September 2018 Book Review Archives

Cover Book Review Date Published
The Escape Line Cover

The Escape Line

How the Ordinary Heroes of Dutch-Paris Resisted the Nazi Occupation of Western Europe

Megan Koreman, Oxford University Press, New York, 2018, 424 pages

Book Review written by: Mark Montesclaros, Fort Gordon, Georgia

September 7, 2018
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Republic in Peril

American Empire and the Liberal Tradition

David C. Hendrickson, Oxford University Press, New York, 2018, 304 pages

Book Review written by: David A. Anderson, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

September 7, 2018
Valley Forge Cover

Valley Forge

Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, Simon and Schuster, New York, 2018, 432 pages

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

September 14, 2018
Engines of Rebellion Cover

Engines of Rebellion

Confederate Ironclads and Steam Engineering in the American Civil War

Saxon T. Bisbee, University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2018, 280 pages

Book Review written by: Dirk C. Blackdeer, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

September 14, 2018
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First Blood in North Africa

Operation Torch and the U.S. Campaign in Africa in WWII

Jon Diamond, Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, 2017, 216 pages

Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Wesley L. Girvin, U.S. Army, Fort Belvoir, Virginia

September 21, 2018
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So Far from Home

Royal Air Force and Free French Air Force Flight Training at Maxwell and Gunter Fields during World War II

Robert B. Kane, NewSouth Books, Montgomery, Alabama, 2016, 152 pages

Book Review written by: Boyd R. Plessl, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

September 21, 2018
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Fight like a Girl

The Truth behind How Female Marines Are Trained

Kate Germano with Kelly Kennedy, Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, 2018, 304 pages

Book Review written by: 1st Lt. Walker D. Mills, U.S. Marine Corps, London

September 27, 2018
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Honor before Glory

The Epic World War II Story of the Japanese American GIs Who Rescued the Lost Battalion

Scott McGaugh, Da Capo Press, Boston, 2016, 304 pages

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

September 27, 2018