Book Reviews 2024

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Why War?
November 20		 Great Power Clashes along the Maritime Silk Road: Lessons from History to Shape Current Strategy
November 18		 Women and Warfare in the Ancient World: Myth, Legend, and Reality
November 15
Next War: Reimagining How We Fight
November 12		 Midway: The Pacific War’s Most Famous Battle
November 09		 All for the Union: The Saga of One Northern Family Fighting the Civil War
November 06
Birth and Fall of an Empire: The Italian Army in East Africa, 1935-1941
November 03		The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
October 29		The Lion at Dawn: Forging British Strategy in the Age of the French Revolution, 1783–1797
October 26
The Inland Campaign for Vicksburg: Five Battles in Seventeen Days, May 1-17, 1863
October 23		 The Roman Imperial Succession
October 20		 The Hill: The brutal fight for Hill 107 in the Battle of Crete
October 17
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
October 14		J. E. B. Stuart: The Soldier and the Man
October 10		Delivering Destruction: American Firepower and Amphibious Assault from Tarawa to Iwo Jima
October 07
Flawed Commanders and Strategy in the Battles for Italy, 1943–45
October 04		Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint
October 01		War in the Western Theater: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War
September 28
The Melting Point: High Command and War in the 21st Century
September 21		 The Limits of the Lost Cause: Essays on Civil War Memory
September 18		Christian Emperors and Roman Elites in Late Antiquity
September 14
When Men Fell from the Sky: Civilians and Downed Airmen in Second World War Europe
September 11		Empireworld: How British Imperialism Shaped the Globe
September 08		 No Sacrifice Too Great: The 1st Infantry Division in World War II
September 05
The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnston and the Civil War in the West
September 02		 Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry
August 26		A Fine Opportunity Lost: Longstreet’s East Tennessee Campaign, November 1863 – April 1864
August 19
The Reign of Constantius II
August 13		 The War That Made America: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher
August 10		 Maritime Power and the Power of Money in Louis XIV’s France: Private Finance, the Contractor State, and the French Navy
August 05
Adelbert Ames, the Civil War, and the Creation of Modern America
July 31		The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913
July 29		Malta's Savior: Operation Pedestal, August 1942
July 27
Ancient Rome on the Silver Screen: Myth versus Reality
July 25		Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War
July 23		Churchill, Chamberlain and Appeasement
July 21
Race to the Potomac: Lee and Meade After Gettysburg, July 4–14, 1863
July 17		The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae
July 15		The Practice of Strategy: A Global History,
July 13
G.H.Q. (Montreuil-sur-Mer}
July 11		 Bayou Battles for Vicksburg: The Swamp and River Expeditions, January 1-April 30, 1863
July 09		Caesar Rules: The Emperor in the Changing Roman World (c. 50 BC – AD 565)
July 07
Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars
July 05		The Spear, the Scroll, and the Pebble: How the Greek City-State Developed as a Male Warrior-Citizen Collective
July 02		Unforgettables: Winners, Losers, Strong Women, and Eccentric Men of the Civil War Era
June 27
Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality in World War 2
June 23		Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World
June 20		Franco's Pirates: Naval Aspects of the Spanish Civil War 1936–39
June 17
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
June 15		 Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
June 13		Collected Papers on Suetonius
June 10
Men of God, Men of War: Military Chaplains as Ministers, Warriors, and Prisoners
June 07		 The Boy Generals: George Custer, Wesley Merritt, and the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac, from the Gettysburg Retreat through the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864
June 04		America's First Aircraft Carrier: USS Langley and the Dawn of U.S. Naval Aviation
June 03
To Do the Work of Men: An Operational History of the 21st Division in the Great War
May 31		 The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea
May 30		 Never Such a Campaign: The Battle of Second Manassas, August 28-August 30, 1862
May 28
War and Its Causes
May 27		Vandal Heaven: Reinterpreting Post-Roman North Africa
May 25		Our Flag Was Still There: The Star Spangled Banner that Survived the British and 200 Years--And the Armistead Family Who Saved It
May 24
Earning Their Wings: The WASPS of World War II and the Fight for Veteran Recognition
May 22		 Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare
May 21		From Antietam to Appomattox with Upton's Regulars: A Civil War Memoir from the 121st New York Regiment
May 19
Women Warriors in History: 1,622 Biographies Worldwide from the Bronze Age to the Present
May 18		Lee Invades the North: A Comparison of the Antietam and Gettysburg Campaigns
May 17		 Governing Oneself and Others: On Xenophon of Athens (A. V. Elliott Conference)
May 16
The Enigma Traitors: Spy and Counterspy in World War II
May 15		Lincoln and California: The President, the War, and the Golden State
May 14		Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant
May 13
Galeazzo Ciano: The Fascist Pretender
May 12		 Brigades of Antietam: The Union and Confederate Brigades during the 1862 Maryland Campaign: The Union and Confederate Brigades
May 11		 From Ironclads to Dreadnoughts: The Development of the German Battleship, 1864-1918
May 10
Anatomy of a Duel: Secession, Civil War, and the Evolution of Kentucky Violence
May 09		 Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
May 08		 Contrasts in Command: The Battle of Fair Oaks, May 31 - June 1, 1862
May 07
Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle
May 06		Abraham Lincoln and the Bible: A Complete Compendium
May 04		The 'Blue Squadrons': The Spanish in the Luftwaffe, 1941-1944
May 03
Romans at War: Soldiers, Citizens, and Society in the Roman Republic
May 02		The Sergeant: The Incredible Life of Nicholas Said: Son of an African General, Slave of the Ottomans, Free Man Under the Tsars, Hero of the Union Army
April 28		The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777 (Casemate Illustrated)
April 24
Such a Clash of Arms: The Maryland Campaign, September 1862 (Casemate Illustrated)
April 17		Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain, 1914-1945
April 13		John T. Wilder: Union General, Southern Industrialist
April 09
Battle for the Island Kingdom: England's Destiny 1000–1066
April 06		Fallen Leaders: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War (Emerging Civil War Anniversary Series)
April 03		Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: The Union Army
March 31
The Routledge Atlas of the First World War (Routledge Historical Atlases) 4th Edition
March 28		 Letters to Lizzie: The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the One Woman Who Connected Them All
February 27		 New York’s War of 1812: Politics, Society, and Combat
February 24
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
February 21		 Calamity at Frederick: Robert E. Lee, Special Orders No. 191, and Confederate Misfortune on the Road to Antietam
February 17		 The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
February 14
Stay and Fight it Out: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, Culp’s Hill and the North End of the Battlefield
February 11		 The Republic of Venice: De magistratibus et republica Venetorum
February 07		The Civil War Memoirs of Captain William J. Seymour: The Reminiscences of a Louisiana Tiger
February 04

February 04		 A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism
February 01		 More Work than Glory: Buffalo Soldiers in the United States Army, 1865-1916
January 29
Twelve Days: How the Union Nearly Lost Washington in the First Days of the Civil War
January 26		 Invisible Romans
January 23		 A Wilderness of Destruction: Confederate Guerillas in East and South Florida, 1861-1865
January 20
The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front, 1941-1945: War, Occupation, Memory (Toronto Iberic)
January 17		 Victory to Defeat: The British Army 1918–40
January 14		 Through Blood and Fire: The Civil War Letters of Major Charles J. Mills, 1862-1865, Revised and Expanded Edition
January 11
Tempest: The Royal Navy and the Age of Revolutions
January 08		 Paris, City of Dreams: Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Creation of Paris
January 05		 Lincoln in Lists
January 02

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