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		<title>Book Review: Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War by Ted Morgan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Giap had lost several family members to the rigors of French colonial rule, including his wife who was arrested and died in a French prison. A model of cool, methodical persistence, Giap was not goaded or tricked into a rash counterattack on Dien Bien Phu. He patiently assembled his forces, digging gun positions in the forested slopes overlooking the French defenses and amassing a huge supply of ammunition carried by thousands of porters through the jungle. Then on March 13, 1954, Giap struck at Dien Bien Phu, capturing several key strong-points and pounding the air strip so that supply planes could no longer land. The base aero-terrestre had become a death trap.]]></description>
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		<title>Small Wars by Sadie Jones</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/6193</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John R. Guthrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The conflict becomes a war in which, “…there was no truth. It was a nothing, laughable Mickey Mouse conflict; it was a sinister time of terror and repression. The British were misguided and ignorant; the Cypriots were lethargic and foolish. The Cypriots loved the British; the Cypriots hated the British. The British were torturers; the British were decent and honourable. EOKA were terrorists; EOKA were heroes.”]]></description>
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		<title>The Thirty Years War: Europe&#8217;s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/5837</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In some respects, the Thirty Years War resembles the Great War of 1914-1918. Political friction in Central Europe sparked a rush to arms that dragged in nations and peoples whose best interests lay in peace not war. With the focus of Europe’s economic activity shifting toward the Atlantic Ocean and the East Indian trade zones, the small states of Central Europe needed to integrate their economies to stay competitive. The last thing that petty states like Bohemia, Saxony, Bavaria and the Rhineland needed to do was throw away lives and treasure in futile warfare. But fight they did – for thirty years.]]></description>
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		<title>Knife Song Korea by Richard Selzer</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/4466</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John R. Guthrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On arriving at his small and isolated army base in Korea, Sloane is met by Larry Olsen, the army physician he is replacing. Olsen speaks to him as follows; “There’s no roof that doesn’t leak. The rats are fearless. Flies rule the country. Everybody steals. Orphans, refugees everywhere. They’re coming down from the north. There’s no equipment to speak of. There’s no sterilizer. And the dirt, the vermin….It’s yours now.”]]></description>
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		<title>The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel&#8217;s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship by James Scott</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/4079</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Abourezk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The book reveals for the first time the extent of the outrage and widespread disbelief of many of President Johnson’s senior advisers over Israel’s claim that the attack was an accident. Even LBJ was convinced the attack was no accident and confided his disbelief in Israel’s story to a Newsweek reporter, stating that he believed Israel attacked the ship because it was spying on the war. The book also quotes many senior State Department, Navy, NSA and CIA officials talking of their disbelief in the story.]]></description>
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		<title>Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John R. Guthrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This continued fighting retreat for allied forces persisted for the four bloody months from December 1941 to April of 1942. In an astounding oversight, General MacArthur, by then en route to Corregidor, disregarded the logistical requirements of his retreating army. He left behind, in one example, 450 million bushels of wheat in a single warehouse despite his junior offices protestations. His starving soldiers ended up eating carabou—until all carabou were gone—then snakes, lizards, crows, whatever. The allied forces, lacking resupply and experience, were pushed back repeatedly, finally making their last stand on the tip of Bataan at the town of Mariveles.]]></description>
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		<title>Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jem Bloomfeld</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole.  Alongside the loud cynicism of its insistence that the battles are meaningless, the church is corrupt and the aristocracy live in a different world, <em>Agincourt</em> continually asserts a broadly positive, modern outlook.]]></description>
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		<title>Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief   by James M. McPherson</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2058</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia captain in the Black Hawk War of 1832 but as he said in self-deprecation to his fellow Members of Congress in 1848, his combat record amounted to “charges upon the wild onions” and “a good many struggles with the musketoes.”]]></description>
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		<title>Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1656</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat – and this on both sides. Again Boone survived this melee, but it took a great deal of guile to do it. When his daughter Jemima was kidnapped by a Cherokee and Shawnee war party, for instance, he needed his backwoods know-how to track them down quickly and shoot the offenders.]]></description>
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		<title>Events Leading to America&#8217;s Involvement in Vietnam</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rufus Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the political vacuum in the South, a Communist takeover of all of Vietnam within two years, or even less, seemed unavoidable. Beyond vague ideas of somehow rallying the Vietnamese in the South and contingency plans for creating stay-behind agents to conduct guerrilla warfare against the Vietminh, the U.S. had little idea of how to prevent a complete Communist take-over.]]></description>
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		<title>Résistance by Agnès Humbert</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1459</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The early resistors soon discover that the Nazis don’t view their activities with similar lightheartedness. Oblivious to the reason why a German car might be parked outside the hospital her mother is in, Humbert walks straight into hell. A member of the Gestapo has infiltrated and betrayed their group, and she and her friends are rounded up for a show trial. It is only April 1941. What follows is an account that tests our 21st century belief in rationalism.]]></description>
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		<title>A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn by James Donovan</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1189</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had Sitting Bull and his war chiefs reacted in the customary skirmishing style of Plains Indian warfare, the outcome would have been very different. But the Sioux and Cheyennes, fighting with their backs to the wall against the encroaching tide of white civilization, opted for a pitched battle and almost from the outset, Custer’s tactical plan went terribly wrong.]]></description>
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		<title>Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/875</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North Korean society is in a permanent mobilization. Party and government declarations are stripped down to single-line catchphrases. Through their endless repetition in banners, newspaper headlines, and media reports, these compact slogans become self-explanatory, simultaneously interpreting and constructing reality.]]></description>
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		<title>Bracing For Armageddon? by William R. Clark</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John R. Guthrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asahara amassed hundreds of million dollars and sent agents to far-flung destinations to ferret out information and materials for use in bioweapons. In 1995, he sought to hasten the apocalypse and seize earthly power by spreading an unlikely sacrament, sarin gas, in the Tokyo subway system. This event killed twelve people outright and injured another thousand or more, many of them seriously. The group had carried out a previous gassing, a sort of practice run for the Tokyo event, in the outlying town of Matsumoto. Seven died.]]></description>
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		<title>A Boy&#8217;s View of a World War</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/793</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The three Libby’s men were the first American businessmen to receive Allied permits to travel to the Continent. They spent most of the summer there. My father kept a journal that was full of business data but also recorded tragic scenes, including the crowds of people walking down Dutch roads, coming back from forced labor in Germany, and the almost total desolation in Hamburg, where Allied bombing raids had killed perhaps fifty thousand people and a million others fled the city.]]></description>
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		<title>Eugene Debs and the Fight for Free Speech</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/776</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debs was the great voice of socialism in the United States for the first two decades of the 20th century, a five-time presidential candidate for a third-party crusade against capitalism. He was a homegrown rebel, born and raised in Indiana, and a powerful speaker who knew how to translate socialism into an American idiom.]]></description>
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		<title>Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/698</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 13:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young and pretty Nancy Harkness was hired to demonstrate and sell airplanes. Predicted to replace the family car, the private plane was seen as the wave of the future. If women could fly it, the perception was, anybody could. What Love thought of all of this malarkey, the cheesecake photographs and press coverage, is hard to determine.]]></description>
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		<title>Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/415</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often written in a quiet, understated style that belies the madness and violence that seep through every aspect of life in this jungle country more than forty years ago, <em>Tree of Smoke</em> subtly hammers the reader with an unceasing rage that is the true nature of war’s insanity.]]></description>
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		<title>Notes From Italy: Villains, Romance, and Views</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/315</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filettino was not always a happy place, in history or in fiction. In the time of the Caesars the people here were Aequi, an Italic tribe of rough herders whom the Romans subdued with difficulty. For many centuries, probably millennia, the Aequi practiced transhumance, leading their herds over the Serra in late autumn to spend the winter in pastures in the Liri valley far below, and returning to the uplands for summer.]]></description>
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		<title>Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/310</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Gilbertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine responded, “Yeah, right, University of Jihad, motherfucker.”]]></description>
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		<title>The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/284</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This long, well documented book by Rick Atkinson is one of the best accounts of any war to appear in the last decade or more. ]]></description>
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		<title>Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/273</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kuran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground, in the ocean or in outer space.]]></description>
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		<title>Almost a Miracle by John Ferling</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/272</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett F. Woods</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As contemplated by Ferling, few, if any, colonial Americans escaped the impact of hostilities. Wars were frequent and while many men soldiered, many of these same soldiers died. Still others, the least fortunate in some respects came home from the wars, but not in one piece, physically or mentally. Nor were those who bore arms alone in experiencing the terrors of war. Civilians who dwelled on the exposed frontier in wartime lived with the constant fear of a potential surprise attack, and virtually every citizen, in every generation, and in every colony paid war taxes, tolerated wartime scarcities, endured war-induced inflation, and struggled through postwar economic busts.]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Battle:  Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II by Andrew Nagorski</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/266</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He focuses on the assault on Moscow, the largest battle in history between two opposing armies.  In this battle seven million men took part, and of these 2.5 million were killed, taken prisoner, wounded, or went missing.  The invading Nazi army numbered about three million, which as Nagorski might usefully have mentioned was six times larger than Russia’s last previous major invader, Napoleon’s Grande Armée in 1812.]]></description>
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		<title>Notes From Italy: Looking Back at Mussolini</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/251</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mussolini was not the only dictator of his time.  In his Europe, in a time of worldwide economic depression, a whole series of governments were run by “strong men.”  Besides Mussolini in Italy and Hitler in Germany, there were authoritarian regimes if not dictatorships in the 1930s in Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, and Spain.  There were Blueshirts in Ireland, Blackshirts in Britain, and Vidkun Quisling’s followers in Norway.  At the eastern end of Europe lay the greatest dictatorship of them all, Stalin’s Soviet Union.]]></description>
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		<title>Last Night I Dreamed of Peace by Dang Thuy Tram</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/248</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John R. Guthrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether amputating a shrapnel-torn limb or performing an emergency appendectomy, Dr. Tram proved to be remarkably adept. The diary entry for 8 April, 1968 reads, “Operated on one case of appendicitis without adequate anesthesia. I had only a few meager vials of Novocain to give the soldier, but he never groaned once during the entire procedure. He just kept smiling, to encourage me.”]]></description>
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		<title>The Bloodiest Day: December 6, 1967</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2007 19:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert L. Tonsetic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Lieutenant Morris’ words, “We moved into the woods and within minutes all hell broke loose.” The jungle erupted in a tremendous roar as Chinese Claymores bellowed out thousands of steel pellets and tracer rounds from heavy machine guns seared through tree leaves and elephant grass.]]></description>
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		<title>The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/183</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Loftus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Niall Ferguson is hot—about as hot as a historian can get.]]></description>
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		<title>Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman by Walter Brian Cisco</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/180</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert C. Cheeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Biography, if it serves the reader, is best written not only with the exploits of the protagonist in mind but with a definitive and objective understanding of his culture, placed in its proper historical context.]]></description>
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		<title>The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South 1861-1865 by Robert R. Mackey</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/177</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert C. Cheeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Army Major Robert R. Mackey, currently assigned to the Pentagon, has written a much-needed study of irregular warfare during the “late unpleasantness.”]]></description>
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