Military Book Review 2014

The Sinking of the Laconia and the U-Boat War: Disaster in the Mid-Atlantic December 06	Pearl Harbor: Selected Testimonies, Fully Indexed, from the Congressional Hearings (1945-1946) and Prior Investigations of the Events Leading Up to the Attack November 29	The Last Legionary: Life as a Roman Soldier in Britain, AD 400 November 27
Command Decisions: Langsdorff and the Battle of the River Plate November 24	Barksdale's Charge: The True High Tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863 November 22	Nothing Less Than War: A New History of America's Entry into World War I November 20
British Liberators in the Age of Napoleon: Volunteering under the Spanish Flag in the Peninsular War November 18	Richmond Must Fall: The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, October 1864 November 16	Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition November 13
Galerius and the Will of Diocletian November 11	Crisis Management during the Roman Republic: The Role of Political Institutions in Emergencies November 06	The British Imperial Army in the Middle East: Morale and Military Identity in the Sinai and Palestine Campaigns, 1916-18 November 04
The Timberclads in the Civil War: The Lexington, Conestoga and Tyler on the Western Waters November 03	Samurai War Stories: Teachings and Tales of Samurai Warfare October 31	Viriathus: and the Lusitanian Resistance to Rome 155-139 BC October 27
The American Expeditionary Force in World War I: A Statistical History, 1917-1918 October 22	The Frontiers of the Roman Empire October 17	Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front October 15
Defending Heaven: China's Mongol Wars, 1209-1370 October 08	Fighting Back: British Jewry's Military Contribution to the Second World War October 06	The British Army in Italy, 1917-1918 September 29
Furies: War in Europe, 1450-1700 September 27	Los Angeles in Civil War Days, 1860-1865 September 25	The Military and Colonial Destruction of the Roman Landscape of North Africa, 1830-1900 September 23
"Casualty Projections for the U.S. Invasions of Japan, 1945-1946: Planning and Policy Implications" September 16	At War in Distant Waters: British Colonial Defense in the Great War September 15	Captives in Blue: The Civil War Prisons of the Confederacy September 11
Neither Victor nor Vanquished: America in the War of 1812 September 08	Athens, Thrace, and the Shaping of Athenian Leadership September 06	Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword: The British Regiment on Campaign, 1808-1815 September 04
D-Day Encyclopedia: Everything You Want to Know About the Normandy Invasion September 01	'Unsinkable': Churchill and the First World War August 30	The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire August 28
Rituals of Triumph in the Mediterranean World August 26	Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign August 25	Changing War: The British Army, the Hundred Days Campaign, and the Birth of the Royal Air Force, 1918 August 23
Loyalty Betrayed: Jewish Chaplains in the German Army During the First World War August 21	The Hundred Day Winter War: Finland's Gallant Stand against the Soviet Army August 18	Colonels in Blue-Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary August 16
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Royal Australian Navy's Role, Vietnam, 1965-1972 August 14	Churchill and Sea Power August 12	The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours August 11
The French Army's Tank Force and Armoured Warfare in the Great War: The Artillerie Speciale August 09	America's Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace August 07	Airship: Design, Development and Disaster August 04
Peacekeepers and Conquerors: The Army Officer Corps on the American Frontier, 1821-1846 August 01	Living on the Western Front: Annals and Stories, 1914-1919 July 28	Debating War in Chinese History July 25
The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de' Medici July 24	The Marshals of Alexander's Empire July 22	July 1914: Countdown to War July 21
Hoax: Hitler's Diaries, Lincoln's Assassins, and Other Famous Frauds July 20	Yankee Dutchmen Under Fire: Civil War Letters from the 82nd Illinois Infantry July 17	The Army in British India: From Colonial Warfare to Total War 1857 - 1947 July 15
The Ancient Sailing Season July 14	Crisis in the Mediterranean: Naval Competition and Great Power Politics, 1904-1914 July 12	The Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 July 10
War in Afghanistan: A Short History of Eighty Wars and Conflicts in Afghanistan and the North-West Frontier 1839-2011 July 08	Germany and the Causes of the First World War July 06	Organizing Victory: The War Conferences, 1941-1945 July 05
Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front July 04	July 03	Defending Neutrality: The Netherlands Prepares for War, 1900-1925 July 03
Between Flesh and Steel: A History of Military Medicine from the Middle Ages to the War in Afghanistan July 01	The Great War for Peace June 30	The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 June 28
The Great War: Myth and Memory June 27	June 27	Beyond the Gates of Fire: New Perspectives on the Battle of Thermopylae June 24
The Fascists and the Jews of Italy: Mussolini's Race Laws, 1938-1943 June 23	The Edwardian Army: Recruiting. Training. and Deploying the British Army. 1902-1914 June 20	Horses and Mules in the Civil War: A Complete History with a Roster of More Than 700 War Horses June 19
The Other Side of the Wire, Vol II, Battle of the Somme with the German XIV Reserve Corps June 16	The Other Side of the Wire, Vol. I, With the German XIV Reserve Corps on the Somme, September 1914 - June 1916 June 12	The Trojan War June 12
Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War June 09	Tolkien and the Peril of War June 07	The Sword of Rome: A Biography of Marcus Claudius Marcellus June 05
Operation KE: The Cactus Air Force and the Japanese Withdrawal from Guadalcanal June 02	The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War: New Edition May 31	Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc--the Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way across Europe May 29
The Holy Roman Empire, 1495-1806: A European Perspective May 22	To Crown the Waves: The Great Navies of the First World War May 20	For Crew and Country: The Inspirational True Story of Bravery and Sacrifice Aboard the USS Samuel B. Roberts May 16
The Hunters and the Hunted: The Elimination of German Surface Warships around the World 1914-15 May 15	Under the Heel of Bushido: Last Voices of the Jewish POWs of the Japanese in the Second World War May 13	A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire May 12
The End of Sparta: A Novel May 10	Exposing the Third Reich: Colonel Truman Smith in Hitler's Germany May 08	The Zimmermann Telegram: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America's Entry into World War I May 05
A Storm of Spears: Understanding the Greek Hoplite in Action May 03	The Making of the First World War May 01	Dragon Storm: China invades Taiwan April 28
Reinventing Warfare 1914-18: Novel Munitions and Tactics of Trench Warfare April 26	Offa and the Mercian Wars: The Rise and Fall of the First Great English Kingdom April 24	Avoiding Armageddon: From the Great War to the Fall of France, 1918-40 April 21
The Seven Years' War: Global Views April 19	The Rocky Road to the Great War: The Evolution of Trench Warfare to 1914 April 17	Latin American Dictators of the 20th Century: The Lives and Regimes of 15 Rulers April 15
The Julio-Claudian Succession: Reality and Perception of the "Augustan Model" April 10	Exorcising Hitler: The Occupation and Denazification of Germany April 08	Another Life: Lawrence After Arabia April 05
A Companion to Women's Military History March 31	The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 March 29	The Trident Deception March 27
The Tyrants of Syracuse: War in Ancient Sicily, Vol. II, 367-211 BC March 25	The Tyrants of Syracuse: War in Ancient Sicily, Vol I, 480-367 BC March 25	Allied Master Strategists: The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II March 22
Women and the Texas Revolution March 20	England and Scotland at War, c.1296-c.1513 March 18	Three German Invasions of France, The Summer Campaigns of 1870, 1914, and 1940 March 17
Bracketing the Enemy: Forward Observers in World War II March 15	Philosopher-Kings of Antiquity March 13	Navies and State Formation: The Schumpeter Hypothesis Revisited and Reflected March 11
The British Field Marshals, 1736-1997: A Biographical Dictionary March 08	Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam March 06	Defending Whose Country?: Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War March 04
Hybrid Warfare: Fighting Complex Opponents to the Present March 03	Elusive Dove: The Search for Peace During World War I March 01	A Companion to Roman Imperialism February 27
American Girls, Beer, and Glenn Miller: GI Morale in World War II February 25	Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill February 24	Fratricide in Battle: (Un)Friendly Fire February 22
Bismarck's First War: The Campaign of Schleswig and Jutland, 1864 February 21	Monty's Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe February 18	Jackson's Sword: The Army Officer Corps on the American Frontier, 1810-1821 February 17
Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States (400-800 AD), Byzantium, the West and Islam February 15	Khedive Ismail's Army February 13	America's Black Sea Fleet: The U.S. Navy Amidst War and Revolution, 1919-1923 February 11
Hadrian February 10	Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I February 08	Castro's Secrets: Cuban Intelligence, the CIA, and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy February 06
Brill's Encyclopedia of the First World War February 04	The Measure of a Man: My Father, the Marine Corps, and Saipan February 03	The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo February 01
Benedict Arnold in the Company of Heroes: The Lives of the Extraordinary Patriots Who Followed Arnold to Canada at the Start of the American Revolution January 30	Aineias the Tactician: How to Survive Under Siege January 28	George Rogers Clark: "I Glory in War" January 25
The U.S. Army in World War II January 24	American Naval History, 1607-1865: Overcoming the Colonial Legacy January 20	All Hands: The Lower Deck of the Royal Navy Since 1939 January 18
Aetius: Attila's Nemesis January 16	The Projection and Limitations of Imperial Powers, 1618-1850 January 14	William B. Cushing in the Far East: A Civil War Naval Hero Abroad, 1865-1869 January 13
World War I: The Global Revolution January 11	Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London January 09	The Election of 1860 Reconsidered January 06

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