New Books in Military History
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Kolby Hanson, "Ordinary Rebels: Rank-And-File Militants Between War and Peace" (Oxford UP, 2025)
42 mins; September 28, 2025
Michael Jabara Carley, "Stalin's Gamble: The Search for Allies Against Hitler, 1930-1936" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
85 hours 35 mins; September 26, 2025
Adrian Pole, "Making Antifascist War: The International Brigades' Transnational Encounters with Civil-War Spain, 1936-1939" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
55 mins; September 24, 2025
Deborah Willis, "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" (NYU Press, 2025)
35 mins; September 24, 2025
Tanja Petrovic, "Utopia of the Uniform: Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People's Army" (Duke UP, 2024)
43 mins; September 21, 2025
Dani Belo, "Russian Warfare in the 21st Century" (Routledge, 2025)
63 hours 32 mins; September 17, 2025
George Papaconstantinou and Jean Pisani-Ferry, "New World New Rules: Global Cooperation in a World of Geopolitical Rivalries" (Agenda, 2024)
43 mins; September 17, 2025
Kevin Passmore, "The Maginot Line: A New History of the Fall of France" (Yale UP, 2025)
66 hours 48 mins; September 13, 2025
Darcie Deangelo et al., "Demilitarizing the Future" (Anthem Press, 2025)
50 mins; September 10, 2025
David Welsh, "The Social Railway and Its Workers in Europes Modern Era, 1880-2023: Moments of Fury, Ramparts of Hope" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
64 hours 50 mins; September 10, 2025
Steve Tibble, "Assassins and Templars: A Battle in Myth and Blood" (Yale UP, 2025)
56 mins; September 09, 2025
Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, "Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East" (UP of Colorado, 2025)
58 mins; September 04, 2025
Robert Ivermee, "Glorious Failure: The Forgotten History of French Imperialism in India" (Oxford UP, 2025)
55 mins; September 02, 2025
Alice Lovejoy, "Tales of Militant Chemistry" (U California Press, 2025)
36 mins; September 02, 2025
Andrew Fialka, "Hope Never to See It: A Graphic History of Guerrilla Violence during the American Civil War" (U Georgia Press, 2025)
56 mins; August 30, 2025
John Lisle, "Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
74 hours 56 mins; August 29, 2025
Mark L. Haas, "The Geriatric Peace: Population Aging and the Decline of War" (Oxford UP, 2025)
52 mins; August 27, 2025
Gregory A. Daddis, "Faith and Fear: America's Relationship with War Since 1945" (Oxford UP, 2025)
57 mins; August 25, 2025
Stephan Kieninger, "Securing Peace in Europe: Strobe Talbott, NATO, and Russia After the Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2025)
40 mins; August 24, 2025
Ben Connable, "Ground Combat: Puncturing the Myths of Modern War" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
39 mins; August 23, 2025
Raymond Jonas, "Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire" (Harvard UP, 2024)
65 hours 12 mins; August 23, 2025
Daniel Lomas, "The Secret History of UK Security Vetting from 1909 to the Present" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
63 hours 38 mins; August 22, 2025
Mariya Grinberg, "Trade in War: Economic Cooperation Across Enemy Lines" (Cornell UP, 2025)
46 mins; August 21, 2025
Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II" (Basic Books, 2025)
64 hours 46 mins; August 19, 2025
Barry Strauss, "Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
44 mins; August 19, 2025
Thomas Christian BĂ€chle and Jascha Bareis eds., "The Realities of Autonomous Weapons (ï»żBristol UP, 2025)
60 hours 17 mins; August 19, 2025
Reid B. C. Pauly, "The Art of Coercion: Credible Threats and the Assurance Dilemma" (Cornell UP, 2025)
59 mins; August 18, 2025
Mark Braude, "The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Empire to Exile" (Penguin Press, 2018)
62 hours 8 mins; August 17, 2025
W. Henry Sledge, "The Old Breed... The Complete Story Revealed" (Knox Press, 2025)
62 hours 20 mins; August 14, 2025
Garrett M. Graff, "When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
54 mins; August 13, 2025
Michael Jabara Carley, "Stalin's Great Game: War and Neutrality, 1939-1941" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
89 hours 19 mins; August 13, 2025
Michael Geheran, "Comrades Betrayed: Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler" (Cornell UP, 2020)
73 hours 2 mins; August 13, 2025
Yorai Linenberg, "Jewish Soldiers in Nazi Captivity: American and British Prisoners of War During the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
87 hours 54 mins; August 12, 2025
Bryon L. Garner, "Black Veteranality: Military Service and the Illusion of Inclusive Patriotism" (Routledge, 2025)
56 mins; August 11, 2025
Alexander Mikaberidze, "Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace" (Oxford UP, 2022)
71 hours 47 mins; August 10, 2025
Stephanie McCurry, "Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the Civil War" (Harvard UP, 2019)
72 hours 50 mins; August 09, 2025
Jonathan Fisher and Nina Wilén, "African Peacekeeping" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
53 mins; August 09, 2025
Zack Cooper, "Tides of Fortune: The Rise and Decline of Great Militaries" (Yale UP, 2025)
40 mins; August 08, 2025
Ben Zweibelson, "Reconceptualizing War" (Helion, 2025)
64 hours 18 mins; August 07, 2025
Marcus Gibson, "The Greatest Force: How RAF Bomber Command Became the No.1 Factor in Britain’s Total, Destructive Defeat of Nazi Germany" (2025)
38 mins; August 06, 2025
Craig W. H. Luther, "Guderian's Panzers: From Triumph to Defeat on the Eastern Front (1941)" (Stackpole Books, 2025)
63 hours 14 mins; August 05, 2025
Y. Kokosalakis and F. J. Leira-Castiñeira, "Violence and Propaganda in European Civil Wars" (Routledge, 2025)
52 mins; August 04, 2025
Giles Tremlett, "The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
53 mins; August 04, 2025
David Chaffetz, "Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires" (Norton, 2025)
47 mins; August 03, 2025
Frank Jacob, "Japanese War Crimes during World War II: Atrocity and the Psychology of Collective Violence" (Praeger, 2018)
66 hours 7 mins; August 02, 2025
Robert Hutchinson, "After Nuremberg: American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals" (Yale UP, 2022)
58 mins; August 01, 2025
Richard W. Harrison, "The Soviet Army's High Commands in War and Peace, 1941–1992" (Casemate Academic, 2022)
106 hours 21 mins; July 31, 2025
Julian Jackson, "De Gaulle" (Harvard UP, 2018)
72 hours 2 mins; July 30, 2025
Michael Vorenberg, "Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War" (Random House, 2023)
97 hours 56 mins; July 29, 2025
Bulent Gokay and Lily Hamourtziadou, "Human Costs of War: 21st Century Human (In)Security from 2003 Iraq to 2022 Ukraine" (Routledge, 2024)
31 mins; July 28, 2025
Christy Pichichero, "The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon" (Cornell UP, 2018)
65 hours 30 mins; July 27, 2025
Nathan Stoltzfus, “Hitler’s Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany” (Yale UP, 2016)
57 mins; July 26, 2025
Regina Kazyulina, "Women Under Suspicion: Fraternization, Espionage, and Punishment in the Soviet Union During World War II" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)
49 mins; July 23, 2025
Ketian Zhang, "China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
73 hours 57 mins; July 20, 2025
Alex J. Kay and David Stahel, "Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe" (Indiana UP, 2018)
42 mins; July 20, 2025
Sean McMeekin, "Stalin's War: A New History of World War II" (Basic Books, 2021)
76 hours 10 mins; July 20, 2025
How ClioVis is Transforming Education and Historical Research
22 mins; July 19, 2025
Gary Kulik, "Conscientious Objectors at War: The Vietnam War's Forgotten Medics" (Texas Tech UP, 2025)
59 mins; July 19, 2025
Peter Apps, "Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO" (Hachette UK, 2024)
62 hours 9 mins; July 18, 2025
Haley Cohen Gilliland, "A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
54 mins; July 16, 2025
Lily Hamourtziadou, "Body Count: The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq" (Bristol UP, 2021)
31 mins; July 16, 2025
Kelly A. Spring, "SPAM: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)
34 mins; July 16, 2025
Jeremy Black, "The Civil War" (Saint Augustine's Press, 2025)
30 mins; July 14, 2025
Aggie Hirst, "Politics of Play: Wargaming with the US Military" (Oxford UP, 2024)
51 mins; July 13, 2025
Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman, "Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany's March to Global War" (Basic Books, 2021)
47 mins; July 13, 2025
Janet McIntosh, "Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics" (Oxford UP, 2025)
88 hours 8 mins; July 09, 2025
Susan L. Carruthers, "Making Do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
69 hours 21 mins; July 08, 2025
Alex Vernon, "Peace Is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O'Brien" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
52 mins; July 05, 2025
Antonio J. Muñoz, "Hitler's War Against the Partisans During the Stalingrad Offensive: Spring 1942 to the Spring of 1943" (Frontline, 2025)
99 hours 18 mins; June 27, 2025
Wilson T. Bell, "Stalin's Gulag at War: Forced Labour, Mass Death, and Soviet Victory in the Second World War" (University of Toronto Press, 2018)
95 hours 6 mins; June 26, 2025
Danielle Leavitt, "By the Second Spring: Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025)
57 mins; June 25, 2025
Lily Hamourtziadou, "The Ethics of Remote Warfare" (University of Wales Press, 2024)
36 mins; June 21, 2025
James D. Brown, "Cracking the Crab: Russian Espionage Against Japan, from Peter the Great to Richard Sorge" (Hurst, 2025)
32 mins; June 19, 2025
Jeremy A. Yellen, "Japan at War, 1914-1952" (Routledge, 2024)
64 hours 12 mins; June 10, 2025
Myra Mendible, "American War Stories: Veteran-Writers and the Politics of Memoir" (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021)
57 mins; June 10, 2025
Elizabeth N. Saunders, "The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace" (Princeton UP, 2024)
49 mins; June 09, 2025
Jeffrey P. Rogg, "The Spy and the State: The History of American Intelligence" (Oxford UP, 2025)
64 hours 58 mins; June 09, 2025
Charles J Esdaile, "The Spanish Civil War: A Military History" (Routledge, 2019)
121 hours 58 mins; June 08, 2025
Geoffrey Wawro, "The Vietnam War: A Military History" (Basic Books, 2024)
72 hours 52 mins; June 06, 2025
James Graham Wilson, "America's Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan" (Cornell UP, 2024)
75 hours 7 mins; June 05, 2025
Roger Chickering, "The German Empire, 1871–1918" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
57 mins; June 04, 2025
Joshua Howe and Alexander Lemons "Warbody: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare" (W. W. Norton & Company, 2025)
70 hours 24 mins; June 01, 2025
Michael D. Gambone, "The New Praetorians: American Veterans, Society, and Service from Vietnam to the Forever War" (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)
51 mins; May 31, 2025
Antonio J. Muñoz, "Hitler's War Against the Partisans During Operation Barbarossa: June 1941 to the Spring of 1942" (Frontline, 2025)
101 hours 25 mins; May 28, 2025
Greta Lynn Uehling, "Decolonizing Ukraine: The Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
53 mins; May 26, 2025
Joseph Darda, "How White Men Won the Culture Wars" (U California Press, 2021)
64 hours 29 mins; May 25, 2025
Frank X Walker, "Load in Nine Times: Poems" (Liveright, 2024)
84 hours 30 mins; May 23, 2025
William F. Owen, "Euclid's Army: Preparing Land Forces for Warfare Today" (Howgate Publishing, 2024)
104 hours 44 mins; May 22, 2025
Stephen R. Platt, "The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II" (Knopf, 2025)
73 hours 7 mins; May 20, 2025
Jennifer Lynn Gross, "Sisterhood of the Lost Cause: Confederate Widows in the New South" (LSU Press, 2025)
59 mins; May 16, 2025
Jacquelyn Schneider and Julia MacDonald, "The Rise of Unmanned Warfare: Origins of the Us Autonomous Military Arsenal" (Oxford UP, 2023)
48 mins; May 15, 2025
Brian VanDeMark, "Kent State: An American Tragedy" (Norton, 2024)
52 mins; May 14, 2025
David de Jong, "Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties" (Mariner Books, 2022)
70 hours 36 mins; May 13, 2025
Victoria Khiterer, "Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration" (Purdue UP, 2025)
99 hours 28 mins; May 12, 2025
Becky Aikman, "Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger during World War II" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
34 mins; May 11, 2025
Mark Fallon, "Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon, and US Government Conspired to Torture" (Regan Arts, 2017)
54 mins; May 10, 2025
Chris Webb and Artur Hojan, "The Chelmno Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance" (Ibidem Press, 2019)
53 mins; May 09, 2025
David Resnick, "Empowered or Abused: The Bible's Plan to Stop Battlefield Rape and Reduce Sexual Abuse" (BfoT, 2025)
28 mins; May 08, 2025
Cynthia Enloe, "Twelve Feminist Lessons of War" (U California Press, 2023)
74 hours 32 mins; May 07, 2025
Michael David-Fox, "Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule" (Harvard UP, 2025)
62 hours 54 mins; May 06, 2025