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 <[email protected]> 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 Citation: David Silbey. Military History Digest #316. H-War. 09-07-2018. https://networks.h-net.org/node/12840/blog/military-history-digest/1981636/military-history-digest-316 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-War http://www.edwardlengel.com/belleau-wood-u-s-marines-battle-for-hill-142/ • 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: Citation: David Silbey. Military History Digest #316. H-War. 09-07-2018. https://networks.h-net.org/node/12840/blog/military-history-digest/1981636/military-history-digest-316 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 2 H-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 Citation: David Silbey. Military History Digest #316. H-War. 09-07-2018. https://networks.h-net.org/node/12840/blog/military-history-digest/1981636/military-history-digest-316 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 3 H-War 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-...? Posted in: Military History Digest Citation: David Silbey. Military History Digest #316. H-War. 09-07-2018. https://networks.h-net.org/node/12840/blog/military-history-digest/1981636/military-history-digest-316 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 4.