Book Reviews
HistoryNet Staff |
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.
HistoryNet Staff |
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.
Published: October 07, 2011 at 9:59 am
I received some good discussion on my last post. Some took me to task, others were supportive, and still others were non-committal. At issue was the notion of how much of history is an eye-of-the-beholder narrative and how much is—to …
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: October 06, 2011 at 11:18 am
In Wanton West author Lael Morgan looks at the seedy side of life on the Montana frontier, that of Old West prostitutes.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: October 06, 2011 at 11:00 am
Author Michael Allen Harris steps into the history of jeans, farther back even than the very first pair of Levi Strauss' denims in the 1870s.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: October 06, 2011 at 10:29 am
In his book The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred Ground, author Jeffrey Ostler looks at the Lakota Sioux struggle to retain and then regain the Black Hills of South Dakota.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: October 06, 2011 at 10:13 am
Chuck Parsons' book Captain John R. Hughes and Bob Alexander's book Rawhide Ranger, Ira Aten pay tribute to two of the celebrated cadre of Texas Rangers who tamed the Old West.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: October 05, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Mike Cox honors the heroes of the Old West and Larry Johnson the outlaws of the Old West in these two entries from Turner Publishing's Historic Photos series.
Dennis Showalter |
Published: October 05, 2011 at 8:34 am
Demolishing the Myth
The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk, July 1943: An Operational Narrative
By Valeriy Zamulin. 672 pp.
Helion & Company, 2011. $69.95.
For anyone interested in the war between Russia and Germany, the battle of Prokhorovka …
Alex Kershaw |
Published: October 05, 2011 at 8:33 am
Black Sheep
The Life of Pappy Boyington
By John F. Wukovits 228 pp.
Naval Institute Press, 2011. $34.95.
Mavericks win wars. And the legendary alcoholic Marine Corps ace Gregory "Pappy" Boyington was surely one of the most colorful mavericks of …
Luann Grosscup |
Published: September 19, 2011 at 10:55 am
At the National Museum of the Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, there are new exhibits on Brig. Gen. Robin Olds and the pilots who flew in Rolling Thunder
James Gillam |
Published: September 16, 2011 at 3:17 pm
In his new book, Karl Marlantes deals with warriors past and present, giving advice to new soldiers to become "conscious warriors"
Jon Guttman |
Published: September 15, 2011 at 4:26 pm
Among the most neglected viewpoints of the war have been those of the Republic of Vietnam, which the U.S. largely created, propped up, manipulated and finally abandoned.
Peter Brush |
Published: September 15, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Although there had been similar assaults in the U.S. armed forces, fragging had never been as routine as it became in Vietnam.
Marc Leepson |
Published: September 15, 2011 at 4:16 pm
Jerry Lembcke examines how Jane Fonda came to symbolize treason in the eyes of Vietnam vets.
R.V. Lee |
Published: September 15, 2011 at 4:11 pm
A day-to-day history of the U.S. armed forced in the Vietnam War, including many iconic and seldom-seen photos.
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