Books by Boyd L. Dastrup

The Combat Studies Institute provides a wide range of military, historical, and educational support to the Combined Arms Center, Training and Doctrine Command, and the United States Army. The Combat Studies Institute researches, writes, and publishes original interpretive works on issues of relevance to the US Army. The Combat Studies Institute (CSI) publication collection contains reports and books pertaining to American history, military guidelines, foreign affairs, and more. Titles featured in this collection include: Art of War Papers: Protecting, Isolating, and Controlling Behavior, Law of War: Can 20th Century Standards Apply to the Global War on Terrorism? and Traditions, Changes, and Challenges: Military Operations and the Middle Eastern City. This title is one of many in the Combat Studies Institute collection.

"Although there have been several studies of the American occupation of Germany, Dastrup's account of Nuremberg under American military government is only the second study of a specific German community. Dastrup, a historian in the US army, first sketches the origins of US occupation policies. He then analyzes the travails of denazification in Nuremberg, the laborious reeducation efforts, the manipulation of German media by American military authorities, the studious construction of representative institutions, and the dismantling of Nuremberg factories followed, in the end, by measures to restructure the local economy for peaceful uses. Although not always critical, Dastrup's work confirms that American policies in the once-renowned Nazi bastion were not significantly different from those in other areas of Germany.... [It] will be useful to advanced undergraduates and scholars alike."-Choice

This reference book by a well-known historian is the very first to give a short history of the development of the field artillery from the Middle Ages to the present, along with biographical profiles of leading figures, and bibliographical essays about the most important writings on the subject.