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The American Expeditionary Force's painful introduction to the battlefields of World War I....
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The Fall of the Ottomans The Great War in the Middle East By Eugene Rogan 512 pages. Basic Books, 2015. $32. Reviewed by Anthony Paletta IF THE TROUBLE WITH ACCOUNTS of most Western Front combat in World War I is a tendency for individual...
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American Warlords How Roosevelt’s High Command Led America to Victory in World War II By Jonathan W. Jordan 624 pages. NAL Caliber, 2015. $28.95 Bestselling author Jonathan Jordan’s reputed purpose in this detailed book is to...
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A Higher Form of Killing Six Weeks in World War I That Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare By Diana Preston, 352 pages. Bloomsbury, 2015. $28. Reviewed by Anthony Brandt WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. The phrase dates to the Spanish Civil...
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A new book on George Washington’s military leadership during the Revolutionary War rejects the traditional narrative...
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Main Reviews Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II by Geoffrey Parker Reviewed by Paul Lockhart The Deluge: Remaking of the Global Order, 1918-1931 by Adam Tooze Reviewed by Dennis Showalter Spies, Patriots, and Traitors: American...
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Fighting the Great War at Sea Strategy, Tactics and Technology by Norman Friedman Naval Institute, $85 Though a noted naval historian, Friedman paints an exceptionally comprehensive picture of the geopolitical, social, military, political,...
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America and World War I A Traveler’s Guide By Mark D. Van Ells. 432 pages. Interlink Books, 2014. $22. THE CENTENNIAL OF THE OUTBREAK of World War I in Europe in 1914 has generated an uptick in battlefield tourism to places like the...
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Spies, Patriots, and Traitors American Intelligence in the Revolutionary War By Kenneth A. Daigler. 317 pages. Georgetown, 2014. $29.95 VETERAN OF MORE THAN 30 YEARS in the CIA, Kenneth A. Daigler writes like a case officer reporting from...
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The Deluge The Great War, America, and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1918–1931 By Adam Tooze. 672 pages. Viking, 2014. $40. ADAM TOOZE BUILT HIS EUROPEAN REPUTATION specializing in the economic history of the Third Reich, and he...
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Imprudent King A New Life of Philip II By Geoffrey Parker 438 pages. Yale, 2014. $40. "THE HISTORY OF PHILIP THE SECOND,” historian William Hickling Prescott once wrote, “is the history of Europe during the latter half of...
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Main Reviews A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law During the Great War, by Isabel Hull Reviewed by Williamson Murray Napoleon: A Life, by Andrew Roberts Reviewed by Rafe Blaufarb Hell and Good Company: Life and...
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Nation to Nation Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations, edited by Suzan Shown Harjo (Smithsonian Books, $40). The scholars and activists who contributed to this volume consider the long and often ignoble history of...
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Based on excellent scholarship, careful research, and battlefield study, Andrew Roberts's new book is 'a joy to read'...
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A Scrap of Paper Breaking and Making International Law During the Great War By Isabel Hull. 384 pages. Cornell University Press, 2014. $45. Reviewed by Williamson Murray Professor Isabel Hull of Cornell is one of those rare historians...
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Hell and Good Company Life and Love in the Spanish Civil War by Richard Rhodes. 384 pages. Simon & Schuster, 2015. $30. Reviewed by Peter Carlson “Many books have been written about the Spanish Civil War. Few of them explore...
