Books Received Blair Pierce Turner

The Journal of Military History, Volume 67, Number 1, January 2003, pp. 320-323 (Article)

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Above and Beyond: The Aviation Medals of The Politics of Coercion: Toward a Theory of Honor. By Barrett Tillman. Washington: Coercive Airpower for Post–Cold War Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002. Conflict. By Lt. Col. Ellwood P. “Skip” ISBN 1-58834-056-2. Photographs. Hinman IV, USAF. Maxwell Air Force Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. x, Base, Ala.: Air University Press, 2002. 294. $29.95. Biographical sketches of Notes. Bibliography. Paper. Pp. 73. Cadre over 100 awardees. Paper Number 14 from the College of The Battles of Armageddon: Megiddo and the Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Jezreel Valley from the Bronze Age to the Education. Nuclear Age. By Eric H. Cline. Ann Arbor: The Tragedy of the Middle East. By Barry University of Michigan Press, 2002. ISBN Rubin. New York: Cambridge University 0-472-06739-7. Maps. Photographs. Press, 2002. ISBN 0-521-80623-2. Notes. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Paper. Index. Pp. viii, 287. $29.00. An analysis of Pp. 239. $17.95. Reissue of the 2000 his- the contemporary situation in the Arab torical and archaeological study of 4,000 world focuses on failures of leadership, years of warfare on the site in Israel. which make the region incapable of Diné: A History of the Navajos. By Peter escaping chronic “turbulence and dicta- Iverson. Albuquerque: University of New torship.” Mexico Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8263-2715-X. U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft: An Maps. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Illustrated Design History. By Norman Index. Paper. Pp. xiii, 386. $21.95. Friedman. Ship Plans by A. D. Baker. An Enduring Framework for Assessing the Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, Contributions of Force Structure to a 2002. ISBN 1-55750-250-1. Photographs. Coercive Strategy. By Eric A. Beene, Illustrations. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. LtCol, USAF. Maxwell Air Force Base, Bibliography. Index. Pp. xx, 658. $85.00. Ala.: Air University Press, 2002. Large format, comprehensive catalogue of Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Appendixes. amphibious ship types. Paper. Pp. ix, 79. A thesis from the School U.S. National Security. By Cynthia A. Watson. of Advanced Airpower Studies. Santa Barbara: Calif.: ABC CLIO, 2002. Lost Subs: From the Hunley to the Kursk, the ISBN 1-57607-598-2. Sources. Index. Pp. Greatest Submarines Ever Lost—and xii, 356. $45.00. A teaching tool, with Found. By Spencer Dunmore. Cambridge, extensive documents, from the Contem- Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2002. ISBN 0-306- porary World Issues series. 81140-5. Photographs. Illustrations. Bibli- U.S. Special Forces: A Guide to America’s ography. Index. Pp. 176. $35.00. An illus- Special Operations Units, The World’s trated survey of famous submarine res- Most Elite Fighting Force. By Samuel A. cues and a general paean to the subma- Southworth and Stephen Tanner. Cam- rine service. bridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2002.

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Photographs. Illustrations. Bibliography. Clark. New York: Public Affairs, 2002. Index. Paper. Pp. vi, 282. $16.95. A pock- ISBN 1-58648-139-8. Maps. Photographs. et guide to all current U.S. Special Forces Index. Paper. Pp. xxxii, 479. $18.00. groups. Reissue of the 2001 critique of contempo- Waging Modern War. By General Wesley K. rary strategy.

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The Civil War in Photographs. By William C. 58980-058-3. Bibliography. Index. Paper. Davis. Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Carlton Pp. xix, 259. $15.95. Reissue of the 1993 Books, 2002. ISBN 1-84222-636-3. Photo- chronicle of the exploits of Confederate graphs. Illustrations. Pp. 255. $39.95. cavalry forces. Over 300 selected images and supportive Grant: A Biography. By William S. McFeely. text by the Director of Programs at the New York: W. W. Norton, 2002. ISBN 0- Virginia Center for Civil War Studies. 393-32394-3. Photographs. Illustrations. The Cowpens-Guilford Courthouse Campaign. Notes. Selected bibliography. Index. By Burke Davis. Philadelphia: University Paper. Pp. xiii, 592. $19.95. Reissue of the of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. ISBN 0- 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography. 8122-1832-9. Maps. Index. Paper. Pp. The Hanging of Old Brown: A Story of Slaves, 208. $14.95. Reissue of the 1962 history Statesmen, and Redemption. By Gregory of the decisive campaign in the Carolinas Toledo. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, during the American Revolution. 2002. ISBN 0-275-97479-0. Notes. Disaster at the Colorado: Beale’s Wagon Road Bibliographical essay. Index. Pp. xiv, 276. and the First Emigrant Party. By Charles $64.95. An account of John Brown’s raid W. Baley. Logan: Utah State University on Harper’s Ferry and sympathetic biog- Press, 2002. ISBN 0-87421-437-8. Maps. raphy of the protagonist. Photographs. Illustrations. Appendixes. The Last Battle of the Civil War: Palmetto Notes. Bibliography. Index. Paper. Pp. xi, Ranch. By Jeffrey Wm. Hunt. Austin: 216. $19.95. The saga of the first attempt University of Texas Press, 2002. ISBN 0- to cross to California via a southern route 292-73461-1. Maps. Photographs. Illustra- which became little used as a result of the tions. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Paper. difficulties encountered. Pp. xiv, 217. $22.95. An account of the The 1862 Army Officer’s Pocket Companion: last battle of the Civil War, a month after A Manual for Staff Officers in the Field. Appomattox, from the Clifton and Shirley By William P. Craighill. Mechanicsburg, Caldwell Texas Heritage Series. Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2002. Tables. Shanks: The Life and Wars of General Nathan Figures. Index. Pp. 314. $19.95. Facsimile G. Evans, CSA. By Jason H. Silverman et edition of the manual used by the U.S. al. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, Army during the Civil War. 2002. ISBN 0-306-81147-2. Photographs. “First Reich”: Inside the German Army Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 216. During the War With France. By David $26.00. Biography of the controversial Stone. London: Brassey’s, 2002. ISBN 1- commander of the South Carolina 85753-341-0. Maps. Illustrations. Appen- Brigade. dixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair: Soldiers and 320. £25.00. A history of the Franco- Social Conflict During the Mexican- Prussian War, “the first European war of American War. By Paul Foos. Chapel Hill: the modern military era” leading to the University of North Carolina Press, 2002. establishment, in essence, of the real ISBN 0-8078-5405-0. Map. Illustrations. “First Reich.” Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Paper. Glory at a Gallop: Tales of the Confederate Pp. 223. $18.95. An unflattering analysis Cavalry. By William R. Brooksher and of American troop recruiting and behav- David K. Snider. Gretna, La.: Pelican ior during the Mexican War. Publishing, 2002 [1993, 1995]. ISBN 1- The Stilwell Letters: A Georgian in Long-

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street’s Corps, Army of Northern dred twenty-seven letters from a soldier Virginia. Edited by Ronald Moseley. in the 53d Georgia covering two and one- Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, half years of the Civil War from the Seven 2002. ISBN 0-86554-807-2. Maps. Notes. Days to Cedar Creek. Index. Pp. xxviii, 309. $35.00. One hun-

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The Battle of the Huertgen Forest. By Charles Las Cruces, N.M.: Yucca Tree Press, 2000. B. MacDonald. Philadelphia: University of ISBN 1-881325-40-7. Maps. Photographs. Pennsylvania Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8122- Illustrations. Glossary. Appendixes. Notes. 1831-0. Maps. Index. Paper. Pp. 215. Index. Pp. xi, 289. $25.00. Adventures $14.95. Reissue of the 1963 memoir of over the Afghan border in the late 1930s. the WWII battle by the author of Forgotten Heroes of World War II: Personal Company Commander. Accounts of Ordinary Soldiers. By Battle Wounds of Iwo Jima. By Thomas M. Thomas E. Simmons. Nashville, Tenn.: Brown, MD. New York: Vantage Press, Cumberland House, 2002. ISBN 1-58182- 2002. ISBN 0-533-14086-2. Photographs. 321-5. Photographs. Illustrations. Paper. Illustrations. Paper. Pp. xxv, 171. $11.95. Pp. 254. $14.95. The stories of 14 individ- Memoirs of a battalion surgeon with the uals, including one Japanese, provide a 27th Marines at Iwo Jima. glimpse of action in all theaters of the war. Blaze in the Boondocks: Fighting on America’s German Students’ War Letters. Edited by Imperial Frontier in the Philippines, Philipp Witkop. Translated by A. F. Wedd. 1899–1913. Edited by Richard K. Kolb. Philadelphia: Pine Street Books, 2002. Kansas City, Mo.: VFW Publications ISBN 0-8122-1816-7. Paper. Pp. 375. Dept., 2002. Photographs. Illustrations. $15.95. This new edition of a 1929 work Paper. Pp. 43. A large format, illustrated, with a new forward revisits the effort to commemorative teaching guide assem- construct a “specifically German cultural bled by the staff of VFW Magazine. memory out of the upheaval of the Great Commodore Ellsworth P. Bertholf, First War.” Commandant of the Coast Guard. By A Gift of Barbed Wire: America’s Allies C. Douglas Kroll. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Abandoned in South Vietnam. By Robert Institute Press, 2002. ISBN 1-55750-474- S. McKelvey. Seattle: University of 1. Map. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Washington Press, 2002. ISBN 0-295- Index. Pp. xx, 160. $36.95. Biography of 98224-1. Glossary. Notes. Index. Pp. xxii, the last Commandant of the Revenue 267. $28.95. Profiles of South Vietnamese Cutter Service who then became the first officials and their difficult survival experi- Commandant of the Coast Guard in 1915. ences after the U.S. withdrawal. Crises in the Contemporary Persian Gulf. Hale’s Handful . . . Up from the Ashes: The Edited by Barry Rubin. Portland, Ore.: Forging of the Seventh Air Force from the Frank Cass, 2002. ISBN 0-7146-5267-9. Ashes of Pearl Harbor to the Triumph of Notes. Index. Pp. xii, 324. $57.50. Twelve VJ-day. By Peter S. H. Ellis. Maxwell Air analysts offer views on strategic issues in Force Base, Ala.: Air University Press, the Gulf. 2002. Maps. Figures. Notes. Paper. Pp. xi, Fighting with Popski’s Private Army. By Park 81. A thesis from the School of Advanced Yunnie. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Airpower Studies. Books, 2002 [1959]. ISBN 1-85367-500-8. “Honoring Those Who Paid the Price”: Photographs. Paper. Pp. 386. $19.95. New Forgotten Voices from the Korean War. edition of a 1959 memoir by the second By Randy K. Mills. Indianapolis: Indiana in command of a British commando unit Historical Society Press, 2002. Photo- in North Africa and Italy. graphs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. Flying Blind: A Memoir of Biplane Flying over xx, 276. $29.95. The Korean War as seen Waziristan in the Last Days of British through the eyes of veterans from Rule in India. By Geoffrey Morley-Mower. Indiana.

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Horror in the East: Japan and the Atrocities of tute Press, 2002. ISBN 1-55750- World War II. By Laurence Rees. 205-6. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibli- Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2002. ography. Index. Pp. xix, 384. $36.95. ISBN 0-306-81178-2. Map. Photographs. Biography of an important Navy carrier References. Index. Pp. 160. $24.00. An fighter tactician in World War II. analysis of the collective psychic shift in Red Sky in the Morning: The Battle of the Japan during the years after Barents Sea, 1942. By Michael Pearson. which made it a culture capable of mas- Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, sive atrocities in World War II. 2002. ISBN 1-84037-339-3. Maps. Illus- : Japan’s Suicide Gods. By Albert trations. Photographs. Appendixes. Notes. Axell and Hideaki Kase. Harlow, U.K.: Select bibliography. Index. Pp. 154. Pearson Education, 2002. ISBN 0-582- $24.95. The story of the famous British 77232-X. Maps. Photographs. Illustrations. naval victory over German surface con- Appendixes. Index. Pp. xiv, 274. £19.99. voy raiders in December of 1942. A study of the famous Japanese suicide Rendezvous with Death: American Poems of squadrons with reference to current the Great War. By Mark W. Van Wienen. Islamic extremist suicide organizations. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, The Knights of Bushido: A Short History of 2002. ISBN 0-252-07059-3. Illustrations. Japanese War Crimes. By Lord Russell of Notes. Bibliography. Indexes. Paper. Pp. Liverpool. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole xiv, 363. $19.95. “Reveals American Books, 2002 [1958]. ISBN 1-85367-499-0. poets’ shifting, conflicting reactions to the Photographs. Appendix. Index. Pp. xvi, war and highlights their efforts to shape 335. $34.95. Reissue of the standard U.S. policies and define American atti- account from 1958, written by the tudes.” Deputy Judge Advocate General for the The Rescue of the Gale Runner: Death, British Army of the Rhine; a sequel to his Heroism, and the U.S. Coast Guard. By well-known account of German war Dennis L. Noble. Gainesville: University crimes of 1954 (see below). Press of Florida, 2002. ISBN 0-8130-2555- My War. By Andy Rooney. New York: Public 9. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Index. Pp. Affairs, 2002. ISBN 1-58648-159-2. xx, 280. $55.00. Narrates a February Photographs. Illustrations. Index. Paper. 1997 rescue mission off the coast of Pp. xiii, 333. $14.00. Paper edition of the Washington state, which cost the lives of best-selling 1995 memoir. three Coast Guardsmen, and faults senior Naval Leadership in Korea: The First Six leadership. Months. By Thomas B. Buell. Washington: Ridgway’s Paratroopers: The American Naval Historical Center, 2002. ISBN 0- Airborne in World War II. By Clay Blair. 945274-46-7. Photographs. Sources. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, Paper. Pp. ix, 50. $8.50. The second 2002. ISBN 1-55750-299-4. Maps. Photo- monograph in the Naval Historical graphs. Notes. Index. Paper. Pp. 588. Center’s commemorative series for the $24.95. Reissue of the 1985 history. 50th Anniversary of the Korean War Scourge of the Swastika: A Short History of examines the role of the Navy’s senior Nazi War Crimes. By Lord Russell of leadership at the beginning of the war Liverpool. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole within the context of interservice rivalry. Books, 2002. ISBN 1-85367-498-2. Photo- The Sourcebook: An Anthology graphs. Index. Pp. x, 257. $34.95. Reissue of Texts. By Roderick Stackelberg and of the authoritative 1954 study. Sally A. Winkle. New York: Routledge, Verschollen: World War I U-Boat Losses. By 2002. ISBN 0-415-22214-1. Maps. Photo- Dwight R. Messimer. Annapolis, Md.: graphs. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Index. Naval Institute Press, 2002. ISBN 1- Paper. Pp. xx, 455. $27.95. An edited col- 55750-475-X. Maps. Photographs. Appen- lection of 148 documents dealing with dixes. Index. Pp. ix, 341. $36.95. Brief Nazism, dating from 1850 to 2000. accounts of the 203 German U-boats “lost Reaper Leader: The Life of Jimmy Flatley. By without a trace” in World War I. Steve Ewing. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Insti-

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