October 2020 Book Review Archives

Cover Book Review Date Published
Ten Caesars Cover

Ten Caesars

Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine

Barry Strauss, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2019, 432 pages

Book Review written by: Robert Spessert, Fort Gordon, Georgia

October 2, 2020
From the Halls of the Montezumas  Cover

From the Halls of the Montezumas

Mexican War Dispatches from James L. Freaner Writing under the Pen Name Mustang

Edited by Alan D. Gaff and Donald H. Gaff, University of North Texas Press, Denton, Texas, 2019, 486 pages

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

October 2, 2020
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Japan Rearmed

The Politics of Military Power

Sheila A. Smith, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2019, 352 pages

Book Review written by: Lt. Col. John H. Modinger, PhD, U.S. Air Force, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

October 9, 2020
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The U.S. Naval Institute on the Marine Corps at War

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

Book Review written by: Lt. Col. David A. Anderson, PhD, U.S. Marine Corps, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

October 9, 2020
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Blazing Star, Setting Sun

The Conclusion of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Naval Campaign of World War II

Jeffrey R. Cox, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2020, 512 pages

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

October 16, 2020
Black Earth Cover

Black Earth

A Journey through Ukraine

Jens Mühling, trans. by Eugene H. Hayworth, The Armchair Traveller, London, 2019, 288 pages

Book Review written by: Capt. Eric Lowe, U.S. Army, Fort Carson, Colorado

October 16, 2020
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Continuatio Eulogii

The Continuation of the Eulogium Historiarium, 1364-1413

Edited and translated by Chris Given-Wilson, Oxford University Press, Cary, North Carolina, 2019, 240 pages

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

October 23, 2020
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The Crowded Hour

Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

Clay Risen, Scribner, New York, 2019, 368 pages

Book Review written by: Ronald T. Staver, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

October 30, 2020