Book Reviews
Robert Sterling Rush’s ‘Hell in Hürtgen Forest’
By Michael D. HullIf ever the stamina, courage, and spirit of U.S. infantrymen were tested during World War II, it was at the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest in November 1944. Read more
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Agostino von Hassell and Herm Dillon’s ‘West Point’
Congress was reluctant, but President Thomas Jefferson was worried about war with France, and so in 1802 the fledgling United States of America established an academy for training youth in the disciplines of a military life and the arts of war. Read more
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Alanbrooke’s ‘War Diaries 1939-1945’
By Michael D. HullOutside the Ministry of Defense in London is a statue of one of the most influential yet overlooked leaders of World War II—an officer considered by many to have done more than any other to defeat Adolf Hitler’s Germany. Read more
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Heinz Gunther Guderian’s ‘From Normandy to the Ruhr’
By Lieutenant Colonel Dominic J. CaracciloNot just another historian’s reenactment of the outcome of World War II, From Normandy to the Ruhr: With the 116th Panzer Division in Word War II is at once a well-crafted and deeply researched scholarly narration and a “multi-tiered memoir”—immaculately translated (a task often overlooked and underrated)—into a definitive history of the ubiquitously employed “Greyhound Division.” Read more
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Kenneth S. Davis’ ‘FDR: The War President 1940-1943’
By Michael HullNo American president has had to shoulder heavier burdens than Franklin D. Roosevelt did in the tense months after Japanese carrier planes crippled the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Read more
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Stanley Weintraub’s ‘Long Day’s Journey into War’
By Michael HullEveryone who was alive on that fateful Sunday morning remembers it all too clearly, and those born later are well aware of what befell the U.S. Read more
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Hell in the Pacific
By Mason B. WebbAsk anyone today to name the three toughest, most important battles of World War II and chances are good that the name “Iwo Jima” will be at, or somewhere near, the top of the list. Read more
