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March 2017 Book Review Archives

Cover	Book Review	Date Published
	Dark Territory The Secret History of Cyber War Fred Kaplan, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2016, 321 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. James Welch, U.S. Army, Fort Benning, Georgia	March 3, 2017
	Coercing Compliance State-Initiated Brute Force in Today’s World Robert Mandel, Stanford University Press, Redwood City, California, 2015, 320 pages Book Review written by: Karsten Engelmann, PhD, Springfield, Virginia	March 3, 2017
	Meltdown in Haditha The Killing of 24 Iraqi Civilians by U.S. Marines and the Failure of Military Justice Kenneth F. Englade, McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2015, 276 pages Book Review written by: Maj. Michael Lipkin, U.S. Army, Fort Belvoir, Virginia	March 3, 2017
	China Looks at the West Identity, Global Ambitions, and the Future of Sino-American Relations Christopher A. Ford, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 2015, 650 pages Book Review written by: Maj. Gary J. Sampson, U.S. Marine Corps, Okinawa, Japan	March 3, 2017
	Inferno in Chechnya The Russian-Chechen Wars, the Al Qaeda Myth, and the Boston Marathon Bombing Brian Glynn Williams, ForeEdge, Boston, 2015, 296 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Robert C. LaPreze, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 3, 2017
	A Different Face of War Memories of a Medical Service Corps Officer in Vietnam James G. Van Straten, University of North Texas Press, 2015, 576 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Kevin L. Watson, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Belvoir, Virginia	March 3, 2017
	Unmanned Systems of World Wars I and II H. R. Everett, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2015, 768 pages Book Review written by: Maj. Bishane A. Whitmore, U.S. Air Force, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and Maj. John J. Sheridan, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 3, 2017
	Return of the Dambusters The Exploits of World War II’s Most Daring Flyers after the Flood John Nichol, Overlook Press, New York, 2016, 384 pages Book Review written by: Thomas E. Ward II, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 3, 2017
	Goebbels A Biography Peter Longerich, Random House, New York, 2015, 992 pages Book Review written by: Jesse McIntyre III, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 3, 2017
	After Hitler The Last Ten Days of World War II in Europe Michael Jones, NAL Caliber, New York, 2015, 400 pages Book Review written by: Mark V. Montesclaros, Fort Gordon, Georgia	March 3, 2017
	The Battle of Marathon in Scholarship The Battle of Marathon in Scholarship: Research, Theories and Controversies Since 1850 Book Review written by: Capt. Eugene M. Harding, U.S. Army National Guard, Auburn, Indiana	March 10, 2017
	Selling War A Critical Look at the Military's PR Machine Steven J. Alvarez, Potomac Books, 2016, 341 pages Book Review written by: Maj. Steven L. Miller, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 10, 2017
	41: A Portrait of My Father George W. Bush, Crown Publishers, New York, 2014, 294 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Andrew H. Warninghoff, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 10, 2017
	Zinky Boys Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War Svetlana Alexievich, W. W. Norton and Company, 2015, 224 pages Book Review written by: Maj. Andrew J. Raymond Jr., U.S. Army, Fort Belvoir, Virginia	March 10, 2017
	Soviet Soft Power in Poland Culture and the Making of Stalin’s New Empire, 1943-1957 Patryk Babiracki, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2015, 344 pages Book Review written by: John E. Fahey, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana	March 10, 2017
	No End Save Victory How FDR Led the Nation into War David Kaiser, Basic Books, New York, 2014, 408 pages Book Review written by: Lindsay H. Gudridge, Fort Gordon, Georgia	March 10, 2017
	Assessing War The Challenge of Measuring Success and Failure Edited by Leo Blanken, Hy Rothstein, and Jason J. Lepore, Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC, 2015, 370 pages Book Review written by: Col. Eric M. Walters, U.S. Marine Corps, Retired, Fort Lee, Virginia	March 10, 2017
	General Maxime Weygand, 1867-1965 Fortune and Misfortune Edited by Leo Blanken, Hy Rothstein, and Jason J. Lepore, Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC, 2015, 370 pages Book Review written by: Maj. Joseph J. DiDomenico, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 10, 2017
	Murder at Camp Delta A Staff Sergeant’s Pursuit of the Truth about Guantanamo Bay Joseph Hickman, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2016, 256 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Joe M. Schotzko, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 10, 2017
	Luca from Calabria Richard A. Reale, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014, 98 pages Book Review written by: Steven C. Wiegers, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 10, 2017
	Global Responses to Maritime Violence Cooperation and Collective Action Edited by Paul Shemella, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 2016, 312 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Terrance M. Portman, U.S. Marine Corps, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 17, 2017
	The Money Makers How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace Eric Rauchway, Basic Books, New York, 2015, 336 pages Book Review written by: Maj. Matthew Prescott, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 17, 2017
	Zones of Rebellion Kurdish Insurgents and the Turkish State Aysegul Aydin and Cem Emrence, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 2015, 208 pages Book Review written by: Maj. Thomas R. Nypaver, Texas Army National Guard, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 17, 2017
	67 Shots Kent State and the End of American Innocence Howard Means, DaCapo Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2016, 288 pages Book Review written by: Robert J. Rielly, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 17, 2017
	On Campaign against Fort Duquesne The Braddock and Forbes Expeditions, 1755–1758, through the Experiences of Quartermaster Sir John St. Clair Douglas R Cubbison, McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2015, 232 pages Book Review written by: Col. James Kennedy, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Belvoir, Virginia	March 17, 2017
	Hit the Target Eight Men who led the Eighth Air Force to Victory over the Luftwaffe Bill Yenne, NAL Caliber, New York, 2015, 384 pages Book Review written by: Marlyn R. Pierce, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 17, 2017
	Marine Corps Tank Battles in the Middle East Oscar E. Gilbert, Casemate, Philadelphia, 2015, 312 pages Book Review written by: Dirk C. Blackdeer, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 17, 2017
	Check Six! A Thunderbolt Pilot’s War across the Pacific James C. Curran and Terrence G. Popravak Jr., Casemate, Philadelphia, 2015, 352 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Jeffrey W. Kilgo, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 17, 2017
	Band of Giants The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America’s Independence Jack Kelly, St. Martin’s Griffin, New York, 2016, 276 pages Book Review written by: David D. Haught, Fort Belvoir, Virginia	March 17, 2017
	Forging the Shield The U.S. Army in Europe, 1951-1962 Donald A. Carter, Center for Military History, Washington, D.C., 2015, 534 pages Book Review written by: Col. Chuck Rush, U.S. Army, Washington, D.C.	March 17, 2017
	Elusive Alliance The German Occupation of Poland in World War I Jesse Kauffman, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2015, 320 pages Book Review written by: Scott Stephenson, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 24, 2017
	Intercept 1961 The Birth of Soviet Missile Defense Mike Gruntman, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Reston, Virginia, 2015, 312 pages Book Review written by: Maj. Leroy L. Cisneros, U.S. Army, Fort Gordon, Georgia	March 24, 2017
	The Papers of George Catlett Marshall “The Man of the Age” October 1, 1949-October 16, 1959, vol. 7 Edited by Mark Stoler and Daniel Holt, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2016, 1,200 pages Book Review written by: James Cricks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 24, 2017
	US Army Rangers 1989-2015 Panama to Afghanistan Leigh Neville, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2016, 64 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Joe Schotzko, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 24, 2017
	Practise to Deceive Learning Curves of Military Deception Planners Douglas R Cubbison, McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2015, 232 pages Book Review written by: Col. Eric M. Walters, U.S. Marine Corps, Retired, Fort Lee, Virginia	March 24, 2017
	War in the Chesapeake The British Campaigns to Control the Bay, 1813-14 Charles P. Neimeyer, U.S. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2015, 256 pages Book Review written by: Capt. Mark E. Bergman, U.S. Army, Fort Campbell, Kentucky	March 24, 2017
	The Man Who Captured Washington Major General Robert Ross and the War of 1812 John McCavitt and Christopher T. George, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 2016, 312 pages Book Review written by: Capt. Eugene M. Harding, U.S. Army National Guard, Auburn, Indiana	March 24, 2017
	Last Stand on Bataan The Defense of the Philippines, December 1941–May 1942 Christopher Kolakowski, McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2016, 220 pages Book Review written by: Jesse McIntyre III, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 24, 2017
	MacArthur’s Korean War Generals Stephen R. Taaffe, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 2016, 280 pages Book Review written by: Robert J. Rielly, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 24, 2017
	No One Avoided Danger NAS Kaneohe Bay and the Japanese Attack of 7 December 1941 J. Michael Wenger, Robert J. Cressman, and John F Digrilio, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2015, 208 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Andrew Warninghoff, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 24, 2017
	True for the Cause of Liberty The Second Spartan Regiment in the American Revolution Oscar E. Gilbert and Catherine R. Gilbert, Casemate, Philadelphia, 2016, 328 pages Book Review written by: Jesse McIntyre III, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 30, 2017
	Forty-Seven Days How Pershing’s Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I Mitchell Yockelson, New American Library, New York, 2016, 400 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. David T. Seigel, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 30, 2017
	Paris at War 1939-1944 David Drake, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2015, 592 pages Book Review written by: Mark V. Montesclaros, Fort Gordon, Georgia	March 30, 2017
	American Knights The Untold Story of the Men of the Legendary 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion Victor Failmezger, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2015, 352 pages Book Review written by: Dirk C. Blackdeer, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 30, 2017
	Nanjing 1937 Battle for a Doomed City Peter Harmsen, Casemate Publishers, Philadelphia, 2015, 368 pages Book Review written by: Lewis Bernstein, Woodbridge, Virginia	March 30, 2017
	Coventry Thursday, 14 November 1940 Frederick Taylor, Bloomsbury Press, London, 2015, 368 pages Book Review written by: Robert M. Brown, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 30, 2017
	Through the Valley My Captivity in Vietnam William Reeder Jr., Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2016, 238 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. James H. Willbanks, PhD, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 30, 2017
	Enemies to Allies Cold War Germany and American Memory Brian C. Etheridge, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 2016, 382 pages Book Review written by: Col. Bradley J. Foster, U.S. Army, Fort Bragg, North Carolina	March 30, 2017
	Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance Jeremy Black, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 2016, 352 pages Book Review written by: David A. Anderson, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 30, 2017
	Hunter Killer Inside America’s Unmanned Air War Mark McCurley and Kevin Maurer, Dutton, New York, 2016, 368 pages Book Review written by: Eric McGraw, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	March 30, 2017