New Books in Military History
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Måté Rigó, "Capitalism in Chaos: How the Business Elites of Europe Prospered in the Era of the Great War" (Cornell UP, 2022)
59 mins; September 20, 2022
John M. Curatola, "Autumn of Our Discontent: Fall 1949 and the Crises in American National Security" (US Naval Institute Press, 2022)
24 mins; September 20, 2022
The Future of Nuclear Weapons: A Conversation with Fred Kaplan
61 hours 5 mins; September 20, 2022
Theodore McLauchlin, "Desertion: Trust and Mistrust in Civil Wars" (Cornell UP, 2020)
58 mins; September 19, 2022
A MAD, MAD, World
58 mins; September 14, 2022
Levi Roach, "Empires of the Normans: Makers of Europe, Conquerors of Asia" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
56 mins; September 14, 2022
Manoj Joshi, "Understanding the India-China Border: The Enduring Threat of War in High Himalaya" (Hurst, 2022)
37 mins; September 13, 2022
Jonathan Wyrtzen, "Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East" (Columbia UP, 2022)
62 hours 10 mins; September 09, 2022
Julia Margaret Zulver, "High-Risk Feminism in Colombia: Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
59 mins; September 08, 2022
Michael O'Hanlon, "The Art of War in an Age of Peace: U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint" (Yale UP, 2021)
54 mins; September 07, 2022
Ian Campbell, "The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy's National Shame" (Hurst, 2017)
112 hours 7 mins; September 07, 2022
Meighen McCrae, "Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War: The Supreme War Council and War Planning, 1917-1918" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
74 hours 2 mins; September 01, 2022
Tommi Koivula and HeljĂ€ Ossa, "NATO’s Burden-Sharing Disputes: Past, Present and Future Prospects" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
35 mins; September 01, 2022
John M. Kinder and Jason A. Higgins, "Service Denied: Marginalized Veterans in Modern American History" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
126 hours 21 mins; August 31, 2022
Thomas Donald Conlan, "Samurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan, 471-1877: A Sourcebook" (Hackett, 2022)
43 mins; August 30, 2022
Nathaniel Jarrett, "The Lion at Dawn: Forging British Strategy in the Age of the French Revolution, 1783–1797" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
79 hours 38 mins; August 30, 2022
Greg Woolf, "The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
50 mins; August 29, 2022
SĂ­obhra Aiken, "Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War" (Irish Academic Press, 2022)
42 mins; August 19, 2022
Andrew Dubbins, "Into Enemy Waters: A World War II Story of the Demolition Divers Who Became the Navy SEALs" (Diversion Books, 2022)
47 mins; August 19, 2022
Emizet F. Kisangani and Jeffrey Pickering, "African Interventions: State Militaries, Foreign Powers, and Rebel Forces" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
67 hours 58 mins; August 18, 2022
James Lacey, "Rome: Strategy of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
59 mins; August 17, 2022
Tom Zoellner, "Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire" (Harvard UP, 2020)
45 mins; August 16, 2022
Hans G. Myers, "The Lion of Round Top: The Life and Military Service of Brigadier General Strong Vincent in the American Civil War" (Casemate, 2022)
47 mins; August 12, 2022
Kristen A. Harkness, "When Soldiers Rebel: Ethnic Armies and Political Instability in Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
53 mins; August 12, 2022
Andrew Bacevich and Daniel A. Sjursen, "Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America's Forever Wars" (Metropolitan Books, 2022)
34 mins; August 10, 2022
Blake Whitaker, "Built on the Ruins of Empire: British Military Assistance and African Independence" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
79 hours 3 mins; August 10, 2022
Jonathan Leader Maynard, "Ideology and Mass Killing: Radical Security Politics and the Infrastructure of Deadly Atrocities" (Oxford UP, 2022)
91 hours 10 mins; August 09, 2022
Anastasia Shesterinina, "Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia" (Cornell UP, 2021)
61 hours 20 mins; August 09, 2022
SĂ©bastien Philippe and Tomas Statius, "Toxique: EnquĂȘte sur les essais nuclĂ©aires français en PolynĂ©sie" (CompanyĂ©dition PUF/Disclose, 2021)
63 hours 35 mins; August 08, 2022
John Goodall, "The Castle: A History" (Yale UP, 2022)
57 mins; August 05, 2022
Craig L. Symonds, "Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay" (Oxford UP, 2022)
50 mins; August 04, 2022
Yaniv Voller, "Second-Generation Liberation Wars" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
55 mins; August 03, 2022
Amy E. Grubb and Elisabeth Hope Murray, "British Responses to Genocide: The British Foreign Office and Humanitarianism in the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1923" (Routledge, 2022)
84 hours 38 mins; August 02, 2022
Peter Kornicki, "Eavesdropping on the Emperor: Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain's War With Japan" (Oxford UP, 2021)
49 mins; August 01, 2022
Vanda Wilcox, "The Italian Empire and the Great War" (Oxford UP, 2021)
82 hours 3 mins; August 01, 2022
Christy Pichichero, "The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon" (Cornell UP, 2018)
63 hours 30 mins; July 29, 2022
Richard Middleton, "Cornwallis: Soldier and Statesman in a Revolutionary World" (Yale UP, 2022)
71 hours 56 mins; July 29, 2022
Stuart Ellis-Gorman, "The Medieval Crossbow: A Weapon Fit to Kill a King" (Pen & Sword Military, 2022)
55 mins; July 28, 2022
Nic Maclellan, "Grappling with the Bomb: Britain’s Pacific H-Bomb Tests" (ANU Press, 2017)
107 hours 53 mins; July 27, 2022
Alexandra Lohse, "Prevail until the Bitter End: Germans in the Waning Years of World War II" (Cornell UP, 2021)
55 mins; July 27, 2022
The Future of Al Qaeda: A Discussion with Nelly Lahoud
50 mins; July 26, 2022
The Bland Corporation: On the RAND Corporation and the Defence-Intellectual Industrial Complex
44 mins; July 25, 2022
Maeve Ryan, "Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System" (Yale UP, 2022)
62 hours 46 mins; July 25, 2022
Duy Lap Nguyen, "The Unimagined Community: Imperialism and Culture in South Vietnam" (Manchester UP, 2019)
49 mins; July 25, 2022
David Brown, "Empire and Enterprise: Money, Power and the Adventurers for Irish Land During the British Civil Wars" (Manchester UP, 2020)
45 mins; July 22, 2022
Ethan Mark, "Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
108 hours 10 mins; July 21, 2022
David D. Dworak, "War of Supply: World War II Allied Logistics in the Mediterranean" (UP of Kentucky Press, 2022)
53 mins; July 21, 2022
The Future of War: A Discussion with Mark Galeotti
48 mins; July 19, 2022
Siniơa Maleơević, "Why Humans Fight: The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
60 hours 48 mins; July 18, 2022
Keith Thomson, "Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune" (Little Brown, 2022)
41 mins; July 13, 2022
Michael Mandelbaum, "The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower" (Oxford UP, 2022)
79 hours 52 mins; July 13, 2022
Niall Whelehan, "Changing Land: Diaspora Activism and the Irish Land War" (NYU Press, 2021)
34 mins; July 13, 2022
Kevin Ruane and Matthew Jones, "Anthony Eden, Anglo-American Relations and the 1954 Indochina Crisis" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
63 hours 27 mins; July 12, 2022
Jayita Sarkar, "Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2022)
66 hours 27 mins; July 11, 2022
Alison Macor, "Making The Best Years of Our Lives: The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation" (U Texas Press, 2022)
71 hours 35 mins; July 08, 2022
Sheila A. Smith, "Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power" (Harvard UP, 2019)
74 hours 32 mins; July 07, 2022
Ricardo A. Herrera, "Feeding Washington's Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778" (UNC Press, 2022)
63 hours 53 mins; July 07, 2022
Nick Sharman, "Britain’s Informal Empire in Spain, 1830-1950: Free Trade, Protectionism and Military Power| (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
61 hours 46 mins; July 05, 2022
Supalak Ganjanakhundee, "A Soldier King: Monarchy and Military in the Thailand of Rama X" (ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2022)
33 mins; July 04, 2022
Annie Tracy Samuel, "The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
51 mins; July 01, 2022
Roberto J. GonzĂĄlez, "War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future" (U California Press, 2022)
63 hours 15 mins; July 01, 2022
The Human Tragedy in Yemen
98 hours 48 mins; June 29, 2022
Holly A. Pinheiro Jr., "The Families' Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
49 mins; June 29, 2022
Hikmet Karčić, "Torture, Humiliate, Kill: Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp System" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
69 hours 51 mins; June 29, 2022
Claire Bellerjeau and Tiffany Yecke Brooks, "Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth" (Lyons Press, 2021)
47 mins; June 28, 2022
Sophie Haspeslagh, "Proscribing Peace: How Listing Armed Groups as Terrorists Hurts Negotiations" (Manchester UP, 2021)
58 mins; June 27, 2022
Jeremy Black, "The Great Battles of All Time" (Thames & Hudson, 2022)
42 mins; June 24, 2022
Ukrainian Nationalism in Historical Context
66 hours 28 mins; June 21, 2022
Tehmton S. Mistry, "The 24th Mile: An Indian Doctor's Heroism in War-torn Burma" (HarperCollins, 2021)
39 mins; June 21, 2022
Aaron Hiltner, "Taking Leave, Taking Liberties: American Troops on the World War II Home Front" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
54 mins; June 21, 2022
Michael Berry, "The Musha Incident: A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan" (Columbia UP, 2022)
68 hours 5 mins; June 15, 2022
David P. Oakley, "Subordinating Intelligence: The DoD/CIA Post-Cold War Relationship" (UP of Kentucky Press, 2019)
54 mins; June 14, 2022
Brandi Clay Brimmer, "Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South" (Duke UP, 2020)
45 mins; June 14, 2022
Shiv Kunal Verma, "1965: A Western Sunrise--India's War with Pakistan" (Aleph Book Company, 2021)
55 mins; June 09, 2022
Risa Brooks et al., "Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations: The Military, Society, Politics, and Modern War" (Oxford UP, 2020)
51 mins; June 09, 2022
The Forgotten Children of the Second Sino-Japanese War
22 mins; June 03, 2022
Jahara Matisek and Buddhika Jayamaha, "Old and New Battlespaces: Society, Military Power, and War" (Lynne Rienner, 2022)
77 hours 5 mins; June 03, 2022
Andrew Bickford, "Chemical Heroes: Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military" (Duke UP, 2021)
62 hours 35 mins; June 03, 2022
Christopher J. Gilbert, "Caricature and National Character: The United States at War" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
45 mins; May 26, 2022
Maksim Goldenshteyn, "So They Remember: A Jewish Family's Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
47 mins; May 26, 2022
Putin's War on Ukraine in Historical Perpective
70 hours 13 mins; May 24, 2022
Katrina Goldstone, "Irish Writers and the Thirties: Art, Exile and War" (Routledge, 2020)
80 hours 56 mins; May 24, 2022
Jim Downs, "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine" (Harvard UP, 2021)
61 hours 0 mins; May 23, 2022
Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li, "Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)
53 mins; May 20, 2022
Paddy Docherty, "Blood and Bronze: The British Empire and the Sack of Benin" (Hurst, 2022)
77 hours 7 mins; May 17, 2022
Jaclyn Granick, "International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
51 mins; May 06, 2022
Heather Jones, "For King and Country: The British Monarchy and the First World War" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
44 mins; May 03, 2022
Michael Mackenzie, "Otto Dix and the First World War: Grotesque Humor, Camaraderie and Remembrance" (Peter Lang, 2019)
47 mins; May 03, 2022
Joseph Fewsmith, "Forging Leninism in China: Mao and the Remaking of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927–1934" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
57 mins; April 29, 2022
Susan H. Allen, "Interactive Peacemaking: A People-Centered Approach" (Routledge, 2022)
58 mins; April 28, 2022
Dean A. Nowowiejski, "The American Army in Germany, 1918-1923: Success Against the Odds" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
46 mins; April 27, 2022
Nicole Elizabeth Barnes, "Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945" (U California Press, 2018)
70 hours 32 mins; April 21, 2022
Mark R. Anderson, "Down the Warpath to the Cedars: Indians' First Battles in the Revolution" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
68 hours 31 mins; April 21, 2022
David H. Ucko, "The Insurgent's Dilemma: A Struggle to Prevail" (Oxford UP, 2022)
80 hours 5 mins; April 20, 2022
Gregg Huff, "World War II in Southeast Asia: Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
71 hours 21 mins; April 15, 2022
Robert A Jacobs, "Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha" (Yale UP, 2022)
70 hours 37 mins; April 13, 2022
Yveline Alexis, "Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
48 mins; April 11, 2022
Jason K. Stearns, "The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo" (Princeton UP, 2022)
125 hours 13 mins; April 08, 2022
Nic Marsh et al., "Indefensible: Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade" (Zed Books, 2017)
40 mins; April 07, 2022
Adrian Shubert, "The Sword of Luchana: Baldomero Espartero and the Making of Modern Spain, 1793–1879" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
55 mins; April 07, 2022