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10 Military History Book Reviews for Fall 2024
By Christopher Miskimon Full ReviewsAt the Gates of Rome: The Battle for a Dying Empire (Don Holloway, Osprey Publishing, 2024, 367 pp., Read more
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Phillips Payson O’Brien’s ‘The Strategists’
By Christopher MiskimonAdolf Hitler served in a Bavarian regiment on the Western Front during nearly all of World War I. Read more
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James and David Hornfischers’ ‘Destroyer Captain’
By Christopher MiskimonLieutenant Commander Ernest E. Evans arrived at his new command, USS Johnston (DD-557) at the Seattle-Tacoma shipyard. The ship had yet to be completed; workers were still welding and riveting. Read more
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Larry J. Hughes’ ‘Rings of Fire’
By Christopher MiskimonThe Polaroid Optical Ring Sight greatly increased the accuracy of gunners. It is little known that the creation of this sighting system was the result of a combined effort of a disparate group of Americans, including optics experts, miners, moonshiners, Soldiers, Marines, and even an artist. Read more
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Stephen R. Taaffe’s ‘U.S. Army Divisions of the Pacific War’
By Christopher MiskimonThe Marine Corps fielded 484,000 troops in the Pacific during the war; the US Army contributed 1.77 million. Read more
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Martin King’s ‘The Eagles of Bastogne’
By Christopher MiskimonOn the morning of December 19, 1944, artillery began to fall on the men of the 482nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion. Read more
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Walter Boston Stitt’s ‘Surviving Three Shermans’
By Christopher MiskimonOn September 19, 1944, Walter Stitt, serving as a loader in an M4 Sherman, lost his first tank. Read more
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Stephen M. Rusiecki’s ‘Invasion On!’
By Christopher MiskimonFrom the time the invasion fleet arrived off the Normandy coast and the first pathfinders parachuted out of their aircraft inland, the press was formulating a narrative of the event which would inform the American view of the event up to the current day. Read more
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Don Holloway’s ‘At the Gates of Rome’
By Christopher MiskimonAlaric the Goth spent years fighting the Roman Army under their Gen. Flavius Stilicho, then served as a Roman officer, leading a Visigoth army which helped defeat Roman foes. Read more
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Maj. Jim Rotramel’s ‘Operation El Dorado Canyon’
By Christopher MiskimonDuring the 1980s, Libyan dictator Muamar Qaddafi began an undeclared war against the United States, supporting terrorist attacks and sponsoring various terror groups in the Middle East. Read more
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Jack Weatherford’s ‘Emperor of the Seas’
By Christopher MiskimonThe Mongols were always a dangerous force on land, with massive armies of horsemen employing great mobility to defeat their foes. Read more
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Walter Howell’s ‘Fallen Comrade’
By Christopher Miskimon
Waller King, Joe Albritton and Homer Ainsworth grew up in the same neighborhood in Clinton, Mississippi. They knew each other at school, in church and everyday life. Read more
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John P. Langellier’s ‘More Work than Glory’
By Christopher MiskimonSoon after the Civil War, the United States Congress authorized the formation of six regiments of African-American troops, soon reduced to four. Read more
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Stephen Quick’s ‘The Dhofar War’
By Christopher MiskimonFrom 1965 to 1975, the Sultanate of Oman fought a counterinsurgency campaign against a communist backed revolt in Dhofar Province, a remote and barren area. Read more
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The Wars of the Roses: The Medieval Art of Graham Turner
By Christopher MiskimonThe period of conflict in the second half of the 15th Century, known generally as the Wars of the Roses, is one of the more chaotic and dramatic times in British history. Read more
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Nils Elmark’s ‘Fighting for the French Foreign Legion’
By Christopher MiskimonOn August 24, 1914, 44 Americans joined the French Foreign Legion to fight the new war against Germany. Read more
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Cameron Colby’s ‘Jamestown 1622’
By Christopher MiskimonEnglish settlers arrived in North America and established the Jamestown colony in 1607. They hoped for fortune growing tobacco and maintained difficult relations with the Powhatan Confederacy. Read more
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Eric Setzekorn’s ‘Arming East Asia’
By Christopher MiskimonAfter China fell to Communist rule in 1949, it became a new threat to the West in the fledgling Cold War. Read more
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Mark Stille’s ‘Midway: The Pacific War’s Most Famous Battle’
By Christopher MiskimonJapan’s striking force sailed for Midway on May 27, 1942, a day later than planned, after some late preparations were complete. Read more
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Flint Whitlock’s ‘To the Last Cartridge, Book II’
By Christopher MiskimonThere are no large cities and few sizable towns in Normandy between Cherbourg and Caen. One of those towns is Sainte-Mère Église, a crossroads valuable for the invading Allied forces in June 1944. Read more
