RBB Archive Weekly Peek
Posted by: Rebecca Vnuk
This is the first in a series of posts digging into Reference Books Bulletin‘s substantial review archive.
Since today is Veterans Day, I’m looking back at the extensive library of military history published by ABC-CLIO and edited by Spencer C. Tucker. Tucker, who has written or edited numerous books on military and naval history, taught for 30 years at Texas Christian University and also held the John Biggs Chair in Military History at the Virginia Military Institute. One of his his most recent ABC-CLIO publications has to do with the Korean War, which we’re remembering today because of President Obama’s visit to South Korea. The second edition of The Encyclopedia of the Korean War: A Political, Social, and Military History was published earlier this year. Similar encyclopedias in this outsanding series cover the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (2009), North American colonial conflicts (2008), the Arab-Israeli conflict (2008), the cold war (2007), World War I (2005), World War II (2005), and the Vietnam War (1998). RBB reviewers have praised all of these encyclopedias because they provide perspective on and analysis of so many aspects of the wars they chronicle (as indicated by their shared subtitle, A Political, Social, and Military History). E-book versions are available.
Tucker has overseen other publications for ABC-CLIO as well, among them U.S. Leadership in Wartime: Clashes, Controversy, and Compromise (2009). Here he is talking about it:
