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Jerry Trombella new Executive Director of NYMAS 
Nov 18, 2016, NYC: Meeting in the aftermath of the loss of Bob Miller, the Directors unanimously elected Jerry Trombella as NYMAS Executive Director. Jerry is Dean of Research and Planning at Hudson County Community College. He holds a B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton with a triple major in History, Political Science and Classical Studies, an M.B.A. in Business Computer Information Systems from Hofstra University, an M.P.A in Public Administration with a specialization in Public Finance from the State University of New York at Albany, and a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from Seton Hall University, where he periodically teaches a graduate course in higher education organization and governance. Jerry has 25 years of experience in higher education administration, including the areas of institutional research, institutional assessment, planning, budgeting, financial aid leveraging, decision analytics and information systems. In addition his administrative and teaching duties, Jerry is doing research in the economics of higher education and in colleges and universities as complex systems. Jerry has a longstanding interest in military history, and is especially appreciative of the NYMAS interdisciplinary approach in seeking to understand issues associated with military affairs. His current research focus within military history involves predictive models of combat using historical data, based more on his longstanding interest in wargaming than in a belief in their utility. Job responsibilities, time, and financing permitting, he hopes to extend current research associated with predictive combat modeling into a formal proposal for an eventual second PhD in military history.
 Korea, 1950-51 Table of Contents for 75 chapters! The Changjin Journal
NEW Chapter 76 NEW IN THIS ISSUE The foundation of this issue began some years ago after the publication of my e-book The Chosin Chronology: Battle of the Changjin Reservoir 1950 wherein the sacrifice of Task Force Faith was addressed in the summary. __________________ In Memoriam Robert Miller 1945-2016 Publisher, author, history scholar and NYMAS' outstanding Executive Director since 2012. On Saturday, Nov. 5 at 1pm at the Soldiers Sailors Club a Memorial and Remembrance for Robert Miller was held. more |
Robert Miller became Executive Director of NYMAS  NYC, Oct. 19, 2012 - The NYMAS Board of Directors today elected Robert Miller, publisher of Enigma Books, as Executive Director of NYMAS. Miller succeeds Daniel David, formerly of Skye Books, who remains head of the NYMAS Book Awards Committee.
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 France, 1940: National Failure and the Uses of Defeat David Gordon History Department CUNY Graduate Center Talk presented at a joint meeting of The Historical Society (New York Section) and The New York Military Affairs Symposium May 10, 2002
 REVIEW by George A. Rasula THE COLDEST WINTER by David Halberstam
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 Air Force Combat Units of World War II Complete 506 page work, keyword searchable Edited by Maurer Maurer ; USAF Historical Division, Air University, Washington :Date: 1986

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A Brief Introduction to the Why We Fight series
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 THE IRISH CIVIL WAR, 1922-1923 Full text and illustrations from Paul V. Walsh's talk on December 11, 1998
 Complete slide presentation from Nov. 22, 2002 talk: Pope v. Lee: The Second Manassas Campaign
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Complete slide component from the Jan. 23, 2004, presentation Information Warfare: What it Is, Isn’t, and How it Shapes National Security by Dr. Daniel Kuehl of National Defense University 
The Fall 2006 Conference
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 The Battle of the Boyne Fulltext of the recent paper presented to NYMAS by Roger Kennedy
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Complete slide component from the October 1, 2004 talk by Capt. Clay Mountcastle of the USMA at West Point
The Union War against Confederate Guerrillas
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 "All Germany listens to The Fuhrer on the People's Radio" Gray and Black Radio Propaganda against Nazi Germany Fulltext of the recent paper by Bob Rowen NEW Now readable & printable in Adobe Reader

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Fulltext of the paper presented to NYMAS by David Gordon History Department Bronx Community College / CUNY Graduate Center on September 26, 2003
 1916: The Year Germany Was Defeated Complete slide component from the November 19, 2004 talk by Chuck Steele of the USMA History Department at West Point
In Memoriam Eugene Feit 1948-2010 
Outstanding attorney, history scholar and NYMAS' most extraordinary Executive Director, leader, and author of the NYMAS By-laws. -more- |
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Wargaming A 2-day Conference
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Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, July 1937-May 1942
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| The Arthur Goodzeit Award | 2010 | Hitler’s first war : Adolf Hitler, the men of the List Regiment, and the First World War by Thomas Weber (Oxford University Press, 2010) |  | 2009 | Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 by D. M. Giangreco (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2009) | | 2008 | Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commanders’ War in Iraq by Col. Peter R Mansoor (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008}. |  | The Civil War Book Award | 2009 | West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace by Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2009). |  | 2008 | Lincoln and his Admirals by Craig Symonds (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008). |  | Special Award | 2009 | David M. Glantz, Col., U.S.A. (Ret.) for a lifetime of scholarship in Soviet and Russian archives of the Red Army in World War II |  |

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| NEW The 2018 NYMAS / Arthur Goodzeit Book Award  Futile Exercise? The British Army’s Preparations for War, 1902-1914, by Simon Batten. Warwick, Eng.: Helion / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2018.
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NEW The 2018 NYMAS / Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies  The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies by Peter S. Carmichael Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
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The 2017 NYMAS / Arthur Goodzeit Book Award for The 1929 Sino-Soviet War: The War Nobody Knew by Michael M. Walker University Press of Kansas, 2017 978-0700623754 For more information, click here
The 2017 NYMAS / Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies
 Civil War Logistics:A Study of Military Transportation by Earl J. Hess LSU Press, 2017. 13: 978-0807167502
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NEW The 2016 NYMAS / Arthur Goodzeit Book Award  Titan: The Art of British Power in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon by William R. Nester Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016
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NEW The 2016 NYMAS / Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies  City of Sedition: The History of New York City during the Civil War by John Strausbaugh New York, Grand Central Publishing, 2016.
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The 2015 NYMAS / Arthur Goodzeit Book Award The Ottoman Endgame: War Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East,1908-1923, by Sean McMeekin. New York: Penguin, 2015 For more information, click here
The 2015 NYMAS / Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies
 For Brotherhood and Duty: The Civil War History of the West Point Class of 1862, by Brian R. McEnany. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
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Some Thoughts on the Japanese A6M Series Shipboard Fighter by Dwight Cox A NYMAS Full Text Resource
The 2014 NYMAS / Arthur Goodzeit Book Award 
The Schlieffen Plan: International Perspectives on the German Strategy for World War I / edited by Hans Ehlert, Michael Epkenhans, and Gerhard P. Gross, with an Engish translation edited by David T. Zabecki. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014) For more information, click here
NEW The 2014 NYMAS / Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies
 Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War / Elizabeth Varon. Oxford University Press, 2014 For more information, click here
NYMAS Special Achievement Award Cambridge University Press, for their series “Armies of the Great War” For more information, click here
Special Award The New York Military Affairs Symposium honors Rick Atkinson for his lifetime of achievements in military history. 2013 For more information, click here
The 2013 Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies  Captives in Blue: The Civil War Prisons of the Confederacy / Roger Pickenpaugh : University of Alabama Press; 2013.
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The 2013 NYMAS Book Award Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965 by Pierre Asselin (Oakland, CA, University of California Press, c2013)
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource  The Welles Mission to Rome: February-March 1940 FDR’s Diplomatic Initiative to Mussolini by Robert L. Miller, 2008
The 2012 NYMAS Book Award The Arthur Goodzeit Award
 The Wehrmacht retreats : fighting a lost war, 1943 by Robert M. Citino. (Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2012)
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource  DEFENSE, REACTION AND PASSIVITY: BRITISH STRATEGY TOWARD NEW YORK AND NEW ENGLAND IN THE WAR OF 1812
James P. Werbaneth American Military University La Roche College
The 2011 NYMAS Book Award The winner of the year's Arthur Goodzeit Book Award is:
 Fighting for MacArthur : the Navy and Marine Corps’ desperate defense of the Philippines / John Gordon: Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, 2011. For more information, click here
The 2011 Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies 
The Union war / Gary W. Gallagher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011. For more information, click here
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource  From ‘Civil Warriors: Three Lives..." by Fernando Ortiz Jr. Illustrated
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource From ‘Dagoes’ to ‘Nervy Spaniards’ American Soldiers’ Views of their Opponents, 1898 Albert A. Nofi Illustrated
The 2010 NYMAS Book Award The winner of the year's Arthur Goodzeit Book Award is:
 Hitler’s first war : Adolf Hitler, the men of the List Regiment, and the First World War / Thomas Weber. : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010, ©2010. xvi, 450 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. ISBN: 9780199233205 For more information, click here
The 2010 Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies 
To Eric Foner for The Fiery Trial and for his lifetime contributions to the field of 19th Century American, Civil War and Global History The fiery trial : Abraham Lincoln and American slavery / Eric Foner : New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2010. Description: xxi, 426 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. ISBN: 9780393066180
The 2009 NYMAS Book Award The winner of the year's Arthur Goodzeit Book Award is:
 Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan 1945-1947 by D. M. Giangreco (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2009) The 2009 NYMAS Civil War Book Award The winner of the eighth annual NYMAS Civil War Book Award is:
 West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace by Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2009).
Special Award David M. Glantz, Col., U.S.A. (Ret.)
 The New York Military Affairs Symposium honors Col. DAVID M. GLANTZ for a lifetime of scholarship in Soviet and Russian archives of the Red Army in World War II 2009 For more information, click here
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource ’Til I Come Marching Home A Brief History of American Women in World War II
by C. Kay Larson
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American Privateers in the War Of 1812
Fulltext, documents and illustrations from a paper by Bob Rowen delivered to NYMAS on October 19, 2001 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource Defending the Kremlin: The First Generation of Soviet Strategic Air Defense Systems 1950-60 by Steven J. Zaloga
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  The Tennessee River Campaign Chapter IV: from GREAT NECESSITIES: THE LIFE, TIMES AND WRITINGS OF ANNA ELLA CARROLL, 1815-1894 by C. Kay Larson

The USAAF’s Other Very Heavy Bomber - the Consolidated B-32
Captioned visuals from Tom Wisker's February 24, 2006 talk
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 The GI Offensive in Europe Fulltext of the talk given to NYMAS on April 25, 2006 by Peter R. Mansoor, Colonel, U.S. Army
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource Breaking Ranks: The History, Limitations, and Importance of American Active Duty Issue Advocacy
 Billy Mitchell
Fulltext from the January 20, 2006 presentation by Raymond Kimball of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
The 2004 NYMAS Book Award The winner of the year's Arthur Goodzeit Book Award is: Rethinking Military History Jeremy Black New York, NY : Routledge, 2004, 272pp, 0415275342 (pbk.) 0415275334 (hardback) For more information, click here
 WHAT IS HISTORY? HOW HISTORIANS WORK AND THE SOURCES THEY USE Complete slide component from the May 13, 2005 talk by Don Bittner of the US Marine Corps Command and Staff College
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 Springing to the Call a Documentary View of Women in the American Civil War edited by C. Kay Larson
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource Women’s War Work Edited By Lady Randolph Churchill 1916
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