Military History Book Reviews
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Published: January 11, 2012 at 2:54 pm
In his new history The End, Ian Kershaw looks at the reasons behind Germany's stubborn resistance in 1944-45 when it was clear it had already lost the war.
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Published: January 11, 2012 at 2:41 pm
Peter Hart, oral historian at London's Imperial War Museum, reveals a trove of research on the 1915 Gallipoli campaign.
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Published: January 11, 2012 at 2:29 pm
With Inferno, historian Max Hastings relates a broad, well-researched and gripping (if downbeat) account of World War II.
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Published: January 11, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy unfolds around the June 1944 landings in northern France, offering both real-time and turn-based game play.
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Published: January 11, 2012 at 2:05 pm
The War of 1812, by PBS, offers a basic primer of the causes, battles, outcome and principal players of this oft-overlooked war.
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Published: November 08, 2011 at 6:45 pm
Rodric Braithwaite considers the parallels between the Soviet war in Afghanistan and modern-day conflicts in that long-turbulent region.
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Published: November 08, 2011 at 6:36 pm
John Prados takes a fresh look at the 1944 Normandy campaign, considering the impact of Ultra intercepts and the way the German Wehrmacht performed.
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Published: November 08, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Rafe Blaufarb and Claudia Liebeskind revisit the Napoleonic wars through the memoirs and diaries of common soldiers and civilians.
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Published: November 08, 2011 at 6:18 pm
Simon James looks at Roman history from the perspective of the common soldiers, provincial residents and conquered peoples.
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Published: November 08, 2011 at 6:05 pm
Red Orchestra 2 is the most realistic first-person shooter to hit the market in the past decade.
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Published: September 09, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Panzer Corps Wehrmacht is a paean to the classic hex-based strategy games of old.
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Published: September 09, 2011 at 12:35 pm
Michael Matheny looks at the evolution of U.S. military academy instruction in the operations discipline.
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Published: September 09, 2011 at 11:41 am
Robin Waterfield chronicles the wars between Alexander's successors for control of his empire.
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Published: September 09, 2011 at 11:30 am
Authors Graydon Tunstall and Richard DiNardo contribute toward our understanding of the World War I Eastern Front.
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Published: September 09, 2011 at 10:58 am
George C. Daughan offers an excellent overview of the U.S. Navy's rise during the War of 1812.
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Published: July 08, 2011 at 10:57 pm
Though long overshadowed by Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal Erich von Manstein is widely considered Germany's greatest operational commander and strategic planner.
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