Official Military Historical Offices and Sources: Volume II: The Western Hemisphere and the Pacific Rim

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Making official history from all over the world accessible, this volume and its companion complement and bring Robin Higham's 1970 classic work, Official Histories, up to date. Each chapter, written by the staff of the relevant historical office, gives both historiographical background and information on the volumes published by that office. Covering the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific Rim, this volume provides a plethora of information, as does the companion volume on Europe, Russia, Africa, the Middle East, and India Buried in official history volumes is a lot of fine and useful history, and official volumes deserve to be perused. This book will make those histories available to scholars and graduate students and will be especially useful to those concerned with military, social, and diplomatic history as well as medicine.

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Primarily of interest to libraries with comprehensive collections in military history.-Choice
Scholars will find the book a good starting place for their research....Higham's work gathers together a good deal of useful information and will be a great help for scholars and students of military history.-ARBA
"Primarily of interest to libraries with comprehensive collections in military history."-Choice
"Scholars will find the book a good starting place for their research....Higham's work gathers together a good deal of useful information and will be a great help for scholars and students of military history."-ARBA

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ROBIN HIGHAM taught military history at Kansas State University from 1963 to 1998. He is the author of more than 140 articles, 14 monographs and the editor of numerous bibliographical volumes. He was the editor of Military Affairs from 1968 to 1988 and Aerospace Historian from 1970 to 1988, and has been editor of The Journal of the West since 1977.