July 2021 Book Review Archives

Cover Book Review Date Published
Shadow on the Mountain Cover

Shadow on the Mountain

A Yazidi Memoir of Terror, Resistance and Hope

Shaker Jeffrey and Katharine Holstein, Da Capo Press, New York, 2020, 320 pages

Book Review written by: David S. Pierson, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

July 2, 2021
The Stuff of Soldiers Cover

The Stuff of Soldiers

A History of the Red Army in World War II through Objects

Brandon M. Schechter, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 2019, 344 pages

Book Review written by: James D. Crabtree, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

July 9, 2021
Say Nothing Cover

Say Nothing

A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe, Doubleday, New York, 2019, 464 pages

Book Review written by: Maj. Rick Chersicla, U.S. Army, San Antonio

July 16, 2021
Churchill’s Band of Brothers Cover

Churchill’s Band of Brothers

WWII’s Most Daring D-Day Mission and the Hunt to Take Down Hitler’s Fugitive War Criminals

Damien Lewis, Citadel Press, New York, 2021, 400 pages

Book Review written by: Robert J. Rielly, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

July 23, 2021
Alone against Hitler Cover

Alone against Hitler

Kurt Von Schuschnigg’s Fight to Save Austria from The Nazis

Jack Bray, Prometheus Books, Lanham, Maryland, 336 pages

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

July 30, 2021