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March 2015 Vol. 52 No. 7

The editorial team was tasked to “create the best possible product for cadets” as future Army officers, being certain that it improves their understanding of military history.  The result is superbly illustrated with four-color maps, graphs, and illustrations of the campaigns, and except for James K. Hogue’s judicious final chapter, sets the war in context but not in depth.  Most of the material in the six chapters is carefully integrated with the excellent maps, the whole being driven by a West Point past and present team that completed their tasks in a year.  Cadets, however, will not have to lug their 12-pound book to class, as it is already on their laptops.  If there is a criticism of the work, it is the overemphasis on campaigns and battles to the exclusion of logistics in its widest sense.  Engineers Colonel Herman Haupt gets one mention, Daniel Craig McCallum none.  High school through professionals.

--R. Higham, Kansas State University

Summing Up: Highly recommended. All public and academic libraries.