The Civil War Generals – Book Review
Robert I. Girardi’s “The Civil War Generals: Comrades, Peers, Rivals in Their Own Words” delivers what its title promises – Civil War generals talking about other Civil War generals – and more besides.
Read MoreRobert I. Girardi’s “The Civil War Generals: Comrades, Peers, Rivals in Their Own Words” delivers what its title promises – Civil War generals talking about other Civil War generals – and more besides.
Read MoreThe book “Battlefield Angels: Saving Lives under Enemy Fire from Valley Forge to Afghanistan” shines a much-needed light on the all-too-often overlooked service of military corpsmen and medics and the evolution of battlefield medical care.
Read MoreIn “Hitler’s Master of the Dark Arts: Himmler’s Black Knights and the Occult Origins of the SS” Bill Yenne explores how Hitler and Himmler used a variety of social movements in 1920s Germany to create the mythic images of the SS.
Read MoreAfter the War: The Lives and Images of Major Civil War Figures After the Shooting Stopped, by David Hardin, tells the post-war stories of 11 figures from the Civil War, ranging from U.S. Grant to Mary Chestnut.
Read MoreRommel’s Desert War by Martin Kitchen is very well researched and very well written though it relies too heavily on reports from German staff officers who themselves deeply disliked Rommel and sought any opportunity to discredit him.
Read MoreNaked in Da Nang tells the story of a Forward Air Controller or FAC in Vietnam from 1971 to 1972. Now in its third printing, the latest edition contains a new afterword.
Read MoreThis review of The Most Dangerous Enemy: An Illustrated History of the Battle of Britain says this outstanding book, illustrated with over 150 photos, maps and more, is likely to become the definitive account of the Battle of Britain.
Read MoreA book review of ‘Highlander: The History of the Legendary Highland Soldier’ praises the book as ‘not only a pleasurable read but also a great starting point for further scholarly study of the Highland soldier.’
Read MoreA review of This Marvelous Country, a collection of WWII letters between a B-17 combat pilot and instructor and his future wife plus details from an unpublished memoir.
Read MoreThe Purple Heart, now awarded to U.S. military personnel wounded or killed in action or during captivity, has its origins with George Washington and the American Revolution.
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