‘Enlightening, rewarding study ... informed, thought-provoking and written in a clear, engaging style ... this study is vivid, enlightening and rewarding.’ - Michael D. Hill in Army Magazine (USA) reviewing Epic Retreats: From 1776 to the Evacuation of Saigon by Stephen Tanner. ‘This book is now available and comes out hard on the tail of Osprey’s excellent account of Tarawa. Within this photographic record of the U.S. Marines at war there are many bloody photos from that atoll. These are some of the first real war photos ever to be put into print for the American public. These and many like them for the first time brought home some of the true horrors of battle to those insulated people. The mass of the book is hundreds of black and white, exceedingly well-captioned photos detailing the battles fought by U.S. marines. A useful book on any model maker’s shelf.’ - Toy Soldier reviewing The Marines in World War II: From Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Christopher J. Anderson (G.I. Series No. 21). ‘It is a collection of the most fascinating photos ever published showing just what a group of American Civil War re-enactors and a brilliant photographer can do... Ray Carson has taken hundreds of photos of American re-enactors “at work” and 125 are reproduced in this 125-page book in evocative black and white and colour that seem as though they have just been drawn here from the 1860s. In addition, he has written a wonderful account of the world of the soldiers of the period, including telling texts from soldiers of the time. The end result is one of the best books of 2000. It should be on every re-enactor’s, modeller’s and photographer’s reference shelf. Excellent.’ - Toy Soldier reviewing The Civil War Soldier - A Photographic Journey by Ray M. Carson (Stackpole Books). ‘Counter-factual history nonetheless can be provocative and can highlight the complexity of events and the importance of individuals or leaders at crucial points. It also can be fun and can remind us of the nature of history and the unpredictability of the human experience. Such is the case with Jonathan North’s book on key battles in the Napoleonic Wars.’ - Parameters (USA) reviewing The Napoleon Options: Alternate Decisions of the Napoleonic Wars, edited by Jonathan North. ‘This will prove to be a most valuable work of reference for every student of the Napoleonic Wars in general, and an essential companion for the study of Napoleon's army.’ - Philip Haythornthwaite in Military Illustrated reviewing Napoleon’s Regiments: Battle Histories of the Regiments of the French Army 1792-1815 by Digby Smith. ‘Fighting the Invasion is essential reading for those really interested in the invasion on D-Day of Hitler’s Fortress Europe.’ - The Guards Magazine reviewing Fighting the Invasion: The German Army at D-Day, edited by David C. Isby. ‘An essential addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in learning more about the latter stages of the American Civil War.’ - Ron Field in Military Illustrated reviewing Moore’s Historical Guide to the Wilmington Campaign and the Battles for Fort Fisher by Mark Moore (Savas). ‘His account of this triumphant and tragic campaign is one of the finest to have survived and ably presents the Russian point of view of a struggle, which swung from initial despair to ultimate victory. This book is the only Russian account of the Napoleonic wars available in English and it was picked as an alternate choice for the Book-of-the-Month selection by the History Book Club. ... The project took Mr. Troubetzkoy approximately three years to bring to a successful conclusion. For his outstanding contributions to the field of Napoleonic scholarship he was awarded the Legion of Merit Medal by the International Napoleonic Society of 1996.’ - International Napoleonic Society reviewing In the Service of the Tsar Against Napoleon: The Memoirs of Denis Davidov (1806-1814) translated and edited by Gregory Troubeztkoy. ‘The text aims to describe war through the eyes of the ordinary soldier and, using eye-witness accounts, certainly succeeds in so doing.’ - Military Modelling reviewing The Civil War Soldier: A Photographic Journey by Ray Carson (Stackpole Books). Authoritative and readable ... if you missed the hard back, then you really should remedy this omission by picking up this new edition.’ - Stuart Asquith in Military Modelling reviewing Annals of a Fortress: Twenty Two Centuries of Siege Warfare, by E. Viollet-Le-Duc. Back to Greenhill Military Book News No. 107 Table of Contents Back to Greenhill Military Book News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2001 by Greenhill Books This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com