America’s Military Adversaries: From Colonial Times to the Present

What does the author of a successful biographical dictionary of American military leaders do for an encore? He produces a companion volume describing their opponents. He has aimed it at US high school students and undergraduates. A total of 223 people are covered, in articles of between 400 and 1,000 words, which naturally focus on the period in which the subject was in conflict with the USA. Each is provided with a short bibliography, and more than half with a portrait. As far as I could judge, they are quite reliable, though not without a few slips, which are perhaps...