Military Book Review 2016

Calamity in Carolina: The Battles of Averasboro and Bentonville, March 1865 December 30	My War in Italy: On the Ground and in Flight with the 15th Air Force December 28	Bondarchuk's War and Peace: Literary Classic to Soviet Cinematic Epic December 26
Wilfred Owen December 23	A Rebel War Clerk's Diary: At the Confederate States Capital, Vol. II: August 1863-April 1865 December 21	A Rebel War Clerk's Diary: At the Confederate States Capital, Vol. I: April 1861-July 1863 December 21
Speer: Hitler's Architect December 19	American Crimes and the Liberation of Paris: Robbery, Rape and Murder by Renegade GIs 1944-1947 December 17	Churchill, Kitchener & Lloyd George: First World Warlords December 15
Lincoln's Final Hours: Conspiracy, Terror, and the Assassination of America's Greatest President December 13	History of the Maginot Line December 11	Winston Churchill Reporting: Adventures of a Young War Correspondent December 06
The Civil War in Missouri: A Military History December 04	MacArthur's Korean War Generals December 02	In the Fields and the Trenches: The Famous and the Forgotten on the Battlefields of World War I November 30
Hollywood Presents Jules Verne: The Father of Science Fiction on Screen November 28	Victoria's Scottish Lion: The Life of Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde November 26	Teacher of Civil War Generals: Major General Charles Ferguson Smith, Soldier and West Point Commandant November 22
Health of the Seventh Cavalry: A Medical History November 20	Torch: North Africa and the Allied Path to Victory November 18	A Powerful Mind: The Self-Education of George Washington November 16
German Propaganda and U.S. Neutrality in World War I November 14	Machiavelli's Legacy: The Prince After Five Hundred Years November 10	Fight Like the Devil: The First Day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863 November 08
24 Hours at Waterloo 18 June 1815: Eyewitness Accounts from the Battle November 05	Somme: Into the Breach November 03	Democracy's Beginning: The Athenian Story November 02
General David S. Stanley, USA: A Civil War Biography October 31	Churchill Comes of Age: Cuba 1895 October 29	Storming the City: U.S. Military Performance in Urban Warfare from World War II to Vietnam October 27
Citizen-Officers: The Union and Confederate Volunteer Junior Officer Corps in the American Civil War October 25	In Nelson's Wake: The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars October 21	The Man Who Captured Washington: Major General Robert Ross and the War of 1812 October 18
SPQR: A Roman Miscellany October 16	The Sailor's Homer: The Life and Times of Richard McKenna, Author of The Sand Pebbles October 14	Spearhead of the Fifth Army: The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Italy, from the Winter Line to Anzio October 12
Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation October 10	Californio Lancers: The 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry in the Far West, 1863-1866 October 09	Wellington's Hidden Heroes: The Dutch and the Belgians at Waterloo October 07
The British Battleship: 1906-1946 October 05	Martial Bliss.: The Story of The Military Bookman October 03	Kingdom Overthrown: Ireland and the Battle for Europe, 1688-1691 October 01
Bacteria and Bayonets: The Impact of Disease in American Military History September 29	SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome September 27	From Imperial Splendor to Internment: The German Navy in the First World War September 25
Gold Run: The Rescue of Norway's Gold Bullion from the Nazis, 1940 September 23	The Great War at Sea: A Naval Atlas, 1914-1919 September 21	From Broomsticks to Battlefields: The Cadets of Delaware Military Academy in the Civil War and Beyond September 19
The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy: The Original Manuscript Edition September 14	African American Army Officers of World War I: A Vanguard of Equality in War and Beyond September 12	Lincoln's Trident: The West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War September 10
Thunder and Flames: Americans in the Crucible of Combat, 1917-1918 September 08	Civil War Biographies from the Western Waters: 956 Confederate and Union Naval and Military Personnel, Contractors, Politicians, Officials, Steamboat Pilots and Others September 06	The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 September 04
The Gray Fox: George Crook and the Indian Wars September 02	Elusive Alliance: The German Occupation of Poland in World War I August 31	Mary Lincoln: Southern Girl, Northern Woman August 28
Stemming the Tide: Officers and Leadership in the British Expeditionary Force, 1914 August 25	Ghost Patrol: A History of the Long Range Desert Group, 1940 - 1945 August 23	Spring 1865: The Closing Campaigns of the Civil War August 21
MI5 at War 1909-1918: How MI5 Foiled the Spies of the Kaiser in the First World War August 19	The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta August 17	Remembering the First World War August 15
The Battle of Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864 August 11	General Lesley J. McNair: Unsung Architect of the U. S. Army August 09	Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend August 07
No Pyrrhic Victories: The 1918 Raids on Zeebrugge and Ostend - a Radical Reappraisal August 05	Yangtze Showdown: China and the Ordeal of HMS Amethyst August 03	"Stand to It and Give Them Hell": Gettysburg as the Soldiers Experienced it From Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top, July 2, 1863 July 30
Big Gun Battles: Warship Duels of the Second World War July 28	Seventeen Fathoms Deep: The Saga of the Submarine S-4 Disaster July 26	The Vicksburg Campaign: Strategy, Battles and Key Figures July 24
July 24	A Scientific Way of War: Antebellum Military Science, West Point, and the Origins of American Military Thought July 22	Muslims and Crusaders: Christianity's Wars in the Middle East, 1095-1382, from the Islamic Sources July 20
Mexico and the Spanish Civil War: Political Repercussions for the Republican Cause July 18	German U-Boat Losses During World War II: Details of Destruction July 15	Wellington: Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace 1814–1852 July 13
"We Never Retreat": Filibustering Expeditions into Spanish Texas, 1812-1822 July 11	Gallipoli: Command Under Fire July 09	Mark Antony: A Plain Blunt Man July 06
The Battle of Lake Champlain: A "Brilliant and Extraordinary Victory" July 04	The Viking Diaspora July 02	The Battle for Britain: Interservice Rivalry between the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy, 1909-1940 June 30
The Yellowhammer War: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama June 28	European Armies of the French Revolution, 1789-1802 June 26	Legions in Crisis: Transformation of the Roman Soldier AD 192-284 June 24
For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918 June 22	Medieval Maritime Warfare June 20	The Admirals -- Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King: The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea June 18
Nanjing 1937: Battle for a Doomed City June 16	Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity June 14	The Great Call-Up: The Guard, the Border, and the Mexican Revolution June 12
Franco's Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936 June 10	Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire June 06	The Frozen Chosen: The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir June 04
German Battlecruisers of World War One: Their Design, Construction and Operations June 02	The Unknown Travels and Dubious Pursuits of William Clark May 30	The Great War at Sea: A Naval History of the First World War May 28
Legendary Rivals: Collegiality and Ambition in the Tales of Early Rome May 26	The Baltimore Sabotage Cell: German Agents, American Traitors, and the U-boat Deutschland During World War I May 23	The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge May 21
The Somme Chronicles: South Africans on the Western Front, 1916 May 19	The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Soviet Military May 17	The Truce: The Day the War Stopped May 15
The Mediterranean Air War: Airpower and Allied Victory in World War II May 13	The Finnish Civil War, 1918: History, Memory, Legacy May 11	Fighting the Great War at Sea: Strategy, Tactics and Technology May 09
Fallen Never Forgotten: Vietnam Memorials in the USA May 07	The Second World War May 05	100 Days to Victory: How the Great War Was Fought and Won 1914-1918 May 03
Harlem’s Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality April 30	Americans at War in Foreign Forces: A History, 1914-1945 April 28	Sino-Japanese Naval War 1894-1895 April 25
No Labour, No Battle: Military Labour During the First World War April 23	The Battle of Maida, 1806: Fifteen Minutes of Glory April 21	South Pacific Cauldron: World War II's Great Forgotten Battlegrounds April 19
Frederick the Great and the Seven Years’ War, 1759-1763 April 17	Battleship Ramillies: The Final Salvo April 14	Stopping the Panzers: The Untold Story of D-Day April 11
Other Fronts, Other Wars? First World War Studies on the Eve of the Centennial April 08	Antiochus the Great April 06	A Doctor in The Great War: Unseen Photographs of Life in the Trenches March 31
British Aircraft Carriers: Design, Development and Service Histories March 28	Wars of Latin America, 1948-1982: The Rise of the Guerrillas March 24	Women in the Peninsular War March 21
The Battle of Marathon in Scholarship: Research, Theories and Controversies Since 1850 March 18	For Brotherhood and Duty: The Civil War History of the West Point Class of 1862 March 15	Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918 March 12
Armies of Bismarck's Wars: The Army of Prussia-History, Uniforms and Equipment, 1860-1867 March 09	Attack Transport: USS Charles Carroll in World War II March 07	Wealth of an Empire: The Treasure Shipments that Saved Britain and the World March 04
The Roman Navy: Ships, Men & Warfare 350 BC - AD 475 March 01	'El Proyecto Macnamara': The Maverick Irish Priest and the Race to Seize California 1844-1846 February 28	Home Squadron: The U.S. Navy on the North Atlantic Station February 25
The Last Ironsides: The English Expedition to Portugal, 1662-1668 February 23	Rebels in the Rockies: Confederate Irregulars in the Western Territories February 18	The Pacific War and Contingent Victory: Why Japanese Defeat Was Not Inevitable February 15
Connecticut Unscathed: Victory in the Great Narragansett War, 1675–1676 February 12	Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition February 09	Leadership in War: From Lincoln to Churchill February 07
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 February 04	Field Marshal: The Life and Death of Erwin Rommel February 02	The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom January 29
The Rome that Did Not Fall: The Survival of the East in the Fifth Century January 26	Projecting Britain at War: The National Character in British World War II Films January 24	Nature's Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia January 21
Hitler and America January 18	Ghosts of the ETO: American Tactical Deception Units in the European Theater, 1944 - 1945 January 16	Valuing the Past in the Greco-Roman World: Proceedings from the Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values VII January 13
Trial by Gas: The British Army at the Second Battle of Ypres January 07	Governments in Exile and the Jews During World War II January 05	Churchill's School For Saboteurs: Station 17 January 02

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