Combined Arms in Battle Since 1939

Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Press, 1992. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Very good. 24 cm, xv, [1], 304 pages. Wraps. Maps. Figure. Bibliography. Slight wear and soiling to covers. Professor Spiller earned his Ph.D. in history from LSU in 1977. In 1978 he began his 27-year association with the Army as a visiting associate professor in military history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. Professor Spiller was one of the founding members of the Combat Studies Institute of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth. His leadership and innovation helped turn CSI into the Army's in-house think tank for the study of warfare. His was a multi-faceted talent. In addition to his scholarship at CSI, he worked as an advisor to documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, translated and analyzed a French military classic, and authored numerous oft-cited articles for various journals. He was a contributing editor for American Heritage and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Society for Military History. In the spring of 1991, the faculty of the Combat Studies Institute at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College began a collaborative project to publish a modern version of George C. Marshall's Infantry in Battle. This book is intentionally designed to be read piecemeal, a chapter at a time, in order to make it broadly useful to professional soldiers no matter where or in what capacity they are serving--in the field, on the staff, or in the Army's institutions of higher military education. Combined Arms in Battle Since 1939 offers 36 short essays on the application of military art and science, drawn from a variety of conflicts between the Second World War and Operation DESERT STORM, and written by members of the staff and students of the US Army's mid-grade professional education program.