Military Book Review 2023

Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age December 30	Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons December 27	Myths of the Civil War: The Fact, Fiction, and Science behind the Civil War’s Most-Told Stories December 25
The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium December 22	Detour to Disaster: General John Bell Hood's "Slight Demonstration" at Decatur and the Unraveling of the Tennessee Campaign December 19	A New Force at Sea: George Dewey and the Rise of the American Navy December 16
Lincoln and Native Americans December 13	Ramesses the Great: Egypt's King of Kings December 10	Force of a Cyclone: The Battle of Stones River: December 31, 1862–January 2, 1863 December 05
The French Fleet: Ships, Strategy and Operations, 1870-1918 December 02	All That Can Be Expected: The Battle of Camden and the British High Tide in the South, August 16, 1780 November 28	The Geographies of War November 25
The Geographies of War November 25	Outwitting Forrest: The Tupelo Campaign in Mississippi, June 22 - July 23, 1864 November 21	Toward the Flame: A Memoir of World War I November 18
Life In Jefferson Davis' Navy November 15	The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II November 11	July 22: The Civil War Battle of Atlanta November 08
Secrets of the Cold War: Espionage and Intelligence Operations - From Both Sides of the Iron Curtain November 05	Righting the Longstreet Record at Gettysburg: Six Matters of Controversy and Confusion November 02	Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II October 29
Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation October 21	Caesar's Civil War: 49–44 BC October 16	"If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania": The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg. Volume 2: June 22–30, 1863 October 08
Theoderic the Great: King of Goths, Ruler of Romans October 06	Hood's Defeat Near Fox's Gap: Prelude to Emancipation October 04	Fighting in the Dark: Naval Combat at Night: 1904-1944 October 02
To the Last Extremity: The Battles for Charleston, 1776-1782 September 30	Funny Thing About the Civil War: The Humor of an American Tragedy September 28	A Short History of the Byzantine Empire: Revised Edition September 26
Long Island City in 1776: The Revolution Comes to Queens September 24	Desert Armour: Tank Warfare in North Africa: Beda Fomm to Operation Crusader, 1940–41 September 22	Bomber Command: Churchill's Greatest Triumph September 20
Man of Fire: William Tecumseh Sherman in the Civil War September 18	Awaiting MacArthur's Return: World War II Guerrilla Resistance against the Japanese in the Philippines September 16	The Civil War on the Water: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War September 14
Eagles Overhead: The History of US Air Force Forward Air Controllers, from the Meuse-Argonne to Mosul September 12	Military History for the Modern Strategist: America's Major Wars Since 1861 September 10	Gettysburg in Color: Volume 2: The Wheatfield to Falling Waters September 08
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War September 06	Military Strategy: A Global History September 04	The Army of the Roman Republic: From the Regal Period to the Army of Julius Caesar September 02
General Grant and the Verdict of History: Memoir, Memory, and the Civil War August 31	Operation C3: Hitler’s Plan to Invade Malta, 1942 August 29	Home Run: Allied Escape and Evasion in World War II August 27
They Came Only to Die: The Battle of Nashville, December 15-16, 1864 August 25	The Fighting Coast Guard: America's Maritime Guardians at War in the Twentieth Century August 23	The Long Civil War: New Explorations of America's Enduring Conflict August 21
The Cactus Air Force: Air War over Guadalcanal August 19	A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House August 17	Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival August 15
Black Sailors in the Civil War: A History of Fugitives, Freemen and Freedmen Aboard Union Vessels August 13	Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945: Bombing Among Friends, August 11	Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Sherman's Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862–1863 August 09
Searching for Irvin McDowell: The Civil War’s Forgotten General August 06	Rome Victorious: The Irresistible Rise of the Roman Empire August 04	Small but Important Riots: The Cavalry Battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville August 02
July, 1914: Countdown to War July 31	Sustaining the Carrier War: The Deployment of U.S. Naval Air Power to the Pacific July 29	John Brown's Raid: Harpers Ferry and the Coming of the Civil War, October 16-18, 1859 July 27
Great Naval Battles of the Pacific War: The Official Admiralty Accounts: Midway, Coral Sea, Java Sea, Guadalcanal and Leyte Gulf July 25	In Their Letters, in Their Words: Illinois Civil War Soldiers Write Home July 23	The Siege of Acre, 1189-1191: Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle That Decided the Third Crusade July 21
Matchless Organization: The Confederate Army Medical Department July 18	Red Dragon 'Flankers': China's Prolific 'Flanker' Family July 16	“The Bullets Flew Like Hail”: Cutler’s Brigade at Gettysburg, from McPherson’s Ridge to Culp’s Hill July 14
More Than Just Grit: Civil War Leadership, Logistics and Teamwork in the West, 1862 July 12	Gettysburg in Color: Volume 1: Brandy Station to the Peach Orchard July 10	Snow, Ice and Sacrifice: The Italian Army in Russia, 1941-1943 July 06
Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South July 01	The Civil Wars of General Joseph E. Johnston: Confederate States Army - Volume I: Virginia and Mississippi, 1861–1863 June 27	From the Battlefield to the Big Screen: Famous Actors of the Second World War June 08
Simply Murder: The Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862 June 06	Verdun: The Lost History of the Most Important Battle of World War I June 04	The Carnage was Fearful: The Battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862 June 02
100 Greatest Battles May 31	A Military History of the Cold War, 1962–1991 May 29	The Civilian War: Confederate Women and Union Soldiers during Sherman's March May 27
Global Military Transformations: Change and Continuity, 1450-1800 May 25	The Confederate Military Forces in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1861-1865: A Study in Command May 23	SOG Kontum: Top Secret Missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, 1968–1969 May 21
From the Mountains to the Bay: The War in Virginia, January-May 1862 May 19	A History of Artillery May 17	The Tale Untwisted: General George B. McClellan, the Maryland Campaign, and the Discovery of Lee’s Lost Orders May 15
Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England’s Deliverance in 1588 May 13	Hitler's Fatal Miscalculation: Why Germany Declared War on the United States May 11	Losing America, Securing an Empire: The Rise of British Global Power in the Late 18th Century May 09
Civil War Monuments and Memory: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War May 07	A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire May 05	The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution May 03
Gettysburg's Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond May 01	Empires of the Normans: Conquerors of Europe April 28	Grant at 200: Reconsidering the Life and Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant April 25
To Save An Army: The Stalingrad Airlift April 24	The Whartons' War: The Civil War Correspondence of General Gabriel C. Wharton and Anne Radford Wharton, 1863–1865 April 22	The Missouri Home Guard: Protecting the Home Front during the Great War April 21
The Siege that Changed the World: Paris, 1870–1871 April 20	Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era April 18	Thirteen Months in Dixie, or, the Adventures of a Federal Prisoner in Texas: Including the Red River Campaign, Imprisonment at Camp Ford, and Escape April 17
Volunteers of the Empire: War, Identity, and Spanish Imperialism, 1855-1898 April 15	Byzantium and The Crusades April 14	The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle April 12
Warrior Spirit: The Story of Native American Patriotism and Heroism April 11	Masters of Warfare: Fifty Underrated Military Commanders from Classical Antiquity to the Cold War April 08	Unhappy Catastrophes: The American Revolution in Central New Jersey, 1776-1782 April 06
The Venlo Sting: MI6's Deadly Fiasco April 04	The Military Memoirs of a Confederate Line Officer: Captain John C. Reed’s Civil War from Manassas to Appomattox April 02	Meat Grinder: The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942–43 March 27
All Roads Led to Gettysburg: A New Look at the Civil War's Pivotal Battle March 14	The Shape of Battle: The Art of War from the Battle of Hastings to D-Day and Beyond March 12	The Bletchley Park Codebreakers in Their Own Words March 10
Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay March 08	Count the Dead: Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death as We Know It March 06	Writing Battles: New Perspectives on Warfare and Memory in Medieval Europe March 04
Lieutenant General James Longstreet: Innovative Military Strategist: The Most Misunderstood Civil War General March 02	Rearming the RAF for the Second World War: Poor Strategy and Miscalculation February 28	Cedar Mountain to Antietam: A Civil War Campaign History of the Union XII Corps, July – September 1862 February 26
Under the Southern Cross: The South Pacific Air Campaign Against Rabaul February 24	James Montgomery: Abolitionist Warrior February 22	Commanding Petty Despots: The American Navy in the New Republic February 20
The Battle of Jackson, Mississippi, May 14, 1863 February 18	Athens: City of Wisdom February 16	“If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania”: The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg - Volume 1: June 3–21, 1863 February 14
The Battle of Actium 31 BC: War for the World February 09	Six Miles from Charleston, Five Minutes to Hell: The Battle of Seccessionville, June 16, 1862 February 06	After the Ruins: Restoring the Countryside of Northern France after the Great War February 04
Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield February 02	The Mighty Eighth: Masters of the Air over Europe 1942–45 January 30	Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity January 28
Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's Lost Hero January 26	When Hell Came to Sharpsburg: The Battle of Antietam and its Impact on the Civilians Who Called it Home January 24	The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248–260: When the Gods Abandoned Rome January 22
Engineering in the Confederate Heartland January 20	On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War January 18	Britain’s Secret Defences: Civilian Saboteurs, Spies and Assassins January 16
Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss January 14	Ireland’s Secret War: Dan Bryan, G2 and the Lost Tapes that Reveal the Hunt for Ireland’s Nazi Spies January 12	Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works January 09
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-45, Volume Five, From the Fall of Rome to the End of the War, 1944-1945, January 07	True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction January 05	Darkest Christmas: December 1942 and a World at War January 03
Early Struggles for Vicksburg: The Mississippi Central Campaign and Chickasaw Bayou, October 25-December 31, 1862 January 01

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