-Jews" serving in the German armed forces during World War II.
In the early hours of July 13, 1942, the men of Reserve Police Battalion 101, a unit of the German Order Police, entered the Polish Village of Jozefow. They had arrived in Poland less than three weeks before, most of them recently drafted family men too old for combat service--w…
"Thousands of Frenchmen volunteered to provide military help to the Nazis during World War II, fighting in such places as Belorussia, Galicia, Pomerania, and Berlin. Utilizing these soldiers' memoirs, The French who fought for Hitler examines how these volunteers describe their …