New Books Network
Military History
Biography June 24, 2021

Unsung Hero of Gettysburg

The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg

Edward G. Longacre

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Edward G. Longacre about his new book Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg (University of Nebraska Press, 2021). On the 3rd …

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History June 24, 2021

The Road Less Traveled

The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917

Philip Zelikow

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
During a pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War all sides-Germany, Britain, and America-believed the war could be concluded. Peace at the end of 1916 would …
History June 23, 2021

Stalin's War

A New History of World War II

Sean McMeekin

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when the …
History June 17, 2021

New Crusade

The Royal Navy and British Navalism, 1884-1914

Bradley Cesario

Hosted by Mark Klobas
In the years leading up to the First World War, a loose combination of serving naval officers, journalists, and politicians in Great Britain orchestrated a wave of support for the …
Eastern European Studies June 7, 2021

The Politics of Memory of the Second World War in Contemporary Serbia

Collaboration, Resistance and Retribution

Jelena Đureinović

Hosted by Jill Massino
Exploring the concepts of collaboration, resistance, and postwar retribution and focusing on the Chetnik movement, Jelena Đureinović's book The Politics of Memory of the Second World War in Contemporary Serbia (Routledge …
History June 2, 2021

To Lose an Empire

British Strategy and Foreign Policy, 1758-90

Jeremy Black

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
Bringing strategy, foreign policy, domestic and imperial politics together, this book challenges the conventional understanding as to why the British Empire, at perhaps the height of its power, lost control …
Military History June 2, 2021

Edward M. Almond and the US Army

From the 92nd Infantry Division to the X Corps

Michael E. Lynch

Hosted by Douglas Bell
Edward M. Almond belonged to the generation of US Army officers who came of age during World War I and then ascended to senior command positions during World War II. During …
History May 26, 2021

Military Medicine and the Making of Race

Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795–1874

Tim Lockley

Hosted by Grant Kleiser
Military Medicine and the Making of Race: Life and Death in the West India Regiments (Cambridge University Press, 2020) by Tim Lockley demonstrates how Britain's black soldiers helped shape attitudes towards race …
History May 26, 2021

The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen

Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World

Linda Colley

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Linda Colley is a luminary in the fields of British and imperial history, and the Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. Her captivating new book The …
American West May 21, 2021

Frontier Rebels

The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776

Patrick Spero

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Boston, Philadelphia, London...Fort Loudon, PA. One of these places is not usually included when imagining the crucial scenes of the American Revolution. In Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West …
History May 21, 2021

Fighting Terror after Napoleon

How Europe Became Secure after 1815

Beatrice de Graaf

Hosted by George Giannakopoulos
After twenty-six years of unprecedented revolutionary upheavals and endless fighting, the victorious powers craved stability after Napoleon's defeat in 1815. With the threat of war and revolutionary terror still looming …
Military History May 19, 2021

Dragonslayer

The Legend of Erich Ludendorff in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich

Jay Lockenour

Hosted by Scott Lipkowitz
Erich Ludendorff is a contentious figure in military history. Focused, energetic, and hailing from humble origins, Ludendorff rose through the ranks of the largely aristocratic late-nineteenth century German officer corps …
National Security May 17, 2021

War Time

Temporality and the Decline of Western Military Power

Sten Rynning, Olivier Schmitt, and Amelie Theussen

Hosted by Kyle Beadle
The "decline of the West" is once again a frequent topic of speculation. Often cited as one element of the alleged decline is the succession of prolonged and unsuccessful wars--most …
Architecture May 14, 2021

Mosaic

War Monument Mystery

Louis Nelson

Hosted by Daniel Peris
The Korean War is now America's seminal war. It was the first war conducted with the new United Nations, the first war fought against the Chinese Communists, and the first …
National Security May 13, 2021

Bullets Not Ballots

Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare

Jacqueline L. Hazelton

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
Why do liberal great powers like the United States struggle to defeat insurgencies across the globe? In her new book, Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare (Cornell University Press …
Kurdish Studies May 7, 2021

Insurgent Women

Female Combatants in Civil Wars

Jessica Trisko Darden, Alexis Henshaw, and Ora Szekely

Hosted by Dilan Okcuoglu
Today I talked to Ora Szekely about Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars (Georgetown UP, 2019), which she co-edited with Jessica Trisko Darden and Alexis Henshaw. Why do women go to war in …
History May 4, 2021

American Writers and World War I

David A. Rennie

Hosted by Ryan Tripp
In American Writers and World War I (Oxford University Press, 2020), David A. Rennie argues that authors' war writing continuously evolved in response to developments in their professional and personal lives. He examines …
Eastern European Studies April 28, 2021

Conquering Peace

From the Enlightenment to the European Union

Stella Ghervas

Hosted by Steven Seegel
Stella Ghervas's Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union (Harvard University Press, 2021) is a bold new look at war and diplomacy in Europe that traces the idea of a …
History April 28, 2021

Learning Empire

Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919

Erik Grimmer-Solem

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
The First World War marked the end point of a process of German globalization that began in the 1870s, well before Germany acquired a colonial empire or extensive overseas commercial …
Military History April 27, 2021

To Rule the Skies

General Thomas S. Power and the Rise of Strategic Air Command in the Cold War

Brent D. Ziarnick

Hosted by Scott Lipkowitz
A sadist. A madman. A sociopath seduced by the terrible allure of nuclear weapons. These are but a few of the pejoratives commonly used to describe United States Air Force …