Robert L. O’Connell., Random, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6702-2
Military historian O’Connell (Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression) has established the new standard for studies of the second conflict between Rome and Carthage. In dramatic and comprehensive fashion, he describes the rivalry,
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Robert L. O'Connell, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-688-16690-8
An engagingly offbeat debut novel by an iconoclastic military historian (Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons and Aggression), this is an often irreverent, even ribald, fictional biography of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, the quixotic WWI flying
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Robert L. O'Connell, Author Oxford University Press, USA $29.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-19-505359-3
O'Connell traces the relationship between man and armaments up to the present nuclear standoff, paying particular attention to the influence of weapons on military, political and social systems. By the mid-16th century, according to the author,...
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Robert L. O’Connell. Random, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6972-9
Considered by various contemporaries to be insane, ruthless, and brilliant, William Tecumseh Sherman is a hard man to pin down. Here, O’Connell (The Ghosts of Cannae) expresses his concerns about unreadable academic histories and shallow popular...
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Robert L. O'Connell, Author, John Batchelor, Illustrator Free Press $35 (400p) ISBN 978-0-684-84407-7
This history of the implements of war by a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History stands to satisfy the armchair historian and the sedentary strategist alike. Not only does O'Connell (Of Arms and Men) introduce such...
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