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December 2017 Book Review Archives

Cover	Book Review	Date Published
	Midnight in the Pacific Guadalcanal: The World War II Battle that Turned the Tide of War Joseph Wheelan, Da Capo Press, Boston, 2017, 400 pages Book Review written by: Jesse McIntyre III, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	December 1, 2017
	In the Warlord’s Shadow Special Operations Forces, the Afghans, and Their Fight against the Taliban Daniel R Green, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2017, 304 pages Book Review written by: Jesse McIntyre III, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	December 8, 2017
	Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans The Battle that Shaped America’s Destiny Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger, Sentinel, New York, 2017, 288 pages Book Review written by: John Kloeker, U.S. Army, Retired, Wilder, Kentucky	December 8, 2017
	Hornet 33 Memoir of a Combat Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam Ed Denny, McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2016, 296 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Ray Williams, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	December 15, 2017
	Passchendaele The Lost Victory of World War I Nick Lloyd, Basic Books, New York, 2017, 464 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Jeffrey L. LaFace, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	December 15, 2017
	We Were Going to Win, or Die There With the Marines at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Saipan Roy H. Elrod, edited by Fred H. Allison, University of North Texas Press, Denton, Texas, 2017, 320 pages Book Review written by: Jesse McIntyre III, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	December 15, 2017
	Doctors at War Life and Death in a Field Hospital Mark de Rond, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 2017, 176 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Jason E. Pelletier, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	December 22, 2017
	America and the Great War Margaret Wagner, Bloomsbury Press, New York, 2017, 384 pages Book Review written by: Jesse McIntyre III, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	December 22, 2017
	Marked for Death The First War in the Air James Hamilton-Paterson, Pegasus Books, New York, 2016, 416 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Jacob A. Mong, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	December 29, 2017
	Operation Fall Weiss German Paratroopers in the Poland Campaign, 1939 Stephan Janzyk, translated by Susan Haynes-Huber, Pen and Sword, Barnsley, United Kingdom, 2017, 184 pages Book Review written by: Maj. Timothy Heck, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve	December 29, 2017
	War by Numbers Understanding Conventional Combat Christopher A. Lawrence, Potomac Books, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2017, 390 pages Book Review written by: Frederick A. Baillergeon, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	December 29, 2017