2026
August 14, 2026: Kori Schake, The State and the Soldier: A History of Civil-Military Relations in the United States (2025)
July 31, 2026: Richmond Lattimore, The Iliad of Homer (1951) and The Odyssey of Homer (1965), Robert Fagles’ The Iliad (1990) and The Odyssey (1996) and Emily Wilson’s The Iliad (2024) and The Odyssey (2018).
July 10, 2026: J. Parshall, 1942: Crux of War (2026)
May 15, 2026: J.F. Lazenby, The First Punic War: A Military History (1996) and J.F. Lazenby, Hannibal’s War: A Military History (1998)
April 17, 2026: P. Wyman, The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World, 1490-1530 (2021).
March 6, 2026: F.M. Wheelock and R.A. Lafleur, Wheelock’s Latin, 7th edition (2011), along with R.A. LaFleur’s Scribblers, Sculptors and Scribes (2010) and Wheelock and LaFleur, Wheelock’s Latin Reader: Selections from Latin Literature (2001).
February 6, 2026: Lucian Staiano-Daniels’ The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War (2024)
January 23, 2026: O. Rees, The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient Civilization (2025)
2025
November 7, 2025: T.E. Ricks, Waging a Good War: How the Civil Rights Movement Won its Battles, 1954-1968 (2022).
October 24, 2025: J.A. Lynn, Giant of the Grand Siècle: The French Army: 1610-1715 (1997)
September 19, 2025: Rebecca F. Kennedy, C. Sydnor Roy and Max L. Goldman, Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World: An Anthology of Primary Sources in Translation (2013)
August 27, 2025: A. Lintott’s The Constitution of the Roman Republic (1999)
August 15, 2025: E. Alyagon, Inked: Tattooed Soldiers and the Song Empire’s Penal Military Complex (2023)
June 27, 2025: W. Scheidel’s What Is Ancient History? (2025)
May 30, 2025: A.S. Burns, Infantry in Battle: 1733-1783 (2025)
May 9, 2025: M. Livingston, Agincourt: Battle of the Scarred King (2023)
April 4, 2025: J. Garth’s Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth (2003)
February 14, 2025: D. Gambetta, Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate (2009)
January 10, 2025: E.A. Hemelrijk, Women and Society in the Roman World: A Sourcebook of Inscriptions from the Roman West (2021)
2024
November 22, 2024: L. Keppie, Slingers and Sling Bullets in the Roman Civil Wars of the Late Republic, 90-31 BC (2023)
November 15, 2024: K. H. Milne’s Inside the Roman Legions: The Soldier’s Experience 264 – 107 BCE (2024)
August 16, 2024: N. Rosenstein, Rome at War: Farms, Families and Death in the Middle Republic (2004)
July 12, 2024: J. Ma, Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity (2024)
June 28, 2024: A. Tooze’s The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (2006)
May 31, 2024: J. Landers, The Field and the Forge: Population, Production and Power in the Pre-Industrial West (2003)
May 10, 2024: J. Lyall, Divided Armies: Inequality & Battlefield Performance in Modern War (2020)
April 12, 2024: C.A. Barton’s Roman Honor: The Fire in the Bones (2001)
March 29, 2024: R.K.D. Colby, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South (2024)
March 22, 2024: P.A. Kent, A History of the Pyrrhic War (2020)
February 23, 2024: G. Woolf’s Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul (1998)
February 2, 2024: T. Hone, Learning War: The Evolution of Fighting Doctrine in the U.S. Navy, 1898-1945 (2018)
January 12, 2024: F. Quesada Sanz, Weapons, Warriors & Battles of Ancient Iberia (2023), trans. E. Clowes and P.S. Harding-Vera
2023
December 8, 2023: C. J. Fuhrmann’s Policing the Roman Empire: Soldiers, Administration and Public Order (2012)
November 17, 2023: J. Armstrong’s War and Society in Early Rome: From Warlords to Generals (2016)
October 27, 2023: A.M. Riggsby, Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans (2010)
September 29, 2023: W. E. Lee, The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500-1800 (2023).
September 1, 2023: P. Lorge’s, Sun Tzu in the West: The Anglo-American Art of War (2023).
August 4, 2023: J. M. McPherson’s For Cause & Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (1997).
July 14, 2023: H.I. Flower, Roman Republics (2010).
June 23, 2023: D. Hoyos’ The Carthaginians (2010).
June 9, 2023: J.D. Hornfischer, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors (2004).
March 3, 2023: T. Andrade, The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation and the Rise of the West in World History (2016).
February 10, 2023: J. Stieb’s The Regime Change Consensus: Iraq in American Politics, 1990-2003 (2021)
2022
December, 23, 2022: S. Ogilvie, The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis (2019).
October 28, 2022: M.H. Spring, With Zeal and With Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775-1783 (2008).
September 9, 2022: R.H. Spector, At War At Sea: Sailors and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century (2001)
August 5, 2022: N. Guillerat, J. Scheid, and M. Melocco, Ancient Rome: Infographics (2021)
July 22, 2022: John A. Lynn, Women, Armies and Warfare in Early Modern Europe (2008)
June 10, 2022: G. Parker, The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659: The Logistics of Spanish Victory and Defeat in the Low Countries’ Wars (1972, 2nd ed. 2004)
May 20, 2022: K. B. Neuschel, Living By the Sword: Weapons and Material Culture in France and Britain, 600-1600 (2020)
April 22, 2022: T. Sheppard, Commanding Petty Despots: The American Navy in the New Republic (2022)
April 8, 2022: B.A. Friedman, On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines (2021)
February 4, 2022: M. Gabriele and D.M. Perry, The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe (2021)
January 7, 2022: W.E. Lee, A.E. Carlson, D.L. Preston and D. Silbey, The Other Face of Battle: America’s Forgotten Wars and the Experience of Combat (2021).
2021
November 26, 2021: Clifford Rogers, Soldiers’ Lives Through History: The Middle Ages (2007)
October 15, 2021: J.L. Stokesbury, A Short History of World War I (1981)
August 27, 2021: W. Morgan, The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley (2021)
July 9, 2021: G. Baker, Spare No One: Mass Violence in Roman Warfare (2021)
June 4, 2021: Ian Haynes, Blood of the Provinces: The Roman Auxilia and the Making of Provincial Society from Augustus to the Severans (2013)
April 16, 2021: Tarak Barkawi, Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II (2017)
March 26, 2021: Paul Johstono, The Army of Ptolemaic Egypt, 323-204 BC: An Institutional and Operational History (2020)
February 26, 2021: P. Crone, Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World (1989)
January 22, 2021: Isabel Hull, Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany (2006)
January 1, 2021: Michael J. Taylor, Soldiers & Silver: Mobilizing Resources in the Age of Roman Conquest (2020)
2020
March 6, 2020: Nadia Schadlow, War and the Art of Governance: Consolidating Combat Success into Political Victory (2017)
March 13, 2020: Paul Erdkamp, The Grain Market in the Roman Empire: A Social, Political and Economic Study (2009)
April 3, 2020: Arthur M. Eckstein, Rome Enters the Greek East: From Anarchy to Hierarchy in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, 230-170 BC (2012).
April 24, 2020: Neville Morley, Metrpolis and Hinterland: The City of Rome and the Italian economy: 200 B.C. – A.D. 200 (1996)
June 26, 2020: J.E. Lendon, Soldier’s and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity (2006)
July 17, 2020: J. Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa (2012)
August 14, 2020: David Abulafia, The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean (2011)
August 28, 2020: David Sim and Isabel Ridge, Iron for the Eagles: The Iron Industry of Roman Britain (2004) and David Sim and J. Kaminski, Roman Imperial Armour: The Production of Imperial Military Armour (2012) and M.C. Bishop and J.C.N. Coulston, Roman Military Equipment from the Punic Wars to the Fall of Rome (2006)
October 30, 2020: Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully, Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway (2005)
November 27, 2020: Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization (2006)