‘The Insurgents’
By FRED KAPLAN
Reviewed by THANASSIS CAMBANIS
Illustration by Josue Evilla. Photographs: Adam Ferguson for The New York Times (Petraeus); Mary Evans Picture Library (Huns); SZ Photo/The Image Works (Vietnam); Tony Karumba/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images (Afghanistan); Ed Darack/Science Faction — Getty Images (helicopter)
“The Insurgents,” by Fred Kaplan, tells the story of David H. Petraeus and the small fraternity of strategists that changed the way America conceived of, and actually fought, war.
‘Invisible Armies’
By MAX BOOT
Reviewed by MARK MAZOWER
Max Boot’s “Invisible Armies” covers much of the globe to recount the history of guerrilla warfare.
Alain de Botton: By the Book
The author of “How to Think More About Sex” was impressed as a young man by Kierkegaard’s claim to read only “writings by men who have been executed.”
Applied Reading
The Heat of Battle
By J. D. BIERSDORFER
Apps that explore the events of the Civil War and World Wars I and II.
‘Kind of Kin’
By RILLA ASKEW
Reviewed by JONATHAN EVISON
A fraught issue — illegal immigration — divides an Oklahoma family and their town in Rilla Askew’s novel.
‘The Inventor and the Tycoon’
By EDWARD BALL
Reviewed by CANDICE MILLARD
Edward Ball explains how Eadweard Muybridge’s work for a railroad magnate led to the movies.
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