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Book: Medieval Ships and Warfare

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Edited by Susan Rose, Open University, UK The International Library of Essays on Military History This collection of essays and articles from a wide range of journals is intended to make more accessible to students and scholars some of the most important writing in English in this field from the 1950s to the present day. The volume draws attention to…

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Book Review: Montesclaros on Stahel, ‘Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany’s Winter Campaign, 1941-1942’

Author: David Stahel Reviewer: Mark Montesclaros David Stahel. Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany’s Winter Campaign, 1941-1942. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. 560 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-374-24952-6. Reviewed by Mark Montesclaros (US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Gordon Satellite Campus) Published on H-War (June, 2020)…

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Book: “Fighting for the French Foreign Legion”

Like the 7th Cavalry, the Waffen SS or the Special Air Service the French Foreign Legion is one of those iconic (be that through fame or infamy) military units that most students of military history know something about. This book by Alex Lochrie (its subtitle – “memoirs of a Scottish…

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Book Review: Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World.

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Book Review: The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript.

Pamela O. Long, David McGee, Alan M. Stahl, eds. The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009. Vol. 1, 732 pp.; Vol. 2, 732 pp.; Vol. 3, 384 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-262-13503-0; $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-262-19590-4; $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-262-12308-2. Reviewed by Veronica…

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Book: Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400-1800.

Diogo Ramada Curto, Francisco Bethencourt, eds. Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xx + 536 pp. $36.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-60891-6. Reviewed by Catia AntunesPublished on H-Atlantic (November, 2009)Commissioned by Jordana Dym Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400-1600   This collection of essays is a handbook for the English-speaking world…

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BOOK REVIEW: Europe’s American Revolution

H-NET BOOK REVIEW Published by [email protected] (February, 2008) Simon P. Newman, ed. _Europe’s American Revolution_. Houndmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006. xvii + 201 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4039-8997-0. Reviewed for H-Diplo by Gerard Hugues, Department of English, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France Revolutionary Reverberations The volume entitled _Europe’s…

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Book: “Fighting for the French Foreign Legion”

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Book Review: The Limits of Loyalty: Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy.

Laurence Cole, Daniel L. Unowsky, eds. The Limits of Loyalty: Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and…

Book Review: Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World.

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