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Urban Warfare on the Eastern Front by Anthony Tucker-Jones Pen and Sword, Barnsley, 2023 Hardcover ISBN 978 1 39907 200 7 Reviewed by: Charles Knight Anthony Tucker-Jones’s Battle of the Cities : Urban Warfare on the Eastern Front provides a thorough overview of operational-level urban warfare on the Eastern Front, structured around 20 significant urban engagements. It presents as being dense and well researched, and for each battle it provides not only context and conduct, but great detail about …
The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, March– October 1943 by Jeffrey R Cox Osprey Publishing, 2023, 528 pp. Hardback ISBN 9781472849892 EBook PDF ISBN 9781472849854 EPub & Mobi ISBN 9781472849885 Reviewed by: Felicity Petrie Dark Waters, Starry Skies is the fourth in a series of books by lawyer and historian Jeffrey R Cox that follows the Second World War Pacific campaign. This volume specifically covers the Guadalcanal campaign over the period March to October 1943, when the Allies began to turn the tide …
A Struggle to Prevail by David H Ucko Hurst & Collins, 2022, 464 pp. ISBN 9781787385658 Reviewed by: Travis Peet The overwhelming narrative to emerge from the 20-year ‘War on Terror’ is the impotence of the counterinsurgent. The vision of desperate Afghans fleeing Kabul in 2021 seemed to confirm the inability of governments to translate great military power into victory, and the perception of the success of insurgents was further reinforced by never-ending cycles of violence in the Middle East. …
American Firepower and Amphibious Assault from Tarawa to Iwo Jima by Chris K Hemler Naval Institute Press, 2023, 229 pp. ISBN 9781682471340 REVIEWED BY: John Nash Many books on World War II in the Pacific focus on either land, air or naval forces, especially when examining the battles of the US Marine Corps (USMC). Chris K Hemler’s book Delivering Destruction explores four key campaigns of the Pacific War through the lens of ‘triphibious’ warfare: the land, air and sea components of these campaigns. …
The Pacific War, 1937-1945 by John T Kuehn Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2023, 220 pp. ISBN 9781682477656 Reviewed by: Dayton McCarthy The 19th century German polymath Rudolf Virchow wrote that ‘brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal’. If this aphorism is correct—and I suspect that most military officers would support such a belief—then John T Kuehn’s Strategy in Crisis has done its best to ensure it has wide appeal among its prospective readership. Although not explicitly …
by Mike Martin Hurst Publishers , 2023, 272 pp Hardback ISBN: 9781787389304 Paperback ISBN: 9781911723875 Reviewed by: Anthony Duus Mike Martin is a former British Army officer with extensive experience in Afghanistan, and he is currently a Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. In How to Fight a War , his fourth book, Martin has written a ‘reference guide for the Commander in Chief of a nation’s military’, as he believes that ‘our leaders must have the …
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Victory in the Pacific by Trent Hone Naval Institute Press , 2022, 430 pp Hardcover ISBN: 9781682475959 Reviewed by: Jordan Beavis In Mastering the Art of Command, noted US naval historian Trent Hone investigates the leadership of Admiral Chester W Nimitz as Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC) and Commander in Chief of the Pacific Ocean Areas (CINCPOA) during the Second World War. Both as a personality and as a fleet commander, Nimitz has already been the …
Business Decision-Making and Crisis Planning by Garth Callender Wiley , 2023, xxiv+186 pp Paperback ISBN: 97813942033201 Reviewed by: Darren Cronshaw Uncertainties and crises are a feature of contemporary global politics and business. In the face of conflict, extreme weather and natural disasters, cybercrime, pandemics, migration, and economic and supply chain instability, in what ways can leaders best lead through risk and chaos with agility and good decisions, while maintaining resilience for …
The Complete Story of the French Participation in the Dardanelles Expedition of 1915 by George H Cassar Helion , Warwick, 2019, 238 pp Hardback ISBN: 9781911628927 Reviewed by: Chris Roberts Over a century after the last British troops were withdrawn from Gallipoli, volumes are still being written about a campaign that has been likened to a Greek tragedy. Within the historiography of the English-speaking peoples, the focus inevitably has been almost entirely on the British and Anzac contribution. Yet …
by John D Hosler Hackett Publishing Company , 2022, 185 pp Paperback ISBN: 97813942033201 Reviewed by: John Nash Military historians and theorists are often confronted by frustrating historical myths. Sometimes these are quite specific (e.g. a battle, historical figure, or piece of equipment), whereas sometimes they are historical constructs or historical arguments that have gained a life of their own and that come to bedevil the wider scholarship of war and military studies. The collection of chapters …
