John C. McManus
Autor/a de The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach
Sobre l'autor
John C. McManus is an award-winning professor, author, and military historian, and a leading expert on the history of the American combat experience. He is the Curators' Distinguished Professor of US military history at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, and recently completed a mostra'n més visiting professorship at the US Naval Academy as the Leo Tifrin Chair of naval and military history. His critically acclaimed books on World II include Deadly Sky, September Hope, and The Dead and Those About to Die. mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Pritzker Military Library
Sèrie
Obres de John C. McManus
Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq (2010) 140 exemplars
The Americans at Normandy: The Summer of 1944--The American War from the Normandy Beaches to Falaise (2004) 62 exemplars
Hell Before Their Very Eyes: American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps in Germany, April 1945 (Witness to History) (2015) 17 exemplars
Obres associades
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 2008 (2008) — Author "In Review: The Second Battle of the Marne" — 11 exemplars
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 2009 (2008) — Author "In Review: One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro..." — 9 exemplars
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 2010 (2009) — Author "In Review: Tonight We Die as Men" — 6 exemplars
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 2009 (2009) — Author "In Review: We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam" — 5 exemplars
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 2009 (2009) — Author "In Review: The Gamble" — 5 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1965-09-13
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Educació
- University of Missouri, Columbia (B.J. ∙ 1987)
University of Missouri, Columbia (M.A. ∙ 1991)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Ph.D. ∙ 1996) - Professions
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, instructor and research associate, 1992-98
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, assistant director of Center for the Study of War and Society
St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, MO, instructor in history, 1998-2000
Missouri University of Science and Technology, instructor, 2000
Missouri University of Science and Technology, assistant professor, 2003-07
Missouri University of Science and Technology, associate professor of history, 2007- - Organitzacions
- Society for Military History
University of Missouri-Rolla
Membres
Ressenyes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 17
- També de
- 5
- Membres
- 1,392
- Popularitat
- #18,463
- Valoració
- 4.2
- Ressenyes
- 25
- ISBN
- 74
- Llengües
- 1
McManus gives a vivid account of the fighting but also provides descriptions of the logistics effort that only the American economy could sustain. His pen portraits of the main commanders and their various intra and inter-service machinations was something that is not usually covered.
These books provide an understanding of the US Army contribution in many unknown locations that hardly ever feature in the Pacific narrative.… (més)