Book Review: Home Squadron, by James C. Rentfrow
In his book Home Squadron, James Rentfrow relates the late 19th century transformation of the U.S. Navy into a fleet with global reach.
View ArticleBook Review: The Second Pearl Harbor, by Gene Eric Salecker
In The Second Pearl Harbor, Gene Eric Salecker reveals the causes and consequences of a devastating explosion that rocked the West Loch section of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on May 22, 1944.
View ArticleBook Review: The Longest Afternoon, by Brendan Simms
The Longest Afternoon is Cambridge University professor Brendan Simms' detailed account of the 1815 Battle of Waterloo defense of the stone farmhouse La Haye Sainte.
View ArticleBook Review: Obedient Unto Death, by Werner Kindler
Obedient Unto Death is Werner Kindler's detailed, often harrowing account of armored operations of the elite German Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler during World War II.
View ArticleBook Review: Judy, by Damien Lewis
Judy, by Damien Lewis, relates the surprising story of a pointer that served as a mascot on the Royal Navy gunboats Gnat and Grasshopper during World War II in the Far East.
View ArticleBook Review: Agincourt, by Stephen Cooper
Stephen Cooper looks at the 1415 Battle of Agincourt and its key players to mark the 600th anniversary of the pivotal English-French clash.
View ArticleBook Review: Secret Warriors, by Taylor Downing
In Secret Warriors, author Taylor Downing relates the military advances that originated out of Britain during World War I.
View ArticleBook Review: Marshal Joffre, by André Bourachot
French army historian and former engineer André Bourachot assesses the World War I performance of Joseph Joffre, chief of the French General Staff.
View ArticleBook Review: A Box of Sand, by Charles Stephenson
Charles Stephenson's book A Box of Sand looks at the relatively overlooked 1911 Italo-Turkish War, its implications for the then-brewing global war and its present-day reverberations.
View ArticleBook Review: Darius in the Shadow of Alexander, by Pierre Briant
Pierre Briant reads between the lines of ancient Greco-Roman sources to reconstruct a narrative of Darius III, the oft-overshadowed king of Persia during the reign of Alexander the Great.
View ArticleBook Review: Moroni and the Swastika, by David Conley Nelson
Nelson relates the sometimes disturbing experience of German Mormons under Adolf Hitler's Third Reich
View ArticleBook Review: On the Devil’s Tail, by Paul Martelli with Vittorino dal Cengio
This memoir, relating the experience of a French citizen who served with Germany in World War II and France in Indochina, is visceral but raises many questions
View ArticleBook Review: The Ghost Army of World War II, by Rick Beyer and Elizabeth Sayles
Authors Beyer and Sayles relate the dramatic story of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, a "ghost army" tasked with deceiving Axis troops in Europe in 1944–45
View ArticleBook Review: The Last Cavalryman, by Harvey Ferguson
Ferguson profiles General Lucian Truscott, a talented, self-effacing World War II commander long overshadowed by his contemporary George Patton
View ArticleBook Review: Glorious Victory, by Donald R. Hickey
War of 1812 scholar Hickey profiles the ever-colorful future president Andrew Jackson on the bicentennial of his "glorious victory" over the British at New Orleans
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Book Review: Bannockburn
Angus Konstam reviews the seminal battle in the Scottish wars for independence and its impact on the national psyche
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Book Review: Disobeying Hitler
Randall Hansen recounts the stories of those who disobeyed Adolf Hitler's scorched-earth policy at the end of World War II
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Book Review: Church of Spies
Mark Riebling reviews the wartime record of Roman Catholic Pope Pius XII and his dealings with German resistance to Nazi rule
View ArticleBook Review: The Great Call-up
The Great Call-up: The Guard, the Border and the Mexican Revolution, by Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2015, $39.95 Overshadowed by the U.S. entry into...
View ArticleBook Review: Browned Off and Bloody-Minded
Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War, 1939–1945, by Alan Allport, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 2015, $40 In this amusing, anecdote-filled account historian Allport...
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