The 2008 George C. Marshall Lecture in Military History:
"History, and the History of War"
By John Shy

Everyday Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam among Palestinians in Lebanon
By Bernard Rougier [Review by John P. Sullivan]

A History of the Modern Chinese Army
By Xiaobing Li [Review by Jiu-Hwa Lo Upshur]

Surviving the Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese in the Far East, 1942-45
By Brian MacArthur [Review by Eugenia C. Kiesling]

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
By Michael Dobbs [Review by David J. Fitzpatrick]

A Violent Century--The Public Response
By Walter G. Moss

Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia and the End of the Golden Age
By Robin Waterfield  [Review by Donald Lateiner]

The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
By Andrew J. Bacevich  [Review by James Magee]

What Can America Expect from President Obama in Foreign Policy?
By Keith T. Bukovich

Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein
By Niall J.A. Barr [Review by William B. Boardman]

The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare. Vol. 2: Rome from the Late
Republic to the Late Empire
By Philip Sabin et al. [Review by Rose Mary Sheldon]

Die Chronik des Gettos Lodz/Litzmannstadt
By Sascha Feuchert et al. [Review by Carla A. Damiano]

Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy
By Andrew Cockburn [Review by Bruce Zellers]

The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army
Ed. Jane Portal [with the assistance of Hiromi Kinoshita] [Review by Jiu-Hwa Lo Upshur]

The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945--The Last Epic Struggle of World War II
By Bill Sloan [Review by John C. Binkley]

War Stories of the Tankers: American Armored Combat, 1918 to Today
By Michael Green [Review by Nathaniel R. Helms]

Lost Battles: Reconstructing the Great Clashes of the Ancient World
By Philip Sabin [Review by John David Lewis]

Collateral Damage: America's War against Iraqi Civilians
By Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian [Review by Thomas W. Collier]

Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of
SEAL Team 10
By Marcus Luttrell, with Patrick Robinson [Review by Grant W. Jones]

Hell's Islands: The Untold Story of Guadalcanal
By Stanley Coleman Jersey [Review by Travis J. Hardy]

Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
By Max Hastings [Review by William J. Astore]

Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq
By Jonathan Steele [Review by Thomas W. Collier]

1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War
By Benny Morris [Review by Janice J. Terry]

Classics Revisited: Leo Tolstoy's Sevastopol Stories
By Walter G. Moss

Heroes Among Us: Firsthand Accounts of Combat from America's Most Decorated
Warriors in Iraq and Afghanistan
By Chuck Larson [Review by Jeffrey S. Perry]

The Fighting 69th: One Remarkable National Guard Unit's Journey from Ground
Zero to Baghdad
By Sean Michael Flynn [Review by Sanford R. Silverburg]

Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942
By Robert M. Citino [Review by Lee W. Eysturlid]

The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America
By Walter R. Borneman [Review by Matt J. Schumann]

Killing Civilians: Method, Madness, and Morality in War
By Hugo Slim [Review by William J. Astore]

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
By Drew Gilpin Faust [Review by Steven J. Ramold]

Julius Caesar's Art of War: A Graphic Portfolio of Battlefields and Tactics in the Commentarii de Bello Gallico
By Antonio Salinas

The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust
By Jeffrey Herf [Review by Jacob L. Hamric]

War: Ends and Means
By Angelo Codevilla and Paul Seabury [Review by John David Lewis]

Commander in Chief: How Truman, Johnson, and Bush Turned a Presidential Power
into a Threat to America's Future
By Geoffrey Perret [Review by David J. Fitzpatrick]

What Can America Expect from President McCain in Foreign Policy?
By Keith T. Bukovich

The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo
By Roy Adkins and Lesley Adkins [Review by Hal M. Friedman]

Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
By John Ferling [Review by John Shy]

The Faces of World War I: The Great War in Words and Pictures
By Max Arthur [Review by Dan Dimancescu]

Air Combat: An Oral History of Fighter Pilots
By Robert F. Dorr [Review by Nathaniel R. Helms]

The Trojan War: A New History
By Barry Strauss [Review by Christoph Ulf]