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Diary of a Disaster: British Aid to Greece, 1940-1941
Robin Higham

Univ Pr of Kentucky, 1986

The Military History of Tsarist Russia

Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

This is the first overview in English of the rise of the armed forces in Russia, from the Muscovite army of the fifteenth century through the Napoleon in 1812-1815. Essays also highlight the ideological conflict between Westernization and Russiafication, and the revolution that brought down the Romanovs in 1917.

Why Air Forces Fail: The Anatomy of Defeat

5 reviews

University Press of Kentucky, 2006

Excellent reading
An extremely readable and informative work, with essays ranging from the First World War to the Falklands conflict. The essays are quite reasonable in length, if anything sometimes too short, and include sections on areas which need more research and recommended reading. I ask you my fellow history lovers- is there anything more helpful to the student of history than a good annotated bibliography?

A Military History of China

3 reviews
Robin Higham David A. Graff

Westview Press, 2002

Excellent research; concise and fluid writing style
This is an excellent book on a subject that's gotten disproportionately little attention in the west. The majority of English books available on Chinese military cover only the "modern" era, that is, from the Opium War and on. Graff covers a great deal of the times before the Opium War. This books uses the format of a collection of articles, written by some leading experts in the area. One ...

100 Years of Air Power & Aviation (Centennial of Flight Series, No. 5)

2 reviews
Robin Higham

Texas A&M University Press, 2003

A Superb Overview by the Dean of Aviation Historians
This is an outstanding work that should be on the shelf of everyone interested in the history of flight. Here are my reasons for recommending the work. First, there has not been any genuine attempt to write a comprehensive overview of the history of air power since Robin Higham published his book, "Air Power: A Concise History" in 1972. This work, of course, is an expansion and updating of that ...

Flying American Combat Aircraft: The Cold War (Stackpole Military History Series)

3 reviews

Stackpole Books, 2005

Flying American Combat Aircraft: fascinating
For pilots, this is fascinating: almost a "how to" manual on flying some exciting aircraft, with capabilities, idiosyncrasies, nuances, design shortcomings, the lot. The writing style varies a lot (each chapter/aircraft has a different experienced pilot/author) but overall it's a fascinating read.

Flying American Combat Aircraft of Ww II: 1939-1945 (Stackpole Military History Series)

1 review

Stackpole Books, 2004

A very interesting volume
What a great book! Especially for we who grew up in the '40s and '50s and later became air force pilots. Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a bond drive aircraft arrived at our local airport. It was an O-47 observation plane, with a real machine gun in the rear hatch. What a thrill for a 10 year old. Of course as I grew older, I realized that the old O-47 was a pretty sorry example of America's might, ...

The Compleat Academic: An Informal Guide to the Ivory Tower
Robin Higham

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1974

A university professor's primer.

The Military History of the Soviet Union

Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

Volume two of the set provides an introduction to the history of the Soviet armed forces from 1917 to 1991.The sixteen chapters show how the Bolsheviks survived the end of the First World War, the struggles against the White Armies and the Poles, the Leninist, Trotskyite, and Stalinist reconstructions, the Red Air Force, the Five-Year Plans, and more. Robin Higham and Frederick W. Kagan highlight the many facets of the Cold War, including the ...

Researching World War I: A Handbook

Greenwood Press, 2003

World War I was the greatest cataclysm Europe had ever known, directly involving 61 million troops from 16 nations. The struggle mobilized manpower from home, troops from the colonies abroad, and--in most countries-women as well as men. Governments increasingly intervened in everyday life. New weapons and organizational structures were developed. Yet the history of the war and the reasons it started and spread so rapidly were vastly more complex ...

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