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In Review: Summer 2012

Published: May 03, 2012 at 9:10 am
  The Blood of Heroes, by James Donovan The Last Full Measure, by Michael Stephenson The First World War Series on DVD Civil War Blogs Assignment to Hell, by Timothy M. Gay Also of Note: In Country: Remembering the Vietnam …

MHQ Reviews: Blogging the Blue and Gray

Mark Grimsley | Published: May 03, 2012 at 8:47 am
Mark Grimsley recommends his favorite Civil War blogs.

MHQ Reviews: The First World War Series on DVD

Gene Santoro | Published: May 03, 2012 at 8:46 am
The 10-episode documentary series based on Hew Strachan's history is now available on DVD.

Book Review: The Blood of Heroes at the Alamo

William C. Davis | Published: May 03, 2012 at 8:18 am
New research makes James Donovan's latest book "indispensable"

MHQ Reviews: Walter Cronkite's World War II Daze

Timothy M. Gay | Published: May 03, 2012 at 8:17 am
In an excerpt from Timothy M. Gay's book, Assignment to Hell, Walter Cronkite recounts his first experience in a glider as a reporter in World War II.

MHQ Reviews: Notable Books, Summer 2012

Published: May 03, 2012 at 8:15 am
MHQ editors select the best forthcoming and recently released books.

MHQ Reviews: How Soldiers Die in Battle

Steven Trent Smith | Published: May 03, 2012 at 8:09 am
A new book by Michael Stephenson presents exhaustive research on the ways soldiers have died from antiquity to the present.

Fighting Words: Animal Terms From World War II

Christine Ammer | Published: May 03, 2012 at 8:08 am
MHQ lexicographer Christine Ammer looks into the origins of animal names used in World War II slang.

The War List: Czars of the Pentagon

Eliot A. Cohen | Published: May 03, 2012 at 8:08 am
Eliot A. Cohen names the best and worst secretaries of war in American history

Unknown Soldier: Manning Ferguson Force, the Hero of Atlanta

Glenn W. LaFantasie | Published: May 03, 2012 at 8:04 am
How a bookish Ohio attorney inspired a Union stand against a furious Confederate assault

MHQ Dossier: Charles de Gaulle

Published: May 03, 2012 at 7:54 am
Charles de Gaulle salutes the Allied colors during a Bastille Day review in Algiers, July 1943. (National Archives) From the Dossier Charles de Gaulle: French general, statesman, and hero. Field officer in World War I and briefly in World War …

Easy Living in a Hard War: Behind the Lines in Vietnam

Meredith H. Lair | Published: May 02, 2012 at 3:15 pm
At least three-quarters of U.S. troops in Vietnam served in the rear, many of them surrounded by luxury and leisure

From the Dossier: Andrew Jackson

Published: February 21, 2012 at 1:43 pm
Footnotes to the story of seventh U.S. president Andrew Jackson

Fighting Words: Of Moats and the Middle Ages

Christine Ammer | Published: February 10, 2012 at 12:45 pm
MHQ lexicographer Christine Ammer highlights terms coined during the Middle Ages

In Review: Spring 2012

Published: February 10, 2012 at 12:42 pm
Two new books on the history of war in Afghanistan; Ralph Peters's latest Civil War novel

MHQ Reviews: Notable Books, Spring 2012

Published: February 10, 2012 at 12:41 pm
MHQ Home Page Mr. and Mrs. Madison's War: America's First Couple and the Second War of Independence, by Hugh Howard (Bloomsbury, $30). An entertaining look at the forgotten war, the burning of Washington, and the fourth president's none-too-effective efforts …
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