American History Reviews
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
LEE'S MISERABLES, by J. Tracy Power, University of North Carolina Press, 463 pages, $34.95.With grim humor they called themselves "Lee's Miserables," adopting their name from a mispronunciation of Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables, which was published in the Confederacy …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
ALL THIS HELL: U.S. NURSES IMPRISONED BY THE JAPANESE, by Evelyn M. Monahan & Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee, The University Press of Kentucky, 264 pages, $22.50.THE sweeping success of the Japanese in the western Pacific following Pearl Harbor resulted in huge …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
DRAWN WITH THE SWORD: REFLECTIONS ON THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR by James McPherson (Oxford University Press, 258 pages, $25.00). McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, here addresses many of the most enduring questions about the Civil …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
AMERICAN INDIANS IN WORLD WAR I, by Thomas A. Britten, University of New Mexico Press, 256 pages, $34.95."While hundreds of books detail the activities of Anglo-American soldiers in the war," notes Britten, "and perhaps half a dozen describe the …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
THE BURNING OF WASHINGTON: THE BRITISH INVASION OF 1814, by Anthony S. Pitch, Naval Institute Press, 304 pages, $32.95.Although the British invasion and the torching of the nation's capital in the summer of 1814 is one of the most …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Part two of The JG 26 War Diary details the unit's long and bloody fall from glory. By Walter J. Boyne In The JG 26 War Diary, Volume Two, 1943-1945 (Grubb Street, London, 1999, approximately $50), Donald Caldwell concludes his …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
THE UNITED STATES IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA, edited by Anne Cipriano Venzon and Paul L. Miles (consulting editor), Garland Publishing, 856 pages, softcover, $39.95.World War I not only initiated a significant development in the techniques of …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
The North American Mustang was assigned a vital role in Korea–to save the South Korean army. By Walter J. Boyne Mustangs Over Korea: The North American F-51 at War, 1950-1953 (Schiffer, Atglen, Pa.,1999, $45) adds even more luster to author …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
DOUBLE VICTORY: A MULTICULTURAL HISTORY OF AMERICA IN WORLD WAR II, by Ronald Takaki, Little, Brown and Company, 282 pages, $27.95.For most Americans, World War II was a galvanizing experience, a blending of battlefield tenacity and heroism on foreign …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
KING PHILIP'S WAR: THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN CONFLICT, by Eric B. Schultz and Michael J. Tougias, The Countryman Press, 432 pages, $29.95.WE were taught at school that the British settlement of New England would have failed …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
JACKIE ROBINSON: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT, by Rachel Robinson, with Lee Daniels (Harry N. Abrams,Inc., 240 pages, $29.95).As the title suggests, this biography of baseball great Jack Roosevelt (Jackie) Robinson by his widow is written from the perspective of their …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
A WASP AMONG EAGLES: A WOMAN MILITARY TEST PILOT IN WORLD WAR II, by Ann B. Carl, Smithsonian Institution Press, 168 pages, $21.95.Whether it be the "Nelson touch" during the Battle of Trafalgar or General George S. Patton's charge …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
THE PEALE FAMILY: CREATION OF A LEGACY, 1770-1870 , by Lillian B. Miller, editor (Abbeville Press,320 pages, $75.00). Prepared in connection with a major exhibition of the same name, this lavishly illustrated study examines the lives of the famous Peale …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
THE VIETNAM WAR: THE STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS, by Donald M. Goldstein, Katherine V. Dillon, and J. Michael Wenger, Brassey'sInc., 192 pages, $31.95. "The story of the Vietnam War is not a pretty one," note the authors, "but it is by …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, by James Bradley with Ron Powers, Bantam Books, 384 pages, $24.95.NO image is more representative of American triumph than Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal's image of the second raising of the American flag atop Iwo …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
CRIMSON SKY: THE AIR BATTLE FOR KOREA, by John R. Bruning, Brassey's Inc., 231 pages, $24.95.The jet engine, which entered combat near the end of World II, revolutionized air warfare to a degree that no one fully understood until …
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