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Book Reviews

Larry H. Addington: America's War in Vietnam
A Short Narrative History
Franz Borkenau: The Spanish Cockpit
An Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War
Robert Capa: Heart of Spain
Photographs of the Spanish Civil War
David Chanoff, Doan Van Toai: Vietnam
A Portrait of its People at War
Ronald Fraser: Blood of Spain**
An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War
John Harris: Much Sounding of Bugles
The Siege of Chitral, 1895
Michael Howard: Empires, Nations and Wars
- lectures and essays on political and military history
Niels Kastfelt: Religion and African Civil Wars
- papers on Southern Sudan, West Africa, and Southern Africa
Maurice Keen: Medieval Warfare*
A History
Judith Keene: The Last Mile to Huesca
An Australian Nurse in the Spanish Civil War
Sarah Kenyon Lischer: Dangerous Sanctuaries
Refugee Camps, Civil War, and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid
Peter Lowe: The Korean War
- a brief overview from a British perspective
Garrett Mattingly: The Defeat of the Spanish Armada*
- a popular account of the dramatic events of 1587 and 1588
Henry Maurer: Strange Ground
An Oral History of Americans in Vietnam 1945-1975
Mary Nash: Defying Male Civilization
Women in the Spanish Civil War
Robert L. O'Connell: The Ghosts of Cannae
Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
George Orwell: Homage to Catalonia
- a volunteer's first-hand account of the Spanish civil war
Geoffrey Parker: The Military Revolution*
Military Innovation and the Rise of the West 1500-1800
C. Northcote Parkinson: Britannia Rules
The Classic Age of Naval History 1793-1815
Nicholas Tracy: Manila Ransomed
The British Assault on Manila in the Seven Years War
Barbara W. Tuchman: The First Salute
A View of the American Revolution
Laurens van der Post: The Admiral's Baby
- a British officer in Java, 1945 to 1947
Blair Worden: The English Civil Wars 1640-1660
- a straightforward but insightful account

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