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Military History Newsletter December 2019

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Welcome to the first issue of the WarScholar newsletter.  The Marines in Iraq and Spitfires over Europe this week. I interviewed Ed Darak about his book on the Marines fight in Anbar in 2006-2007. Listen here. I also interviewed Andrew Critchell about his history of ten Spitfires fighting the German Luftwaffe in WII. Read it here.

And in our book list below we give you everything you could ask for in military history. Tactics, war movies, logistics, ancient, WWII, Samurai clans, Crusaders, Napoleonic artillery and more. Enjoy! Click here for a list of relevant books being published between January and June 2020.

AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, AND SYRIA – MODERN WARFARE

This is Minuteman

Night Letters

ANCIENT WARFARE

Brill’s Companion to Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean

The Persian War in Herodotus and Other Ancient Voices

Ancient Egyptian Warfare

ASIAN AND AFRICAN PRE-MODERN WARFARE

The Remarkable History of the Yagyu Clan – William De Lange

GENERAL MILITARY HISTORY

Delivering Victory

MECHANIZED WARFARE, ARTILLERY, AND TANK STUDIES – MODERN

German Military Vehicles in the Spanish Civil War

MEDIEVAL AND DARK AGES WARFARE

Recalcitrant Crusaders?

Britain in the Age of Arthur

MILITARY AVIATION

The Messerschmitt Bf 109 E – David Johnston

MODERN MILITARY STUDIES

The Culture of Military Organizations

MODERN WARFARE/20TH-21ST CENTURY

Insurgency and War in Nigeria

Laying the Past to Rest

No Barrier Can Contain It

NAPOLEONIC WARS/19TH CENTURY WARFARE

The French Artillery of the Napoleonic War

NATIVE AMERICAN WARS

Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica

NAVAL SHIP STUDIES

US Landing Craft of World War II, Vol 1

RENAISSANCE WARFARE

Warfare and Politics

TERRORISM AND WAR

Terrorist Decision-Making

UNITED STATES CIVIL WAR

The Second American Revolution

Caught in the Maelstrom

The Visible Confederacy

Living by Inches

WAR AND CULTURE

The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918-1939

WAR ART, LITERATURE, AND MOVIES

Nightmares in the Dream Sanctuary

Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America

WORLD WAR I

Rumors of the Great War

Ireland and the Great War

Little Italy in the Great War

WORLD WAR II

Courage and Fear

Blind Bombing

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19th and 20th Century warfare history book – “Ethiopian Warriorhood” (Boydell & Brewer, 2018) – Tsehai Berhane interview

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Tsehai Berhane has studied and written on Ethiopia and military history for many years.  We discuss her latest book on Ethiopian warriors from the 1800s to 1900s.

0:58 – Tsehai talks about how she got into studying Ethiopian warrior culture.

2:09 – Tsehai talks about what the book covers and Ethiopian history.

3:50 – Tsehai mentions Ethiopian children wargames.

7:41 – Tsehai talks about how information was shared among Ethiopian warriors.

11:29 – Tsehai talks about militia arsenals.

19:10 – Tsehai talks about the Italian invasion of Ethiopia.

24:18 – Many Ethiopian warriors did not have any idea what mechanized weapons were at the time of the Italian invasion.

31:59 – Tsehai talks about the resources she sued for her research.

34:17 – Tsehai talks about where she found documents for her research.

36:06 – Tsehai talks about why she started the book at 1800.

42:26 – Tsehai found it most difficult to work with militia warriors in rural Ethiopia.

45:00 – Tsehai talks about a sad story during the invasion period involving tanks. Another involves a massacre of Ethiopians.

51:00 – Tsehai talks about how she and other academics were expelled from the country.

54:28 – Tsehai is still looking for information on Ethiopian experiences.

Links of interest

https://boydellandbrewer.com/ethiopian-warriorhood-hb.html

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Guests: Tsehai Berhane

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: military, history, military history, conflict, war, interview, non-fiction book, Africa, Ethiopia, warriors, Italy, invasion, kings, Arabs

Renaissance warfare history book – “Renaissance Mass Murder” (Oxford University Press, 2019) – Stephen Bowd interview

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Dr. Stephen Bowd studied and Medieval and Renaissance studies now teaches at the University of Edinburgh.  We talked about his latest book on military mass murders committed during the Italian Wars of the early 16th century.

0:46 – Stephen talks about how he got into writing on massacres during the italian Wars.

2:25 – The book covers the years 1494 to about 1530.

3:18 – The book is broken into sections on mass murder events, what the soldiers thought of murders, what the civilian thought, theories behind mass murder in war, and comparisons to other mass murders.

6:37 – Stephen talks about massacres associated with military activity and those that were between military activities.

9:05 – Stephen talks about the attitudes of soldiers towards civilians.

11:15 – Stephen talks about the nationalities of the various armies involved in these massacres.

13:45 – Stephen talks about the plunder taken in towns during these wars.

15:00 – Stephen talks about the sack of Rome.

16:19 – Stephen talks about the levels of lawlessness in these massacres and seiges.  But there also sometimes plans drawn up for these massacres.

19:30 – Some soldiers feared that peace talks would lead to less plunder for them after the siege or battle ends.

21:47 – Stephen talks about what weapons were used for these massacres.

23:38 – Stephen talks about the numbers of people massacred.

26:30 – Stephen talks about women who trained in arms to defend their towns.

41:00 – Stephen talks about Machiavelli’s views on the murder of civilians.

45:52 – Stephen talks about Protestant-Catholic divisions and these massacres.

48:27 – Stephen discusses how these massacres shape art and the Renaissance.

55:55 – Stephen’s work can be found by googling “Shadow Agents of War.”

 Links of interest

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/renaissance-mass-murder-9780198832614?cc=us&lang=en&
https://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/about-us/staff-profiles/profile_tab1_academic.php?uun=sbowd

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Guests: Stephen Bowd

Host: Cris Alvarez

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