Military Book Review 2020

The Collapse of Rome: Marius, Sulla and the First Civil War December 31	An Unladylike Profession: American Women War Correspondents in World War I December 29	A Republic in the Ranks: Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Potomac December 27
Defense Engagement since 1900: Global Lessons in Soft Power December 25	Ancient Maya Politics: A Political Anthropology of the Classic Period, 150–900 CE December 23	Edward M. Almond and the US Army: From the 92nd Infantry Division to the X Corps December 21
American Discord: The Republic and Its People in the Civil War Era December 19	The Light Division in the Peninsular War, 1808–1811 December 17	Crossing the Pomerium: The Boundaries of Political, Religious, and Military Institutions from Caesar to Constantine December 15
A G.I. in The Ardennes: The Battle of the Bulge December 13	The War Went on: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans December 11	The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome December 09
The Perfection of Military Discipline: The Plug Bayonet and the English Army 1660-1705 December 07	Phase Line Attila: The Amphibious Campaign for Cyprus, 1974 December 05	Thoughts on War December 03
Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War: The Politics, Experiences and Legacies of War in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand December 01	President without a Party: The Life of John Tyler November 29	Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa November 27
African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa November 27	The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation November 25	Attack at Chosin: The Chinese Second Offensive in Korea November 23
The Russian Baltic Fleet in the Time of War and Revolution 1914-1918: The Recollections of Admiral S N Timiryov November 21	Roman Conquests: Egypt and Judea November 19	Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict November 17
The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory November 15	Churchill and Stalin: Comrades-in-Arms during the Second World War November 13	A Quest for Glory: A Biography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren November 12
Mastermind of Dunkirk and D-Day: The Vision of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay November 11	“Lee is Trapped and Must be Taken”: Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg, July 4–14, 1863 November 09	Normandy 1944: German Military Organization, Combat Power and Organizational Effectiveness November 07
Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace: The Origins of War in the Ancient Middle East November 05	Grunt Slang in Vietnam: Words of the War November 03	America’s Buried History: Landmines in the Civil War November 01
Ian Fleming and SOE's Operation POSTMASTER: The Untold Top Secret Story October 30	Lincoln Takes Command: The Campaign to Seize Norfolk and the Destruction of the CSS Virginia October 28	Stalingrad: City on Fire October 26
Blazing Star, Setting Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942–March 1943 October 24	The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans October 22	Siege Warfare during the Crusades October 20
Soldiers and Their Horses: Sense, Sentimentality and the Soldier-Horse Relationship in The Great War October 18	Civil War Places: Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians October 16	Churchill's Shadow Raiders: The Race to Develop Radar, World War II's Invisible Secret Weapon October 14
Carthage's Other Wars: Carthaginian Warfare Outside the 'Punic Wars' Against Rome October 12	The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz October 10	Battle in the Baltic: The Royal Navy and the Fight to Save Estonia and Latvia 1918–20 October 07
Farragut's Captain: Percival Drayton, 1861-1865 October 05	Farragut's Captain: Percival Drayton, 1861-1865 October 05	The Politics of Roman Memory: From the Fall of the Western Empire to the Age of Justinian October 03
God's Viking: Harald Hardrada: The Life and Times of the Last Great Viking October 01	Save Your Ammo: Working Across Cultures for National Security September 29	A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II September 27
"Tower of Skulls", A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: From the Marco Polo Bridge Incident to the Fall of Corregidor, July 1937-May 1942 September 25	Nature's Army: When Soldiers Fought for Yosemite September 23	Greek Warfare beyond the Polis: Defense, Strategy, and the Making of Ancient Federal States September 21
The Union Assaults at Vicksburg: Grant Attacks Pemberton, May 17–22, 1863 September 19	Churchill: A Graphic Biography September 17	Churchill: A Graphic Biography September 17
Dante’s Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy September 15	The Petersburg Regiment in the Civil War: A History of the 12th Virginia Infantry from John Brown’s Hanging to Appomattox, 1859-1865 September 10	Hitler: Downfall, 1939-1945 September 09
The RAF and Tribal Control: Airpower and Irregular Warfare between the World Wars September 07	Neville Chamberlain's Legacy: Hitler, Munich and the Path to War September 06	Bugs and Bullets: The True Story of an American Doctor on the Eastern Front during World War I September 03
Loss and Redemption at St. Vith: The 7th Armored Division in the Battle of the Bulge September 01	Over There in the Air: The Fightin' Texas Aggies in World War I, 1917-1918 August 30	The Sniper Anthology: Snipers of the Second World War August 28
Charles E. Callwell and the British Way in Warfare August 26	Foundations of Russian Military Flight 1885–1925 August 24	Colonels in Blue--Missouri and the Western States and Territories: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary August 22
Vincere: The Italian Royal Army's Counterinsurgency Operations in Africa, 1922–1940 August 20	The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856-1917 August 18	In Memory of Self and Comrades: Thomas Wallace Colley's Recollections of Civil War Service in the 1st Virginia Cavalry August 16
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero August 14	Images of War – The Fall of Berlin: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives August 12	A Yankee Regiment in Confederate Louisiana: The 31st Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Gulf South August 10
Army of the Roman Emperors August 08	Red Road From Stalingrad: Recollections of a Soviet Infantryman August 06	The Duke of York's Flanders Campaign: Fighting the French Revolution 1793–1795 August 04
Latin American Dictatorships in the Era of Fascism: The Corporatist Wave August 02	I Was Hitler's Pilot: The Memoirs of Hans Baur July 31	Agrippa II: The Last of the Herods July 29
Hitler's Savage Canary: A History of the Danish Resistance in World War II July 27	"An Arch Rebel Like Myself": Dan Showalter and the Civil War in California and Texas July 25	Churchill's Colonel: The War Diaries of Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Barne July 23
Romans at War: Soldiers, Citizens, and Society in the Roman Republic July 21	1917 and the Consequences July 19	Dorwart's History of the Office of Naval Intelligence 1865–1945 July 17
The Battle of the Wilderness in Myth and Memory: Reconsidering Virginia's Most Notorious Civil War Battlefield July 15	In Haig’s Shadow: The Letters of Major-General Hugo de Pree and Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig July 13	The Hunt for Jimmie Browne: An MIA Pilot in World War II China July 11
The Life of Alcibiades: Dangerous Ambition and the Betrayal of Athens July 09	Somewhere Over There: The Letters, Diaries, and Artwork of a World War I Corporal July 07	Winds, Waves, & Warriors: Battling the Surf at Normandy, Tarawa, Inchon July 05
Women as Veterans in Britain and France After the First World War July 03	Civil War Taxes: A Documentary History, 1860-1900 July 01	The Memoirs of Harry S. Truman, A Reader’s Edition June 29
Troy: Myth, City, Icon June 27	Constantius II: Usurpers, Eunuchs, and the Anti-Christ June 25	The Gulf of Mexico: A Maritime History June 23
The Greatest of All Leathernecks: John Archer Lejeune and the Making of the Modern Marine Corps, June 21	Bluecoat and Pioneer: The Recollections of John Benton Hart, 1864-1868 June 19	The Wars of Alexander’s Successors, 323-281 BC: Vol. II, Battles and Tactics June 17
Silent Witness: The Civil War through Photography and its Photographers June 15	Silent Witness: The Civil War through Photography and its Photographers June 15	Captives of Liberty: Prisoners of War and the Politics of Vengeance in the American Revolution June 13
The Machiavellian Enterprise: A Commentary on The Prince June 11	Devotion to Duty: A Biography of Admiral Clifton A. F. Sprague June 09	Rome Victorious: The Irresistible Rise of the Roman Empire June 07
George Rogers Clark and William Croghan: A Story of the Revolution, Settlement, and Early Life at Locust Grove June 05	From Texas to Tinian and Tokyo Bay: The Memoirs of Captain J. R. Ritter, Seabee Commander during the Pacific War June 03	African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic June 01
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire May 30	The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire May 30	The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History May 28
German Ground Forces of World War II: Complete Orders of Battle For Army Groups, Armies, Army Corps, and other Commands of the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS, September 1, 1939, to May 8, 1945 May 26	Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer May 24	Enduring the Whirlwind: The German Army and the Russo-German War, 1941-1943 May 22
Enduring the Whirlwind: The German Army and the Russo-German War, 1941-1943 May 22	Churchill’s Phoney War: A Study in Folly and Frustration May 20	American Guerrilla: The Forgotten Heroics of Russell W. Volckmann—the Man Who Escaped from Bataan, Raised a Filipino Army against the Japanese, and became the True “Father” of Army Special Forces May 18
The Great Illyrian Revolt: Rome's Forgotten War in the Balkans, AD 6–9 May 16	Fighting the People’s War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War May 14	Countdown to D-Day: The German Perspective May 12
The United States Marine Corps: The Expeditionary Force at War May 10	The Frontiers of Imperial Rome May 08	Kazakhstan in World War II: Mobilization and Ethnicity in the Soviet Empire May 06
Roman Conquests: The Danube Frontier May 04	Lincoln’s Informer: Charles A. Dana and the Inside Story of the Union War May 02	Rear Admiral Herbert V. Wiley: A Career in Airships and Battleships April 30
Emperor and Senators in the Reign of Constantius II: Maintaining Imperial Rule Between Rome and Constantinople in the Fourth Century AD April 28	Oblivion or Glory: 1921 and the Making of Winston Churchill April 26	“They Were Good Soldiers”: African-Americans Serving in the Continental Army, 1775-1783 April 24
Days of Destruction: Augustine Thomas Smythe and the Civil War Siege of Charleston April 22	Mussolini’s Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy’s Borderlands, 1922-1943 April 20	The Persian War, In Herodotus and Other Ancient Voices April 18
The Battle of Leyte Gulf at 75: A Retrospective April 16	The Armies of Philip IV of Spain, 1621-1665: The Fight for European Supremacy April 14	The Hardest Lot of Men: The Third Minnesota Infantry in the Civil War April 12
Learning to Fight: Military Innovation and Change in the British Army, 1914-1918 April 10	Eutaw Springs: The Final Battle of the American Revolution’s Southern Campaign April 08	Athenian Democracy at War April 06
Athenian Democracy at War April 06	Six Victories: North Africa, Malta, and the Mediterranean Convoy War, November 1941—March 1942 April 04	The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans April 02
Marlborough’s Other Army: The British Army and the Campaigns of the First Peninsular War, 1702–1712 March 31	From the Halls of Montezuma: Mexican War Dispatches from James L. Freaner, Writing under the Pen Name “Mustang” March 29	Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt March 27
The Elite: The A–Z of Modern Special Operations Forces March 25	Washington’s Revolutionary War Generals March 23	Soviet Cavalry Operations during the Second World War & the Genesis of the Operational Manoeuvre Group March 21
The Secret World: A History of Intelligence March 19	Lincoln, Seward, and US Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era March 17	The Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar March 15
Battleships of the Iowa Class: A Design and Operational History March 13	Charles XI's War: The Scanian War Between Sweden and Denmark, 1675-1679 March 11	Emperor's Own: Ethiopians in the Korean War March 09
The Tragedy of Empire: From Constantine to the Destruction of Roman Italy March 07	A Destiny of Undying Greatness: Kiffin Rockwell and the Boys Who Remembered Lafayette March 05	Wellington's History of the Peninsular War: Battling Napoleon in Iberia 1808-1814 March 03
Union Command Failure in the Shenandoah: Major General Franz Sigel and the War in the Valley of Virginia, May 1864 March 01	An Army in Crisis: Social Conflict and the U.S. Army in Germany, 1968-1975 February 28	Winning a Future War: War Gaming and Victory in the Pacific War February 26
Athene Palace February 24	The Byzantine Hellene: The Life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris and Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century February 22	Roman Emperor Zeno: The Perils of Power Politics in Fifth-Century Constantinople February 20
Demystifying the American Military: Institutions, Evolution, and Challenges Since 1789 February 18	The Defenders of Taffy 3: Analysis and Retelling of the Battle of Leyte Gulf February 16	Landpower in the Long War: Projecting Force After 9/11 February 14
A Great Fear: Luís de Onís and the Shadow War against Napoleon in Spanish America, 1808-1812 February 12	Beyond Pearl Harbor: A Pacific History February 10	Maecenas February 08
Vanguard: The True Stories of the Reconnaissance and Intelligence Missions behind D-Day February 06	Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C. February 04	Hunt the Bismarck: The Pursuit of Germany's Most Famous Battleship February 02
Italy Before Italy: Institutions, Conflicts and Political Hopes in the Italian States, 1815-1860 January 31	Useless Mouths: The British Army's Battles in France after Dunkirk May-June 1940 January 29	Greek Military Service in the Ancient Near East, 401-330 BCE January 27
Spain in Arms: A Military History of the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 January 25	Attack at Daylight and Whip Them: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862 January 23	The Kingdom and the Republic: Sovereign Hawai'i and the Early United States January 21
Battleships: The War at Sea January 19	Combined Arms Warfare in Ancient Greece: From Homer to Alexander the Great and his Successors January 17	Panzerfaust vs Sherman: European Theater 1944-45 January 15
War in the Far East: Storm Clouds over the Pacific, 1931-1941 January 12	Armies of the Great Northern War 1700-1720 January 10	Resolute Rebel: General Roswell S. Ripley, Charleston's Gallant Defender January 08
Brave Brothers, Grave Brothers: Two American Soldiers in the Argonne Forest; Their Families January 06	Sallust's Histories and Triumviral Historiography: Confronting the End of History January 04	Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France January 02
Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France January 02

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