Military Book Review 2017

The Conscription Conflict and the Great War December 31	Joseph Brown and His Civil War Ironclads: The USS Chillicothe, Indianola and Tuscumbia December 29	The Naval War in the Baltic, 1939-1945 December 27
French Battleships of World War One December 25	Cataphracts: Knights of the Ancient Eastern Empires December 23	Civil War Battlefields Then and Now December 21
Rails of War: Supplying the Americans and Their Allies in China-Burma-India December 19	The Hooligans of Kandahar December 17	The Christmas Truce: Myth, Memory, and the First World War December 15
Warfare and Weaponry in Dynastic Egypt December 13	Civil War Dynasty: The Ewing Family of Ohio December 11	A Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars December 09
World War II for Kids: A History with 21 Activities December 07	Roman Republic at War: A Compendium of Roman Battles from 502 to 31 BC December 05	Armies in Gray: The Organizational History of the Confederate States Army in the Civil War December 02
RAAF Bombers Over Germany 1941-42 November 30	Spy of the Century: Alfred Redl and the Betrayal of Austria-Hungary November 28	Riding for the Lone Star: Frontier Cavalry and the Texas Way of War, 1822-1865 November 26
Fiddlers and Whores: The Candid Memoirs of a Surgeon in Nelson's Fleet November 24	Mannerheim: The Finnish Years November 22	The Roman Emperor Aurelian: Restorer of the World November 20
The Army of the Potomac in the Overland and Petersburg Campaigns: Union Soldiers and Trench Warfare, 1864-1865 November 16	Triumph at Imphal-Kohima: How the Indian Army Finally Stopped the Japanese Juggernaut November 14	Reel History: The World According to the Movies November 12
The Knights Hospitaller: A Military History of the Knights of St John November 10	The Civil War for Kids: A History with 21 Activities November 08	The 1929 Sino-Soviet War: The War Nobody Knew November 06
Forging Napoleon's Grande Armée: Motivation, Military Culture, and Masculinity in the French Army, 1800-1808 November 04	In the Name of Lykourgos: The Rise and fall of the Spartan Revolutionary Movement (243-146 BC) November 02	The Third Reich on Screen, 1929-2015 October 31
Strategy: A History October 29	It’s My Country Too: Women’s Military Stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan October 27	Regular Army O!: Soldiering on the Western Frontier, 1865–1891 October 25
The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece October 23	Blood in the Forest: The End of the Second World War in the Courland Pocket October 21	Patton's Way: A Radical Theory of War October 19
The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command October 16	Warfare and Culture in World History October 13	Women in Civil War Texas: Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi October 12
History of the World in Maps: The Rise and Fall of Empires, Countries and Cities October 10	A Military History of Afghanistan: From the Great Game to the Global War on Terror October 07	Churchill in the Trenches October 04
Pyrrhus of Epirus October 02	Pershing's Crusaders: The American Soldier in World War I September 29	Eleven Months to Freedom: A German POW's Unlikely Escape from Siberia in 1915 September 26
Stalin's World War II Evacuations: Triumph and Troubles in Kirov September 24	Kearny's Dragoons Out West: The Birth of the U.S. Cavalry September 22	Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1859-1941: A Concise Life September 21
Trevilian Station, June 11-12, 1864: Wade Hampton, Philip Sheridan and the Largest All-Cavalry Battle of the Civil War September 20	Death at Dawn: Captain Warburton-Lee VC and the Battle of Narvik, April 1940 September 13	Heroes of World War I: Fourteen Stories of Bravery September 10
The Civil War in Popular Culture: Memory and Meaning September 08	Truman, Franco's Spain, and the Cold War September 07	The Extreme Right in the French Resistance: Members of the Cagoule and Corvignolles in the Second World War September 06
The Great War: As Recorded through the Fine and Popular Arts September 02	“Double Canister at Ten Yards”: The Federal Artillery and the Repulse of Pickett’s Charge, July 3, 1863 September 01	Hoplites at War: A Comprehensive Analysis of Heavy Infantry Combat in the Greek World, 750-100 BCE August 30
The Japanese Navy in World War II, in the Words of Former Japanese Naval Officers August 24	The Outbreak of the First World War: Structure, Politics, and Decision-Making August 22	The American Revolution Reborn August 18
Lt. Spalding in Civil War Louisiana: A Union Officer's Humor, Privilege, and Ambition August 16	Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard August 15	Stout Hearts: The British and Canadians in Normandy 1944 August 13
America's Sailors in the Great War: Seas, Skies, and Submarines August 12	The French Army and Its African Soldiers: The Years of Decolonization August 08	Women Heroes of World War I: 16 Remarkable Resisters, Soldiers, Spies, and Medics August 06
Kentucky Rebel Town: The Civil War Battles of Cynthiana and Harrison County August 01	Roman Empire at War: A Compendium of Roman Battles from 31 B.C. to A.D. 565 July 30	The Allied Defense of the Malay Barrier 1941-1942 July 28
Lincoln before Lincoln: Early Cinematic Adaptations of the Life of America's Greatest President July 25	The Wars before the Great War: Conflict and International Politics before the Outbreak of the First World War July 22	America 1844: Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, and the Presidential Election That Transformed the Nation July 21
The Church at War: The Military Activities of Bishops, Abbots and Other Clergy in England, c. 900–1200 July 19	Agente: Female Secret Agents in World Wars, Cold Wars and Civil Wars July 16	The Triumph of Empire: The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine July 14
The Victory at Sea July 12	The Battle for Belorussia: The Red Army's Forgotten Campaign of October 1943 - April 1944 July 09	Failure to Pursue: How the Escape of Defeated Forces Prolonged the Civil War July 07
Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania July 06	Tlacaelel Remembered: Mastermind of the Aztec Empire July 04	The Emperor and the Army in the Later Roman Empire, AD 235–395 July 02
Congress Buys a Navy: Politics, Economics, and the Rise of American Naval Power, 1881-1921 June 30	Pacific Thunder: The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943–October 1944 June 28	Treacherous Passage: Germany’s Secret Plot against the United States in Mexico during World War I June 27
Front Lines: Soldiers' Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World June 25	Henry Ware Lawton: Union Infantryman, Frontier Soldier, Charismatic Warrior June 23	The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders June 21
Fighting over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution June 18	Africa and World War II June 16	Lincoln’s Greatest Journey: Sixteen Days that Changed a Presidency, March 24 - April 8, 1865 June 14
Italy and Its Eastern Border, 1866-2016 June 13	Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson June 11	Eureka!: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ancient Greeks But Were Afraid to Ask June 09
Italy 1636: Cemetery of Armies June 07	Courageous Women of the Civil War: Soldiers, Spies, Medics, and More June 06	Victory Was Beyond Their Grasp: With the 272nd Volks-Grenadier Division from the Huertgen Forest to the Heart of the Reich June 03
The Noise of Battle: The British Army and the Last Breakthrough Battle West of the Rhine, February-March 1945 May 23	The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America May 18	Blockade: Cruiser Warfare and the Starvation of Germany in World War One May 16
Confederate Saboteurs: Building the Hunley and Other Secret Weapons of the Civil War May 13	Pathfinder Pioneer: The Memoir of a Lead Bomber Pilot in World War II May 11	Augustus: The Biography May 09
August 1914: France, the Great War, and a Month That Changed the World Forever May 06	Panting For Glory: The Mississippi Rifles in the Mexican War May 04	Observing Hancock at Gettysburg: The General's Leadership Through Eyewitness Accounts May 02
War in Peace: Paramilitary Violence in Europe after the Great War April 28	Designing Gotham: West Point Engineers and the Rise of Modern New York, 1817-1898 April 26	Hitler's Wehrmacht, 1935–1945 April 24
Fall of the Double Eagle: The Battle for Galicia and the Demise of Austria-Hungary April 22	Fortune's Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth April 19	Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World April 17
To War with the 4th: A Century of Frontline Combat with the U.S. 4th Infantry Division, from the Argonne to the Ardennes to Afghanistan April 14	Lafayette: His Extraordinary Life and Legacy April 12	India At War: The Subcontinent and the Second World War April 09
The Origins of the Grand Alliance: Anglo-American Military Collaboration from the Panay Incident to Pearl Harbor April 07	The Battle of New Orleans in History and Memory April 05	Rome Seizes the Trident: The Defeat of Carthaginian Seapower and the Forging of the Roman Empire April 01
Amiable Scoundrel: Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War March 29	Hitler's Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany March 27	Warriors Remembered -- Vietnam Veterans Welcome Home March 25
Fatal Sunday: George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle March 23	An Imperfect Occupation: Enduring the South African War March 21	Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar March 19
And the World Went Dark: An Illustrated Interpretation of the Great War March 16	Occupied Vicksburg March 14	Hitler's Berlin: Abused City March 12
Guibert: Father of Napoleon's Grande Armée March 10	The Spanish Foreign Legion in the Spanish Civil War, 1936 March 08	Civil War Washington: History, Place, and Digital Scholarship March 07
The Spartan Regime: Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy March 05	21st Century Patton: Strategic Insights for the Modern Era March 04	Henry the Liberal: Count of Champagne, 1127-1181 March 03
Hell's Battlefield: The Australians in New Guinea in World War II February 28	Extreme Civil War: Guerrilla Warfare, Environment, and Race on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier February 26	Kill Jeff Davis: The Union Raid on Richmond, 1864 February 25
In the Shadows of Victory: America's Forgotten Military Leaders, 1776-1876 February 23	The Campaigns of Sargon II, King of Assyria, 721-705 B.C. February 21	Franklin D. Roosevelt. Vol. II, The War Years, 1939-1945 February 19
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Vol I, Road to the New Deal, 1882-1939 February 19	The Civil War on the Mississippi: Union Sailors, Gunboat Captains, and the Campaign to Control the River February 18	Titan: The Art of British Power in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon February 16
Dracula's Wars: Vlad The Impaler and His Rivals February 14	Conduct Unbecoming: Fifteen Military Criminals, Rogues and Victims of Justice from the Revolutionary War to Vietnam February 12	Constantine and the Cities: Imperial Authority and Civic Politics February 09
Jutland: World War I’s Greatest Naval Battle February 07	World War I on Film: English Language Releases Through 2014 February 05	Farming, Fighting and Family: A Memoir of the Second World War February 04
African American Doctors of World War I: The Lives of 104 Volunteers February 02	The Royal Air Force in American Skies: The Seven British Flight Schools in the United States during World War II January 31	Sea of Darkness: Unraveling the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley January 29
From Versailles to Mers El-Kebir: The Promise of Anglo-French Naval Cooperation, 1919-40 January 28	Voyage to Gallipoli January 26	Against the Grain: Colonel Henry M. Lazelle and the U.S. Army January 25
Rediscovering Irregular Warfare: Colin Gubbins and the Origins of Britain’s Special Operations Executive January 23	Jutland: The Unfinished Battle: A Personal History of a Naval Controversy January 21	Two Civil Wars: The Curious Shared Journal of a Baton Rouge Schoolgirl and a Union Sailor on the USS 'Essex' January 19
The British Army in Mesopotamia, 1914-1918 January 18	From Victory to Stalemate: The Western Front, Summer 1944, Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations, Volume 1 January 16	The Collapse of Price's Raid: The Beginning of the End in Civil War Missouri January 14
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Romans But Were Afraid to Ask January 12	Mussolini's Army in the French Riviera: Italy's Occupation of France January 09	Lincoln and Shakespeare January 07
The American Revolution for Kids: A History with 21 Activites January 05	The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency January 03	Before Jutland: The Naval War in Northern European Waters, August 1914-February 1915 January 01

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