Book Reviews 2010

Archives
1688: The First Modern Revolution
December 30		 The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, Volume I, South Mountain
December 26		 Makers of Ancient Strategy, From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome
December 22
The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army
December 18		 ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA: The Doomed Love Affair That United Ancient Rome and Egypt
December 15		 Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914-1918, Vol. II, A Cultural History
December 12
Defying Rome: The Rebels of Roman Britain
December 08		 Upton's Regulars: The 121st New York Infantry in the Civil War
December 04		 Combat Ready?: The Eighth U.S. Army on the Eve of the Korean War (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series)
November 30
Years of Change and Suffering: Modern Perspectives on Civil War Medicine
November 26		 The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World
November 22		 Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History
November 18
The Pledge: A History of the Pledge of Allegiance
November 14		 The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
November 11		 Bluejackets and Contrabands: African Americans and the Union Navy
November 07
Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947
November 03		 The Battle of the Narrow Seas: The History of the Light Coastal Forces in the Channel & North Sea, 1939-1945
November 01		 United States Marine Corps Generals of World War II: A Biographical Dictionary
October 24
Armed Progressive: General Leonard Wood
October 21		 The American Civil War: The Soldier's Story
October 19		 The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon
October 07
Fireship: The Terror Weapon of the Age of Sail
October 04		 The 10th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War: A History and Roster
October 01		 Defenders of Fortress Europe: The Untold Story of the German Officers during the Allied Invasion
September 28
Napoleon as a General: Command from the Battlefield to Grand Strategy
September 24		 Confederate Admiral: The Life and Wars of Franklin Buchanan (Blue Jacket Books)
September 22		 Historical Dictionary of United States-Africa Relations (Historical Dictionaries of U. S. Diplomacy)
September 17
The Complete Gettysburg Guide: Walking and Driving Tours of the Battlefield, Town, Cemeteries, Field Hosptial Sites, and Other Topics of Historical Interest
September 14		 Militant Islamist Ideology: Understanding the Global Threat
September 10		 Gustavus Vasa Fox of the Union Navy: A Biography
September 08
BISMARCK: The Final Days of Germany's Greatest Battleship
September 05		 Baseball in Blue and Gray: The National Pastime during the Civil War
September 02		 Carrier Operations in World War II
August 29
Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War
August 26		 British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era, 1860-1919
August 23		 Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register (SHADES OF BLUE & GRAY)
August 21
Gallipoli: The End of the Myth
August 17		 MAJOR GENERAL ROBERT E RODES OF THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA: A Biography
August 15		 Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters
August 13
Until Antietam: The Life and Letters of Major General Israel B. Richardson, U.S. Army
August 11		 Gentlemen, We Will Stand and Fight: Le Cateau 1914
August 09		 Commander of All Lincoln's Armies : A Life of General Henry W. Halleck
August 07
The Roman Revolution of Constantine
July 22		 SICKLES AT GETTYSBURG: The Controversial Civil War General Who Committed Murder, Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared Himself the Hero of Gettysburg
July 19		 Churchill and Spain: The Survival of the Franco Regime, 1940-1945
July 17
Like a Meteor Blazing Brightly: The Short but Controversial Life of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren
July 15		 Class and Race in the Frontier Army: Military Life in the West, 1870-1890
July 13		 Lincoln's Political Generals
July 11
Hitler's Italian Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940-1943
July 06		 Success Is All That Was Expected: The South Atlantic Blockading Squadron During the Civil War
July 04		 The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography of Harry Truman
July 02
Rogue: A Biography of Civil War General Justus McKinstry
June 30		 Theodore Roosevelt's Naval Diplomacy: The U.S. Navy and the Birth of the American Century
June 28		 Sherman's Forgotten General: Henry W. Slocum (Shades of Blue and Gray Series)
June 26
Black Flag: The Surrender of Germany's U-Boat Forces
June 24		Soldiers West: Biographies from the Military Frontier
June 22		 The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848
June 18
Yankee Warhorse: A Biography of Major General Peter Osterhaus
June 16		 Kitchener's War: British Strategy from 1914-1916,
June 14		 Commanding Lincoln's Navy: Union Naval Leadership During the Civil War
June 13
San Martin: Argentine Soldier, American Hero
June 11		 Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State
June 09		 Diplomats and Diplomacy in the Roman World
June 08
The Victorians at War
June 06		 The Age of the Ship of the Line: The British and French Navies, 1650-1815
June 03		 Engineering Security: The Corps of Engineers and Third System Defense Policy, 1815-1861
June 01
The Virgin Warrior: The Life and Death of Joan of Arc
May 30		 General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse
May 28		 Captain Cook's War and Peace: The Royal Navy Years, 1755-1768
May 26
Clad in Iron: The American Civil War and the Challenge of British Naval Power
May 24		 Feeding the Roman Army: The Archaeology of Production and Supply in NW Europe
May 21		 Slaughter at Sea: The Story of Japan's Naval War Crimes
May 18
Eleanor of Aquitaine
May 15		 Great Liners at War
May 12		 To the Last Salute: Memoirs of an Austrian U-Boat Commander
May 09
Yankee Division in the First World War: In the Highest Tradition
May 06		 Roman Warfare
May 03		 Admiral Saumarez Versus Napoleon: The Baltic, 1807-1812
April 30
428 AD, An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire
April 27		 The Landings at Sulva Bay, 1915: An Analysis of British Failure During the Gallipoli Campaign
April 23		 The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
April 20
Pepys's Navy: Ships, Men, and Warfare, 1649-1689
April 18		 The Antonine Wall
April 15		 Merchant Mariners at War: An Oral History of World War II
April 13
Thutmose III: The Military Biography of Egypt's Greatest Warrior King
April 10		 The Legacy of the Great War, Ninety-Years On
April 08		 A Blue Sea of Blood: Deciphering the Mysterious Fate of the USS Edsall
April 06
The Black Citizen-Soldiers of Kansas, 1864-1901
April 04		 The "New" Terrorism: Myths and Realities
April 02		 The Resurrection and Collapse of Empire in Habsburg Serbia, 1914-1918
March 31
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower
March 29		 The Paraguayan War
March 27		 Armchair Warriors: Private Citizens, Popular Press, and the Rise of American Power
March 25
Cannae: The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War
March 22		 Hitler's Man in Havana: Heinz Lüning and Nazi Espionage in Latin America
March 20		The Question of MacArthur's Reputation: Côte de Chátillon, October 14-16, 1918
March 18
Legionary: The Roman Soldier's Unofficial Hand-book
March 16		 A Century of Carrier Aviation: The Evolution of Ships and Shipborne Aircraft
March 14		 Espionage in the Ancient World: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles in Western Languages
March 12
Great Powers and the Quest for Hegemony: The World Order since 1500
March 09		 Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History
March 07		 The Language of Empire: Rome and the Idea of Empire from the Third Century BC to the Second Century AD
March 02
A Great & Glorious Victory: New Perspectives on the Battle of Trafalgar
March 02		 Clausewitz: Contemporary War
February 26		 Hitler's Pre-Emptive War: The Battle for Norway, 1940
February 23
The Battle of the Otranto Straits: Controlling the Gateway to the Adriatic in WW I
February 19		 Blood in the Forum: The Struggle for the Roman Republic
February 18		 Bismarck: The Final Days of Germany's Greatest Battleship
February 16
Lives of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: Untold Tales of Men of Jewish Descent Who Fought for the Third Reich
February 14		 The Origins of World War I
February 12		 Feeding the Roman Army: The Archaeology of Production and Supply in NW Europe
February 09
Pioneers of Amphibious Warfare, 1898-1945
February 07		 The Cruel Sea Retold: The Truth Behind Monsarrat's Epic Convoy Drama
February 04		 Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History
February 02
Rome and the Barbarians, 100 B.C.-A.D. 400
January 30		 The Press Gang: Naval Impressment and its Opponents in Georgian Britain
January 28		 Truceless War: Cathage's Fight for Survival, 241 to 237 BC
January 26
The Victorians at War
January 23		 Battle for the Baltic Islands: Triumph of the Imperial German Navy
January 20		 Three Byzantine Military Treatises
January 17
C-47/R4D Units of World War II
January 15		 Hollywood War Films, 1937-1945: An Exhaustive Filmography of American Feature-Length Motion Pictures Relating to World War II
January 13		 The Misadventures of Jane
January 09
Great Military Leaders and their Campaigns
January 07		 Cleopatra and Rome
January 03

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