Book Review: Russia’s Iron General
Jamie Cockfield profiles WWI Russian commander Alexei Brusilov, among his nation's greatest generals
Book Review: The Crowded Hour
Clay Risen examines the broader impact of Theodore Roosevelt's "Crowded Hour" charging up Cuba's San Juan Heights
Book Review: 1941
Andrew Nagorski focuses on the fateful year Adolf Hitler all but ensured the destruction of the Third Reich
Book Review: The Persian War in Herodotus
William Shepherd delves into the ancient records of a war whose outcome forever shaped the Western world
Book Review: Crossing the Rubicon
Luca Fezzi relates the momentous era in which Rome transitioned from republic to empire
Book Review: Waffen-SS
Adrian Gilbert examines the dark World War II history of Nazi Germany's Waffen-SS (aka the "Alibi of the Nation")
Book Review: Lives Reclaimed
Mark Roseman documents the League (aka the Bund), a utopian group that provided wartime aid and succor to victims of the Nazi regime
Book Review: Return to the Reich
Eric Lichtblau relates the story of Fred Mayer, a German Jew who in 1945 parachuted into Austria at the head of a three-man OSS team
Book Review: The Women Who Flew for Hitler
British historian Clare Mulley profiles the Third Reich’s leading female pilots Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg
Book Review: The Polar Bear Expedition
James Carl Nelson recounts the North Russian Intervention, intended to keep WWI supplies sent to Russia from falling into the wrong hands
Book Review: The Greatest of all Leathernecks
Joseph Arthur Simon relates the U.S. Marines’ transformation into an elite force and John Lejeune’s pre-eminent role in it
Book Review: Hitler’s Great Gamble
James Ellman imagines the counterfactual outcome of of Operation Barbarossa had Adolf Hitler been a better diplomat
Book Review: On a Knife’s Edge
Prit Buttar properly sets the WWII Battle of Stalingrad amid the broader context of winter campaigns in the Ukraine
Book Review: Undersea Warriors
Iain Ballantyne relates the exploits of British intelligence and ballistic missile submariners during the Cold War
Book Review: MacArthur’s Air Force
Bill Yenne examines how Douglas MacArthur effectively wielded airpower during from World War II through the Korean War
Book Review: Fire and Fortitude
John McManus restores historical balance by properly citing the Army’s role in first two years of the Pacific War
