Military Book Review 2019

The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America December 31	Logistics of Warfare in the Age of the Crusades December 29	Marketing the Blue and Gray: Newspaper Advertising and the American Civil War December 27
Churchill's Abandoned Prisoners: The British Soldiers Deceived in the Russian Civil War December 25	Polis Histories, Collective Memories and the Greek World December 23	Partisans, Guerillas, and Irregulars: Historical Archaeology of Asymmetric Warfare December 21
Atlas of the Blitzkrieg: 1939-41 December 19	Operations of the Armée du Nord: 1815: The Analysis - Vol. V December 17	Misfire: The Tragic Failure of the M16 in Vietnam December 15
An East Texas Family’s Civil War: The Letters of Nancy and William Whatley, May–December 1862 December 13	Understanding Greek Warfare December 11	Emperor: A New Life of Charles V December 09
MacArthur’s Air Force: American Airpower Over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941-1951 December 07	Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth December 05	Admiral Gorshkov: The Man Who Challenged the U.S. Navy December 03
The Emperor Nero: A Guide to the Ancient Sources December 01	Politician in Uniform: General Lew Wallace and the Civil War November 27	The Origin of Empire: Rome from the Republic to Hadrian November 25
The Origin of Empire: Rome from the Republic to Hadrian November 25	Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War: The Supreme War Council and War Planning, 1917-1918 November 23	Attila the Hun: Arch-Enemy of Rome November 21
Held in Highest Esteem by All: the Civil War Letters of William B. Chilvers, 95th Illinois Infantry November 19	A History of the Roman Equestrian Order November 17	Cover Name: Dr. Rantzau November 15
Leonidas Polk: Warrior Bishop of the Confederacy November 13	British Cruiser Warfare: The Lessons of the Early War 1939-1941 November 09	Hell in the Trenches: Austro-Hungarian Stormtroopers and Italian Arditi in the Great War November 07
Legion versus Phalanx: The Epic Struggle for Infantry Supremacy in the Ancient World November 05	So Close to Freedom: A World War II Story of Peril and Betrayal in the Pyrenees November 03	Alabamians in Blue: Freedmen, Unionists, and the Civil War in the Cotton State November 01
Hunter Liggett: A Soldier's General October 30	Harnessing the Airplane: American and British Cavalry Responses to a New Technology, 1903-1939 October 28	In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World October 26
Of Islands, Ports and Sea Lanes: Africa and the Indian Ocean in the Second World War October 24	The Vicksburg Assaults, May 19-22, 1863 October 22	The Great War in the Middle East: A Clash of Empires October 20
The Early Roman Expansion into Italy: Elite Negotiation and Family Agendas October 18	George W. Goethals and the Army: Change and Continuity in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era October 16	Life In Jefferson Davis' Navy October 14
German Submarine U-1105 "Black Panther": The Naval Archaeology of a U-boat October 12	In the Eye of the Storm: George V and the Great War October 10	Nero: Emperor and Court October 08
Nero: Emperor and Court October 08	Tidal Wave: From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay October 06	British Blockade Runners in the American Civil War October 04
Biplanes at War: US Marine Corps Aviation in the Small Wars Era, 1915-1934 October 03	Augustus at War: The Struggle for the Pax Augusta October 01	Selling Sea Power: Public Relations and the U.S. Navy, 1917-1941 September 29
In God's Presence: Chaplains, Missionaries, and Religious Space during the American Civil War September 27	A Machine-Gunner in France: The Memoirs of Ward Schrantz, 35th Division, 1917-1919 September 25	The Emperor in the Byzantine World: Papers of the Forty-Seventh Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies September 23
Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order September 19	Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order September 19	Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II September 17
The Fortifications of Pompeii and Ancient Italy September 15	The Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered: Negotiating the Peripheries September 13	The German Failure in Belgium, August 1914: How Faulty Reconnaissance Exposed the Weakness of the Schlieffen Plan September 11
The Half-Shilling Curate: A Personal Account Of War & Faith 1914-1918 September 09	Southern Gambit: Cornwallis and the British March to Yorktown September 07	Admiral John S. McCain and the Triumph of Naval Air Power September 05
Antony and Cleopatra September 03	Beyond the Quagmire: New Interpretations of the Vietnam War August 31	Revolutionary France's War of Conquest in the Rhineland: Conquering the Natural Frontier, 1792-1797 August 29
Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War August 27	War at Sea: A Shipwrecked History from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century August 25	Armies of the Late Roman Empire AD 284 to 476: History, Organization & Equipment August 23
Decision in the Atlantic: The Allies and the Longest Campaign of the Second World War August 21	Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium August 19	Hitting the Military History Trail: VFW's Travel Guide to Battlefields, Museums, & Historic Sites August 17
Painting War: George Plante's Combat Art in World War II August 15	Unknown Conflicts of the Second World War: Forgotten Fronts August 13	Major General George H. Sharpe and The Creation of American Military Intelligence in the Civil War August 11
The Mediterranean Double-Cross System, 1941-1945 August 10	The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy August 08	America's School for War: Fort Leavenworth, Officer Education, and Victory in World War II August 07
The Decision Was Always My Own: Ulysses S. Grant and the Vicksburg Campaign August 05	Freeing Mussolini: Dismantling the Skorzeny Myth in the Gran Sasso Raid August 04	A Fierce Glory: Antietam--The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery August 02
African Americans and American Indians in the Revolutionary War August 01	Winston Churchill: At War and Thinking of War before 1939 July 30	A Forgotten Front: Florida during the Civil War Era July 28
Landing in Hell: The Pyrrhic Victory of the First Marine Division on Peleliu, 1944 July 26	The Confederate Yellow Fever Conspiracy: The Germ Warfare Plot of Luke Pryor Blackburn, 1864-1865 July 24	Never in Finer Company: The Men of the Great War's Lost Battalion July 22
Engines of Rebellion: Confederate Ironclads and Steam Engineering in the American Civil War July 19	Meuse-Argonne Diary: A Division Commander in World War I July 18	The Army of the Cumberland: Organization, Strength, Casualties, 1862-1865 July 16
Hitler's Death: The Case Against Conspiracy July 14	Maryland, My Maryland: Music and Patriotism during the American Civil War July 12	Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye: Keeping Spain out of World War II July 10
America's "Foreign Legion": Immigrant Soldiers in the Great War July 08	The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies July 06	Silver State Dreadnought: The Remarkable Story of Battleship Nevada July 04
Great Battles: Ypres July 03	The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846-1876 July 02	Air Group Commander Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway June 30
Travel On Southern Antebellum Railroads, 1828-1860 June 28	The Plight of Rome in the Fifth Century AD June 26	Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering Memory June 24
Snapdragon: The World War II Exploits of Darby's Ranger and Combat Photographer Phil Stern June 23	Thomas Ewing Jr.: Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General June 21	Spying for Wellington: British Military Intelligence in the Peninsular War June 19
The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity: A Political and Military History June 17	Civil War Writing: New Perspectives on Iconic Texts June 14	The Third Reich is Listening: Inside German Codebreaking, 1939–45 June 12
The Holy Roman Empire: A Short History June 10	Jean Gabin: The Actor Who Was France June 08	L. Munatius Plancus: Serving and Surviving in the Roman Revolution June 05
Before the Battlecruiser: The Big Cruiser in the World's Navies, 1865-1910 June 03	Holding the Line on the River of Death: Union Mounted Forces at Chickamauga, September 18, 1863 June 01	The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines May 30
Haig's Tower of Strength: General Sir Edward Bulfin – Ireland's Forgotten General May 28	The Life of John André: The Redcoat Who Turned Benedict Arnold May 26	Writing History with Lightning: Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America May 24
The Italian Wars, 1494-1559: War, State, and Society in Early Modern Europe May 22	The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History May 20	Lucius Verus and the Roman Defence of the East May 18
Doris Miller, Pearl Harbor, and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement May 16	The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson’s Epic 1863 Civil War Raid Through Mississippi May 14	The Forgotten Front: The Eastern Theater of World War I, 1914 - 1915 May 12
A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution May 10	Constantine XI Dragaš Palaeologus (1404–1453): The Last Emperor of Byzantium May 08	Flying with the Fifteenth Air Force: A B-24 Pilot's Missions from Italy during World War II May 06
“The Gallant Sims”: A Civil War Hero Rediscovered May 02	Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918 April 30	After Jutland: The Naval War in Northern European Waters, June 1916–November 1918 April 26
The Philosophy of War Films April 24	Masters of Mayhem: Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz April 22	"The Man Who Took the Rap": Sir Robert Brooke-Popham and the Fall of Singapore April 20
Churchill's Thin Grey Line: British Merchant Ships at War 1939–1945 April 18	Interrupted Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant and the American Indians April 16	Drawing Fire: A Pawnee, Artist, and Thunderbird in World War II April 14
An Aide to Custer: The Civil War Letters of Lt. Edward G. Granger April 12	How the Navy Won the War: The Real Instrument of Victory, 1914-1918 April 10	The Medal of Honor: The Evolution of America's Highest Military Decoration April 08
The Dutch Resistance Revealed: The Inside Story of Courage and Betrayal April 06	African American Officers in Liberia: A Pestiferous Rotation, 1910–1942 April 04	Andrew Foote: Civil War Admiral on Western Waters April 02
Pershing's Tankers: Personal Accounts of the AEF Tank Corps in World War I March 31	Voices of the Code Breakers - Personal Accounts of the Secret Heroes of World War II March 29	Disputed Victory: Schley, Sampson and the Spanish-American War of 1898 March 27
A British Lion in Zululand: Sir Garnet Wolseley in South Africa March 25	Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918 March 23	Heavy Laden: Union Veterans, Psychological Illness, and Suicide March 21
The Imperial Army Project: Britain and the Land Forces of the Dominions and India, 1902-1945 March 17	Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome: Rhetoric, Criticism and Historiography March 15	Joshua Barney: Hero of the Revolution and 1812 March 13
Mussolini and Hitler: The Forging of the Fascist Alliance March 11	'War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War' March 09	The Final Act: The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation of the Cold War March 07
White Hat: The Military Career of Captain William Philo Clark March 05	Progressives in Navy Blue: Maritime Strategy, American Empire, and the Transformation of U.S. Naval Identity, 1873-1898 March 03	Rome and the Making of a World State, 150 BCE-20 CE March 01
Gallipoli: New Perspectives on the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 1915-1916 February 27	A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time: Julia Wilbur's Struggle for Purpose February 25	1777: Tipping Point at Saratoga February 24
Joining Hitler's Crusade: European Nations and the Invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941 February 21	1863: Lincoln's Pivotal Year February 19	A British Profession of Arms: The Politics of Command in the Late Victorian Army February 17
The Kongo Kingdom: The Origins, Dynamics and Cosmopolitan Culture of an African Polity February 15	Septimius Severus in Scotland: The Northern Campaigns of the First Hammer of the Scots February 13	De Gaulle February 11
Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals February 09	Armies of Early Colonial North America 1607–1713: History, Organization and Uniforms February 07	Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South February 05
The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire February 03	Futile Exercise?: The British Army's Preparations for War 1902-1914 February 01	The Black Prince and the Capture of a King: Poitiers 1356 January 30
African Americans and the Pacific War, 1941-1945: Race, Nationality, and the Fight for Freedom January 28	Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance: Other Sides of Civil War Texas January 26	War by Numbers: Understanding Conventional Combat January 24
Sparta: Fall of a Warrior Nation January 22	The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century January 20	Napoleon's 1796 Italian Campaign January 18
The Myth and Reality of German Warfare: Operational Thinking from Moltke the Elder to Heusinger January 16	Ironclad Captains of the Civil War January 14	Clouds above the Hill: A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War January 12
Thucydides on Strategy: Grand Strategies in the Peloponnesian War and Their Relevance Today January 10	The Forgotten Dead: The True Story of Operation Tiger, and the Disastrous Rehearsal for D-Day January 08	Bataan Survivor: A POW’s Account of Japanese Captivity in World War II January 06
A Broken Regiment: The 16th Connecticut's Civil War January 04	MacArthur's Coalition: US and Australian Military Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area, 1942-1945 January 02

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