Book Reviews

Below you can find hyperlinks to each of my book reviews. Hopefully helpful for anyone, especially those studying for comprehensive exams in these fields.

Military History

The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (Landmark Edition)

The Punic Wars by Adrian Goldsworthy

The American Military: A Concise History by Joseph T. Glatthaar

The War to End all Wars by Edward M. Coffman

The Old Army by Edward M. Coffman

Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers by David E. Johnson

Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife by John Nagl

War Without Mercy by John W. Dower

For the Common Defense by Allan R. Millett, Peter Maslowski, and William B. Feis

The Echo of Battle by Brian McAllister Linn

This Kind of War by T.R. Fehrenbach

American Airpower Strategy in World War II by Conrad C. Crane

Eagle Against the Sun by Ronald Spector

Reconsidering the American Way of War by Antulio Echevarria

Surge by Peter R. Mansoor

The GI Offensive in Europe by Peter R. Mansoor

The Cold War U.S. Army by Ingo Trauschweizer

Allies and Adversaries by Mark A. Stoler

Dereliction of Duty by H.R. McMaster

A People Numerous and Armed by John Shy

The Great War by Dan Todman

Rules of the Game by Andrew Gordon

Military Effectiveness vol. 1 edited by Allan R. Millett and Williamson Murray

The Breaking Point by Robert Doughty

The Seeds of Disaster by Robert Doughty

Death of the Wehrmacht by Robert Citino

Battle of the Atlantic by Marc Milner

Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare by Tami Davis Biddle

The First Way of War by John Grenier

Barbarians and Brothers by Wayne E. Lee

The Gunpowder Age by Tonio Andrade

The First Total War by David Bell

Men Against Fire by S.L.A. Marshall

The Dust Rose Like Smoke by James O. Gump

The Culture of Military Innovation by Dima Adamsky

The Generals by Thomas Ricks

The Hard Hand of War by Mark Grimsley

War, Strategy, and Military Effectiveness by Williamson Murray

The Mexican War 1846–1848 by K. Jack Bauer

The Grand Strategy of Philip II by Geoffrey Parker

Guns, Sails, and Empires by Carlo M. Cipolla

Hitler’s Army by Omer Bartov

Race and Reunion by David Blight

War and the Art of Governance by Nadia Schadlow

Crucible of War by Fred Anderson

August 1914 by Bruno Cabanes

The Battle for the Falklands by Max Hastings and Simon Jenkins

Between War and Peace edited by Matthew Moten

Command in War by Martin Van Creveld

The Franco-Prussian War by Geoffrey Wawro

Keep From All Thoughtful Men by James Lacey

Inventing the Schlieffen Plan by Terence Zuber

Invisible Armies by Max Boot

The Man on Horseback, by Samuel E. Finer

The Mask of Command by John Keegan

The Face of Battle by John Keegan

Clausewitz and the State by Peter Paret

Counterinsurgency Warfare by David Galula




Intelligence History

Near and Distant Neighbors by Jonathan Haslam

German Foreign Intelligence from Hitler’s War to the Cold War by Robert Hutchinson

Battle of Wits by Stephen Budiansky

Knowing One’s Enemies edited by Ernest May

The United States Military Under the Constitution of the United States, 1789-1989 edited by Richard Kohn

Some Principles of Maritime Strategy by Julian S. Corbett

Grand Strategy and Military Alliances edited by Peter Mansoor and Williamson Murray

War and Society in Renaissance Europe, 1450-1620 by J.R. Hale

The Roots of Blitzkrieg by James Forum

Military Innovation in the Interwar Period edited by Williamson Murray and Allan Millett

The Army and Vietnam by Andrew F. Krepinevich

The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World edited by Michael Howard, George Andreopoulos, and Mark Shulman

Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare edited by Daniel Marston and Carter Malkasian




Diplomatic History

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy

The Deluge by Adam Tooze

Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze

The Regime Change Consensus by Joseph Stieb

A World Restored by Henry A. Kissinger

Containing Arab Nationalism by Salim Yaqub

Memoir

Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves