Military Book Review 2021

Tirpitz and the Imperial German Navy December 30	A Military History of India Since 1972: Full Spectrum Operations and the Changing Contours of Modern Conflict December 28	The Summer of ’63: Gettysburg: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War December 26
Beneath the Killing Fields: Exploring the Subterranean Landscapes of the Western Front December 24	The Bronze Lie: Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warrior Supremacy December 22	Grant’s Left Hook: The Bermuda Hundred Campaign, May 5-June 7, 1864 December 20
Strategy Shelved: The Collapse of Cold War Naval Strategic Planning December 18	The New Knights: The Development of Cavalry in Western Europe, 1562-1700 December 16	Lessons Unlearned: The U.S. Army's Role in Creating the Forever Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq December 14
Congress's Own: A Canadian Regiment, the Continental Army, and American Union December 12	Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command December 10	Waterloo Witnesses: Military and Civilian Accounts of the 1815 Campaign December 08
King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV December 06	A Raid on the Red Sea: The Israeli Capture of the Karine A December 04	Southern Strategies: Why the Confederacy Failed December 02
How the Army Made Britain a Global Power: 1688–1815 November 30	Bletchley Park's Secret Source: Churchill's Wrens and the Y Service in World War II November 28	The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny November 26
A Forgotten Campaign: The British Armed Forces in France 1940 – from Dunkirk to the Armistice November 24	1066: A Guide to the Battles and the Campaigns November 22	Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station: The Army of the Potomac’s First Post-Gettysburg Offensive, From Kelly’s Ford to the Rapidan, October 21 to November 20, 1863 November 20
The People's Army in the Spanish Civil War: A Military History of the Republic and International Brigades 1936–1939 November 18	Diversion and Deception: Dudley Clarke's "A" Force and Allied Operations in World War II November 15	History of the British Army, 1714–1783: An Institutional History November 13
Animals in the Second World War November 11	Themistocles: The Powerbroker of Athens November 09	Alan Brooke, Churchill's Right-Hand Critic: A Reappraisal of Lord Alanbrooke November 07
Surviving the Winters: Housing Washington's Army during the American Revolution November 05	Where Three Worlds Met: Sicily in the Early Medieval Mediterranean November 03	Military History of Late Rome 518–565 November 01
Hungary 1848: The Winter Campaign October 30	Jutland 1916: The Archaeology of a Naval Battlefield October 28	Bohemond of Taranto: Crusader and Conqueror October 26
War and Resistance in the Philippines, 1942–1944 October 24	The Military History of the Bicycle: The Forgotten War Machine October 22	Massacring Indians: From Horseshoe Bend to Wounded Knee October 20
Military History of Late Rome 457–518 October 16	The Coalition Crumbles, Napoleon Returns: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume II October 14	Medieval Military Combat: Battle Tactics and Fighting Techniques of the Wars of the Roses October 13
Upon the Fields of Battle: Essays on the Military History of America's Civil War October 09	Korean Air War: Sabres, MiGs and Meteors, 1950–53 October 07	The Military History of Late Rome. 425-457 October 05
Useful Captives: The Role of POWs in American Military Conflicts October 03	Julian and Christianity: Revisiting the Constantinian Revolution October 01	Italy, Piedmont and the War of Spanish Succession 1701-1712 September 29
Can You Beat Churchill?: Teaching History through Simulations September 27	Napoleon Absent, Coalition Ascendant: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 1 September 25	The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War September 22
Military History of Late Rome 395-425 September 17	Airpower in the War against ISIS September 14	Road to Manzikert: Byzantine and Islamic Warfare, 527–1071 September 11
A Mortal Blow to the Confederacy: The Fall of New Orleans, 1862 September 07	Napoleon’s Stolen Army: How the Royal Navy Rescued a Spanish Army in the Baltic September 04	The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army September 01
Taranto and Naval Air Warfare in the Mediterranean August 29	Taranto and Naval Air Warfare in the Mediterranean August 29	Military History of Late Rome, 361-395 August 26
Unlike Anything That Ever Floated: The Monitor and Virginia and the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862 August 23	Machiavelli's Three Romes: Religion, Human Liberty, and Politics Reformed August 20	War: How Conflict Shaped Us August 16
Military History of Late Rome 284-361 August 12	The Other Face of Battle: America's Forgotten Wars and the Experience of Combat August 09	America's Good Terrorist: John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid August 06
Eighth Army Versus Rommel: Tactics, Training and Operations in North Africa 1940-1942 August 03	Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops July 31	Bazaine 1870: Scapegoat for a Nation July 28
The World That Fear Made: Slave Revolts and Conspiracy Scares in Early America July 25	Tullahoma: The Forgotten Campaign that Changed the Course of the Civil War, June 23 - July 4, 1863 July 19	The First and Second Italian Wars 1494–1504: Fearless Knights, Ruthless Princes and the Coming of Gunpowder Armies July 16
A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era July 13	Turret versus Broadside: An Anatomy of British Naval Prestige, Revolution and Disaster, 1860-1870 July 10	Embattled Capital: A Guide to Richmond During the Civil War July 08
The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon July 06	The Churchill Quiz Book: How Much do You Know about Britain’s Wartime Leader? July 01	Rome Resurgent: War and Empire in the Age of Justinian June 29
Defending the Arteries of Rebellion: Confederate Naval Operations in the Mississippi River Valley, 1861-1865 June 26	Forging the Trident: Theodore Roosevelt and the United States Navy June 23	Tank Combat in Spain: Armored Warfare During the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 June 20
Spy Sites of Philadelphia: A Guide to the Region's Secret History June 17	Brothers to the Buffalo Soldiers: Perspectives on the African American Militia and Volunteers, 1865-1917 June 14	Tank Warfare June 12
Spies, Scouts, and Secrets in the Gettysburg Campaign: How the Critical Role of Intelligence Impacted the Outcome of Lee's Invasion of the North, June-July 1863 June 09	Gladius: The World of the Roman Soldier June 06	Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America June 04
Teutonic Titans: Hindenburg, Ludendorff, and the Kaiser's Marshals and Generals, 1847-1955 June 02	A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps May 30	From Trophy Towns to City-States: Urban Civilization and Cultural Identities in Roman Pontus May 27
“The Devil’s to Pay”: John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour May 22	Artillery of the Napoleonic Wars: A Concise Dictionary, 1792-1815 May 19	Courage Above All Things: General John Ellis Wool and the U.S. Military, 1812–1863 May 16
Imperial Legacies: The British Empire Around the World May 13	Churchill's Admiral in Two World Wars: Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes of Zeebrugge and Dover, GCB, KCVO, CMG, DSO April 30	Sage and Emperor: Plutarch, Greek Intellectuals, and Roman Power in the Time of Trajan (98–117 A.D.) April 24
Wilson's War: Sir Henry Wilson’s Influence on British Military Policy in the Great War and its Aftermath April 17	The Spartans April 11	Major General James A. Ulio: How the Adjutant General of the U.S. Army Enabled Allied Victory April 07
Rome and Parthia: Empires at War: Ventidius, Antony and the Second Romano-Parthian War, 40-20 B.C. April 02	Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War March 31	Leading the Roman Army: Soldiers and Emperors, 31 BC – 235 AD March 29
Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany's Winter Campaign, 1941-1942 March 27	Sparta's Second Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 446-418 B.C. March 25	The Italian Folgore Parachute Division: Operations in North Africa 1940-43 March 23
The US Volunteers in the Southern Philippines: Counterinsurgency, Pacification, and Collaboration, 1899-1901 March 21	Comrades Betrayed: Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler March 19	The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar March 17
COSSAC: Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan and the Genesis of Operation OVERLORD March 15	Antigonus the One-Eyed: Greatest of the Successors March 13	Flying to Victory: Raymond Collishaw and the Western Desert Campaign, 1940–1941 March 11
The U.S. Navy and Its Cold War Alliances, 1945-1953 March 09	The Fragmentary Latin Histories of Late Antiquity (AD 300–620): Edition, Translation and Commentary March 07	An Unappreciated Field of Endevour: Logistics and the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front, 1914-1918 March 05
Special Operations during the American Revolution March 03	Byzantium Triumphant: The Military History of the Byzantines, 959–1025 March 01	Civil War Supply and Strategy: Feeding Men and Moving Armies February 27
Rome – City in Terror: The Nazi Occupation 1943–44 February 25	The 4th Marine Brigade at Belleau Wood and Soissons: History and Battlefield Guide February 23	The Fall of the Republic: A Novella of Ancient Rome based on Actual Events February 21
The Fall of the Republic: A Novella of Ancient Rome based on Actual Events February 21	Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America February 19	Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II February 17
Fighting for Spain: The International Brigades in the Civil War, 1936–1939 February 15	Theodosius and the Limits of Empire February 13	John Finerty Reports the Sioux War February 11
Atomic Salvation: How the A-Bomb Attacks Saved the Lives of 32 Million People February 09	The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis February 07	Naval Warfare: A Global History since 1860 February 05
Britain 1940: The Decisive Year on the Home Front February 03	Britain 1940: The Decisive Year on the Home Front February 03	Britain 1940: The Decisive Year on the Home Front February 03
Confederate Citadel: Richmond and Its People at War February 01	Aurelian and Probus: The Soldier Emperors Who Saved Rome January 30	Aurelian and Probus: The Soldier Emperors Who Saved Rome January 30
The Sea and the Second World War: Maritime Aspects of a Global Conflict January 28	Caesar's Great Success: Sustaining the Roman Army on Campaign January 26	Caesar's Great Success: Sustaining the Roman Army on Campaign January 26
An Environmental History of the Civil War January 23	Supplying the British Army in the Second World War January 20	Women at War in the Classical World January 18
The Cavalries in the Nashville Campaign January 16	Patton: Battling with History January 14	The Attack on Troy January 12
Arguing until Doomsday: Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy January 10	The French at Waterloo - Eyewitness Accounts: Napoleon, Imperial Headquarters and 1st Corps January 08

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