Military History Book Reviews
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Published: July 08, 2011 at 10:43 pm
Guadalcanal was the largest, most complex military operation of its time and spelled the beginning of the end of the Pacific War.
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Published: July 08, 2011 at 10:29 pm
Sir Arthur Wellesley, future Duke of Wellington, battled British bureaucracy even as he faced off against Napoléon on the Iberian Peninsula.
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Published: July 08, 2011 at 6:28 pm
In Moro War, James Arnold delivers a lucid account of America's largely successful campaign against a Filipino Muslim insurgency in the wake of the Philippine Insurrection.
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Published: July 08, 2011 at 6:14 pm
Developed in conjunction with the History Channel, Great Battles Medieval covers the Hundred Years' War from the English and French perspectives.
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Published: May 05, 2011 at 10:12 pm
In Nothing Less Than War, Justus Doenecke offers a look at the domestic political wrangling that preceded America's decision to enter World War I.
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Published: May 05, 2011 at 9:53 pm
In Desert Hell, Charles Townshend explores the British intervention in Mesopotamia between 1914 and 1925 and its repercussions for the region.
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Published: May 05, 2011 at 9:36 pm
The latest entry in Sega's Total War series, Shogun 2 faithfully re-creates Japan's 16th century feudal conflict.
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Published: May 05, 2011 at 9:16 pm
In The Whites of Their Eyes, Paul Lockhart debunks the myths and offers new insight into the June 17, 1775, Battle of Bunker Hill.
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Published: March 07, 2011 at 1:12 pm
In Europa Universalis III: Divine Wind, by Paradox Interactive, players jump in to World War II from either a Japanese or Chinese perspective.
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Published: March 07, 2011 at 1:07 pm
In Washington: A Life, Ron Chernow has a candid, honest look at the often-mythologized American commander in chief and first president.
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Published: March 07, 2011 at 1:05 pm
In The Envoy, author Alex Kershaw looks at the efforts of Swede Raoul Wallenberg to rescue Jews from Nazi-occupied Budapest in the closing months of World War II.
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Published: March 07, 2011 at 1:01 pm
In The Real Falstaff, author Stephen Cooper reveals the mischaracterized real-life man behind the Shakespearean myth.
Published: November 05, 2010 at 3:41 pm
With its new real-time strategy game R.U.S.E., Ubisoft diverts a player's focus from combat to deception.
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Published: November 05, 2010 at 3:25 pm
Robert L. O'Connell's book Ghosts of Cannae looks at Carthaginian General Hannibal's decisive yet ultimately hollow victory against Rome at Cannae in 216 BC.
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Published: November 05, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Dominic Lieven turns Napoleon's invasion of Russia on its head, looking at it from the tsar's perspective, in Russia Against Napoleon.
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades edited by Jonathan Riley-Smith, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995, $39.95. The mere mention of the word "crusade" evokes a powerful image in the minds of people today. It is a word that is …
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