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Chronicles the role of the Combat Cargo Command during the Korean War under the command of Major General William H. Tunner. The lessons of the Korean War reinforced what Tunner had learned during World War II and the Berlin airlift.

In the 1880s, Southern boosters saw the growth of industry as the only means of escaping the poverty that engulfed the postbellum South. In the long run, however, as James C. Cobb demonstrates in this illuminating book, industrial development left much of the South's poverty unrelieved and often reinforced rather than undermined its conservative social and political philosophy. The exploitation of the South's resources, largely by interests fr...

Provides for the first time a complete and dispassionate history of the most discussed and least known agency in the history of the American Republic

William M. Leary Jr.'s study combines history with personal drama to reconstruct an important chapter in the early years of aviation. He has conducted intensive research in American governmental archives, the Hoover Institution, and numerous libraries throughout the United States, in addition to obtaining access to the records of Pan American Airways (who bought out CNAC in 1933). His history of CNAC offers insights into the history of modern ...

Insiders often portray the 1950s as a golden age for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The first successful Soviet nuclear test in 1949 precluded a direct American clash with the USSR and inaugurated two generations of conflict by proxy. In this frequently covert struggle, the Agency became an instrument of choice for the US government. Fortified by an influx of veterans from its wartime predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)...

In Under Ice, William M. Leary examines the evolution of Arctic submarine operations in the U.S. Navy, a little-known but significant area of national security concern. Through the career of Waldo Lyon, he chronicles the problems of under-ice navigation and the development of Cold War naval strategy.In World War II, the Arctic became an active theater of operations for German and Soviet subs, which occasionally ducked under the ice to escape d...