Welcome to the February 2020 military history book list.
This month so far I’ve posted the following interviews:
Sir Max Hastings discusses the incredible efforts taken to conduct the Dambusters Raid of WWII – Listen here
Dr. John Kuehn talks about the worst military disasters in history – Listen here
Alexander Clifford discusses the problems of the Republican Army of the Spanish Civil War – Listen here
John Bruning brings to life the race to be the top American aviation ace in WWII – Listen here
Constantine Vaporis talks about how the Tokugawa Shogunate kept the peace in Japan – Listen here
Mark Flotow talks about the humanity of Illinois soldiers in the US Civil War – Read it here
Anthony Rogers writes about the intense Seige of Malta in WWII – Read it here
AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, AND SYRIA – MODERN WARFARE
The CIA War in Kurdistan The Untold Story of the Northern Front in the Iraq War – Sam Faddis
Shadow on the Mountain – Shaker Jeffrey and Katharine Holstein
ANCIENT WARFARE
50 Roman Finds From the Portable Antiquities Scheme
All The Emperor’s Men – Coulston
After the Crisis – Jacqueline Klooster et al
ASIAN AND AFRICAN PRE-MODERN WARFARE
GENERAL MILITARY HISTORY
Covert Blunders – Seig
Conflict in the Holy Land – Diprizio
MI6 British Secret Intelligence Service Operations, 1909–1945 – Nigel West
European Revolutions and the Ottoman Balkans – Dimitris Stamatopoulos
Feeding Victory– Turner
Armies and Societies in Southeast Asia – ed Grabowski and Rettig PB
Women Warriors and National Heroes– ed Boyd Cothran et al
MECHANIZED WARFARE, ARTILLERY, AND TANK STUDIES – MODERN
Designing the T-34 Genesis of the Revolutionary Soviet Tank – Peter Samsonov
3.7 CM FLAK 18/36/37 – Alan Ranger PB
MEDIEVAL AND DARK AGES WARFARE
The Mongol Conquests: The Military Operations of Genghis Khan and Subeetei PB
Siege Warfare During the Crusades – Michael S Fulton
MILITARY AVIATION
Wings for the Rising Sun – Jurgen Melzer
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RAF Cold War Jet Aircraft in profile – Chris Sandham-Bailey
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Guardians of Ukraine
Vigilante! – Robert Powell
The Men Who Flew The Halifax – Martin Bowman
The Dauntless in Battle – Peter Smith
Black Tulip The Life and Legacy of Erich Hartmann, the World’s Top Fighter Ace – Erik
Schmidt
Fleet Air Arm Legends: Supermarine Seafire – Matthew Willis PB
MODERN MILITARY STUDIES
Iran and Saudi Arabia – Freihat
Agent Moliere – Geoff Andrews
The Fourth Geneva Convention for Civilians – Gilad Ben-Nun Mfeb
Quagmire in Civil War – Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl
Divided Armies – Jason Lyall
MODERN WARFARE/20TH-21ST CENTURY
Syrian Civil War – ed Kerr
Insurgency, Counter-insurgency and Policing in Centre-West Mexico, 1926-1929 – Mark lawrence
GCHQ The Secret Wireless War, 1900–1986 – Nigel West
The Franco-Algerian War through a Twenty-First Century lens – Nicole Wallenbrook
Spying from the Sky At the Controls of US Cold War Aerial Intelligence – Robert L. RIchardson
The Tornado Years More Adventures of a Cold War Fast-Jet Navigator – David Herriot
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Paulista War – Javier Garcia de Gabiola MFeb PB
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The Hacker and the State – Ben Buchanan
A Patriot’s Calling – Lt Colonel Dan Rooney
Shadow on the Mountain – Shaker Jeffrey and Katharine Holstein
Infantry Small Arms of the 21st Century Guns of the World’s Armies – Leigh Neville
Violent Resistance – ed Gehler and Schriffl
https://brill.com/view/title/55275?rskey=Yh2KNy&result=354
The Road to Vietnam – Pablo de Orellana
Revolucion Libertadora – Santiago Rivas PB
Something of Themselves – Sarah LeFanu
A History of the 9th Royal Scots The Dandy Ninth – Neill Gilhooley
NAPOLEONIC WARS/18th-19TH CENTURY WARFARE
Franklin & Washington – Edward Larson
The Boston Massacre – Zabin
Prelude to Waterloo: Quatre Bras The French Perspective – Andrew W. Field
https://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/The-Boston-Massacre/9780544911192
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The Trafalgar Chronicle: New Series 4 Dedicated to Naval History in the Nelson Era – Peter Hore PB
Admiral Albert Hastings Markham A Victorian Tale of Triumph, Tragedy and Exploration – Frank Jastrzembski
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The Duke of York’s Flanders Campaign – Steve Brown
NATIVE AMERICAN WARS
NAVAL SHIP STUDIES
Bridging the Seas Larrie Ferreiro
RENAISSANCE WARFARE
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TERRORISM AND WAR
The Economics of Violence – Gary Schiffman
UNITED STATES CIVIL WAR
WAR AND CULTURE
What Remains – Osborne
Historians at the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial – Mathew Turner
Fighting with Pride LGBT in the Armed Forces
WAR ART, LITERATURE, AND MOVIES
The American Civil War on Film – Lamphier and Welch
WORLD WAR I
The Fortress – Alexander Watson
Australian Code Breakers James Phelps
Rugbeians in the Great War – Daniel J McLean
The St. Mihiel Offensive 12–16 September 1918 – Maarten Otte PB
On the Road to Victory The Rise of Motor Transport with the BEF on the Western Front – Michael Harrison
The Battles of Arras: South A Visitor’s Guide – Jon Cooksey
The First and the Last of the Sheffield City Battalion – John Calvert Cornwell
WORLD WAR II
Fire and Fury – Randall Hanson
Hitler’s Scapegoat
Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War- Peter Wetzler
Fallschirmjager! – Greg Way
RAF Second World War Fighters in Profile – Chris Sandham-Bailey
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A, F and G Dan Sharp PB
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The Home Front 1939–1945 in 100 Objects – Austin J Ruddy
A G.I. in The Ardennes The Battle of the Bulge – Denis Hambucken
Hitler’s Vineyards How the French Winemakers Collaborated with the Nazis – Christophe Lucand
Storm Over Europe Allied Bombing Missions in the Second World War – Juan Vázquez García
Stalingrad: City on Fire – Alexey Isaev
Operation Chastise – Max Hastings
American Sutra – Duncan Williams
A Survivor Named Trauma Myra Sklarew
Unknown Valor – Martha MacCallum
The Battle of the Ypres-Comines Canal 1940 France and Flanders Campaign – Jerry Murland
The Memoir of Lothar Herrmann – Klaus Willmann
The Killing Fields of Provence – James Bourhill
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