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Military History
Interviews with scholars of military history about their new books.
May 6, 2024
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Volume IV (Indiana UP, 2022) examines an under-researched se…
May 6, 2024
Mexican Exodus
In Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War (Oxford University Press, 2019), Julia G. Young reframes the Cristero War as a …
May 5, 2024
Why America Loses Wars
In this provocative challenge to United States policy and strategy, former Professor of Strategy & Policy at the US Naval War College, and author or e…
May 5, 2024
Centuries Will Not Suffice
Prit Buttar's book Centuries Will Not Suffice: A History of the Lithuanian Holocaust (Amberley, 2023) explores how different people responded to the L…
May 5, 2024
Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War
Decisions to go to war are often framed in cost-benefit terms, and typically such assessments do not factor in longer term costs. However, recent dram…
May 4, 2024
Wars Civil and Great
The Civil War and the Great War occupy very different places in American memory and, often, in U.S. history books. Yet, they were fought only fifty ye…
May 3, 2024
I Will Show You How It Was
The spring 2022 battle for Kyiv was "one of the most tragic – and the most bizarre – events in modern history," writes Illia Ponomarenko. "Outnumbered…
May 2, 2024
Night Train to Odesa
As a teenager in Shetland, Jen Stout fell in love with Russia and, later, Ukraine – their languages, cultures, and histories. Although life kept gett…
May 1, 2024
Xiongnu
In Xiongnu: The World’s First Nomadic Empire (Oxford UP, 2024), Bryan K. Miller weaves together archaeology and history to chart the course of the Xio…
April 29, 2024
November 1918
Was Weimar doomed from the outset? In November 1918: The German Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2020), Robert Gerwarth argues that this is the w…
April 25, 2024
The Great Flap of 1942
In April 1942, at least half a million people fled the city of Madras, now known as Chennai. The reason? The British, after weeks of growing unease ab…
April 24, 2024
Nazism as Fascism
Offering a dynamic and wide-ranging examination of the key issues at the heart of the study of German Fascism, Nazism as Fascism: Violence, Ideology, …
April 23, 2024
Cracking the Nazi Code
The thrilling true story of Agent A12, the earliest enemy of the Nazis, and the first spy to crack Hitler's deadliest secret code: the framework of th…
April 21, 2024
After So Much Pain and Anguish
After So Much Pain and Anguish: First Letters After Liberation (Yad Vashem, 2016) comprises letters written by survivors and liberating soliders in th…
April 20, 2024
War and Conflict in the Middle Ages
In War and Conflict in the Middle Ages (Polity, 2022), Dr. Stephen Morillo offers the first global history of armed conflict between 540 and 1500 or a…
April 16, 2024
How the Spanish Empire Was Built
Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had e…
April 12, 2024
Conflict
In this deep and incisive study, General David Petraeus, who commanded the US-led coalitions in both Iraq, during the Surge, and Afghanistan and forme…
April 7, 2024
Theory of Irregular War
From Afghanistan to Angola, Indonesia to Iran, and Colombia to Congo, violent reactions erupt, states collapse, and militaries relentlessly pursue ope…
April 6, 2024
Cold War Country
Country music maintains a special, decades-long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn't just happen. This readable history revea…
April 4, 2024
Indian Wars Everywhere
From Black Hawk helicopters to the exclamation "Geronimo" used by paratroopers jumping from airplanes, words and images referring to Indians have been…