Michigan War Studies Review
Reviews, surveys, original essays, and commentary in the field of military studies.
Submissions
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Books Available for Review (most recent listings starred):

Ancient, Medieval

Athens Burning: The Persian Invasion of Greece and the Evacuation of Attica
By Robert Garland
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xii, 170. ISBN 978-1-4214-2196-4.
The Battle of Kulikovo Refought: "The First National Defeat"
By Kati M.J. Parppei
Boston: Brill, 2017. Pp. xii, 258. ISBN 978-90-04-33616-2.
The Fighting Essex Soldier: Recruitment, War and Society in the Fourteenth Century
Ed. Christopher Thornton, Jennifer Ward, Neil Wiffin
Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK: Essex Publications, 2017. Pp. xii, 178. ISBN 978-1-909291-88-1.
Hannibal's Road: The Second Punic War in Italy 213-203 BC
By Mike Roberts
Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword, 2017. Pp. xxi, 262. ISBN 978-1-4738-5595-3.
The Mercenary Mediterranean: Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon
By Hussein Fancy
Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. xv, 310. ISBN 978-0-226-32964-2.

Early Modern

The Battle of Plassey 1757: The Victory That Won an Empire
By Stuart Reid
Barnsley, UK: Frontline Books, 2017. Pp. x, 270. ISBN 978-1-4738-8526-4.
Battle Royal: The Wars of the Roses: 1440-1462
By Hugh Bicheno
New York: Pegasus, 2017. Pp. xxxi, 368. ISBN 978-1-68177-306-3.
The Struggle for North America, 1754-1758: Britannia’s Tarnished Laurels
By George Yagi
New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. Pp. viii, 263. ISBN 978-1-350-04207-0.

Revolutionary War

The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale, Moses Dunbar, and the American Revolution
By Virginia DeJohn Anderson
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xii, 270. ISBN 978-0-19-991686-3.
The Miracle of American Independence: Twenty Ways Things Could Have Turned Out Differently
By Jonathan R. Dull
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books, 2015. Pp. viii, 186. ISBN 978-1-61234-767-7.

Napoleonic Wars/War of 1812

The Man Who Captured Washington: Major General Robert Ross and the War of 1812
By John McCavitt and Christopher T. George
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2016. Pp. xiii, 297. ISBN 978-0-8061-5164-9.
Titan: The Art of British Power in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon
By William R. Nester
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2016. Pp. xx, 404. ISBN 978-0-8061-5205-9.
* Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815, vol. 2: From Waterloo to the Restoration of Peace in Europe
By John Hussey
Barnsley, UK: Greenhill Books, 2017. Pp. xxv, 582. ISBN 978-1-78438-200-1.

US West/Indian Wars

"Hang Them All": George Wright and the Plateau Indian War, 1858
By Donald L. Cutler
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2016. Pp. xix, 372. ISBN 978-0-8061-5337-7.
The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America’s Gilded Age
By Robert Aquinas McNally
Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2017. Pp. xiii, 409. ISBN 978-1-4962-0179-9.
Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
By Daniel J. Sharfstein
New York: Norton, 2017. Pp. xvii, 613. ISBN 978-0-393-23941-6.
Wars for Empire: Apaches, the United States, and the Southwest Borderlands
By Janne Lahti
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2017. Pp. x, 318. ISBN 978-0-8061-5742-9.

US Civil War

Along The Lines of Devotion: The Bloodstained Field of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863
By James Smith
Stroud, UK: Fonthill, 2017. Pp. 158. ISBN 978-1-62545-056-2.
Battle of Wills: Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, and the Last Year of the Civil War
By David Alan Johnson
Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2016. Pp. 317. ISBN 978-1-63388-245-4.
Bloody Engagements: John R. Kelso’s Civil War
By John R. Kelso
Ed. Christopher Grasso. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xxxv, 221. ISBN 978-0-300-21096-5.
The Civil War Letters of Alexander McNeill, 2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment
Ed. Mac Wyckoff and Cora Lee Godsey Starling
Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. xxiv, 672. ISBN 978-1-61117-536-3.
The Civil War on the Mississippi: Union Sailors, Gunboat Captains, and the Campaign to Control the River
By Barbara Brooks Tomblin
Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2016. Pp. vi, 370. ISBN 978-0-8131-6703-9.
A Field Guide to Antietam: Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places, and People
By Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. 347. ISBN 978-1-4696-3020-5.
A Field Guide to Gettysburg, Second Edition: Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places, and People
By Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. 477. ISBN 978-1-4696-3336-7.
Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson
By Timothy B. Smith
Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2016. Pp. xxi, 513. ISBN 978-0-7006-2313-6.
Hood's Texas Brigade: The Soldiers and Families of the Confederacy's Most Celebrated Unit
By Susannah J. Ural
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xiii, 382. ISBN 978-0-8071-6759-5.
Kill Jeff Davis: The Union Raid on Richmond, 1864
By Bruce M. Venter
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2016. Pp. xxi, 356. ISBN 978-0-8061-5153-3.
Lt. Spalding in Civil War Louisiana: A Union Officer's Humor, Privilege, and Ambition
By Michael D. Pierson
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 2016. Pp. xxi, 187 ISBN 978-0-8071-6439-6.
Much Embarrassed: Campaign Civil War, Intelligence and the Gettysburg
By George Donne
Solihull, UK: Helion, 2016. Pp. xxiv, 201. ISBN 978-1-910777-86-2.
On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864
By Gordon C. Rhea
Baton Rouge: Louisiana Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xi, 453. ISBN 978-0-8071-6747-2.
Slaughter at the Chapel: The Battle of Ezra Church, 1864
By Gary Ecelbarger
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2016. Pp. x, 275. ISBN 978-0-8061-5499-2.
This Will Make a Man of Me: The Life and Letters of a Teenage Officer in the Civil War
By James M. Scythes
Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh Univ. Press, 2016. Pp. xiv, 179. ISBN 978-1-61146-218-0.
Utah and the American Civil War: The Written Record
Ed. Kenneth L. Alford
Norman, OK: Arthur H. Clark Co., 2017. Pp. 864. ISBN 978-0-87062-441-4.

19th-Century - Other

Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier, vol. 2: At Sword's Point, Pt. 2: A Documentary History of the Utah War, 18581-1859
Ed. William P. MacKinnon
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2016. Pp. 698. ISBN 978-0-87062-386-8.
Nemesis: The First Iron Warship and Her World
By Adrian G. Marshall
Singapore: Ridge Books, 2016. Pp. xvii, 325. ISBN 978-9971-69-822-5.

World War I

1917: War, Peace, and Revolution
By David Stevenson
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xxv, 480. ISBN 978-0-19-870238-2.
The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War
By James McGrath Morris
Boston: Da Capo, 2017. Pp. 312. ISBN 978-0-306-82383-1.
Betrayal at Little Gibraltar: A German Fortress, a Treacherous American General, and the Battle to End World War I
By William Walker
New York: Scribner, 2016. Pp. xiii, 447. ISBN 978-1-5011-1789-3.
Britain's Quest For Oil: The First World War and the Peace Conferences
By Martin Gibson
Solihull, UK: Helion, 2017. Pp. xx, 228. ISBN 978-1-911512-07-3.
Capturing Hill 70: Canada's Forgotten Battle of the First World War
Ed. Douglas E. Delaney and Serge Marc Durflinger
Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016. Pp. xii, 292. ISBN 978-0-7748-3359-2.
The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War, vol. 3: The War with Germany
By Robert Stevenson and Jeffrey Grey
South Melbourne: Oxford Univ. Press, 2015. Pp. xvi, 303. ISBN 978-0-19-557677-1.
Clash of Fleets: Naval Battles of the Great War, 1914–18
By Vincent P. O'Hara and Leonard R. Heinz
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2017. Pp. ix, 372. ISBN 978-1-68247-008-4.
Eleven Months to Freedom: A German POW's Unlikely Escape from Siberia in 1915
By Dwight R. Messimer
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2016. Pp. ix, 196. ISBN 978-1-68247-065-7.
Filling the Ranks: Manpower in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918
By Richard Holt
Chicago: McGill- Queen's Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xvi, 347. ISBN 978-0-7735-4877-0.
The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers
By Elizabeth Cobbs
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. 370. ISBN 978-0-674-97147-9.
The Last Battle: Victory, Defeat, and the End of World War I
By Peter Hart
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. x, 453. ISBN 978-0-19-087298-4.
Lusitania: The Cultural History of a Catastrophe
By Willi Jasper
Trans. Stewart Spencer. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2016. Pp. vi, 233. ISBN 978-0-300-22138-1.
Passchendaele: The Lost Victory of World War I
By Nick Lloyd
New York: Basic Books, 2017. Pp. xviii, 410. ISBN 978-0-465-09477-6.
The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I
By Lynn Dumenil
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. xiv, 340. ISBN 978-1-4696-3121-9.
Serbia and the Balkan Front, 1914: The Outbreak of the Great War
By James Lyon
New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. Pp. xvi, 306. ISBN 978-1-4725-8003-0.
Violence and the German Soldier in the Great War: Killing, Dying, Surviving
By Benjamin Ziemann
Trans. Andrew Evans. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. x, 307. ISBN 978-1-4742-3958-5.
Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War
By Peter Hart
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2016. Pp. xv, 424. ISBN 978-0-19-046493-6.
* The War against the Vets: The World War I Bonus Army during the Great Depression
By Jerome Tuccille
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books, 2018. Pp. ix, 237. ISBN 978-1-61234-933-6.
The Woman Who Fought an Empire: Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring
By Gregory J. Wallance
Lincoln, NB: Potomac, 2018. Pp. xiv, 293. ISBN 978-1-61234-943-5.

World War II

Avenging Angels: Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps
By Lyuba Vinogradova
New York: MacLehose Press, 2017. Trans. Arch Tait. Pp. 299. ISBN 978-1-68144-285-3.
The Battle for Belorussia: The Red Army's Forgotten Campaign of October 1943 - April 1944
By David M. Glantz, with Mary Elizabeth Glantz
Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2016. Pp. xxv, 758. ISBN 978-0-7006-2329-7.
* Beyond the Beach: The Allied War against France
By Stephen Alan Bourque
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2018. Pp. xviii, 353. ISBN 978-1-61251-873-.
Blood and Fears: How America's Bomber Boys of the 8th Air Force Saved World War II
By Kevin Wilson
New York: Pegasus, 2017. Pp. xvi, 541. ISBN 978-1-68177-319-3.
The British Way of War in Northwest Europe, 1944-5: A Study of Two Infantry Divisions
By L.P. Devine
New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. Pp. ix, 237. ISBN 978-1-350-03946-9.
The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle against Imperial Japan
By Stephen Harding
Boston: Da Capo Press, 2016. Pp. xi, 289. ISBN 978-0-306-82340-4.
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
By Thomas E. Ricks
New York: Penguin, 2017. Pp. 339. ISBN 978-1-59420-613-9.
Confronting Case Blue: Briansk Front's Attempt To Derail The German Drive To The Caucasus, July 1942
By Igor' Sdvizhkov
Trans. and ed. Stuart Britton; Solihull, UK: Helion and Co., 2017. Pp. vii, 420. ISBN 978-1-911096-43-6.
A Crime in the Family: A World War II Secret Buried in Silence—and My Search for the Truth
By Sacha Batthyany
New York: Da Capo Press, 2017. Pp. 213. ISBN 978-0-306-82582-8.
The Dark Heart of Hitler's Europe: Nazi Rule in Poland under the General Government
By Martin Winstone
New York: I.B. Tauris, 2015. Pp. xi, 306. ISBN 978-1-78076-477-1.
D-Day Remembered: The Normandy Landings in American Collective Memory
By Michael Dolski
Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2016. Pp. xxiii, 310. ISBN 978-1-62190-218-8.
Dispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod
By Ray E. Boomhower
Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. 242. ISBN 978-0-253-03036-8.
Divided on D-Day: How Conflicts and Rivalries Jeopardized the Allied Victory at Normandy
By Edward E. Gordon and David Ramsay
Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2017. Pp. 429. ISBN 978-1-63388-319-2.
Eisenhower's Guerrillas: The Jedburghs, the Maquis, and the Liberation of France
By Benjamin F. Jones
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2016. Pp. xiii, 384. ISBN 978-0-19-994208-4.
Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War
By Noriko Kawamura
Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 2015. Pp. vii, 238. ISBN 978-0-295-99517-5.
Exporting British Policing During the Second World War: Policing Soldiers and Civilians
By Clive Emsley
New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. xii, 256. ISBN 978-1-350-02501-1.
The Fighting Sullivans: How Hollywood and the Military Make Heroes
By Bruce Kuklick
Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2016. Pp. ix, 212. ISBN 978-0-7006-2354-9.
From Victory to Stalemate: The Western Front, Summer 1944
By Charles J. Dick
Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2016. Pp. xiv 465. ISBN 978-o-7006-2293-1.
Glenn Miller Declassified
By Dennis M. Spragg
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books, 2017. Pp. xviii, 386. ISBN 978-1-61234-895-7.
Hebrew Women Join the Forces: Jewish Women from Palestine in the British Forces During the Second World War
By Anat Granit-Hacohen
Trans. Ora Cummings. Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2017. Pp. xv, 418. ISBN 978-1-910383-31-5.
Hell from the Heavens: The Epic Story of the USS Laffey and World War II's Greatest Kamikaze Attack
By John Wukovits
Boston: Da Capo Press, 2015. Pp. xvii, 296. ISBN 978-0-306-82324-4.
The Holocaust: A New History
By Laurence Rees
New York: PublicAffairs, 2017. Pp. xv, 509. ISBN 978-1-61039-844-2.
Home Front to Battlefront: An Ohio Teenager in World War II
By Frank Lavin
Athens: Ohio Univ. Press, 2016. Pp. xix, 378. ISBN 978-0-8214-2255-7.
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Jacob L. Devers: A General's Life
By James Scott Wheeler
Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2015. Pp. x, 589. ISBN 978-0-8131-6602-5.
The Japanese and the War: Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory
By Michael Lucken
Trans. Karen Grimwade. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xxi, 351. ISBN 978-0-231-17702-3.
Last to Die: A Defeated Empire, a Forgotten Mission, and the Last American Killed in World War II
By Stephen Harding
Boston: Da Capo Press, 2015. Pp. vii, 253. ISBN 978-0-306-82338-1.
The Marines in World War II
By Michael E. Haskew
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2016. Pp. 224. ISBN 978-1-250-10116-7.
Midnight in the Pacific: Guadalcanal: The World War II Battle That Turned the Tide of War
By Joseph Wheelan
Boston: Da Capo Press, 2017. Pp. xxi, 356. ISBN 978-0-306-82459-3.
The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II
By Robert P. Watson
Boston: Da Capo Press, 2016. Pp. xi, 292. ISBN 978-0-306-82489-0.
* Operation Don's Main Attack: The Soviet Southern Front's Advance on Rostov, January-February 1943
By David M. Glantz
Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2018. Pp. xxi, 930. ISBN 978-0-7006-2526-0.
OSS Operation Black Mail: One Woman’s Covert War Against the Imperial Japanese Army
By Ann Todd
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2017. Pp. xviii, 258. ISBN 978-1-68247-150-0.
Project Eagle: The American Christians of North Korea in World War II
By Robert S. Kim
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books 2017. Pp. xv, 292. ISBN 978-1-61234-869-8.
Rails of War: Supplying the Americans and Their Allies in China-Burma-India
By Steven James Hantzis
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books 2017. Pp. xiii, 199. ISBN 978-1-61234-853-7.
The Riviera at War: World War II on the Côte d'Azur
By George G. Kundahl
New York: I.B. Tauris, 2017. Pp. xxii, 425. ISBN 978-1-78453-871-2.
Rocky Boyer's War: An Unvarnished History of the Air Blitz that Won the War in the Southwest Pacific
By Allen D. Boyer
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2017. Pp. xii, 426. ISBN 978-1-68247-096-1.
Second World War British Military Camouflage: Designing Deception
By Isla Forsyth
New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. viii, 229. ISBN 978-1-4742-2260-0.
So Long for Now: A Sailor's Letters from the USS Franklin
By Jerry L. Rogers
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2017. Pp. xvi, 416. ISBN 978-0-8061-5632-3.
Speer: Hitler's Architect
By Martin Kitchen
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2016. Pp. xii, 442. ISBN 978-0-300-19044-1.
The Spy in Hitler's Inner Circle: Hans-Thilo Schmidt and the Intelligence Network that Decoded Enigma
By Paul Paillole
Trans. Curtis Key and Hannah McAdams. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2016. Pp. xiv, 272. ISBN 978-1-61200-371-9.
Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts
By Daniel Siemens
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xli, 459. ISBN 978-0-300-19681-8.
Their Backs against the Sea: The Battle of Saipan and the Largest Banzai Attack of World War II
By Bill Sloan
Boston: Da Capo Press, 2017. Pp. 278. ISBN 978-0-306-82471-5.
The Three Musketeers of the Army Air Forces: From Hitler's Fortress Europa to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
By Robert O. Harder
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2015. Pp. xv, 254. ISBN 978-1-61251-902-9.
* The Turn of the Tide in the Pacific War: Strategic Initiative, Intelligence, and Command, 1941-1943
By Sean M. Judge
Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2018. Pp. xvii, 270. ISBN 978-0-7006-2598-97.
The Wartime Diaries of Count Galeazzo Ciano 1939-1943
By Galeazzo Ciano
Ed. Alan Sutton. Millview, Stroud, UK: Fonthill, 2015. Pp. 438. ISBN 978-1-78155-448-7.
WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds
By Sarah Byrn Rickman
Denton: Univ. of North Texas Press, 2016. Pp. xvii, 440. ISBN 978-1-57441-637-4.
The Wehrmacht's Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945
By Robert M. Citino
Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2017. Pp. xiv, 615. ISBN 978-0-7006-2494-2.
* Women at War: Subhas Chandra Bose and the Rani of Jhansi Regiment
By Vera Hildebrand
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2016. Pp. viii, 321. ISBN 978-1-68247-315-3.

Cold War

* Always at War: Organizational Culture in Strategic Air Command, 1946-62
By Melvin G. Deaile
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2018. Pp. xiv, 296. ISBN 978-1-68247-248-4.
Churchill's Legacy: Two Speeches to Save the World
By Peter Speiser
New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. Pp. xv, 204. ISBN 978-1-40888-021-0.
Truman, Franco's Spain, and the Cold War
By Wayne H. Bowen
Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press, 2017. Pp. viii, 197. ISBN 978-0-8262-2117-9.

Korean War

Vietnam War

The British and the Vietnam War: Their Way with LBJ
By Nicholas Tarling
Singapore: NUS Press, 2017. Pp. x, 451. ISBN 9789814722230.
Nine Days in May: The Battles of the 4th Infantry Division on the Cambodian Border, 1967
By Warren K. Wilkins
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2017. Pp. xiv, 412. ISBN 978-0-8061-5715-3.
Our Year of War: Two Brothers, Vietnam, and a Nation Divided
By Daniel P. Bolger
New York: Da Capo Press, 2017. Pp. xi1, 336. ISBN 978-0-306-90326-7.
* The Psychological War for Vietnam, 1960-1968
By Mervyn Edwin Roberts III
Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2018. Pp. xii1, 411. ISBN 978-0-7006-2583-3.
Through the Valley: My Captivity in Vietnam
By William Reeder Jr.
Annapolis, Naval Inst. Press, 2016. Pp. xiv, 238. ISBN 978-1-59114-586-8.

20th Century - Other

The 1st Infantry Division and the U.S. Army Transformed: Road to Victory in Desert Storm, 1970-1991
By Gregory Fontenot
Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press, 2017. Pp. xxxiii, 526. ISBN 978-0-8262-2118-6.
America's First General Staff: A Short History of the Rise and Fall of the General Board of the U.S. Navy, 1900-1950
By John T. Kuehn
Annapolis, Naval Inst. Press, 2017. Pp. xii, 299. ISBN 978-1-68247-191-3.
Blue Versus Purple: The U.S. Naval War College, the Soviet Union, and the New Enemy in the Pacific, 1946
By Hal M. Friedman
Annapolis, Naval Inst. Press, 2016. Pp. xxxvi, 442. ISBN 978-1-935352-31-0.
The Commander: Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence 1914–1948
By Laila Parsons
New York: Hill and Wang, 2016. Pp. xvi, 295. ISBN 978-0-8090-6712-1.
Crossing the River Kabul: An Afghan Family Odyssey
By Kevin McLean
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books, 2017. Pp. xvi, 257. ISBN 978-1-61234-897-1.
Enlisting Faith: How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America
By Ronit Y. Stahl
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. x, 348. ISBN 978-0-674-97215-5.
France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic
By Herrick Chapman
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. x, 405. ISBN 978-0-674-97641-2.
General Lesley J. McNair: Unsung Architect of the U.S. Army
By Mark T. Calhoun
Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2015. Pp. xvii, 412. ISBN 978-0-7006-2069-2.
The Golden Fleece: High-Risk Adventure at West Point
By Tom Carhart
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books, 2017. Pp. xi, 211. ISBN 978-1-61234-910-7.
Greece, the Decade at War: Occupation, Resistance and Civil War
By David Brewer
New York: I.B. Tauris, 2016. Pp. x, 320. ISBN 978-1-78076-854-0.
Human Rights after Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes
By Dan Plesch
Washington, DC: Georgetown Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xx, 251. ISBN 978-1-62616-431-4.
India's Wars: A Military History, 1947-1971
By Arjun Subramaniam
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2017. Pp. xi, 562. ISBN 978-1-68247-241-5.
Inside Israel's Northern Command: The Yom Kippur War on the Syrian Border [2014]
Ed. Dani Asher
Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2016. Pp. 701. ISBN 978-0-8131-6737-4.
Lions and Lambs: Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany
By Noah Benezra Strote
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xii, 357. ISBN 978-0-300-21905-0.
Perpetrators: The World of the Holocaust Killers
By Guenter Lewy
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. ix, 195. ISBN 978-0-19-066113-7.
Radovan Karadžic: Architect of the Bosnian Genocide
By Robert J. Donia
New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015. Pp. xvi, 339. ISBN 978-1-107-42308-4.
Ranger: A Soldier's Life
By Ralph Puckett and D.K.R. Crossell
Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2017. Pp. 278. ISBN 978-0-8131-6931-6.
The Russian Revolution: A New History
By Sean McMeekin
New York: Basic Books, 2017. Pp. xxxi, 445. ISBN 978-0-465-03990-6.
The Secret War for China: Espionage, Revolution and the Rise of Mao
By Brian D'Haeseleer
New York: I.B. Tauris, 2017. Pp. xii, 399. ISBN 978-1-78453-903-0.
Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine
By Lynne Viola
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xviii, 268. ISBN 978-0-19-067416-8.
Vanguard of the Revolution: The Global Idea of the Communist Party
By A. James McAdams
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xvii, 564. ISBN 978-0-691-16894-4.
The War for Africa: Twelve Months that Transformed a Continent
By Fred Bridgland
Philadelphia: Casemate, 2017. Pp. 501. ISBN 978-1-61200-492-1.
Wars of Modern Babylon: A History of the Iraqi Army from 1921 to 2003
By Pesach Malovany
Trans. Ronna Englesberg. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2017. Pp. xxi, 931. ISBN 978-0-8131-6943-9.
Weapon of Choice: Small Arms and the Culture of Military Innovation
By Matthew Ford
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. 264. ISBN 978-0-19-062386-9.
Winning the Peace: The British in Occupied Germany, 1945-1948
By Christopher Knowles
New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. x, 278. ISBN 978-1-4742-6743-4.
Women, Warfare and Representation: American Servicewomen in the Twentieth Century
By Emerald M. Archer
New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. xiv, 238. ISBN 978-1-4742-3803-8.

21st Century

Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group
By Stig Jarle Habsen
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2016. Pp. xvi, 213. ISBN 978-0-19-026482-6.
Binary Bullets: The Ethics of Cyberwarfare
Ed. Fritz Allhoff, Adam Henschke, and Bradley Jay Strawser
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2016. Pp. xviii, 296. ISBN 978-1-19-022108-9.
Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism
By David Kilcullen
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2016. Pp. xi, 288. ISBN 978-1-19-060054-9.
Cassandra in Oz: Counterinsurgency and Future War
By Conrad C. Crane
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2016. Pp. xv, 307. ISBN 978-1-68247-007-7.
The Chosen Few: A Company of Paratroopers and Its Heroic Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of Afghanistan
By Gregg Zoroya
Philadelphia: Da Capo Press, 2017. Pp. xii, 370. ISBN 978-0-306-82483-8
The Cybersecurity Dilemma: Hacking, Trust and Fear between Nations
By Ben Buchanan
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2016. Pp. vii, 290. ISBN 978-0-19-066501-2
Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein
By John Nixon
New York: Blue Rider Press, 2016. Pp. 242. ISBN 978-0-399-57581-5
Desert Mementos: Stories of Iraq and Nevada
By Caleb S. Cage
Reno: Univ. of Nevada Press, 2017. Pp. xxi, 169. ISBN 978-1-943859-47-4
The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan
By Graeme Smith
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2015. Pp. xvi, 298. ISBN 978-1-61902-479-3
Enemies Known and Unknown: Targeted Killings in America's Transnational Wars
By Jack McDonald
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. ix, 318. ISBN 978-0-19-068307-8.
Fire in My Eyes: An American Warrior’s Journey from Being Blinded on the Battlefield to Gold Medal Victory
By Brad Snyder and Tom Sileo
Boston: Da Capo Press, 2016. Pp. viii, 248. ISBN 978-0-306-82514-9.
Hopeless but Optimistic: Journeying through America's Endless War in Afghanistan
By Douglas A. Wissing
Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2016. Pp. xv, 172. ISBN 978-0-253-02285-1.
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
By Rosa Brooks
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016. Pp. viii, 438. ISBN 978-1-4767-7786-3.
How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan: Two Years in the Pashtun Homeland
By Douglas Grindle
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books, 2017. Pp. xx, 250. ISBN 978-1-61234-954-1.
Illusions of Victory: The Anbar Awakening and the Rise of the Islamic State
By Carter Malkasian
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xiii, 260. ISBN 978-0-19-065942-4.
In the Warlords' Shadow: Special Operations Forces, the Afghans, and Their Fight against the Taliban
By Daniel R. Green
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2017. Pp. xxi, 256. ISBN 978-1-61251-815-2.
Inside the Enemy's Computer: Identifying Cyber Attackers
By Clement Guitton
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. x, 304. ISBN 978-0-19-069999-4.
Iraq and the Politics of Oil: An Insider's Perspective
By Gary Vogler
Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2017. Pp. xxv, 302. ISBN 978-0-7006-2506-2
ISIS: A History
By Fawaz A. Gerges
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2016. Pp. xiii, 368. ISBN 978-0-691-17000-8.
Light It Up: The Marine Eye for Battle in the War for Iraq
By John Pettegrew
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2015. Pp. xvi, 215. ISBN 978-1-4214-1785-1.
Quicksilver War: Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict
By William Harris
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xxi, 230. ISBN 978-0-19-087487-2.
Rebuttal: The CIA Responds to the Senate Intelligence Committee's Study of Its Detention and Interrogation Program
Ed. Bill Harlow
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2015. Pp. 344. ISBN 978-1-59114-587-5.
Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command
By Sean Naylor
New York: St. Martin's, 2015. Pp. xiii, 540. ISBN 978-1-250-01454-2.
Scales on War: The Future of America's Military at Risk
By Bob Scales
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2016. Pp. xi, 234. ISBN 978-1-68247-102-9.
Service in a Time of Suspicion: Experiences of Muslims Serving in the U.S. Military Post-9/11
By Michelle Sandhoff
Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press, 2017. Pp. x, 162. ISBN 978-1-60938-535-4.
Shooting Ghosts: A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War
By Thomas J. Brennan and Finbarr O'Reilly
New York: Viking, 2017. Pp. x, 340. ISBN 978-0-399-56254-9.
Slippery Slope: Europe's Troubled Future
By Giles Merritt
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2016. Pp. xv, 270. ISBN 978-1-19-875786-3.
The Struggle for Iraq: A View from the Ground Up
By Thomas M Renahan
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books, 2017. Pp. x, 520. ISBN 978-1-61234-882-7.
Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the West
By Gilles Kepe
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2017 [French orig. 2015]. Pp. xix, 217. ISBN 978-0-691-17484-6.
They Were Heroes: A Sergeant Major's Tribute to Combat Marines of Iraq and Afghanistan
By David K. Devaney
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2015. Pp. xi, 269. ISBN 978-1-61251-789-6.
Tough Sell: Fighting the Media War in Iraq
By Tom Basile
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books, 2017. Pp. xii, 303. ISBN 978-1-61234-900-8.
Twilight Warriors: The Soldiers, Spies, and Special Agents Who Are Revolutionizing the American Way of War
By James Kitfield
New York: Basic Books, 2016. Pp. viii, 405. ISBN 978-0-465-06470-0.
Where Youth and Laughter Go: With "The Cutting Edge" in Afghanistan
By Seth W.B. Folsom
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2015. Pp. xxii, 368. ISBN 978-1-61251-871-8.

Multiple time periods

21st Century Knox: Influence, Sea Power, and History for the Modern Era
By David Kohnen
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2016. Pp. xii, 161. ISBN 978-1-61251-980-7.
21st Century Patton: Strategic Insights for the Modern Era
By J. Furman Daniel III
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2016. Pp. xi, 159. ISBN 978-1-68247-063-3.
Airpower Applied: U.S., NATO, and Israeli Combat Experience
By John Andreas Olsen
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2017. Pp. xviii, 413. ISBN 978-1-68247-075-6.
Anatomy of Post-Communist European Defense Institutions: The Mirage of Military Modernity
By Thomas-Durell Young
New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. xv, 296. ISBN 978-1-350-01239-4.
Armoured Warfare: A Military, Political and Global History
By Alaric Searle
New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. xiii, 269. ISBN 978-1-4411-4250-4.
Anguyiim nalliini = Time of Warring: The History of Bow-and-Arrow Warfare in Southwest Alaska
Ed. Ann Fienup-Riordan
Trans. Alice Rearden et al. Fairbanks: Univ. of Alaska Press, 2016. Pp. xviii, 613. ISBN 978-1-60223-291-4.
The Army of Afghanistan: A Political History of a Fragile Institution
By Antonio Giustozzi
London: Hurst, 2015. Pp. x, 309. ISBN 978-1-84904-481-3.
Belonging to the Nation: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1939-1951
By John J. Kulczycki
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2016. Pp. 402. ISBN 978-0-674-65978-0.
The Big Red One: America's Legendary 1st Infantry Division Centennial Edition, 1917-2017
By James Scott Wheeler
Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2017. Pp. xx, 682. ISBN 978-0-7006-2452-2.
The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace: But Will War Rebound?
By Azar Gat
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xiv, 303. ISBN 978-0-19-879502-5.
Child Soldiers in the Western Imagination: From Patriots to Victims
By David M. Rosen
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 2015. Pp. xiii, 238. ISBN 978-0-8135-6370-1.
The Cold World They Made: The Strategic Legacy of Roberta and Albert Wohlstetter
By Ron Robin
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2016. Pp. 365. ISBN 978-0-674-04657-3.
Conspicuous Gallantry: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of James W. King, 11th Michigan Volunteer Infantry
By Eric R. Faust
Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press, 2015. Pp. xvi, 285. ISBN 978-1-60635-243-4.
Curse on This Country: The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan
By Danny Orbach
Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. x, 367. ISBN 978-1-5017-0528-1.
Dying for the Truth: The Concise History of Frontline War Reporting
By Paul Moorcraft
Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword, 2016. Pp. xviii, 358. ISBN 978-1-4738-7915-7.
The Ethics of Insurgency: A Critical Guide to Just Guerrilla Warfare
By Michael L. Gross
New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015. Pp. xxvii, 323. ISBN 978-1-107-68464-5.
Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949
By David Cesarani
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2016. Pp. xl, 1016. ISBN 978-1-250-00083-5.
Friendly Fire in the Literature of War
By Earl R. Anderson
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. Pp. vii, 222. ISBN 978-1-4766-6721-8.
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
By Walter Scheidel
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xvii, 504. ISBN 978-0-691-16502-8.
Great Strategic Rivalries: From The Classical World to the Cold War
Ed. James Lacey
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2016. Pp. xii, 662. ISBN 978-0-19-062046-2.
Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea
By Jan Rüger
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. ix, 370. ISBN 978-0-19-967246-2.
The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah
By Kenneth C. Davis
New York: Hachette, 2015. Pp. 406. ISBN 978-1-4013-2410-0.
Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and Conquest
By Edward B. Westermann
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2016. Pp. xiii, 322. ISBN 978-0-8061-5433-6.
How Long Will Israel Survive? The Threat From Within
By Gregg Carlstrom
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xviii, 260. ISBN 978-0-19-084344-1.
Hunters and Killers, Vol. 2: Anti-Submarine Warfare from 1943
By Norman Polmar and Edward Whitman
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2016. Pp. xv, 254. ISBN 978-1-61251-897-8.
The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
By Sharon Weinberger
New York: Knopf, 2017. Pp. x, 475. ISBN 978-0-385-35179-9.
* Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918
By Daniel J. Hughes and Richard L. DiNardo
Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2018. Pp. xiii, 681. ISBN 978-0-7006-2600-7.
In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
By Robert D. Kaplan
New York: Random House, 2016. Pp. xxxvi, 287. ISBN 978-0-8129-9681-4.
In the Shadows of Victory II: America's Forgotten Military Leaders, The Spanish-American War to World War II
By Thomas D. Phillips
Philadelphia: Cademate, 2017. Pp. vi, 282. ISBN 978-1-61200-546-1.
Invisible Injured: Psychological Trauma in the Canadian Military from the First World War to Afghanistan
By Adam Montgomery
Chicago: McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xiv, 331. ISBN 978-0-7735-4995-1.
It's My Country Too: Women's Military Stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan
Ed. Jerri Bell and Tracy Crow
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books, 2017. Pp. xxi, 330. ISBN 978-1-61234-831-5.
Kleinkrieg: The German Experience with Guerrilla Wars, from Clausewitz to Hitler
By Charles D. Melson
Philadelphia: Casemate, 2016. Pp. xvi, 216. ISBN 978-1-61200-356-6.
L.M. Montgomery and War
Ed. Andrea McKenzie and Jane Ledwell
Chicago: McGill- Queen's Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. x, 269. ISBN 978-0-7735-4981-4.
Last Outpost on the Zulu Frontier: Fort Napier and the British Imperial Garrison
By Graham Dominy
Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2016. Pp. xxiv, 279. ISBN 978-0-252-04004-7.
Limiting Risk in America's Wars: Airpower, Asymmetrics, and a New Strategic Paradigm
By Phillip S. Meilinger
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2017. Pp. xx, 277. ISBN 978-1-68247-250-7.
The Locomotive of War: Money, Empire, Power, and Guilt
By Peter Clarke
New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. ix, 418. ISBN 978-1-62040-660-1.
* Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East
By Fawaz A. A. Gerges
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xx, 483. ISBN 978-0-691-16788-6.
Maps of War: Mapping Conflict through the Centuries
By Stephen Rodrick
New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. Pp. 224. ISBN 978-1-84486-344-0.
Margin of Victory: Five Battles that Changed the Face of Modern War
By Douglas Macgregor
Annapolis, Naval Inst. Press, 2016. Pp. xvi, 268. ISBN 978-1-61251-996-8.
Men of War: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima
By Alexander Rose
New York: Random House, 2015. Pp. x, 480. ISBN 978-0-553-80518-5.
Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction
By Antulio J. Echevarria
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xv, 131. ISBN 978-0-19-934013-2.
More on War
By Martin van Creveld
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xv, 131. ISBN 978-0-19-878817-1.
Neglected Skies: The Demise of British Naval Power in the Far East, 1922–42
By Angus Britts
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2017. Pp. xi, 242. ISBN 978-0-68247-157-9.
Omar Nelson Bradley: America's GI General
By Steven L. Ossad
Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press, 2017. Pp. xxx, 460. ISBN 978-0-8262-2136-0.
On Tactics: A Theory of Victory in Battle
By B.A. Friedman
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2017. Pp. xi, 242. ISBN 978-1-68247-163-0.
Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America’s Special Operations Forces
By Mark Moyar
New York: Basic Books, 2017. Pp. xx, 402. ISBN 978-0-465-05393-3.
Patton's Way: A Radical Theory of War
By James Kelly Morningstar
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2017. Pp. xii, 374. ISBN 978-1-61251-979-1.
Soldiers on the Home Front: The Domestic Role of the American Military
By William C. Banks and Stephen Dycus
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2016. Pp. 348. ISBN 978-0-674-73674-0.
Spies, Lies, and Citizenship: The Hunt for Nazi Criminals
By Mary Kathryn Barbier
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books, 2017. Pp. xiv, 328. ISBN 978-1-61234-727-1.
Steam Power and Sea Power: Coal, the Royal Navy, and the British Empire, c. 1870-1914
By Steven Gray
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xv, 289. ISBN 978-1-137-57641-5.
Strategy: Context and Adaptation from Archidamus to Airpower
Ed. Richard J. Bailey Jr, James W. Forsyth Jr, and Mark O. Yeisley
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2016. Pp. xii, 279. ISBN 978-1-68247-003-9.
* To Dare More Boldly: The Audacious Story of Political Risk
By John C. Hulsman
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2016. Pp. xiv, 323. ISBN 978-0-691-17219-4.
The U.S. Naval Institute on Naval Command
Ed. Thomas J. Cutler
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2015. Pp. x, 194. ISBN 978-1-61251-800-8.
The U.S. Naval Institute on Naval Cooperation
Ed. Sam J. Tangredi
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2015. Pp. xii, 209. ISBN 978-1-61251-853-4.
The U.S. Naval Institute on Naval Leadership
Ed. Thomas J. Cutler
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2015. Pp. xiii, 205. ISBN 978-1-61251-801-5.
The U.S. Naval Institute on Naval Strategy
Ed. Thomas J. Cutler
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2015. Pp. x, 200. ISBN 978-0-87021-113-3.
The U.S. Naval Institute on Naval Tactics
Ed. Wayne P. Hughes Jr.
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2015. Pp. xiii, 200. ISBN 978-1-61251-805-3.
The U.S. Naval Institute on the U.S. Naval Academy: The History
Ed. Thomas Cutler
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2015. Pp. xi, 159. ISBN 978-1-61251-988-3.
The U.S. Naval Institute on Women in the Navy: The Challenges
Ed. Thomas Cutler
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2015. Pp. xiii, 180. ISBN 978-1-61251-986-9.
The U.S. Naval Institute on Women in the Navy: The History
Ed. Thomas Cutler
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2015. Pp. xi, 170. ISBN 978-1-61251-984-5.
Waging Insurgent Warfare: Lessons from the Vietcong to the Islamic State
By Seth G. Jones
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. ix, 336. ISBN 978-0-19-060086-0.
War and Peace in the Western Political Imagination: From Classical Antiquity to the Age of Reason
By Roger B. Manning
New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. Pp. xxv, 364. ISBN 978-1-4742-5869-2.
War by Numbers: Understanding Conventional Combat
By Christopher A. Lawrence
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books, 2017. Pp. x, 374. ISBN 978-1-61234-886-5.
War, Peace, and Prosperity in the Name of God: The Ottoman Role in Europe's Socioeconomic Evolution
By Murat Iyigun
Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. xix, 195. ISBN 978-0-226-38843-4.
Winston Churchill in British Art, 1900 to The Present Day: The Titan With Many Faces
By Jonathan Black
New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. xxiii, 287. ISBN 978-1-4725-9239-2.
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