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May 2017 Book Review Archives

Cover	Book Review	Date Published
	Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention Scott Straus, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., 2016, 264 pages Book Review written by: Dr. David A. Anderson, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 5, 2017
	Insurgency and Counterinsurgency A Global History Jeremy Black, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, 2016, 288 pages Book Review written by: Staff Sgt. Brian Darling, New Jersey Army National Guard, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey	May 5, 2017
	The Namibian War of Independence, 1966-1989 Diplomatic, Economic and Military Campaigns Richard Dale, McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2014, 216 pages Book Review written by: Patrick Wesner, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 5, 2017
	A Noble Cause American Battlefield Victories in Vietnam Douglas Niles, Caliber, New York, 2015, 336 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Edwin Kennedy Jr, U.S. Army, Retired, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama	May 5, 2017
	Uphill Battle Reflections on Viet Nam Counterinsurgency Frank Scotton, Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, Texas, 2014, 464 pages Book Review written by: Col. Eric M. Walters, U.S. Marine Corps, Retired, Fort Lee, Virginia	May 5, 2017
	Apostles of the Alps Mountaineering and Nation Building in Germany and Austria, 1860-1939 Tait Keller, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2016, 304 pages Book Review written by: Capt. Eugene M. Harding, U.S. Army National Guard, Auburn, Indiana	May 5, 2017
	The Perfect Horse The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis Elizabeth Letts, Ballantine Books, New York, 2016, 400 pages Book Review written by: Mark Montesclaros, Fort Gordon, Georgia	May 5, 2017
	Bushwackers Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri Joseph M. Beilein Jr., Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio, 2016, 304 pages Book Review written by: Jesse McIntyre III, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 5, 2017
	Napoleon Soldier of Destiny Michael Broers, Pegasus Books, New York, 2015, 608 pages Book Review written by: Andrew B. Mitchell, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 5, 2017
	Magna Carta The Birth of Liberty Dan Jones, Viking Press, New York, 2015, 288 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Kevin E. Gentzler, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 5, 2017
	The Invention of Russia From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War Arkady Ostrovsky, Viking Press, New York, 2015, 384 pages Book Review written by: Timothy L. Thomas, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 12, 2017
	Pax Romana War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World Adrian Goldsworthy, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2016, 528 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Richard S. Faulkner, PhD, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 12, 2017
	Genghis Khan and the Quest for God How the World’s Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom Jack Weatherford, Viking Press, New York, 2016, 432 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col Thomas Ficarra, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 12, 2017
	21st Century Patton Strategic Insights for the Modern Era Edited by J. Furman Daniel III, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2016, 154 pages Book Review written by: Capt. Colin Marcum, U.S. Army, Fort Bliss, Texas	May 12, 2017
	John Birch A Life Terry Lautz, Oxford University Press, New York, 2016, 317 pages Book Review written by: Gates M. Brown, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 12, 2017
	His Father’s Son The Life of General Ted Roosevelt Jr. Tim Brady, Penguin Random House, New York, 2017, 340 pages Book Review written by: Capt. Eugene M. Harding, U.S. Army National Guard, Auburn, Indiana	May 12, 2017
	Kearny’s Dragoons Out West The Birth of the U.S. Cavalry Will Gorenfeld and John Gorenfeld, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 2016, 480 pages Book Review written by: Maj. Nathan A. Jennings, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 12, 2017
	Dagger 22 U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations in the Bala Murghab, Afghanistan Michael Golembesky, Saint Martin’s Press, New York, 2016, 336 pages Book Review written by: Jesse McIntyre III, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 12, 2017
	The Big Stick The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force Eliot A. Cohen, Basic Books, New York, 2016, 228 pages Book Review written by: Cadet Casey McNicholas, U.S. Army Cadet Command, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington	May 12, 2017
	The Spanish Foreign Legion in Spanish Civil War, 1936 Jose Alvarez, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri, 2016, 307 pages Book Review written by: Dr. Scott Stephenson, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 12, 2017
	Russia’s Last Gasp The Eastern Front 1916-17 Prit Buttar, Osprey Publishing, New York, 2016, 496 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Jeffrey L. LaFace, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 19, 2017
	The West Point History of World War II, Volume II United States Military Academy, eds. Clifford J. Rogers, Ty Seidule, and Steve R. Waddell, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2016, 370 pages Book Review written by: Frederick A. Baillergeon, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 19, 2017
	The Fleet at Flood Tide America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 James D. Hornfischer, Bantam Books, New York, 2016, 640 pages Book Review written by: Maj. Matthew R. Prescott, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 19, 2017
	Herbert Hoover A Life Glen Jeansonne, New American Library, New York, 2016, 464 pages Book Review written by: Gary Ryman, Scott Township, Pennsylvania	May 19, 2017
	Civil War Infantry Tactics Training, Combat and Small Unit Effectiveness Earl J. Hess, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 2015, 368 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Ronald T. Staver, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 19, 2017
	Lt. Spalding in Civil War Louisiana A Union Officer’s Humor, Privilege and Ambition Michael D. Pierson, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 2016, 208 pages Book Review written by: Christopher M. Rein, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 19, 2017
	Iron Dawn The Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War Sea Battle that Changed History Richard Snow, Scribner, New York, 2016, 395 pages Book Review written by: David D. Haught, Fort Belvoir, Virginia	May 19, 2017
	The Swamp Fox How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution John Oller, DaCapo Press, Boston, 2016, 400 pages Book Review written by: Jesse McIntyre III, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 19, 2017
	The Tail Wags the Dog International Politics and the Middle East Efraim Karsh, Bloomsbury, New York, 2015, 256 pages Book Review written by: Brig. Gen. John C. Hanley, PhD, U.S. Army, Retired, La Crosse, Wisconsin	May 19, 2017
	America Warfighter Brotherhood, Survival, and Uncommon Valor in Iraq, 2003-2011 J. Pepper Bryars, 2016, 350 pages Book Review written by: Capt. Daniel M. Jansen, U.S. Army, Fort Hood, Texas	May 19, 2017
	Cyber Insecurity Navigating the Perils of the Next information Age Edited by Richard M Harrison and Trey Herr, Rowan & Littlefield New York, 2016, 412 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. George Hodge, U.S. Army, Retired, Lansing, Kansas	May 25, 2017
	A Torch Kept Lit Great Lives of the Twentieth Century William F. Buckley Jr. and James Rosen, ed., Crown Forum, New York, 2016, 336 pages Book Review written by: Col. Robert G. Young, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Gordon, Georgia	May 25, 2017
	Superpower Three Choices for America’s Role in the World Ian Bremmer, Portfolio, New York, 2015, 256 pages Book Review written by: Capt. Charles A. Staab, U.S. Army, Monterey, California	May 25, 2017
	One Nation Divided by Slavery Remembering the American Revolution While Marching toward the Civil War Michael F. Conlin, Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio, 2015, 240 pages Book Review written by: Richard E. Berkebile, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 25, 2017
	Wolford’s Cavalry The Colonel, the War in the West, and the Emancipation Question in Kentucky Dan Lee, Potomac Books, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2016, 312 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Edward “Ted” Johnson, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 25, 2017
	Thieves’ Road The Black Hills Betrayal and Custer’s Path to Little Bighorn Terry Mort, Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, 2015, 336 pages Book Review written by: Michel E. Weaver, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 25, 2017
	Vietnam’s High Ground Armed Struggle for the Central Highlands, 1954-1965 J. P. Harris, University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, 2016, 552 pages Book Review written by: Col. Eric M. Walters, U.S. Marine Corps, Retired, Fort Lee, Virginia	May 25, 2017
	Rogue Heroes The History of the SAS, Britain’s Secret Special Forces Unit that Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War Ben MacIntyre, Crown Publishing, New York, 2016, 400 pages Book Review written by: Jesse McIntyre III, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 25, 2017
	African Colonial Prisoners of the Germans A Pictorial History of Captive Soldiers in the World Wars Paul Garson, McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, June 2016, 216 pages Book Review written by: Harold A. Laurence, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 25, 2017
	The Secret History of World War II Spies, Code Breakers & Covert Operations Neil Kagan and Stephen W. Rendell, National Geographic, Washington, D.C., 2016, 352 pages Book Review written by: Dirk C. Blackdeer, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	May 25, 2017