INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES
A SAVAGE WAR OF PEACE, ALGERIA, 1954–1962
by Alistair Horne
Horne is a great historian of French military history and its less-than-successful record over the past 130 years. Horne’s greatest book is an examination of France’s great military victory in the Algerian War and its disastrous political defeat—a defeat that almost destroyed France. It is a tale that American strategists and military leaders should ponder as the American military embarks on wars against enemies about whom it knows little and understands less.
WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE… AND YOUNG, IA DRANG — THE BATTLE THAT CHANGED THE WAR IN VIETNAM
by Lt. Gen. Harold Moore and Joseph Galloway
Moore and Galloway have written by far and away the best piece of military history on one of the early battles of the Vietnam War. It is a story of effective and ineffective military leadership. It also should put to rest the claims of some commentators who claim that the US military lost none of the battles in the war. LANDING ZONE ALBANY was nothing other than a defeat that came close to being the twentieth century’s Battle of the Little Bighorn. This is a great book.
