Alex Mayhew, "Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
The First World War was an unprecedented crisis, with communities and societies enduring the unimaginable hardships of a prolonged conflict on an industrial scale. In Belgium and France, the terrible c...
4 Dec 202457min
Xosé M. Núñez Seixas, "The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front, 1941–1945: War, Occupation, Memory" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
In 1941, the Franco regime established the Spanish Division of Volunteers to take part in the Russian campaign as a unit integrated into the German Wehrmacht. Recruited by both the Fascist Party ( Fal...
3 Dec 20241h 49min
Maria Angela Diaz, "A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War–Era Gulf South" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
From 1845 to 1865 the Gulf of Mexico was at the center of American expansion and southern imperialism. A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War–Era Gulf South (Unive...
30 Nov 202449min
Daniel Cowling, "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans: The British Occupation of Germany, 1945-49" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Germany, spring 1945. Hitler is dead and his armies crushed. Across the conquered Reich, cities lie devastated by Allied saturation bombing; their traumatised populations, exhausted and embittered by ...
28 Nov 20241h 10min
Arthur W. Gullachsen, "The Defeat and Attrition of the 12. SS-Panzer-Division 'Hitlerjugend' (Casemate, 2024)
Prof. Gullachsen's newest book, The Defeat and Attrition of the 12. SS-Panzer-Division “Hitlerjugend,” Volume I: The Normandy Bridgehead Battles, 7–11 June 1944, offers a comprehensive examination of ...
27 Nov 202445min
Osamah F. Khalil, "A World of Enemies: America's Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden" (Harvard UP, 2024)
A sobering account of how the United States trapped itself in endless wars—abroad and at home—and what it might do to break free. Over the past half-century, Americans have watched their country exten...
26 Nov 20241h 17min
David Suisman, "Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America's Soldiers" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
In his new book, Instrument of War: Music and the Making of the America's Soldiers (University of Chicago Press, 2024), David Suisman shows that the US military has deep and multilayered investment in...
25 Nov 20241h 3min
Katherine C. Epstein, "Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
At the beginning of the twentieth century, two British inventors, Arthur Pollen and Harold Isherwood, became fascinated by a major military question: how to aim the big guns of battleships. These wars...
24 Nov 20241h 5min
