Tag: miliary history
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Book review: The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America’s Enemies by Jason Fagone My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is a fascinating biography of Elizebeth Smith, a woman who, along with her better known husband–William Friedman–was responsible for the creation of the field of…
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Book review: The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman by Brian Holden-Reid
The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman by Brian Holden-Reid My rating: 4 of 5 stars The author of this book has a definite viewpoint, which is that William Tecumseh Sherman got a bad rap and was not the savage butcher and scourge of the South that he has been portrayed to…
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Book review: The Battle of Midway by Craig Symonds
The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds My rating: 4 of 5 stars Unlike many other books on this battle, which tend to attribute the American victory in this pivotal battle to luck or good fortune, this author’s premise is that the outcome of the Battle of Midway was a direct result of the…