Jonathan Jordan review Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith by D.K.R. Crosswell.

U.S. Army Order of Battle, 1919–1941 is the impressive result of many years of effort, painstaking research, superb scholarship and intensive labor. Two of the planned four volumes have been released.

Now is the perfect time to buy some must-read books for the upcoming holidays. This article delivers a nice sample of highly recommended books for readers of military history.

The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War displays an amazing depth of research and is an engaging, informative read despite its length.

Naked in Da Nang tells the story of a Forward Air Controller or FAC in Vietnam from 1971 to 1972. Now in its third printing, the latest edition contains a new afterword.

An excerpt from the book Skullduggery – 45 True Tales of Disturbing the Dead tells about revolutionary Che Guevara and a man who wanted to extract justice from him, even if Che was dead.

The Vikings: A History. Ferguson, Robert. Penguin Books. 451 pages, including 38 pages of notes, 12 illustrations, 14 maps. Paperback. $32.95.

At first glance, Robert Ferguson’s The Vikings appears to be a novel about Vikings that once raided Europe. In …

This review examines Alan Axelrod’s Little Known Wars of Great and Lasting Impact, and finds the book highly informative both in terms of what happened in these wars and how their effects ripple through history to affect the modern world.

A book review of American Guerrilla: The Forgotten Heroics of Russell W. Volckmann, the American officer who raised a guerrilla army of over 22,000 men in the Philippines during WWII, calls it “one of the finest military biographies I have read.”

This review of The Most Dangerous Enemy: An Illustrated History of the Battle of Britain says this outstanding book, illustrated with over 150 photos, maps and more, is likely to become the definitive account of the Battle of Britain.

An excerpt, including photos, about future general George S. Patton, Jr., in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, taken from a compact new biography from The Generals series by Thomas Nelson publishers.

A review of Edward N. Luttwak’s book The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire finds the work “interesting but flawed.”

A review of the book Iron Arm; The Mechanization of Mussolini’s Army, 1920–1940, praises its in-depth look at a usually ignored topic, the development of Italian mechanized units and doctrine in the years between the World Wars.

Armchair General Advisory Board Member Barnet Schecter has a new must read book coming out titled George Washington’s America: A Biography Through His Maps.

A review of Cormac O’Brien’s book Outnumbered: Incredible Stories of History’s Most Surprising Battlefield Upsets praises the author’s analyses and the panache of his writing.

TV Alert – Two of Armchair General’s featured authors are scheduled to be interviewed on C-Span’s Booknotes program on Sunday, June 13