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Book Review: The American Civil War: A Military History — John Keegan (2009)

I approached Keegan the way a soldier approaches a veteran instructor: with expectation, and with a certain caution. This is […]

Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War— Terry Brighton (2009)(U.S. edition also circulated under the same title; UK origin published as

Every age believes it understands war. Men train for it. States prepare for it. Commanders study the last one and

There is a moment before battle when the world goes quiet. Orders have been given. Positions are set. What remains

I have stood on many fields where men learned, too late, that courage does not soften arithmetic. Antietam was one

The night clung to the hull like soot. Inside the T-34, the air was thick with old smoke and men’s

Awakening I woke to the sound of boots moving past my head. Not marching. Dragging. The sky was the color

Awakenings The first thing he remembered was noise. Not the sharp crack of a rifle or the single heartbeat of

By Friedrich Bargideon The Road from Harfleur The siege had broken us more than it had the French. When we

By Friedrich Bargideon Arrival in Normandy — The Re-Dispatch I woke to the sound of gulls and the salt of