Interview with USMC Staff Sergeant Jeremiah Workman, author of Shadow of the Sword, who won the Navy Cross in Fallujah, then battled PTSD after returning home and is active in the Marines’ suicide prevention program.

Author Mike Green talks in an exclusive podcast about his recent book, War Stories of the Tankers: American Armored Combat, 1918 to Today, first-person accounts from WWI to Iraq.

The Art of Command: Military Leadership from George Washington to Colin Powell, teaches readers about leadership, integrity, determination, and other characteristics personified in the lives of nine famous figures of American military history.

The Battle of the Alamo has inspired songwriters for over 150 years. It spawned 19th-century ballads, movie soundtracks and a massive pop-music radio hit of the 1950s, The Ballad of Davy Crockett. Two authors explore its musical history.

The fighting style of Union general George Henry Thomas—to crush the enemy in big battles and avoid a war of attrition—worked for him at Missionary Ridge and Nashville in the Western Theater. Would it have worked in the East and saved lives?

This review of Doug McChristian’s Fort Laramie: Military Bastion of the High Plains calls the book a meticulously researched, extensively documented, and wonderfully written account . . . destined to be acclaimed as Fort Laramie’s definitive history.

Truppenführung, the 1933 German Army command manual that guided that army’s leaders throughout World War II, has been called the most influential doctrinal manual ever written. This review praises the new English translation, The German Art of War.

This review of Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution finds the book by Gerald M. Carbone successfully illuminates the vital elements of the personal and professional life of Greene, George Washington’s indispensable general.

ARMCHAIR GENERAL’s Editor-in-Chief Jerry D. Morelock reviews Circle the Wagons!, a book aiming to set straight the historical record of skirmishes between Indians and pioneer wagon trains.

The 14th Annual William E. Colby Military Writers Symposium, March 25-27, 2009, features authors Joseph L. Galloway, R. Alan King, Donald L. Miller, Douglas MacGregor, and James Hornfischer.

When Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning decided to take his unprepared HQ into the field during Operation Market Garden did he waste precious resources that could have changed the outcome of the airborne operation?

This review of Dying for Saint Lo: Hedgerow Hell, July 1944, says the book breaks two weeks of fighting into day-by-day accounts, relying heavily on first-person accounts, unit reports and historical records.

A Christmas shopping list of recommended military history books and DVDs for your armchair general.

This review says 11 Days in December by Stanley Weintraub is not your typical retelling of the Battle of the Bulge. By focusing on the 1944 Christmas holiday as experienced by soldiers on both sides, it gives a humanistic view inside a violent event.

John Antal provides a story about American paratroopers encountering German troops during a reconnaissance, based on his novel Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway, a companion book to the game of the same name from Ubisoft/Gearbox.

This review of History Revisited: The Great Battles praises it for intelligent alternative histories – e.g., Napoleon at the Battle of New Orleans – accompanied by summaries explaining how the events could have come about historically.