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Image of The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars
Author(s):
Patrick Hennessey
Genre(s):
Military, 21st Century

The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars

October 1, 2010
Reviewed by: 
Dr. Chris. J. Terry

This novel is a real-time, disturbing blitzkreig. It is also an important, exhausting, and challenging book about our army during today’s conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Image of The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris
Author(s):
Peter Beinart
Genre(s):
European, Military History & Affairs, U.S.

The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris

October 1, 2010
Reviewed by: 
Dave Moyer

The Icarus Syndrome uses the Greek myth of Icarus to illustrate American foreign policy shortcomings following World War I, Vietnam, and Iraq.

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Author(s):
Russell Blount Jr
Genre(s):
History, Civil War (U.S.), U.S.

The Battles of New Hope Church

October 1, 2010
Reviewed by: 
Michael J. Deeb

Under the command of General Joe Johnston, the Army of Tennessee blocked Union General Sherman’s invasion of Georgia and his move toward Atlanta.

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Image of Stealing Secrets: How a Few Daring Women Deceived Generals, Impacted Battles, and Altered the Course of the Civil War
Author(s):
H. Donald Winkler
Genre(s):
Women in History, 19th Century, Civil War (U.S.)

Stealing Secrets: How a Few Daring Women Deceived Generals, Impacted Battles, and Altered the Course of the Civil War

October 1, 2010
Reviewed by: 
JoAn Watson Martin

H. Donald Winkler has researched the lives of nineteen daring women who changed the outcome of Civil War battles.

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Image of Los Angeles in Maps
Author(s):
Glen Creason
Genre(s):
U.S., Education, History

Los Angeles in Maps

October 1, 2010
Reviewed by: 
John L. Murphy PhD

This large format book is no coffee table artifact. A lively text by the Los Angeles Public Library’s map archivist, Glen Creason, along with an introduction by fellow native D. J.

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Image of After the War: The Lives and Images of Major Civil War Figures After the Shooting Stopped
Author(s):
David Hardin
Genre(s):
Biography, Autobiography & Memoir, Civil War (U.S.), U.S., Military

After the War: The Lives and Images of Major Civil War Figures After the Shooting Stopped

October 1, 2010
Reviewed by: 
Michael J. Deeb

Those of us who grew up in the age of early television sometimes wonder whatever happened to this or that character.

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Image of Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation
Author(s):
Harlow Giles Unger
Genre(s):
Biography, Autobiography & Memoir, Historical, U.S.

Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation

October 1, 2010
Reviewed by: 
David Rosman

“Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope.

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Image of The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Author(s):
Nathaniel Philbrick
Genre(s):
History, Native American, Military History & Affairs

The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

October 1, 2010
Reviewed by: 
Michael J. Deeb

(Viking Press, May 4, 2010.

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