MHQ Reviews
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, By Robert A. Divine, Texas A&M UniversityPress, $14.95.Usually, assembling a book by putting lectures between two covers is a certain route to discordant reading and contradictions. But in this case Robert A. Divine, author …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Thaddeus Kosciuszko: Military Engineer of the American Revolution, by Francis C. Kajencki, South Polonia Press, $49.50.This book is as definitive as any written account can be on the military career of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, barring the discovery of new documents …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Tomorrow the World: Hitler, Northwest Africa, and the Path toward America, by Norman Goda, Texas A&M University Press, $39.95.This is an interesting, well-documented but somewhat illogical book about Adolf Hitler's intentions in northwest Africa and concerns during 1940-42. The …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Brassey's Modern Fighters: The Ultimate Guide to In-Flight Tactics Technology, Weapons and Equipment, by Mike Spick, Brassey's, $27.95You cannot know the players without a program. Fighters have become so sophisticated and complex that those interested in things military simply …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
The United States Army in Vietnam: Combat Operations–Taking the Offensive, October 1966 to October 1967, by George L. MacGarrigle, Center of Military History, $44.No service public relations spin here in the first of the Army's Vietnam War combat operations …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Feet to the Fire: Covert Operations in Indonesia, 1957-1958, by Kenneth Conboy and James Morrison, Naval Institute Press, $28.95. The CIA's 1958 covert support for Indonesian army rebels against the government in Jakarta is one of those failures that, like …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Death of a Hero: Captain Robert Nairac, GC and the Undercover War in Northern Ireland, by John Parker, Metro, $29.95.A journalist and author of SBS: The Inside Story of the Special Boat Services, John Parker has written a highly …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Until the Last Trumpet Sounds: The Life of General of the ArmiesJohn J. Pershing, by Gene Smith, John Wiley & Sons, $30.This book, the subject of an unfavorable review in The New York Times, is worth having, but for …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Court-Martial at Parris Island: The Ribbon Creek Incident, by John C. Stevens III, Naval Institute Press), $27.95.The 1956 drowning of six marines during a training exercise at Parris Island, South Carolina, created a national media sensation and exposed boot …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Alexander and the East, by A.B. Bosworth, Oxford, $60.The subtitle of this book, The Tragedy of Triumph, tells it all, and if you are looking for book-length substantiation of Victor Davis Hanson's article "Alexander the Killer" in our Spring …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Prince Rupert: Admiral and General-at-Sea, by Frank Kitson, Constable, $40.This is a pricey but first-class treatment of a top-flight warrior. From his first battle as an eleven-year-old observer in 1630 to his last as an admiral in 1673, Prince …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
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Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
1815: The Waterloo Campaign: Wellington, his German Allies and the Battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras, by Peter Hofschröer, Greenhill Books, $49.95.Winston Churchill once remarked that there was only one thing worse during a war than having allies–and that …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century, by Colonel-General G.F. Krisvosheev, editor, Greenhill/Stackpole, $39.95.As long as we're speaking of monsters, why not quote Stalin (who, in the murder department, made Alexander look like a piker): "A single …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Decision for Disaster: Betrayal at the Bay of Pigs, by Grayston L. Lynch, Brassey's, $24.95.A bang-up military adventure story, this book also contains a bitter, intriguing all-out attack on President John F. Kennedy and his handling of the ill-fated …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate, By Susan P. Mattern, University of California Press, $35.There is a saying about history: "The only thing new is found in ancient history." The wisdom behind the statement is that …
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