Military Book Review 2013

The Verdict of Battle: The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War December 31	The U.S. Navy and the War in Europe December 29	Byzantine Military Organization on the Danube, 10th-12th Centuries December 27
The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War December 21	The Union Forever: Lincoln, Grant, and the Civil War December 19	The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic December 17
The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict, Bicentennial Edition December 16	The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today December 14	The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 December 12
Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West December 10	The Second Spanish Republic Revisited: From Democratic Hopes to Civil War (1931-1936) December 09	One World, Big Screen: Hollywood, the Allies, and World War II December 07
Frontiers in the Roman World December 05	Mussolini's Navy: A Reference Guide to the Regia Marina, 1930-1945 December 03	Wellington's Wars: The Making of a Military Genius December 02
Navy SEAL Dogs: My Tale of Training Canines for Combat November 29	After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian War November 27	Scandinavia in the First World War November 22
War at Sea: A Naval Atlas, 1939-1945 November 19	Strategies for the Human Realm: Crux of the T'ai-pai Yin-ching November 18	The Complete Encyclopedia of Terrorist Organizations, Concise Edition November 16
Strategy in the American War of Independence: A Global Approach November 15	Torn Families: Death And Kinship at the Battle of Gettysburg November 14	Rhodes Besieged: A New History November 12
Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army's Victory That Shaped World War II November 11	Making Patton: A Classic War Film's Epic Journey to the Silver Screen November 08	The Logistics of the Roman Army at War (264 BC-AD 235) November 06
Indigenous Peoples of the British Dominions and the First World War November 04	Hitler's Berlin: Abused City November 03	The 48th Pennsylvania in the Battle of the Crater: A Regiment of Coal Miners Who Tunneled Under the Enemy November 01
Rainy Street Stories: Reflections on Secret Wars, Espionage and Terrorism October 30	Marcus Aurelius: A Guide for the Perplexed October 28	Sino-French Naval War 1884-1885 October 27
Portugal's War in Angola, 1961-1974 October 25	Strategy and War Planning in the British Navy, 1887-1918 October 23	Military Comedy Films: A Critical Survey and Filmography of Hollywood Releases Since 1918 October 21
Military Adaptation in War: With Fear of Change October 20	Spartacus October 09	Finland in World War II: History, Memory, Interpretations October 06
The 36th Infantry United States Colored Troops in the Civil War: A History and Roster October 04	Empire of the Sikhs: The Life and Times of Maharaja Ranjit Singh October 02	The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World, 16th Edition: Their Ships, Aircraft, and Systems September 30
The Forgotten Axis: Germany's Partners and Foreign Volunteers in World War II September 27	Forgotten Allies: The Military Contribution of the Colonies, Exiled Governments, and Lesser Powers to the Allied Victory in World War II September 27	Legions of Rome: The Definitive History of Every Imperial Roman Legion September 25
Malcontents, Rebels, & Pronunciados: The Politics of Insurrection in Nineteenth Century Mexico September 23	Illinois in the War of 1812 September 22	Free France's Lion: The Life of Philippe Leclerc, de Gaulle's Greatest General September 18
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (Liberation Trilogy) September 16	The Rock Island Civil War Prison: Andersonville of the North? September 14	September 14
Greek Warfare: Myth and Realities September 13	The 124th New York State Volunteers in the Civil War: A History and Roster September 10	The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World September 08
Float Planes and Flying Boats: The U.S. Coast Guard and Early Naval Aviation September 06	Blueprints for Battle: Planning for War in Central Europe, 1948-1968 September 04	Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization September 01
The Attack on Pearl Harbor: Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deceptions August 30	A General Who Will Fight: The Leadership of Ulysses S. Grant August 28	Alexander the Great: King, Commander and Statesman August 25
Athenia Torpedoed: The U-boat Attack That Ignited the Battle of the Atlantic August 23	A History of the Vandals August 21	Thomas J. Wood: A Biography of the Union General in the Civil War August 18
A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua August 16	Men of Color to Arms!: Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality August 14	Arms and the Man: Military History Essays in Honor of Dennis Showalter August 11
A Jew Among Romans: The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus August 09	1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism August 07	The Measure of a Man: My Father, the Marine Corps, and Saipan August 04
The Battle of Carthage, Missouri: First Trans-Mississippi Conflict of the Civil War August 02	Warships After Washington: The Development of the Five Major Fleets, 1922-1930 July 31	With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in the Other: The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North July 28
The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power July 25	Standing Firmly by the Flag: Nebraska Territory and the Civil War, 1861-1867 July 22	The Frontiers of Imperial Rome July 21
Unholy Sabbath: The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, September 14, 1862 July 19	The Fighting Tudors July 18	Colonel Edward E. Cross, New Hampshire Fighting Fifth: A Civil War Biography July 16
Tiger Command! July 14	The Civil War in Missouri: A Military History July 12	American Military Transport Aircraft Since 1925 July 11
Spain and the American Civil War July 09	The Last Full Measure: How Soldiers Die in Battle July 05	The Russian Origins of the First World War July 03
President Lincoln's Recruiter: General Lorenzo Thomas and the United States Colored Troops in the Civil War June 30	Eyes Only: The Top Secret Correspondence Between Eisenhower and Marshall June 28	Animals and War: Studies of Europe and North America June 26
Land Campaigns of the Civil War June 24	The Captain Who Burned His Ships: Captain Thomas Tingey, USN, 1750-1829 June 23	Modern Warfare in Spain: American Military Observations on the Spanish Civil War June 21
Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War June 19	Raising the Red Banner: The Pictoral History of Stalin's Fleet 1920-1945 June 16	Mission to Berlin: The American Airmen Who Struck the Heart of Hitler's Reich June 13
Major General Alexander M. McCook, USA: A Civil War Biography June 12	Military Saints in Byzantium and Rus, 900-1200 June 10	The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 June 09
Race and Radicalism in the Union Army June 07	Hitler, Dönitz, and the Baltic Sea: The Third Reich's Last Hope, 1944-1945 June 05	The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War June 03
Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era June 02	Silence of the Guns: The History of the Long Toms of the Anglo-Boer War May 31	Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America May 29
Confederate Incognito: The Civil War Reports of "Long Grabs," a.k.a. John McSween, 26th and 35th North Carolina Infantry May 27	River Wide, Ocean Deep: A New Perspective on Operation Sea Lion May 26	Reminiscences of Conrad S. Babcock: The Old U.S. Army and the New, 1898-1918 May 24
Weirding the War: Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges May 23	Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome May 21	The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph, 1942-45 May 16
The Best Station of Them All: The Savannah Squadron, 1861-1865 May 15	Five Days That Shocked the World: Eyewitness Accounts from Europe at the End of World War II May 13	Man and Wound in the Ancient World: A History of Military Medicine from Sumer to the Fall of Constantinople May 12
Commander and Builder of Western Forts: The Life and Times of Major General Henry C. Merriam, 1862-1901 May 10	A Child's War: Growing Up on the Home Front May 08	Illinois in the War of 1812 May 06
Civil War Battlefield Orders Gone Awry: The Written Word and Its Consequences in 13 Engagements May 05	The German 1918 Offensives: A Case Study in The Operational Level of War May 03	Battle of Stones River: The Forgotten Conflict Between the Confederate Army of Tennessee and the Union Army of the Cumberland May 01
Rome and its Frontiers: The Dynamics of Empire April 29	Isandlwana 1879 April 28	War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 April 26
The Will to Win: American Military Advisors in Korea, 1946-1953 April 24	Preparing for Victory: Thomas Holcomb and the Making of the Modern Marine Corps, 1936-1943 April 21	The Crimes of Elagabalus: The Life and Legacy of Rome's Decadent Boy Emperor April 17
Utmost Gallantry: The U.S. and Royal Navies at Sea in the War of 1812 April 16	From Boer War to World War: Tactical Reform of the British Army, 1902-1914 April 12	Invisible Romans April 10
The Romanian Battlefront in World War I April 08	The Business of War: Military Enterprise and Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe April 07	War and Society in the Greek World April 05
Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made April 03	Stephen Russell Mallory: A Biography of the Confederate Navy Secretary And United States April 01	How Britain Won the War of 1812: The Royal Navy's Blockades of the United States, 1812-1815 March 31
Howard Pyle: Imagining an American School of Art March 29	Finding Common Ground: New Directions in First World War Studies March 28	Failure in the Saddle: Nathan Bedford Forrest, Joe Wheeler, and the Confederate Cavalry in the Chickamauga Campaign March 26
A Very British Experience: Coalition, Defence and Strategy in the Second World War March 21	Heroes and Romans in Twelfth-Century Byzantium: The Material for History of Nikephoros Bryennios March 19	George Washington and the Final British Campaign for the Hudson River, 1779 March 18
The Fighting Irish: The Story of the Extraordinary Irish Soldier March 13	Conceptualising Modern War March 13	Essays on the Presidents: Principles and Politics March 11
British Cruisers: Two World Wars and After March 10	Disabled Veterans in History March 08	Abraham Lincoln on Screen: Fictional and Documentary Portrayals on Film and Television (Second edition) March 06
Battleground New York City: Countering Spies, Saboteurs, and Terrorists since 1861 March 04	Rome's Wars in Parthia: Blood in the Sand March 03	Hacks, Sycophants, Adventurers, and Heroes: Madison's Commanders in the War of 1812 February 28
Marshall and His Generals: U.S. Army Commanders in World War II February 27	Britain and World War One February 25	American Privateers in the War of 1812: The Vessels and Their Prizes as Recorded in Niles' Weekly Register February 24
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies February 22	"Burning Rails as We Pleased": The Civil War Letters of William Garrigues Bentley, 104th Ohio Volunteer Infantry February 20	IMPERIAL GENERAL: The Remarkable Career of Petellius Cerialis February 18
A Few Well-Positioned Castles: The Norman Art of War February 17	A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902 February 15	The British Pacific Fleet: The Royal Navy's Most Powerful Strike Force February 13
Flames Beyond Gettysburg: The Confederate Expedition to the Susquehanna River, June 1863 February 11	Devotion to the Adopted Country: U.S. Immigrant Volunteers in the Mexican War February 10	The Last English Revolutionary: Tom Wintringham, 1898-1949 February 08
The USS Ward: An Operational History of the Ship That Fired the First American Shot of World War II February 06	Special Forces in the Desert War, 1940-1943 February 04	Soldiers for Sale: German "Mercenaries" with the British in Canada during the American Revolution (1776-83) February 02
Conquest: The English Kingdom of France, 1417-1450 January 31	A Little Short of Boats: The Civil War Battles of Ball's Bluff and Edwards Ferry, October 21 - 22, 1861 January 29	Sparta at War: Strategy, Tactics and Campaigns, 550-362 BC January 27
Surface and Destroy: The Submarine Gun War in the Pacific January 25	Outnumbered, Outgunned, Undeterred: Twenty Battles Against All Odds January 23	The Indian Army in the Two World Wars January 22
The Civil War and American Art January 20	Hitler and America January 18	The Complete Roman Emperor: Imperial Life at Court and on Campaign January 17
Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War January 15	War, Strategy, and Military Effectiveness January 14	With Fire and Sword: The Battle of Bunker Hill and the Beginning of the American Revolution January 13
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 January 09	The Shadow of the Past: Reputation and Military Alliances before the First World War January 07	Why Stalin's Soldiers Fought: The Red Army's Military Effectiveness in World War II January 05

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