The University of New Orleans - Books Recommended by The Eisenhower Center for American Studies

	The Korean War. by Allan R. Millett. Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc. Publication Date: July 2007
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	Mao's Generals Remember Korea by Xiaobing Li (Translator), Allan R. Millett (Editor), Bin Yu (Translator) Publisher: University Press of Kansas Publication Date: June 2001 "Mao's Generals Remember Korea demonstrates that the PRC continues to draw military, diplomatic, and strategic lessons from the war it fought fifty years ago with the world's most powerful military force. It offers valuable insight into the Chinese way of war and the military mind of Mao that will be a rich resource for Asian and military scholars."--BOOK JACKET.
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	Alone on Guadalcanal : A Coastwatcher's Story by Allan R. Millett Publisher: Naval Institute Press Publication Date: March 2004 From the Publisher Martin Clemens survived Intelligence missions behind Japanese lines in one of the most unfriendly climates and terrains in the world before emerging from the jungles of Guadalcanal with his Melanesian commando force to join U.S. Marine Corps operations. For this memoir, the legendary British coastwatcher draws on a journal he kept during the war to present a unique perspective of the Solomons campaign and the Marines who directed it. Clemens's accounts of harrowing long-range patrols and life on the run from shadowy enemy agents and treacherous islanders combine with a critical analysis of the campaign to make a significant contribution to Pacific war literature.
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	Calculations: Net Assessment and the Coming of World War II by Williamson Murray (Editor), Allan R. Millett (Editor) Publisher: The Free Press Publication Date: January 1992
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	Commandants of the Marine Corps by Allan R. Millett (Editor) , Jack Shulimson (Editor) Publisher: US Naval Institute Press Publication Date: May 2004
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	For the Common Defense by Allan R. Millett, Peter Maslowski Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: June 1994
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	Military Innovation in the Interwar Period by Williamson Murray (Editor), Allan R. Millett (Editor) Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: August 1998 From the Publisher In 1914, the armies and navies that faced each other were alike down to the strengths of their companies and battalions and the designs of their battleships and cruisers. Differences were of degree rather than essence. During the interwar period, the armed forces grew increasingly asymmetrical, developing different approaches to the same problems. This study of major military innovations in the 1920s and 1930s explores differences in innovating exploitation by the six major military powers. The comparative essays investigate how and why innovation occurred or did not occur, and explain much of the strategic and operational performance of the Axis and Allies in World War II. The essays focus on several instances of how military services developed new technology and weapons and incorporated them into their doctrine, organization, and styles of operations.
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	The General: Robert L. Bullard and Officership in the United States Army, 1881-1925 by Allan R. Millett Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated Publication Date: October 1975
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	The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House Burning by Allan R. Millett Publisher: University Press of Kansas Publication Date: October 2005 From the Publisher When the major powers sent troops to the Korean peninsula in June of 1950, it supposedly marked the start of one of the last century's bloodiest conflicts. Allan Millett, however, reveals that the Korean War actually began with partisan clashes two years earlier and had roots in the political history of Korea under Japanese rule, 1910-1945. The first in a new two-volume history of the Korean War, Millett's study offers the most comprehensive account of its causes and early military operations. Millett traces the war's origins to the post-liberation conflict between two revolutionary movements, the Marxist-Leninists and the Nationalist-capitalists. With the U.S.-Soviet partition of Korea following World War II, each movement, now with foreign patrons, asserted its right to govern the peninsula, leading directly to the guerrilla warfare and terrorism in which more than 30,000 Koreans died. Millett argues that this civil strife, fought mostly in the South, was not so much the cause of the Korean War as its actual beginning. Millett describes two revolutions locked in irreconcilable conflict, offering an even-handed treatment of both Communists and capitalists-nationalists. Neither movement was a model of democracy. He includes Korean, Chinese, and Russian perspectives on this era, provides the most complete account of the formation of the South Korean army, and offers new interpretations of the U.S. occupation of Korea, 1945-1948. Millett's history redefines the initial phase of the war in Asian terms. His book shows how both internal forces and international pressures converged to create the Korean War, a conflict that still shapes the politics of Asia. This book is part of the Modern War Studies series.
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	The War for Korea, 1950-1951: They Came from the North By Allan R. Millett Publisher: The University Press of Kansas Publication Date: April, 2010 Description: In The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House Burning, one of our most distinguished military historians argued that the conflict on the Korean peninsula in the middle of the twentieth century was first and foremost a war between Koreans that began in 1948. In the second volume of a monumental trilogy, Allan R. Millett now shifts his focus to the twelve-month period from North Korea's invasion of South Korea on June 25, 1950, through the end of June 1951--the most active phase of the internationalized "Korean War." Moving deftly between the battlefield and the halls of power, Millett weaves together military operations and tactics without losing sight of Cold War geopolitics, strategy, and civil-military relations. Filled with new insights on the conflict, his book is the first to give combined arms its due, looking at the contributions and challenges of integrating naval and air power with the ground forces of United Nations Command and showing the importance of Korean support services. He also provides the most complete, and sympathetic, account of the role of South Korea's armed forces, drawing heavily on ROK and Korea Military Advisory Group sources. Millett integrates non-American perspectives into the narrative--especially those of Mao Zedong, Chinese military commander Peng Dehuai, Josef Stalin, Kim Il-sung, and Syngman Rhee. And he portrays Walton Walker and Matthew Ridgway as the heroes of Korea, both of whom had a more profound understanding of the situation than Douglas MacArthur, whose greatest flaw was not his politics but his strategic and operational incompetence. Researched in South Korean, Chinese, and Soviet as well as American and UN sources, Millett has exploited previously ignored or neglected oral history collections--including interviews with American and South Korean officers--and has made extensive use of reports based on interrogations of North Korean and Chinese POWs. The end result is masterful work that provides both a gripping narrative and a greater understanding of this key conflict in international and American history. This book is part of the Modern War Studies series.
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	A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War, 1937-1945 by Williamson Murray, Allan R. Millett Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication Date: May 2000 From the Publisher In the course of the twentieth century, no war looms as profoundly transformative or as destructive as World War II. Its global scope and human toll reveal the true face of modern, industrialized warfare. Now, for the first time, we have a comprehensive, single-volume account of how and why this global conflict evolved as it did. A War To Be Won is a unique and powerful operational history of the Second World War that tells the full story of battle on land, on sea, and in the air. Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett analyze the operations and tactics that defined the conduct of the war in both the European and Pacific Theaters. Moving between the war room and the battlefield, we see how strategies were crafted and revised, and how the multitudes of combat troops struggled to discharge their orders. The authors present incisive portraits of the military leaders, on both sides of the struggle, demonstrating the ambiguities they faced, the opportunities they took, and those they missed. Throughout, we see the relationship between the actual operations of the war and their political and moral implications. A War To Be Won is the culmination of decades of research by two of America's premier military historians. It avoids a celebratory view of the war but preserves a profound respect for the problems the Allies faced and overcame as well as a realistic assessment of the Axis accomplishments and failures. It is the essential military history of World War II-from the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the surrender of Japan in 1945-for students, scholars, and general readers alike.


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