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O'Brien, Phillips Payson: - Phillips Payson O'Brien gained a Ph.D. in History after two years working on Wall Street. Since then, he has published a range of works on British and American strategic and political history during the first half of the twentieth century. More recently, he has taken a leading role as a commentator on defence issues and the debate over Scottish Independence. He has testified in front of UK parliamentary committees, and advised major European governments on the course of the campaign. Through this work he has gained media experience, appearing as a regular commentator for the BBC and STV, and publishing opinion pieces in the Scotsman and the Scottish Herald. He has received awards or research fellowships from the Carnegie Foundation, the US Naval History and Heritage Command, and the Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt Presidential libraries. He has also been invited to Japan twice to speak on World War II at the National Institute of Defence Studies (Tokyo).
The epic story of the engineers and rail workers who ensured Allied victory in World War Two, published to coincide with the eightieth anniversary of D-Day, by an award-winning expert on trains and transportation They certainly were not soldiers, yet they suddenly found themselves in uniform, in a f
In the bestselling D-Day, Citizen Soldiers, and Band of Brothers, Ambrose portrayed in vivid detail the experiences of soldiers who fought on the bloody battlegrounds of World War II. The Wild Blue brings to life another extraordinary group of men--the pilots, bombardiers, navigators and gunners abo
A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian. World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma to ar
Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for History, this book tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in two unprecedented calamities: the Great Depression and World War II. 65 halftones. 21 maps. Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people:
