Reviews:
The Papers of George Catlett Marshall, Vol. 6: “The Whole World Hangs in the Balance” January 8, 1947-September 30, 1949, edited by Larry I. Bland, Mark A. Stoler, Sharon Ritenour Stevens, and Daniel D. Holt, reviewed by Katherine K. Reist and by Günter Bischof, 1439-42
Talking About Naval History: A Collection of Essays, by John B. Hattendorf, reviewed by Andrew Lambert, 1442-43
Rome’s Italian Wars, Books 6-10, by Titus Livius (Livy), new translation by J. C. Yardley, introduction and notes by Dexter Hoyos, reviewed by Craig H. Caldwell III, 1443-45
The Byzantine Art of War, by Michael J. Decker, reviewed by J. P. Karras, 1445-46
Crusade and Christendom: Annotated Documents in Translation from Innocent III to the Fall of Acre, 1187-1291, edited by Jessalyn Bird, Edward Peters, and James M. Powell, reviewed by Timothy Guard, 1446-47
Poltava 1709. The Battle and the Myth, edited by Serhii Plokhy, reviewed by Brian Davies, 1447-49
Mayhem: Post-War Crime and Violence in Britain, 1748-53, by Nicholas Rogers, reviewed by Andrea McKenzie, 1450-51
The Seven Years War: Global Views, edited by Mark H. Danley and Patrick J. Speelman, reviewed by Tim Blanning, 1451-52
Guyasuta and the Fall of Indian America, by Brady J. Crytzer, reviewed by Colin G. Calloway, 1453-54
Memories of War: Visiting Battlegrounds and Bonefields in the Early American Republic, by Thomas A. Chambers, reviewed by Thomas J. Brown, 1454-55
“Light Horse Harry” Lee in the War for Independence: A Military Biography of Robert E. Lee’s Father, by Jim Piecuch and John Beakes, reviewed by Ricardo A. Herrera, 1455-57
A Generous and Merciful Enemy: Life for German Prisoners of War during the American Revolution, by Daniel Krebs, reviewed by Greg Eanes, 1457-58
No Turning Point: The Saratoga Campaign in Perspective, by Theodore Corbett, reviewed by John Coltrain, 1458-59
The Blood Be Upon Your Head: Tarleton and the Myth of Buford’s Massacre. The Battle of the Waxhaws, May 29, 1780, by Jim Piecuch, reviewed by Carole Watterson Troxler, 1459-61
Sacred Scripture, Sacred War: The Bible and the American Revolution, by James P. Byrd, reviewed by George C. Rable, 1461-62
Under the Shadow of Napoleon: French Influence on the American Way of Warfare from the War of 1812 to the Outbreak of WWII, by Michael A. Bonura, reviewed by Bruce Vandervort, 1462-65
War, Clausewitz and the Trinity, by Thomas Waldman, reviewed by Peter Paret, 1465-66
Peacekeepers and Conquerors: The Army Officer Corps on the American Frontier, 1821-1846, by Samuel J. Watson, reviewed by Robert Wooster, 1466-67
The Richardson Light Guard of Wakefield, Massachusetts: A Town Militia in War and Peace, 1851-1975, by Barry M. Stentiford, reviewed by George N. Vourlojianis, 1468-69
The Great Game 1856-1907: Russo-British Relations in Central and East Asia, by Evgeny Sergeev, reviewed by Elena Andreeva, 1469-71
Civil War Dynasty: The Ewing Family of Ohio, by Kenneth J. Heineman, reviewed by Jeremy Taylor, 1471-72
A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War, by Thomas Fleming, reviewed by Neil Greenwood, 1472-73
The Election of 1860 Reconsidered, edited by A. James Fuller, reviewed by Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, 1473-75
The Civil War Begins: Opening Clashes, 1861, by Jennifer M. Murray, reviewed by Wesley Moody, 1475
Across the Divide: Union Soldiers View the Northern Home Front, by Steven J. Ramold, reviewed by Eric D. Duchess, 1476-77
This Distracted and Anarchical People: New Answers for Old Questions about the Civil War-Era North, edited by Andrew L. Slap and Michael Thomas Smith, reviewed by Christopher S. Stowe, 1477-78
The Diary of a Civil War Marine: Private Josiah Gregg, edited by Wesley Moody and Adrienne Sachse, reviewed by Steven J. Ramold, 1478-79
The Civil War in Missouri: A Military History, by Louis S. Gerteis, reviewed by Matthew C. Hulbert, 1479-80
The Battle of Carthage, Missouri: First Trans-Mississippi Conflict of the Civil War, by Kenneth E. Burchett, reviewed by Jerry Keenan, 1481-82
Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi, by Earl J. Hess, reviewed by Brian Holden Reid, 1482-83
Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston and the Atlanta Campaign, by Earl J. Hess, reviewed by Richard L. DiNardo, 1483-84
1863: Lincoln’s Pivotal Year, edited by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard, reviewed by Bruce J. Einhorn, 1485-87
The Chancellorsville Campaign, January-May 1863, by Bradford A. Wineman, reviewed by Debra Sheffer, 1487-88
Lee’s Army during the Overland Campaign: A Numerical Study, by Alfred C. Young III, reviewed by Colin Woodward, 1489-90
Ruined by this Miserable War: The Dispatches of Charles Prosper Fauconnet, a French Diplomat in New Orleans, 1863-1868, edited and translated by Carl A. Brasseaux and Katherine Carmines Mooney, reviewed by Rien Fertel, 1490-91
Frontier Cavalry Trooper: The Letters of Private Eddie Matthews (1869-1874), edited by Douglas C. McChristian, reviewed by Michael L. Tate, 1491-92
The Cambridge History of War, Volume IV: War and the Modern World, edited by Roger Chickering, Dennis Showalter, and Hans van de Ven, reviewed by Ralph M. Hitchens, 1493-94
Preparing for Blockade, 1885-1914: Naval Contingency for Economic Warfare, by Stephen Cobb, reviewed by Eric W. Osborne, 1494-95
From Boer War to World War: Tactical Reform of the British Army, 1902-1914, by Spencer Jones, reviewed by Gary P. Cox, 1496-97
The Influence of Airpower upon History: Statesmanship, Diplomacy, and Foreign Policy since 1903, edited by Robin Higham and Mark Parillo, reviewed by Phillip S. Meilinger, 1497-98
The Making of the First World War, by Ian F. W. Beckett, reviewed by Robert Doughty, 1499-1500
July 1914: Countdown to War, by Sean McMeekin, reviewed by Samuel R. Williamson, Jr., 1500-2
To Crown the Waves: The Great Navies of the First World War, edited by Vincent P. O’Hara, W. David Dickson, and Richard Worth, reviewed by Lawrence Sondhaus, 1502-3
The Stomach for Fighting: Food and the Soldiers of the Great War, by Rachel Duffett, reviewed by Martin Bruegel, 1503-5
British Artillery on the Western Front in the First World War: ‘The Infantry cannot do with a gun less’, by Sanders Marble, reviewed by Albert Palazzo, 1505-6
Progressives at War: William G. McAdoo and Newton D. Baker, 1863-1941, by Douglas B. Craig, reviewed by Donald B. Connelly, 1506-7
Well Planned and Splendidly Executed: The Battle of Cantigny May 28-31, 1918, by Allan R. Millett, reviewed by Mark E. Grotelueschen, 1508-9
Memory, Narrative and the Great War: Rifleman Patrick MacGill and the Construction of Wartime Experience, by David Taylor, reviewed by Jonathan F. Vance, 1509-10
The German Army and the Defence of the Reich: Military Doctrine and the Conduct of the Defensive Battle 1918-1939, by Matthias Strohn, reviewed by David T. Zabecki, 1511-12
Myths of Demilitarization in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-1960, by Thomas Rath, reviewed by Ian Roxborough, 1512-13
Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America into the War and into the World, by Michael Fullilove, reviewed by David Hein, 1513-15
A Companion to World War II, edited by Thomas W. Zeiler, with Daniel M. DuBois, reviewed by John T. Kuehn, 1515-16
Going for Broke: Japanese American Soldiers in the War against Nazi Germany, by James M. McCaffrey, reviewed by Roger Dingman, 1517-18
Australian Battalion Commanders in the Second World War, by Garth Pratten, reviewed by Craig Stockings, 1518-19
British Policy and Strategy towards Norway, 1941-45, by Christopher Mann, reviewed by Mary Kathryn Barbier, 1519-20
To Walk with the Devil: Slovene Collaboration and Axis Occupation, 1941-1945, by Gregor Joseph Kranjc, reviewed by John Ashbrook, 1521-22
Battalion Commanders at War: US Army Tactical Leadership in the Mediterranean Theater, 1942-1943, by Steven Thomas Barry, reviewed by Henry G. Gole, 1522-23
Mussolini’s Death March: Eyewitness Accounts of Italian Soldiers on the Eastern Front, by Nuto Revelli, reviewed by Emanuele Sica, 1523-25
The Liberation Trilogy, Vol. III: The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945, by Rick Atkinson, reviewed by Robert M. Citino, 1525-26
Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell, by Peter Caddick-Adams, reviewed by Glyn Harper, 1526-28
September Hope: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far, by John McManus; and Operation Market Garden: Arnhem, the Battle for the Bridges, DVD presented by Tom Dormer et al., reviewed by Roger Cirillo, 1528-30
The OSS in Burma: Jungle War against the Japanese, by Troy J. Saquety, reviewed by Raymond Callahan, 1530-31
British Prisoners of the Korean War, by S. P. MacKenzie; and Cold Days in Hell: American POWs in Korea, by William Clark Latham, Jr., reviewed by Steven Casey, 1531-33
Fighting the Mau Mau: The British Army and Counterinsurgency in the Kenya Emergency, by Huw Bennett, reviewed by David Strachan-Morris, 1533-34
America’s Secret MiG Squadron: The Red Eagles of Project CONSTANT PEG, by Gaillard R. Peck, Jr., reviewed by James Young, 1535-36
The Soldier and the State in India: Nuclear Weapons, Counterinsurgency, and the Transformation of Indian Civil–Military Relations, by Ayesha Ray, reviewed by John H. Gill, 1536-38
The Modern American Military, edited by David M. Kennedy, reviewed by Richard M. Swain, 1538-39