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The Journal of Military History 67.4 (2003) 1357-1361



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Books Received

Blair P. Turner
Virginia Military Institute


General

Above and Beyond: The Aviation Medals of Honor. By Barrett Tillman. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002. ISBN 1-58834-056-2. Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. x, 294. $29.95. Biographical sketches of 101 pilots and aviation crewmembers from all branches of service who received the medal since 1918.

Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban. By Stephen Tanner. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2002. ISBN 0-306-81233-9. Maps. Photographs. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Pp. vii, 351. Paper. $17.95. A brief but comprehensive history of the "graveyard of empires" covering Alexander's campaigns and through the Mongol period to modern clashes of European powers and finally to the current U.S. operations.

Beyond Glory, Medal of Honor Heroes in Their Own Words: Extraordinary Stories of Courage from World War II to Vietnam. By Larry Smith. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003. ISBN 0-393-05134-X. Photographs. Notes. Pp. xii, 404. $26.95. A collection of 24 interviews with surviving medal winners from World War II, Korea, and Vietnam including some well-known personages such as Daniel Inouye and John Kerry.

Biographical Directory of Flag Rank Soviet & Russian Naval Officers 1917-1999. By Frederic N. Smith. Arlington, Va.: Newcomb Publishers, 2000. ISBN 0-9649531-4-5. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 300. Paper. $20.00. A reference work containing brief biographies of 1,072 Russian flag officers.

Defence Management in Uncertain Times. Edited by Teri McConville and Richard Holmes. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS, 2003. ISBN 0-7146-8414-7. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Index. Pp. xi, 221. $27.50. A series of ten essays examine issues of defense management in the post-Cold War world; Canfield Defence Management Series No. 3 from the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom.

Inside Al Quaeda: Global Network of Terror. By Rohan Gunaratna. New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 2002. ISBN 0-425-19114-1. Notes. Index. Pp. xlv, 362. Paper. $14.00. Revised paper edition of last year's analysis of the origins, organization, and operational methods of the terrorist group by the former principal investigator of the U.N.'s Terrorism Prevention Branch.

Newport Papers: National Security Strategy after 9/11/01. CD. Newport, R.I.: Naval War College, 2002. A compact disk in PDF format containing some 30 papers commissioned by the Naval War College addressing strategic, policy, and operational issues for national security in response to the events of 9/11.

Shaping American Military Capabilities After the Cold War. By Richard A. Lacquement, Jr. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003. ISBN 0-275-97764-1. Charts. Tables. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xvii, 211. $67.95. "This study provides a description and explanation of defense-policy decision making regarding the [End Page 1357] selection of military capabilities in the post-Cold War era from 1989-2001."

The United States and Coercive Diplomacy. Edited by Robert J. Art and Patrick M. Cronin. Washington: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2003. ISBN 1-929223-44-7. Tables. Notes. Index. Pp. xvii, 442. Paper. $19.95. A collection of nine essays examines case studies of coercive diplomacy—the marriage of "diplomacy to military muscle"—since the end of the Cold War. Cases include Bosnia and Kosovo, Haiti, North Korea, and Iraq.

Before 1800

The Battle that Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire. By Peter Englund. New York: Palgrave, 2003. ISBN 1-86064-847-9. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 287. Paper. $18.95. Reissue of the 1992 work that surveyed the 1709 battle that ended Swedish dominance and secured Peter the Great's Russian Empire.

Enciclopedia del Siglo XVI: Guerra y Política en el Mediterráneo. By Rafael Vargas-Hildago. Santiago, Chile: Ediciones Chile América CESOC, 2002. ISBN 956-211-099-0. Notes. Bibliography. Pp. 579. Paper. Some 2,000 alphabetical entries cover historical personages, locations, and topics dealing with political and military events in the Mediterranean area during the 16th century.

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