Arming America through the Centuries: War, Business, and Building the National Security State Review
“Dr. Benjamin Franklin Cooling, a retired professor from the Eisenhower School at the National Defense University, has written an authoritative academic work on the complicated history of the U.S. military and the civilian business sector that provides the support necessary for both war and security beginning before the American Revolution to present.”
Military Architecture at Fort Clark: A Guide to the Texas Historic Landmark Review
Fort Clark, Texas, is a little-known outpost crucial to the defense of the west Texas border as well as a staging and training area for troops deploying to the two World Wars. First established in 1852, the fort became the home of some of the finest military architecture preserved in the United States.
Smashing Hitler’s Gun’s: The Rangers at Pointe-Du-Hoc, D-Day, 1944 Review
One of the biggest threats to Allied forces landing in Normandy on D-Day, 6 June 1944, was the German gun emplacements on the strategic bluffs named Pointe-du-Hoc.
The Delaware Bay at War! The Coastal Defenses of the Delaware Bay during World War Two Review
Coastal defense has always been important to the security of the United States, and by the 1940s and the advent of World War II, coastal security became vital.
Death and Life in the Big Red One: A Soldier’s World War II Journey from North Africa to Germany Review
As part of Operation TORCH in November 1942, the division shares one of the longest journeys of any Army combat unit in that war.
Mother of the Company: SGT. Percy M. Smith’s World War II Reflections Review
Mother of the Company reflects a son’s desire to share his first sergeant father’s war experiences in the European Theater with a modern audience eighty years removed from World War II.
Lincoln Comes to Gettysburg: The Creation of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Review
Lincoln Comes to Gettysburg seeks “to tell the story of the interface between the battle, the death and burial of so many young men, the Soldiers Cemetery creation, and Lincoln’s immortal visit.”
Man of Fire: William Tecumseh Sherman in the Civil War Review
“This is for readers who may be familiar with Sherman, and interested in either him or the Civil War, but only in broad strokes.”
Searching for Irvin McDowell: The Civil War’s Forgotten General Review
How could such a pivotal figure fall into such obscurity?
Tecumseh’s War: The Epic Conflict for the Heart of America Review
“Hickey’s thesis relies on the fact that Tecumseh’s War was a conflict not separated in scope from the War of 1812 but rather intertwined in it, and this idea is well illustrated throughout the work.”
