Book Reviews 2009

Archives
The Fall of a Black Army Officer: Racism & the Myth of Henry O. Flipper
December 31		 The Mother of All Battles: Saddam Hussein's Strategic Plan for the Persian Gulf War
December 27		 The Echo of Battle: The Army's Way of War
December 22
The U.S.S. Flier: Death and Survival on a World War II Submarine
December 20		 Fields of Conflict: Battlefield Archaeology from the Roman Empire to the Korean War
December 17		 The Art of Command: Military Leadership from George Washington to Colin Powell
December 14
Battleship Oklahoma (BB-37)
December 08		 Napoleon's Enfant Terrible: General Dominique Vandamme
November 30		 The Pacific War: The Strategy, Politics, and Players that Won the War
November 26
Nelson's Battles: The Triumph of British Sea Power
November 23		 Mussolini and His Generals: The Armed Forces and Fascist Foreign Policy, 1923-1940
November 16		 Philip II of Macedonia
November 08
With Zeal and With Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775-1783
November 04		 Warhorse: Cavalry in Ancient Warfare
October 27		 A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory
October 23
Canaris: The Life and Death of Hitler's Spymaster
October 15		 Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe
October 12		 The Battle of the River Plate: A Grand Delusion
October 08
Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War
October 04		 RISINGS AND REBELLIONS 1919-39: Organisation, Warfare, Dress and Weapons. Interwar Colonial Campaigns in Africa, Asia, and the Americas
October 01		 The Battlecruiser HMS Hood: An Illustrated Biography, 1916-1941
September 27
Genghis Khan: History's Greatest Empire Builder
September 23		 The First Day of the Blitz, September 7, 1940
September 16		 Agents of Innovation: The General Board and the Design of the Fleet that Defeated Japan
September 11
Hitler's Bandit Hunters: The SS and the Nazi Occupation of Europe
September 08		 Clausewitz: Contemporary War
September 02		 Eighth Army in Italy, 1943-1945: The Long Hard Slog
August 27
John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth Century Italy
August 23		 The Australian Cruiser Perth, 1939-1942
August 18		 Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War
August 14
Land Battles in 5th Century B.C. Greece: A History and Analysis of 173 Engagements
August 10		 Some Recent Books about Garibaldi
August 06		 War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941
August 03
The Enemies of Rome: From Hannibal to Attila the Hun
August 01		 The Irish Militia, 1793-1802: Ireland's Forgotten Army
July 29		 The Anabasis of Cyrus
July 25
Napoleon's Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire
July 15		 Sparta & War
July 12		 Three Days in the Shenandoah: Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester
July 09
Churchill And War
July 07		 Shipping and Military Power in the Seven Years' War: The Sails of Victory
June 30		 Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register
June 26
Imperial City: Rome, Romans And Napoleon, 1796-1815
June 18		 Churchill Goes to War: Winston's Wartime Journeys
June 14		 Meade's Army: The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman
June 11
In Which They Served: The Royal Navy Officer Experience in the Second World War
June 07		 Muhammad: Islam's First Great General
June 04		 Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule
June 01
Churchill and America
May 26		 The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction
May 23		 Fighting for Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain during the Spanish Civil War
May 19
Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942
May 14		 Santa Anna of Mexico
May 12		 Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
May 07
Operation Albion: The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands
May 05		 The British Empire and the Second World War
May 03		"Friends in Peace and War": The Russian Navy's Landmark Visit to Civil War San Francisco
April 28
Red Storm Over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944
April 25		Red Storm Over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944
April 25		 Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South
April 18
Lost Battles: Reconstructing the Great Clashes of the Ancient World
April 14		 Africa Squadron: The U.S. Navy and the Slave Trade, 1842-1861
April 08		 Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862
March 24
Chief of Staff: The Principal Officers Behind History's Great Commanders
March 20		 Operation Albion: The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands
March 17		Grant and Lee: Victorious American and Vanquished Virginian
March 05
Indian Conquistadors: Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica
March 01		 Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World War II
February 25		Army of the Potomac: Vol. III, McClellan's First Campaign, March-May 1862: A Wide-Ranging Study of the Army's Leaders and Their Decisions
February 21
The AEF Way of War: The American Army and Combat in World War I
February 17		Hitler and His Allies in World War II
February 14		Iron Hulls, Iron Hearts: Mussolini's Elite Armoured Divisions in North Africa
February 11
The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730
February 08		The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
February 06		Lincolnites and Rebels: A Divided Town in the American Civil War
February 01
Making a Killing: The Explosive Story of a Hired Gun In Iraq
January 27		Women in the Line of Fire: What You should Know About Women in the Military
January 24		Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man
January 20
Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for World's Most Wanted Man
January 17		Ottoman Army Effectiveness in World War I: A Comparative Study
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