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August 2017 Book Review Archives

Cover	Book Review	Date Published
	American National Security Policy Authorities, Institutions, and Cases John T. Fishel, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, 2017, 284 pages Book Review written by: Lawrence A. Yates, Overland Park, Kansas	August 4, 2017
	The Improbable Victory The Campaigns, Battles and Soldiers of the American Revolution, 1775–83: In Association with the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown Edited by Chris McNab, Osprey Press, New York, 2017, 260 pages Book Review written by: Jesse McIntyre III, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	August 4, 2017
	Eleven Months to Freedom A German POW’s Unlikely Escape from Siberia in 1915 Dwight R. Messimer, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2016, 224 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. David E. McCulley, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	August 4, 2017
	The Myth and Reality of German Warfare Operational Thinking from Moltke the Elder to Heusinger Gerhard Gross, edited by David Zabecki, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 2016, 464 pages Book Review written by: Scott Stephenson, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	August 4, 2017
	Return to Cold War Robert Legvold, Polity Press, Malden, Massachusetts 2016, 208 pages Book Review written by: Mark Wilcox, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	August 4, 2017
	Human Rights and War through Civilian Eyes Thomas W. Smith, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2016, 272 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Edward D. Jennings, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	August 11, 2017
	The Vanquished Why the First World War Failed to End Robert Gerwarth, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2016, 464 pages Book Review written by: Scott Stephenson, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	August 11, 2017
	The Castaway’s War One Man’s Battle against Imperial Japan Stephen Harding, Da Capo Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2016, 320 pages Book Review written by: Eric J. McGraw, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	August 11, 2017
	The Battle of Leyte Gulf The Last Fleet Action H. P. Willmott, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 2015, 424 pages Book Review written by: Jesse McIntyre III, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	August 11, 2017
	Extreme Civil War Guerilla Warfare, Environment, and Race on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier Matthew M. Stith, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 2016, 232 pages Book Review written by: Thomas E. Ward II, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	August 11, 2017
	Captivating Westerns The Middle East in the American West Susan Kollin, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2015, 294 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. John H. Modinger, PhD, U.S. Air Force, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	August 18, 2017
	ISIS An Introduction and Guide to the Islamic State Brian L. Steed, ABC-CLIO Press, Santa Barbara, California, 2016, 197 pages Book Review written by: Chaplain (Maj.) Joshua J. Gilliam, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	August 18, 2017
	Destined for War Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? Graham Allison, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 2017, 384 pages Book Review written by: Mark Wilcox, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	August 18, 2017
	Recollections of an Airman Louis Arbon Strange, Casemate, Philadelphia, 2016, 224 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Thomas G. Meara, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	August 18, 2017
	Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton An Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in Vietnam Amy Shively Hawk, Regnery History, Washington DC, 2017, 256 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Edward D. Jennings, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	August 18, 2017
	Autocratic and Democratic External Influences in Post-Soviet Eurasia Edited by Anastassia Obydenkova and Alexander Libman, Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, United Kingdom, 2015, 204 pages Book Review written by: Richard E. Berkebile, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	August 25, 2017
	Patton’s Way A Radical Theory of War James Kelly Morningstar, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2017, 404 pages Book Review written by: Frederick A. Baillergeon, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	August 25, 2017
	Religion on the Battlefield Ron E. Hassner, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 2016, 232 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. George Hodge, U.S. Army, Retired, Lansing, Kansas	August 25, 2017
	The Great War from the German Trenches A Sapper’s Memoir, 1914–1918 Artur H. Boer, translated and edited by Bertil van Boer and Margaret L. Fast, McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2016, 200 pages Book Review written by: Scott Stephenson, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	August 25, 2017
	The Lost Airman A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France Seth Meyerowitz and Peter Stevens, Berkley Caliber, New York, 320 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Kevin Lee Watson, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Belvoir, Virginia	August 25, 2017