New Books in Military History
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Alex Mayhew, "Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
59 mins; December 04, 2024
XosĂ© M. NĂșñez Seixas, "The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front, 1941–1945: War, Occupation, Memory" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
112 hours 24 mins; December 03, 2024
Maria Angela Diaz, "A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War–Era Gulf South" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
51 mins; November 30, 2024
Daniel Cowling, "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans: The British Occupation of Germany, 1945-49" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
73 hours 57 mins; November 28, 2024
Arthur W. Gullachsen, "The Defeat and Attrition of the 12. SS-Panzer-Division 'Hitlerjugend' (Casemate, 2024)
47 mins; November 27, 2024
Osamah F. Khalil, "A World of Enemies: America's Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden" (Harvard UP, 2024)
77 hours 39 mins; November 26, 2024
David Suisman, "Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America's Soldiers" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
65 hours 3 mins; November 25, 2024
Katherine C. Epstein, "Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
67 hours 34 mins; November 24, 2024
Peter Worthing, "General He Yingqin: The Rise and Fall of Nationalist China" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
81 hours 28 mins; November 17, 2024
Samuel Fury Childs Daly, "Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
53 mins; November 16, 2024
Erin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024)
68 hours 2 mins; November 16, 2024
D. M. Giangreco, "Truman and the Bomb: The Untold Story" (Potomac Books, 2023)
71 hours 48 mins; November 15, 2024
Lucian Staiano-Daniels, "The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
54 mins; November 15, 2024
Cathie Carmichael, "The Habsburg Garrison Complex in Trebinje: A Lost World" (CEU Press, 2024)
35 mins; November 14, 2024
Maksim Goldenshteyn, "So They Remember: A Jewish Family’s Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
90 hours 38 mins; November 13, 2024
S4E14 Our Enemies Will Vanish: A Conversation with Yaroslav Trofimov
45 mins; November 13, 2024
Nandini Sundar, "The Burning Forest: India's War In Bastar" (Verso, 2019)
53 mins; November 12, 2024
Anne Berg, "Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and War in Nazi Germany" (Oxford UP, 2024)
61 hours 6 mins; November 11, 2024
Anette Hoffmann, "Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915–1918)" (Duke UP, 2024)
44 mins; November 09, 2024
Jeremy Black, "Introduction to Global Military History: 1775 to the Present Day" (Routledge, 2018)
47 mins; November 09, 2024
Lee Brice and Timothy Roberts, "The Boundaries of War: Local and Global Perspectives in Military History" (Marine Corps UP, 2024)
53 mins; November 09, 2024
Parker Palmer on the Israel-Gaza War
57 mins; November 09, 2024
Andrew Stravers et al., "Beyond the Wire: US Military Deployments and Host Country Public Opinion" (Oxford UP, 2022)
42 mins; November 07, 2024
Artur Gruszczak and Sebastian Kaempf, "Routledge Handbook of the Future of Warfare" (Routledge, 2023)
80 hours 39 mins; November 06, 2024
Mark Stoyle, "A Murderous Midsummer: The Western Rising of 1549" (Yale UP, 2022)
46 mins; November 03, 2024
Ronald Drabkin, "Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor" (William Morrow, 2024)
42 mins; October 31, 2024
Friederike Baer, "Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War" (Oxford UP, 2022)
63 hours 7 mins; October 30, 2024
Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy
65 hours 56 mins; October 27, 2024
Beatrice de Graaf, "Fighting Terror after Napoleon: How Europe Became Secure after 1815" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
54 mins; October 22, 2024
John Freed, “Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth” (Yale UP, 2016)
73 hours 3 mins; October 22, 2024
Eran Ortal, "Battle Before the War: The Inside Story of the IDF's Transformation" (Dado Center, 2023)
61 hours 55 mins; October 20, 2024
E. L. Gaston, "Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria" (Columbia UP, 2024)
62 hours 7 mins; October 19, 2024
Thomas Weber, “Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi” (Basic Books, 2017)
71 hours 9 mins; October 18, 2024
Rachel O'Sullivan, "Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule: Resettlement, Germanization and Population Policies in Comparative Perspective" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
63 hours 5 mins; October 16, 2024
Donald R. Hickey, "Tecumseh's War: The Epic Conflict for the Heart of America" (Westholme, 2023)
35 mins; October 14, 2024
Helena F. S. Lopes, "Neutrality and Collaboration in South China: Macau during the Second World War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
112 hours 9 mins; October 11, 2024
Isaac Blacksin, "Conflicted: Making News from Global War" (Stanford UP, 2024)
64 hours 4 mins; October 10, 2024
Zach Fredman, "The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949" (UNC Press, 2022)
60 hours 52 mins; October 09, 2024
Robert Gerwarth, “Hitler’s Hangman: The Life of Heydrich” (Yale UP, 2012)
67 hours 28 mins; October 09, 2024
James Villanueva, "Awaiting MacArthur's Return: World War II Guerrilla Resistance against the Japanese in the Philippines" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
33 mins; October 08, 2024
Kyle Falcon, "Haunted Britain: Spiritualism, Psychical Research and the Great War" (Manchester UP, 2023)
41 mins; October 06, 2024
Nick Lloyd, "The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918" (Norton, 2024)
55 mins; October 06, 2024
Robert Rozett, "Conscripted Slaves: Hungarian Jewish Forced Laborers on the Eastern Front During the Second World War" (Yad Vashem, 2014)
63 hours 0 mins; October 04, 2024
Sean McMeekin, "To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism" (Basic Books, 2024)
55 mins; October 04, 2024
Christian Wolmar, "The Liberation Line: The Untold Story of How American Engineering and Ingenuity Won World War II" (Hachette, 2024)
61 hours 30 mins; October 02, 2024
Amos C. Fox, "Conflict Realism: Understanding the Causal Logic of Modern War and Warfare" (Howgate, 2024)
91 hours 23 mins; September 30, 2024
William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California Press, 2024)
63 hours 56 mins; September 29, 2024
Waitman Wade Beorn, "Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
88 hours 36 mins; September 27, 2024
Anthony Tucker-Jones, "The Fall of Berlin: The Final Days of Hitler's Evil Regime" (Sirius, 2024)
83 hours 48 mins; September 25, 2024
Steve Tibble, "Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land" (Yale UP, 2024)
56 mins; September 24, 2024
Andreas E. Feldmann, "Repertoires of Terrorism: Organizational Identity and Violence in Colombia's Civil War" (Columbia UP, 2024)
42 mins; September 22, 2024
Michael Livingston, "Agincourt: Battle of the Scarred King" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
67 hours 33 mins; September 20, 2024
Steven K. Bailey, "Target Hong Kong: A True Story of U.S. Navy Pilots at War" (Osprey, 2024)
51 mins; September 19, 2024
Jack Margolin, "The Wagner Group: Inside Russia’s Mercenary Army" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
52 mins; September 19, 2024
Seth J. Frantzman, "The October 7 War: Israel's Battle for Security in Gaza" (Wicked Son, 2024)
39 mins; September 18, 2024
Caroline Burt and Richard Partington, "Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State" (Faber & Faber, 2024)
71 hours 5 mins; September 17, 2024
Wendy Ugolini, "Wales in England, 1914-1945: A Social, Cultural, and Military History" (Oxford UP, 2024)
60 hours 27 mins; September 16, 2024
Mikhail Zygar, "War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine" (Scribner, 2023)
67 hours 18 mins; September 15, 2024
Isaac Nakhimovsky, "The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation" (Princeton UP, 2024)
68 hours 25 mins; September 12, 2024
Peter Rose, "The Good War of Consul Reeves" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)
50 mins; September 12, 2024
Terrence G. Peterson, "Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency" (Cornell UP, 2024)
49 mins; September 07, 2024
James M. Scott, "Black Snow: Curtis Lemay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb" (Norton, 2024)
57 mins; September 06, 2024
David Chaffetz, "Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires" (Norton, 2024)
47 mins; September 05, 2024
Dan Stone, "Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2023)
69 hours 27 mins; September 05, 2024
Daniel Todman, "Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947" (Oxford UP, 2020)
54 mins; August 31, 2024
Edwin P Rutan II, "High-Bounty Men in the Army of the Potomac: Reclaiming Their Honor" (Kent State UP, 2024)
66 hours 42 mins; August 31, 2024
Aleksander Pluskowski, "The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation" (Reaktion, 2024)
56 mins; August 30, 2024
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: : The Horse and the Rise of Empires
62 hours 42 mins; August 29, 2024
Ellen Hampton, "Doctors at War: The Clandestine Battle Against the Nazi Occupation of France" (LSU Press, 2023)
58 mins; August 28, 2024
Christian Bueger and Timothy Edmunds, "Understanding Maritime Security" (Oxford UP, 2024)
40 mins; August 28, 2024
Notes from the Field: A Personal View of the War on Gaza
44 mins; August 28, 2024
Holly Miowak Guise, "Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II" (U Washington Press, 2024)
69 hours 9 mins; August 27, 2024
Michelle Tusan, "The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
63 hours 21 mins; August 27, 2024
Lori Gemeiner-Bihler, "Cities of Refuge: German Jews in London and New York, 1935-1945" (SUNY Press, 2019)
69 hours 25 mins; August 27, 2024
Robin E. Möser, "Disarming Apartheid: The End of South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Programme and Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1968–1991" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
45 mins; August 26, 2024
Phil Haun, "Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War: Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
43 mins; August 25, 2024
Laurien Vastenhout, "Between Community and Collaboration: 'Jewish Councils' in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
88 hours 15 mins; August 23, 2024
Rachel Kousser, "Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great" (Mariner Books, 2024)
46 mins; August 22, 2024
Jiƙí Hutečka, "Men Under Fire: Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–1918" (Berghahn Books, 2019)
63 hours 42 mins; August 20, 2024
Susanne Barth, "From Schmelt Camp to 'Little Auschwitz': Blechhammer’s Role in the Holocaust" (Purdue UP, 2024)
64 hours 20 mins; August 19, 2024
Jeremy Black, "Rethinking Geopolitics" (Indiana UP, 2024)
41 mins; August 17, 2024
Lauren Benton, "They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence" (Princeton UP, 2024)
51 mins; August 16, 2024
Barbara Emerson, "The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century" (Hurst, 2024)
40 mins; August 13, 2024
Marc Ambinder, “The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983” (Simon & Schuster, 2018)
60 hours 9 mins; August 13, 2024
Matthew Evangelista, "Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945: Bombing among Friends" (Routledge, 2024)
60 hours 2 mins; August 10, 2024
Peter Hart, "The Gallipoli Evacuation" (Living History, 2020)
66 hours 38 mins; August 10, 2024
Gregory A. Daddis, "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
59 mins; August 05, 2024
Mark Walker, "Hitler's Atomic Bomb: History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
61 hours 4 mins; August 05, 2024
Jeremy Black, "Histories of War" (Pen & Sword Military, 2024)
36 mins; August 04, 2024
Petra Goedde, "The Politics of Peace: A Global Cold War History" (Oxford UP, 2019)
57 mins; August 04, 2024
Edward Kaplan, "The End of Victory: Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)
66 hours 4 mins; August 02, 2024
David A. Messenger, "Hunting Nazis in Franco's Spain" (LSU Press, 2014)
71 hours 33 mins; July 30, 2024
Bastiaan Willems, "Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944–1945" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
89 hours 0 mins; July 29, 2024
Kate McDonald on Asian Mobility History as Labor History
73 hours 33 mins; July 29, 2024
Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, "The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973: The USSR's Military Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict" (Oxford UP, 2017)
79 hours 5 mins; July 28, 2024
Kristie Flannery, "Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
59 mins; July 28, 2024
Lindsay Goss, "F*ck The Army!: How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War" (NYU Press, 2024)
40 mins; July 27, 2024
Austin Knuppe, "Surviving the Islamic State: Contention, Cooperation, and Neutrality in Wartime Iraq" (Columbia UP, 2024)
53 mins; July 26, 2024
Tim Sweijs and Jeffrey H. Michaels, "Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
74 hours 5 mins; July 26, 2024
Jonathan Dimbleby, "Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
44 mins; July 24, 2024