...Alex Roland The Old Army: A Portrait of the American Army in Peacetime, 1784-1898 . By Coffman Edward M. . New York : Oxford University Press , 1986 . Pp. ix , 404 . Illus., notes, essay on sources, index. $35.00 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 8o The South...

...R. H. Woody Letters from Lee’s Army, or Memoirs of Life in and out of the Army in Virginia during the War between the States . Compiled by Blackford Susan Leigh , annotated by her husband Blackford Charles Minor , edited and abridged by Blackford Charles Minor III . New York...

... of the State of Maine. Those who read her book are sure that it has been wuth a try. ALICE M. BALDWIN Valley Forge: The Making of an Army. By Alfred Hoyt Bill. New York: Harper & Bros., 1952. Pp. xii, 259. $3.50. The purpose of this book is not so much to tell once more the story of Valley Forge...

...George M. Wolfson Copyright © 1911 by Duke University Press 1911 Butler s Relations with Grant and the Army ot the James in 1864 GEORGE M. WOLFSON Shortly after daybreak on May 5, 1864, there ascended the James River from Fortress Monroe a long line of transports guarded by ironclads...

...John Shelton Curtiss My Life in the Red Army . By Virski Fred . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1949 . Pp. 260 . $3.50. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 124 The South Atlantic Quarterly to disaster. It is a fine and dramatic narrative. Every student of naval...

...Theodore Ropp The Red Army Today . By Ely Colonel Louis B. , GSC, U.S.A. Harrisburg : Military Service Publishing Company , 1949 . Pp. 256 . $3.50. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 Book Reviews 559 years, because he considered Jackson s Indian policy extreme...

...Malcolm McDermott Copyright © 1932 by Duke University Press 1932 AN AGRICULTURAL ARMY malcolm McDermott DURING THE dark winter of 1917-1918, a gentleman given to sage remarks delivered himself in the following fashion, This war, said he, is an awful thing. From the group of enforced...

...Howard R. Marraro Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 VOLUNTEERS FROM ITALY FOR LINCOLN S ARMY* HOWARD R. MARRARO APERUSAL OF the files of the leading Italian newspapers of the Civil War period cannot but convince the reader that the Italian people sympathized with Lincoln s...

...R. H. Woody Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA* R. H. WOODY IT IS CLEAR by now that Douglas Southall Freeman was born to write a major portion of the military and biographical history of the Confederacy as it relates to Virginia. In 1908 he prepared...

...William B. Hamilton The Beginning of the U. S. Army, 1783–1812 . By Jacobs James Ripley . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1947 . Pp. xii , 419 . Illustrations. $5.00 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 158 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Coming...

...Theodore Ropp The American Soldier . Volume I: Adjustment during Army Life , and Volume II: Combat and Its Aftermath . By Stouffer Samuel A. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1949 . Pp. xii , 599 , and 675 . Volumes I and II together, $13.50. ; separately, $7.50...

...Jay Luvaas Rebel Private: Front and Rear . By Fletcher William Andrew . With a Preface by Bell Irvin Wiley. Austin : University of Texas Press , 1954 . Pp. xvii , 162 . $3.75 . Fourteen Hundred and 91 Days in the Confederate Army. A Journal Kept by W. W. Heartsill for Four...

...Roger J. Spiller Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 Calhoun s Expansible Army: The History of a Military Idea Roger J. Spiller It was the English poet John Clare who wrote that soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer. Imagine further a people who resented chimneys even...

...Theodore Ropp Peninsular Preparation: The Reform of the British Army 1795-1809 . By Glover Richard . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1963 . Pp. viii , 315 . $8.00 . Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Book Reviews 427 The documents here printed...

...R. Glover The Education of an Army: British Military Thought, 1815-1940 . By Luvaas Jay . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1964 . Pp. xi , 454 . $9.50 . Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Book Reviews 569 ally or not, rather cavalierly remarks...

...Theodore Ropp The Politics of the Prussian Army, 1640-1945 . By Craig Gordon A. . Oxford : The Clarendon Press , 1955 . Pp. xx , 536 . $11.50 . Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 Book Reviews 375 as few do, the politics of statesmanship. All who would seek better...

...Francis H. Herrick The South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. XLI JULY, 1942 Number 3 THE BRITISH AND THE GERMAN ARMIES FRANCIS H. HERRICK RMIES ARE something more than disciplined bodies of men ZY-in uniform, the visible signs of national power. They are something more than rational organizations stemming...

...Theodore Ropp John J. Pershing, General of the Armies . By Palmer Frederick . Harrisburg : The Military Service Publishing Company , 1948 . Pp. xiii , 380 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 Book Reviews 295 John J. Pershing, General of the Armies...

...A. R. H. Ranson Copyright © 1913 by Duke University Press 1913 Volume XII OCTOBER, 1913 Number 4 The South Atlantic Quarterly New Stories of Lee and Jackson* A. R. H. Ranson Late Major of Artillery, Confederate States Army I Stories of General Lee After the Gettysburg campaign the Army...

... by the tidal wave that later engulfed Libya, Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria, and on May 25, 1969, a military regime took over in Khartoum. Its ideology was Arab nationalism infused with socialism; its social base, the army and the urban classes; and its model, the Nasserist experiment. Alain Gresh The Free...