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October 2017 Book Review Archives

Cover Book Review Date Published
My Fellow Soldiers Cover

My Fellow Soldiers

General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War

Andrew Carroll, Penguin Press, New York, 2017, 416 pages

Book Review written by: Eric McGraw, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

October 6, 2017
The Second World Wars Cover

The Second World Wars

How the First Global Conflict was Fought and Won

Victor Davis Hanson, Basic Books, New York, 2017, 720 pages

Book Review written by: Robert Baumann, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

October 6, 2017
A Savage War Cover

A Savage War

A Military History of the Civil War

Williamson Murray and Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2016, 616 pages

Book Review written by: Christopher M. Rein, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

October 6, 2017
Magna Carta Cover

Magna Carta

David A. Carpenter, Penguin Classics, New York, 2015, 592 pages

Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Christopher M. Ellis, U.S. Army, Edinburgh, Indiana

October 6, 2017
Arms and Armor of Caucasus Cover

Arms and Armor of Caucasus

Kirill Rivkin, Yamna Publishing, 2016, 328 pages

Book Review written by:Lt. Col. Joe Schotzko, U.S. Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

October 6, 2017
Work for Giants Cover

Work for Giants

The Campaign and Battle of Tupelo/Harrisburg, Mississippi, June-July 1864

Thomas E. Parson, Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio, 2014, 320 pages

Book Review written by: Christopher M. Rein, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

October 13, 2017
Lost Destiny Cover

Lost Destiny

Joe Kennedy Jr. and the Doomed WWII Mission to Save London

Alan Axelrod, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2015, 304 pages

Book Review written by: Robert M. Brown, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

October 20, 2017
The War after the War Cover

The War after the War

The Struggle for Credibility during America’s Exit from Vietnam

Johannes Kadura, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 2016, 272 pages

Book Review written by: Capt. Jeremy M. Phillips, U.S. Army, Fort Meade, Maryland

October 20, 2017
Blackbird Cover

Blackbird

A History of the Untouchable Spy Plane

James Hamilton-Paterson, Pegasus, New York, 2017, 232 pages

Book Review written by: David D. Haught, Fort Belvoir, Virginia

October 20, 2017
A Nation and Not a Rabble Cover

A Nation and Not a Rabble

The Irish Revolution 1913–1923

Diarmaid Ferriter, Overlook Press, New York, 2015, 528 pages

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

October 27, 2017
A Tale of Two Eagles Cover

A Tale of Two Eagles

The US-Mexico Bilateral Defense Relationship Post Cold War

Craig A. Deare, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, 2017, 430 pages

Book Review written by: Richard E. Berkebile, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

October 27, 2017