Reviewed by Randall D. Fortson, MA Vincent P. O’Hara opens his newest work, Six Victories: North Africa, Malta, and the Mediterranean Convoy War: November 1941 ̶ March 1942, by stating that victory has a hundred fathers. The phrase originates from the diary of Mussolini’s son-in-law, Galeazzo Ciano but O’Hara intends it as a metaphor for
Our Little Monitor: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War By Anna Gibson Holloway and Jonathan W. White, Kent State University Press, Kent, OH (2018). 304 pp., $33.86 History is filled with pivotal moments in time when the tried and true is no longer sufficient and innovation both wins the day and points
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? By Graham Allison Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, NY, (2017) Reviewed by Randall Fortson Looking Back to Find a Way Forward Thucydides concluded that the underlying reason for war between Athens and Sparta, a war that neither side wanted, was the rise
