The victory at Midway is attributable to several decisions made in the U.S. Navy high command.
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Book Review: No Higher Honor (by Jeff Nesmith) : WWII
The aircraft carrier Yorktown helped swing the momentum of the Pacific War to the […]
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Book Review: Wartime Missions of Harry L. Hopkins
The lengthy travels of Harry L. Hopkins, FDR’s trusted lieutenant, did much to foster cooperation among the Allies.
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Book Review: Day of Deceit
Day of Deceit rewrites the history leading to the Pearl Harbor attack.
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Book Review: Hunters in the Shallows
Hunters in the Shallows by Curtis L. Nelson, Batsford Brassey, Washington, D.C., 1998, $28.95. […]
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Book Review: Custer / The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer
George Armstrong Custer’s controversial life ended in an equally controversial death at the Little Bighorn.
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Book Review: Controversies and Commanders: Dispatches from theArmy of the Potomac (By Roy Morris, Jr.) : ACW
The controversy-plagued Army of the Potomac owed much of its disputatious nature to its […]
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Book Review: The Spotsylvania Campaign (Essays) : ACW
For sheer, unmitigated hellishness, the fighting around Spotsylvania outstripped all other Civil War battles. […]
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Book Review: Confederate Admiral: The Life and Wars of Franklin Buchanan (By Craig Symonds): ACW
Confederate Admiral Franklin Buchanan sometimes fought his friends as fiercely as he fought his […]
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Book Review: General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend
Who was George Pickett, and how did he come to be one of the most recognizable individuals–at least by name–of the Civil War?