Featured Book Reviews

May 2025 Book Reviews


 

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing Review

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing

The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hackse

Scott J. Shapiro, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2023, 432 pages

Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Mike Bizer, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Belvoir, Virginia

Date Published: May 20, 2025

 

I Will Tell No War Stories Review

I Will Tell No War Stories

What Our Fathers Left Unsaid About World War II

Howard Mansfield, Lyons Press, 2024, 160 pages

Book Review written by: Lt. Col Rick Baillergeon, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Date Published: May 20, 2025

 

Indochina Hand Review

Indochina Hand

Tales of a CIA Case Officer

Barry Michael Broman, Casemate, Philadelphia, 2024, 288 pages

Book Review written by: Col. Robert Sherrill, U.S. Marine Corps, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Date Published: May 20, 2025

 

Bipolar General Review

Bipolar General

My Forever War with Mental Illness

Gregg F. Martin, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2023, 288 pages

Book Review written by: Kathy Kim Strand, MEd, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Date Published: May 20, 2025

 

George Washington versus the Continental Army Review

George Washington versus the Continental Army

Showdown at the New Windsor Cantonment, 1782-1783

Michael S. McGurty, McFarland, 2023, 237 pages

Book Review written by: Col. Ken Turner, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Date Published: May 20, 2025

 

American Eagles Review

American Eagles

A History of the United States Air Force

Daniel Patterson and Clinton Terry, Lyons Press, Essex, Connecticut, 2024, 336 pages

Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Stephen G. Redmon, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Date Published: May 20, 2025

 

Life and Death at Abbey Gate Review

Life and Death at Abbey Gate

The Fall of Afghanistan and the Operation to Save Our Allies

Mikael Cook and Robert Conlin, Casemate, 2024, 192 pages

Book Review written by: Sean R. Kentch, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Date Published: May 20, 2025

 

Warfare in the Robotics Age Review

Warfare in the Robotics Age

Ash Rossiter and Peter Layton, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2024, 257 pages

Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Lowell E. Howard Jr., U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Date Published: May 20, 2025

 

Your Next Leap of Faith Review

Your Next Leap of Faith

How to Hear God's Voice and Boldly Follow

Shane Winnings, Chosen Books, 2023, 192 pages

Book Review written by: Stephen S. Harvey, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Date Published: May 20, 2025

 

The Weaponisation of Everything Review

The Weaponisation of Everything

A Field Guide the New Way of War

Mark Galeotti, Yale University Press, 2022, 248 pages

Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Robert B. Haines, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Date Published: May 20, 2025

 

Of Their Own Accord Review

Of Their Own Accord

A Company of Army Rangers Changing Lives in Changing Times

Lawson Magruder and Fred Kleibacker, Deeds Publishing, 2024, 332 pages

Book Review written by: Col. Chaveso “Chevy” Cook, PhD, U.S. Army, Joint Staff, Washington, D.C.

Date Published: May 12, 2025