MHQ Reviews
Published: May 03, 2011 at 5:00 am
Debra Hamel says Jim Lacey brings practical experience to his new book on the Battle of Marathon.
Published: May 03, 2011 at 5:00 am
Scholar Jeremy Black takes on Orlando Figes's new history of the Crimean War.
Published: May 03, 2011 at 5:00 am
New releases look at Hannibal, Britain in the Middle East, and the rise and fall of airpower.
Thomas Fleming |
Published: February 08, 2011 at 7:16 pm
David A. Clary's new book is an unflattering portrait of Washington's leadership in the French and Indian War.
Jeffrey G. Barlow |
Published: February 08, 2011 at 6:44 pm
Neptune’s Inferno
The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
By James D. Hornfischer. 544 pp.
Bantam Books, 2011. $30.
Reviewed by Jeffrey G. Barlow
Drew Bratcher |
Published: February 08, 2011 at 2:35 pm
The country’s bloodiest war has been captured in novels, memoirs, and battle narratives. Here are 10 classics
Published: November 10, 2010 at 5:28 pm
John M. Taylor reviews Joseph Maiolo's book Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931-1941.
Thomas B. Allen |
Published: November 10, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Thomas B. Allen reviews Alan Taylor's book The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies.
Byron J. Nakamura |
Published: August 10, 2010 at 4:46 pm
"The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic" By Robert L. O’Connell. The life-and-death struggle between Rome and Carthage during the Second Punic War of the third century BC proved a watershed for both civilizations.
Alexander Hill |
Published: August 10, 2010 at 4:46 pm
"Deathride: Hitler vs. Stalin, 1941–1945" By John Mosier. Deathride is a history of the Eastern Front during World War II. John Mosier—who has gained a reputation for writing revisionist history—and his publisher both claim it offers a new idea: that Nazi Germany and its allies came ever so close to victory in the East.
Published: April 26, 2010 at 1:59 pm
David T. Zabecki reviews the book Manstein: Hitler's Greatest General.
Published: April 26, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Stephen Budiansky reviews the book The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern, by Victor Davis Hanson
Published: February 24, 2010 at 10:17 am
Rod Paschall reviews Dominic Lieven's book about Russian resistance to Napoleon's campaigns, based on Lieven's research into Russian military archives that were opened to the public in 1991.
Published: February 24, 2010 at 10:09 am
David T. Zabecki reviews Ted Morgan's 2010 book about Dien Bien Phu and the early development of the Vietnam War.
Published: December 02, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Maj. Robert Rogers successes on the New Hampshire frontier in the French and Indian War and his still-relevant "Rules of Ranging" are explored in a biography by John F. Ross.
Published: August 26, 2009 at 7:20 pm
MHQ reviews McGregor Knox's,To The Threshold of Power, which explores the origins and dynamics of the Fascist and National Socialist dictatorships in 1922 and 1933.
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