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An English shield-maiden and England’s army
Time for two mini-reviews! First up, The Making of the British Army. Retired brigadier Allan Mallinson traces the history of Britain’s army to the creation of the New Model Army during the English civil war. Unlike armies of old, the … Continue reading
Bonaparte’s Sons
Bonaparte’s Sons © 1998 Richard Howard 400 pages This is the second (of three) posts published during Read of England which have nothing to do with England. I’m trying to get them out of the way before the English stuff … Continue reading
Posted in historical fiction, Reviews
Tagged historical fiction, military, The Napoleonic Wars
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American Rifle
American Rifle: A Biography © 2008 Alexander Rose 512 pages The quintessential American firearm is the rifle, which through centuries of colonization and growth, has served in both myth and fact. I use myth not in the modern disparaging sense, … Continue reading
The Scarlet Thief
The Scarlet Thief © 2013 Paul Fraser Collard352 pages Captain Arthur Sloames stepped off the boat with a terrible secret. He wore on his shoulders the coat of a dead man. When his transport left England, he was but Jack … Continue reading
Posted in historical fiction, Reviews
Tagged historical fiction, military, Paul Fraser Collard
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Old Man’s War
Old Man’s War© 2005 John Scalzi320 pages Boot camps on Earth may promise to make a new man out of you, but the intake camps of the Colonial Defense Forces do it for real. At the tender age of seventy-five, … Continue reading
Rifleman Dodd and The Gun
The Gun, and Rifleman Dodd© 1933 C.S. Forester311 pages “There was sorrow in Dodd’s heart as he looked down on the pitiful scene, but it did not prevent him from turning away and setting himself to survey the next adventurous … Continue reading
Posted in historical fiction, Reviews
Tagged CS Forester, espionage and commandos, historical fiction, military, The Napoleonic Wars
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Fool’s Errand
Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan © 2017 Scott Horton 318 pages Incredible as it sounds, it is nearly possible for a child conceived in the first week of the US invasion of Afghanistan to have come … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews, World Affairs
Tagged Middle East, military, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, terror war
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These Rugged Days
These Rugged Days: Alabama in the Civil War© 2017 John Sledge296 pages Although Alabama was not the site of as many bloody battles as Virginia and Tennessee in the Civil War, it was not a quiet backwater only troubled at … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged Alabama, American Civil War, American South, history, John Sledge, military, Selma
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Grunt
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War© 2016 Mary Roach285 pages I’ve never given much thought to the idea of military science. What might it involve? The chemistry of better weapons, the psychology behind successful strategy gambits? The science encountered … Continue reading
Lockout
Lockout© 2016 John J. Nance412 pages Something very strange is happening at 35,000 feet. A lost and unresponsive Airbus is feeding false data to its pilots, assuring them that they’re halfway over the Atlantic and nearing New York, but any … Continue reading