New Books in Military History
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Joseph MacKay, "The Counterinsurgent Imagination: A New Intellectual History" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
51 mins; February 17, 2023
Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez, "When Rains Became Floods: A Child Soldier’s Story" (Duke UP, 2015)
37 mins; February 16, 2023
John D. Hosler, "Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace" (Yale UP, 2022)
48 mins; February 16, 2023
The Lives of Canada’s War Women
22 mins; February 14, 2023
Spencer Jones, "The Darkest Year: The British Army on the Western Front 1917" (Helion and Company, 2021)
90 hours 49 mins; February 14, 2023
Tore JĂžrgensen, "Stutthof Diaries Collection: For Truth & Honor" (FriesenPress, 2022)
92 hours 22 mins; February 12, 2023
Emily Strasser, "Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
59 mins; February 05, 2023
Anthony Tucker-Jones, "Kursk 1943: Hitler's Bitter Harvest" (History Press, 2018)
74 hours 59 mins; February 04, 2023
Richard Overy, "Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945" (Viking, 2022)
59 mins; February 04, 2023
Matthew Taylor, "Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45" (Routledge, 2020)
68 hours 33 mins; February 04, 2023
Chris Webb, "The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance" (Ibidem, 2016)
40 mins; January 31, 2023
Zachary Shore, "This Is Not Who We Are: America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
47 mins; January 29, 2023
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, "Beautiful, Gruesome, and True: Artists at Work in the Face of War" (Columbia Global Reports, 2022)
63 hours 23 mins; January 28, 2023
Radu Ioanid, "The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Roma Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
83 hours 22 mins; January 28, 2023
Postscript: Narrative and Influence Activities in the Russo-Ukraine War
51 mins; January 26, 2023
In the Swiss Guards: Reflections on Two Years Guarding the Pope
45 mins; January 26, 2023
Michael Fleming, "In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
63 hours 58 mins; January 25, 2023
Amy Kohout, "Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
73 hours 11 mins; January 22, 2023
Podcast Series: Hell on Earth--The 30 Years War and the Violent Birth of Capitalism
86 hours 8 mins; January 22, 2023
James M. Deem, "The Prisoners of Breendonk: Personal Histories from a World War II Concentration Camp" (Mariner Books, 2020)
70 hours 23 mins; January 16, 2023
Paul S. Landau, "Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries" (Ohio UP, 2022)
52 mins; January 13, 2023
Jayita Sarkar, "Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2022)
39 mins; January 12, 2023
Jonathan W. White, "To Address You as My Friend: African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln" (UNC Press, 2021)
43 mins; January 08, 2023
Franziska Exeler, "Ghosts of War: Nazi Occupation and Its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus" (Cornell UP, 2022)
91 hours 40 mins; January 06, 2023
Ronald H. Spector, "A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955" (Norton, 2023)
42 mins; January 05, 2023
Sebastian Elischer, "Salafism and Political Order in Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
65 hours 35 mins; January 04, 2023
The Russo-Ukrainian War from a Military Point of View
11 mins; January 03, 2023
Zachary Schrag, "The Princeton Guide to Historical Research" (Princeton UP, 2021)
42 mins; December 31, 2022
Sean Patterson, "Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine's Civil War, 1917-1921" (U Manitoba Press, 2020)
68 hours 50 mins; December 28, 2022
Involution and Negative Equilibrium: Explaining the Ongoing Conflict in the Congo
39 mins; December 28, 2022
Julia Elsky, "Writing Occupation: Jewish ÉmigrĂ© Voices in Wartime France" (Stanford UP, 2020)
75 hours 25 mins; December 28, 2022
Ian Garner, "Stalingrad Lives!: Stories of Combat and Survival" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2022)
54 mins; December 26, 2022
Justin Dolan Stover, "Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction During the Irish" (U College Dublin Press, 2022)
17 mins; December 24, 2022
Jane Tynan, "Trench Coat" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
59 mins; December 19, 2022
Munira Khayyat, "A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon" (U California Press, 2022)
61 hours 31 mins; December 18, 2022
Matthew F. Delmont, "Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad" (Viking, 2022)
43 mins; December 18, 2022
The Future of the Arms Industry: A Discussion with Pieter D. Wezeman
45 mins; December 17, 2022
Kiril Feferman, "The Holocaust in the Crimea and the North Caucasus" (Yad Vadhem, 2016)
132 hours 50 mins; December 17, 2022
Catherine Bateson, "Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty, and Nationhood" (Louisiana UP, 2022)
24 mins; December 14, 2022
Daniel Immerwahr, "The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas’s Star Wars" (2022)
65 hours 33 mins; December 10, 2022
Tanisha M. Fazal, "Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict" (Cornell UP, 2020)
101 hours 18 mins; December 08, 2022
Sandra Ott, "War, Judgment, And Memory In The Basque Borderlands, 1914-1945" (U Nevada Press, 2008)
89 hours 21 mins; December 07, 2022
Janet I. Lewis, "How Insurgency Begins: Rebel Group Formation in Uganda and Beyond" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
57 mins; December 06, 2022
Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, "Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934-1950" (Stanford UP, 2022)
64 hours 38 mins; December 06, 2022
Nicholas Morton, "The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East" (Basic Books, 2022)
41 mins; December 05, 2022
John Delury, "Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China" (Cornell UP, 2022)
69 hours 30 mins; December 04, 2022
Adam Brookes, "Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City" (Atria Books, 2022)
60 hours 52 mins; December 02, 2022
Huw J. Davies, "The Wandering Army: The Campaigns That Transformed the British Way of War" (Yale UP, 2022)
73 hours 23 mins; December 01, 2022
Henni Alava, "Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda: There is Confusion" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
94 hours 40 mins; December 01, 2022
Jonathan R. Hunt, "The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam" (Stanford UP, 2022)
78 hours 58 mins; December 01, 2022
Xabier Irujo and Queralt Solé, "Nazi Juggernaut in the Basque Country and Catalonia" (Center for Basque Studies, 2019)
115 hours 42 mins; November 28, 2022
Jennifer Mittelstadt and Mark R. Wilson, "The Military and the Market" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
53 mins; November 25, 2022
Stephen Bourne, "Under Fire: Black Britain in Wartime 1939-45" (The History Press, 2020)
39 mins; November 25, 2022
Eli Gumener, "A Ukrainian Chapter: A Jewish Aid Worker’s Memoir Of Sorrow" (Slavica, 2022)
122 hours 46 mins; November 23, 2022
Michael A. Verney, "A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
52 mins; November 23, 2022
John Spencer and Liam Collins, "Understanding Urban Warfare" ((Howgate Publishing Limited, 2022)
63 hours 7 mins; November 23, 2022
Steve Kemper, "Our Man In Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor" (Mariner Books, 2022)
42 mins; November 17, 2022
Michael A. Hunzeker, "Dying to Learn: Wartime Lessons from the Western Front" (Cornell UP, 2021)
34 mins; November 16, 2022
Andrea Graziosi and Frank E. Sysyn, "Genocide: The Power and Problems of a Concept" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
69 hours 15 mins; November 11, 2022
Abiodun Alao, "Rage and Carnage in the Name of God: Religious Violence in Nigeria" (Duke UP, 2022)
56 mins; November 11, 2022
William Doyle, "Napoleon at Peace: How to End a Revolution" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
19 mins; November 10, 2022
Stephen G. Rabe, "The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy: A Story of Resistance, Courage, and Solidarity in a French Village" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
43 mins; November 10, 2022
On Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War"
30 mins; November 10, 2022
Sarah E. Wagner, "What Remains: Bringing America's Missing Home from the Vietnam War" (Harvard UP, 2019)
66 hours 55 mins; November 10, 2022
Holger Afflerbach, "On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
58 mins; November 09, 2022
Jianglin Li, "When the Iron Bird Flies: China's Secret War in Tibet" (Stanford UP, 2022)
44 mins; November 09, 2022
Richard Overy, "Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945" (Viking, 2022)
38 mins; November 08, 2022
Daniel Scarborough, "Russia's Social Gospel: The Orthodox Pastoral Movement in Famine, War, and Revolution" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
66 hours 33 mins; November 07, 2022
Bree Akesson and Andrew R. Basso, "From Bureaucracy to Bullets: Extreme Domicide and the Right to Home" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
67 hours 50 mins; November 04, 2022
Andrew Fitzmaurice, "King Leopold's Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century" (Princeton UP, 2021)
76 hours 57 mins; November 03, 2022
Jonathan Brunstedt, "The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
58 mins; November 03, 2022
Matthew Delmont, "Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad" (Viking, 2022)
41 mins; November 02, 2022
Clayton J. Butler, "True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction" (LSU Press, 2022)
58 mins; November 02, 2022
A. Carly Buxton, "Un-Thinking Collaboration: American Nisei in Transwar Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
61 hours 24 mins; October 26, 2022
Robert Hutchinson, "After Nuremberg: American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals" (Yale UP, 2022)
58 mins; October 24, 2022
Gwen Shuni D'Arcangelis, "Bio-Imperialism: Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
66 hours 1 min; October 21, 2022
Eric Jay Dolin, "Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution" (Liveright, 2022)
44 mins; October 20, 2022
Jeffers Lennox, "North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution" (Yale UP, 2022)
50 mins; October 19, 2022
Orli Fridman, "Memory Activism and Digital Practices After Conflict: Unwanted Memories" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
61 hours 23 mins; October 19, 2022
On Carl von Clausewitz's "On War"
30 mins; October 18, 2022
The Future of Cold War: A Discussion with Sergey Radchenko
48 mins; October 18, 2022
Gerald Lalonde, "Athena Itonia: Geography and Meaning of an Ancient Greek War Goddess" (Brill, 2019)
35 mins; October 17, 2022
Tyler Wentzell, "Not for King or Country: Edward Cecil-Smith, the Communist Party of Canada, and the Spanish Civil War" (U Toronto Press, 2019)
35 mins; October 14, 2022
E. Amanda McVitty, "Treason and Masculinity in Medieval England: Gender, Law and Political Culture" (Boydell Press, 2020)
75 hours 38 mins; October 12, 2022
Alexander Mikaberidze, "Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace" (Oxford UP, 2022)
70 hours 2 mins; October 10, 2022
On John Hersey's "Hiroshima"
31 mins; October 07, 2022
Ofer Fridman, "Russian 'Hybrid Warfare': Resurgence and Politicization" (Oxford UP, 2022)
62 hours 31 mins; October 06, 2022
René Provost, "Rebel Courts: The Administration of Justice by Armed Insurgents" (Oxford UP, 2021)
90 hours 8 mins; October 06, 2022
Ian Macpherson McCulloch, "John Bradstreet's Raid 1758: A Riverine Operation in the French and Indian War" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
89 hours 20 mins; October 05, 2022
Sara E. Brown and Stephen D. Smith, "The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide" (Routledge, 2021)
64 hours 25 mins; October 03, 2022
Christopher Goscha, "The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam" (Princeton UP, 2022)
66 hours 42 mins; October 03, 2022
R. E. Evans and B. E. Kinnear, "'Richard Eager'": A Pilot's Story from Tennessee Eagle Scout to General Montgomery's 'Flying Fortress'" (Kieran Publishing, 2021)
59 mins; October 02, 2022
Johanna O. Zulueta, "Okinawan Women's Stories of Migration: From War Brides to Issei" (Routledge, 2022)
46 mins; September 30, 2022
Beverly Weintraub, "Wings of Gold: The Story of the First Women Naval Aviators" (Lyons Press, 2021)
55 mins; September 28, 2022
Cold War Homefront
63 hours 10 mins; September 28, 2022
Reeva Spector Simon, "The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa: The Impact of World War II" (Routledge, 2019)
22 mins; September 28, 2022
Patrick O. Cohrs, "The New Atlantic Order: The Transformation of International Politics, 1860-1933" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
67 hours 32 mins; September 22, 2022
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
73 hours 45 mins; September 21, 2022
Michael R. Gordon, "Degrade and Destroy: The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump" (FSG, 2022)
64 hours 44 mins; September 21, 2022
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