Books Available for Review

General

• Carved from Granite: West Point Since 1902.
  Lance Betros. Texas A&M University Press, 2012.
• A Cause Greater Than Self: The Journey of Captain Michael J. Daly, World War II Medal of Honor Recipient.
  Stephen J. Ochs. Texas A&M University Press, 2012.
• The Combat Soldier: Infantry Tactics and Cohesion in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.
  Anthony King. Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Conflict and Command.
  John T. Hubbell, ed. Kent State University Press, 2012.
• Conflicting Memories on the "River of Death": The Chickamauga Battlefield and the Spanish-American War, 1863-1933.
  Bradley S. Keefer. Kent State University Press, 2012.
• Cultural Construction of Empire: The U.S. Army in Arizona and New Mexico.
  Janne Lahti. University of Nebraska Press, 2012. Jackson's Sword: The Army Officer Corps on the American Frontier, 1810-1821. Samuel J. Watson. University Press of Kansas, 2012.
• For Military Merit: Recipients of the Purple Heart.
  Fred L. Borch. Naval Institute Press, 2010.
• How We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Way of War.
  Dominic Tierney. Little, Brown and Company, 2010.
• In the School of War.
  Roger J. Spiller. University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
• Masters of the Battlefield: Great Commanders from the Classical Age to the Napoleonic Era.
  Paul K. Davis. Oxford University Press, 2013.
• A People's History of the U.S. Military: Ordinary Soldiers Reflect on Their Experience of War, from the American Revolution to Afghanistan.
  Michael A. Bellesiles. The New Press, 2012.
• Revered Commander, Maligned General: The Life of Clarence Ransom Edwards.
  Michael E. Shay. University of Missouri Press, 2011.
• Saltpeter: The Mother of Gunpowder.
  David Cressy. Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Special Forces Sniper Skills.
  Robert Stirling. Osprey Publishing, 2012.
• State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011.
  Paul A.C. Koistinen. University Press of Kansas, 2012.
• The Swamp Fox: Lessons in Leadership from the Partisan Campaigns of Francis Marion.
  Scott D. Aiken, Naval Institute Press, 2012. Pre-World War One:
• The United States Army: A Chronology, 1775 to the Present.
  John C. Fredriksen. ABC-CLIO, 2010.
• Who Watches the Watchmen?: The Conflict Between National Security and Freedom of the Press.
  Gary Ross. National Intelligence University Press, 2011.

Pre-World War One

• Birch Coulie: The Epic Battle of the Dakota War. John Christgau.
  University of Nebraska Press (Bison Books), 2012.
• Blood of Tyrants: George Washington & the Forging of the Presidency.
  Logan Beirne. Encounter Books, 2013.
• Campaign for Wilson's Creek: The Fight for Missouri Begins.
  Jeffrey L. Patrick. McWhiney Foundation Press, 2011.
• The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War.
  Clarissa W. Confer. University of Oklahoma Press, 2012.
• The Civil War: A Concise History.
  Louis P. Masur. Oxford University Press, 2011.
• Civil War Arkansas, 1863: The Battle for a State.
  Mark K. Christ. University of Oklahoma Press, 2010.
• The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi.
  Earl J. Hess. University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
• Columns of Vengeance: Soldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 1863-1864
  . Paul N. Beck. University of Oklahoma Press, 2013.
• Commander and Builder of Western Forts: The Life and Times of Major General Henry C. Merriam, 1862-1901.
  Jack Stokes Ballard. Texas A&M University Press, 2012.
• Deliverance from the Little Big Horn: Doctor Henry Porter and Custer's Seventh Cavalry.
  Joan Nabseth Stevenson. University of Oklahoma Press, 2012.
• Dragoons in Apacheland: Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 1846-1861.
  William S. Kiser. University of Oklahoma Press, 2012.
• Frémont's First Impressions: The Original Report of His Exploring Expeditions of 1842-1844.
  John C. Frémont. Introduction by Anne F. Hyde. Bison Books, 2012.
• From Western Deserts to Carolina Swamps: A Civil War Soldier's Journals and Letters Home.
  John P. Wilson, ed. University of New Mexico Press, 2012.
• Frontier Cavalry Trooper: The Letters of Private Eddie Matthews, 1869-1874.
  Douglas C. McChristian, ed. University of New Mexico Press, 2013.
• George Crook: From the Redwoods to Appomattox.
  Paul Magid. University of Nebraska Press, 2011.
• George Rogers Clark: "I Glory in War".
  William R. Nester. University of Oklahoma Press, 2012.
• A German Hurrah!: Civil War Letters of Friedrich Bertsch and Wilhelm Stängle, 9th Ohio Infantry.
  Joseph R. Reinhart, ed. & trans. Kent State University Press, 2010.
• The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War.
  Donald Stoker. Oxford University Press, 2010.
• Lee's Cavalrymen: A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865.
  Edward C. Longacre. University of Oklahoma Press, 2012.
• Letters Home to Sarah: The Civil War Letters of Guy C. Taylor, 36th Wisconsin Volunteers.
  Kevin and Patsy Alderson, eds. University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.
• Liberty's Fallen Generals: Leadership and Sacrifice in the American War of Independence.
  Steven E. Siry. Potomac Books, 2012.
• Men of Color to Arms!: Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality.
  Elizabeth D. Leonard. Bison Books, 2012, pbk. ed.
• No Turning Point: The Saratoga Campaign in Perspective.
  Theodore Corbett. University of Oklahoma Press, 2012.
• Orlando M. Poe: Civil War General and Great Lakes Engineer.
  Paul Taylor. Kent State University Press, 2009.
• Our Centennial Indian War and the Life of General Custer.
  Frances Fuller Victor. University of Oklahoma Press, 2011.
• The Peninsula Campaign & the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom.
  Glenn David Brasher. University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
• A Punishment on the Nation: An Iowa Soldier Endures the Civil War.
  Brian Craig Miller, ed. Kent State University Press, 2012.
• The Richardson Light Guard of Wakefield, Massachusetts: A Town Militia in War and Peace, 1851-1975.
  Barry M. Stentiford. McFarland, 2013.
• Richmond Must Fall: The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, October 1864.
  Hampton Newsome. Kent State University Press, 2013.
• Sacred Ties: From West Point Brothers to Battlefield Rivals - A True Story of the Civil War.
  Tom Carhart. Berkley Publishing Group, 2010.
• Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword: The British Regiment on Campaign, 1808-1815.
  Andrew Bamford. University of Oklahoma Press, 2013.
• Sight Unseen: How Frémont's First Expedition Changed the American Landscape.
  Andrew Menard. Bison Books, 2012.
• Standing Firmly by the Flag: Nebraska Territory and the Civil War, 1861-1867.
  James E. Potter. Bison Books, 2012.
• The Story of a Thousand: A History of the 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
  Albion W. Tourgee, Peter C. Luebke, ed. Kent State University Press, 2011.
• War Party in Blue: Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army.
  Mark van de Logt. University of Oklahoma Press, 2011.
• What So Proudly We Hailed: Essays on the Contemporary Meaning of the War of 1812.
  Pietro S. Nivola and Peter J. Kastor, eds. Brookings Institution Press, 2012.
• Your Brother in Arms: A Union Soldier's Odyssey.
  Robert C. Plumb. University of Missouri Press, 2011.
• The Zimmermann Telegram: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America's Entry into World War I
  Thomas Boghardt. Naval Institute Press, 2012.

1914 to 1945

• Allied Master Strategists: The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II.
  David Rigby. Naval Institute Press, 2012.
• Assignment to Hell: The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling, Homer Bigart, and Hal Boyle.
  Timothy M. Gay. NAL Caliber, 2013
• Back from Tobruk.
  Croswell Bowen, Betsy Connor Bowen, ed. Potomac Books, 2013.
• The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944.
  Michael Neiberg. Basic Books, 2012.
• Bloody Roads to Germany: At Huertgen Forest and the Bulge - an American Soldier's Courageous Story of World War II.
  William F. Meller. Berkley Caliber, 2012.
• Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, and the Partnership that Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe.
  Jonathan W. Jordan. NAL Caliber, 2011.
• Captured: The Forgotten Men of Guam.
  Roger Mansell, Linda Goetz Holmes, ed. Naval Institute Press, 2013
• The Chaplain's Conflict: Good and Evil in a War Hospital, 1943-1945.
  Tennant McWilliams. Texas A&M University Press, 2012.
• Chief Culprit: Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II.
  Viktor Suvorov. Naval Institute Press, 2008.
• Clash of Empires in South China: The Allied Nations' Proxy War with Japan, 1935-1941.
  Franco David Macri. University Press of Kansas, 2012.
• Defending Whose Country?: Indigenous Soldier in the Pacific.
  Noah Riseman. University of Nebraska Press, 2012.
• Devil Dogs Chronicle: Voices of the 4th Marine Brigade in World War I.
  George B. Clark, ed. University Press of Kansas, 2013.
• Eisenhower & Montgomery at the Falaise Gap: The Untold Story of Allied Discord at the Falaise Gap.
  William Weidner. Xlibris, 2010.
• Exercise Tiger:The D-Day Practice Landing Tragedies Uncovered.
  Richard T. Bass. Menin House, 2012.
• Liebling's War: World War II Dispatches of A. J. Liebling.
  James Barbour, Gary Scharnhorst, and Fred B. Warner, eds. University of New Mexico Press, 2011.
• Modern Warfare in Spain: American Military Observations on the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.
  James W. Cortada, ed. Potomac Books, 2012.
• Mrs. Cordie's Soldier Son: A World War II Saga.
  Rocky R. Miracle. Texas A&M University Press, 2008.
• No Surrender: A World War II Memoir.
  James J. Sheeran. Berkley Caliber, 2011.
• Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army's Victory that Shaped World War II.
  Stuart D. Goldman. Naval Institute Press, 2012.
• Normandy Crucible: The Deecisive Battle That Shaped World War II in Europe.
  John Prados. NAL Caliber, 2011.
• Operation KE: The Cactus Air Force and the Japanese Withdrawal from Guadalcanal.
  Roger & Dennis Letourneau, Naval Institute Press, 2012.
• The OSS in Burma: Jungle War Against the Japanese.
  Troy J. Sacquety. University Press of Kansas, 2013.
• Resolve: From the Jungles of WWII Bataan, the Epic Story of a Soldier, a Flag, and a Promise Kept.
  Bob Welch. Berkley Caliber, 2012.
• Roi Ottley's World War II: The Lost Diary of an African American Journalist.
  Mark A. Huddle, ed. University Press of Kansas, 2011.
• Second Chance: In Combat with the US 'Texasi Infantry, the OSS, and the French Resistance during the Liberation of France, 1943-1946.
  Stephen J. Weiss. Military History Publishing, 2011.
• Shadow of the Sultan's Realm: The Destruction of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East.
  Daniel Allen Butler. Potomac Books, 2011
• Shifty's War: The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell "Shifty" Powers, the Legendary Sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers.
  Marcus Brotherton. Berkley Publishing Group, 2011.
• Sounds of War: Music in the United States during World War II.
  Annegret Fauser. Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath.
  Michael & Elizabeth Norman. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009.
• They Called Them Soldier Boys: The Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I.
  Gregory W. Ball. University of North Texas Press, 2013.
• Wavell in the Middle East, 1939-1941: A Study in Generalship.
  Harold E. Raugh Jr. University of Oklahoma Press, 2013.
• Why We Fight: Congress and the Politics of World War II.
  Nancy Beck Young. University Press of Kansas, 2013.

1946 to the Present

• Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75.
  George J. Veith. Encounter Books, 2012.
• The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam.
  Andrew Wiest. Osprey Publishing, 2012.
• Call Sign - Dustoff: A History of U.S. Army Aeromedical Evacuation from Conception to Hurricane Katrina.
  Darrel Whitcomb. Office of the Surgeon General, Borden Institute, 2011.
• Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era: Nuclear Antiaircraft Arms and the Cold War.
  Christopher J. Bright. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
• The Gods of Diyala: Transfer of Command in Iraq
  . Caleb S. Cage and Gregory M. Tomlin. Texas A&M University Press, 2008.
• Iraq Full Circle: From Shock and Awe to the Last Combat Patrol in Baghdad and Beyond.
  Col. Darron L. Wright. Osprey Publishing, 2012.
• James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot: A Soldier's Story.
  Henry T. Gallagher. University Press of Mississippi, 2012.
• Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.
  Nick Turse. Metropolitan Books, 2013.
• The Marines Take Anbar: The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda.
  Richard H. Shultz Jr. Naval Institute Press, 2013.
• Moment of Truth in Iraq: How a New 'Greatest Generation' of American Soldiers is Turning Defeat and Disaster into Victory and Hope.
  Michael Yon. Richard Vigilante Books, 2008.
• Operation Arkansas.
  Robert W. Coakley. Center for Arkansas Studies, 2010.
• Outside the Wire: Riding with the "Triple Deuce" in Vietnam, 1970.
  Jim Ross. Stackpole Books, 2013.
• The Papers of Geoerge Catlett Marshall, Volume 6: "The Whole World Hangs in the Balance" January 8, 1947–September 30, 1949.
  Edited by Larry I. Bland, Mark A Stoler, Sharon Ritenour Stevens, and Daniel D. Holt. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
• A Soldier's Dream: Captain Travis Patriquin and the Awakening of Iraq.
  William Doyle. NAL Caliber, 2011.
• U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War.
  Michael Grow. University Press of Kansas, 2008.
• The Vietnam War: A Concise International History.
  Mark Atwood Lawrence, Oxford University Press, 2008.
• Vietnam Labyrinth: Allies, Enemies, and Why the U.S. Lost the War.
  Tran Ngoc Chau with Ken Fermoyle. Texas Tech University Press, 2012.