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Back to SearchChris Stephen, "The Future of War Crimes Justice" (Melville House, 2024)
Episode 218
The Future of War Crimes Justice (Melville House, 2024), journalist and war correspondent Chris Stephen takes a colourful look at the erratic history…
2 years, 5 months ago
Lisa Bhungalia, "Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 270
The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war on…
2 years, 5 months ago
Shelley X. Liu, "Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-War Statebuilding" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 717
Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Shelley X. Liu explores how wartime processes …
2 years, 5 months ago
Cecily N. Zander, "The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era" (LSU Press, 2024)
Episode 236
Cecily N. Zander’s The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era (LSU Press, 2024) is a pathbreaking study focusing on the…
2 years, 5 months ago
Richard Dannatt and Robert Lyman, "Victory to Defeat: The British Army 1918-40" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 1440
The British Army won a convincing series of victories between 1916 and 1918. But by 1939 the British Army was an entirely different animal. The hard-…
2 years, 5 months ago
Robert K. D. Colby, "An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 458
The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery and, after a four-year struggle to become an independent slaveholding republic, died…
2 years, 5 months ago
Lawrence Freedman, "Modern Warfare: Lessons from Ukraine" (Penguin, 2023)
Episode 1439
The foremost authority on modern war in the English-speaking world examines Europe's most important conflict since World War II.
More than any other m…
2 years, 5 months ago
"The US Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Volume IV" (Indiana UP, 2022)
Episode 2022
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Volume IV (Indiana UP, 2022) examines an under-researched s…
2 years, 5 months ago
Julia G. Young, "Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 61
In Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War (Oxford University Press, 2019), Julia G. Young reframes the Cristero War as a…
2 years, 5 months ago
Donald Stoker, "Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 542
In this provocative challenge to United States policy and strategy, former Professor of Strategy & Policy at the US Naval War College, and author or …
2 years, 5 months ago