Military History Digest #316

H-War Military History Digest #316

Blog Post published by David Silbey on Thursday, June 28, 2018

The Military History Digest is a selected assortment of military history pieces from around the web. Suggestions for entries or sites to follow are always welcome at

Early Modern:

• The Vasa: Gustav II Adolfs Glorious and Doomed Warship http://www.medievalists.net/2018/06/the-vasa-gustav-ii-adolfs-warship/

19th Century:

• Civil War Books and Authors: Booknotes: Challenges of Command in the Civil War, Volume 1 https://cwba.blogspot.com/2018/06/booknotes-challenges-of-command-in.html

• Civil War Books and Authors: Booknotes: Fighting Means Killing https://cwba.blogspot.com/2018/06/booknotes-fighting-means-killing.html

• Civil War Books and Authors: Review of Lyftogt - "IOWA AND THE CIVIL WAR, VOLUME 1: Free Child of the Missouri Compromise 1850-1862" https://cwba.blogspot.com/2018/06/review-of-lyftogt-iowa-and-civil-war.html

• Freedom by the Sword: At Long Last, The Petersburg Campaign is Getting Its Due http://sablearm.blogspot.com/2018/06/at-long-last-petersburg-campaign-is.html

• Limb pit: Archaeologists make an extraordinary find of Civil War soldiers bones in Manassas - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/06/20/bones-of-civil-war-dead-found...

• Surviving Vicksburg Inside the Living Hell of the Civil Wars Most Infamous Siege MilitaryHistoryNow.com https://militaryhistorynow.com/2018/06/12/surviving-vicksburg-inside-the-living-hell-of-th...

• Hit by a Minie Ball. Society of the Roundheads https://www.facebook.com/groups/121055402755/permalink/10155526814322756/

First World War:

• Belleau Wood: U.S. Marines Battle for Hill 142 - Edward Lengel

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• Book Review: 1917: War, Peace, Revolution by David Stevenson | LSE Review of Books http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2018/06/06/book-review-1917-war-peace-revolution-b...

• Naval History Blog Blog Archive Frankenships: HMS Zubian and USS Wisconsin https://www.navalhistory.org/2018/06/08/frankenships-hms-zubian-and-uss-wisconsin

• Naval History Blog Blog Archive The Sinking of the USS President Lincoln, 31 May 1918 https://www.navalhistory.org/2018/06/12/the-sinking-of-the-uss-president-lincoln-31-may-1918

• Naval History Blog Blog Archive USS Cyclops The Deadliest Unsolved Mystery in the Navy https://www.navalhistory.org/2018/06/14/uss-cyclops-the-deadliest-unsolved-mystery-in-the-...

• Pandoras Box: A History of the First World War | RealClearDefense https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2018/06/25/pandoras_box_a_history_of_the_first_w...

• Review of Cynthia Tomans Sister Soldiers of the Great War by Eliza Richardson | Canadian Military History http://canadianmilitaryhistory.ca/review-of-cynthia-tomans-sister-soldiers-of-the-great-wa...

• Shell Shock Stories & Beyond: Are you a Community Researcher Engaging with Trauma Narratives as part of your First World War Centenary Project? The Centre for Hidden Histories http://hiddenhistorieswwi.ac.uk/uncategorized/2018/06/shell-shock-stories-beyond-are-you-a...

• The Importance of the Battle of Belleau Wood - War on the Rocks https://warontherocks.com/2018/06/the-importance-of-the-battle-of-belleau-wood/

• War in Germany 14: Schlieffen to Verdun ADAM TOOZE https://adamtooze.com/2018/06/09/war-in-germany-14-schlieffen-to-verdun/

• War in Germany 15: Victory Impossible, 1916-1918? ADAM TOOZE https://adamtooze.com/2018/06/17/war-in-germany-15-victory-impossible-1916-1918/

Interwar:

• Blog - US Flush-Deck Destroyers 191645 - Osprey Publishing https://ospreypublishing.com/blog/us_flush_deck_destroyers/

• Global Maritime History British naval aircraft prototypes - Part 2: Hawker Hedgehog - Global Maritime History https://globalmaritimehistory.com/british-naval-aircraft-prototypes-part-2-hawker-hedgehog/

Second World War:

• #BookReview Flying Against Fate: Superstition and Allied Aircrews in World War II From Balloons to Drones https://balloonstodrones.com/2018/06/27/bookreview-flying-against-fate-superstition-and-al...

• It Can Happen Here | by Cass R. Sunstein | The New York Review of Books http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/06/28/hitlers-rise-it-can-happen-here/

• Roper Center illuminates World War II issues | Cornell Chronicle http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/05/roper-center-illuminates-world-war-ii-issues

• Soundings in Narragansett Bay's Naval History: Grading RADM Spruance's Performance at the Battle of Midway http://navalwarcollegemuseum.blogspot.com/2018/06/grading-radm-spruances-performance-at.html

• The Long Blue Line: Jacksons battle with the rogue waves of 44 Coast Guard Compass http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2018/06/the-long-blue-line-jacksons-battle-with-the-rogue-wa...

• The State of the Soviet Economy and Red Army in June of 1942 | The Globe at War http://globeatwar.com/article/state-soviet-economy-and-red-army-june-1942

• The Strategy Bridge https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2018/6/14/reviewing-beyond-the-beach?utm_source=T...

• World War II ace earns posthumous award from Cornell | Cornell Chronicle http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/05/world-war-ii-ace-earns-posthumous-award-cornell

• WW2s Forgotten Front 10 Chilling Facts About the Sino-Japanese War MilitaryHistoryNow.com https://militaryhistorynow.com/2018/06/26/ww2s-forgotten-front-10-chilling-facts-about-the...

Cold War:

• Stealth Lessons of the F-117 Nighthawk | War Is Boring http://warisboring.com/stealth-lessons-of-the-f-117-nighthawk/

• U.S. Naval Institute Blog https://blog.usni.org/posts/2018/06/20/asw-the-case-for-informed-pessimism

• Were Soviet Tanks Deployed in Egypt 50 Years Ago? On the Front Lines of Historical Forensics - American Historical Association http://blog.historians.org/2018/06/were-soviet-tanks-deployed-in-egypt-50-years-ago-on-the...

• Winning the Cold War at Sea with Reagan-Era Navy Secretary John Lehman http://cimsec.org/winning-cold-war-sea-reagan-era-navy-secretary-john-lehman/36654

Post Cold War:

• Noncombat incidents make up one-third of injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan, new study says - News - Stripes https://www.stripes.com/news/noncombat-incidents-make-up-one-third-of-injuries-in-iraq-and...

• To Ambush and Kill an American Green Beret, Al Shabaab Diverted a River | Small Wars Journal http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/ambush-and-kill-american-green-beret-al-shabaab-diverted-...

Thematic/Misc:

• Naval History Blog Blog Archive LCDR Wesley Brown, the First African American Graduate of the USNA https://www.navalhistory.org/2018/06/05/lcdr-wesley-brown-the-first-african-american-gradu...

• Report to Congress on The Purple Heart - USNI News https://news.usni.org/2018/06/26/report-congress-purple-heart-2

• The New RAF Museum Has Landed: And It's Victorious | Londonist https://londonist.com/london/museums-and-galleries/the-new-raf-museum-has-landed-and-it-s-...?

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