“The Pusan Perimeter” is an chronicle of the desperate defense of the Korean Peninsula from the North Korean attack of June 1950 through the days of the stable defensive line behind which the Inchon landings, that were to reverse the tide of the Kore
Read more…“Trust and Leadership” consists of thirteen chronologically sequenced chapters, each being an essay on Mission Command as demonstrated in the operation covered from World War I to the Queensland National Emergency of 2010-2011 and extending from Ga
Read more…Donald L. Miller's, Masters of the Air, is a widely acclaimed and bestselling story of the American Eighth Air Force (The Mighty Eighth) during World War II. Using interviews, oral histories, and other archives, it’s considered an authoritative acc
Read more…I started “Light Horse Harry” in hopes of learning about a Revolutionary figure of whom I had only a superficial familiarity. I knew he was the failed father of Robert E. Lee to whom left little other than an historic name. I found a much more si
Read more…Being that this year (2025) marks the 80th anniversary of the conclusion of World War II, and just days ago, we recently surpassed the 80th anniversary of the Japanese surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri on September 2nd, 1945. Across the Uni
Read more…A Day In September is an account and an analysis of America’s bloodiest day of warfare, September 17, 1862, when the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac clashed along the banks of Antietam Creek near the town of Sharpsburg, Maryla
Read more…Much of the cause of the War of 1812 arose out of maritime disputes: Free Trade and Sailors’ Rights. “Perilous Fight” is an exhaustive study of America’s War with Britain on the high seas, 1812-1815. Although the most significant aspects of the N
Read more…As War History Network members know, war often originates in political realms and is fought by politicians as well as soldiers and sailors. Patrick Henry is one politician inextricably entwined in the American Revolution. His place in American hi
Read more…War histories usually focus on battles and strategies, generals and admirals, presidents and privates. Occasionally there is mention of the Age of Total War, of the American superiority of resources that overwhelmed Germany and Japan, but where do
Read more…War History Network members will appreciate that World War II was fought as much in the factory, the farm and the mine as it was in the battlefield. “The Arsenal of Democracy” tells the role that the Ford Motor Company played in producing the materi
Read more…War History Network members realize that not all war stories are set on the battlefield. “Volunteers” is a memoir of a son and member of the military class. It is a tale of aspiration and discouragement, deployment and divorce, idealization and dis
Read more…The World War II plight of Japanese Americans is common knowledge to War History Network readers. “Most Honorable Son” is a different take on the oft told story.
This is the tale of Ben Kuroki, a Nebraska farm boy born in 1917 to Japanese-American
Read more…War History Network members are aware that wars are fought by the warriors who fill the ranks before and during conflicts. “Russia’s Fighting Men: 1880-1914” is a study of the men who prepared to defend their nation in the years leading up to Worl
Read more…“Black Redcoats” is a study of the hundreds of American Blacks, mostly run-away slaves, who served in the British Colonial Marines in the Southern theatres during the War of 1812. Drawn from plantations around Chesapeake Bay, the Georgia Sea Islands
Read more… War History Network members are familiar many War II tales but one that is frequently overlooked is told in We Band Of Angels. It contains the story of 99 American nurses trapped on Bataan and Corregidor during the Japanese conquest of 1942.
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To War History Network members familiar with George Washington and a few Revolutionary War battles, the introductory, theme setting statement: “There was in the end no way in which the Americans could have ultimately been denied their independence;
Read more…Unlike Anything That Ever Floated approaches the classic Battle of Hampton Roads between the Monitor and Virginia from two perspectives. It goes into extensive detail about the engineering and mechanical features of each vessel as well as the occur
Read more…War History is not solely made on the battlefields. The meetings that lay the plans for victory are as much a part of the story as the shot and shell. Allied plans for World War II and its sequalae were formulated in a series of conferences invol
Read more…War History Network members know that war studies have many aspects. They focus on the big story, who won the war or battle, the life of the individual participant and the betwixt and between, the smaller battles, and the roles of the participants
Read more…Friction between the United States and Mexico is a long saga that sometimes erupted into military conflict. The General and the Jaguar by Eileen Welsome chronicles a particular flashpoint in that relationship. The General is John J. Pershing, the
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