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Giulia Pecorella, "The United States of America and the Crime of Aggression" (Routledge, 2021)

59 mins; June 21, 2023

M. Todd Bennett, "Neither Confirm Nor Deny: How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency" (Columbia UP, 2022)

85 hours 35 mins; June 20, 2023

Liisa Kovala, "Surviving Stutthof: My Father's Ordeal in a Nazi Concentration Camp" (Latitude 46, 2017)

74 hours 3 mins; June 19, 2023

Nicole Wegner, "Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

50 mins; June 18, 2023

David Stahel, "Hitler's Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

65 hours 10 mins; June 18, 2023

Lin Poyer, "War at the Margins: Indigenous Experiences in World War II" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)

56 mins; June 17, 2023

Margot Tudor, "Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: United Nations Peacekeeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1945–1971" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

63 hours 36 mins; June 17, 2023

Tanvi Srivastava, trans., "The War Diary of Asha-san: From Tokyo to Netaji's Indian National Army" (Harper Collins, 2022)

44 mins; June 15, 2023

Alison S. Fell, "Warrior Women: The Cultural Politics of Armed Women, c.1850-1945" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

30 mins; June 14, 2023

Nicholas W. S. Smith, "Colonial Chaos in the Southern Red Sea" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

55 mins; June 12, 2023

R. T. Howard, "Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler" (Oxford UP, 2023)

34 mins; June 11, 2023

Peter H. Wilson, "Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500" (Harvard UP, 2023)

60 hours 11 mins; June 10, 2023

New Histories of Violence in and around the Second World War

82 hours 51 mins; June 10, 2023

Drone: Remote Control Warfare

17 mins; June 09, 2023

Lawrence Freedman, "Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine" (Oxford UP, 2022)

47 mins; June 08, 2023

Tobias Ide, "Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints: How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflicts" (MIT Press, 2023)

54 mins; June 07, 2023

Randy Grigsby, "A Train to Palestine: The Tehran Children, Anders' Army and Their Escape from Stalin's Siberia, 1939-1943" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2019)

58 mins; June 06, 2023

Jonathan Abel, "Guibert's General Essay on Tactics" (Brill, 2021)

48 mins; June 04, 2023

Kidada E. Williams, "I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

46 mins; June 02, 2023

Arthur Snell, "How Britain Broke the World: War, Greed and Blunders from Kosovo to Afghanistan (1997-2021)" (Canbury Press, 2022)

60 hours 37 mins; May 29, 2023

Scott McGaugh, "Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II" (Osprey, 2023)

61 hours 46 mins; May 28, 2023

Strategy and Saratoga: A Conversation with Kevin Weddle

56 mins; May 27, 2023

Suzanne Sutherland, "The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur: War, Diplomacy, and Knowledge in Habsburg Europe" (Cornell UP, 2022)

58 mins; May 24, 2023

Robert Kershaw, "Dünkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk" (Osprey, 2022)

54 mins; May 23, 2023

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, "A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War" (Knopf, 2023)

69 hours 1 min; May 22, 2023

Carlo Parisi, "Dagger Fencing: The Italian School" (Fallen Rook, 2016)

55 mins; May 20, 2023

Simon Geissbühler, ed., "Romania and the Holocaust: Events, Contexts, Aftermath" (Ibidem Press, 2016)

60 hours 43 mins; May 19, 2023

Thom Shanker and Andrew Hoehn, "Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats" (Hachette Books, 2023)

63 hours 38 mins; May 17, 2023

The Life and Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo

80 hours 55 mins; May 16, 2023

Serhii Plokhy, "The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History" (Norton, 2023)

54 mins; May 12, 2023

Philip Clayton Shackelford, "Rise of the Mavericks: The U.S. Air Force Security Service and the Cold War" (US Naval Institute Press, 2023)

46 mins; May 07, 2023

Robin Bartlett, "Vietnam Combat: Firefights and Writing History" (Casemate, 2023)

41 mins; May 06, 2023

Chad Williams, "The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War" (FSG, 2023)

56 mins; May 05, 2023

Mark Galeotti, "Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

71 hours 30 mins; May 05, 2023

Tim Clarkson, "A Mighty Fleet and the King's Power: The Isle of Man, AD 400 To 1265" (John Donald, 2023)

50 mins; May 02, 2023

Michael W. Hankins, "Flying Camelot: The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia" (Cornell UP, 2021)

61 hours 8 mins; May 02, 2023

Stéfanie von Hlatky, "Deploying Feminism: The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations" (Oxford UP, 2022)

64 hours 38 mins; May 01, 2023

Deborah Bauer, "Marianne Is Watching: Intelligence, Counterintelligence, and the Origins of the French Surveillance State" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)

100 hours 23 mins; May 01, 2023

Scott Carney and Jason Miklian, "The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation" (Ecco Press, 2022)

58 mins; April 29, 2023

B. A. Friedman, "On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines" (US Naval Institute Press, 2021)

40 mins; April 28, 2023

Robin Prior, "Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain, 1914-1945" (Yale UP, 2022)

60 hours 8 mins; April 28, 2023

Beth Bailey, "An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era" (UNC Press, 2023)

44 mins; April 25, 2023

Benjamin L. Carp, "The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution" (Yale UP, 2023)

63 hours 32 mins; April 25, 2023

Tom Hutton, "Hitler's Maladies and Their Impact on World War II" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)

50 mins; April 23, 2023

George Black, "The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam" (Knopf, 2023)

64 hours 47 mins; April 23, 2023

Crispin Brooks and Kiril Feferman, "Beyond the Pale: The Holocaust in the North Caucasus" (U Rochester Press, 2020)

111 hours 45 mins; April 22, 2023

John Lisle, "The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)

62 hours 38 mins; April 21, 2023

Elena Pedigo Clark, "Trauma and Truth: Teaching Russian Literature on the Chechen Wars" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)

60 hours 38 mins; April 19, 2023

Cao Yin, "Chinese Sojourners in Wartime Raj, 1942-45" (Oxford UP, 2022)

70 hours 55 mins; April 19, 2023

Jeffrey E. Stern, "The Mercenary: A Story of Brotherhood and Terror in the Afghanistan War" (PublicAffairs, 2023)

63 hours 36 mins; April 18, 2023

Nicholas Guyatt, "The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison" (Basic Books, 2022)

68 hours 13 mins; April 18, 2023

Karen E. Eccles and Debbie McCollin, "World War II and the Caribbean" (U West Indies Press, 2017)

58 mins; April 17, 2023

Piotr M. A. Cywiński, "Auschwitz: A Monograph on the Human" (Muzeum Auschwitz, 2022)

61 hours 8 mins; April 16, 2023

Heidi Langbein-Allen, "Save the Last Bullet: Memoir of a Boy Soldier in Hitler's Army" (Pen & Sword Military, 2022)

55 mins; April 16, 2023

Arthur W. Gullachsen, "Bloody Verrières: the I. SS-Panzerkorps Defence of the Verrières-Bourguebus Ridges (Volume 2) (Casemate, 2023)

60 hours 46 mins; April 15, 2023

Samuel Ramani, "Putin's War on Ukraine: Russia's Campaign for Global Counter-Revolution" (Hurst, 2023)

50 mins; April 14, 2023

David Chrisinger, "The Soldier's Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II" (Penguin, 2023)

92 hours 39 mins; April 14, 2023

Lachlan McNamee, "Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop" (Princeton UP, 2023)

61 hours 12 mins; April 12, 2023

Andrew Long, "Secrets of the Cold War: Espionage and Intelligence Operations from Both Sides of the Iron Curtain" (Pen and Sword History, 2022)

89 hours 16 mins; April 11, 2023

Lauren Kay Johnson, "The Fine Art of Camouflage" (MilSpeak Books, 2023)

72 hours 58 mins; April 09, 2023

Iain MacGregor, "The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Hidden Truth at the Heart of the Greatest Battle of World War II" (Scribner, 2022)

66 hours 13 mins; April 09, 2023

Alexander Rose, "The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy" (Mariner Books, 2022)

65 hours 13 mins; April 08, 2023

Steve Kemper, "Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor" (Mariner Books, 2022)

66 hours 41 mins; April 07, 2023

Helene J. Sinnreich, "The Atrocity of Hunger: Starvation in the Warsaw, Lodz and Krakow Ghettos during World War II" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

47 mins; April 07, 2023

Carolyn Woods Eisenberg, "Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia" (Oxford UP, 2023)

55 mins; April 05, 2023

Ari Joskowicz, "Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust" (Princeton UP, 2023)

65 hours 53 mins; April 02, 2023

Susan R. Grayzel, "The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

34 mins; April 01, 2023

Gary Kulik: Conscientious Objector Who Served in Vietnam

59 mins; March 30, 2023

Rebecca Herman, "Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America" (Oxford UP, 2022)

42 mins; March 29, 2023

Karen Baum Gordon, "The Last Letter: A Father's Struggle, a Daughter's Quest, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust" (U Tennessee Press, 2021)

67 hours 27 mins; March 27, 2023

David Wright Faladé, "Black Cloud Rising" (Grove Press, 2022)

55 mins; March 26, 2023

Woody Holton, "Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)

53 mins; March 21, 2023

Nadia Abu El-Haj, "Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America" (Verso, 2022)

79 hours 10 mins; March 21, 2023

Tom Dunkel, "White Knights in the Black Orchestra: The Extraordinary Story of the Germans Who Resisted Hitler" (Hachette Books, 2021)

70 hours 43 mins; March 19, 2023

Cathal J. Nolan, "Mercy: Humanity in War" (Oxford UP, 2022)

74 hours 30 mins; March 19, 2023

Ellin Bessner, "Double Threat: Canadian Jews, the Military, and World War II" (New Jewish Press, 2018)

58 mins; March 18, 2023

Simon Parkin, "The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp" (Scribner, 2022)

67 hours 48 mins; March 18, 2023

Bleddyn E. Bowen, "Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space" (Oxford UP, 2022)

47 mins; March 17, 2023

Robin Prior, "Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain, 1914-1945" (Yale UP, 2022)

110 hours 57 mins; March 17, 2023

Susan Colbourn, "Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO" (Cornell UP, 2022)

73 hours 48 mins; March 14, 2023

The Deception Dividend: FDR's Undeclared War

35 mins; March 14, 2023

Philip W. Blood, "Birds of Prey: Hitler's Luftwaffe, Ordinary Soldiers, and the Holocaust in Poland" (Ibidem Press, 2021)

68 hours 6 mins; March 13, 2023

Iva Vukušić, "Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia" (Routledge, 2022)

52 mins; March 13, 2023

Mark Axel Tveskov and Ashley Ann Bissonnette, "Conflict Archaeology, Historical Memory, and the Experience of War: Beyond the Battlefield" (UP of Florida, 2023)

88 hours 49 mins; March 10, 2023

The Sobibor and Treblinka Death Camps: A Discussion with Chris Webb

67 hours 50 mins; March 08, 2023

The Native American Veterans of Connecticut's Volunteer Regiments and the Union Army

24 mins; March 08, 2023

Kiril Feferman, "If We Had Wings We Would Fly to You: A Soviet Jewish Family Faces Destruction 1941-42" (Academic Studies Press, 2020)

90 hours 2 mins; March 07, 2023

Shivan Mahendrarajah, "A History of Herat: From Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

71 hours 5 mins; March 05, 2023

Geoffrey Parker and Colin Martin, "Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England's Deliverance In 1588" (Yale UP, 2022)

67 hours 33 mins; March 03, 2023

Steve Kemper, "Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor" (Mariner Books, 2022)

44 mins; March 02, 2023

Greta Lynn Uehling, "Everyday War: The Conflict Over Donbas, Ukraine" (Cornell UP, 2023)

62 hours 2 mins; March 02, 2023

Melvyn P. Leffler, "Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq" (Oxford UP, 2023)

81 hours 41 mins; February 28, 2023

The Story of American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada

59 mins; February 27, 2023

Jonathan W. White and Lydia J. Davis, ed., "My Work Among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss" (U Virginia Press, 2021)

41 mins; February 26, 2023

Jeffrey J. Matthews, "Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot" (U Notre Dame Press, 2019)

54 mins; February 24, 2023

Seiji Shirane, "Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895-1945" (Cornell UP, 2022)

72 hours 11 mins; February 24, 2023

Peter Hayes, "Why? Explaining the Holocaust" (Norton, 2017)

63 hours 36 mins; February 22, 2023

Mark Juergensmeyer, "When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends" (U California Press, 2022)

65 hours 9 mins; February 22, 2023

Gerald F. Goodwin, "Race in the Crucible of War: African American Servicemen and the War in Vietnam" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)

53 mins; February 19, 2023

Kevin Blackburn, "The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory" (National U of Singapore Press, 2022)

44 mins; February 17, 2023

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