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Click here to go to the "History of the Chosin Story"
Korea, 1950-51
Table of Contents for
70 chapters!
The Changjin Journal

NEW Chapter 70
The first indicator of Chinese determination to control the actions in the Chosin area, in effect setting the stage for their planned encirclement on all area north of the Funchilin Pass;  includes comments from various sources.


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Click here to go to Air Force Combat Units of World War II - Part 2
Air Force Combat Units of World War II
Complete 506 page work, keyword searchable

Edited by Maurer Maurer ; USAF Historical Division, Air University, Washington :Date: 1986


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Click here to see the graphics from Steven J. Zaloga's Talk on February 2, 2001 on Operation Cobra.


 

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A Brief Introduction to the Why We Fight series



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THE IRISH CIVIL WAR, 1922-1923
Full text and illustrations from Paul V. Walsh's talk on  December 11, 1998
 


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France, 1940:
National Failure and the Uses of Defeat

David Gordon
History Department
Bronx Community College

Talk presented at a joint meeting of The Historical Society (New York Section)
 and The New York Military Affairs Symposium
May 10, 2002


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Complete slide presentation from
Nov. 22, 2002 talk:
 Pope v. Lee:
 The Second Manassas Campaign       


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NYMAS is associated with the Society for Military History Region 2.

 


Complete slide component from the Jan. 23, 2004,  presentation
Information Warfare:
What it Is, Isn’t, and How it Shapes National Security
by Dr. Daniel Kuehl of
National Defense University  

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The Fall 2006 Conference

October 20-21, 2006
Click here for details & reading list

 

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The Battle
of the Boyne
Fulltext of the recent paper presented to NYMAS by
Roger Kennedy



Jessie James

Complete slide component from the October 1, 2004 talk by Capt. Clay Mountcastle of the
 USMA at West Point

The Union War against Confederate Guerrillas


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"All Germany listens to The Fuhrer on the People's Radio"

Gray and Black Radio Propaganda against Nazi Germany
Fulltext of the recent paper
 by Bob Rowen

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Complete slide component from the Feb. 20, 2004 presentation
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by Norman Friedman
Author / NYMAS


 

Coming Soon
  

Friday evening talk
May 16, 2008
7 pm to 9 pm

Gouverneur Kemble Warren:
The Final Casualty
of the Civil War

Frank Varney
William Paterson University of New Jersey


 

Room 6-495
CUNY Graduate Center
Fifth Avenue at 34th Street
New York City

 

 


NYMAS Winter-Spring 2008
CALENDAR
 as of  
Saturday, May 10, 2008 07:48 PM
Schedule of Friday Evening Talks & the Spring Friday/Saturday Conference
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DateTopicSpeakerAffiliation
May 16Gouverneur Kemble Warren: The Final Casualty of the Civil WarFrank VarneyWilliam Paterson University of New Jersey
May 23From Bucharest to the Baltic: German Air Operations on the Eastern Front 1916-1917 (Note topic and speaker change)

Richard DiNardo

US Marine Corps Command and Staff College / NYMAS
May 30The Forgotten Cavalier, George Goring: The English Civil War
(1642 - 1646) 

Florene
Memegalos

 
Hunter College
June 6Omar Bradley's D-Day John PradosNational Security Archive
June 13How Lee Lost & Grant Won the Civil WarEd H. Bonekemper, III Author
June 20Recruiting Churchill's Army - What Went Wrong? Dan DavidNYMAS

 

NYMAS talks are free and open to the public. They are held on Friday evenings at the City University of New York Graduate Center, at 365 Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. These Friday lectures are usually held on the 6th floor in Room 6-495, but confirmation of the room number should be obtained from the guard at the street-level entrance.

These talks are sponsored by the New York Military Affairs Symposium in conjunction with CUNY's Conference on History and Politics, Dr. George D. Schwab, Director. NYMAS is associated with the Society for Military History, Region 2.

Topics and speakers may be subject to change without notice. A current updated schedule is always available at this website (http//:nymas.org)

 




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NYMAS
 c/o History Dept., Rm. 5114
 CUNY Graduate Center
 365 Fifth Avenue
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or email us anytime at

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Tom Wisker, NYMAS Board member and host of  Weaponry for over 25 years
Weaponry
military and aviation technology, history, hardware, policy, news, reviews, and analysis, all interspersed with totally inappropriate music.  Since 1982

WBAI, 99.5 FM or online,
on Wednesday morning
(Tuesday night, if you stay up)
from 1:30 to 3:30 am.

Weaponry is now available for download or play at any time. It's on the wbai.org site at archive.wbai.org

 




New
Newsletters from NYMAS now online
All Google & On-site searchable

No. 34 – Spring 2005
No. 35 – Summer 2005: Annual Civil War Issue
No. 36 – Winter, 2006
No. 37 – Spring 2006

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An updated NYMAS Guide to Military History on the Web:
 World War I (extensive) <<click here; thanks to NYMAS member Bob Bulko
 

 

 

NEW
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
’Til I Come Marching Home
A Brief History of American Women in
World War II


by C. Kay Larson



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Beyond Blackwater:
Contractors on the Battlefield

by Raymond Kimball

A paper delivered to the NYMAS Fall Conference on October 13, 2007

 

 


The 2006 NYMAS
Book Award

The winner of the year's Arthur Goodzeit Book Award is:
Ivan’s War :
Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945

by Catherine Merridale
1st ed.: New York : Metropolitan Books, 2006, xii,
462 p. : ill., maps ;25 cm., ISBN: 0805074554
9780805074550

For more information, click here


The 2006 NYMAS
Civil War Book Award

The winner of the fifth annual NYMAS Civil War Book Award is:

The Civil War in Arizona:
The California Volunteers
1861-65

 by Andrew E. Masich

University of Oklahoma Press, 384pp, ISBN: 0806137479 ISBN-13: 9780806137476: Hardcover

For more information, click here


A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

American Privateers in
the War Of 1812


Fulltext, documents and illustrations from a paper
by Bob Rowen
delivered to NYMAS on October 19, 2001 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York


A NYMAS Fulltext ResourceClick here for Steven Zaloga's article Defending the Kremlin: The First Generation of Soviet Strategic Air Defense Systems 1950-60
 by Steven J. Zaloga
 



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The Tennessee River Campaign
Chapter IV: from
GREAT NECESSITIES:  THE LIFE, TIMES AND WRITINGS OF ANNA ELLA CARROLL,
1815-1894
by C. Kay Larson


The USAAF’s Other Very Heavy Bomber - the Consolidated B-32

Captioned visuals from Tom Wisker's February 24, 2006 talk


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The GI Offensive
in Europe

Fulltext of the talk given to NYMAS on April 25, 2006
 by Peter R. Mansoor, Colonel, U.S. Army

 



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Billy Mitchell

Fulltext from the January 20, 2006 presentation by Raymond Kimball of the Iraq and Afghanistan
Veterans of America

Breaking Ranks:
 The History, Limitations, and Importance of American Active Duty Issue Advocacy



The 2004 NYMAS
Book Award
The winner of the year's Arthur Goodzeit Book Award is:
Rethinking
Military History
Jeremy Black
New York, NY : Routledge, 2004, 272pp, 0415275342 (pbk.)
0415275334 (hardback)

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WHAT IS HISTORY?
HOW HISTORIANS WORK AND

THE SOURCES THEY USE

Complete slide component from the May 13, 2005 talk by
Don Bittner of the
US Marine Corps
Command and Staff College
 


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Springing to the Call
a Documentary View of Women in the American Civil War
edited by C. Kay Larson


A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
Women’s War Work
 Edited By
 Lady Randolph Churchill 1916


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America First:
the Anti-War Movement,
 Charles Lindbergh
and the Second World War
 1940-1941

Fulltext of the paper presented to NYMAS by
David Gordon
History Department
Bronx Community College / CUNY Graduate Center on September 26, 2003
 

NEW

1916:
 The Year Germany Was Defeated

Complete slide component from the November 19, 2004 talk by Chuck Steele of the
 USMA History Department
 at West Point

 

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