Books Received

General

Beyond Glory: Medal of Honor Heroes in Their Own Words. By Larry Smith. New York: Norton, 2003. ISBN 0-393-32562-8. Photographs. Pp. xxi, 404. Paper. $15.95. Reissue of last year's hardback bestseller containing the recollections of 23 living medal winners from World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

European War and Diplomacy 1337-1815: A Bibliography. By William Young. Lincoln, Neb.: Universe. ISBN 0-595-29874-5. Pp. xiii, 292. Paper. $21.95. A reference guide to sources in English from books, periodicals and dissertations covering eras from the Hundred Years' War, the period of Spanish dominance, the Thirty Years' War and on to the Napoleonic period.

Gentlemen of the Raj: The Indian Army Officer Corps, 1817-1949. By Pradeep P. Barua. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003. ISBN 0-275-97999-7. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xv, 180. $69.95. The author explains how careful and cooperative development between Indians and Britons transformed a colonial occupation force into a modern army "untainted by political involvement" and unique in the developing world.

Marksmanship in the U.S. Army: A History of Medals, Shooting Programs, and Training. By William K. Emerson. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8061-3575-1. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xii, 256. $64.95. This large-format catalogue chronicles the development of awards and weapons within the training program of the Army from the earliest days to the present.

Military Commanders: The 100 Greatest Throughout History. By Nigel Cawthorne. New York: Enchanted Lion Books, 2004. ISBN 1-59270-029-2. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Pp. 208. $18.95. The author offers a highly Eurocentric collection of brief bio sketches (a full third from the British Isles) in chronological order from the ancient world to the Gulf War (Colin Powell is the last entry). The selections are oddly eccentric; Lee, Grant, Sherman and Jackson are included in the section on the American War of Independence; whole sections are devoted to the English Civil War and the Restoration but none to the Latin American Independence Wars; and non-westerners are included mostly as antagonists—Yamamoto makes the list but not Nimitz.

A Millennium of Hungarian Military History. Edited by Béla K. Kiraly and Laszlo Veszprémy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-88033-519-X. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xiv, 775. $79.00. Twenty-four scholars offer essays on various military matters in Hungary from the early Middle Ages through the Ottoman and Habsburg periods to the Soviet era and the present day.

Missouri at Sea: Warships with Show-Me State Names. By Richard E. Shroeder. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8262-1523-8. Maps. Photographs. Illustrations. Index. Pp. xi, 161. Paper. $14.95. The story of U.S. naval vessels named after cities and personages from Missouri beginning in the 1820s, from the various cruiser and battleship iterations of St. Louis and Missouri to submarines (Jefferson City), aircraft carriers (Harry S. Truman) and destroyers (USMC Sergeant Darrell Cole was posthumously awarded the medal of honor for heroism at Iwo Jima).

Moral Issues in Military Decision Making. By Anthony E. Hartle. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. ISBN 0-7006-1321-8. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. viii, 271. Paper. $16.95. The Head of the English Department at the U.S. Military Academy updates his well-known treatise on military ethics, first published in 1989, using case studies from the past decade to instruct the post-9/11 audience.

Presidential War Power. By Louis Fisher. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. ISBN 0-7006-1333-1. Appendixes. Notes. Index. Pp. xvi, 318. Paper. $16.95. The first edition offered a critique of executive usurpation of war-making powers focusing on developments since World War II; this second edition updates the argument with evidence from the Clinton and Bush II administrations.

Storia della Guardia di finanza. By Peripaolo Meccariello. Rome: Edmond Le Monnier, 2003. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index...