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Robert E. Cray. Lovewell's Fight: War, Death, and Memory in Borderland New England. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2014. 224 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62534-107-5; $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62534-106-8.
Reviewed by Gregory Michna
Published on H-War (February, 2015)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey
Tamar Herzog. Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. 400 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-73538-5.
Reviewed by Jean A. Stuntz (West Texas A&M University)
Published on H-War (February, 2015)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey
James H. Willbanks, ed. Generals of the Army: Marshall, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Arnold, Bradley. Lexington,: University Press of Kentucky, 2013. xi + 262 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8131-4213-5.
Reviewed by Tal Tovy (Bar Ilan University)
Published on H-War (February, 2015)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey
In my checkered career, I once had to try and distill certain bases of USSR military strategy and tactics for Air Staff (HQ USAF) for something or another. Obviously, I can't tell you about it, even if I could remember. But, there was something that has stuck with me to this day. Every single professional military publication I used began and ended with a panegyric to Marxist/Leninist theory which made it all possible, although to outsiders it was not relevant. This even included (real example) an airborne battalion assault on a river crossing!
Recommend you start with Walter Pintner's chapter in the venerable Makers of Modern Strategy edited by Peter Peret.
