New Books in Military History
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Lindsay Rae Smith Privette, "The Surgeon's Battle: How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2025)
50 mins; April 04, 2026
Isabelle Held, "Atomic Bombshells: How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies" (Duke UP, 2026)
52 mins; April 03, 2026
Robert Cribb and Sandra Wilson, "Twelve Japanese War Criminals and One Who Got Away" (U Hawaiʻi Press, 2026)
60 hours 25 mins; April 01, 2026
Peter Mauch, "Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Most Controversial World War II General" (Harvard UP, 2026)
64 hours 22 mins; March 31, 2026
Arthur W. Gullachsen, "The Defeat and Attrition of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision Hitlerjugend: Volume II: Operations Martlet, Epsom, Windsor and Charnwood 11 June-12 July 1944" (Casemate, 2026)
59 mins; March 31, 2026
Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, "The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War" (Oxford UP, 2025)
70 hours 54 mins; March 26, 2026
Susanne Vees-Gulani, 'Icon Dresden: Baroque City, Air War Symbol, Political Token" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
43 mins; March 23, 2026
Sidra Hamidi, "After Fission: Recognition and Contestation in the Atomic Age" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
56 mins; March 21, 2026
Timothy Manion, "Why Barbarossa Failed: Germany and Russia in the Second World War" (Helion, 2026)
112 hours 30 mins; March 20, 2026
Our Age of War: A Discussion with Author Robert Pape
42 mins; March 18, 2026
Gudrun Persson, "Russian Military Thought: The Evolution of Strategy Since the Crimean War" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
82 hours 13 mins; March 15, 2026
Foster Chamberlin, "Uncivil Guard: Policing, Military Culture, and the Coming of the Spanish Civil War" (Louisiana State UP, 2025)
53 mins; March 15, 2026
Matthew Moran et al., "Coercing Syria on Chemical Weapons" (Oxford UP, 2025)
37 mins; March 14, 2026
Understanding Iran Under Attack: A Discussion with Author Vali Nasr
48 mins; March 12, 2026
Sezai Ozan Zeybek, "Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence: Shared Struggles in Turkey" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
40 mins; March 09, 2026
Patrick Chung, "Standardizing Empire: The US Military, Korea, and the Origins of Military-Industrial Capitalism" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)
61 hours 53 mins; March 06, 2026
Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Paul Poast, "Wheat at War: Allied Economic Cooperation in the Great War" (Oxford UP, 2025)
54 mins; March 03, 2026
James Giesler, "Francisco de Saavedra's American Revolutionary War, The Spanish Contribution to the Battle of Yorktown" (James Giesler, 2025)
59 mins; March 01, 2026
Trish FitzSimons and Madelyn Shaw, "Fleeced: Unraveling the History of Wool and War" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
69 hours 10 mins; March 01, 2026
Elliot Dolan-Evans, "Making War Safe for Capitalism: The World Bank, IMF, and the Conflict in Ukraine" (Bristol UP, 2025)
54 mins; February 28, 2026
Sarah Jones Weicksel, "A Nation Unraveled: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era" (UNC Press, 2026)
55 mins; February 27, 2026
American Masterpiece: The Civil War Diaries of George Templeton Strong with Brenda Wineapple and Geoff Wisner
60 hours 29 mins; February 23, 2026
Amos Fox and Franz-Stefan Gady, "Multidomain Operations: The Pursuit of Battlefield Dominance in the 21st Century" (Howgate Publishing, 2026)
111 hours 8 mins; February 14, 2026
Colleen M. Moore, "The Peasants' War: Russia's Home Front in the First World War and the End of the Autocracy" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
55 mins; February 14, 2026
Claire Morelon, "Streetscapes of War and Revolution: Prague, 1914–1920" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
42 mins; February 13, 2026
Mark Stout, "World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
72 hours 21 mins; February 11, 2026
Rosina Buckland and Oleg Benesch, "Samarai" (British Museum, 2025)
71 hours 31 mins; February 07, 2026
Andrew Monaghan, "Blitzkrieg and the Russian Art of War" (Manchester UP, 2025)
101 hours 9 mins; February 03, 2026
Peter Stansky, "The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War" (Stanford UP, 2023)
43 mins; February 02, 2026
Jeremy Black, "The Revolutionary War" (St. Augustine's Press, 2026)
28 mins; February 01, 2026
Nicole Wegner, "Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
50 mins; February 01, 2026
Jeremy Black, "Britain's Imperial Histories (St. Augustine's Press, 2025)
27 mins; January 28, 2026
Gershom Gorenberg, "War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East" (Public Affairs, 2021)
62 hours 7 mins; January 26, 2026
Erika Quinn, "This Horrible Uncertainty: A German Woman Writes War, 1939-1948" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
35 mins; January 25, 2026
Jason Burke, "The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s" (Knopf, 2026)
53 mins; January 22, 2026
Alex Wellerstein, "The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age" (Harper, 2025)
64 hours 20 mins; January 21, 2026
Michael P.M. Fox et al., eds., " Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
66 hours 22 mins; January 21, 2026
Gerald F. Goodwin, "Race in the Crucible of War: African American Servicemen and the War in Vietnam" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
52 mins; January 19, 2026
John M. Findlay, "The Mobilized American West, 1940-2000" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
71 hours 14 mins; January 19, 2026
Duncan Kelly, "Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics" (Oxford UP, 2025)
85 hours 30 mins; January 19, 2026
Amanda G. Madden, "Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy" (Cornell UP, 2025)
53 mins; January 18, 2026
Giles Tremlett, "El GeneralĂ­simo: A Biography of Francisco Franco" (Oxford UP, 2025)
59 mins; January 17, 2026
Reena Goldthree, "Democracy’s Foot Soldiers: World War I and the Politics of Empire in the Greater Caribbean" (Princeton UP, 2025)
52 mins; January 16, 2026
Steven J. Brady, "Less Than Victory: American Catholics and the Vietnam War" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
56 mins; January 13, 2026
Jessica Kelly and Neal Shasore, "Reconstruction: Architecture, Society and the Aftermath of the First World War" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
44 mins; January 09, 2026
Charles G. Thomas, "Ujamaa's Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People's Defence Force, 1964-1979" (Ohio UP, 2024)
57 mins; January 08, 2026
Helen J. Nicholson, "Women and the Crusades" (Oxford UP, 2023)
35 mins; January 07, 2026
Aaron Bateman. "Weapons in Space: Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative" (MIT Press, 2024)
20 mins; January 06, 2026
Susan McCready, "Commemorative Acts: French Theatre and the Memory of the Great War" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
48 mins; January 03, 2026
Filip Kovacevic, "KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the Soviet Union" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
51 mins; December 25, 2025
Samuel Helfont, "The Iraq Wars: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)
62 hours 15 mins; December 24, 2025
Tim Bouverie, "Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World" (Crown, 2025)
47 mins; December 19, 2025
Erik Lin-Greenberg, "The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern Statecraft" (Cornell UP, 2025)
25 mins; December 19, 2025
David Nasaw, "The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II" (Penguin, 2025)
55 mins; December 16, 2025
Matthew A. Tattar, "Innovation and Adaptation in War" (MIT Press, 2025)
60 hours 4 mins; December 15, 2025
Charlotte Macdonald, "Garrison World: Redcoat Soldiers in New Zealand and across the British Empire" (Bridget Williams Books, 2025)
72 hours 8 mins; December 11, 2025
Beau Cleland, "Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria: How Pirates, Smugglers, and Scoundrels Almost Saved the Confederacy" (U Georgia Press, 2025)
63 hours 38 mins; December 07, 2025
Michal A. Piegzik, "Gamble in the Coral Sea: Japan's Offensive, the Carrier Battle, and the Road to Midway" (Naval Institute Press, 2025)
53 mins; December 07, 2025
Henry Rausch, "Submerged: Life on a Fast Attack Submarine in the Last Days of the Cold War" (Independently Published, 2024)
56 mins; December 06, 2025
Steve Tibble, "Assassins and Templars: A Battle in Myth and Blood" (Yale UP, 2025)
47 mins; December 04, 2025
Jonathan S. Jones, "Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis" (UNC Press, 2025)
38 mins; December 02, 2025
Marc Sommers, "We the Young Fighters: Pop Culture, Terror, and War in Sierra Leone" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
78 hours 50 mins; November 30, 2025
James Lacey, "Rome: Strategy of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
59 mins; November 29, 2025
Jochen Hellbeck, "World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews" (Penguin Group, 2025)
87 hours 51 mins; November 25, 2025
Nina Wilen, "Securitizing the Sahel: Analyzing External Interventions and Their Consequences" (Oxford UP, 2025)
52 mins; November 25, 2025
Marek Kohn, "The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey Through Cities at the Heart of Europe" (Yale UP, 2023)
59 mins; November 24, 2025
John Bodnar, "Divided by Terror: American Patriotism after 9/11" (UNC Press, 2021)
68 hours 6 mins; November 22, 2025
Tim Seiter, "Wrangling Pelicans: Military Life in Texas Presidios" (U Texas Press, 2025)
39 mins; November 19, 2025
Jennifer Yip, "Grains of Conflict: The Struggle for Food in China’s Total War, 1937-1945" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
55 mins; November 15, 2025
Sonia Faleiro, "The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism Is Shaping Modern Asia" (Columbia UP, 2025)
41 mins; November 14, 2025
David Kieran, "Signature Wounds: The Untold Story of the Military's Mental Health Crisis" (NYU Press, 2019)
50 mins; November 14, 2025
Mila Burns, "Dictatorship Across Borders: Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold War" (UNC Press, 2025)
46 mins; November 13, 2025
Eric H. Cline, "Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed" (Princeton UP, 2025)
67 hours 5 mins; November 12, 2025
Phillips Payson O'Brien, "War and Power: Who Wins Wars--And Why" (PublicAffairs, 2025)
33 mins; November 11, 2025
Jason A. Higgins, "Prisoners After War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
62 hours 26 mins; November 10, 2025
Wolfgang Wagner, "The Democratic Politics of Military Interventions" (Oxford UP, 2020)
37 mins; November 10, 2025
E. Alaverdov and M. W. Bari, "Cultural Heritage Protection and Restoration in Conflict and Post-Conflict Zones" (IGI Global, 2025)
38 mins; November 08, 2025
Anastasija Ropa, "The Medieval Horse" (Reaktion Books, 2025)
40 mins; November 05, 2025
Robert Jan van Pelt, "The Barrack, 1572-1914: Chapters in the History of Emergency Architecture" (Park Books, 2024)
52 mins; October 30, 2025
Stephen C. Mercado, "Japanese Spy Gear and Special Weapons: How Noborito's Scientists and Technicians Served in the Second World War and the Cold War" (Pen & Sword Military, 2025)
38 mins; October 30, 2025
Kate Epstein on How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National-Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
93 hours 30 mins; October 28, 2025
Anthony Tucker-Jones, "The Secret War: Spies, Lies and the Art of Deception in World War II" (Sirius, 2025)
101 hours 47 mins; October 27, 2025
Roger Moorhouse, "Wolfpack: Hitler’s U-Boat War 1939-45" (HarperCollins, 2025)
65 hours 15 mins; October 26, 2025
Selena Daly, "Emigrant Soldiers: Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
63 hours 32 mins; October 24, 2025
Alice Lovejoy, "Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War" (U California Press, 2025)
45 mins; October 23, 2025
Aileen Teague, "Policing on Drugs: The United States, Mexico, and the Origins of the Modern Drug War, 1969-2000" (Oxford UP, 2025)
55 mins; October 22, 2025
Stephen Fritz, "The First Soldier: Hitler as a Military Leader" (Yale UP, 2018)
76 hours 34 mins; October 21, 2025
Angelos Chaniotis, "Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian" (Harvard UP, 2018)
71 hours 35 mins; October 20, 2025
William Doyle, "Napoleon at Peace: How to End a Revolution" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
19 mins; October 19, 2025
Danny Orbach, "Plots Against Hitler" (Mariner, 2016)
63 hours 20 mins; October 19, 2025
Francis L. Sampson, "Look Out Below!: A Story of the Airborne by a Paratrooper Padre" (Catholic U of America Press, 2023)
48 mins; October 16, 2025
Gustav Meibauer, "The No-Fly Zone in US Foreign Policy: The Curious Persistence of a Flawed Instrument" (Policy Press, 2025)
48 mins; October 12, 2025
Aaron Sheehan-Dean, "Fighting with the Past: How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War" (UNC Press, 2025)
55 mins; October 12, 2025
Nick Higham, "Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
49 mins; October 10, 2025
Tyler Jost, "Bureaucracies at War: The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
49 mins; October 08, 2025
Madison Schramm, "Why Democracies Fight Dictators" (Oxford UP, 2025)
54 mins; October 03, 2025
Luis L. Schenoni, "Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
61 hours 30 mins; October 02, 2025
M. G. Sheftall, "Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses" (Penguin Random House, 2025)
53 mins; October 01, 2025
Robert F. Williams, "The Airborne Mafia: The Paratroopers Who Shaped America's Cold War Army" (Cornell UP, 2025)
41 mins; October 01, 2025
Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, "Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East" (UP Colorado, 2025)
39 mins; September 28, 2025