STUDIES ON WAR: A MILITARY AFFAIRS READER; Prepared for the Fighting Man Himself by a Committee of The National Resource Council with the Collaboration of Science Service as a Contribution to the War Effort

Washington DC: Infantry Journal, 1943. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Mass market paperback. Good. Washington, DC: Infantry Journal, 1943. 7 1/8 x 4 3/8 inches: pp.158. Red, white and blue illustrated wraps with blue, red, white and black type.

A bit of edgewear, creasing, with a faint mark to bottom and fore-edge. No read crease to spine. Pages age-tanned, but unmarked. Binding tight

A fairly in-depth anthology which" represent a cross section of the material published in MILITARY AFFAIRS, the Journal of the American Military Institute, from 1936-1943. "...The selection was made on the assumption that there are many in the armed services and nation surfeited with superficial writings about military matters who would like to get their teeth into something solid. The studies presented do not make for 'easy reading' but they will repay time spent on them..." (Foreword, p.v). One of the Fighting Forces series which includes: Modern Battle; Americans Vs. Germans; How the Jap Army Fights; Guerrilla Warfare; New Soldier's Handbook; What's That Plane?; Aircraft Recognition; The Fight at Pearl Harbor (for sale to the Armed Forces only); How to Shoot the U.S. Army Rifle; Modern Battle; Machine Gunner's Handbook; 60mm Mortar Handbook; 81mm Mortar Handbook, and others.

Divided into three parts: Part I: European Military Thought and Practise; II: Economics and Warfare; III: The United States Army Past and Present.

Article authors include: Hajo Holborn, Dallas Irvine, Albert Lauterbach, Jean Gottmann, Max Werner, Lowell M. Pumphrey, Harry H. Bell, Edward S. Mason, F. Stansbury Haydon, Jerome Thomases, Branch spalding, Joseph Mills Hanson, H.A. deWeerd.

This particular copy came from the collection of a member of the WASP program (Women Airforce Service Pilots), a group of 1100 women who .... all civilian volunteers,[who] flew almost every type of military aircraft — including the B-26 and B-29 bombers — ...they ferried new planes long distances from factories to military bases and departure points across the country. They tested newly overhauled planes. And they towed targets to give ground and air gunners training shooting — with live ammunition.