December 2022 MBR The Military Shelf

The Military Shelf

Taking Berlin: The Bloody Race to Defeat the Third Reich
Martin Dugard
Caliber Dutton
c/o Penguin Group USA
https://www.penguin.com
9780593187425, $30.00, HC, 352pp

https://www.amazon.com/Taking-Berlin-Bloody-Defeat-Third/dp/0593187423

Synopsis: Fall, 1944. Paris has been liberated, saved from destruction, but this diversion on the road to Berlin has given the Germans time to regroup. The American and British armies press on from the west, facing the enemy time and again in the Hurtgen Forest, during the Market-Garden invasion, and at the Battle of the Bulge, all while American general George Patton and British field marshal Bernard Montgomery vie for supremacy as the Allies' top battlefield commander.

Meanwhile, the Soviets begin to squeeze Hitler's crumbling Reich from the east. Led by Generals Zhukov and Konev, the Red Army launches millions of soldiers, backed by tanks, artillery, and warplanes, against the Germans, leaving death and scorched earth in their wake, pushing the Wehrmacht back toward their fatherland. As both the Anglo-American alliance and the Soviets set their sights on claiming the capital city of Nazi Germany, Churchill seeks to ensure Britain's place in a new world divided by Roosevelt's America and Stalin's Soviet Union.

With the publication of "Taking Berlin: The Bloody Race to Defeat the Third Reich" and featuring a sweeping cast of historical figures, author and historian Martin Dugard reveals a pulse-pounding race into the final, desperate months of the Second World War and toward the fiery destruction of the Thousand-Year-Reich -- chronicling a moment in history when allies became adversaries.

Critique: Enhanced for scholars with a twelve page Index, and engendering all the compulsive fascination of a finely crafted novel for the non-specialist general reader, "Taking Berlin: The Bloody Race to Defeat the Third Reich" is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, college, and university library World War II military history collections. It should be noted for students, academia, and military history buffs that "Taking Berlin" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $14.99).

Editorial Note: Martin Dugard began writing professionally in 1988. Bored by an unfulfilling corporate marketing job, he began writing articles for endurance sports magazines such as Competitor and Runner's World in the mornings and on weekends. In 1993, inspired after covering the Raid Gauloises adventure race in Madagascar, Dugard left the corporate world to pursue a full-time writing career. Now he is the author of several books of history, among them the Killing series, "Into Africa", and "The Explorers". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Dugard_(author)

Information in War
Benjamin M. Jensen, author
Christopher Whyte, author
Scott Cuomo, author
Georgetown University Press
3240 Prospect Street, NW, Washington, DC 20007
www.press.georgetown.edu
9781647122638, $149.95, HC, 266pp

https://www.amazon.com/Information-War-Innovation-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/1647122635

Synopsis: In the coming decades, artificial intelligence (AI) could revolutionize the way humans wage war. The military organizations that best innovate and adapt to this AI revolution will likely gain significant advantages over their rivals. To this end, great powers such as the United States, China, and Russia are already investing in novel sensing, reasoning, and learning technologies that will alter how militaries plan and fight. The resulting transformation could fundamentally change the character of war.

With the publication of "Information in War: Military Innovation, Battle Networks, and the Future of Artificial Intelligence, the team of Benjamin Jensen, Christopher Whyte, and Scott Cuomo provide a deeper understanding of the AI revolution by exploring the relationship between information, organizational dynamics, and military power. The authors analyze how militaries adjust to new information communication technology historically to identify opportunities, risks, and obstacles that will almost certainly confront modern defense organizations as they pursue AI pathways to the future. Information in War builds on these historical cases to frame four alternative future scenarios exploring what the AI revolution could look like in the US military by 2040.

Critique: Informative enhanced for the reader with the inclusion of illustrations, a twenty-two page Bibliography, and an eight page Index, "Information in War: Military Innovation, Battle Networks, and the Future of Artificial Intelligence" must be considered essential reading for anyone with an interest in the subject of artificial intelligence and its impact on military science and history, military intelligence and espionage. Exceptionally well organized and presented, informed and informative, "Information in War: Military Innovation, Battle Networks, and the Future of Artificial Intelligence" is a critically important and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, and academic Contemporary Military Studies collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. It should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, governmental policy makers, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that "Information in War: Military Innovation, Battle Networks, and the Future of Artificial Intelligence" is available in a paperback edition (9781647122645, $49.95) and in a digital book format (Kindle, $37.49).

Editorial Note #1: Benjamin M. Jensen (https://www.benjaminmjensen.com) is a professor at the Marine Corps University's School of Advanced Warfighting, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and an officer in the US Army Reserves with multiple deployments.

Editorial Note #2: Christopher Whyte is an assistant professor at the Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University. (https://wilder.vcu.edu/people/faculty/christopher-whyte-.html)

Editorial Note #3: Lt. Col. Scott Cuomo (USMC) is a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, served as the Marine Corps representative on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, and is currently assigned to the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy focused on Strategy and Force Development. (https://www.usni.org/people/scott-cuomo)

Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia, second edition
Arnold R. Isaacs
McFarland & Company
PO Box 611, Jefferson NC 28640
https://mcfarlandbooks.com
9781476686356, $49.95, PB, 446pp

https://www.amazon.com/Without-Honor-Vietnam-Cambodia-Updated/dp/1476686351

Synopsis: Originally published in 1983 and now release in a newly updated second edition, "Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia" by journalist Arnold R. Isaacs provides a detailed review of the end of the Vietnam War.

Drawing on the author's eyewitness reporting and extensive research, this new edition of "Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia" relies on carefully reported facts, not partisan myths, to reconstruct the war's last years and harrowing final months. The catastrophic suffering those events brought to ordinary Vietnamese civilians and soldiers is vividly portrayed.

The largely unremembered wars in Cambodia and Laos are examined as well, while new material in an updated final chapter points out troubling parallels between the Vietnam War and America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Critique: A simply fascinating and impressively informative read, "Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia" will have a very special appeal to readers with an interest in the history of America's military and political involvement in the Vietnam War. While highly recommended for both community and academic library collections, it should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, and non-specialist general readers that this a significantly updated edition has a special relevance today given the American military and political involvement with Afghanistan and now Ukraine.

Editorial Note: Arnold R. Isaacs (https://dartcenter.org/bio/arnold-r-isaacs) is a freelance writer and educator. He reported on the closing years of the Vietnam war during six years in Asia as a correspondent for the Baltimore Sun. Following his career in daily journalism, he continued to travel widely as a teacher and international journalism trainer.

To Save An Army: The Stalingrad Airlift
Robert Forsyth
Osprey Publishing
4301 21st St, Suite 220B, Long Island City, NY 11101
www.ospreypublishing.com
9781472845412, $35.00, HC, 352pp

https://www.amazon.com/Save-Army-Stalingrad-Airlift/dp/1472845412

Synopsis: Using the diaries of Luftwaffe commanders, rare contemporary photographs and other previously unpublished sources, with the publication of "To Save An Army: The Stalingrad Airlift" military historian Robert Forsyth analyzes the human, strategic, tactical and technical elements of one of the most dramatic operations arranged by the Luftwaffe.

Stalingrad ranks as one of the most infamous, savage and emotive battles of the 20th century. It has consumed military historians since the 1950s and has inspired many books and much debate. "To Save An Army" tells the story of the operation mounted by the Luftwaffe to supply, by airlift, the trapped and exhausted German Sixth Army at Stalingrad in the winter of 1942/43. The weather conditions faced by the flying crews, mechanics, and soldiers on the ground were appalling, but against all odds, and a resurgent and active Soviet air force, the transports maintained a determined presence over the ravaged city on the Volga, even when the last airfields in the Stalingrad pocket had been lost.

Yet, even the daily figure of 300 tons of supplies, needed by Sixth Army just to subsist, proved over-ambitious for the Luftwaffe which battled against a lack of transport capacity, worsening serviceability, and increasing losses in badly needed aircraft.

Critique: Once again Robert Forsyth has contributed another deftly researched, exceptionally well written, organized and presented study that is unreserved recommended to personal, professional, community, and academic library World War II History collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. Informatively enhanced with the inclusion of illustrations, maps, a Glossary, a Table of Ranks, four Appendices, a Bibliography, twenty-seven pages of Notes, and an extensive Index, it should be noted for students, academia, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that "To Save An Army: The Stalingrad Airlift" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $14.46).

Editorial Note: Robert Forsyth (https://ospreypublishing.com/us/author/robert-forsyth) is an author, editor and publisher, specializing in military aviation and military history. He is the author of over 25 titles for Osprey Publishing, on the aircraft, units and operations of the Luftwaffe, including Luftwaffe Special Weapons 1942-45 and DUEL 97 Tempest V vs Fw 190D-9: 1944-45.

Dunkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk
Robert Kershaw
Osprey Publishing
4301 21st St, Suite 220B, Long Island City, NY 11101
www.ospreypublishing.com
9781472854377, $30.00, HC, 352pp

https://www.amazon.com/D%C3%BCnkirchen-1940-German-View-Dunkirk/dp/1472854373

Synopsis: The British evacuation from the beaches of the small French port town of Dunkirk is one of the iconic moments of World War II military history. The battle has captured the popular imagination through LIFE magazine photo spreads, the fiction of Ian McEwan and, of course, Christopher Nolan's hugely successful Hollywood blockbuster movie.

But what is the German view of this stunning Allied escape? Drawing on German interviews, diaries and unit post-action reports, with the publication of "Dunkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk", historian Robert Kershaw creates an iconoclastic history of a battle that we thought we knew.

"Dunkirchen 1940" is the first major history on what went wrong for the Germans at Dunkirk -- from the German perspective. As supreme military commander, Hitler had seemingly achieved a miracle after the swift capitulation of Holland and Belgium, but with just seven kilometres before the panzers captured Dunkirk (the only port through which the trapped British Expeditionary force might escape) they came to a shuddering stop. Hitler had lost control of his stunning advance. Only a this detailed interpretation of the German perspective (historically lacking to date) can provide answers as to why.

Drawing on his own military experience, his German language skills, and his historian's eye for detail, Robert Kershaw creates a new history of this familiar battle. With a fresh angle on this famous conflict, "Dunkirchen 1940" delves into the under-evaluated major German miscalculation both strategically and tactically that arguably cost Hitler the war.

Critique: Simply stated, no World War II European Theatre history collections can be considered comprehensive or up-to- date without the inclusion of Robert Kershaw's "Dunkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk". Featuring an impressive insert of black/white historical photographs, illustrations, maps, sixteen pages of Notes, a six page Bibliography, and a nine page Index, "Dunkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $12.60) and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, and academic library World War II Military History & Biography collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.

Editorial Note: Robert Kershaw (https://robertjkershaw.com) joined the Parachute Regiment in 1973. He served numerous regimental appointments until selected to command the 10th Battalion the Parachute Regiment (10 PARA). He attended the German Staff College spending a further two years with the Bundeswehr as an infantry, airborne and arctic warfare instructor. His active service includes several tours in Northern Ireland, the First Gulf War and Bosnia. He has exercised in many parts of the world and served in the Middle East and Africa. His final army appointment was with the Intelligence Division at HQ NATO in Brussels Belgium. On leaving the British Army in 2006 he became a full-time author of military history as well as a consultant military analyst. He has recorded for BBC radio and interviewed on numerous TV documentaries including Dutch TV and National Geographic, and published frequent magazine and newspaper articles including The Times, The Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph and Daily Telegraph.

Eastern Front Sniper: The Life of Matthaus Hetzenauer
Roland Kaltenegger, author
Introduction by Martin Pegler
Greenhill Books
c/o Pen & Sword Books
www.casematepublishers.com
https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk
9781784382162, $32.95, HC, 192pp

https://www.amazon.com/Eastern-Front-Sniper-Hetzenauer-Greenhill/dp/1784382167

Synopsis: Mathaus Hetzenauer, the son of a Tyrolean peasant family, was born in December 1924. He was drafted into the Mountain Reserve Battalian 140 at the age of 18 but discharged five month's later.

He received a new draft notice in January 1943 for a post in the Styrian Truppenubungsplatz Seetal Alps where he met some of the best German snipers and learned his art. Hetzenauer went on to fight in Romania, Eastern Hungary and in Slovakia. As recognition for his more than 300 confirmed kills he was awarded on the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on April 17, 1945.

After nearly five years of Soviet captivity Mathaus Hetzenauer returned to Austria on January 10, 1950. He lived in the Tyrol's Brixen Valley until his death on 3 October of 2004.

Critique: A fascinating and informative military biography, "Eastern Front Sniper: The Life of Matthaus Hetzenauer" by the team of military historians Roland Kaltenegger and Martin Pegler is a comprehensive biography of one of Germany's most accomplished snipers on the Eastern Front in the dark days of World War II. Ably translated into English by Geoffrey Brooks, "Eastern Front Sniper: The Life of Matthaus Hetzenauer" is a singular and riveting read from first page to last. While also available in a paperback edition (9781784387945, $22.95) and in a digital book format (Kindle, $2.99), "Eastern Front Sniper: The Life of Matthaus Hetzenauer" is unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, and academic library World War II History/Biography collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.

Editorial Note #1: Roland Kaltenegger is the author of more than ten books on World War II including The Mountain Troops Of the Waffen-SS 1941-1945 and Weapons and Equipment Of the German Mountain Troops In World War II.

Editorial Note: Martin Pegler is a well-known military historian and writer who has made a special study of historic firearms and the battles of the Great War. He was Senior Curator of Firearms at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds and is the author of many articles in military history journals and magazines and has written seven books.

Hitler's Armed SS: The Waffen-SS at War, 1939-1945
Anthony Tucker-Jones
Pen & Sword Books
c/o Casemate (US distribution)
www.casematepublishers.com
https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk
9781399006910, $34.95, HC, 240pp

https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Armed-SS-Waffen-SS-1939-1945/dp/1399006916

Synopsis: The Waffen-SS was one of the most formidable German military formations of the Second World War. It was feared for its tenacity and ruthlessness in battle, and infamous for the atrocities it committed.

As a distinct fighting force derived from the Nazi Party's SS organization, it stood apart from the other units of the German army. Its origins, structure and operational role during the war are often misunderstood and the controversy still surrounding its conduct make it difficult today to get an accurate picture of its actions and its impact on the fighting.

With the publication of "Hitler's Armed SS: The Waffen-SS at War, 1939-1945", military historian Anthony Tucker-Jones provides a concise and fluently written account that provides the reader with an absorbing and clear sighted introduction to it.

"Hitler's Armed SS" traces its development under Himmler from modest beginnings in the early 1930s as Hitler's personal protection squad of elite soldiers to a force which eventually amounted to thirty-eight divisions. Towards the end of the war many Waffen-SS units were formed from foreign volunteers and proved to be of poor quality, but its premier panzer divisions thoroughly deserved their reputation as tough fighters.

Through accounts of the Waffen-SS's major battles on the Eastern Front, in Normandy and finally in defense of Germany, a detailed picture emerges of the contribution it made to the German war effort, especially when Hitler's armies were in retreat. The parts played by the most famous Waffen-SS formations (Das Reich, Totenkopf, Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler among them) and their commanders (men like Dietrich and Hausser) can be seen in the wider context of the war and Germany's defeat.

Critique: An up-to-date history and assessment of Germany's once elite fighting force in the European theatre of World War II, "Hitler's Armed SS: The Waffen-SS at War, 1939-1945" is an extraordinarily informed and informative account that will prove to be a welcome and enduringly appreciated contribution to personal, professional, community, and academic library World War II history collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. Students, academia, military buffs, and non- specialist general readers with an interest in the subject should note that "Hitler's Armed SS: The Waffen-SS at War, 1939- 1945" is also availble for personal reading lists in a digital book format (Kindle, $12.99).

Editorial Noe: Anthony Tucker-Jones (https://www.atuckerjones.com) is a former defense intelligence officer and a widely published expert on regional conflicts, counter-terrorism and armored and aerial warfare. He is the author of over thirty books, is security and terrorism correspondent for intersec, The Journal of International Security.

Consolidated B-24 Liberator
Graham M. Simons
Pen & Sword Books
c/o Casemate (US distribution)
www.casematepublishers.com
https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk
9781848846449, $34.95, HC, 256pp

https://www.amazon.com/Consolidated-B-24-Liberator-Images-War/dp/1848846444

Synopsis: The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was almost certainly the most versatile World War II Bomber. Apart from its bombing role in all theaters of operation, the B-24 hauled fuel to France during the push towards Germany, carried troops, fought U-boats in the Atlantic and, probably most important of all, made a vital contribution towards winning the war in the Pacific. Its most famous single exploit is possibly the raid on the Ploesti oil fields in August 1943.

The B-24 ended World War Two as the most produced Allied heavy bomber in history, and the most produced American military aircraft at over 18,000 units, thanks in large measure to Henry Ford and the harnessing of American industry. It still holds the distinction as the most produced American military aircraft. The B-24 was used by several Allied air forces and navies, and by every branch of the American armed forces during the war, attaining a distinguished war record with its operations in the Western European, Pacific, Mediterranean and China-Burma-India theaters.

With the publication of "Consolidated B-24 Liberator", military aviation historian Graham M. Simons focuses on the design, engineering, development and tactical use of the many variants throughout the bomber's service life and presents the reader with all the information available on the B-24!'

Critique: "Consolidated B-24 Liberator " is enhanced for the reader with dramatic photographs coupled with the clarity of commentary that creates an engaging and entertaining history of this iconic Allied bomber -- a key component in several of their biggest victories and a marvel of military engineering. While also available for personal the reading lists of students, academia, and military aviation fans in a paperback edition (9781399019651, $26.95) and in digital book format (Kindle, $8.99), "Consolidated B-24 Liberator" is recommended as a core addition to World War II History and Military Aviation collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.

Editorial Note: English professional aviation writer, publisher and historian Graham M Simons is one of the founders of the world famous aviation museum at Duxford near Cambridge (https://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-duxford) where his interest was piqued watching the making of the 'Battle of Britain' film there in the late 1960's and from the days when you could go 'aircraft spotting' at London Heathrow and other airports.

Meat Grinder: The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942-43
Prit Buttar
Osprey Publishing
4301 21st St, Suite 220B, Long Island City, NY 11101
www.ospreypublishing.com
9781472851819, $35.00, HC, 464pp

https://www.amazon.com/Meat-Grinder-Battles-Salient-1942-43/dp/1472851811

Synopsis: The fighting between the German and Russian armies in the Rzhev Salient during World War II was so grisly, so murderous, and saw such vast losses that the troops called the campaign 'The Meat Grinder'. Though millions of men would fight and die there, the Rzhev Salient does not have the name recognition of Leningrad or Moscow. It was simply a vast tract of forests and swamps in the heart of Mother Russia that has been largely ignored by Western military historians.

With the publication of "Meat Grinder: The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942-43", Prit Buttar, a world expert on the Eastern Front during World War II, reveals the depth and depravity of the bitter fighting for the Rzhev Salient in this astonishing new history. He details how the long-ignored region held the promise of a renewed drive on the Soviet capital for the German Army -- a chance to turn the tide of war. Using both German and Russian first-hand accounts, Buttar examines the four major offensives launched by the Red Army against the salient, all of which were defeated with heavy losses, exceeding two million killed, wounded or missing, until eventually, the Germans were forced to evacuate the salient in March 1943.

Drawing on the latest research, "Meat Grinder" provides a new study of these horrific battles while also examining how the Red Army did ultimately learn from its colossal failures and how its analysis of these failures at the time helped pave the way for the eventual Soviet victory against Army Group Centre in the summer of 1944 -- leaving the road to Berlin clear.

Critique: Informative enhanced for the reader with the inclusion of Maps, Illustrations, an eight page listing of 'Dramatis Personae', sixteen pages of Notes, a six page Bibliography, and a seven page Index, "Meat Grinder: The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942-43" is a comprehensive detailed history that is a simply fascinating read from first page to last. A welcome and highly prized addition to personal, professional, community, and academic library World War II Military History collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists, it should be noted by students, academia, military history buffs, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that "Meat Grinder: The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942-43" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $14.46).

Editorial Note: Prit Buttar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prit_Buttar) is an established expert on the Eastern Front in 20th-century military history. His previous books include the acclaimed Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45 and Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II. He is also the author of The Reckoning: The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944 (Osprey, 2020). Prit originally studied medicine at Oxford and London before joining the British Army as a doctor. He latterly worked as a General Practitioner for several years. He now writes exclusively from his home in rural Scotland.

Bitter Peleliu
Joseph Wheelan
Osprey Publishing
4301 21st St, Suite 220B. Long Island City, NY 11101
www.ospreypublishing.com
9781472849502, $30.00, HC, 336pp

https://www.amazon.com/Bitter-Peleliu-Forgotten-Struggle-Battlefield/dp/1472849507

Synopsis: In late 1944, and as a precursor to the invasion of the Philippines, U.S. military analysts decided to seize the small island of Peleliu to ensure that the Japanese airfield there could not threaten the invasion forces. "Bitter Peleliu: The Forgotten Struggle on the Pacific War's Worst Battlefield" by Joseph Wheelan is important new study that explores the dramatic story of this 'forgotten' battle and the campaign's strategic failings.

"Bitter Peleliu" reveals how U.S. intelligence officers failed to detect the complex network of caves, tunnels, and pillboxes hidden inside the island's coral ridges. More importantly, they did not discern (nor could they before it happened) that the defense of Peleliu would represent a tectonic shift in Japanese strategy. No more contested enemy landings at the water's edge, no more wild banzai attacks. Now, invaders would be raked on the beaches by mortar and artillery fire. Then, as the enemy penetrated deeper into the Japanese defensive systems, he would find himself on ground carefully prepared for the purpose of killing as many American soldiers as possible.

For the battle-hardened 1st Marine Division Peleliu was a hornets' nest like no other. Yet thanks to pre-invasion over-confidence on the part of commanders, 30 of the 36 news correspondents accredited for the campaign had left prior to D-Day. Now some 78 years latter, "Bitter Peleliu" reveals the full horror of this 74-day battle, a battle that thanks to the reduced media presence has never garnered the type of attention it deserves.

Critique: Pacific War historian Joseph Wheelan deftly dissects the American intelligence and strategic failings, provides an insightful analyses the shift in Japanese tactics, and candescently recreates the Marines' horrific experiences on the worst of the Pacific battlegrounds. "Bitter Peleliu: The Forgotten Struggle on the Pacific War's Worst Battlefield" is a compelling, detailed, and comprehensive study rescuing from obscurity a forgotten but critically important battle. While also available for the personal reading lists of World War II military history buffs, "Bitter Peleliu: The Forgotten Struggle on the Pacific War's Worst Battlefield" is a very highly recommended addition to personal, community, and academic library World War II Pacific Theatre collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.

Editorial Note: Joseph Wheelan (https://www.josephwheelan.com/biography.html) is the author of ten books about 19th- and 20th-century American history including Midnight in the Pacific (2017) and Bloody Okinawa (2020). Previously, he was an editor and reporter for The Associated Press for 24 years.

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