Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $24.95 (620p) ISBN 978-0-07-030627-1
Quoting from letters, diaries and interviews, Hoyt (Hitler's War, etc.) retraces ground already well trodbut with a difference. The emphasis here, to a large degree, is on the American soldier as skeptical grouser keeping a wary eye out for ``the...
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Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Author Forge $22.95 (316p) ISBN 978-0-312-85533-8
George Armstrong Custer is once again brought to life in this saber-rattling, hoof-pounding saga of the legendary general's decade (1866-1876) with the Seventh Cavalry. Custer's arrogance, ambition and bravado brought him fame and glory throughout...
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Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Author Forge $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-85668-7
Hoyt's telling biography of Luftwaffe commander Hermann Goering (1893-1947) brings into clearer focus the methods by which this flamboyant Nazi built the German air force into a formidable military arm even before the outbreak of WW II. He describes
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Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Author John Wiley & Sons $24.95 (298p) ISBN 978-0-471-59151-1
``As dictators go, Mussolini was very humane .'' So writes Hoyt ( Japan's War ), who here presents an idiosyncratic interpretation of ``the world's most popular political figure of the late 1920s and early 1930s.'' Playing down the violence,...
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Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Author Tor Books $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-85463-8
The battle of Stalingrad (September 1942-February 1943) was the turning point in the Soviet Union's war against Hitler, marking the German army's change from an offensive to a defensive strategy in Russia. The German war machine failed to recoup...
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Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $22.5 (418p) ISBN 978-0-07-030633-2
Based on interviews, letters and unpublished manuscripts, this oral history, a companion volume to Hoyt's The GI's War , shows how U.S. pilots and crewmen fought WW II in the air. Specific exploits are described: the sinking of a U-boat off North...
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Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $19.95 (245p) ISBN 978-0-07-030632-5
Hoyt ( Kamikazes ) here traces the deterioration of Sino-American relations after WW II as the U.S. tried to mediate between the Nationalists and the Communists while supporting Chiang Kaishek against Mao Zedong, hoping to prevent the civil war that
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Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $19.95 (274p) ISBN 978-0-07-030625-7
This simplistic popular history describes the U.S. Navy's ``fumbling'' efforts up to the battle of Midway in 1942 to employ its carriers effectively, and the victories against the Japanese navy that followed. Hoyt ( America's Wars ) is severely...
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Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $0 (355p) ISBN 978-0-07-030619-6
``Americans do not like to think of their country as imperialist, yet in relationship to China it most definitely was,'' writes Hoyt, whose books include Japan's War and The Militarists. He argues that the Taiping Rebellion of 1851, a full-scale...
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Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $0 (289p) ISBN 978-0-07-030620-2
A collection of some 300 photos, posters, cartoons, operational maps and plans of submarines interspersed with a concise history of U-boats from the between-wars period to the end of World War II, Hoyt's book provides an intimate view of daily life...
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Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $0 (539p) ISBN 978-0-07-030618-9
In an earnest attempt to compensate for ""the failure of our educational system to teach our youth the story of our own country,'' journalist and historian Hoyt chronicles the military aspects of that story simply and directly. His opinions are...
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Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $19.95 (514p) ISBN 978-0-07-030612-7
Hoyt traces the Pacific War back to its 19th century roots, clarifying the connection between Bushido, emperor worship, and Japan's emergence as a totalitarian military state obsessed with expansion. What renders the book unusual is that events are...
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Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Author Scarborough House Publishers $24.95 (254p) ISBN 978-0-8128-4017-9
An all but forgotten figure even in Japan, Hideki Tojo was second only to Adolf Hitler as a symbol of Axis villainy during WW II. Hoyt ( Japan's War ) describes Tojo's ascendancy to power in the Japanese army, and his roles as prime minister and...
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Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Author Praeger Publishers $71.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-275-94067-6
Vice Admiral Ugaki served as chief of staff to the legendary Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Combined Fleet, until Yamamoto was killed in an aerial ambush in 1943. Ugaki, who was himself wounded in the attack, later was appointed...
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Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Author Dell Publishing Company $6.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-440-21497-7
Military historian Hoyt ( Carrier Wars ) offers a thoroughly researched but surprisingly dull institutional history of Navy special warfare from World War II to the Gulf War. Relying mainly on government documents, Hoyt reconstructs numerous battles
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Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Author Paragon House Publishers $24.95 (298p) ISBN 978-1-55778-483-4
This collection of entertaining, often stirring stories about the adventures/misadventures of young ``gobs'' and junior-grade officers captures the exhilaration, terror and bewilderment experienced by U.S. Navy volunteers during WW II. Drawing on...
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Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Author Praeger Publishers $62.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-275-94069-0
In this informative and sympathetic biography, Hoyt describes how Hirohito (1901-1989) was made a symbol by the Japanese constitution and social system, then exploited by army conspirators who seized control of the government in 1932. While...
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Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $22.95 (388p) ISBN 978-0-07-030622-6
Military historian Hoyt allows that Hitler ""showed real brilliance'' in his initial military victories but that defeat was inevitable as early as 1942 because of the virulent nature of his anti-Semitism (the most important, according to Hoyt, of...
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