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April 2017 Book Review Archives

Cover	Book Review	Date Published
	Drone Remote Control Warfare Hugh Gusterson, MIT Press, 2016, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 216 pages Book Review written by: James Cricks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 7, 2017
	China’s Cyber Power Nigel Inkster, Routledge, London, 2016, 156 pages Book Review written by: Timothy L. Thomas, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 7, 2017
	Preventative Force Drones, Targeted Killing, and the Transformation of Contemporary Warfare Edited by Kerstin Fisk and Jennifer M. Ramos, New York University Press, New York, 2016, 368 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. George Hodge, U.S. Army, Retired, Lansing, Kansas	April 7, 2017
	The Fourth Marine Brigade in World War I Battalion Histories Based on Official Documents George B. Clark, McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2015, 296 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Michael Jones, U.S. Marine Corps, Retired, Fort Belvoir, Virginia	April 7, 2017
	Life and Death in Captivity The Abuse of Prisoners during War Geoffrey P. R. Wallace, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 2015, 296 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Roger J. Linder, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 7, 2017
	Potsdam The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe Michael Neiberg, Basic Books, New York, 2015, 336 pages Book Review written by: Scott Stephenson, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 7, 2017
	Israel’s Way of War A Strategic and Operational Analysis, 1948-2014 Ehud Eilam, McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2016, 208 pages Book Review written by: Capt. Colin Marcum, U.S. Army, Fort Bliss, Texas	April 7, 2017
	The Terrible Indian Wars of the West A History from the Whitman Massacre to Wounded Knee, 1846-1890 Jerry Keenan, McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2016, 504 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Terrance M. Portman, U.S. Marine Corps, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 7, 2017
	Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies The Patriots David Fisher, Henry Holt, New York, 2016, 320 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Peter Campbell, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 7, 2017
	Bosworth 1485 The Battle that Transformed England Michael K. Jones, Pegasus Books, New York, 2015, 256 pages Book Review written by: Col. Thomas S. Bundt, U.S. Army, PhD, Fort Detrick, Maryland	April 7, 2017
	Hunters and Killers: Volume One Anti-Submarine Warfare from 1776-1943 Norman Polmar and Edward Whitman, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2015, 224 pages Book Review written by: Maj. Matthew Prescott, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 14, 2017
	Nested Security Lessons in Conflict Management from the League of Nations and the European Union Erin K. Jenne, Cornell University Press, Sage House, Ithaca, New York, 2015, 264 pages Book Review written by: David A. Anderson, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 14, 2017
	The Soul of Armies Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Military Culture in the US and UK Austin Long, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 2016, 288 pages Book Review written by: Maj. Darrell E. Fawley III, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 14, 2017
	Margin of Victory Five Battles that Changed the Face of Modern War Douglas Macgregor, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2016, 288 pages Book Review written by: Frederick A. Baillergeon, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 14, 2017
	Johnson’s Island A Prison for Confederate Officers Roger Pickenpaugh, Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio, 2016, 123 pages Book Review written by: Maj. Vincent P. Particini, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 14, 2017
	Morale and the Italian Army during the First World War Vanda Wilcox, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2016, 235 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Richard S. Faulkner, PhD, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 14, 2017
	No Better Friend One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII Robert Weintraub, Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group, New York, 386 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Kevin Lee Watson, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Belvoir, Virginia	April 14, 2017
	Choosing Courage Inspiring Stories of What It Means to Be a Hero Peter Collier, Artisan, Muskogee, Oklahoma, 2015, 240 pages Book Review written by: Col. Michael R. Martinez, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 14, 2017
	Company of Heroes A Forgotten Medal of Honor and Bravo Company’s War in Vietnam Eric Poole, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2015, 320 pages Book Review written by: Col. James L. Davis, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 14, 2017
	War in the Shallows U.S. Navy Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam, 1965–1968 John Darrell Sherwood, Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington, D.C., 2015, 448 pages Book Review written by: Col. Eric M. Walters, U.S. Marine Corps, Retired, Fort Lee, Virginia	April 14, 2017
	Strategy A History Lawrence Freedman, Oxford University Press, New York 2013, 768 pages Book Review written by: John G. Breen, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 21, 2017
	Strategic Advising in Foreign Assistance A Practical Guide Nadia Gerspacher, Kumarian Press, Sterling, Virginia, 2016, 171 pages Book Review written by: Capt. Colin Marcum, U.S. Army, Fort Bliss, Texas	April 21, 2017
	War, States, and Contention A Comparative Historical Study Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 2015, 328 pages Book Review written by: David A. Anderson, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 21, 2017
	The Chosen Few A Company of Paratroopers and Its Heroic Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of Afghanistan Gregg Zoroya, Da Capo Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2017, 400 pages Book Review written by: Steve Leonard, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas	April 21, 2017
	Consequence A Memoir Eric Fair, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2016, 256 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. John T. Miller, U.S. Army, Fort Belvoir, Virginia	April 21, 2017
	The American South and the Vietnam War Belligerence, Protest, and Agony in Dixie Joseph A. Fry, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 2015, 456 pages Book Review written by: John H. Barnhill, PhD, Houston	April 21, 2017
	Bigger Bombs for a Brighter Tomorrow The Strategic Air Command and American War Plans at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, 1945-1950 John M. Curatola, McFarland & Company, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2015, 236 pages Book Review written by: Thomas E. Ward II, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 21, 2017
	The General and the Genius Groves and Oppenheimer—the Unlikely Partnership That Built the Atom Bomb James Kunetka, Regnery Publishing, Washington, D.C., 2015, 480 pages Book Review written by: Maj. Leroy L. Cisneros, U.S. Army, Los Alamitos, California	April 21, 2017
	Among the Headhunters An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival in the Burmese Jungle Robert Lyman, Da Capo Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2016, 288 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Joe M. Schotzko, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 21, 2017
	The West Point History of World War II, Volume 1 United States Military Academy, eds. Clifford J. Rogers, Ty Seidule, and Steve R. Waddell, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2016, 352 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Jonathan P. Klug, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 21, 2017
	Grunts Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II through Iraq John C. McManus, Caliber, New York, 2011, 544 pages Book Review written by: Maj. Lisa Argo, U.S. Army, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas	April 28, 2017
	Douglas MacArthur American Warrior Arthur Herman, Random House, New York, 2016, 960 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Robert Salvatorelli, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 28, 2017
	The Road to Concord How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War J. L. Bell, Westholme Publishing, Yardley, Pennsylvania, 2016, 234 pages Book Review written by: David P. Haught, Fort Belvoir, Virginia	April 28, 2017
	Health of the Seventh Cavalry A Medical History Edited by P. Willey and Douglas D. Scott, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 2015, 480 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Edwin Kennedy Jr., U.S. Army, Retired, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama	April 28, 2017
	William Tecumseh Sherman In the Service of My Country: A Life James Lee McDonough, W. W. Norton, New York, 2016, 832 pages Book Review written by: Gary Ryman, Scott Township, Pennsylvania	April 28, 2017
	The Lincoln Assassination Riddle Revisiting the Crime of the Nineteenth Century Edited by Frank J. Williams and Michael Burkhimer, Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio, 2016, 224 pages Book Review written by: Col. James L. Davis, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 28, 2017
	Blitzkrieg Myth, Reality, and Hitler’s Lightning War: France 1940 Lloyd Clark, Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 2016, 480 pages Book Review written by: Jesse McIntyre III, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 28, 2017
	A Dusty Boot Soldier Remembers Twenty-Four Years of Improbable but True Tales of Service with Uncle Sam’s Army Larry A. Redmond, Hellgate Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2015, 574 pages Book Review written by: Frederick A. Baillergeon, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 28, 2017
	Pumpkinflowers A Soldier’s Story Matti Friedman, Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2016, 256 pages Book Review written by: John G. Breen, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 28, 2017
	Choosing War Presidential Decisions in the Maine, Lusitania, and Panay Incidents Douglas Carl Peifer, Oxford University Press, New York, 2016, 344 pages Book Review written by: Robert M. Brown, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	April 28, 2017