New Books in Military History
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Alexander Henry, "War Through Italian Eyes: Fighting for Mussolini, 1940-1943" (Routledge, 2021)
90 hours 30 mins; February 19, 2024
Daphna Sharfman, "Jerusalem in the Second World War" (Routledge, 2024)
91 hours 42 mins; February 18, 2024
Sarah Parry Myers, "Earning Their Wings: The WASPs of World War II and the Fight for Veteran Recognition" (UNC Press, 2023)
56 mins; February 16, 2024
Jewish War Ethics, Ancient to Contemporary: A Conversation with Rabbi Shlomo Brody
53 mins; February 14, 2024
"War is what you make of it" with Neta Crawford of Oxford University and the Costs of War Project
36 mins; February 13, 2024
Matteo Millan, "The Blackshirts' Dictatorship: Armed Squads, Political Violence, and the Consolidation of Mussolini's Regime" (Routledge, 2022)
90 hours 59 mins; February 12, 2024
Despina Stratigakos, "Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway" (Princeton UP, 2020)
58 mins; February 11, 2024
Bjørn Westlie, "My Father's War: Confronting Norway's Nazi Past" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
67 hours 12 mins; February 11, 2024
Daniel Immerwahr, "How to Hide an Empire: The History of the Greater United States" (FSG, 2019)
79 hours 28 mins; February 11, 2024
Timothy A. Sayle, "Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order" (Cornell UP, 2019)
53 mins; February 11, 2024
George Eisen, "A Summer of Mass Murder: 1941 Rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust" (Purdue UP, 2022)
90 hours 29 mins; February 10, 2024
Klaus Schmider, "Hitler's Fatal Miscalculation: Why Germany Declared War on the United States" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
71 hours 25 mins; February 09, 2024
Matthew Kruer, "Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America" (Harvard UP, 2021)
99 hours 35 mins; February 07, 2024
Dallas Michelbacher, "Jewish Forced Labor in Romania, 1940-1944" (Indiana UP, 2020)
66 hours 42 mins; February 06, 2024
Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer, "Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
74 hours 34 mins; February 05, 2024
Elizabeth Varon, "Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
28 mins; February 04, 2024
Beatrice Heuser, "War: A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices" (Oxford UP, 2022)
64 hours 16 mins; February 03, 2024
Robin Judd, "Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust" (UNC Press, 2023)
46 mins; February 02, 2024
Emma Bridges, "Warriors' Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience" (Oxford UP, 2023)
50 mins; February 01, 2024
J. Overton, "Seapower by Other Means: Naval Contributions to National Objectives Beyond Sea Control, Power Projection, and Traditional Service Missions" (Nomos, 2023)
46 mins; January 31, 2024
Curtis Fox, "Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition and Conventional Military Conflict" (30 Press Publishing, 2023)
91 hours 49 mins; January 30, 2024
Anna Reid, "A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution" (Basic Books, 2024)
53 mins; January 29, 2024
Calder Walton, "Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West" (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
44 mins; January 28, 2024
Ridley Scott's "Napoleon": A Historian's Review
22 mins; January 28, 2024
Elliot Short, "Building a Multiethnic Military in Post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
65 hours 51 mins; January 27, 2024
John J. Michalczyk et al.. "Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ and the Holocaust: A Prelude to Genocide" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
115 hours 32 mins; January 27, 2024
Paddy Walker and Peter Roberts, "War's Changed Landscape?: A Primer on Conflict's Forms and Norms" (Howgate, 2023)
90 hours 24 mins; January 27, 2024
Nicholas Morton, "The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187" (Oxford UP, 2020)
60 hours 34 mins; January 22, 2024
Paul D. Barclay, "Kondo the Barbarian: A Japanese Adventurer and Indigenous Taiwan's Bloodiest Uprising" (Eastbridge Books, 2023)
59 mins; January 22, 2024
Simon Shuster, "The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky" (William Morrow, 2024)
43 mins; January 20, 2024
Bradley R. Clampitt, "Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity" (LSU Press, 2022)
66 hours 11 mins; January 18, 2024
Christopher Corker, "The Business and Technology of the Sheffield Armaments Industry, 1900-1930" (U of York, 2016)
42 mins; January 16, 2024
Uri Kaufman, "Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
57 mins; January 15, 2024
James C. Goodall, "Nautilus to Columbia: 70 Years of the US Navy's Nuclear Submarines" (Osprey, 2023)
54 mins; January 15, 2024
Jeffrey A. Friedman, "The Commander-in-Chief Test: Public Opinion and the Politics of Image-Making in US Foreign Policy" (Cornell UP, 2023)
40 mins; January 14, 2024
Matthew Levitt, "Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad" (Yale UP, 2008)
36 mins; January 14, 2024
Yaroslav Trofimov, "Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence" (Penguin, 2023)
43 mins; January 09, 2024
Paul F. Diehl et al., "When Peacekeeping Missions Collide: Balancing Multiple Roles in Peace Operations" (Oxford UP, 2023)
70 hours 7 mins; January 08, 2024
Bryan Mark Rigg, "The Rabbi Saved by Hitler's Soldiers: Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn and His Astonishing Rescue" (UP of Kansas, 2016)
55 mins; January 07, 2024
Colin Jones, "The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris" (Oxford UP, 2021)
56 mins; January 05, 2024
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 7: A Genealogy of Gun Violence
51 mins; December 28, 2023
Jeffrey Whyte, "The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
83 hours 30 mins; December 27, 2023
Julia F. Irwin, "Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century" (UNC Press, 2023)
56 mins; December 27, 2023
Elena Schneider, "The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade and Slavery in the Atlantic World" (UNC Press, 2018)
50 mins; December 27, 2023
Jeremy Yellen, "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War" (Cornell UP, 2019)
77 hours 4 mins; December 26, 2023
On Native American Warfare: A Discussion with Author and Historian Wayne E. Lee
55 mins; December 24, 2023
John D. Hosler, "Seven Myths of Military History" (Hackett Publishing, 2022)
67 hours 3 mins; December 23, 2023
Yael A. Sternhell, "War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War" (Yale UP, 2023)
55 mins; December 23, 2023
Huw Bennett, "Uncivil War: The British Army and the Troubles, 1966–1975" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
26 mins; December 22, 2023
Magda Stroińska, "My Life in Propaganda: A Memoir about Language and Totalitarian Regimes" (Durvile, 2023)
64 hours 55 mins; December 20, 2023
Wayne Soon, "Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History" (Stanford UP, 2020)
65 hours 11 mins; December 19, 2023
Vladyslav Besedovskyy, "Uniforms and History of the Soviet Airborne in Afghanistan" (Safar, 2023)
33 mins; December 16, 2023
Ronald C. White, "On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain" (Random House, 2023)
60 hours 46 mins; December 15, 2023
Troels Burchall Henningsen, "Western Intervention and Informal Politics: Simulated Statebuilding and Failed Reforms" (Routledge, 2021)
66 hours 18 mins; December 15, 2023
Gary J. Bass, "Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia" (Knopf, 2023)
31 mins; December 15, 2023
Jonathan Sumption, "Triumph and Illusion: The Hundred Years War, Vol. 5" (Faber & Faber, 2023)
42 mins; December 14, 2023
Louis-Alexandre Berg, "Governing Security After War: The Politics of Institutional Change in the Security Sector" (Oxford UP, 2022)
81 hours 41 mins; December 14, 2023
Martin C. Dean, "Investigating Babyn Yar: Shadows from the Valley of Death" (Lexington Books, 2023)
36 mins; December 11, 2023
Alexandra Kitty, "A Different Track: Hospital Trains of the Second World War" (Heritage House, 2023)
29 mins; December 11, 2023
Burkhard Bilger, "Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets" (Random House, 2023)
63 hours 56 mins; December 08, 2023
Katharine M. Millar, "Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community" (Oxford UP, 2022)
65 hours 57 mins; December 08, 2023
Ibrahim Fraihat and Isak Svensson, "Conflict Mediation in the Arab World" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
51 mins; December 05, 2023
Timothy G. Heck and Walker D. Mills, "Armies in Retreat: Chaos, Cohesion, and Consequences" (Army UP, 2023)
47 mins; December 03, 2023
Sima Saigal, "The Second World War and North East India: Shadows of Yesteryears" (Routledge, 2022)
81 hours 52 mins; December 03, 2023
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation
58 mins; December 02, 2023
Andrew Pettegree, "The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict" (Basic Books, 2023)
50 mins; December 01, 2023
G. H. Bennett, "The War for England's Shores: S-Boats and the Fight Against British Coastal Convoys" (US Naval Institute Press, 2023)
59 mins; November 27, 2023
Ran Zwigenberg, "Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
65 hours 36 mins; November 27, 2023
Andrekos Varnava, "British Cyprus and the Long Great War, 1914-1925: Empire, Loyalties and Democratic Deficit" (Routledge, 2020)
72 hours 46 mins; November 27, 2023
Brian D. Blankenship, "The Burden-Sharing Dilemma: Coercive Diplomacy in US Alliance Politics" (Cornell UP, 2023)
68 hours 16 mins; November 26, 2023
Peter Samsonov, "IS-2: Development, Design, and Production of Stalin's Warhammer" (Military History Group, 2022)
37 mins; November 26, 2023
Edward L. Ayers, "American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860" (Norton, 2023)
67 hours 23 mins; November 25, 2023
Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel, "Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States" (Polity, 2023)
56 mins; November 24, 2023
Jenny Benham, "International Law in Europe, 700–1200" (Manchester UP, 2022)
73 hours 7 mins; November 24, 2023
William S. Kiser, "Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
54 mins; November 23, 2023
Andrew Monaghan and Richard Connolly. "The Sea in Russian Strategy" (Manchester UP, 2023)
63 hours 43 mins; November 22, 2023
Ina Rupprecht, ed., "Persecution, Collaboration, Resistance: Music in the ‘Reichskommissariat Norwegen’ (1940–45)" (Waxmann Verlag, 2020)
74 hours 51 mins; November 21, 2023
Marika Sosnowski, "Redefining Ceasefires: Wartime Order and Statebuilding in Syria" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
42 mins; November 21, 2023
Nicole Eaton, "German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad" (Cornell UP, 2023)
72 hours 16 mins; November 18, 2023
Bálint Madlovics and Bálint Magyar, "The Russia-Ukraine War, Volumes 1-2" (CEU Press, 2023)
52 mins; November 17, 2023
Matthew F. Jordan, "Danger Sound Klaxon!: The Horn That Changed History" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
54 mins; November 17, 2023
Anthony Tucker-Jones, "Battle of the Cities: Urban Warfare on the Eastern Front" (Pen & Sword Military, 2023)
82 hours 15 mins; November 17, 2023
Ernest R. Zimmermann, "The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior: A History of Canadian Internment Camp R" (U Alberta Press, 2015)
93 hours 13 mins; November 13, 2023
Don Hollway, "Battle for the Island Kingdom: The Struggle for England's Destiny 1000-1066" (Osprey, 2023)
55 mins; November 12, 2023
Steven Simon, "Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East" (Penguin, 2023)
60 hours 42 mins; November 11, 2023
Helen Fry, "Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars" (Yale UP, 2023)
51 mins; November 07, 2023
Shannon McKenna Schmidt, "The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt's Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back" (Sourcebooks, 2023)
34 mins; November 06, 2023
Hamas, Iran and Israel: The Perils of Overreaction
34 mins; November 06, 2023
Roger R. Reese, "Russia's Army: A History from the Napoleonic Wars to the War in Ukraine" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
104 hours 48 mins; November 05, 2023
Peter Layton, "Grand Strategy" (2018)
83 hours 43 mins; November 04, 2023
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale, "Why Men?: A Human History of Violence and Inequality" (Hurst, 2023)
74 hours 36 mins; November 03, 2023
Michael Custodis, "Music and Resistance: Cultural Defense During the German Occupation of Norway 1940-45" (Waxmann Verlag, 2021)
85 hours 16 mins; November 02, 2023
Richard Carrier, "Mussolini's Army Against Greece: October 1940-April 1941" (Routledge, 2021)
72 hours 15 mins; November 01, 2023
On Wars: A Discussion with Michael Mann
55 mins; October 31, 2023
Tom Burbage et al., "F-35: The Inside Story of the Lightning II" (Skyhorse, 2023)
73 hours 35 mins; October 29, 2023
Norman Solomon, "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine" (New Press, 2023)
65 hours 46 mins; October 28, 2023
Luke Moffett, "Reparations and War: Finding Balance in Repairing the Past" (Oxford UP, 2023)
57 mins; October 27, 2023
Linda Kinstler, "Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
43 mins; October 26, 2023
Owen Matthews, "Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine" (Mudlark, 2022)
59 mins; October 25, 2023
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF)'s Ethical Code
52 mins; October 24, 2023