Military Book Review 2022

The Eastern Fleet and the Indian Ocean, 1942–1944: The Fleet that Had to Hide December 30	Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union December 28	Dreadnoughts and Super-Dreadnoughts December 26
Allied Air Operations 1939–1940: The War Over France and the Low Countries December 24	Dreams of Victory: General P. G. T. Beauregard in the Civil War December 22	1918: Winning the War, Losing the War December 20
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans December 18	Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life December 16	A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic December 14
Bitter Peleliu: The Forgotten Struggle on the Pacific War's Worst Battlefield December 12	Animal Histories of the Civil War Era December 10	Going Downtown: The US Air Force over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, 1961–75 December 08
The Gulf of Tonkin Yacht Club: Naval Aviation in the Vietnam War December 08	Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War December 07	Cataclysm 90 BC: The Forgotten War That Almost Destroyed Rome December 05
The Year of Peril: America in 1942 December 04	The Lion of Round Top: The Life and Military Service of Brigadier General Strong Vincent in the American Civil War December 02	Patton's War: An American General’s Combat Leadership, Volume I: November 1942–July 1944 December 01
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship November 29	Sea of Blood: A Military History of the Partisan Movement in Yugoslavia, 1941-45 November 28	Their Maryland: The Army of Northern Virginia From the Potomac Crossing to Sharpsburg in September 1862 November 26
Pertinax: The Son of a Slave Who Became Roman Emperor November 25	"Luck Was Lacking, But Valor Was": Not The Italian Army in North Africa, 1940-43 November 24	First Fallen: The Life of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, the North’s First Civil War Hero November 22
The Incomparable Monsignor: Francesco Bianchini’s World of Science, History and Court Intrigue November 21	Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy November 19	Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse: 1935-1943 November 17
Nations in the Balance: The India-Burma Campaigns, December 1943–August 1944 November 15	General Crook and the Western Frontier November 12	Reading Hitler's Mind: The Intelligence Failure that Led to WW2 November 10
Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era November 08	This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing November 06	Ancient Rome: Infographics November 04
Grant vs Lee: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War November 02	How the Army Made Britain a Global Power: 1688–1815 October 31	Dünkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk October 29
Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865 October 27	Battle of the Bulge: Then and Now October 25	Rome After Sulla October 23
Bloody Flag of Anarchy: Unionism in South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis October 20	With Winston Churchill at the Front: Winston in the Trenches, 1916 October 18	The Great “What Ifs” of the American Civil War: Historians Tackle the Conflict’s Most Intriguing Possibilities October 15
Time in Maps: From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era October 10	Time in Maps: From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era October 10	Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction October 06
The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works: Gallic War, Civil War, Alexandrian War, African War, and Spanish War October 03	Chasing the Great Retreat: The German Cavalry Pursuit of the British Expeditionary Force before the Battle of the Marne August 1914 September 30	Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War September 26
Dante: A Life September 23	Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers September 20	The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps September 17
Enemies among Us: The Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during the Second World War September 14	Admiral Hyman Rickover, Engineer of Power September 11	The Kaiser's U-Boat Assault on America: Germany's Great War Gamble in the First World War September 08
Colonels in Blue: U.S. Colored Troops, U.S. Armed Forces, Staff Officers and Special Units September 05	Churchill, Master and Commander: Winston Churchill at War, 1895–1945 September 02	Trajan: Rome's Last Conqueror August 30
Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II August 26	The Atlas of Boston History August 23	Napoleon’s Stolen Army: How the Royal Navy Rescued a Spanish Army in the Baltic August 20
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice August 17	Romulus: The Legend of Rome's Founding Father August 14	Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America's Most Famous Small Town August 11
In the Words of Wellington's Fighting Cocks: The After-action Reports of the Portuguese Army during the Peninsular War 1812–1814 August 07	Air Battle for Moscow 1941–1942 August 03	The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight Over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction July 30
The Bulgarian Contract: The Secret Lie That Ended the Great War July 25	Proud Warriors: African American Combat Units in World War II July 22	Voices of the Army of the Potomac: Personal Reminiscences of Union Veterans July 19
Reading Lucan's Civil War: A Critical Guide July 15	Masséna at Bay, 1811: The Lines of Torres Vedras to Funtes de Oñoro July 12	A Short History of the Spanish Civil War, Revised Edition July 09
Contested Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-era South July 06	Ancient Greeks at War: Warfare in the Classical World from Agamemnon to Alexander July 03	Future War and the Defence of Europe June 30
A Short History of War June 25	Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox June 23	Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny June 20
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire June 17	Burn, Bomb, Destroy: The German Sabotage Campaign in North America, 1914–1917 June 15	Disaster on the Spanish Main: The Tragic British-American Expedition to the West Indies during the War of Jenkins' Ear June 13
The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944 June 11	Crosshairs on the Capital: Jubal Early’s Raid on Washington, D.C., July 1864 - Reasons, Reactions, and Results June 09	The Spanish Civil War at Sea: Dark and Dangerous Waters June 05
The Austro-Hungarian Army and the First World War June 02	The Sailor's Bookshelf: Fifty Books to Know the Sea May 30	Fighting for the United States, Executed in Britain: US Soldiers Court-Martialled in WWII May 26
Mars Adapting: Military Change During War May 23	¡Vamos a avanzar!: The Chaco War and Bolivia's Political Transformation, 1899–1952 May 19	Hugh Lenox Scott, 1853–1934: Reluctant Warrior May 16
Prevail until the Bitter End: Germans in the Waning Years of World War II May 13	The War of Jenkins' Ear: The Forgotten Struggle for North and South America: 1739-1742 May 09	The Summer of ’63: Vicksburg and Tullahoma: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War May 04
The United States Navy in World War II: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa May 01	Arming the Irish Revolution: Gunrunning and Arms Smuggling, 1911– 1922 April 28	Incidental Archaeologists: French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa April 25
Dirty Eddie's War: Based on the World War II Diary of Harry “Dirty Eddie” March, Jr., Pacific Fighter Ace April 22	The Cavalry at Appomattox: A Tactical Study of Mounted Operations during the Civil War’s Climatic Campaign, March 27-April 9, 1865 April 19	Clash of the Capital Ships: From the Yorkshire Raid to Jutland April 16
Down the Warpath to the Cedars: Indians' First Battles in the Revolution April 13	Lincoln Comes to Gettysburg: The Creation of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address April 10	Commanding the Pacific: Marine Corps Generals in World War II April 07
Modern South Korean Air Power: The Republic of Korea Air Force Today April 04	The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered April 01	Between Mutiny and Obedience: The Case of the French Fifth Infantry Division during World War I, March 28
Battleship Commander: The Life of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr. March 21	Passing Through the Fire: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in the Civil War March 18	The Battle of Britain: Five Months That Changed History; May-October 1940 March 15
Stalin's War: A New History of World War II March 12	Custer: From the Civil War’s Boy General to the Battle of the Little Bighorn March 09	Custer: From the Civil War’s Boy General to the Battle of the Little Bighorn March 09
Pacific Carrier War: Carrier Combat from Pearl Harbor to Okinawa March 06	The Man Who Punched Jefferson Davis: The Political Life of Henry S. Foote, Southern Unionist February 25	Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg February 20
The Boy Generals: George Custer, Wesley Merritt, and the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac February 15	Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War February 10	From Arlington to Appomattox: Robert E. Lee’s Civil War, Day by Day, 1861-1865 February 06
Strike from the Sea: The Development and Deployment of Strategic Cruise Missiles since 1934 February 04	The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23-July 4, 1863 January 28	The Horse at Gettysburg: Prepared for the Day of Battle January 20
The German War of 1866: The Bohemian and Moravian Campaign January 14	Gettysburg Rebels: Five Native Sons Who Came Home to Fight as Confederate Soldiers January 12	The Evolution of the Armed Forces of the United Arab Emirates January 10
The First Code Talkers: Native American Communicators in World War I January 08	Pioneers of Irregular Warfare: Secrets of the Military Intelligence Research Department of the Second World War January 06	The Winter that Won the War: The Winter Encampment at Valley Forge, 1777-1778 January 04
The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada January 02

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