books by Susie Harries

books by Susie Harries

books:

Susie Harries

The Last Days of Innocence: Library Edition

Meirion Harries, Susie Harries

Blackstone Audiobooks, 2000

America stumbled into World WarI like a drunk...
with two left footed boots,(which their soldiers somtimes had). Meirian & Susie Harries do not flinch in painting an unflattering potrait of America's first foray into a major foreign war. (The Spainish-America war doesn't count.) The French are also skewered as ...

Soldiers of the Sun

Meirion Harries, Susie Harries

William Heinemann Ltd, 2000

A Good Read!
This is a great book, especially for those wishing to understand the complexities in building a national army out of a feudal society during the Meiji restoration. The Japanese use of "total intelligence" is also quite interesting, in that there are many similarities ...

The War Artists: British Official War Art of the Twentieth Century

Meirion Harries, Susie Harries, ...

Michael Joseph; Imperial War Museum; Tate Gallery, 1983

About this book...
The 1st edition of 1983: sewn binding with bound in navy cloth w/dustcover. "...the first comprehensive account of the British offical war art schemes from their beginnings in 1916 to the recent Falklands War -- a unique experiment in government patronage which has ...

The Last Days of Innocence: America at War, 1917-1918

Meirion Harries, Susie Harries

Vintage, 1998

Greatly compliments the European histories of the Great War
An example of outstanding historiography! Though not quite the American corollary of Paul Fussell's 'The Great War and Modern Memory,' it proves a great companion to histories of the war written by Martin Gilbert and John Keegan. I found the Harries' work comprehensive ...

Sheathing the Sword: The Demilitarization of Japan

Meirion Harries, Susie Harries

Macmillan Pub Co, 1987

A Great Readable Treasure of Modern History
This has great many untold aspects of history. For example: "[General Douglas] MacArthur, however, believed the Tanaka Memorial to be a reality (as did Hollywood, in Blood of the Sun, James Cagney was sent to Japan to retrieve it). When Joseph Ballantine visited Tokyo ...