Frank Ledwidge reviews two books on the history of war in Afghanistan
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Book Review: The Settlers’ War, by Gregory Michno
Gregory Michno takes a hard look at the bitter frontier conflict between Texas settlers and Indians in the 1860s.
Book Review – Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency From Ford to Obama, by Marvin and Deborah Kalb
Some historical perspective on the different ways that “Vietnam” has influenced the Oval Office
Book Review: Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds / A Medical Odysssey From Vietnam to Afghanistan
Spells out the medical consequences of war, from the Civil War to today’s fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, where more veterans are surviving but with more serious wounds
Book Review – In the Company of Marines: A Surgeon Remembers Vietnam, by James O. Finnegan, M.D.
A young surgeon experienced the war in Vietnam intently, and his poignant stories shed light on the reality of a doctor’s war
Book Review – The 14-Hour War: Valor on Koh Tang and the Recapture of the SS Mayaguez, by James E. Wise Jr. and Scott Baron
The ingredients that combined to create the Mayaguez disaster, the “last battle of the Vietnam War,” following the fall of Saigon
Book Review – F-100 Super Sabre Units of the Vietnam War, by Peter E. Davies and David W. Menard
Sheds some light on an early workhorse, and warhorse, of the air war in Indochina–the first Western jet fighter capable of sustained Mach 1 flight
MHQ Reviews: Storm of War, Inferno
Andrew Roberts and Max Hastings both try to put all of World War II in one book.
MHQ Reviews: Colin Woodard’s American Nations
An excerpt from a new book about the clashing “nations” within America.
Holiday Shopping? Best Books of 2011
MHQ highlights the year’s great reads in military history.