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Book Review: Kit Carson, by David Remley

David Lauterborn — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:46:39 +0000

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.

Book Review: Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek, by Louis Kraft

David Lauterborn — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:59:28 +0000

With this new biography Louis Kraft establishes himself as the authority on Indian wars figure Ned Wynkoop.

A Soviet Strongman Reflects on the Art of Crushing Fear

aburchyski — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:27:02 +0000

How Stalin's policies meant the difference between life and death, and not in the way one might think

Triumph of the Will? Japan After 1853

aburchyski — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:27:06 +0000

Last week we asked the Japanese army a somewhat sarcastic question: What were you guys thinking?

I'd argue that the Japanese decisions of 1931, 1937, and 1941 make almost no sense unless we delve back a bit into Japanese history. …

American Experience: Custer's Last Stand - Television Review

Gerald Swick — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:54:50 +0000

Stephen Ives' "Custer's Last Stand" on American Experience is more concerned with exploring the myth of Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn than in presenting a blow-by-blow description.

Book Review: The End, by Ian Kershaw

David Lauterborn — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:54:33 +0000

In his new history The End, Ian Kershaw looks at the reasons behind Germany's stubborn resistance in 1944-45 when it was clear it had already lost the war.

Book Review: Gallipoli, by Peter Hart

David Lauterborn — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:41:05 +0000

Peter Hart, oral historian at London's Imperial War Museum, reveals a trove of research on the 1915 Gallipoli campaign.

Book Review: Inferno, by Max Hastings

David Lauterborn — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:29:49 +0000

With Inferno, historian Max Hastings relates a broad, well-researched and gripping (if downbeat) account of World War II.

Game Review: Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy, by Battlefront

David Lauterborn — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:19:25 +0000

Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy unfolds around the June 1944 landings in northern France, offering both real-time and turn-based game play.

DVD Review: The War of 1812, by PBS

David Lauterborn — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:05:22 +0000

The War of 1812, by PBS, offers a basic primer of the causes, battles, outcome and principal players of this oft-overlooked war.