William Thomas Allison, General Editor

Theodore A. Wilson, Founding Editor

Series Editors: Raymond A. Callahan, Allan R. Millett, Carol Reardon, David R. Stone, Heather Marie Stur, Samuel J. Watson, Jacqueline Whitt, and James H. Willbanks

The Modern War Studies series provides a forum for the best of the new military history. The scope of this series is global, comparative, and comprehensive. It embraces topics as diverse as operations; biography; strategy and politics; civil-military relations; institutional, organizational, and social history; and the impact of technology on warfare from the mid-eighteenth century to the present.

“The University Press of Kansas’s Modern War Studies series is one of the most vital sources for military titles today.”—Stone & Stone Second World War Books

“The University Press of Kansas publishes important, even groundbreaking, titles in military history.”—Von Hardesty, author of Red Phoenix: The Rise of Soviet Air Power, 1941–1945

“The University Press of Kansas stands at the front ranks of publishers in military history.”—Ed Strauss, Publisher, MHQ

For more information about the series, please contact: Joyce Harrison, Editor in Chief, University Press of Kansas: joyce@ku.edu.