REVIEWS

Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam. by Lewis Sorley

For me, the Vietnam War was something that I read about and watched on television during my high school and college years, but had never studied it in depth.  Against that backdrop “Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam” is a stark eye-opener.  Author Lewis Sorley, an alumnus of the U. S. Military Academy and former member of Gen. Westmoreland’s staff, presents a history of the War and a portrait of the general who led it that is much different from what we heard from the media at the…

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Men of War: The American Soldier In Combat At Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, And Iwo Jima by Alexander Rose

In “Men of War” author Alexander Roe undertakes to produce an American version of John Keegan’s “The Face of Battle”.  This book examines the experience of the American combat soldier at three iconic battles: Bunker Hill, Gettysburg and Iwo Jima.   War History Network members will be surprised by some facts, such as that Americans were better armed and experienced than the British at Bunker Hill, the mid-nineteenth century criteria for amputation, that officers had higher casualty rates at…

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Indestructible: One Man's Rescue Mission That Changed The Course of WWII. by John R. Bruning

Some stories are just too good to be true, but they are.  Some figures are too wild, too undisciplined, too out of the mold to achieve greatly, but they do.  Such is the story of Pappy Gunn, World War II pilot, a knight of the air who fought his own war against the Japanese and his superiors and the family he flew to reunite.  Pappy was a retired Navy pilot running the small Philippine Airlines when the Japanese attacked across the Pacific.  Joining the Army Air Force, he made the decision to…

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The Russian Revolution and Bolshevik Victory: Causes and Processes. Edited and with an Introduction by Arthur E. Adams

This book is a collection of essays and excerpts from books by authors who have experienced or studied the Russian Revolution, its antecedents and aftermath.  Among the writers are George Keenan, Leon Trotsky and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.  They are organized into three sections, “The March Revolution”, “From March To October” and “The Bolshevik Victory.”  The advantage of this work is that it presents a variety of views, both favorable and not and brings out details that are…

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Alamein And The Desert War: A Dramatic Account of Victory In Africa By Field Marshal Bernard Mopngtgomery and Others Deited by Derek Jewell

“Alamein and the Desert War” is a collection of articles by participants in and students of the 1942-3 War in the North African Desert.  Anchored by a memoir by Field Marshal Montgomery, it provides the reader with a view of the North African theatre through the warriors’ eyes.  I did find some of the anecdotes, such as the collection of war slang, to be interesting.  The analyses of the battles and the generals involved, primarily Montgomery and Rommel, provide perspectives lacking in other…

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Corregidor: The Rock Force Assault. by Lt. Gen. E. M. Flanagan, Jr.

"Corregidor: The Rock Force Assault" is the story of the island by that name which has played a prominent role in the defense of Manila Harbor. This book gives a good history of the island and the troops who recaptured it in 1945.Illustrating the continuity of warfare and the careers of the soldiers MacArthur, this book begins with the story of the conquest of the Philippines by American Forces under the command of General Arthur MacArthur in 1898 during the Spanish American War. It then…

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Retaking The Philippines: America's Return to Corregidor and Bataan: October 1944-March 1945. by William B. Breuer

“Retaking The Philippines” is an account of this crucial campaign that redeemed   America’s honor and brought its forces a step closer to the conquest of Japan. It begins with the crucial conference in Hawaii in which President Roosevelt arbitrated the competing plans of Gen. MacArthur to retake the Philippines on the way to Japan and Adm. Nimitz’ scheme to bypass them with a sweep across the Pacific to Formosa and then north.  Arriving to a hero’s welcome, the General hammered that another…

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John C. Fremont's 100 Days: Clashes and Convictions in Civil War Missouri by author Gregory Wolk

John Fremont’s 100 Days: Clashes and Convictions in Civil War Missouri is a brief (216 pages) work that chronicles events that were critical in decisive days in a Border State, and reflect how political influences that are representative of other states but are often overlooked in Civil War books. Its principal character of this play, John C. Fremont, is a significant figure in American history. Trained as a t, he had topographical engineer, he had participated in a two-year expedition to the…

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Fighting Back- Stan Andrews And The Birth Of The Israeli Air Force

“Fighting Back” is the martial biogrreadersaphy of Stan Andrews, a pilot who risked his life that the Star Spangled Banner wave above the land of the free and gave his life to see the Star of David in the sky, imbedded in a history of the birth of the Israeli Air Force.  Born Stanley Anekstein in New York in 1923, Stan chose to change his name to the less Semitic sounding Andrews on a friend’s suggestion in 1942.  Drawn to the romantic calling of fighter pilot, Stan enlisted in the U. Army in…

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The First World War in the Baltic Sea, Volume 1: Essen's Triumph, 1914 to February 1915.

Some War History Network members are familiar with the theatres and lore of World War I, but The First World War in the Baltic Sea: Volume 1: Essen’s triumph, 1914 to February 1915 is likely to expand the ken of even the most seasoned.   Contrary to the customary focus on ground combat in the Eastern and Western Fronts or the Dardanelles campaign, it chronicles naval action in waters that seemed to hold significance in the early months of the War, but became, literally and figuratively, a…

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SELECTED REVIEWS - COMPLETE CATALOG ABOVE

18TH AND 19TH CENTURY WAR AND CONFLICT
· The Dawn of Guerrilla Warfare
· The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship 
· War Along The Wabash

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
· Appomattox: The Last Days of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia
· Civil War on The Western Border: 1854-1865
· Guerrilla Hunters In Civil War Missouri
· The Last Confederate General: John C. Vaughn and His East Tennessee Cavalry
· A Soldier to the Last: Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler in Blue and Gray
· The Last Confederate General: John C. Vaughn and His East Tennessee Cavalry
· Lost Civil War: The Disappearing Legacy of America's Greatest Conflict
· Make Way For Liberty: Wisconsin African Americans In The Civil War
· The Presidents' War
· This Wicked Rebellion: Wisconsin Civil War Soldiers Write Home
· Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
· Unlike Anything That Ever Floated: The Monitor and Virginia and the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862
· War In The Mountains: The Macbeth Light Artillery At Asheville, NC 1864-1865
· Wisconsin Women In The War Between The States

AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR
· Crisis At The Chesapeake: The Royal Navy and the Struggle for America 1775-1783
· George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved The American Revolution
· John Hancock: Merchant King and American Patriot
· Morristown: The Darkest Winter of the Revolutionary War and the Plot to Kidnap George Washington
· The Philadelphia Campaign
· Pierre Gibault, Missionary 1737-1802
· Revolutionary War Forts: New York
· Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth
· A Very Fine Regiment: The 47th Foot during the American War of Independence, 1773-1783

ANCIENT, CLASSICAL AND MEDIEVAL WAR
· King John: Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England; Road to Magna Carta
· Warfare in the Age of Crusades

THE HOLOCAUST
· The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
· Elie Wiesel’s Night: One Writer’s Voice from the Holocaust
· The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
· Tot De Dood Ons Scheidt (Till Death Do Us Part)

MODERN WAR & CONFLICT
· Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
· Future Peace: Technology, Aggression, And The Rush To War
· The Fighters: Americans In Combat In Afghanistan and Iraq
· The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

VIETNAM WAR
· Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music by John Fogerty
· SOG Kontum: Top Secret Missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, 1968–1969

WAR OF 1812
· Black Redcoats: The Corps of Colonial Marines 1814-1816
· A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South
· Don't Give Up The Ship: Myths of the War of 1812
· Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15 with an Atlas
· Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812

WORLD WAR I
· 14-18: Understanding The Great War
· American Journalists In The Great War: Rewriting The Rules Of Reporting
· American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
· Asleep in the Deep; Nursing Sister Anna Stamers and the First World War
· Botha, Smuts And The Great War
· Curse of the Narrows
· Faith in Conflict: The Impact of the Great War on the faith of the people of Britain
· General Jan Smuts and his First World War in Africa, 1914–1917: Incorporating His German South West and East Africa Campaigns
· The Great Halifax Explosion
· Letters from the Front: 1898-1945
· The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel

WORLD WAR II
· All Behind You, Winston: Churchill's Great Coalition 1940-45
· The Americans on D-Day: A Photographic History of the Normandy Invasion
· The Bedford Boys: One American Town’s Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice
· Burning the Reichstag: An Investigation into the Third Reich's Enduring Mystery
· Colditz: The Full Story
· Devil Dogs: King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines: From Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan
· Generals and Admirals of the Third Reich for Country or Fuehrer: Volume 1: A–G
· Hitlerland: American Eyewitness to the Nazi Rise to Power
· How Ike Led
· The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved The Republican Party And His Country, And Conceived A New World Order
· The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
· The Longest Winter
· Lucky 666: The Impossible Mission
· Nightstalkers: The Wright Project and the 868th Bomb Squadron in World War II
· Red Arrow Across The Pacific: The Thirty-Second Infantry Division During World War II
· Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II
· The Splendid And The Vile
· Three Days At The Brink: FDR's Daring Gamble To Win World War II
· Uniting America: How FDR and Henry Stimson Brought Democrats and Republicans Together to Win World War II
· Warbird Factory: North American Aviation in World War II
· We Band of Angels
· Winning French Minds, Radio Propaganda in Occupied France 1940-42
· Women Remember The War 1941-1945

UNCATEGORIZED
· Commanders In Chief: Presidential Leadership In Modern Wars
· French Republic's Fighting Men: 1880-1914
· The General and the Jaguar
· From Ushant To Gibraltar: The Channel Fleet 1778-1783