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New Books in Military History

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World War II
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United States
American Civil War
Russia
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American Revolutionary War
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Enriched by extraordinary first-hand accounts, Prit Buttar's Into the Reich: The Red Army’s Advance to the Oder in 1945 (Osprey Publishing, 2025) is a fascinating history of the dying days of the Third Reich as Stalin sought to consolidate his own em... more

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Historians have always known that the success of the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day in June 1944 depended on deceiving the Germans about where the invasion would take place. Jason Bell’s book, Operation Sparrow: The Incredible True Story of the... more

Thomas Gregory is Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His new book, Weaponizing Civilian Protection (Oxford UP, 2025), exposes how coalition efforts to minimize and mitigate civilia... more

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Recent Guests

Francesca Lessa
Italian researcher, international expert on Operation Condor
Observatorio Luz de Barburu (mentioned)
Episode: Francesca Lessa and Sebastián Santana, "Operation Condor: The Pact That Terrorized a Continent" (Storia, 2025)
Sebastián Santana
Uruguayan Argentine illustrator and visual artist
Pozo de Agua Productions (collaborator)
Episode: Francesca Lessa and Sebastián Santana, "Operation Condor: The Pact That Terrorized a Continent" (Storia, 2025)
Michael Neagle
Director of History and Political Science at Nichols College
Nichols College
Episode: Michael E. Neagle, "Chasing Bandits: America's Long War on Terror" (UNC Press, 2025)
Charles Lachman
Author of They Shall Not See the Dawn: The Manhunt for the Third Reich's Most Wanted
Diversion Books
Episode: Charles Lachman, "They Shall Not See the Dawn: The Manhunt for the Third Reich's Most Wanted" (Diversion Books, 2026)
Emily Matson
Author of China's Date Debate, How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II
University of Michigan Press
Episode: Emily Matson, "China’s Date Debate: How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
Valeria Vázquez Guevara
Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong; author of Truth Commissions and International Law, Jurisdiction, Representation, Authority
University of Hong Kong
Episode: Valeria Vázquez Guevara, "Truth Commissions and International Law: Jurisdiction, Representation, Authority" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Elisa Tamarkin
Author and scholar
University of Chicago Press / University of Chicago
Episode: Done in a Day with the Vietnam War: Elisa Tamarkin (JP)
Scott Forbes Crawford
Author of the book The Han-Xiongnu War, 133 BC to 89 AD. The Struggle of China and the Steppe Empire, told through its key figures.
Pen & Sword Books
Episode: Whistling Arrows and Heavenly Horses: The Han-Xiongnu War
Muy Lang Lim
Author of In the Shadow of the Khmer Rouge, A Child Survivor's Memoir
Author, subject of the memoir
Episode: Muy Lang Lim, "In the Shadow of the Khmer Rouge: A Child Survivor's Memoir" (NUS Press, 2026)

Hosts

Amy Chavez
Host of The Books on Asia Podcast; affiliation appears with Books on Asia / New Books Network
Miranda Melcher
Host of The New Books Network; appears across multiple episodes; affiliation The New Books Network
Nicholas Gordon
Host of The Asian Review of Books Podcast; in partnership with The New Books Network

Reviews

4.1 out of 5 stars from 260 ratings
  • You’re political

    This isn’t military history, this is simply, and misleadingly, a podcast to espouse liberal and progressive ideology and its anti American and anti Republican (sans objectivity) in the guise of MH.

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    Amdyfyn
    United States3 months ago
  • Trash podcast

    If you like leftist pseudo science you will love this. The one I’m listening to is equating Hitler to Lincoln.

    Zero stars.

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    The American Way!
    United States2 years ago
  • Great episode!

    On, Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State

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    another RJF
    United States2 years ago
  • Great Podcast! But sound quality …

    Unfortunately the sound quality doesn’t match the content quality.

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    Caro Willeke
    Germany2 years ago
  • A Wasted Opportunity on a Timely Topic

    This is a very complex topic, and I appreciate the author’s attempt to distill it into a 25-minute excerpt. Like the scholars cited in the research, Robinson’s work should be given a prominent place in mid- and senior-level PME.

    The interviewer did a poor job of eliciting detailed answers. In fact, she sounded by turns bored or patronizing, and was either out of her depth or so inattentive that she bungled Robinson’s full name at the end. Not nearly the best episode I’ve heard, but I will check... more

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    Vanguard06
    United States3 years ago

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Recent interactions between the hosts and their guests.

Muy Lang Lim, "In the Shadow of the Khmer Rouge: A Child Survivor's Memoir" (NUS Press, 2026)
Q: Why did you decide to write the memoir?
Muy Lang explains the project started as a personal necessity to reconcile her family's history and to connect with memories of her father and homeland, evolving into a published work through time and reflection.
Michael E. Neagle, "Chasing Bandits: America's Long War on Terror" (UNC Press, 2025)
Q: Memory and rehabilitation of bandits—will we ever see a similar rehabilitation of bin Laden?
Memory is fluid and context-dependent; while Villa and Escobar have seen rehabilitations in certain narratives, bin Laden remains a highly polarizing figure with a lasting association to mass violence, making future rehabilitation unlikely in the near term but not impossible to imagine far in the future.
Michael E. Neagle, "Chasing Bandits: America's Long War on Terror" (UNC Press, 2025)
Q: What surprised you about the decapitation strategy and its outcomes?
Even with successful eliminations of high-profile targets like Escobar and bin Laden, military power alone did not fully resolve underlying issues or permanently end violence, highlighting the limits of a decapitation-centered approach and the need for diplomacy and addressing root causes.
Michael E. Neagle, "Chasing Bandits: America's Long War on Terror" (UNC Press, 2025)
Q: Why start with the Philippines and frame the study around American imperialism?
Starting in 1898 with the Philippines provided a clean, longue-duree framing to compare how non-state actors were treated and discussed, and it helped illuminate continuities with later interventions, rather than starting with earlier, Indigenous-led campaigns or Barbary settings.
Michael E. Neagle, "Chasing Bandits: America's Long War on Terror" (UNC Press, 2025)
Q: How did you get the idea to write this book?
The idea grew from teaching an undergraduate course on the war on terror since 2014, which sparked a broader historical curiosity about episodes beyond 9/11 and led to a book that frames the 21st century conflict as part of a longer American pattern of dealing with bandits and non-state actors.

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Scholarly interviews focus on recently published military history books, with authors and subject-matter experts unpacking broader themes like memory, empire, and conflict across eras. Episodes frequently center on World War II, armed conflicts in the colonial and post-colonial world, and the intersection of historiography with memory and politics. A notable strength is rigorous, source-driven discussion that often foregrounds Indigenous voices, gender perspectives, and intelligence history, offering listeners well-researched context and nuanced debates. The show is likely to appeal to academics, students, and history enthusiasts who value deep-dive book conversations and multidisciplinary insights, with a track record of high-caliber guest... more

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