New Books in Military History |

James Carl Nelson
I Will Hold
The Story of USMC Legend Clifton B. Cates, From Belleau Wood to Victory in the Great War
NAL, 2016

New Books in American Studies New Books in Biography New Books in History New Books in Military History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network September 16, 2016 Mark Klobas

Best remembered as the nineteenth commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, Clifton B. Cates began his long and distinguished military career as a second lieutenant in World War I. In I Will Hold: The Story of USMC Legend Clifton B. … Read More

Akiko Takenaka, “Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2015)

Akiko Takenaka
Yasukuni Shrine
History, Memory, and Japan's Unending Postwar
University of Hawaii Press, 2015

New Books in Anthropology New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in History New Books in Military History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books Network August 24, 2016 Carla Nappi

Akiko Takenaka’s new book looks carefully at Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial, examining its role in waging war, honoring the dead, promoting peace, and building a modern national identity. Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar (University of… Read More

Richard L. Davis, “From Warhorses to Ploughshares: The Later Tang Reign of Emperor Mingzong” (Hong Kong UP, 2015)

Richard L. Davis
From Warhorses to Ploughshares
The Later Tang Reign of Emperor Mingzong
Hong Kong University Press, 2015

New Books in Biography New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in History New Books in Military History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society August 17, 2016 Mark Klobas

Ruling as he did during the Five Dynasties period of Chinese history, the emperor Mingzong (r. 926-933) has not received the same degree attention from historians as have many of his counterparts. In From Warhorses to Ploughshares: The Later Tang … Read More

Lauren Faulkner Rossi, “Wehrmacht Priests: Catholicism and the Nazi War of Annihilation” (Harvard UP, 2015)

Lauren Faulkner Rossi
Wehrmacht Priests
Catholicism and the Nazi War of Annihilation
Harvard University Press, 2016

New Books in Christian Studies New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in German Studies New Books in History New Books in Military History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network August 16, 2016 Kelly McFall

I teach at a Catholic university and last semester co-taught (with a theologian) a class titled The Holocaust and its Legacies. Once my students became comfortable with me, they began to pepper me with questions about the role of… Read More

Paul M. Cobb, “The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades” (Oxford UP, 2014)

Paul M. Cobb
The Race for Paradise
An Islamic History of the Crusades
Oxford University Press, 2014

New Books in European Studies New Books in Islamic Studies New Books in Middle Eastern Studies New Books in Military History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network July 25, 2016 Kristian Peterson

The Crusades loom large in contemporary popular consciousness. However, our public understanding has largely been informed from a western perspective, despite the fact that there is a rich textual tradition recording its history in Muslim sources. Paul M. Cobb,… Read More