Thursday, December 13 2007
The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson
Atkinson's earlier work, An Army at Dawn, won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 2003, and, if anything, The Day of Battle is even more engrossing.
Monday, October 15 2007
The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam
In the inimitable manner that the famously ambitious author constructed his first sort, The Coldest Winter comes at you not like one but two of the actual tanks that rumble across its pages.
Monday, October 1 2007
The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam
The Vietnam experience invades Halberstam's account of the Korean War.
Friday, April 27 2007
The Changing Face of War by Martin Van Creveld
Van Creveld shows that all the U.S. military's technological prowess hasn't helped much in the current war, and in fact often helps distance its soldiers from the conflict they should be waging.
