Music & the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century
By Trevor Herbert and Helen Barlow well may as well start off with something expensive and out of left field. Also a fan of classical music and I've never seen a study like this before.
Alexander P. de Seversky and the Quest for Air Power
By James K. Libbey I've read one of the subjects books on airpower and I want to learn more about his theories.
The Rocky Road to the Great War: The Evolution of Trench Warfare to 1914
by Nicholas Murray I'm a sucker for books on changes to doctrine and strategy.
The Nine Years' War and the British Army 1688-97: The Operations in the Low Countries
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John C R Childs a painful price especially for a paperback but I haven't seen a book length treatment of this campaign. Obscure always gets points from me.
Under the Blue Beret: A U.N. Peacekeeper in the Middle East
by Terry "Stoney" Burke Canadian Armed Forces memoirs post-World War II are rare enough and not a general with a political acts to grind.
Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864
by Earl J. Hess now the use of fortifications though the different conflict than above.
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.
by Richard Rubin as the centennial approaches I would expect to see more books like this. Sounds more like reportage than history.
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.
by Roger Crowley title pretty much says it all.
By Rick Atkinson This is the big headliner for the week. I have his first two volumes and enjoyed them although they are more aimed at the popular history and of the spectrum. Will definitely have to pick this up.
By Mabel Brookes a reissue and I'm not sure how it's considered in the literature but it's a topic I've wanted to learn more about.
By Owen West books on the occupation of Iraq seem to have slowed to a trickle. I wonder if this is due to burn out or perhaps a dearth of new material. The nuts and bolts of counterinsurgency on the ground is certainly something worthy of study.
by Walter R. Borneman group biographies like this can either be brilliant at showing parallels and contrast or can be a bit of a mess especially when there's individuals that there isn't much material on.
by John McLaughlin I have heard of him but the references are always short. Planning and strategy have been a big part of my reading over the years.
by Stephen Harding this story sounds like something out of a bad action movie but they always say that truth is stranger than fiction.
by Tracey Rihll hay have some siege weapons.
by Brendan Simms I am a sucker for a grand narrative. Especially if it manages to avoid generalities and doesn't make mistakes. So I'll be very interested to see how this is received. Perhaps only military history in the grand strategic sense still it gets a spot on my WishList.
by Geoffrey Parker pretty much the same goes for this book as well.
by Karen Stokes I know a decent amount about what the Confederacy did with POWs but not so much about the Union. This looks like this could help balance that. Hopefully the use of human shields and retaliation would be placed in some sort of context. That this isn't just a North evil, South courageous analysis.
by Michael B. Ballard I've read quite a bit on this campaign so I'll be interested to see what's new here. There's also supposedly a debunking of the famous "Grant goes on a bender" story.
by Laurence Rees I know what you're asking do we need another book on Hitler? I have to say I'm a bit skeptical considering the title which screams late-night documentary but this thing is blurbed by some big names so I'm willing to consider it.
by General Stanley McChrystal this is easily the sexiest new release. Mentioning it more for completeness than anything else the reviews I've seen so far aren't exactly glowing.
by Dr Huw Bennett often held up as a model counterinsurgency this takes a revisionist view. I looked quite a bit at this when doing my MA. Interested to see how his argument holds up.
by Fred Kaplan look at the rise and I suspect fall of the "COIN mafia". This goes straight to the top as far as a purchase list for me.
by William J. Cooper my interest in the American civil War comes and goes but the dysfunction of the CSA particularly it's chain of command is always worth a look. Davis of course being responsible for much of it.
by Feroz Khan I don't think there is much in English on Pakistan's program. The fact that this is written by someone from the nation with experience makes it all the more interesting.
by Mary Fulbrook perhaps tangential to military history I think this does have a place here. Both for what it says about NAZI ideology which after all started the war as well as the wasteful use of manpower Germany inflicted on itself.
by Mark A. O'Neill I tend to be a bit leery of books on the eastern front. There just are so many landmines to be avoided but on the other hand this is one of the few books to deal with aviation.
by Thomas E. Ricks I've been looking forward to this since I heard it was in the pipeline. I greatly enjoyed 
on Iraq from 03 through 05. For some reason I never did pick up the sequel.
by Steve Russell a new paperback written by the CO of the unit that captured Hussein. I'm usually not big on first person accounts like this but for this I'd make an exception.
by Charles Novacek OK an other memoir but all I know about the Czech resistance is the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
by James D. Campbell ouch well I did say infinite money. I find studies like this that go off the beaten path to be fascinating. Physical training being at the core of good soldiering I'm surprised it's not discussed more.
by Allan A. Ryan I've read quite a bit on the Nuremberg trials but not much on the ones carried out in Japan.
by Arthur Keaveney I've read a lot of ancient history in my time so it has to jump out at me for me to consider it. This book does mainly because it claims to have some material from the Persian side.