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Before landing in France on D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Allies executed an elaborate deception plan designed to prevent the Germans from concentrating forces in Normandy. The lesser-known first part, Fortitude North, suggested a threat to Norway. The more famous Fortitude South indicated that the invasion would occur at the Pas de Calais rather than Normandy, largely by creating a fictitious army group under Gen. George S. Patton. While historians have generally praised Operation Fortitude, Barbier takes a more nuanced view, arguing that the deception, while implemented well, affected the...

Culture, Power, and Security provides a timely collection of essays by a diverse group of historians grappling with the notion of security in different temporal and geographical contexts. The authors, ranging from senior scholars - including an award-winning military historian - to relative newcomers, examine a variety of new topics or ask new questions of older ones in the areas of religious, political, intelligence, military and foreign relations history. Drawing upon new approaches or archival sources, each author offers fresh perspectives and insight into the nature of national or...

This title reconsiders the social and cultural aspects of the Vietnam War that helped to fundamentally change America. With chapters written by subject area specialists, the book takes on subjects such as women's role in the war, the music and the films of the time, the Vietnamese perspective, and more.