And On The Other Hand

And On The Other Hand

Book Reviews

Colonel von Lettow-Vorbeck and Germany’s East Africe Empire by Edwin P. Hoyt

From the outbreak of the war in August 1914 until the end, November 1918, Major…

Boys to Men

“Talking about ‘healthy masculinity’ is like talking about ‘healthy cancer” and “Traditional masculinity has oppressed…

There’s a War to be Won: The United States Army in WWII by Geoffrey Perret

How was it possible for the United States Army, which numbered less than 200,000 men…

Impossible Histories by Hal Johnson

Did you ever wonder how your life could have been different? What if you did…

Bayonets before Bullets, the Imperial Russian Army, 1861-1914 by Bruce W. Menning

The Russian army has had moments of brilliance, such as the defeat of Napoleon and…

Stalin: Breaker of Nations by Robert Conquest

There is certainly no shortages of histories and biographies of Stalin, one of the greatest…

The Price of Glory, Verdun 1916 by Alistair Horne

There are many beautiful locations in France and during a month-long driving trip across the…

The March of Folly from Troy to Viet Nam by Barbara H. Tuchman

Re-reading Barbara Tuchman’s The March of Folly from Troy to Vietnam (originally published in 1984)…

The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig

In the period from just before the First World War until the early 1940s, Stefan…

War, Logistics and Cannibalism

When Japan decided to go to war with the United States in 1941, it went…