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June 2017 Book Review Archives

Cover	Book Review	Date Published
	Forging the Sword Doctrinal Change in the U.S. Army Benjamin M. Jensen, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 2016, 216 pages Book Review written by: Col. James S. Powell, PhD, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 2, 2017
	American Power and Liberal Order A Conservative Internationalist Grand Strategy Paul D. Miller, Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C., 2016, 336 pages Book Review written by: Staff Sgt. Brian Darling, New Jersey Army National Guard, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey	June 2, 2017
	Charlie Mike A True Story of Heroes Who Brought Their Mission Home Joe Klein, Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, 2015, 320 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Jacob A. Mong, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 2, 2017
	My War in Italy On the Ground and in Flight with the 15th Air Force Keith W. Mason, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri, 2016, 216 pages Book Review written by: Maj. Robert Nelson, U.S. Air Force, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 2, 2017
	The Origins of the Grand Alliance Anglo-American Military Collaboration from the Panay Incident to Pearl Harbor William T. Johnsen, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 2016, 438 pages Book Review written by: Mark Montesclaros, Fort Gordon, Georgia	June 2, 2017
	The Drive on Moscow, 1941 Operation Taifun and Germany’s First Great Crisis in World War II Niklas Zetterling and Anders Frankson, Casemate, Philadelphia, 2012, 336 pages Book Review written by: Robert R. Phillipson, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 2, 2017
	The Triumph of Empire The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine Michael Kulikowski, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2016, 400 pages Book Review written by: Jesse McIntyre III, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 2, 2017
	Born to Battle Grant and Forrest: Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga: The Campaigns that Doomed the Confederacy Jack Hurst, Basic Books, New York, 2012, 512 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Paul Berg, PhD, U.S. Army, Fort Rucker, Alabama	June 2, 2017
	30 Years After Issues and Representations of the Falklands War Edited by Carine Berbéri and Monia O’Brien Castro, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 2015, 214 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Chris Heatherly, U.S. Army, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington	June 2, 2017
	WW4 Douglas Cohn, Lyons Press, Guilford, Connecticut, 2016, 264 pages Book Review written by: Frederick A. Baillergeon, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 2, 2017
	The Leader’s Bookshelf Adm. James Stavridis and R. Manning Ancell, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2017, 288 pages Book Review written by: Robert J. Rielly, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 9, 2017
	Counter Jihad America’s Military Experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria Brian Glyn Williams, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2016, 400 pages Book Review written by: David D. Haught, Fort Belvoir, Virginia	June 9, 2017
	Eyewitness to Chaos Personal Accounts of the Intervention in Haiti, 1994 Walter E. Kretchik, Potomac Books, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2016, 240 pages Book Review written by: Frederick A. Baillergeon, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 9, 2017
	Tragedy at Chu Lai Reconstructing a Deadly Grenade Accident in a US Army Classroom in Vietnam, July 10, 1969 David Venditta, McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2016, 212 pages Book Review written by: Col. James L. Davis, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 9, 2017
	Dawn of Infamy A Sunken Ship, a Vanished Crew, and the Final Mystery of Pearl Harbor Stephen Harding, Da Capo Press, Boston, 2016, 280 pages Book Review written by: Jesse McIntyre III, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 9, 2017
	The Royal Air Force in American Skies The Seven British Flight Schools in the United States during World War II Tom Killebrew, University of North Texas Press, Denton, Texas, 2015, 464 pages Book Review written by: Jeffrey Copeland, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado	June 9, 2017
	The Prometheus Bomb The Manhattan Project and Government in the Dark Neil J. Sullivan, Potomac Books, Lincoln, Nebrska, 2016, 296 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Russell D. Meyer, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 9, 2017
	Such Troops as These The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson Bevin Alexander, Penguin Group, New York, 2014, 336 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Paul Berg, PhD, U.S. Army, Fort Rucker, Alabama	June 9, 2017
	Washington’s Crossing David Hackett Fischer, Oxford University Press, New York, 2004; 564 pages Book Review written by: Maj. Jonathan D. Kingsley, U.S. Army, Naval Postgraduate School	June 9, 2017
	Battle Royal The Wars of Lancaster and York: 1450–1462 Hugh Bicheno, Pegasus Books, New York, 2016, 416 pages Book Review written by: Col. Thomas S. Bundt, PhD, U.S. Army, Fort Detrick, Maryland	June 9, 2017
	The American Miracle Divine Providence in the Rise of the Republic Michael Medved, Crown Forum, New York, 2016, 416 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Ross Pollack, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 16, 2017
	How NATO Adapts Strategy and Organization in the Atlantic Alliance since 1950 Seth A. Johnston, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2016, 272 pages Book Review written by: Capt. Drew Shepler, U.S. Army, Belgrade, Serbia	June 16, 2017
	Able Archer 83 The Secret History of the NATO Exercise That Almost Triggered Nuclear War Edited by Nate Jones, The New Press, New York, 2016, 320 pages Book Review written by: Mark Wilcox, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 16, 2017
	Hunters and Killers: Volume 2 Anti-Submarine Warfare since 1943 Norman Polmar and Edward Whitman, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2016, 272 pages Book Review written by: Harold A. Laurence, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 16, 2017
	The Applied Ethics of Emerging Military and Security Technologies Edited by Braden R. Allenby, Routledge, New York, 2015, 530 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. James W. Welch, U.S. Army, Fort Benning, Georgia	June 16, 2017
	The Chosen Few A Company of Paratroopers and Its Heroic Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of Afghanistan Gregg Zoroya, Da Capo Press, Boston, 2017, 400 pages Book Review written by: Stephen P. Wuensche, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 16, 2017
	A Field Guide to Antietam Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places, and People Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2016, 360 pages Book Review written by: Col. Thomas S. Bundt, PhD, U.S. Army, Fort Detrick, Maryland	June 16, 2017
	Albert C. Ellithorpe, the First Indian Home Guards and the Civil War on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier Edited by M. Jane Johansson, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 2016, 280 pages Book Review written by: Christopher M. Rein, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 16, 2017
	An Iron Wind Europe Under Hitler Peter Fritzsche, Basic Books, New York, 2016, 376 pages Book Review written by: Jesse McIntyre III, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 16, 2017
	Man of Destiny FDR and the Making of the American Century Alonzo L. Hamby, Basic Books, New York, New York, 2015, 512 pages Book Review written by: Lindsay H. Gudridge, Fort Gordon, Georgia	June 16, 2017
	Sea Power The History and Geopolitics of the World’s Oceans Admiral James Stavridis, Penguin Press, New York, 2017, 384 pages Book Review written by: James Cricks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 23, 2017
	Drawdown The American Way of Postwar Edited by Jason W. Warren, NYU Press, New York, 2016, 336 pages Book Review written by: Capt. Drew Shepler, U.S. Army, Belgrade, Serbia	June 23, 2017
	The Life and Work of General Andrew J. Goodpaster Best Practices in National Security Affairs C. Richard Nelson, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, 2016, 300 pages Book Review written by: Gary Ryman, Scott Township, Pennsylvania	June 23, 2017
	21st Century Knox Influence, Sea Power, and History for the Modern Era Edited by David Kohnen, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2016, 176 pages Book Review written by: Cdr. John T. Kuehn, U.S. Navy, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 23, 2017
	Douglas MacArthur American Warrior Arthur Herman, Random House, New York, 2016, 960 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Jonathan P. Klug, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 23, 2017
	The Great War and the Middle East A Strategic Study Rob Johnson, Oxford University Press, New York, 2016, 400 pages Book Review written by: Scott Stephenson, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 23, 2017
	The World Remade America in World War I G. J. Meyer, Bantam Books, New York, 2017, 672 pages Book Review written by: Jesse McIntyre III, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 23, 2017
	Blood and Fears How America’s Bomber Boys of the 8th Air Force Saved World War II Kevin Wilson, Pegasus Books, New York, 2017, 560 pages Book Review written by: Robert J. Rielly, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 23, 2017
	Elvis’s Army Cold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield Brian McAllister Linn, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2016, 464 pages Book Review written by: Lt Col. Richard S. Faulkner, PhD, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 23, 2017
	Battle Studies Ardant Du Picq, translated, edited, and introduced by Roger J. Spiller, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 2017, 240 pages Book Review written by: Frederick A. Baillergeon, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 23, 2017
	Civil Wars A History in Ideas David Armitage, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2017, 368 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Troy Lewis, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 30, 2017
	A History of Iran Empire of the Mind Michael Axworthy, Basic Books, 2016, 384 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Michael Jones, U.S. Marine Corps, Retired, Fort Belvoir, Virginia	June 30, 2017
	Europe Since 1989 A History Philipp Ther, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2016, 440 pages Book Review written by: David A. Anderson, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 30, 2017
	Oppose Any Foe The Rise of America’s Special Operations Forces Mark Moyar, Basic Books, New York, 2016, 432 pages Book Review written by: Jesse McIntyre III, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 30, 2017
	Pennsylvania A Military History William A. Pencak, Christian B. Keller, and Barbara A. Gannon, Westholme Publishing, Yardley, Pennsylvania, 2016, 303 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Tony R. Mullis, PhD, U.S. Air Force, Retired, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama	June 30, 2017
	Alias “Paine” Lewis Thornton Powell, the Mystery Man of the Lincoln Conspiracy Betty J. Ownsbey, McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2015, 220 pages Book Review written by: James D. Sharpe, Fort Gordon, Georgia	June 30, 2017
	Pershing’s Crusaders The American Soldier in World War I Richard S. Faulkner, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 2017, 784 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Edwin L. Kennedy Jr., U.S. Army, Retired, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama	June 30, 2017
	American Journalists in the Great War Rewriting the Rules of Reporting Chris Dubbs, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2017, 312 pages Book Review written by: Staff Sgt. Lindsay N. Tramel, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 30, 2017
	At the Edge of the World The Heroic Century of the French Foreign Legion Jean-Vincent Blanchard, Bloomsbury Press New York, 2017, 272 pages Book Review written by: Robert J. Rielly, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 30, 2017
	Last to Die A Defeated Empire, a Forgotten Mission, and the Last American Killed in World War II Stephen Harding, Da Capo Press, Boston, 2015, 288 pages Book Review written by: Hiram Morales, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	June 30, 2017