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Published: February 10, 2012 at 12:42 pm
Two new books on the history of war in Afghanistan; Ralph Peters's latest Civil War novel
Published: February 10, 2012 at 12:41 pm
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Mr. and Mrs. Madison's War: America's First Couple and the Second War of Independence, by Hugh Howard (Bloomsbury, $30). An entertaining look at the forgotten war, the burning of Washington, and the fourth president's none-too-effective efforts …
Published: February 10, 2012 at 12:36 pm
Who are David Petraeus's heroes?
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Published: February 10, 2012 at 12:35 pm
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Cain at Gettysburg
By Ralph Peters. 432 pp. Forge, 2012. $25.99.
Reviewed by Noah Andre Trudeau
I confess to being a fan of Civil War fiction involving real battles. Over the years I've come to …
Frank Ledwidge |
Published: February 06, 2012 at 7:03 pm
Frank Ledwidge reviews two books the history of war in Afghanistan
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Published: February 06, 2012 at 12:46 am
David Remley sifts the existing scholarship to provide a balanced profile of a Kit Carson that was neither hero nor villain but a complex and nuanced frontier figure.
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Published: February 06, 2012 at 12:25 am
Garner Palenske relates the little-known story of Wyatt and Josie Earp's post-Tombstone life in San Diego.
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Published: February 05, 2012 at 11:59 pm
With this new biography Louis Kraft establishes himself as the authority on Indian wars figure Ned Wynkoop.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: February 05, 2012 at 11:43 pm
R. Michael Wilson releases the third volume in his Legal Executions After Statehood series.
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Published: February 05, 2012 at 11:26 pm
Larry Wood relates 22 new tales of gunfights and other notorious incidents in his latest history of the Ozarks.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: February 05, 2012 at 11:10 pm
Gregory Michno takes a hard look at the bitter frontier conflict between Texas settlers and Indians in the 1860s.
Robert M. Citino |
Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:23 pm
The top book titles from World War II magazine's resident blogger
Aleta Burchyski |
Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:22 pm
Patton
Men's Cologne
3.4 oz, $45. theamericaline.org.
There is Patton the man: an avid student of history and fluent in French, but peacockish and hungry for combat and glory. Then there is Patton the symbol: a tough-love general …
Patrick Clark |
Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:21 pm
A cockpit worth fighting for
HistoryNet Staff |
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.
HistoryNet Staff |
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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