March 2019 Book Review Archives

Cover Book Review Date Published
Landing in Hell Cover

Landing in Hell

The Pyrrhic Victory of the First Marine Division on Peleliu, 1944

Peter Margaritis, Casemate Press, Havertown, Pennsylvania, 2018, 208 pages

Book Review written by: Jesse McIntyre III, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

March 1, 2019
The Extraordinary Life of Charles Pomeroy Stone Cover

The Extraordinary Life of Charles Pomeroy Stone

Soldier, Surveyor, Pasha, Engineer

Blaine Lamb, Westholme Publishing, Yardley, Pennsylvania, 2015, 276 pages

Book Review written by: James D. Sharpe, Fort Gordon, Georgia

March 1, 2019
False Flags Cover

False Flags

Disguised German Raiders of World War II

Stephen Robinson, Exisle Publishing, Wollombi, Australia, 2016, 336 pages

Book Review written by: Lt. Col. David S. Pierson, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

March 8, 2019
War against War Cover

War against War

The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918

Michael Kazin, Simon and Schuster, New York, 2017, 400 pages

Book Review written by: Kathy Kim Strand, MEd, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

March 8, 2019
Chasing Charlie Cover

Chasing Charlie

A Force Recon Marine in Vietnam

Richard Fleming, McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2018, 250 pages

Book Review written by: Lt. Col. David E. McCulley, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

March 15, 2019
America Invaded Cover

America Invaded

A State by State Guide to Fighting on American Soil

Christopher Kelly and Stuart Laycock, History Invasions Press, Seattle, 2017, 414 pages

Book Review written by: Joseph S. Curtis, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

March 15, 2019
U.S. Military Detention Operations in Post-Abu Ghraib Iraq Cover

U.S. Military Detention Operations in Post-Abu Ghraib Iraq

Jeffrey Meriwether, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, 2018, 178 pages

Book Review written by: Patrick L. Cook, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

March 22, 2019
A Fierce Glory Cover

A Fierce Glory

Antietam—The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery

Christopher Kelly and Stuart Laycock, History Invasions Press, Seattle, 2017, 414 pages

Book Review written by: Justin Martin, Da Capo Press, New York, 2018, 336 pages

March 22, 2019
Project Eagle Cover

Project Eagle

The American Christians of North Korea in World War II

Robert S. Kim, Potomac Books, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2017, 360 pages

Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Robert B. Haines, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

March 29, 2019
First Fighter Ace Cover

First Fighter Ace

In the Cockpit with a World War II Fighter Pilot

Stanislaw Skalski, translated by John Bednarz Jr., Stackpole Books, Guilford, Connecticut, 2017, 176 pages

Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Roger J. Linder, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

March 29, 2019