May 2018 Book Review Archives

Cover Book Review Date Published
Points of Honor Cover

Points of Honor

Short Stories of the Great War by a U.S. Combat Marine

Thomas Boyd, edited by Steven Trout, University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2018, 216 pages

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

May 4, 2018
Hue 1968 Cover

Hue 1968

A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam

Mark Bowden, Grove Press, New York, 2017, 608 pages

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

May 4, 2018
Hue 1968 Cover

Eat the Apple

A Memoir

Matt Young, Bloomsbury, New York, 2018, 272 pages

Book Review written by: Capt. Ian Cameron, U.S. Marine Corps, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina

May 4, 2018
Counterinsurgency and the United States Marine Corps Cover

Counterinsurgency and the United States Marine Corps

Volume 2, An Era of Persistent Warfare 1945¬–2016

Leo J. Daugherty III and Rhonda L. Smith-Daugherty, McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2018, 473 pages

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

May 11, 2018
The U.S. Naval Institute on Mentorship Cover

The U.S. Naval Institute on Mentorship

Edited by P. J. Neal, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2017, 192 pages

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

May 11, 2018
The Jagged Edge of Duty Cover

The Jagged Edge of Duty

A Fighter Pilot’s World War II

Robert L. Richardson, Stackpole Books, Guilford, Connecticut, 2017, 408 pages

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

May 18, 2018
The U.S. Naval Institute on Marine Corps Aviation Cover

The U.S. Naval Institute on Marine Corps Aviation

Edited by Thomas J. Cutler, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2016, 176 pages

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

May 18, 2018
Our Year of War Cover

Our Year of War

Two Brothers, Vietnam, and a Nation Divided

Daniel P. Bolger, Da Capo Press, New York, 2017, 368 pages

Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Ronald T. Staver, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

May 18, 2018
Operation Don’s Main Attack Cover

Operation Don’s Main Attack

The Soviet Southern Front’s Advance on Rostov, January–February 1943

David Glantz, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 2018, 912 pages

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

May 25, 2018
Armies South, Armies North Cover

Armies South, Armies North

Forces of the Civil War Compared and Contrasted

Alan Axelrod, Lyons Press, Guilford, Connecticut, 2017, 280 pages

Book Review written by: Col. James L. Davis, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

May 25, 2018