Though rarely remembered today, Pierre Gibault was a crucial figure in the American Revolution in the West. A native of New France, Gibault was ordained to the priesthood in Quebec and assigned to the Illinois Country. Settling in Kaskaskia, Illi
War History Network members appreciate the multi-faceted impact of war. Botha, Smuts And The Great War is a fascinating case study of the then new Union of South Africa. Its path to war shared factors with that other USA, the United States of Amer
Commanders In Chief consists of revised papers read before a symposium of the Military Studies Institute of Texas A & M University in 1990. Modern wartime presidents studied are William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, L
Casemate's "Revolutionary Forts: New York" is an illustrated history and travel guidebook. It features 23 forts, spread along Long Island, the Hudson, Delaware, and Mohawk Rivers and Lake Champlain. Some are famous and well preserved, like Fort Tic
War History Network members often look for the story behind the headlines and "George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution" takes the reader behind the shades into the world of espionage.
I opened King John expecting to add to what I knew from old movies, that he was a disgruntled usurper who had to face his brother, Richard the Lionhearted, when Richard returned from captivity after leading a Crusade, who was eventually forced to s
“Tohopeka; Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812” consists of twelve essays by multiple authors chronicling the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, the defeat of the Creek Indians that opened the Southeast to white settlement. Topics include casualti
The story of any war is broader than its tales of the battlefield. “American Midnight” is the saga of an era, during and in the wake of the World War I in which popular sentiment and law focused on any deemed disloyal, un-American or different. I
Asleep in the Deep is the story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC), loosely told through the experience of Nursing Sister Anna Stamers of St. John, New Brunswick. As Stamers left neither diary nor first person narratives, author Dianne Kell
Wars may have specific starting dates, April 12, 1861 and September 1, 1939 to cite two, but the wheels on which they ride had been turning for some time. “The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel” is history, biography and mystery of a life that spaw
"Winning French Minds" by Denis Courtois offers a compelling exploration of a lesser-known facet of World War II—radio propaganda in occupied France during the critical years of 1940-1942. In this meticulously researched and thought-provoking work,
Most books reviewed on War History Network are exclusively war orientated. Lighthouses of the Georgia Coast reveals a facet of the America Civil War in its history and tourist guide to Georgia lighthouses.
Many War History Network members may have a deep understanding of a particular war or era of history and a more general knowledge of others. The Philadelphia Campaign is a detailed study for those with a general familiarity with the Revolutionary
War History members seeking a deeper understanding of the War of 1812 are well advised to look to “Don’t Give Up The Ship”. Unlike histories arranged chronologically or limited to a particular individual or events, this one is arranged into six t
In the minds of many War History Network readers, Indian Wars occurred out west and to the extent that they think of it at all, the War of 1812 occurred in Washington, Fort McHenry and New Orleans. “A Brutal Reckoning” tells of another related war
This tome may have been written with War History Readers in mind. The title of “A Soldier to the Last” is very descriptive, as it is a biography of Major General Joseph Wheeler with his military career the focal point. His personal and political
War History Network readers often seek guidance to contemporary events in historical precedent. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History is real-time account written by an historian possessing a deep appreciation of Ukrainian history and cul
Most war literature focuses on battles, armies, navies, soldiers, sailors, ships, planes or ordinance. War History Network members know there is much more. “Ways and Means” documents the crucial role economics played in the Civil War, particularly
14-18: Understanding The Great War is a re-issue of a 15 year-old work written by two French historians who specialize in that war that brought so much suffering on their homeland. This translation from the French by Catherine Temerson provides En
If asked to name the blackest day in American military history, War History Network readers might suggest the reduction of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, the destruction of the Seventh Cavalry at the Little Big Horn on June 26, 1876 or the Japanese at
