Book Reviews 2015

Archives
Belisarius: The Last Roman General
December 27		 At War on the Gothic Line: Fighting in Italy, 1944-45
December 22		 CANARIS: The Life and Death of Hitler's Spymaster
December 18
Palestine in the Second World War: Strategic Plans and Political Dilemmas, the Emergence of a New Middle East
December 14		 Allied Fighting Effectiveness in North Africa and Italy, 1942-1945
December 09		 Braddock's Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution
December 07
The Good Soldier: A Biography of Douglas Haig
December 03		 D-Day: Minute by Minute
November 30		 Swastika Over the Acropolis: Re-Interpreting the Nazi Invasion of Greece in World War II
November 28
The 143rd in Iraq: The Story of the 143rd MP Company, In Spite of it All.
November 23		 Dublin Nazi No. 1: The Life of Adolf Mahr
November 20		 AD69: Emperors, Armies and Anarchy
November 17
The Namibian War of Independence, 1966-1989: Diplomatic, Economic and Military Campaigns
November 12		 Lincoln and the Jews: A History
November 09		 Hitler's Gateway to the Atlantic: German Naval Bases in France, 1940-1945
November 06
The Second Pearl Harbor: The West Loch Disaster, May 21, 1944
November 03		 Malta and British Strategic Policy, 1925-1943
October 30		 World War I for Kids: A History with 21 Activities
October 26
Naval Anti-Aircraft Guns and Gunnery
October 24		 'Peace after the Final Battle': The Story of the Irish Revolution 1912-1924
October 22		 The British Defence of Egypt, 1935-40: Conflict and Crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean
October 19
Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration
October 15		 Soldiers' Tales: Two Palestinian Jewish Soldiers in the Ottoman Army during the First World War
October 12		 To Rule the Winds: The Evolution of the British Fighter Force Through Two World Wars Volume 1: Prelude to Air War - The Years to 1914
October 10
Buffalo Soldiers and Officers of the Ninth Cavalry, 1867-1898: Black & White Together
October 08		 The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Attila
October 04		 Hessians: Mercenaries, Rebels, and the War for British North America
October 02
Hitler's Commanders: Officers of the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe, the Kriegsmarine, and the Waffen-SS
October 01		 General Washington's Commando: Benjamin Tallmadge in the Revolutionary War
September 29		 Northern European Overture to War, 1939-1941: From Memel to Barbarossa
September 28
Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I
September 26		 Soldiers West: Biographies from the Military Frontier
September 24		Constantine and the Christian Empire
September 17
The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor
September 17		 Revolutionary Marxism in Spain, 1930-1937
September 15		 A Few Lawless Vagabonds: Ethan Allen, the Republic of Vermont, and the American Revolution
September 14
Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War
September 12		 Sky Pilots: The Yankee Division Chaplains in World War I
September 11		 Jewish War under Trajan and Hadrian
September 10
The Pope's Jews: The Vatican's Secret Plan to Save Jews from the Nazis
September 08		 Franco: A Personal and Political Biography
September 03		 Terrorist Attacks on American Soil: From the Civil War Era to the Present
September 02
Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II
September 01		 Holocaust versus Wehrmacht: How Hitler's "Final Solution" Undermined the German War Effort
August 31		 The Long Road to Annapolis: The Founding of the Naval Academy and the Emerging American Republic
August 29
Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece
August 28		 Brandywine: A Military History of the Battle that Lost Philadelphia but Saved America, September 11, 1777
August 27		 Britain's Two World Wars against Germany: Myth, Memory and the Distortions of Hindsight
August 24
How the Telegraph Changed the World
August 24		 The Hundred Years War: A People's History
August 22		 War, Entrepreneurs, and the State in Europe and the Mediterranean, 1300-1800
August 21
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
August 19		 The Road to Dunkirk: The British Expeditionary Force and the Battle of the Ypres-Comines Canal, 1940
August 18		 The Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin: Global Jihadism in Russia's North Caucasus and Beyond
August 14
The Gathering Storm: The Naval War in Northern Europe, September 1939-April 1940
August 13		 The Indian Army on the Western Front: India's Expeditionary Force to France and Belgium in the First World War
August 11		 Shattered Genius: The Decline and Fall of the German General Staff in World War II
August 10
Scapegoats: Thirteen Victims of Military Injustice
August 08		 The Fights on the Little Big Horn: Unveiling the Mysteries of Custer’s Last Stand
August 05		 Alexander the Great: Themes and Issues
August 04
The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941
August 03		 Loyal Sons: Jews in the German Army in the Great War
August 01		 Field Guide to the Battlefields of South Africa
July 31
The Armed Forces of Poland in the West 1939-46: Strategic Concepts, Planning, Limited Success but no Victory!
July 30		 Cicero: Politics and Persuasion in Ancient Rome
July 29		 "A" Force: The Origins of British Deception During the Second World War
July 27
United Nations Participants in the Korean War: The Contributions of 45 Member Countries
July 23		 FDR and the Jews
July 22		 Medicine and Warfare: Spain, 1936-1939
July 21
Germanicus: The Magnificent Life and Mysterious Death of Rome's Most Popular General
July 20		 Sacrificing Childhood: Children and the Soviet State in the Great Patriotic War
July 18		 The Evolution of Operational Art, 1740-1813: From Frederick the Great to Napoleon
July 17
Custer, Cody, and Grand Duke Alexis: Historical Archaeology of the Royal Buffalo Hunt
July 16		 Byron's War: Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution
July 14		 Zero Night: The Untold Story of World War Two's Greatest Escape
July 13
Wellington's Right Hand: Rowland, Viscount Hill
July 09		 Perceiving War and the Military in Early Christian Gaul (ca. 400-700 A.D.)
July 08		 Churchill's South Africa: Travels during the Anglo-Boer War
July 06
Defender of Canada: Sir George Prevost and the War of 1812
July 04		 Hitler's Stormtroopers and the Attack on the German Republic, 1919-1933
July 03		 Zulu Warriors: The Battle for the South African Frontier
July 01
Aspects of Roman History 31 BC-AD 117
June 22		 Wellington: The Path to Victory 1769-1814
June 19		 Waterloo: the French Perspective
June 18
Prelude to Waterloo: Quatre Bras, The French Perspective
June 16		 American Relief Aid and the Spanish Civil War
June 15		 Blücher: Scourge of Napoleon
June 13
The Contribution of the Royal Bavarian Army to the War of 1866
June 12		 Cicero and the Catilinarian Conspiracy
June 11		 The Many Not The Few: The Stolen History of the Battle of Britain
June 08
Giap: The General Who Defeated America in Vietnam
June 06		 The Embattled Past: Reflections on Military History
June 05		 Foreign-Born American Patriots: Sixteen Volunteer Leaders in the Revolutionary War
June 02
John of Salisbury: Military Authority of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance
June 01		 Nazi Film Melodrama
May 29		 Memory and Cultural History of the Spanish Civil War
May 28
The French Army and the First World War
May 25		 Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power
May 23		 A History of Pergamum: Beyond Hellenistic Kingship
May 22
The Battles of Monte Cassino: The Campaign and Its Controversies
May 21		 Teddy Roosevelt and Leonard Wood: Partners in Command
May 19		 Every Inch a King: Comparative Studies on Kings and Kingship in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
May 18
On War: The Best Military Histories
May 04		 The Pennsylvania Reserves in the Civil War: A Comprehensive History
May 02		 At the Crossroads Between Peace and War: The London Naval Conference of 1930
May 01
Maestro John Monash: Australia's Greatest Citizen General
April 28		 The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler
April 27		 Posters of the Great War
April 24
War and Warfare in Late Antiquity: Current Perspectives
April 23		 The Fifth New York Cavalry in the Civil War
April 20		 The Capture of Louisbourg, 1758
April 18
Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War
April 16		 The 14th Brooklyn Regiment in the Civil War
April 13		 Theodosius II: Rethinking the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity
April 11
Robert E. Lee in War and Peace: The Photographic History of a Confederate and American Icon
April 09		 World War I and Propaganda
April 03		 Guide to the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign
April 02
Alvin York: A New Biography of the Hero of the Argonne
March 26		 Tom Worthington's Civil War: Shiloh, Sherman, and the Search for Vindication
March 24		 Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America
March 16
Armies of the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-70: Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, & Argentina
March 13		 Theophilus Hunter Holmes: A North Carolina General in the Civil War
March 09		 A Civil War Correspondent in New Orleans: The Journals and Reports of Albert Gaius Hills, of The Boston Journal
March 06
They Called Them Soldier Boys: A Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I
March 02		 The Civil War Round Table Quiz Book
February 28		 Wars of Latin America, 1899-1941
February 27
Josephus Daniels: His Life and Times
February 26		 The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
February 24		 Battle of Big Bethel: Crucial Clash in Early Civil War Virginia
February 23
The Stalingrad Cauldron: Inside the Encirclement and Destruction of the 6th Army
February 21		 The Confederate Surrender at Greensboro: The Final Days of the Army of Tennessee, April 1865
February 20		 The Battle of Midway: The Naval Institute Guide to the U.S. Navy's Greatest Victory
February 19
The Schlieffen Plan: International Perspectives on the German Strategy for World War I
February 17		 The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis
February 16		 Civil War General and Indian Fighter James M. Williams: Leader of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry and the 8th U.S. Cavalry
February 14
Sunk in Kula Gulf: The Final Voyage of the USS Helena and the Incredible Story of Her Survivors in World War II
February 13		 New Images of Nazi Germany: A Photographic Collection
February 10		 The Italian Army and the First World War
February 09
The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe
February 07		 Battalion Commanders at War: U.S. Army Tactical Leadership in the Mediterranean Theater, 1942-1943
February 06		 Command and Morale: The British Army on the Western Front 1914-1918
February 05
Suddenly, While Abroad: Hitler's Irish Slaves
February 03		 Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day
February 02		 Generals of the Army: Marshall, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Arnold, Bradley
January 31
The Month that Changed the World: July 1914
January 30		 French Cruisers, 1922-1956
January 29		 My Life before the World War, 1860-1917: A Memoir
January 27
A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War
January 26		 British and Japanese Military Leadership in the Far Eastern War, 1941-1945
January 24		 1914: The Year the World Ended
January 23
The Civil War Lover's Guide to New York City
January 22		 Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War
January 21

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