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Back to SearchJeremy Black, "The Revolutionary War" (St. Augustine's Press, 2026)
Episode 1578
Military historian Jeremy Black follows his engagement with the American Civil War (St. Augustine's Press, 2025) with a review of the Revolutionary W…
9 months ago
Peter H. Wilson, "Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Episode 172
German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and th…
9 months ago
Jeremy Black, "Britain's Imperial Histories (St. Augustine's Press, 2025)
Episode 1576
Military historian Jeremy Black continues his review of the global context of martial conflict and spatial conquest into the modern era (16th-20th ce…
9 months ago
Gershom Gorenberg, "War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East" (Public Affairs, 2021)
Episode 96
As World War II raged in North Africa, General Erwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans and weaknesses. In the summer of 194…
9 months ago
Erika Quinn, "This Horrible Uncertainty: A German Woman Writes War, 1939-1948" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
Episode 1574
Through the diaries and personal papers of a German woman, Vera Conrad, This Horrible Uncertainty: A German Woman Writes War, 1939-1948 (Berghahn Boo…
9 months, 1 week ago
Anna Reid, "A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution" (Basic Books, 2024)
Episode 221
In A Nasty Little War: The Western Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution (Basic Books, 2024), award-winning reporter Anna Reid tells the extraordin…
9 months, 1 week ago
Jason Burke, "The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s" (Knopf, 2026)
Episode 1572
Jason Burke's The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s (Knopf, 2026) is an epic, authoritative, gripping account of the…
9 months, 1 week ago
Alex Wellerstein, "The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age" (Harper, 2025)
Episode 1570
Dropping the atomic bombs on Japan during World War II was, arguably, the most controversial decision of the 20th century. The responsibility for tha…
9 months, 1 week ago
Michael P.M. Fox et al., eds., " Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
Episode 1571
The character of the conflict that erupted in 1914 defied the expectations of many political leaders and military analysts. Despite the mountains of …
9 months, 1 week ago
John M. Findlay, "The Mobilized American West, 1940-2000" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Episode 138
At the end of the 1930s, the West was in peril. A cultural and economic backwater, the Great Depression had all-but wiped out the extractive industri…
9 months, 1 week ago