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Ancient, Medieval

After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars
By Paul Cartledge
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. xxx, 203. ISBN 978-0-19-974732-0.

By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire
By Ian Worthington
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2014. Pp. xx1, 388. ISBN 978-0-19-992986-3.

Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor: Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery
By Gregory S. Aldrete, Scott Bartell, and Alicia Aldrete
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. viii, 279. ISBN 978-1-4214-0819-4.

Spartacus
By Aldo Schiavone
Trans. J. Carden; Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. xii, 177. ISBN 978-0-674-05778-4.

Early Modern

* The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France
By William R. Nester
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2014. Pp. xix, 492. ISBN 978-0-8061-4435-1.

Protecting the Empire’s Frontier: Officers of the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot during Its North American Service, 1767–1776
By Steven M. Baule
Athens: Ohio Univ. Press, 2014. Pp. xii, 332. ISBN 978-0-8214-2054-6.

* The Ashgate Research Companion to the Thirty Years' War
Ed. Olaf Osbach and Peter Schröder
Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2014. Pp. xiv, 347. ISBN 978-1-4094-0629-7.

The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies
By David La Vere
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2013. Pp. 262. ISBN 978-1-4696-1090-0.

American Revolution

7 Leadership Lessons of the American Revolution: The Founding Fathers, Liberty, and the Struggle for Independence
By John Antal
Philadelphia: Casemate, 2013. Pp. 240. ISBN 978-1-61200-202-6.

The American Revolution Reader
Ed. Denver Brunsman and David J. Silverman
New York: Routledge, 2014. Pp. xi, 460. ISBN 978-0-415-53757-5.

American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution
By Walter R. Borneman
New York: Little, Brown, 2014. Pp. viii, 469. ISBN 978-0-316-22102-3.

The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony: America's War of Liberation in Canada, 1774-1776
By Mark R. Anderson
Lebanon, NH: Univ. Press of New England, 2013. Pp. xiv, 438. ISBN 978-1-61168-497-1.

No Turning Point: The Saratoga Campaign in Perspective
By Theodore Corbett
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2012. Pp. xii, 436. ISBN 978-0-8061-4276-0.

Napoleonic Wars/War of 1812

America's First Crisis: The War of 1812
By Robert P. Watson
Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 2014. Pp. x, 415. ISBN 978-1-4384-5134-3.

The Captain Who Burned His Ships: Captain Thomas Tingey, USN, 1750-1829
By Gordon S. Brown
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2011. Pp. viii, 200. ISBN 978-1-61251-044-6.

Defender of Canada: Sir George Prevost and the War of 1812
By John R. Grodzinski
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2013. Pp. xxi, 375. ISBN 978-0-8061-4387-3.

A History of the Royal Navy: The Napoleonic Wars
By Martin Robson
New York: I.B. Tauris, 2014. Pp. xxi, 273. ISBN 978-1-78076-544-0.

Napoleon in Italy: The Sieges of Mantua, 1796–1799
By Phillip R. Cuccia
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2014. Pp. xiii, 314. ISBN 978-0-8061-4445-0.

Native Memoirs from the War of 1812: Black Hawk and William Apess
By Carl Benn
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. xiv, 184. ISBN 978-0-4214-1219-1.

The Shining Sea: David Porter and the Epic Voyage of the U.S.S. Essex during the War of 1812
By George C. Daughan
New York: Basic Books, 2013. Pp. xxi, 337. ISBN 978-0-465-01962-5.

Through the Perilous Fight: Six Weeks That Saved the Nation
By Steve Vogel
New York: Random House, 2013. Pp. xviii, 534. ISBN 978-1-4000-6913-2.

When Washington Burned: An Illustrated History of the War of 1812
By Arnold Blumberg
Philadelphia: Casemate, 2012. Pp. 206. ISBN 978-1-61200-101-2.

US West/Indian Wars

Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian: The Crime That Should Haunt America
By Gary Clayton Anderson
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2014. Pp. ix, 462. ISBN 978-0-8061-4421-4.

Osceola and the Great Seminole War: A Struggle for Justice and Freedom
By Thom Hatch
New York: St. Martin's, 2012. Pp. x, 322. ISBN 978-0-312-35591-3.

Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago
By Ann Durkin Keating
Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. xxiv, 294. ISBN 978-0-226-42896-3.

The Tupac Amaru Rebellion
By Charles F. Walker
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2014. Pp. xi, 347. ISBN 978-0-674-05825-5.

US Civil War

Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War
By Elizabeth R. Varon
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. viii, 305. ISBN 978-0-19-975171-6.

Barksdale's Charge: The True High Tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863
By Phillip Thomas Tucker
Philadelphia: Caemate, 2013. Pp. 313. ISBN 978-1-61200-179-1.

Battle of Stones River: The Forgotten Conflict between the Confederate Army of Tennessee and the Union Army of the Cumberland
By Larry J. Daniel
Baton Rouge: Louisiana Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. xiii, 313. ISBN 978-0-8071-4516-6.

Bloody Spring: Forty Days That Sealed the Confederacy's Fate
By Joseph Wheelan
Boston: Da Capo Pr, 2014. Pp. xix, 411. ISBN 978-0-306-82206-3.

Civil War General and Indian Fighter James M. Williams: Leader of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry and the 8th U.S. Cavalry
By Robert W. Lull
Denton: Univ. of North Texas Press, 2013. Pp. xvii, 289. ISBN 978-1-57441-502-5.

Civil War: The Untold Story
Dir. Chris Wheeler. Narrated by Elizabeth McGovern
Denver: Great Divide Pictures, 2014. Five episodes on two DVDs, ca. 276 mins. ASIN B00HYZ0ZYK

Fight All Day, March All Night: A Medal of Honor Recipient's Story
By Wayne Mahood
Albany: SUNY Press, 2012. Pp. xiv, 236. ISBN 978-1-4384-4507-6.

The Golden State in the Civil War: Thomas Starr King, the Republican Party, and the Birth of Modern California
By Glenna Matthews
New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. xii, 272. ISBN 978-1-107-63921-8.

Grant at Vicksburg: The General and the Siege
By Michael B. Ballard
Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. xiii, 196. ISBN 978-0-8093-3240-3.

I Shall Be Near to You: A Novel
By Erin Lindsay McCabe
New York: Crown, 2014. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-8041-3772-0.

John Brown's Spy: The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook
By Steven Lubet
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. x, 325. ISBN 978-0-300-18049-7.

Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign
By Earl J. Hess
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2013. Pp. xvi, 322. ISBN 978-1-4696-0211-0.

Lincoln and McClellan at War
By Chester G. Hearn
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. 257. ISBN 978-0-8071-4552-4.

Lincoln's Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, DC
By Kenneth J. Winkle
New York: Norton, 2013. Pp. xvi, 486. ISBN 978-0-393-08155-8.

Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
By Tony Horwitz
New York: Henry Holt, 2011. Pp. xiv, 365. ISBN 978-0-8050-9153-3.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War
By William L. Barney
Rev. ed. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2011. Pp. 378. ISBN 978-0-19-978201-7.

The River Was Dyed with Blood: Nathan Bedford Forrest and Fort Pillow
By Brian Steel Wills
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2014. Pp. xiv, 274. ISBN 978-0-8061-4453-5.

"This Day We Marched Again": A Union Soldier's Account of War in Arkansas and the Trans-Mississippi
By Jacob Haas
Ed. Mark K. Christ. Little Rock: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, 2014. Pp. 157. ISBN 978-1-935106-67-8.

Torn by War: The Civil War Journal of Mary Adelia Byers
Ed. Samuel R. Phillips
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2013. Pp. lxii, 211. ISBN 978-0-8061-4395-8.

War Stories: Suffering and Sacrifice in the Civil War North
Ed. Frances M. Clarke
Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. xiv, 251. ISBN 978-0-226-10862-9.

19th-Century - Other

American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890
By Jerome A. Greene
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2014. Pp. xviii, 599. ISBN 978-0-8061-4448-1.

Crisis in the Mediterranean: Naval Competition and Great Power Politics, 1904-1914
By Jon K. Hendrickson
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2014. Pp. ix, 219. ISBN 978-1-61251-475-8.

Hancock's War: Conflict on the Southern Plains
By William Y. Chalfant
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2010. Pp. 540. ISBN 978-0-87062-371-4.

Home Squadron: The U.S. Navy on the North Atlantic Station
By James C. Rentfrow
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2014. Pp. xi, 218. ISBN 978-1-61251-447-5.

Liberty or Death! The Life and Campaigns of Richard L. Vowell: British Legionnnaire and Commander—Hero and Patriot of the Americas
By Maria Páez Victor
Ticehurst, UK: Tattered Flag Press, 2013. Pp. xxv, 189. ISBN 978-0-9543115-8-2.

Ottomans and Armenians: A Study in Counterinsurgency
By Edward J. Erickson
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xiii, 299. ISBN 978-1-137-36220-9.

The Thinking Man's Soldier: The Life and Career of General Sir Henry Brackenbury 1837-1914
By Christopher Brice
Solihull, UK: Helion, 2012. Pp. xxvii, 336. ISBN 978-1-907677-69-4.

War and Independence In Spanish America
By Anthony McFarlane
New York: Routledge, 2013. Pp. viii, 452. ISBN 978-1-85728-783-7.

World War I

Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend
By Alistair Thomson
2nd ed. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: Monash Univ. Publishing, 2013. Pp. xviii, 406. ISBN 978-1-921867--3.

Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One
By Kate Adie
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2013. Pp. 328. ISBN 978-1-4447-5967-9.

The Great War for Peace
By William Mulligan
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2014. Pp. vii, 443. ISBN 978-0-300-17377-2.

In a Time of War: Tipperary 1914-1918
By John Dennehy
Sallins, Ireland: Merrrion, 2013. Pp. xvi, 288. ISBN 978-1-908928-20-7.

* July 1914: The Month That Changed the World
By Gordon Martel
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2014. Pp. xxii, 484. ISBN 978-0-19-966538-9.

Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front
By Anthony Fletcher
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. xv, 328. ISBN 978-0-300-19553-8.

Secret Warriors: Key Scientists, Code-breakers and Propagandists of the Great War
By Taylor Downing
New York: Little, Brown, 2014. Pp. viii, 438. ISBN 978-1-4087-0421-9.

They Called Them Soldier Boys: A Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I
By Gregory W. Ball
Denton: Univ. of North Texas Press, 2013. Pp. xv, 240. ISBN 978-1-57441-500-1.

Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War
By Paul Jankowski
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2014. Pp. xi, 324. ISBN 978-0-19-931689-2.

War of Attrition: Fighting the First World War
By William Philpott
New York: Overlook Press, 2014. Pp. xvi, 400. ISBN 978-1-4683-0268-4.

World War II

* Advertising and Propaganda in World War II: Cultural Identity and the Blitz Spirit
By David Clampin
New York: I.B. Tauris, 2014. Pp. xix, 269. ISBN 978-1-78076-434-4.

Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II
By Charles K. Hyde
Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. xvi, 248. ISBN 978-0-8143-3951-0.

Athenia Torpedoed: The U-boat Attack That Ignited the Battle of the Atlantic
By Francis M. Carroll
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2012. Pp. xii, 218. ISBN 978-1-59114-148-8.

Behind the Lines: A Critical Survey of Special Operations in World War II
By Michael F. Dilley
Philadelphia: Casemate, 2013. Pp. 262. ISBN 978-1-61200-183-8.

Believe and Destroy: Intellectuals in the SS War Machine
By Christian Ingrao
Trans. Andrew Brown. New York: Polity, 2013. Pp. xiv, 399. ISBN 978-0-7456-6026-4.

The Burning Shore: How Hitler’s U-Boats Brought World War II to America
By Ed Offley
New York: Basic Books, 2014. Pp. viii, 312. ISBN 978-0-465-02961-7.

A Civil War: A History of the Italian Resistance
By Claudio Pavone
Ed. Stanislao Pugliese. Trans. Peter Levy and David Broder. New York: Verso, 2013. Pp. xxiv, 744. ISBN 978-1-84467-750-4.

Defeating Hitler: Whitehall's Secret Report On Why Hitler Lost the War
By Paul Winter
New York: Continuum, 2012. Pp. xxii, 408. ISBN 978-1-4411-9635-4.

The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II
By Charles Glass
New York: Penguin, 2013. Pp. xx, 380. ISBN 978-1-59420-428-9.

The Devil's General: The Life of Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz , "The Panzer Graf"
By Raymond Bagdonas
Philadelphia: Casemate, 2013. Pp. 357. ISBN 978-1-61200-222-4.

The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War
By Halik Kochanski
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. xxxi, 734. ISBN 978-0-647-06814-8.

Exposing the Third Reich: Colonel Truman Smith in Hitler's Germany
By Henry G. Gole
Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2013. Pp. xiv, 415. ISBN 978-0-8131-4176-3.

Fatal Dive: Solving the World War II Mystery of the USS Grunion
By Peter F. Stevens
Washington: Regnery, 2012. Pp. xiv, 256. ISBN 978-o-307-37722-7.

Five Days That Shocked the World: Eyewitness Accounts from Europe at the End of World War II
By Nicholas Best
New York: Thomas Dunne, 2012. Pp. xiv, 369. ISBN 978-0-312-61492-8.

The Freckleton, England, Air Disaster: The B-24 Crash That Killed 38 Preschoolers and 23 Adults, August 23, 1944
By James R. Hedtke
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. Pp. xi, 203. ISBN 978-0-7864-7841-5.

Hap Arnold: The General Who Invented the US Air Force
By Bill Yenne
Washington: Regnery, 2013. Pp. 344. ISBN 978-1-62157-081-3.

Hell Above Earth: The Incredible True Story of an American WWII Bomber Commander and the Copilot Ordered to Kill Him
By Stephen Frater
New York: St. Martin's, 2012. Pp. xiv, 302. ISBN 978-0-312-61792-9.

A History of the Royal Navy: World War II
By Duncan Redford
New York: I.B. Tauris, 2014. Pp. xv, 236. ISBN 978-1-78076-546-4.

Images from the Arsenal of Democracy
By Charles K. Hyde
Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 2014. Pp. xii, 296. ISBN 978-0-8143-3981-7.

The Most Dangerous Man in America: The Making of Douglas MacArthur
By Mark Perry
New York: Basic Books, 2014. Pp. xviii, 380. ISBN 978-0-465-01328-9.

Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings
By Craig L. Symonds
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2014. Pp. xvii, 422. ISBN 978-0-19-998611-8.

No End Save Victory: How FDR Led the Nation into War
By David Kaiser
New York: Basic Books, 2014. Pp. vii, 408. ISBN 978-0-465-01982-3.

Prairie Forge: The Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II
By James J. Kimble
Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2014. Pp. xv, 217. ISBN 978-0-8032-4878-6.

Pushing the Limits: The Remarkable Life and Times of Vice Adm. Allan Rockwell McCann, USN
By Carl LaVO
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2013. Pp. xiv, 256. ISBN 978-1-59114-485-4.

The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II Speeches
By Richard Toye
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. ix, 309. ISBN 978-0-19-964252-6.

The Second World War: A Marxist History
By Chris Bambery
London: Pluto Press, 2014. Pp. viii, 295. ISBN 978-0-7453-3301-4.

Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort
By Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto Kirchheimer
Ed. Raffaele Laudani. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. xxiv, 679. ISBN 978-0-691-13413-0.

Shrapnel: A Memoir
By William Wharton
New York: William Morrow, 2013. Pp. 263. ISBN 978-0-06-225737-6.

Small Town America in World War II: War Stories from Wrightsville, Pennsylvania
By Ronald E. Marcello
Denton: Univ. of North Texas Press, 2014. Pp. xvi, 452263. ISBN 978-0-06-225737-6.

Sounds of War: Music in the United States during World War II
By Annegret Fauser
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. xv, 366. ISBN 978-0-19-994803-1.

Suddenly, While Abroad: Hitler's Irish Slaves
By David Blake Knox
Dublin: New Island, 2012. Pp. x, 315. ISBN 978-1-84840-200-3.

Surviving a Japanese Internment Camp: Life and Liberation at Santo Tomás, Manila, in World War II
By Rupert Wilkinson
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. Pp. xi, 234. ISBN 978-0-7864-6570-5.

The Sword of St. Michael: The 82nd Airborne Division in World War II
By Guy LoFaro
Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2011. Pp. xiii, 746. ISBN 978-0-306-82023-6.

Cold War

The Universe Unraveling: American Foreign Policy in Cold War Laos
By Seth Jacobs
Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. x, 312. ISBN 978-0-8014-4547-7.

A Very Principled Boy: The Life of Duncan Lee, Red Spy and Cold Warrior
By Mark A. Bradley
New York: Basic Books, 2014. Pp. xvii, 348. ISBN 978-0-465-03009-5.

Korean War

" China's Battle for Korea: The 1951 Spring Offensive
By Xiaobing Li
Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2014. Pp. xxxviii, 385. ISBN 978-0-253-01157-2.

Vietnam War

Crossing the Street in Hanoi: Teaching and Learning About Vietnam
By Carol Wilder
Chicago: Intellect, 2013. Pp. xiii, 258. ISBN 978-1-84150-735-4.

Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam
By Gregg Jones
Boston: Da Capo Press, 2014. Pp. xx, 358. ISBN 978-0-306-82139-4.

The Lucky Few: The Fall of Saigon and the Rescue Mission of the USS Kirk
By Jan K. Herman
Annapolis, Naval Inst. Press, 2013. Pp. xii, 160. ISBN 978-0-87021-039-6.

Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam
By James G. Hershberg
Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. xix, 890. ISBN 978-0-8047-7884-8.

20th Century - Other

1973: The Road to War
By Yigal Kipnis
Trans. Barbara Doron. Charlottesville, VA: Just World Books, 2012. Pp. 349. ISBN 978-1-935982-30-2.

Blue Versus Orange: The U.S. Naval War College, Japan, and the Old Enemy in the Pacific, 1945-1946
By Hal M. Friedman
Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 2013. Pp. xxxiv, 364. ISBN 978-1-935352-02-0.

From Kutch to Tashkent: The Indo-Pakistan War of 1965
By Farooq Bajwa
London: Hurst, 2013. Pp. 415. ISBN 978-1-84904-230-7.

Israel vs. Iran: The Shadow War
By Yaakov Katz and Yoaz Hendel
Washington: Potomac Books, 2012. Pp. x, 243. ISBN 978-1-59797-668-8.

The Liberty Incident Revealed: The Definitive Account of the 1967 Israeli Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship
By A. Jay Cristol
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2013. Pp. xiv, 392. ISBN 978-1-61251-340-9.

Shootout: The Battle For St Stephen's Green, 1916
By Paul O'Brien
Dublin: New Island, 2013. Pp. xiv, 112. ISBN 978-1-84840-211-9.

* Stalin's American Spy: Noel Field, Allen Dulles and the East European Show Trials
By Tony Sharp
New York: Hurst, 2014. Pp. xiii, 410. ISBN 978-1-84904-344-1.

Sword and Shield of Zion: The Israel Air Force in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-2012
By David Rodman
Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2013. Pp. xiii, 153. ISBN 978-1-84519-583-0.

Underdogs: The Making of the Modern Marine Corps
By Aaron B. O'Connell
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. xiii, 381. ISBN 978-0-674-05827-9.

Wars of Plunder: Conflicts, Profits and the Politics of Resources
By Philippe Le Billon
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. xi, 363. ISBN 978-0-19-933346-2.

21st Century

21st Century Mahan: Sound Military Conclusions for the Modern Era
By Ed. Benjamin F. Armstrong
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2013. Pp. 179. ISBN 978-1-61251-243-3.

Breaking Iraq: The Ten Mistakes That Broke Iraq
By Ted Spain and Terry Turchie
Palisades, NY: History Publishing, 2013. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-933909-53-0.

British Generals in Blair's Wars
Ed. Jonathan Bailey, Richard Iron, and Hew Strachan
Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xvi, 385. ISBN 978-1-4094-3736-9.

* Contemporary Military Strategy and the Global War on Terror: US and UK Armed Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq 2001-2012
By Alistair Finlan
New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. xiii, 218. ISBN 978-1-62892-795-5

Don't Mention the War: The Australian Defence Force, the Media and the Afghan Conflict
By Kevin Foster
Clayton, Australia: Monash Univ. Publishing, 2013. Pp. xvii, 168. ISBN 978-1-922235-18-3.

The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama
By Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor
New York: Pantheon, 2012. Pp. xix, 779. ISBN 978-1-59698-767-8.

Fallujah Awakens: Marines, Sheikhs, and the Battle against al Qaeda
By Bill Ardolino
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2013. Pp. ix, 290. ISBN 978-1-61251-128-3.

Flashes of War
By Katey Schultz
Baltimore: Apprentice House, 2013. Pp. xiv, 171. ISBN 978-1-934074-85-5.

Honor and Betrayal: The Untold Story of the Navy SEALs Who Captured the "Butcher of Fallujah"--and the Shameful Ordeal They Later Endured
By Patrick Robinson
Boston: Da Capo Press, 2013. Pp. xi, 356. ISBN 978-0-306-82308-4.

The Last Man: A Novel
By P.T. Deutermann
New York: St. Martin's, 2012. Pp. 354. ISBN 978-0-312-59945-4.

One Hundred Victories: Special Ops and the Future of American Warfare
By Linda Robinson
New York: PublicAffairs, 2013. Pp. xix, 311. ISBN 978-1-61039-149-8.

The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan
By Michael Hastings
New York: Blue Rider Press, 2012. Pp. xvi, 261. ISBN 978-0-399-15988-6.

The Unseen War: Allied Air Power and the Takedown of Saddam Hussein
By Benjamin S. Lambeth
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2013. Pp. xxiv, 435. ISBN 978-1-61251-311-9.

Multiple time periods

Air Mobility: A Brief History of the American Experience
By Robert C. Owen
Washington: Potomac Books, 2013. Pp. xviii, 382. ISBN 978-1-59797-851-4.

American Arsenal: A Century of Waging War
By Patrick Coffey
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2014. Pp. 328. ISBN 978-0-19-995974-7.

American Foreign Policy: Alliance Politics in a Century of War, 1914-2014
By James W. Peterson
New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. viii, 202. ISBN 978-1-62356-073-7.

Commerce Raiding: Historical Case Studies, 1755-2009
Ed. Bruce A. Elleman and S.C.M. Paine
Newport, RI: Naval War College, 2013. Pp. x, 341. ISBN 978-1-78266-507-6.

Engineering War and Peace in Modern Japan, 1868-1964
By Takashi Nishiyama
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2014. Pp. xii, 264. ISBN 978-1-4214-1266-5.

Faisal I of Iraq
By Ali A. Allawi
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2014. Pp. xxxiv, 634. ISBN 978-0-300-12732-4.

Food and War in Mid-Twentieth-Century East Asia
Ed. Katarzyna J. Cwiertka
Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xi, 196. ISBN 978-1-4094-4675-0.

How to Lose a War at Sea: Foolish Plans and Great Naval Blunders
Ed. Bill Fawcett
New York: William Morrow, 2013. Pp. xii, 349. ISBN 978-0-06-206909-2.

MacArthur in Asia: The General and His Staff in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea
By Hiroshi Masuda
Trans. Reiko Yamamoto. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. xii, 320. ISBN 978-0-8014-4939-0.

The Magical Stranger: A Son's Journey into His Father's Life
By Stephen Rodrick
New York: Harper, 2013. Pp. 401. ISBN 978-0-06-200476-5.

Mobilizing Nature: The Environmental History of War and Militarization in Modern France
By Chris Pearson
New York: Manchester Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. xiv, 336. ISBN 978-0-7190-8439-3.

Musket, Map and Money: How Military Technology Shaped Geopolitics and Economics
By Jimmy Teng
London: Versita, 2013. Pp. 196. ISBN 978-83-7656-057-1.

On War: The Best Military Histories
By Rick Atkinson, et al.
Chicago: Pritzker Military Museum and Library, 2014. Pp. x, 253. ISBN 978-0-9897928-1-3.

The Road to War: Presidential Commitments Honored and Betrayed
By Marvin Kalb
Washington: Brookings Inst. Press, 2013. Pp. x, 287. ISBN 978-0-8157-2493-3.

The Royal Navy: A History Since 1900
By Duncan Redford and Philip D. Grove
New York: I.B. Tauris, 2014. Pp. xvi, 363. ISBN 978-1-78076-782-6.

A Sense of the Enemy: The High Stakes History of Reading Your Rival's Mind
By Zachary Shore
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2014. Pp. vii, 258. ISBN 978-0-19-998737-5.

Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief: Crime and the British Armed Services since 1914
By Clive Emsley
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. x, 216. ISBN 978-0-19-965371-3.

A Trust Betrayed: The Untold Story of Camp Lejeune and the Poisoning of Generations of Marines and Their Families
By Mike Magner
Boston: Da Capo Press, 2014. Pp. viii, 299. ISBN 978-0-306-82257-5.

The Wartime President: Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat
By William G. Howell, Saul P. Jackman, and Jon C. Rogowski
Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. xxi, 344. ISBN 978-0-226-04839-0.