By Kevin Seabrooke

Full Reviews

Pearl Harbor: Japan’s Greatest Disaster (Mark Stille, Osprey/Bloomsbury Publishing, 368pp., 16-pages b.w photos, appendices, Nov. 4, 2025 $35 HC)

Redemption: MacArthur and the Campaign for the Philippines (Peter R. Mansoor, Cambridge University Press, 600 pp., maps, photos, U.S. Division nicknames, notes on sources, index, Aug.14, 2025, $34.95 HC)

Matisse at War: Art and Resistance in Nazi Occupied France (Christopher C. Gorham, Citadel Press, New York, NY, September 30, 2025, 452 pp., $29 HC)

A Black Army: Segregation and the US Military at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, 1941–1945 (Pauline Peretz, Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, Sept. 5, 2025, 352 pp., index, 62 photographs, $39.99 HC)

The View from My Foxhole: A Marine Private’s Firsthand World War II Combat Experience from Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima (William Swanson, Permuted Press, Brentwood, TN, 176 pp., 2022 $26 HC)

The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s All-Female Concentration Camp (Lynne Olson, Random House, New York, NY, 384 pp., bibliographical references, index, photos, June 3, 2025 $35, HC)

The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb (Garrett M. Graff, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 608 pp., Aug. 5, 2025 $35 HC)

The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II (David Nasaw, Penguin Press, New York, NY, 496 pp., Oct. 14, 2025 $35 HC)

New and Noteworthy

Guderian’s Panzers: From Triumph to Defeat on the Eastern Front, 1941 (Craig W.H. Luther, Stackpole Books, $39.95 HC) Op. Barbarossa from the point of view of Gen. Heinz Guderian and his 2nd Panzer Group.

The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower (Michel Paradis, Mariner Books, $18.99 SC) New biography of General Dwight Eisenhower focused on the months leading up to one of the defining moments of the 20th century.

Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II (Paul Thomas Chamberlin, Basic Books, $35 HC) Argues that WWII was not a “good war,” but the result of years of colonial violence and a struggle between imperial powers.

The Sundowners, Pegasus, and Little Butch: Carrier Air Group 11 and the War in the Pacific, 1943-1945 (Brian D. Laslie, Naval Institute Press, $34.95 HC) Narrative of the war for the fighters, bombers and torpedo planes of Carrier Air Groups CVG-11.

Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor (Christine Kuehn, Celadon Books, $29.99 HC) A journalist learns Joseph Goebbels sent her father’s family to Honolulu in 1935 and that her grandfather was a Nazi spy.

Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses (M.G. Sheftall, Dutton, $35 HC) The second of the two-book Embers series–Hiroshima was the first. For his vivid narrative, Sheftall spent eight years interviewing hibakusha—the Japanese word for atomic bomb survivors.

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