Book Reviews
HistoryNet Staff |
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.
Robert M. Citino |
Published: September 06, 2011 at 11:21 am
Last time out we discussed Philip K. Dick's great "alternate history" of World War II, The Man in the High Castle. In this award-winning novel, reality has apparently been turned upside down. President Roosevelt has died by an assassin's …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: August 22, 2011 at 9:31 am
We've been discussing the accepted "narrative" of the war, the ways that we Americans have tended to interpret it. Others have their own "histories" of World War II, and they can vary wildly by era, by place, by perspective. To …
R.V. Lee |
Published: August 08, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Our Vietnam Generation is a documentary film containing oral histories of Michigan's Vietnam War veterans, as well as interviews with family members and academics. The DVD also contains a tour of today's Vietnam.
Mark Dworkin |
Published: August 05, 2011 at 3:23 pm
Walter Noble Burns wrote a trilogy that made household names of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp and Joaquín Murrieta. But the author’s own story is little known.
Patrick Clark |
Published: August 04, 2011 at 10:55 am
In movies and, more recently, video-games, Nazis—and the the SS in particular—have increasingly filled the role of generic "Bad Guys," perpetrating the kind of over-the-top evil typically reserved for super villains. Where gritty depictions of counterfactual history are …
Gary W. Gallagher |
Published: August 03, 2011 at 12:50 pm
Historian Gary W. Gallagher picks Union and Confederate officers whose hype doesn't match reality.
David Lamb |
Published: August 03, 2011 at 12:37 pm
Vietnam journalist David Lamb reviews Bob Drury and Tom Clavin's book, Last Men Out.
Published: August 03, 2011 at 12:36 pm
In his new book, Normandy Crucible, John Prados writes about Operation Cobra, the July 1944 offensive by General Omar Bradley’s First Army to break through German defenses after D-Day.
MHQ |
Published: August 03, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Will the real Ethan Allen stand up? Willard Sterne Randall discusses his new biography.
Published: July 29, 2011 at 1:04 pm
Utmost Savagery
The Three Days of Tarawa
Joseph H. Alexander (1995)
"My all-time favorite World War II book, the best minute-by-minute account of one of the bloodiest 72 hours in any war, anywhere. Getting into the minds of the men …
HistoryNet Staff |
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.
HistoryNet Staff |
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.
Peter Brush |
Published: June 28, 2011 at 3:15 pm
The measurement problem involved in assessing counterinsurgency "success" was never solved in Vietnam, though the Army produced 14,000 pounds of reports daily.
Marc Leepson |
Published: June 28, 2011 at 3:07 pm
A teenaged corpsman, Topmiller survived the carnage of Khe Sanh, but ministering to dead and dying Marines for 2 1/2 months affected him for the rest of his life.
R.V. Lee |
Published: June 28, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Wartorn goes back to our nation's deadliest war, to letters written by Pennsylvania rifleman Angelo Creapsey describing his despair, and shows how in a century and a half we've barely moved off the dime to address the issue of PTSD.
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