By Christopher Miskimon

Full Reviews

At the Gates of Rome: The Battle for a Dying Empire (Don Holloway, Osprey Publishing, 2024, 367 pp., maps, photographs, bibliography, index, $22, SC)

Operation El Dorado Canyon: The 1986 U.S. Bombing Raid on Libya (Maj. Jim Rotramel, USAF, Ret’d, Harpia Publishing, Wien, Austria, 2024, 254 pp., maps, photographs, notes, appendices, bibliography, index, $64.95, SC)

Emperor of the Seas: Kub-lai Khan and the Making of China (Jack Weatherford, Bloomsbury Publishing, New York NY, 2024 369 pp., notes, bibliography, index, $35 HC)

Fallen Comrade: A Story of the Korean War (Walter Howell, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson MI, 2024, 260 pp., maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, index, $28, HC)

More Work than Glory: Buffalo Soldiers in the United States Army, 1866-1916 (John P. Langellier, Helion Press, South Yorkshire UK, 2024, 322 pp., maps, maps, photographs, bibliography, index, $25, SC)

The Dhofar War: British Covert Campaigning in Arabia 1965-75 (Stephen Quick, University of Exeter Press, Exeter UK, 2024, 253 pp., maps, photographs, bibliography, index, $123, HC)

The Wars of the Roses: The Medieval Art of Graham Turner (Graham Turner, Osprey Books, Oxford UK, 2024, 288 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index, $50, HC)

Fighting for the French Foreign Legion: Americans who Joined the First World War in 1914 (Nils Elmark, Pen and Sword Books, South Yorkshire UK, 2024, 257 pp., photographs, $42.95, HC)

Jamestown 1622: The Anglo-Powhatan Wars (Cameron Colby, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, UK, 2024, 96 pp., maps, photographs, bibliography, index, $25, SC)

Arming East Asia: Deterring China in the Early Cold War (Eric Setzekorn, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis MD, 2024, 306 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index, $31.95, HC)

Short Bursts

1217: The Battles that Saved England (Catherine Hanley, Osprey Publishing, 2024, $35, HC) This is the story of a relatively unknown French invasion that changed the course of British history.

Barbarian Warrior Versus Roman Legionary: Marcomannic Wars AD 165-180 (Murray Dahl, Osprey Publishing, 2024, $23, SC) The Marcomannic Wars saw the first invasion of Italy since the 1st Century BCE. This book assesses both sides and three of their major battles.

U.S. Seventh Fleet, Vietnam 1964-75: American Naval Power in Southeast Asia (Edward J. Marolda, Osprey Publishing, 2024, $23, SC) Reveals how the Seventh Fleet fought the Vietnam War, with intelligence and tactical information.

The Soviet War in Afghanistan 1979 -1989 (Ilya Milyukov, Helios & Company, 2024, $29.95, SC) A detailed account of the Afghanistan War, rich with original photographs.

Confessions of a Weekend Warrior: Thirty-Five Years in the National Guard (Brig. Gen. Paul Smith, USA (Ret.), McFarland & Co., Inc., 2024, $29.95, SC) Gen. Smith saw the National Guard transform from an underfunded “strategic” reserve to a warfighting force.

Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War (Mark Sixsmith, Bloomsbury Press, 2024, $35, HC) Seemingly willing to engage with the West at first, Putin has evolved into an aggressive and confrontational ruler.

Admiral James Stavridis: Sailor, Scholar, Leader (Stanley D.M. Carpenter, naval Institute Press, 2024, $29.95, HC) Covers the life of one of the modern U.S. Navy’s most accomplished flag officers. This child of Greek immigrants rose to become Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.

Elite Bastards: The Combat Missions of Company F LRP Teams in Vietnam (Edward L. Dvorak, Pen Sword Books, 2024, $37.95, HC) The author served in the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam before joining a long-range patrol unit. This memoir relates his combat service.

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