Book Reviews
Vietnam magazine |
Published: May 18, 2012 at 6:16 pm
Takes viewers inside the families of Vietnam War combat veterans whose children are or have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan
Vietnam magazine |
Published: May 18, 2012 at 6:07 pm
A picture book of never-before published Vietnam War photos cleverly interlaced with quotes, snippets from oral histories and firsthand accounts
Published: May 18, 2012 at 5:52 pm
Both books from Osprey Publishing detail the guns and their roles in Vietnam
Vietnam magazine |
Published: May 18, 2012 at 5:32 pm
Told with the authority of a Vietnam vet and backed by a wealth of declassified photos, many taken on missions
Vietnam magazine |
Published: May 18, 2012 at 5:16 pm
Offers a wealth of little-known information about this shadowy world in Vietnam
Published: May 17, 2012 at 4:03 pm
Essential bits of the warrior's reality for a stunningly vivid portrait of the Vietnam War
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: May 03, 2012 at 3:07 pm
In Military Adaptation in War, Williamson Murray takes a hard look at the change (or lack thereof) in 20th century war-fighting tactics and technology, from World War I to the Yom Kippur War.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: May 03, 2012 at 2:51 pm
In Front Burner, Kirk Lippold, former commander of the guided missile destroyer USS Cole, reviews the October 2000 terrorist strike on his vessel in Aden, Yemen, and the aftermath, both military and personal.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: May 03, 2012 at 2:34 pm
David Edgerton's book Britain's War Machine challenges the notion that Britain was militarily weak in the ramp-up to World War II.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: May 03, 2012 at 2:22 pm
Paul L. Hedren, author and retired NPS superintendent, considers the decline of the Sioux nation in the wake of their 1876 victory over George Armstrong Custer on the Little Bighorn.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: May 03, 2012 at 2:03 pm
In Undefeated, Bill Sloan sifts through official histories and firsthand accounts in a review of the desperate 1941-42 Battles of Corregidor and Bataan and subsequent U.S.-Filipino surrender to Japanese forces.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: May 03, 2012 at 1:48 pm
In his French and Indian War history Ben Hughes presents a thoroughly researched narrative of the events surrounding the 1757 Siege of Fort William Henry and its bloody aftermath.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: May 03, 2012 at 1:19 pm
Robert Citino's World War II history The Wehrmacht Retreats looks at German reverses in the pivotal year 1943, focusing on the role of the Wehrmacht and the German chain of command.
Published: May 03, 2012 at 8:15 am
MHQ editors select the best forthcoming and recently released books.
Patrick Clark |
Published: April 23, 2012 at 10:53 am
Memoir '44 is distinctive in a way rare to most videogames: it's one of only a handful that my girlfriend has ever really enjoyed, let alone wanted to play again. Made by longtime board game maker Days of Wonder, …
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: March 30, 2012 at 10:32 pm
Paul L. Hedren shares his unprecedented knowledge of the Great Sioux War in After Custer, an account of the rapid changes on the Plains in the wake of the Little Bighorn.
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