Collection of 50+ military reading lists crossreferenced by author (e.g., all books by John Keegan https://militaryreadinglists.com/authors/john-keegan) and book (e.g., all appearances of Paret's "Maker's of Modern Strategy" https://militaryreadinglists.com/books/145-makers-of-modern-strategy-from-machiavelli-to-the-nuclear-age).
For all their achievements, even America's Founders were capable of mistakes. Shown in this photo, one of those is considerably important; a photo[1968 or 9] of Fort Washington in Maryland, along the Northeastern banks of the Potomac River.
[While not my most successful photography], It does display one of the more remarkable colonial era Forts, preserved quite complete, now by the National Park Service.
Its location on the North side of the Potomac is across from George Washington's estate at Mt. Vernon, on the Virginia South riverside.
Articles
The Last to Fall: The 1922 March, Battles, and Deaths of U.S. Marines at Gettysburg
Richard D. L. Fulton and James Rada Jr.
The Legend of Suicide Charley: Company C, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, and the Battle for Henderson Field, 24–25 October 1942
Major Gary Cozzens, USMCR (Ret)
Royal Marines Commandos at Limbang, 1962
Captain Derek Oakley, MBE, RM
New in MiWSR
A review of Michael S.
Dr. Kuehn, your point on the American Civil War is well-taken. I just finished Ronald White's "American Ulysses" to refresh myself on postwar politics, and it was truly depressing to accept the reality that, for almost a century, Grant (despite his nickname) was the only president who really made an effort to make the "phase IV" gains stick. I also think that a society's coherence/stability making it more susceptible to unconditional surrender makes sense.
Douglas Egerton. Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments that Redeemed America. New York: Basic Books, 2016. 448 pp. $29.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-09664-0.
Reviewed by Geoffrey Jensen (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, College of Security and Intelligence Studies)
Published on H-War (July, 2017)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey
Philip Levy. George Washington Written Upon the Land: Nature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2015. 224 pp. $22.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-940425-90-0.
Reviewed by Lindsay Chervinsky (University of California, Davis)
Published on H-War (July, 2017)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey
John C. Fredriksen. The War of 1812: U.S. War Department Correspondence, 1812-1815. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2016. 488 pp. $95.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-9408-8.
Reviewed by Katrina Ponti (University of Rochester)
Published on H-War (July, 2017)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey
Suzanne Geissler. God and Sea Power: The Influence of Religion on Alfred Thayer Mahan. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2015. 280 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61251-843-5.
Reviewed by Scott Mobley (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Published on H-War (July, 2017)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey
G. W. L. Nicholson. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919: Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015. 676 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7735-4617-2.
Reviewed by Nicholas Sambaluk (Air University)
Published on H-War (July, 2017)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey
