Books written by G. Kurt Piehler

  • Remembering War the American Way
    Remembering War the American Way

    George Peabody to Secretary of War Newton W. Baker, 18 September 1919, box 10, Newton D. Baker Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; “The American Negro as a Soldier.” Literary Digest, 27 June ...

  • A Religious History of the American GI in World War II
    A Religious History of the American GI in World War II

    A Religious History of the American GI in World War II breaks new ground by recounting the armed forces' unprecedented efforts to meet the spiritual needs of the fifteen million men and women who served in World War II. For President ...

  • Encyclopedia of Military Science
    Encyclopedia of Military Science

    Finally, this work also covers recent American military history since the end of the Cold War with a special emphasis on peacekeeping and peacemaking operations, the First Persian Gulf War, the events surrounding 9/11, and the wars in ...

  • Encyclopedia of Military Science
    Encyclopedia of Military Science

    The sociological analysis presented by Shils and Janowitz introduced alternative ways of understanding the commitment of soldiers during wartime. Samuel Stouffer and his associates conducted a number of social psychological studies on ...

  • The Atomic Bomb and American Society: New Perspectives
    The Atomic Bomb and American Society: New Perspectives

    Peter Bacon Hales, Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project (Urbana: Univ. of illinois Press, 1997), 211. 20. see Fisher, Los Alamos Experience, 242. 21. Laura Fermi, “The Fermis' Path to Los Alamos,” in Reminiscences of Los ...

  • The United States and the Second World War: New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Home Front
    The United States and the Second World War: New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Home Front

    Dietrich, quoted in Scott H. Bennett, ed., Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank and Albert Dietrich (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), 44. 12. Corte ́z, quoted in Scott H. Bennett, ''Workers/Draftees of the ...

  • Major Problems in American Military History: Documents and Essays
    Major Problems in American Military History: Documents and Essays

    This volume traces the evolution of the American military, its institutions, strategic doctrines, and technology.

  • The United States in World War II: A Documentary Reader
    The United States in World War II: A Documentary Reader

    Bringing together well-known documents that are crucial to any study of the period with many enlightening documents that have never been published, The United States in World War II offers a balanced account of the social and political ...

  • Encyclopedia of Military Science
    Encyclopedia of Military Science

    Finally, this work also covers recent American military history since the end of the Cold War with a special emphasis on peacekeeping and peacemaking operations, the First Persian Gulf War, the events surrounding 9/11, and the wars in ...

  • Remembering War the American Way
    Remembering War the American Way

    As G. Kurt Piehler reveals in this book, after every conflict from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf War, Americans have argued about how and for what deeds and heroes wars should be remembered.

  • A Religious History of the American GI in World War II
    A Religious History of the American GI in World War II

    Studies in War, Society, and the Military Military Migration and State Formation: The British Military Community in ... 1650–1815 Jonathan R. Dull American Naval History, 1607–1865: Overcoming the Colonial Legacy Jonathan R. Dull ...

  • The Oxford Handbook of World War II
    The Oxford Handbook of World War II

    ... Caen Controversy : The Battle for Sword Beach 1944 ( Tulsa : Helion , 2014 ) . 24. Marc Milner , Stopping the Panzers : The Untold Story of D - Day ( Lawrence : University Press of Kansas , 2014 ) . 25. Richard Doherty , Hobart's 79th ...

  • Reporting World War II
    Reporting World War II

    ... War, volume 6 of The Greenwood Library of American War Reporting (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005). Alan Delozier is Special Collections Educations Coordinator and University Archivist at Seton Hall University. He holds a D.Litt. in ...

  • The Oxford Handbook of World War II

    This handbook broadens traditional narratives of the war and in the process changes our understanding of this epic conflict.

  • The Oxford Handbook of World War II

    This handbook broadens traditional narratives of the war and in the process changes our understanding of this epic conflict.

  • Reporting World War II: Democracy, Memory, and Literature in Post Fascist-Italy

    This set of essays offers new insights into the journalistic process and the pressures American front-line reporters experienced covering World War II.

  • A Religious History of the American GI in World War II
    A Religious History of the American GI in World War II

    G. Kurt Piehler underscores the significant institutional and cultural shift in the place of religion in the armed forces during World War II.

  • Remembering War the American Way
    Remembering War the American Way

    Drawing on sources ranging from government documents to Embalmer's Monthly, G. Kurt Piehler recounts efforts to commemorate wars by erecting monuments, designating holidays, forming veterans' organizations, and establishing national cemeteries....