Featured Book Reviews

Cover Book Review Date Published
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Dangerous Instrument

Political Polarization and U.S. Civil-Military Relations

Michael A. Robinson, Oxford University Press, New York, 2022, 310 pages

Book Review written by: Col. Todd A. Schmidt, PhD, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

May 19, 2023
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To the End of the Earth

The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945

John C. McManus, Dutton Caliber, New York, 2023, 448 pages

Book Review written by: Mark Montesclaros, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

May 12, 2023
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Sharpen Your Bayonets

A Biography of Lieutenant General John Wilson “Iron Mike” O’Daniel, Commander, 3rd Infantry Division in World War II

Timothy R. Stoy, Casemate, Philadelphia, 2022, 320 pages

Book Review written by: Rick Baillergeon, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

May 5, 2023
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The Wandering Army

The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War

Huw J. Davies, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2022, 384 pages

Book Review written by: Richard S. Faulkner, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

April 28, 2023
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John Bradstreet’s Raid 1758

A Riverine Operation of the French and Indian War

Ian Macpherson McCulloch, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2022, 254 pages

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

April 21, 2023
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Darfur Peacekeepers

The African Union Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur (AMIS) from the Perspective of a Hungarian Military Advisor

János Besenyő, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2021, 230 pages

Book Review written by: L. A. Szabo, Budapest, Hungary

April 14, 2023
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Tiger in the Sea

The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

Eric Linder, Lyons Press, Guilford, Connecticut, 2021, 360 pages

Book Review written by: Thomas E. Ward II, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

April 7, 2023
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A Religious History of the American GI in World War II

G. Kurt Piehler, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2021, 416 pages

Book Review written by: John McGrady, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

March 31, 2023
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Extraordinary Valor

The Fight for Charlie Hill in Vietnam

William Reeder Jr., Lyons Press, Guilford, Connecticut, 2022, 296 pages

Book Review written by: Lt. Col. James H. Willbanks, PhD, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

March 24, 2023
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Darkest Christmas

December 1942 and a World at War

Peter Harmsen, Casemate, Philadelphia, 2022, 240 pages

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

March 17, 2023
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Risk Taker, Spy Maker

Tales of a CIA Case Officer

Barry Michael Broman, Casemate, Philadelphia, 312 pages, 2020

Book Review written by: Brian D. Allen, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

March 10, 2023
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A Tour in Chuong Thein Province

A U.S. Army Lieutenant with MACV Advisory Team 73 in the Mekong Delta, 1969-1970

John S. Raschke, McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2022, 346 pages

Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Jerry “JD” Diamond, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

March 3, 2023
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Ways and Means

Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War

Roger Lowenstein, Penguin Press, New York, 2022, 448 pages

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

February 24, 2023
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Army of None

Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

Paul Scharre, W. W. Norton, New York, 2018, 448 pages

Book Review written by: Maj. Travis S. Johnson, U.S. Army, Wiesbaden, Germany

February 17, 2023
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Watchman at the Gates

A Soldier’s Journey from Berlin to Bosnia

George Joulwan with David Chanoff, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2021, 296 pages

Book Review written by: Thomas E. Ward II, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

February 10, 2023
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Enemies among Us

The Relocation, Internment and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans During the Second World War

John E. Schmitz, University of Lincoln Press, Nebraska, 2021, 430 pages

Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Carl P. (Pete) Johnson, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

February 3, 2023
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The Good Captain

A Personal Memoir of America at War

R. D. Hooker Jr., Casemate, Philadelphia, 2022, 298 pages

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

January 27, 2023
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Old and New Battlespaces

Society, Military Power, and War

Jahara Matisek and Buddhika Jayamaha, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, Colorado, 2022, 197 pages

Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Carl (Pete) Johnson, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

January 20, 2023
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The Blister Club

The Extraordinary Story of the Downed American Airmen Who Escaped to Safety in World War II

Michael Lee Lanning, Stackpole Books, Guilford, Connecticut, 2021, 368 pages

Book Review written by: George R. K. Acree, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

January 13, 2023
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Maritime Strike

The Untold Story of the Royal Navy Task Force Group off Libya in 2011

Rear Adm. John Kingwell CBE, Casemate, Havertown, Pennsylvania, 2022, 240 pages

Book Review written by: Thomas A. Duncan II, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

January 6, 2023