John C. McManus
Autore di The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach
Sull'Autore
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 altro 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 meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Pritzker Military Library
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MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 2010 (2009) — Author "In Review: Tonight We Die as Men" — 6 copie
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MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 2009 (2009) — Author "In Review: The Gamble" — 5 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1965-09-13
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Missouri, Columbia (B.J. ∙ 1987)
University of Missouri, Columbia (M.A. ∙ 1991)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Ph.D. ∙ 1996) - Attività lavorative
- 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- - Organizzazioni
- Society for Military History
University of Missouri-Rolla
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 17
- Opere correlate
- 5
- Utenti
- 1,394
- Popolarità
- #18,440
- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 25
- ISBN
- 74
- Lingue
- 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.… (altro)