Military Book Review 2012

'Blinker' Hall: Spymaster: The Man Who Brought America into World War I December 31	The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 December 29	The Power Game in Byzantium: Antonina and the Empress Theodora December 27
Victors in Blue: How Union Generals Fought the Confederates, Battled Each Other, and Won the Civil War December 22	HMS Warrior 1860: Victoria's Ironclad Deterrent December 20	Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam December 18
Strangling the Confederacy: Coastal Operations in the American Civil War December 16	Rome and the Sword: How Warriors and Weapons Shaped Roman History December 14	Ruckzug: The German Retreat from France, 1944 December 12
The 11th Missouri Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War: A History and Roster December 10	Deterrence through Strength: British Naval Power and Foreign Policy under Pax Britannica December 08	The Forgotten Generation: American Children and World War II December 06
The Age of the Dromon: The Byzantine Navy, ca. 500-1204 December 04	Edmund J. Davis of Texas: Civil War General, Republican Leader, Reconstruction Governor December 02	Triumph at Midnight of the Century: A Critical Biography of Arturo Barea - Explaining the Roots of the Spanish Civil War November 30
Tennessee in the Civil War: Selected Contemporary Accounts of Military and Other Events, Month by Month November 28	Refighting the Pacific War: An Alternative History of World War II November 26	Normandy Crucible: The Decisive Battle that Shaped World War II in Europe November 24
Gladiator: The Roman Fighter's [Unofficial] Manual November 22	The Road to Koniggratz: Helmuth von Moltke and the Austro-Prussian War, 1866 November 20	Brothers to the Buffalo Soldiers: Perspectives on the African-American Militia and Volunteers, 1865-1917 November 18
The Jeune Ecole: The Strategy of the Weak November 16	The African Wars: Warriors and Soldiers of the Colonial Campaigns November 14	Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II November 12
A Small but Spartan Band: The Florida Brigade in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia November 10	United States Naval Aviation, 1919-1941: Aircraft, Airships and Ships Between the Wars November 08	The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo November 06
The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy Against Russia, 1853-1856 November 04	Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia: Survival in a Civil War Regiment November 02	Wellington's Two-front War: The Peninsular Campaigns, at Home and Abroad, 1808-1814 October 31
Fighting Patton: George S. Patton Jr. Through the Eyes of His Enemies October 29	The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801-1804 October 27	The Civil War in Georgia October 25
Eager for Glory: The Untold Story of Drusus the Elder, Conqueror of Germania October 23	Warfare on the Mediterranean in the Age of Sail: A History, 1571-1866 October 21	Manstein: Hitler's Greatest General October 18
The French and Indian War: A Complete Chronology October 12	Virginia at War, 1865 October 10	The Column of Marcus Aurelius: The Genesis and Meaning of a Roman Imperial Monument October 08
Rudder: From Leader to Legend October 06	The Great War and the Making of the Modern World October 04	Warfare in Eastern Europe, 1500-1800 October 02
The Confederate Heartland: Military and Civilian Morale in the Western Confederacy September 29	The Path of Infinite Sorrow: The Japanese on the Kokoda Track September 27	World War I: The American Soldier Experience September 25
The Real Jim Hawkins: Ships' Boys in the Georgian Navy September 23	Claudius Caesar: Image and Power in the Early Roman Empire September 21	The Rashness of That Hour: Politics, Gettysburg, and the Downfall of Confederate Brigadier General Alfred Iverson September 19
Military Loyalists of the American Revolution: Officers and Regiments, 1775-1783 September 14	Small Powers in the Age of Total War, 1900-1940 September 12	Spartacus Road: A Journey Through Ancient Italy September 10
Their Arrows Will Darken the Sun: The Evolution and Science of Ballistics September 06	The Littorio Class: Italy's Last and Largest Battleships 1937-1948 September 03	The Dynamics of Ancient Empires: State Power from Assyria to Byzantium September 01
On Flexibility: Recovery from Technological and Doctrinal Surprise on the Battlefield August 30	Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War August 28	A Taste for War: The Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray August 26
Alexander the Great at the Battle of Granicus: A Campaign in Context August 23	Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order August 22	Riders of the Apocalypse: German Cavalry and Modern Warfare, 1870-1945 August 20
The Earliest Romans: A Character Sketch August 18	We Are the Revolutionists: German-Speaking Immigrants and American Abolitionists after 1848 August 16	Fighting for MacArthur: The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Philippines August 14
The Shaping of Grand Strategy: Policy, Diplomacy, and War August 12	Colonels in Blue--Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary August 10	Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia August 08
The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943 August 05	Pauline Cushman: Spy of the Cumberland August 02	Deathride: Hitler vs. Stalin - The Eastern Front, 1941-1945 July 31
New Perspectives on Ancient Warfare July 28	The Pope's Soldiers: A Military History of the Modern Vatican July 26	Big Gun Monitors: Design, Construction and Operations, 1914-1945 July 22
American Civil War: The Essential Reference Guide July 17	A Civil War Gunboat in Pacific Waters: Life on Board USS Saginaw July 15	Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War July 12
Kamikaze Attacks of World War II: A Complete History of Japanese Suicide Strikes on American Ships, by Aircraft and Other Means July 09	"God Alone Knows Which Was Right": The Blue and Gray Terrill Family of Virginia in the Civil War July 06	Bardia: Myth, Reality and the Heirs of ANZAC July 04
Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate South July 01	Racing the Sun: Reinforcing America's Pacific Outposts, 1941-1942 June 29	War upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War June 27
Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam June 24	A Perfect Gibraltar: The Battle for Monterrey, Mexico, 1846 June 21	Finland's War of Choice: The Troubled German-Finnish Alliance in World War II June 19
Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done: A History of the Regular Army in the Civil War June 15	The Retreat: Hitler's First Defeat June 12	Invisible Southerners: Ethnicity in the Civil War June 10
BISMARCK: THE EPIC CHASE: The Sinking of the German Menace June 08	George Crook: From the Redwoods to Appomattox June 06	Passport Not Required: U.S. Volunteers in the Royal Navy, 1939-1941 June 04
Protecting President Lincoln: The Security Effort, the Thwarted Plots and the Disaster at Ford's Theatre June 01	World in the Balance: The Perilous Months of June-October, 1940 May 29	Lincoln, the Cabinet, and the Generals May 27
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II May 24	The Dogs of War: 1861 May 22	Stalin's Genocides May 19
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South May 17	Gallipoli: The Ottoman Campaign May 15	Siege of Washington: The Untold Story of the Twelve Days That Shook the Union May 13
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II May 07	May 1940: The Battle for the Netherlands May 05	The Last Battle of the Civil War: United States Versus Lee, 1861-1883 May 03
Desert Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia May 01	Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem April 28	"Execute against Japan": The U.S. Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare April 26
The Spanish Republic and Civil War April 22	The Way of Duty, Honor, Country: The Memoir of General Charles Pelot Summerall April 20	The Union War April 17
Shepherds of the Sea: Destroyer Escorts in World War II April 15	The British Liberation Army: 1944-45 April 12	A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War April 08
Silent Strategists: Harding, Denby, and the U.S. Navy's Trans-Pacific Offensive, World War II April 06	Missed Signals on the Western Front: How the Slow Adoption of Wireless Restricted British Strategy and Operations in World War I April 04	1917: Beyond the Western Front April 02
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China March 31	Killer Elite: Completely Revised and Updated: The Inside Story of America's Most Secret Special Operations Team March 29	Black Valor: Buffalo Soldiers and the Medal of Honor, 1870-1898 March 27
Architect of Soviet Victory in World War II: The Life and Theories of G.S. Isserson March 25	A Civil War Gunboat in Pacific Waters: Life on Board USS Saginaw March 22	Under the Flags of Freedom: British Mercenaries in the War of the Two Brothers, the First Carlist War, and the Greek War of Independence (1821-1840) March 19
The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy March 16	Ministry of Defeat: The British in Iraq 2003-2009 March 14	Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage March 11
The Warship Development and Design Series March 08	Cities at War in Early Modern Europe March 05	Homer Lea: American Soldier of Fortune March 02
Zenobia of Palmyra: History, Myth and the Neo-Classical Imagination February 28	Military Culture in Imperial China February 24	The Mexican Wars for Independence February 21
Pipes & Drums: From Helmand to Horse Guards February 19	Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945 February 16	Conquered into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War February 13
Twenty-Three Minutes to Eternity: The Final Voyage of the Escort Carrier USS Liscome Bay February 10	Following the Drum: Women at the Valley Forge Encampment February 07	MILK COWS: The U-Boat Tankers at War 1941 - 1945 February 04
Soldiering for God: Christianity and the Roman Army February 01	On Seas Contested: The Seven Great Navies of the Second World War January 29	Chronology of American Military History: Vol. 1 Independence to Civil War 1775 to 1865; Vol. 2 Indian Wars to World War II 1866 to 1945; Vol. 3 Cold War to the War on Terror 1946 to Present January 26
The War of 1812 in the Chesapeake: A Reference Guide to Historic Sites in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia January 24	Livia, Empress of Rome: A Biography January 22	Royal Tars: The Lower Deck of the Royal Navy, 875-1850 January 19
The Grand Turk: Sultan Mehmet II - Conqueror of Constantinople and Master of an Empire January 16	My Friend the Mercenary: A Memoir January 13	Ancient Chinese Warfare January 10
Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War January 06	A Sailor of Austria: In Which, Without Really Intending to, Otto Prohaska Becomes Official War Hero No. 27 of the Habsburg Empire January 01

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