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Military History September 25, 2018

Peasants and Soldiers

The Management of the Venetian Military Structure in the Mainland Dominion between the 16th and 17th Centuries

Giulio Ongaro

Hosted by Jay Lockenour
Dr. Giulio Ongaro, currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Economics Department at the University of Milan-Bicocca has just published Peasants and Soldiers: The Management of the Venetian Military Structure in …
Military History September 14, 2018

Architect of Air Power

General Laurence S. Kuter and the Birth of the U.S. Air Force

Brian D. Laslie

Hosted by Jay Lockenour
We have all seen pictures of the “Big Three” (Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin) at their historic meeting Yalta in February 1945. The three leaders command the viewer’s attention, naturally, but in …
Military History August 14, 2018

The Verdun Affair

A Novel

Nick Dybek

Hosted by Jay Lockenour
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 University has written a terrific …
Military History May 25, 2018

Soldiers of Empire

Indian and British Armies in World War II

Tarak Barkawi

Hosted by Jay Lockenour
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 rethink the way we understand …
Military History January 3, 2018

Marie von Clausewitz

The Woman Behind the Making of On War

Vanya E. Bellinger

Hosted by Jay Lockenour
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 the story of a remarkable …
Military History December 5, 2017

The Fear of Invasion

Strategy, Politics, and British War Planning, 1880-1914

David Morgan-Owen

Hosted by Jay Lockenour
David Morgan-Owen's The Fear of Invasion: Strategy, Politics, and British War Planning, 1880-1914 (Oxford University Press, 2017) tells a complex story clearly and concisely. In the decades prior to the …
Military History July 19, 2017

The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973

The USSR's Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict

Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez

Hosted by Jay Lockenour
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 University Press/Hurst, 2017), tells you that this is a revisionist …
Military History June 12, 2015

The Russian Army in the Great War

The Eastern Front, 1914-1917

David R. Stone

Hosted by Jay Lockenour
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 War …
Military History May 1, 2015

Blucher

Scourge of Napoleon

Michael Leggiere

Hosted by Jay Lockenour
I have really enjoyed Michael Leggiere's earlier work, including the excellent Napoleon and Berlin : The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813 (2002), like this work, part of the Campaigns …
Military History July 15, 2013

Warrior Pursuits

Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France

Brian Sandberg

Hosted by Jay Lockenour
Brian Sandberg's Warrior Pursuits: Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010) significantly revises our understanding of early modern military culture and absolutism. By …
Military History March 13, 2013

The Spanish Civil War

Stanley Payne

Hosted by Jay Lockenour
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 the subject …
Military History December 5, 2012

The Damned and the Dead

The Eastern Front through the Eyes of Soviet and Russian Novelists

Frank Ellis

Hosted by Jay Lockenour
Frank Ellis' The Damned and the Dead: The Eastern Front through the Eyes of Soviet and Russian Novelists (University Press of Kansas, 2011) introduces to English-language readers the riches of …
Military History September 26, 2012

Terror in the Balkans

German Armies and Partisan Warfare

Ben Shepherd

Hosted by Jay Lockenour
With Terror in the Balkans: German Armies and Partisan Warfare (Harvard University Press, 2012), Ben Shepherd, a Reader at Glasgow Caledonian University, offers us insight into the complex and harrowing …
Military History May 1, 2012

The Battle of Adwa

African Victory in the Age of Empire

Raymond Jonas

Hosted by Jay Lockenour
Raymond Jonas' The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire (Harvard UP, 2011) places Menelik alongside Napoleon and other greatest strategists. The Ethiopian emperor carried out a …
Military History February 13, 2012

Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East

David Stahel

Hosted by Jay Lockenour
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 East (Cambridge University Press …
Military History October 25, 2011

Carl Schmitt

Writings on War

Timothy Nunan

Hosted by Jay Lockenour
Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) was the author of numerous influential books and essays on political theory, law, and other subjects. In Carl Schmitt: Writings on War (Polity Press, 2011), Rhodes Scholar …
Military History August 31, 2011

Desert Hell

The British Invasion of Mesopotamia

Charles Townshend

Hosted by Jay Lockenour
An earlier author described the British invasion of Mesopotamia in 1914 as "The Neglected War." It no longer deserves that title thanks to the brilliant treatment of the subject by …
Military History July 12, 2011

Reluctant Accomplice

A Wehrmacht Soldier's Letters from the Eastern Front

Konrad Jarausch

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Konrad H. Jarausch, whose varied and important works on German history have been required reading for scholars for several decades, has published Reluctant Accomplice: A Wehrmacht Soldier's Letters from the …
Military History April 22, 2011

Death of the Wehrmacht

The German Campaigns of 1942

Robert Citino

Hosted by Jay Lockenour
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 quibbles with some of the …
Military History March 18, 2011

America's Army

Making the All-Volunteer Force

Beth Bailey

Hosted by Jay Lockenour
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 …
Military History March 3, 2011

Victory in Defeat

The Wake Island Defenders in Captivity

Gregory J.W. Urwin

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Gregory J. W. Urwin's Victory in Defeat: The Wake Island Defenders in Captivity (Naval Institute Press, 2010) tells the story of the Americans captured on Wake Island in December 1945 …