Featured Book Reviews

July 2025 Book Reviews


 

Queen of Cuba

Queen of Cuba: An FBI Agent's Insider Account of the Spy Who Evaded Detection for 17 Years

Peter J. Lapp, Post Hill Press, 2023, 272 pages

Book Review written by: Matthew Kiefer, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Date Published: July 25, 2025

 

Empire of the Summer Moon

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in U.S. History

S. C. Gwynne, Scribner, 2010, 371 pages

Book Review written by: Andrew K. Murray, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Date Published: July 25, 2025

 

This Ghastly War

"This Ghastly War" The Diary and Letters of a Woman Doctor in the American Ambulance Hospital in France, 1914-1915

Mary M. Crawford, edited by Mary E. Osbourne, McFarland, 2023, 265 pages

Book Review written by: Maj. Taylor Herrington, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Date Published: July 25, 2025

 

Reflections on Net Assessment

Reflections on Net Assessment

Andrew W. Marshall, edited by Jeffrey S. McKitrick and Robert S. Angevine, Institute for Defense Analysis, 2022, 331 pages

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

Date Published: July 21, 2025

 

Field Manual 1

The Secret History of the Five Eyes

The Untold Story of the International Spy Network

Richard Kerbaj, Union Square, 2025, 448 pages

Book Review written by: Lt. Col. John H. Modinger, PhD, U.S. Air Force, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Date Published: July 21, 2025

 

Through Blood and Brotherhood

Through Blood and Brotherhood

Comrades and Enemies in World War II Yugoslavia

Brian R. Johnson, Casemate, 2024, 282 pages

Book Review written by: Andrew K. Murray, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Date Published: July 21, 2025

 

June 2025 Book Reviews


 

Field Manual 1

Field Manual 1

The Army: A Primer to Our Profession of Arms

U.S. Government Publishing Office, 2025, 104 pages

Book Review written by: Maj. Erin A. Mauldin, U.S. Military Academy, West Point

Date Published: June 12, 2025

 

May 2025 Book Reviews


 

Holding Out

Holding Out

Holding Out The German Army Operational Command in 1917

Tony Cowan, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 386 pages

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

Date Published: May 20, 2025

 

Nothing Left to Prove, Nothing Left to Hide

Nothing Left to Prove, Nothing Left to Hide

The Long and Winding Road to Redemption of Major Thomas Tosto

Scott J. Zuckerman, Sunbury Press, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, 2023, 192 pages

Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Jerome C. Duffy Jr., U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Date Published: May 20, 2025

 

The First Hellcat Ace Review

The First Hellcat Ace

Hamilton McWhorter III and Jay Stout, Casemate, Philadelphia, 2024, 240 pages

Book Review written by: Dirk C. Blackdeer, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Date Published: May 20, 2025

 

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