Students will learn about weapons, tactics and strategy
Students will learn about the Principles of War and how to apply them to Military History
Students will learn about military leadership
Students will learn about the changing nature of war

I have taught history in both public and private schools for the past 30 years. Military History has been my passion since I was very young. I love to share my knowledge and learn from others. 

General Military History

    Canada's Mechanized Infantry: The Evolution of a Combat Arm, 1920-2012
    Peter Kasurak. University of British Columbia Press, 2020.
    The Decline of Empires in South Asia: How Britain and Russia Lost Their Grip Over India, Persia, and Afghanistan
    Heather A. Campbell. Pen & Sword Military, 2022.
    Defense Engagement since 1900: Global Lessons in Soft Power
    Greg Kennedy, ed. University Press of Kansas, 2020.
    Front Toward Enemy: War, Veterans, and the Homefront
    Daniel R. Green. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
    Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs
    Peter Andreas. Oxford University Press, 2020.
    On Contested Shores: The Evolving Role of Amphibious Operations in the History of Warfare
    Timothy Heck and B.A. Friedman. Marine Corps University Press, 2020.
    On Distant Service: The Life of the First U.S. Foreign Service Officer to Be Assassinated
    Susan M. Stein. Potomac Books, 2020.
    Patton: Battling With History
    J. Furman Daniel III. University of Missouri Press, 2020.
    Rangers, Scouts, and Raiders: Origin, Organization, and Operations of Selected Special Operations Forces
    Michael F. Dilley. Casemate, 2023.
    Small Armies, Big Cities: Rethinking Urban Warfare
    Louis A. Tumchewics, ed. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2022.
    Twenty Years of Service: The Politics of Military Pension Policy and the Long Road to Reform
    Brandon J. Archuleta. University Press of Kansas, 2020.
    Victory Through Influence: Origins of Psychological Operations in the US Army
    Jared M. Tracy. Texas A&M University Press, 2022.

Pre-World War One

    The 10 Key Campaigns of the American Revolution
    Edward G. Lengel, ed. Regnery History, 2020.
    The Battle of Harlem Heights, 1776
    David Price. Westholme, 2022.
    Early Struggles for Vicksburg: The Mississippi Central Campaign and Chickasaw Bayou, October 25-December 31, 1862
    Timothy B. Smith. University Press of Kansas, 2022.
    From the Mountains to the Bay: The War in Virginia, January-May 1862
    Ethan S. Rafuse. University Press of Kansas, 2022.
    The Frontiersmen Who Couldn't Shoot Straight: The Army vs. the Pioneers, 1815-1845
    Gregory Michno. Caxton Press, 2020.
    Gettysburg's Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond
    Hampton Newsome. University Press of Kansas, 2022.
    Gunboats, Muskets, and Torpedoes: Costal South Carolina, 1861-1865
    Michael G. Laramie. Westholme, 2022.
    January Moon: The Northern Cheyenne Breakout from Fort Robinson, 1878-1879
    Jerome A. Greene. University of Oklahoma Press, 2020.
    John P. Slough: The Forgotten Civil War General
    Richard L. Miller. University of New Mexico Press, 2021.
    The Journal of James A Brush: The Expedition and Military Operations of General Don Francisco Xavier Mina in Mexico, 1816–1817
    Karen Racine and Graham Lloyd, eds. University of New Mexico Press, 2020.
    The Lion at Dawn: Forging British Strategy in the Age of the French Revolution, 1783-1797
    Nathaniel Jarrett. University of Oklahoma Press, 2022.
    Napoleon Absent, Coalition Ascendant: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 1
    Nicholas Murray and Christopher Pringle, eds. University Press of Kansas, 2020.
    On the Plains in '65: The 6th West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry in the West
    George H. Holliday. Ohio University Press, 2021.
    Strike Fear in the Land: Pedro De Alvarado and the Conquest of Guatemala, 1520-1541
    W.George Lovell, Christopher H. Lutz, Wendy Kramer. University of Oklahoma Press, 2020.
    Till Death Do Us Part: The Letters of Emory and Emily Upton
    Salvatore G. Cilella Jr. University of Oklahoma Press, 2020
    Time in the Wilderness: The Formative Years of John “Black Jack” Pershing in the American West
    Tim McNeese. Potomac Books, 2021.
    Twelve Days: How the Union Nearly Lost Washington in the First Days of the Civil War
    Tony Silber. Potomac Books, 2023.
    Unburied Lives: The Historical Archaeology of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas, 1869–1875
    Laurie A. Wilkie. University of New Mexico Press, 2021.
    Union General: Samuel Ryan Curtis and Victory in the West
    William L Shea. Potomac Books, 2023.
    The United States Army and the Making of America: From Confederation to Empire, 1775–1903
    Robert Wooster. University Press of Kansas, 2021.
    A Volunteer in the Regulars: The Civil War Journal and Memoir of Gilbert Thompson, US Engineer Battalion
    Mark A. Smith, ed. University of Tennessee Press, 2020.
    War and Peace on the Rio Grande Frontier, 1830-1880
    Miguel Angel Gonzalez-Quiroga. University of Oklahoma Press, 2020.
    Warfare and Logistics Along the US-Canadian Border During the War of 1812
    Christopher D. Dishman. University Press of Kansas, 2022.

1914 to 1945

    All Souls Day: The World War II Battle and the Search for a Lost U.S. Battalion
    Joseph M. Perreira and John L. Wilson. Potomac Books, 2020.
    The American Army in Germany, 1918-1923
    Dean A. Nowowiejski. University Press of Kansas, 2021.
    Awaiting MacArthur's Return: World War II Guerrilla Resistance against the Japanese in the Philippines
    James A. Villanueva. University Press of Kansas, 2023.
    Braided in Fire: Black GIs and Tuscan Villagers on the Gothic Line
    Solace Wales. Knox Press, 2020.
    Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II
    Bruce Henderson. Knopf, 2022.
    Buffalo Soldiers in Alaska: Company L, Twenty-Fourth Infantry
    Brian G. Shellum. Bison Books, 2021.
    Forging the Anglo-American Alliance: The British and American Armies, 1917-1941
    Tyler R. Bamford. University Press of Kansas, 2022.
    The Holy Warrior: Osama Bin Laden and his Jihadi Journey in the Soviet-Afghan War
    Reagan Fancher. Vernon Press, 2022.
    Island Infernos: The U.S. Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944
    Mark John C. McManus. Caliber, 2021.
    A Machine Gunner's War: From Normandy to Victory with the 1st Infantry Division in World War II
    Albert Andrews Jr. Casemate, 2022.
    Monty and the Canadian Army
    John A. English. Monty and the Canadian Army, 2021.
    Mother of the Company: SGT. Percy M. Smith's World War II Reflections
    Philip M. Smith, ed. Texas A&M University Press, 2022.
    No Sacrifice Too Great: The 1st Infantry Division in World War II
    Gregory Fontenot. University of Missouri Press, 2023.
    Physician Soldier: The South Pacific Letters of Captain Fred Gabriel from the 39th Station Hospital
    Michael P. Gabriel. Texas A&M University Press, 2020.
    “A Pitiful, Unholy Mess:” The Histories of Wheeler, Bellows, and Haleiwa Fields and the Japanese Attacks of 7 December 1941
    J. Michael Wenger, Robert J. Cressman, and John F. Di Virgilio. Naval Institute Press, 2022.
    Plotting for Peace: American Peacemakers, British Codebreakers, and Britain at War, 1914–1917
    Daniel Larsen. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
    A Private in the Texas Army: At War in Italy, France, and Germany with the 11th Engineers, 36th Division, in World War II
    John A. Pearce. State House Press, 2021.
    Red Army into the Reich
    Simon Forty, Patrick Hook & Nik Cornis. Casemate, 2021.
    Ritchie Boy Secrets: How a Force of Immigrants and Refugees Helped Win World War II
    Beverley Driver Eddy. Stackpole Books, 2021.
    The Road to Pearl Harbor: Great Power War in Asia and the Pacific
    John H. Maurer and Erik Goldstein, eds. Naval Institute Press, 2022.
    Soldiers of Siam: A First World War Chronicle
    Khwan Phusrisom. Lemongrass Books, 2020.
    Unraveling the Myth of Sgt. Alvin York: The Other Sixteen
    James P. Gregory Jr. Texas A&M University Press, 2023.
    The Weekly War: How The Saturday Evening Post Reported World War I
    Chris Dubbs and Carolyn Edy. University of North Texas Press, 2023.

1946 to the Present

    America and Vietnam, 1954-1963: The Road to War
    Michael M. Walker. McFarland & Company, 2022.
    Arming East Asia: Deterring China in the Early Cold War
    Eric Setzekorn. Naval Institute Press, 2023.
    Blackhorse Tales: Stories of the 11th Armored Cavalry Troopers at War
    Donald C. Snedeker. Casemate, 2021.
    Blind Obedience and Denial: The Nuremberg Defendants
    Andrew Sangster. Casemate, 2022.
    The Challenge to NATO: Global Security and the Atlantic Alliance
    Michael O. Slobodchikoff, G. Doug Davis, and Brandon Stewart, eds. Potomac Books, 2021.
    Connected Soldiers: Life, Leadership, and Social Connections in Modern War
    John Spencer. Potomac Books, 2022.
    Drawn Swords in a Distant Land: South Vietnam’s Shattered Dreams
    George J. Veith. Encounter Books, 2021.
    First Platoon: A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance
    Annie Jacobsen. Dutton, 2021.
    The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley
    Wesley Morgan. Random House, 2021.
    Just Another Day in Vietnam
    Keith M. Nightingale. Casemate, 2023.
    Korean Showdown: National Policy and Military Strategy in a Limited War, 1951–1952
    Bryan R. Gibby. University of Alabama Press, 2021.
    The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan
    David Kilcullen and Greg Mills. Hurst, 2022.
    Lessons Unlearned: The U.S. Army's Role in Creating the Forever Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
    Pat Proctor. University of Missouri Press, 2020.
    Long Ago and Far Away: Remembering Vietnam Fifty Years On
    Robert K. Griffith Jr. Dorrance Publishing, 2022.
    A Military History of India Since 1972: Full Spectrum Operations and the Changing Contours of Modern Conflict
    Arjun Subramaniam. University Press of Kansas, 2021.
    Moral Imperative: 1972, Combat Rescue, and the End of America’s War in Vietnam
    Darrel D. Whitcomb. University Press of Kansas, 2020.
    Quagmire: Personal Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan
    Donald Anderson, ed. Potomac Books, 2021.
    Rain in Our Hearts: Alpha Company in the Vietnam War
    James Allen Logue and Gary D. Ford. Texas Tech University Press, 2020.
    Service Above Self: Women Veterans in American Politics
    Erika Cornelius Smith. University Press of Kansas, 2022.
    SOG Kontum: Top Secret Missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia 1968-1969
    Joe Parnar and Robert Dumont. Casemate, 2022.
    A State of Secrecy: STASI Informers and the Culture of Surveillance
    Alison Lewis. Potomac Books, 2021.
    Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin: A Story of the U.S. Military’s Commitment to Leave No One Behind
    Eileen A. Bjorkman. Potomac Books, 2020.
    U.S. Go Home: The U.S. Military in France, 1945 to 1968
    M. David Egan and Jean Egan. Schiffer Military, 2022
    Vietnam Combat: Firefights and Writing History
    Robin Bartlett. Casemate, 2023.
    The Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire: War, Remembrance, and an American Tragedy
    Steven Trout. University Press of Kansas, 2020.