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Hugh Forbes

Researching 19th Century manuals that address street fighting and I've been diving in to my copy of Manual for the Patriotic Volunteer on Active Service by Hugh Forbes.  What little I've found indicates that he was an English soldier who later became acquainted with John Brown in the US before the Civil War - and may have even attempted to shop Brown to the authorities or blackmail his backers.  Anyone able to direct me to more information about this fellow?

Robert A Mosher

The Military Philosopher

Independent Scholar

Author: 
Patricia Rushton, ed.
Reviewer: 
Nancy J. Traylor-Heard

Traylor-Heard on Rushton, 'Vietnam War Nurses: Personal Accounts of 18 Americans'


Patricia Rushton, ed. Vietnam War Nurses: Personal Accounts of 18 Americans. Jefferson: McFarland, 2013. 196 pp. $19.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-7352-6.

Reviewed by Nancy J. Traylor-Heard (Mississippi State University)
Published on H-War (August, 2016)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

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Author: 
Patricia Rushton, ed.
Reviewer: 
Nancy J. Traylor-Heard

Traylor-Heard on Rushton, 'Vietnam War Nurses: Personal Accounts of 18 Americans'


Patricia Rushton, ed. Vietnam War Nurses: Personal Accounts of 18 Americans. Jefferson: McFarland, 2013. 196 pp. $19.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-7352-6.

Reviewed by Nancy J. Traylor-Heard (Mississippi State University)
Published on H-War (August, 2016)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

Author: 
Marilyn Morris
Reviewer: 
Jennine Hurl-Eamon

Hurl-Eamon on Morris, 'Sex, Money and Personal Character in Eighteenth-Century British Politics'


Marilyn Morris. Sex, Money and Personal Character in Eighteenth-Century British Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. 272 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-20845-0.

Reviewed by Jennine Hurl-Eamon (Trent University)
Published on H-War (August, 2016)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

Author: 
Kevin C. Murphy
Reviewer: 
Paul Springer

Springer on Murphy, 'Inside the Bataan Death March: Defeat, Travail and Memory'


Kevin C. Murphy. Inside the Bataan Death March: Defeat, Travail and Memory. Jefferson: McFarland, 2015. Illustrations, maps. 328 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-9681-5.

Reviewed by Paul Springer (Air University, Air Command and Staff College)
Published on H-War (August, 2016)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

Author: 
Robert H. Kargon, Karen Fiss, Morris Low, Arthur P. Molella
Reviewer: 
Adrianna Link

Link on Kargon and Fiss and Low and Molella, 'World's Fairs on the Eve of War: Science, Technology, and Modernity, 1937-1942'


Robert H. Kargon, Karen Fiss, Morris Low, Arthur P. Molella. World's Fairs on the Eve of War: Science, Technology, and Modernity, 1937-1942. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. Illustrations. 216 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4444-7.

Reviewed by Adrianna Link (Johns Hopkins University)
Published on H-War (August, 2016)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey