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Books Available for Review (most recent listings starred):

Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern

Early Carolingian Warfare: Prelude to Empire
By Bernard S. Bachrach
Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2011 [hc 2001]. Pp. xii, 430. ISBN 978-0-8122-2144-2.

Legions of Rome: The Definitive History of Every Imperial Roman Legion
By Stephen Dando-Collins
New York: Thomas Dunne, 2010. Pp. 608. ISBN 978-1-250-00471-0.

* Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor: Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery
By Gregory S. Aldrete, Scott Bartell, and Alicia Aldrete
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. viii, 279. ISBN 978-1-4214-0819-4.

Spartacus
By Aldo Schiavone
Trans. J. Carden; Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. xii, 177. ISBN 978-0-674-05778-4.

A Storm of Spears: Understanding the Greek Hoplite at War
By Christopher Matthew
Philadelphia: Casemate, 2012. Pp. xxi, 314. ISBN 978-1-61200-119-7.

American Revolution

No Turning Point: The Saratoga Campaign in Perspective
By Theodore Corbett
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2012. Pp. xii, 436. ISBN 978-0-8061-4276-0.

Napoleonic Wars/War of 1812

The Captain Who Burned His Ships: Captain Thomas Tingey, USN, 1750-1829
By Gordon S. Brown
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2011. Pp. viii, 200. ISBN 978-1-61251-044-6.

* Through the Perilous Fight: Six Weeks That Saved the Nation
By Steve Vogel
New York: Random House, 2013. Pp. xviii, 534. ISBN 978-1-4000-6913-2.

Utmost Gallantry: The U.S. and Royal Navies at Sea in the War of 1812
By Kevin D. McCranie
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2011. Pp. xv, 365. ISBN 978-1-59114-504-2.

The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812
By Troy Bickham
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. xi, 325. ISBN 978-0-19-539178-7.

When Washington Burned: An Illustrated History of the War of 1812
By Arnold Blumberg
Philadelphia: Casemate, 2012. Pp. 206. ISBN 978-1-61200-101-2.

US West/Indian Wars

Osceola and the Great Seminole War: A Struggle for Justice and Freedom
By Thom Hatch
New York: St. Martin's, 2012. Pp. x, 322. ISBN 978-0-312-35591-3.

Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago
By Ann Durkin Keating
Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. xxiv, 294. ISBN 978-0-226-42896-3.

US Civil War

Battle of Stones River: The Forgotten Conflict between the Confederate Army of Tennessee and the Union Army of the Cumberland
By Larry J. Daniel
Baton Rouge: Louisiana Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. xiii, 313. ISBN 978-0-8071-4516-6.

Born to Battle: Grant and Forrest: Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga
By Jack Hurst
New York: Basic Books, 2012. Pp. xxv, 486. ISBN 978-0-465-02018-8.

Fight All Day, March All Night: A Medal of Honor Recipient's Story
By Wayne Mahood
Albany: SUNY Press, 2012. Pp. xiv, 236. ISBN 978-1-4384-4507-6.

The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War
By David S. Cecelski
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2012. Pp. xx, 326. ISBN 978-0-8078-3566-1.

The Golden State in the Civil War: Thomas Starr King, the Republican Party, and the Birth of Modern California
By Glenna Matthews
New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. xii, 272. ISBN 978-1-107-63921-8.

The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America
By William G. Thomas
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2011. Pp. 281. ISBN 978-0-300-18746-5.

John Brown's Spy: The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook
By Steven Lubet
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. x, 325. ISBN 978-0-300-18049-7.

Lincoln and McClellan at War
By Chester G. Hearn
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. 257. ISBN 978-0-8071-4552-4.

Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
By Tony Horwitz
New York: Henry Holt, 2011. Pp. xiv, 365. ISBN 978-0-8050-9153-3.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War
By William L. Barney
Rev. ed. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2011. Pp. 378. ISBN 978-0-19-978201-7.

* Shiloh, 1862
By Winston Groom
Washington: National Geographic, 2012. Pp. 446. ISBN 978-1-4262-0874-4.

Terrible Swift Sword: The Life of General Philip H. Sheridan
By Joseph Wheelan
Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2012. Pp. xxiii, 387. ISBN 978-0-306-82027-4.

To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862
By D. Scott Hartwig
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. ix, 794. ISBN 978-1-4214-0631-4.

War Stories: Suffering and Sacrifice in the Civil War North
Ed. Frances M. Clarke
Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. xiv, 251. ISBN 978-0-226-10862-9.

Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South
By Libra R. Hilde
Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2012. Pp. viii, 317. ISBN 978-0-8139-3212-5.

19th-Century - Other

* Bismarck: A Life
By Jonathan Steinberg
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2011. Pp. x, 577. ISBN 978-0-19-997539-6.

* Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
By William Dalrymple
New York: Knopf, 2013. Pp. xxxviii, 515. ISBN 978-0-307-95828-0.

World War I

Crossfire: The Battle of the Four Courts, 1916
By Paul O'Brien
Dublin: New Island, 2012. Pp. xi, 122. ISBN 978-1-84840-129-7 [For joint review; see below].
Field of Fire: The Battle of Ashbourne, 1916
By Paul O'Brien
Dublin: New Island, 2012. Pp. xi1, 101. ISBN 978-1-84840-156-3 [For joint review; see above].

* British Artillery on the Western Front in the First World War: "The Infantry Cannot Do with a Gun Less"
By Sanders Marble
Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xvii, 285. ISBN 978-1-4094-1110-9.

July 1914: Countdown to War
By Sean McMeekin
New York: Basic Books, 2013. Pp. xviii, 461. ISBN 978-0-465-03145-0.

The Making of the First World War
By Ian F.W. Beckett
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. xii, 263. ISBN 978-0-300-16202-8.

They Called Them Soldier Boys: A Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I
By Gregory W. Ball
Denton: Univ. of North Texas Press, 2013. Pp. xv, 240. ISBN 978-1-57441-500-1.

World War II

Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare
By Stephen Budiansky
New York: Knopf, 2013. Pp. xxiii, 306. ISBN 978-0-307-59596-6.

The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944
By Michael Neiberg
New York: Basic Books, 2012. Pp. xxxi, 309. ISBN 978-0-465-02399-8.

Defying Evil: How the Italian Army Saved Croatian Jews during the Holocaust
By Benjamin Wood
Palisades, NY: History Publishing Co., 2012. Pp. 230. ISBN 978-1-933909-27-1.

The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War
By Halik Kochanski
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. xxxi, 734. ISBN 978-0-647-06814-8.

Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide in the Second World War
By Paul Kennedy
NY: Random House, 2013. Pp. xxvi, 436. ISBN 978-1-4000-6761-9.

Fatal Dive: Solving the World War II Mystery of the USS Grunion
By Peter F. Stevens
Washington: Regnery, 2012. Pp. xiv, 256. ISBN 978-o-307-37722-7.

Final Victory: FDR's Extraordinary World War II Presidential Campaign
By Stanley Weintraub
Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2012. Pp. xii, 318. ISBN 978-0-306-82113-4.

Finish Forty and Home: The Untold World War II Story of B-24s in the Pacific
By Phil Scearce
Denton: Univ. of North Texas Press, 2011. Pp. xiv, 373. ISBN 978-1-57441-316-8.

Five Days That Shocked the World: Eyewitness Accounts from Europe at the End of World War II
By Nicholas Best
New York: Thomas Dunne, 2012. Pp. xiv, 369. ISBN 978-0-312-61492-8.

Free France's Lion: The Life of Philippe Leclerc, De Gaulle's Greatest General
By William M. Moore
Philadelphia: Casemate, 2011. Pp. xx, 508. ISBN 978-1-61200-068-8.

The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
By Denise Kiernan
New York: Touchstone, 2013. Pp. xvii, 371. ISBN 978-1-4516-1752-8.

* Going for Broke: Japanese American Soldiers in the War against Nazi Germany
By James M. McCaffrey
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2013. Pp. xv, 408. ISBN 978-0-8061-4337-8.

* The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe
By Stephen Harding
Boston: Da Capo, 2013. Pp. 223. ISBN 978-0-306-82208-7.

Leyte, 1944: The Soldiers' Battle
By Nathan N. Prefer
Philadelphia: Casemate, 2012. Pp. 394. ISBN 978-1-61200-155-5.

* Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell
By Peter Caddick-Adams
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. xvi, 396. ISBN 978-0-19-997464-1.

Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence: Coming Home to Hood River
By Linda Tamura
Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 2012. Pp. xx, 346. ISBN 978-0-295-99209-9.

Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR's White House Triggered Pearl Harbor
By John Koster
Washington: Regnery, 2012. Pp. xxi, 250. ISBN 978-1-59698-322-9.

* The OSS in Burma: Jungle War against the Japanese
By Troy J. Sacquety
Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2013. Pp. xiv, 320. ISBN 978-1-7006-1909-2.

The Pacific War Uncensored: A War Correspondent's Unvarnished Account of the Fight against Japan
By Harold Guard
Ed. John Tring. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2011. Pp. 236. ISBN 978-1-61200-081-7.

Promoting the War Effort: Robert Horton and Federal Propaganda, 1938-1946
By Mordecai Lee
Baton Rouge: LSU Pr, 2012. Pp. xx, 278. ISBN 978-0-8071-4529-6.

Sacrifice on the Steppe: The Italian Alpine Corps in the Stalingrad Campaign, 1942-1943
By Hope Hamilton
Philadelphia: Casemate, 2011. Pp. xiii, 366. ISBN 978-1-61200-002-2.

* Shrapnel: A Memoir
By William Wharton
New York: William Morrow, 2013. Pp. 263. ISBN 978-0-06-225737-6.

Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World
By Jan Karski
Washington: Georgetown Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. xxxi, 414. ISBN 978-1-58901-983-6.

* Suddenly, While Abroad: Hitler's Irish Slaves
By David Blake Knox
Dublin: New Island, 2012. Pp. x, 315. ISBN 978-1-84840-200-3.

The Sword of St. Michael: The 82nd Airborne Division in World War II
By Guy LoFaro
Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2011. Pp. xiii, 746. ISBN 978-0-306-82023-6.

* A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction
By Ruth Franklin
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2011. Pp. x, 256. ISBN 978-0-19-531396-3.

Cold War

The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis: Castro, Mikoyan, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Missiles of November
By Sergo Mikoyan
Ed. Svetlana Sovranskaya; Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. xxii, 589. ISBN 978-0-8047-6201-4.

War, Guilt, and World Politics after World War II
By Thomas U. Berger
New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. vii, 259. ISBN 978-1-107-67495-0.

Korean War

Such Men as These: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies over Korea
By David Sears
Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2010. Pp. xi, 395. ISBN 978-0-306-81851-6.

Vietnam War

Blackhorse Riders: A Desperate Last Stand, an Extraordinary Rescue Mission, and the Vietnam Battle America Forgot
By Philip Keith
New York: St. Martin's, 2012. Pp. xviii, 331. ISBN 978-0-312-68192-0.

* Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam
By James G. Hershberg
Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. xix, 890. ISBN 978-0-8047-7884-8.

Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam
By Edward Miller
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. 419. ISBN 978-0-674-07298-5.

20th Century - Other

Forced Marches: Soldiers and Military Caciques in Modern Mexico
Ed. Ben Fallaw and Terry Rugeley
Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press, 2012. Pp. vii, 277. ISBN 978-0-8165-2042-8.

Israel vs. Iran: The Shadow War
By Yaakov Katz and Yoaz Hendel
Washington: Potomac Books, 2012. Pp. x, 243. ISBN 978-1-59797-668-8.

Underdogs: The Making of the Modern Marine Corps
By Aaron B. O'Connell
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. xiii, 381. ISBN 978-0-674-05827-9.

21st Century

Bleeding Talent: How the US Military Mismanages Great Leaders and Why It's Time for a Revolution
By Tim Kane
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. xii, 271. ISBN 978-0-230-39127-7.

Breaking Iraq: The Ten Mistakes That Broke Iraq
By Ted Spain and Terry Turchie
Palisades, NY: History Publishing, 2013. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-933909-53-0.

The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama
By Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor
New York: Pantheon, 2012. Pp. xix, 779. ISBN 978-1-59698-767-8.

Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War
Ed. Roy Scranton and Matt Gallagher
Philadelphia: Da Capo Press, 2013. Pp. xvii, 234. ISBN 978-0-306-82176-9.

The Last Man: A Novel
By P.T. Deutermann
New York: St. Martin's, 2012. Pp. 354. ISBN 978-0-312-59945-4.

Mission Revolution: The U.S. Military and Stability Operations
By Jennifer Morrison Taw
New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. xvi, 261. ISBN 978-0-231-15324-9.

No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan
By Ben Anderson
Oxford: Oneworld, 2011. Pp. xxiii, 268. ISBN 978-1-85168-977-4.

The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan
By Michael Hastings
New York: Blue Rider Press, 2012. Pp. xvi, 261. ISBN 978-0-399-15988-6.

Multiple time periods

* Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present
By Brendan Simms
New York: Basic Books, 2013. Pp. xxviii, 690. ISBN 978-0-465-01333-3.

Languages and the Military: Alliances, Occupation and Peace Building
Ed. Hilary Foottit and Michael Kelly
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. xii, 249. ISBN 978-0-230-36551-3.

Parliaments and Military Missions
Ed. Sascha Hardt, Luc Verhey, and Wytze van der Woude
Groningen: Europa Law Publishing, 2012. Pp. viii, 57. ISBN 978-90-8952-118-7.