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2012 Volume
2012-073
Nuclear Jihad: A Clear and Present Danger?
By Todd M. Masse
A review by Terence Parker
2012-072
Prisms of British Appeasement: Revisionist Reputations of John Simon, Samuel Hoare, Anthony Eden, Lord Halifax, Alfred Duff Cooper
By Terrance L. Lewis
A review by Antoine Capet
2012-071
The Watch: A Novel
By Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
A review by Caleb Cage
2012-070
George Washington’s Military Genius
By Dave R. Palmer
A review by Tal Tovy
2012-069
Naval Developments of 1912: The Great Arms Race
Essay by Patrick J. Kelly
2012-068
World War I: A New Way of Narrating the War and a New Perspective on an Unfamiliar Campaign
Reviews by Jonathan Marwil
2012-067
Planning Armageddon: British Economic Warfare and the First World War
By Nicholas A. Lambert
A review by Larry A. Grant
2012-066
Fighting for MacArthur: The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Philippines
By John Gordon
A review by Steven Pedler
2012-065
Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War
By Meredith H. Lair
A review by Kelly E. Crager
2012-064
Terror in the Balkans: German Armies and Partisan Warfare
By Ben Shepherd
A review by Spyros Tsoutsoumpis
2012-063
Baldwin of the Times: Hanson W. Baldwin, A Military Journalist’s Life, 1903–1991
By Robert B. Davies
A review by William A. Taylor
2012-062
The Moro War: How America Battled a Muslim Insurgency in the Philippine Jungle, 1902–1913
By James R. Arnold
A review by David Silbey
2012-061
Fatal Crossroads: The Untold Story of the Malmédy Massacre at the Battle of the Bulge
By Danny S. Parker
A review by Alan M. Anderson
2012-060
From Axis Victories to the Turn of the Tide: World War II, 1939–1943
By Alan Levine
A review by James D. Perry
2012-059
Fighting Elites: A History of U.S. Special Forces
By John C. Fredriksen
A review by Thomas W. Collier
2012-058
The First Crusade: The Call from the East
By Peter Frankopan
A review by David Stewart Bachrach
2012-057
Warfare in Woods and Forests
By Anthony Clayton
A review by Douglas R. Cubbison
2012-056
Why Germany Nearly Won: A New History of the Second World War in Europe
By Steven D. Mercatante
A review by Ralph M. Hitchens
2012-055
War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences
By Mary L. Dudziak
A review by Terence Parker
2012-054
Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse
By Jay Rubenstein
A review by Bernard S. Bachrach
2012-053
The War and Its Shadow: Spain’s Civil War in Europe’s Long Twentieth Century
By Helen Graham
A review by Stanley Shapiro
2012-052
The End of Empire: Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome
By Christopher Kelly
A review by Hugh Elton
2012-051
New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham
By Steven H. Jaffe
A review by Brian Nussbaum
2012-050
Fighting Patton: George S. Patton Jr. through the Eyes of His Enemies
By Harry Yeide
A review by Adam J. Rinkleff
2012-049
The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery
By Witold Pilecki
A review by Daniel Ford
2012-048
Haunted Victory: The American Crusade to Destroy Saddam and Impose Democracy on Iraq
By William R. Nester
A review by Edmund F. Byrne
2012-047
The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire
By Raymond A. Jonas
A review by Lindsay Frederick Braun
2012-046
Fighting Forces and Soldiers’ Experiences in World War II and Korea
A review article by Eyal Ben-Ari
2012-045
Wellington’s Two-Front War: The Peninsular Campaigns, at Home and Abroad, 1808–1814
By Joshua Moon
A review by Matt J. Schumann
2012-044
The Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians in America’s Wars
By John Tirman
A review by Eugenia C. Kiesling
2012-043
The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943
By Robert M. Citino
A review by Jeff Rutherford
2012-042
Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation into War
By Steven M. Gillon
A review by Daniel Simonsen
2012-041
The Triumph of the Dark: European International History 1933–1939
By Zara Steiner
A review by Teddy J. Uldricks
2012-040
The Russian Origins of the First World War
By Sean McMeekin
A review by Jesse Kauffman
2012-039
Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941
By Stanley Weintraub
A review by Lee P. Ruddin
2012-038
Anthropology at War: World War I and the Science of Race in Germany
By Andrew D. Evans
A review by Bradley Nichols
2012-037
Kiev 1941: Hitler’s Battle for Supremacy in the East
By David Stahel
A review by Walter G. Moss
2012-036
Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War
By Michael Kranish
A review by Jonathan D. Bratten
2012-035
Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power
By Zbigniew Brzezinski
A review by Jiu-Hwa Lo Upshur
2012-034
1812: The Navy’s War
By George C. Daughan
A review by Ralph M. Hitchens
2012-033
Victors in Blue: How Union Generals Fought the Confederates, Battled Each Other, and Won the Civil War
By Albert Castel and Brooks D. Simpson
A review by Steven J. Ramold
2012-032
1066: A New History of the Norman Invasion
By Peter Rex
A review by David Stewart Bachrach
2012-031
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942
By Ian W. Toll
A review by John T. Kuehn
2012-030
The Romanian Battlefront in World War I
By Glenn E. Torrey
A review by Dan Dimancescu
2012-029
Joe Rochefort’s War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway
By Elliot Carlson
A review by Jonathan D. Beard
2012-028
Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year
By Charles B. Flood
A review by Terence Parker
2012-027
No Sure Victory: Measuring U.S. Army Effectiveness and Progress in the Vietnam War
By Gregory A. Daddis
A review by Nathaniel L. Moir
2012-026
On Seas Contested: The Seven Great Navies of the Second World War
By Vincent P. O’Hara, W. David Dickson, and Richard Worth, eds.
A review by Cathal J. Nolan
2012-025
Defeating Lee: A History of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac
By Lawrence A. Kreiser Jr.
A review by William A. Taylor
2012-024
The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II
By Alex Kershaw
A review by Donald Lateiner
2012-023
The Elusive Enemy: U.S. Naval Intelligence and the Imperial Japanese Fleet
By Douglas Ford
A review by Hal M. Friedman
2012-022
The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA
By Joby Warrick
A review by David Southworth
2012-021
The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph, 1942–45
By Frank McLynn
A review by Chandar S. Sundaram
2012-020
Enduring Battle: American Soldiers in Three Wars, 1776–1945
By Christopher H. Hamner
A review by Eyal Ben-Ari
2012-019
The Arc of War: Origins, Escalation, and Transformation
By Jack S. Levy and William R. Thompson
A review by Aaron Sheehan-Dean
2012-018
The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan
By Gregory Feifer
A review by Thomas W. Collier
2012-017
The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
By Robert L. O’Connell
A review by Jonathan P. Roth
2012-016
Ashes and Granite: Destruction and Reconstruction in the Spanish Civil War and Its Aftermath
By Olivia Muñoz-Rojas
A review by Eric R. Smith
2012-015
World in the Balance: The Perilous Months of June-October 1940
By Brooke C. Stoddard
A review by Cathal J. Nolan
2012-014
The Independence of East Timor: Multi-Dimensional Perspectives—Occupation, Resistance, and International Political Activism
By Clinton Fernandes
A review by Laura M. Calkins
2012-013
Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-Boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic
By Ed Offley
A review by Alan D. Zimm
2012-012
War and the Environment: An Omnibus Review
Reviews by Richard Tucker
2012-011
Tirpitz and the Imperial German Navy
By Patrick J. Kelly
A review by Larry A. Grant
2012-010
Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War
By Jean-Louis Cohen
A review by David Holowka
2012-009
Barbarous Philosophers: Reflections on the Nature of War from Heraclitus to Heisenberg
By Christopher Coker
A review by Eugenia C. Kiesling
2012-008
The Pope’s Soldiers: A Military History of the Modern Vatican
By David Alvarez
A review by Charles Witke
2012-007
Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812–1815
By Stephen Budiansky
A review by Ralph M. Hitchens
2012-006
America’s School for War: Fort Leavenworth, Officer Education, and Victory in World War II
By Peter J. Schifferle
A review by Patrick Rose
2012-005
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima, 9-11 / Iraq
By John W. Dower
A review by Martin Loicano
2012-004
A Long Way Back to Kunming
By Robert F. Layher
An interview by Bob Bergin
2012-003
Victory at Peleliu: The 81st Infantry Division’s Pacific Campaign
By Bobby C. Blair and John Peter DeCioccio
A review by Jonathan D. Beard
2012-002
Blood on the Snow: The Carpathian Winter War of 1915
By Graydon A. Tunstall
A review by Lee W. Eysturlid
2012-001
Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources, and Experts in the Second World War
By David Edgerton
A review by Jeff Rutherford
2011 Volume
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