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About Jay Lockenour
NBN Episodes hosted by Jay:
September 25, 2018
Peasants and Soldiers
Dr. Giulio Ongaro, currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Economics Department at the University of Milan-Bicocca has just published Peasants and Sold…
September 14, 2018
Architect of Air Power
We have all seen pictures of the “Big Three” (Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin) at their historic meeting Yalta in February 1945. The three leaders comman…
August 14, 2018
The Verdun Affair
In a break with protocol, I decided to interview a novelist rather than a military historian. Nick Dybek, a creative writing professor at Oregon State…
May 25, 2018
Soldiers of Empire
Tarak Barkawi, a Reader in International Relations at the London School of Economics, has written an important book that will cause many of us to reth…
January 3, 2018
Marie von Clausewitz
Marie von Clausewitz: The Woman Behind the Making of On War (Oxford University Press, 2016) is an important and fascinating book that not only tells t…
December 5, 2017
The Fear of Invasion
David Morgan-Owen's The Fear of Invasion: Strategy, Politics, and British War Planning, 1880-1914 (Oxford University Press, 2017) tells a complex stor…
July 19, 2017
The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973
The title of Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez's The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973: The USSR's Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict (Oxford Uni…
June 12, 2015
The Russian Army in the Great War
Readers wanting to learn more about the Great War on the Eastern Front can do no better than David R. Stone's new work, The Russian Army in the Great …
May 1, 2015
Blucher
I have really enjoyed Michael Leggiere's earlier work, including the excellent Napoleon and Berlin : The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813 (2…
July 15, 2013
Warrior Pursuits
Brian Sandberg's Warrior Pursuits: Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010) significantly revise…
March 13, 2013
The Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War is one of those events that I have always felt I should know more about. Thanks to Stanley Payne's concise, lucid new work on th…
December 5, 2012
The Damned and the Dead
Frank Ellis' The Damned and the Dead: The Eastern Front through the Eyes of Soviet and Russian Novelists (University Press of Kansas, 2011) introduces…
September 26, 2012
Terror in the Balkans
With Terror in the Balkans: German Armies and Partisan Warfare (Harvard University Press, 2012), Ben Shepherd, a Reader at Glasgow Caledonian Universi…
May 1, 2012
The Battle of Adwa
Raymond Jonas' The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire (Harvard UP, 2011) places Menelik alongside Napoleon and other greatest strate…
February 13, 2012
Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East
This week's podcast is an interview with David Stahel. I will be talking to him about his 2009 work, Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the …
October 25, 2011
Carl Schmitt
Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) was the author of numerous influential books and essays on political theory, law, and other subjects. In Carl Schmitt: Writin…
August 31, 2011
Desert Hell
An earlier author described the British invasion of Mesopotamia in 1914 as "The Neglected War." It no longer deserves that title thanks to the brillia…
July 12, 2011
Reluctant Accomplice
Konrad H. Jarausch, whose varied and important works on German history have been required reading for scholars for several decades, has published Relu…
April 22, 2011
Death of the Wehrmacht
Robert Citino is one of a handful of scholars working in German military history whose books I would describe as reliably rewarding. Even when one qui…
March 18, 2011
America's Army
The United States Army is a product of our society and its values (for better and for worse), but it also makes claims to shape our society - and of c…
March 3, 2011
Victory in Defeat
Gregory J. W. Urwin's Victory in Defeat: The Wake Island Defenders in Captivity (Naval Institute Press, 2010) tells the story of the Americans capture…