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BOOK REVIEW: Persia Triumphant in Greece: Xerxes Invasion

Author: Manousos E. Kambouris Hardback (7.1×10.0 inches). 226 pages. 2022. Subtitle: Thermopylae, Artemisium and the Destruction of Athens The second book in a trilogy examines the Persian invasion of Greece. This enlightening examination and comparison of ancient sources discusses the composition

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BOOK REVIEW: Black Hearts and Painted Guns

Authors: Kelly C Eads and Daniel S. Morgan. Hardback (6.3×9.3 inches). 176 pages. 2023. Subtitle: A Battalion’s Journey Into Iraq’s Triangle of Death This boots on the ground view of fighting in Iraq from 2005 to 2007 describes the tension and

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BOOK REVIEW: The Crimean Offensive 1944

Author: Ian Baxter. Softcover (6.7×9.3 inches). 128 pages. 2025. Subtitle: The Russian Battle for the Crimea Half of this Casemate Illustrated volume has little to do with the Crimea — it starts with 1941 and the initiation of Operation Barbarossa. A four-page timeline

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BOOK REVIEW: Roman Empire At War

Author: Don Taylor Softcover (6.2×9.2 inches). 216 pages. 2022 reprint of 2016 book. Subtitle: A Compendium of Battles From 31 BC to AD 565 Back in 2000, Greenhill Books published Battles of the Greek and Roman Worlds by John Montagu that offered encyclopedia-like

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BOOK REVIEW: The Overland Campaign for Richmond

Author: Bradley M. Gottfried. Softcover (6.7×9.3 inches). 128 pages. 2025. I was quite impressed with the battle maps of this volume in this volume of the Casemate Illustrated series. So much so, I went poking around to find out who this Gottfried

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BOOK REVIEW: Night Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe 1943-45

Authors: Neil Page and Jean-Louis Roba Softcover (6.7×9.3 inches). 128 pages. 2025. This overview of nightfighter operations offers the usual format of timeline, mini-bios, OOBs, and battles. First-person accounts from aces pepper the text, supplemented by the usual and much appreciated

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BOOK REVIEW: Operation Mincemeat

How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory Author: Ben MacIntyre The British “Section 17M” concocted a plan to plant false information on a dead body. It would drift it into Spain and

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