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With Fire and Sword: The Battle of Bunker Hill and the Beginning of the American Revolution. By James L. Nelson. Thomas Dunne Books, 2011. $27.99. ISBN 978-0-312-57644-8.
M Essay Contest Results
.moaa.org/essaycontest. Details about the 2012 contest will be announced in a future issue of Military Offi cer.
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OAA is proud to announce the winner of the 2011 military essay contest. Members voted online on three fi nalists whose essays appeared
in the November 2011 issue of Military Offi cer. First place and the $1,000 prize went to Maj. Lewis Lambert, USAF-Ret., for his essay, “Forgotten Warriors.” Col. John D. Voss, USAF-Ret., also won a Garmin GPS in a drawing open to all who submitted an essay for the contest. For more information and contest rules, visit www
If the Brit- ish thought their maul- ing at Lex- ington and Concord by “a rabble
in arms” was a fl uke, then the Battle of Bunker Hill in Boston in June 1775 proved the new American army could fi ght and fi ght well, according to historian and author James Nelson.
As Nelson relates, Bun-
ker Hill was the fi rst de- liberate, set-piece battle of the American Revolution, noted for the crucial blun- ders committed by both sides, as well as the fi erce and bloody fi ghting that produced horrendous ca- sualties, especially among the British Redcoats. He clarifi es the actual location of the battle, then highlights the political, military, and logistical problems of command for the British and the Americans, the tactical use of infantry and artil- lery, the heroism of the soldiers, the arrogance and incompetence of the generals, and the fi nal,
desperate bayonet charge that carried the redoubt at incredible cost.
Fighting Spirit: The Mem- oirs of Major Yoshitaka Horie and the Battle of Iwo Jima. Edited by Robert D. Eldridge and Charles W. Tatum. Naval Institute Press, 2011. $26.95. ISBN 978-1- 59114-856-2.
Japanese Army Maj. Yoshitaka Horie was one of
just four fi eld-grade
offi cers to survive the hor- rifi c Battle of Iwo Jima in February 1945, and this memoir is “one of the few accounts by a Japanese survivor of the battle,” say editors Robert Eldridge and Charles Tatum.
Horie’s gripping de- scription includes the events leading up to the battle as well as his own battlefi eld experiences fi ghting in China. He was a logistics offi cer,
responsible for coordinat- ing resupply of the island amid devastating Ameri- can interdiction by air- craft and submarines. Best are Horie’s honest insight and appraisal of
American strength and Jap- anese weakness, describing dissension, denial, and the fi ght to the bitter end. — William D. Bushnell
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