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2020 Volume
2020-112
Formula for Failure in Vietnam: The Folly of Limited Warfare
By William Hamilton
A review by Thomas E. Hanson
2020-111
Operation Don's Main Attack: The Soviet Southern Front's Advance on Rostov, January-February 1943
By David M. Glantz
A review by Carl Cavanagh Hodge
2020-110
Confronting Case Blue: Briansk Front's Attempt to Derail the German Drive to the Caucasus, July 1942
By Igor' Sdvizhkov
A review by James R. Smither
2020-109
Master of Deception: The Wartime Adventures of Peter Fleming
By Alan Ogden
A review by Mark David Kaufman
2020-108
Prussian Army Soldiers and the Seven Years' War: The Psychology of Honour
By Katrin Mobius and Sascha Mobius
A review by James Mc Intyre
2020-107
The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
By Sean McFate
A review by Samuel B. Hoff
2020-106
War: How Conflict Shaped Us
By Margaret MacMillan
A review by Walter Scheidel
2020-105
Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs
By Peter Andreas
A review by Stanley Shapiro
2020-104
Lincoln's Informer: Charles A. Dana and the Inside Story of the Union War
By Carl J. Guarneri
A review by David W. Bulla
2020-103
Washington's Revolutionary War Generals
By Stephen R. Taaffe
A review by Ricardo A. Herrera
2020-102
Winds, Waves, and Warriors: Battling the Surf at Normandy, Tarawa, and Inchon
By Thomas M. Mitchell
A review by Penelope K. Hardy
2020-101
Signature Wounds: The Untold Story of the Military's Mental Health Crisis
By David Kieran
A review by Jean Scandlyn
2020-100
The U.S. Navy and Its Cold War Alliances, 1945-1953
By Corbin Williamson
A review by Kuan-Jen Chen
2020-099
Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict
By Eli Berman, Joseph H. Felter, and Jacob N. Shapiro
A review by Gates Brown
2020-098
To Defeat the Few: The Luftwaffe's Campaign to Destroy RAF Fighter Command, August-September 1940
By Douglas C. Dildy and Paul F. Crickmore
A review by Jonathan Beard
2020-097
War and Peace in the Western Political Imagination: From Classical Antiquity to the Age of Reason
By Roger B. Manning
A review by Alaric Searle
2020-096
The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940-1945
By Olivier Wieviorka
A review by A.R.B. Linderman
2020-095
Controlling Sex in Captivity: POWs and Sexual Desire in the United States during the Second World War
By Matthias Reiss
A review by Daniel Hutchinson
2020-094
The White Terror: Antisemitic and Political Violence in Hungary, 1919-1921
By Bela Bodo
A review by Peter Pastor
2020-093
Armoured Warfare: A Military, Political and Global History
By Alaric Searle
A review by Lee W. Eysturlid
2020-092
Bold Venture: The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942-1945
By Steven K. Bailey
A review by Mark D. Roehrs
2020-091
Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War: The Collapse of an Empire
By Peter Wetzler
A review by William D. O'Neil
2020-090
What Remains: Bringing America's Missing Home from the Vietnam War
By Sarah E. Wagner
A review by Thomas Hawley
2020-089
An Environmental History of the Civil War
By Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver
A review by Jonathan Beard
2020-088
Thoughts on War
By Phillip S. Meilinger
A review by Ralph M. Hitchens
2020-087
Brutality in an Age of Human Rights: Activism and Counterinsurgency at the End of the British Empire
By Brian Drohan
A review by Helen O'Shea
2020-086
Such Splendid Prisons: Diplomatic Detainment in America during World War II
By Harvey Solomon
A review by Rachel Pistol
2020-085
Blood and Fears: How America's Bomber Boys of the 8th Air Force Saved World War
By Kevin Wilson
A review by Heather Venable
2020-084
England and Spain in the Early Modern Era: Royal Love, Diplomacy, Trade and Naval Relations 1604-25
By Oscar Alfredo Ruiz Fernandez
A review by Wayne H. Bowen
2020-083
Titan: The Art of British Power in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon
By William R. Nester
A review by Mark Klobas
2020-082
Adopting Mission Command: Developing Leaders for a Superior Command Culture
By Donald Vandergriff
A review by Anthony King
2020-081
Six Victories: North Africa, Malta, and the Mediterranean Convoy War, November 1941-March 1942
By Vincent P. O'Hara
A review by Ralph M. Hitchens
2020-080
The RAF and Tribal Control: Airpower and Irregular Warfare between the World Wars
By Richard D. Newton
A review by Frank Ledwidge
2020-079
Hitler's Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway
By Despina Stratigakos
A review by Jonathan Beard
2020-078
Bomber Boys on Screen: RAF Bomber Command in Film and Television Drama
By S.P. Mackenzie
A review by Kevin M. Flanagan
2020-077
Internment in Switzerland during the First World War
By Susan Barton
A review by Dwight S. Mears
2020-076
This Will Make a Man of Me: The Life and Letters of a Teenage Officer in the Civil War
By James M. Scythes
A review by Gordon Alley-Young
2020-075
Eisenhower's Guerrillas: The Jedburghs, the Maquis, and the Liberation of France
By Benjamin F. Jones
A review by Bruce Zellers
2020-074
The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, The Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
By Sharon Weinberger
A review by David Cullen
2020-073
Allied Communication to the Public during the Second World War: National and Transnational Networks
Ed. Simon Eliot and Marc Wiggam
A review by Guy Hodgson
2020-072
Anthony Eden, Anglo-American Relations and the 1954 Indochina Crisis
By Kevin Ruane and Matthew Jones
A review by David M. Watry
2020-071
Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth
By Kevin M. Levin
A review by Robert Colby
2020-070
Killing for the Republic: Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War
By Steele Brand
A review by James R. Smither
2020-069
The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park: The Secret Intelligence Station That Helped Defeat the Nazis
By John Dermot Turing
A review by Jonathan Beard
2020-068
Blind Bombing: How Microwave Radar Brought the Allies to D-Day and Victory in World War II
By Norman M. Fine
A review by William D. O'Neil
2020-067
The Fighting Sullivans: How Hollywood and the Military Make Heroes
By Bruce Kuklick
A review by Stanley Shapiro
2020-066
Following in the Footsteps of Oliver Cromwell: A Historical Guide to the Civil War
By James Hobson
A review by Sarah Covington
2020-065
The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II
By Helen Fry
A review by Alan Malpass
2020-064
Under a Darkening Sky: The American Experience in Nazi Europe: 1939-1941
By Robert Lyman
A review by Donald Lateiner
2020-063
D-Day Remembered: The Normandy Landings in American Collective Memory
By Michael R. Dolski
A review by Christopher Fischer
2020-062
Dear Delia: the Civil War Letters of Captain Henry F. Young, Seventh Wisconsin Infantry
Ed. Michael J. Larson and John David Smith
A review by Eric C. Stoykovich
2020-061
Traumatic Defeat: POWs, MIAs, and National Mythmaking
By Patrick Gallagher
A review by James Quinn
2020-060
Marlborough's Other Army: The British Army and the Campaigns of the First Peninsular War, 1702-1712
By Nicholas Dorrell
A review by Caleb Karges
2020-059
The Hidden War in Argentina: British and American Espionage in World War II
By Panagiotis Dimitrakis
A review by Rich McGaha
2020-058
The Development of British Tactical Air Power, 1940-1943
By Matthew Powell
A review by Carl Cavanagh Hodge
2020-057
Marque and Reprisal: The Spheres of Public and Private War
By Kenneth B. Moss
A review by Christopher Spearin
2020-056
Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat
By Jonathan M. Steplyk
A review by Evan C. Rothera
2020-055
Battle for Belorussia: The Red Army's Forgotten Campaign of October 1943-April 1944
By David M. Glantz and Mary Elizabeth Glantz
A review by Mark Klobas
2020-054
Everything You Have Told Me Is True: The Many Faces of Al Shabaab
By Mary Harper
A review by Stig Jarle Hansen
2020-053
Rails of War: Supplying the Americans and Their Allies in China-Burma-India
By Steven James Hantzis
A review by Steven K. Bailey
2020-052
Marketing the Blue and Gray: Newspaper Advertising and the American Civil War
By Lawrence A. Kreiser Jr.
A review by Erika J. Pribanic-Smith
2020-051
The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History
By Monica Kim
A review by Jean-Michel Turcotte
2020-050
Spear to the West: Thought and Recruitment in Violent Jihadism
By Stephen Chan
A review by Caleb Cage
2020-049
The Fighting Essex Soldier: Recruitment, War and Society in the Fourteenth Century
Ed. Christopher Thornton, Jennifer Ward, and Neil Wiffen
A review by Ronald W. Braasch III
2020-048
War and Memory at the Time of the Fifth Crusade
By Megan Cassidy-Welch
A review by David Stewart Bachrach
2020-047
Britain's Railways in Wartime: The Nation's Lifeline
By Anthony Lambert
A review by Thomas Spain
2020-046
Winning Armageddon: Curtis LeMay and Strategic Air Command, 1948-1957
By Trevor Albertson
A review by Simon J. Moody
2020-045
Decision in the Atlantic: The Allies and the Longest Campaign of the Second World War
Ed. Marcus Faulkner and Christopher M. Bell
A review by Alan M. Anderson
2020-044
The Red Army and the Second World War
By Alexander Hill
A review by Timothy Heck
2020-043
River of Death: The Chickamauga Campaign
, vol. 1:
The Fall of Chattanooga
By William Glenn Robertson
A review by Thomas E. Hanson
2020-042
Maxwell Taylor's Cold War: From Berlin to Vietnam
By Ingo Trauschweizer
A review by Nathaniel L. Moir
2020-041
Quarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution
By John Gilbert McCurdy
A review by James Mc Intyre
2020-040
Unreasonable Behavior: An Autobiography
By Don McCullin
A review by Thomas G. Palaima
2020-039
Always at War: Organizational Culture in Strategic Air Command, 1946-62
By Melvin G. Deaile
A review by Joel I. Holwitt
2020-038
The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War
By Aaron Sheehan-Dean
A review by Samuel B. Hoff
2020-037
Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France
By Peter Caddick-Adams
A review by Carl Cavanagh Hodge
2020-036
The Boer War
By Martin Bossenbroek
A review by Lindsay Frederick Braun
2020-035
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
By Megan Kate Nelson
A review by Jonathan Beard
2020-034
On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864
By Gordon C. Rhea
A review by Andrew J. Roscoe
2020-033
The Final Act: The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation of the Cold War
By Michael Cotey Morgan
A review by Gerd Horten
2020-032
Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future
By Jason Phillips
A review by Allen C. York
2020-031
Limiting Risk in America's Wars: Airpower, Asymmetrics, and a New Strategic Paradigm
By Phillip S. Meilinger
A review by Heather Venable
2020-030
Alabamians in Blue: Freedmen, Unionists, and the Civil War in the Cotton State
By Christopher M. Rein
A review by Michael W. Fitzgerald
2020-029
Surrogate Warfare--The Transformation of War in the Twenty-First Century
By Andreas Krieg and Jean-Marc Rickli
A review by Arthur I. Cyr
2020-028
Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia: Burma 1941-1942
By Michael W. Charney
A review by William D. O'Neil
2020-027
Legion versus Phalanx: The Epic Struggle for Infantry Supremacy in the Ancient World
By Myke Cole
A review by Michael J. Taylor
2020-026
Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order
By J.C. Sharman
A review by James R. Smither
2020-025
Iran Rising: The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic
By Amin Saikal
A review by Robert L. Tignor
2020-024
Scandinavia and the Great Powers in the First World War
By Michael Jonas
A review by Mart Kuldkepp
2020-023
Napoleon's 1796 Italian Campaign
By Carl von Clausewitz
A review by John T. Kuehn
2020-022
World War I in Africa: The Forgotten Conflict among the European Powers
By Anne Samson
A review by Ian David Stewart
2020-021
Words Are Weapons: Inside ISIS's Rhetoric of Terror
By Philippe-Joseph Salazar
A review by Caleb Cage
2020-020
Red China: Mao Crushes Chiang's Kuomintang, 1949
By Gerry van Tonder
A review by Alaric Searle
2020-019
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
By Thomas E. Ricks
A review by Adrian R. Lewis
2020-018
On Cullen on Franklin,
Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War
A response by H. Bruce Franklin
2020-017
White Hat: The Military Career of Captain William Philo Clark
By Mark J. Nelson
A review by Robert S. McPherson
2020-016
Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War
By H. Bruce Franklin
A review by David Cullen
2020-015
Never in Finer Company: The Men of the Great War's Lost Battalion
By Edward G. Lengel
A review by E. Bruce Geelhoed
2020-014
The Backwash of War: An Extraordinary American Nurse in World War I
By Ellen N. La Motte
A review by Steven Trout
2020-013
Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918
By Guy Cuthbertson
A review by Carl Cavanagh Hodge
2020-012
Riviera at War: World War II on the Cote d'Azur
By George G. Kundahl
A review by David A. Messenger
2020-011
A Bad Peace and a Good War: Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795-1799
By Mark Santiago
A review by Robert S. McPherson
2020-010
The Americans on D-Day and in Normandy: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
By Brooke S. Blades
A review by Donald Lateiner
2020-009
Road to Disaster: A New History of America's Descent into Vietnam
By Brian VanDeMark
A review by James R. Smither
2020-008
Civil War Congress and the Creation of Modern America: A Revolution on the Home Front
Ed. Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon
A review by Michael E. Woods
2020-007
Our Friends the Enemies: The Occupation of France after Napoleon
By Christine Haynes
A review by M.R. Stirk
2020-006
State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein
By Lisa Blaydes
A review by Gates Brown
2020-005
The Marines in World War II
By Michael E. Haskew
A review by Chris K. Hemler
2020-004
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War
By Jeremy A. Yellen
A review by Mark Klobas
2020-003
Second World War British Military Camouflage: Designing Deception
By Isla Forsyth
A review by Remy Hemez
2020-002
Human Rights after Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes
By Dan Plesch
A review by David A. Messenger
2020-001
Spain at War: Society, Culture and Mobilization, 1936-44
Ed. James Matthews
A review by Andrea Davis
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