A review of The World's Bloodiest History: Massacre, Genocide, and the Scars They Left on Civilization says the book is almost unrelentingly grim but should be in the library of every military and political leader for what it teaches.
Read MoreA review of Empress Zenobia: Palmyra's Rebel Queen says Pat Southern's book is a comprehensive yet readable attempt to pick through the meager evidence that is available on the woman who led an army against the Roman Empire-and nearly won.
Read MoreThis review of Nigel Cawthorne's The Immortals: History's Fighting Elites praises the book for its accuracy and choices of elite units.
Read MoreA review of Steven L. Melton's The Clausewitz Delusion, a book that maintains the U.S. Army's infatuation with the writings of 19th-century military theoretician Carl von Clausewitz led to many of the problems in the Irag and Afghanistan wars.
Read MoreIn his work Blood & Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism, Burleigh unabashedly shows terrorism as the atrocity it really is. An Armchair General review.
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