General Grant.
GENERAL GRANT Despite his capture of three complete Confederate armies: at Donelson, at Vicksburg, and Appomattox: achievement without parallel in the war; his star hovers, clear and bright though it is, somewhere near the horizon. Even the force and precision of his own words, and often of his recollections,...

It ain't over: planning for perpetual war.
The Associated Press reports that the Pentagon has prepared a $5 billion commercial development plan for the Green Zone in Baghdad (currently under insurgent mortar and rocket fire), and says the government has signed a contract with Marriot International to build a hotel as the first in an extravagant...

The Feast of St. Joan of Arc.
Joan born on January 6, 1412, in Domremy, a little village in France. Her father Jacques d'Arc was a farmer. Her gentle and loving mother Isabel taught her many practical things like sewing and spinning. The couple were true Catholics. Receiving no education like her mother who...

Peace - a 'third generation human right'.
Ferrer traced the context of wars and explored the peace question on the basis of constitutional imperatives - the renunciation of war, the nuclear-free provisions, the relationship of the State and the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Social Justice and Human Rights and the unique provision on Love. She...

Over there.
Life Class Pat Barker Doubleday, $23.95, 311 pp. After reading part 1 of Pat Barker's Life Class, I found to my surprise and disappointment that I was seriously considering not finishing the book. I had looked forward to reading this work after greatly...

Iraq: the conquerors return.
It has been little over seven months since the British army began their slow and ignominious retreat from Iraq. In September 2007 the bagpipes played with all the expected pomp and ceremony as the union flag was lowered over the military bases of Basra to be replaced by the...

After the conquest: Michilimackinac, a borderland in transition, 1760-1763.
On the morning of June 2, 1763, opposing teams of Ojibwe and Sac warriors played a game of baggatiway or lacrosse outside the land gate of Fort Michilimackinac. The Ojibwe used the contest as a ruse to surprise British officers and soldiers who had gathered to watch the action....

Alan D. Gaff. Bayonets in the Wilderness: Anthony Wayne's Legion in the Old Northwest.
Alan D. Gaff. Bayonets in the Wilderness." Anthony Wayne's Legion in the Old Northwest. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. Pp. 419. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $39.95. Given the awesome might of the armed forces that won the Civil War and both World Wars, it is...

Mark Hoffman. "My Brave Mechanics": The First Michigan Engineers and Their Civil War.
Mark Hoffman. "My Brave Mechanics": The First Michigan Engineers and Their Civil War. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007. Pp. 470. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Tables. Cloth, $44.95. Mark Hoffman's "My Brave Mechanics" details the service of the First Michigan Engineers throughout America's most pivotal...

Jon Latimer. 1812: War with America.
Jon Latimer. 1812: War with America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 637. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Cloth, $35.00. No one has done for the almost-forgotten War of 1812 what Jon Latimer does in the refreshing, authoritative, and information-packed 1812: War with America. He has...