Edward J. Drea
Edward John Drea | |
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| Born | 24 February 1944 Buffalo, New York |
| Subject | Imperial Japanese Army, Pacific War |
| Notable awards | Samuel Eliot Morison Prize |
Edward John Drea (born 24 February 1944) is an American
military historian. He deals especially with the Imperial Japanese Army and the Pacific War
.
Early life and education
Edward John Drea was born in
Canisius College
in Buffalo.
Career
On graduation, in 1965, he joined the
communist countries
. The
Pueblo Incident four days after he arrived resulted in a heavy workload.[1]
Drea served a combat tour in Vietnam. In 1971, he entered the
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1975, and became the head of the Research and Analysis Department at the US Army Center for Military History in Washington, D.C. He also taught at United States Army War College.[2]
Awards
In 2003, he received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime achievement from the Society for Military History.[4]
Bibliography
- Drea, Edward J. (2009). Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853–1945. Modern War Studies. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. OCLC 967353659.
- Drea, Edward J. (1992). MacArthur's ULTRA: Codebreaking and the War against Japan, 1942–1945. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. OCLC 464001591.
- Drea, Edward J.; Cole, Ronald H.; Poole, Walter S.; Schnabel, James F.; Watson, Robert J.; Webb, Willard J. (2013). History of the Unified Command Plan 1946–2012. Washington D. C. )
- Drea, Edward J. (2011). McNamara, Clifford, and the Burdens of Vietnam, 1965–1969. Washington D. C. )
- Drea, Edward J.; Kaplan, Lawrence S.; Landa, Ronald D. (2006). The McNamara Ascendancy, 1961–1965. Washington D. C.: Office of Secretary of Defense. OCLC 226264386.
- Drea, Edward J. (1998). In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. OCLC 470201299.
- Drea, Edward J. (1984). Defending the Driniumor: Covering Force Operations in New Guinea, 1944. Washington, DC. )
- Drea, Edward J. (1981). Nomonhan: Japanese-Soviet Tactical Combat, 1939. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Combat Studies Institute. OCLC 936029327.
- Drea, Edward J. (1979). The 1942 Japanese General Election: political mobilization in wartime Japan. Lawrence, Kansas: Center of East Asian Studies, University of Kansas. OCLC 5219120.
Notes
- ^ a b c d "Dr. Edward Drea oral history interview". The National Museum of the Pacific War. 17 September 2005. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
- ^ OCLC 720831424.
- ^ Drea, Edward J. (1978). The Japanese General Election of 1942: a Study of Political Institutions in Wartime (Thesis). University of Kansas. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
- ^ "Samuel Eliot Morison Prize". Society for Military History. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
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