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African American War Heroes
by James B. Martin; 203 pages; ABC-CLIO, 2014. Available on amazon.com (hardcover - $87.57; Kindle - $86.98) and
barnesandnoble.com (hardcover- $98; Nook - $85.99).
This book contains a collection of 80 detailed biographies of African Americans who earned their nation's highest medals
for valor. It covers both well-known and more obscure individuals throughout U.S. military history and offers 10 sidebars
on important African American segregated units and critical events pertaining to African American participation in the
military.
Dr. James B. Martin is the Dean of Academics at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in American History from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A.
in Political Science from the University of Kentucky.
War and Moral Injury: A Reader
by Robert Emmet Meagher (Author, Editor) and Douglas A. Pryer (Editor); 394 pages, Cascade Books, 2018. Available on
amazon.com (hardcover - $50.00; paperback - $30.67; Kindle - $9.99) and barnesandnoble.com (hardcover- $70; paperback $45; Nook - $26.49).
Moral Injury has been called the "signature wound" of today's wars. It is also as old as the human record of war, as
evidenced in the ancient war epics of Greece, India, and the Middle East. But what exactly is Moral Injury? What are its
causes and consequences? What can we do to prevent or limit its occurrence among those we send to war? And, above all,
what can we do to help heal afflicted warriors? This book is a collection of some of the most far-ranging, authoritative,
and accessible writings to date on the topic. Contributors come from the fields of psychology, theology, philosophy,
psychiatry, law, journalism, neuropsychiatry, classics, poetry, and, of course, the profession of arms.
Robert Emmet Meagher is Professor of Humanities, Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass. He has served in a range of
veteran-focused programs aimed at understanding and healing war's inner wounds, and since 2010 has led a VA literature
seminar. Douglas A. Pryer retired as a lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Army military intelligence corps in August 2017,
last serving on the Joint Staff as a Middle East political-military advisor. His military experience includes five years
supporting combat operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo, and his essays and book, "The Fight for the High
Ground" (initially published by the CGSC Foundation Press), explore warfare's moral and psychological dimensions.
Lessons Unlearned: The U.S. Army's Role in Creating the Forever Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
by Pat Proctor; 500 pages; University of Missouri Press, 2020. Available on amazon.com (hardcover - $38.96; Kindle - $31.20)
and barnesandnoble.com (hardcover- $40; Nook - $24.99).
In this blunt critique of the senior leadership of the U.S. Army, the author contends that after the fall of the Soviet Union,
the U.S. Army stubbornly refused to reshape itself in response to the new strategic reality, a decision that saw it struggle
through one low-intensity conflict after another-some inconclusive, some tragic-in the 1980s and 1990s, and leaving
it largely unprepared when it found itself engaged-seemingly forever-in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The first booklength study to connect the failures of these wars to America's disastrous performance in the war on terror, Proctor's work
serves as an attempt to convince Army leaders to avoid repeating the same mistakes.
Col. (Ret.) Pat Proctor, U.S. Army, Ret., is a veteran of both the Iraq and the Afghanistan wars. He recently served
as a chief of operations group at the Mission Command Training Program and currently is an Assistant Professor of
History at Wichita State University. He is the author of "Containment and Credibility: The Ideology and Deceptions that
Plunged America into the Vietnam War." He lives in Leavenworth, Kansas and currently serves as a trustee of the CGSC
Foundation. He has a doctorate in history from Kansas State University and master's degrees from both the U.S. Army
Command and General Staff College Officer Course and the School of Advanced Military Studies.
The Final Battle: Soldiers of the Western Front and the German Revolution Of 1918
by Scott Stephenson; 374 pages; Cambridge University Press, 2009/2013. amazon.com (hardcover - $102.85; paperback $35.99) and barnesandnoble.com (paperback - $35.99).
In many ways the German soldiers who marched back from the Western Front at the end of World War I held the key to
the future of the newly-created republic that replaced the Kaiser's collapsed monarchy. To the radical Left, the orderly
columns of front line troops appeared to be the forces of the counterrevolution while to the conservative elements of
society they seemed to be the Fatherland's salvation. However in their efforts to get home as soon as possible, most
soldiers were indifferent to the political struggles within the Reich, while the remnant that remained under arms proved
powerless to defend the republic from its enemies. This book considers why these soldiers' response to the revolution was
so different from the rest of the army and the implications this would have for the course of the German Revolution and,
ultimately, for the fate of the Weimar Republic itself.
Dr. Scott Stephenson served 25 years as an Army officer, retiring in 2001. He has a bachelor's degree from the United
States Military Academy, a master's in history from Syracuse University, and a doctorate in history from the University of
Kansas. He has taught military history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College for 25 years. His book, "The
Final Battle: Soldiers of the Western Front and the German Revolution of 1918," won the 2010 Tomlinson Prize for Best
Book in English on World War I.

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