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September 2020 Book Review Archives

Cover	Book Review	Date Published
	The German Failure in Belgium, August 1914 How Faulty Reconnaissance Exposed the Weakness of the Schlieffen Plan Dennis Showalter, Joseph P. Robinson, and Janet A. Robinson, MacFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2019, 225 pages Book Review written by: Dr. Scott Stephenson, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	September 4, 2020
	The USS Swordfish The World War II Patrols of the First American Submarine to Sink a Japanese Ship George J. Billy, McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2019, 234 pages Book Review written by: Dirk C. Blackdeer, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	September 4, 2020
	Scholars of Mayhem My Father’s Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France Daniel C. Guiet and Timothy K. Smith, Penguin Press, New York, 2019, 272 pages Book Review written by: Jacob A. Mong, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	September 11, 2020
	The First Day on the Eastern Front Germany Invades the Soviet Union, June 22, 1941 Craig W. H. Luther, Stackpole Books, Guilford, Connecticut, 2019, 504 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Jeffrey L. LaFace, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	September 11, 2020
	Across the Rhine January–May 1945 Simon Forty, Casemate, Philadelphia, 2020, 192 pages Book Review written by: Robert J. Rielly, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	September 18, 2020
	Navigating the C-124 Globemaster In the Cockpit of America’s First Strategic Heavy-Lift Aircraft Billy D. Higgins, McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2019, 219 pages Book Review written by: Thomas E. Ward II, PhD, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	September 18, 2020
	Patton Battling with History J. Furman Daniel III, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri, 2020, 320 pages Book Review written by: Robert J. Rielly, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	September 25, 2020
	Saving Israel The Unknown Story of Smuggling Weapons and Winning a Nation’s Independence Boaz Dvir, Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, 2019, 320 pages Book Review written by: Lt. Col. Stephen S. Harvey, U.S. Army, Retired, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas	September 25, 2020