What's new for the week of May 21, 2013

Here are the releases that jumped out for me for the past week.

Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword: The British Regiment on Campaign, 1808-1815 (Campaigns and Commanders Series) by Andrew Bamford looks at the combat effectiveness of the British army as it related to noncombat casualties. Not quite sure this is as controversial as the back cover blurb makes out however it may be the first book to devote a full-length study so it deserves a place on the list.

The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War by Richard Rubin as the centennial approaches I would expect to see more books like this. Sounds more like reportage than history.

Columns of Vengeance: Soldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 1863-1864 by Paul N. Beck one of those conflicts I only know from short references and other works. Linking it to the whiter civil war does make sense.

City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas by Roger Crowley title pretty much says it all.