Books Received

General

Courage Rewarded: The Valour of Canadian Soldiers Under Fire 1900-2007. By T. Robert Fowler. Victoria, B.C., Canada: Trafford Publishing, 2008. ISBN 978-1-4251-7024-0. Maps. Photographs. Illustration. Tables. Glossary. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xvi, 369. Paper. $29.75. The author analyzes the pattern and character of soldiers' heroic actions and related medals for gallantry awarded in Canada's wars from South Africa through Korea; what constitutes "courage" may be constant, but what soldiers have to endure is becoming more severe.

Leadership in Space: Selected Speeches of NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, May 2005-October 2008. Washington: NASA, 2008. ISBN 978-0-16-081565-2. Photographs. Tables. Figures. Pp. xii, 329. $43.00. NASA provides 29 essays (not all of them speeches) by its Director to inform us of the organization's mission, goals, accomplishments, and plans for the future.

Model Codes for Post-Conflict Criminal Justice, Vol. II: Model Code of Criminal Procedure. Edited by Vivienne O'Connor and Colette Rausch. Washington: United States Institute of Peace, 2008. ISBN 978-1-601270-15-3. Annex. Index. Pp. lii, 554. Paper. $40.00. The U.S. Institute of Peace has spent six years coordinating the work of three hundred legal experts to produce a three-volume series (this is the second) of guidebooks for legal practicioners around the world in their efforts to reconstitute violence-shattered societies.

A Moral Military. By Sidney Axinn. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-59213-958-3. Appendixes. Notes. Index. Pp. 256. Paper. $26.95. This study first appeared in 1989 advocating not "military morality" (moral codes appropriate to military exigencies) but the need for the military to protect its honor by acting in accordance with universal moral norms regardless of circumstance; this edition has a new chapter condemning torture.

Shield of Dreams: Missile Defense and U.S.-Russian Nuclear Strategy. By Stephen J. Cimbala. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1-59114-117-4. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 216. Paper. $24.00. Missile defense, undertaken by one state to protect itself from all others, might (or might not) have been strategically viable in the "first nuclear age" of the bi-polar Cold War, but in the "second age" of nuclear proliferation and deteriorating states, it's even more complex and questionable; the author suggests the U.S. and Russia should consider a "defense dominant condominium" to deal with newly emergent threats of WMD.

Unintended Consequences: The United States at War. By Kenneth J. Hagan and Ian J. Bickerton. London: Reaktion Books, 2008. ISBN 1-86189-409-0. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 224. $24.95. That war has unintended consequences is undeniable; in this new edition of last year's book, the authors propose that these consequences outweigh and replace the intended outcomes. Using America's major wars, from the Revolution to Iraq, as case studies, the authors argue that war does not follow policy in a Clausewitzian fashion, but instead creates new realities and forces new policies which are almost always detrimental, even to the winner.

Before 1800

A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire. By M. Sükrü Hanioglu. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-691-13452-9. Maps. Photographs. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xii, 241. $29.95. The period from 1789 to 1918 witnessed the dissolution of perhaps the most comopolitan empire of its day and the creation of the contemporary Middle East and the Maghreb, with all the attendant problems that the processes of modernization and westernization entail.

The Enigma of Hastings. By Edwin Tetlow. Yardley, Pa.: Westholme, 2008. ISBN 978-1-59416-064-6. Battle plans. Illustrations. Appendixes. Bibiography. Index. Pp. viii, 225. Paper. $15.95. The historical question is how could a competent leader like Harold be so thoroughly confounded by William in the epic battle of 1066; the enigma stems from the dearth of documentation from anyone but the Normans. The author attempts to flesh out the English side of the story.

Sowing the Dragon's Teeth: Byzantine Warfare in the Tenth Century. By Eric McGeer. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press for the Dombarton Oaks...