Americas
Book Review: Unlikely General
Mary Stockwell profiles Anthony Wayne, the general whose military action against Indians made the state of Ohio possible
WWII Figures
Book Review: How Hitler Was Made
Cory Taylor traces Adolf Hitler's rise to prominence in prewar Germany through 1924
World War II
Book Review: Persian Gulf Command
Ashley Jackson charts the course of World War II in Iran and Iraq, as well as present-day implications
WWII Battles
Book Review: Airborne in 1943
Kevin Wilson relates that year's grueling night campaigns waged by the Royal Air Force Bomber Command over Europe
WWII Battles
Book Review: American Knights
Tory Failmezger recounts the World War II tank-busting campaigns of the U.S. 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion
Mag: Military History Featured
Book Review: Presidents of War
Michael Beschloss discusses nine U.S. presidents who have guided the nation through or kept it out of war
WWII Figures
Book Review: Hermann Ehrhardt
John Koster profiles German monarchist Hermann Ehrhardt as a foil to disastrous Führer Adolf Hitler
Americas
Book Review: The Pirate World
Angus Konstam recounts the history of maritime outlawry as far back as the second millennium BC
World War I
Book Review: A Lab of One’s Own
The void created by men going off to combat in World War I opened professional doors for women, Patricia Fara explains
World War II
Book Review: Operation Columba—The Secret Pigeon Service
As Gordon Corera relates, in 1941 British intelligence began dropping homing pigeons across Nazi-occupied Europe, hoping for a miracle
American Independence
Book Review: Gibraltar
Roy and Lesley Adkins reveal one of the most strategically important American Revolutionary War campaigns — on the far side of the Atlantic
American Independence
Book Review: Young Washington
There’s a side to George Washington few Americans know, and Peter Stark reveals it
World War I
Book Review: More Deadly Than War
Kenneth C. Davis traces the course of the Spanish flu pandemic—one of the deadliest plagues in history amid one of the deadliest wars in history
Military History
Book Review: Why the Germans Lose at War
Having the best army does not necessarily equate to victory, observes author Kenneth Macksey
Military History Book Reviews
Book Review: They Fought Alone
Charles Glass relates the intrigues of brothers George and John Starr, WWII agents of the British Special Operations Executive
Mag: Military History Featured
Book Review: The Siege of Acre, 1189–1191
John Hosler separates fact from legend to present a realistic view of the famed siege and participants on either side
