James Donovan’s Blood of Heroes is among the most thorough existing one-volume histories of the Alamo, making it an excellent starting point for aficionados of all things Texas.
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Book Review: Front Burner, by Kirk S. Lippold
In Front Burner, Kirk Lippold, former commander of the guided missile destroyer USS Cole, reviews the October 2000 terrorist strike on his vessel in Aden, Yemen, and the aftermath, both military and personal.
MHQ Reviews: Blogging the Blue and Gray
Mark Grimsley recommends his favorite Civil War blogs.
MHQ Reviews: Walter Cronkite’s World War II Daze
In an excerpt from Timothy M. Gay’s book, Assignment to Hell, Walter Cronkite recounts his first experience in a glider as a reporter in World War II.
MHQ Reviews: How Soldiers Die in Battle
A new book by Michael Stephenson presents exhaustive research on the ways soldiers have died from antiquity to the present.
Book Review: Deep Trails in the Old West / A Frontier Memoir
The memoir Deep Trails in the Old West highlights Welsh-born ranch hand Frank Clifford, a peripheral player in the dramatic events that rocked frontier New Mexico.
Reviews – Vietnam Gun Truck
In Vietnam Gun Trucks by Gordon L. Rottman, the vehicles’ designs, names and markings are given generous treatment in the illustrations and descriptions.
Reviews – The Vietnam War from the Rear Echelon: An Intelligence Officer’s Memoir, 1972-1973
The Vietnam War from the Rear Echelon, by Timothy J. Lomperis, who served two tours of duty, is both memoir and history, offering a “mid-level” perspective of the rear-echelon war in Saigon
Reviews – The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam and the Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think About the Vietnam War
The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam and the Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think About the Vietnam War, by David Zierler, provides an examination of the first great ideological battle between nascent environmentalism and cold war dogmatism
Reviews – Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam
Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam by Lewis Sorley, is extensively researched and argued with precision, but it is not a balanced biography of Westmoreland so much as it is an indictment, and a damning one at that