Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions: Volume I: Analysis, by Silvia Ferrara (Oxford University Press, 2012)	When Hitler Took Austria: A Memoir of Heroic Faith by the Chancellor’s Son, by Kurt and Janet von Schuschnigg (Ignatius Press, 2012)	El–Ahwat: A Fortified Site from the Early Iron Age Near Nahal ‘Iron, Israel (Excavations 1993–2000), edited by Adam Zertal (Brill, 2012)	Powerful Peace: A Navy SEAL’s Lessons on Peace from a Lifetime of War, by J. Robert DuBois (Morgan James, 2012)
Film Review: Act of Valor, directed by Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh (Bandito Brothers, 2012)	Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and its Shameless Cover-up, by Katie Pavlich (Regnery, 2012)	The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia (10,000-323 BC), edited by Sharon R. Steadman and Gregory McMahon (Oxford University Press, 2011)	Bin Laden’s Legacy: Why We’re Still Losing the War on Terror, by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross (Wiley, 2011)
The Degüello, by Scott A. Zastrow (Lulu, 2011)	Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam, by William F. McCants (Princeton University Press, 2011)	Jihad Joe: Americans who Go to War in the Name of Islam, by J.M. Berger (Potomac, 2011)	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J. K. Rowling (Scholastic, 2007)

Ramesses III: The Life and Times of Egypt’s Last Hero, edited by Eric H. Cline and David O’Connor (University of Michigan Press, 2012)	The Red Circle: My Life in the Navy SEAL Sniper Corps and How I Trained America’s Deadliest Marksmen, by Brandon T. Webb (St. Martin’s Press, 2012)	The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology, edited by Alexis Catsambis, Ben Ford, and Donny L. Hamilton (Oxford University Press, 2011)	Classical Spies: American Archaeologists with the OSS in World War II Greece, by Susan Heuck Allen (University of Michigan Press, 2011)
The Encyclopedia of War, edited by Gordon Martel (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)	Ashkelon 3: The Seventh Century B.C., by Lawrence E. Stager, Daniel M. Master, and J. David Schloen (Eisenbrauns, 2011)	Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History, by Thomas Barfield (Princeton University Press, 2012)	Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan, edited by Susan Stark and Karen S. Rubinson (Princeton University Press, 2012)
The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History, by Nancy H. Demand (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)	Reflexive Fire, by Jack Murphy (CreateSpace, 2011)

About the Reviewer

Jeff Emanuel studied Classics at the University of Georgia, and is a graduate student of Anthropology and Archaeology at Harvard University.

A regular participant in nautical and terrestrial archaeological fieldwork, Jeff’s archaeological research interests include maritime trade, communication, and warfare in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean; the transition from the Late Bronze to the Iron Age in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, including the advent of the Philistines and other ‘Sea Peoples’; seafaring and naval warfare in the Classical period; and the biblical world at the time portrayed in the Hebrew Bible’s deuteronomistic history.

As a Special Operations military veteran, Jeff’s research and writing interests also include national and international security; historical, modern, and future special operations; and counterterrorism.

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