Michigan War Studies Review
Reviews, surveys, original essays, and commentary in the field of military studies.
Submissions
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Books Available for Review (most recent listings starred):

Ancient, Medieval

The Battle of Kulikovo Refought: "The First National Defeat"
By Kati M.J. Parppei
Boston: Brill, 2017. Pp. xii, 258. ISBN 978-90-04-33616-2.
Brutus: The Noble Conspirator
By Kathryn Tempest
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xiii, 314. ISBN 978-0-300-24664-3.

Early Modern

The Battle of Plassey 1757: The Victory That Won an Empire
By Stuart Reid
Barnsley, UK: Frontline Books, 2017. Pp. x, 270. ISBN 978-1-4738-8526-4.
Battle Royal: The Wars of the Roses: 1440-1462
By Hugh Bicheno
New York: Pegasus, 2017. Pp. xxxi, 368. ISBN 978-1-68177-306-3.

Revolutionary War

Napoleonic Wars/War of 1812

Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815, vol. 2: From Waterloo to the Restoration of Peace in Europe
By John Hussey
Barnsley, UK: Greenhill Books, 2017. Pp. xxv, 582. ISBN 978-1-78438-200-1.

US West/Indian Wars

Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
By Daniel J. Sharfstein
New York: Norton, 2017. Pp. xvii, 613. ISBN 978-0-393-23941-6.

US Civil War

Bloody Engagements: John R. Kelso’s Civil War
By John R. Kelso
Ed. Christopher Grasso. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xxxv, 221. ISBN 978-0-300-21096-5.
A Campaign of Giants-The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater
By A. Wilson Greene
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2018. Pp. xiv, 712. ISBN 978-1-4696-3857-7.
Civil War Places: Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians
By Gary W. Gallagher and J. Matthew Gallman
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2019. Pp. 199. ISBN 978-1-4696-4953-5.
Congress and the People’s Contest: The Conduct of the Civil War
Ed. Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon
Athens: Ohio Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. vi, 249. ISBN 978-0-8214-2305-9.
Congress and the People’s Contest: The Conduct of the Civil War
Ed. Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon
Athens: Ohio Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. vi, 249. ISBN 978-0-8214-2305-9.
A Field Guide to Gettysburg, Second Edition: Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places, and People
By Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. 477. ISBN 978-1-4696-3336-7.
A Fierce Glory: Antietam--The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery
By Justin Martin
New York: Da Capo Press, 2018. Pp. xvii, 318. ISBN 978-0-306-82525-5.
Fighting for Atlanta: Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches in the Civil War
By Earl J. Hess
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2018. Pp. xvi, 391. ISBN 978-1-4696-4342-7.
The Great Partnership: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the Fate of the Confederacy
By Christian B. Keller
New York: Pegasus, 2019. Pp. xxiii, 328. ISBN 978-1-64313-134-4.
Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
By S.C. Gwynne
New York: Scribner, 2019. Pp. xii, 395. ISBN 978-1-5011-1622-3.
The Last Weeks of Abraham Lincoln: A Day-by-Day Account of His Personal, Political, and Military Challenges
By David Alan Johnson
Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2018. Pp. 384. ISBN 978-1-63388-397-0.
Meade: The Price of Command, 1863–1865
By John G. Selby
Kent, OH: Kent States Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xiv, 370. ISBN 978-1-60635-348-6.
Michigan’s War: The Civil War in Documents
By John W. Quist
Athens: Ohio Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xix, 247. ISBN 978-0-8214-2312-7.
Practical Liberators: Union Officers in the Western Theater during the Civil War
By Kristopher A. Teters
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2018. Pp. 225. ISBN 978-1-4696-3886-7.
* A Republic in the Ranks: Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Potomac
By Zachery A. Fry
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. xiii, 319. ISBN 978-1-4696-5445-4.
* A Short History of the American Civil War
By Paul Christopher Anderson
New York: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp. xxxi, 270. ISBN 978-1-78076-598-3.
The Union Assaults at Vicksburg: Grant Attacks Pemberton, May 17–22, 1863
By Timothy B. Smith
Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2020. Pp. xviii, 483. ISBN 978-0-7006-2906-0.
Utah and the American Civil War: The Written Record
Ed. Kenneth L. Alford
Norman, OK: Arthur H. Clark Co., 2017. Pp. 864. ISBN 978-0-87062-441-4.
The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies
By Peter S. Carmichael
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina, 2018. Pp. 392. ISBN 978-1-4696-4309-0.

19th-Century - Other

Shadows of War: Roger Fenton's Photographs of the Crimea, 1855
By Sophie Gordon
London: Royal Collection Trust, 2017. Pp. 255. ISBN 978-1-909741-38-6.

World War I

Britain's Quest For Oil: The First World War and the Peace Conferences
By Martin Gibson
Solihull, UK: Helion, 2017. Pp. xx, 228. ISBN 978-1-911512-07-3.
Bugs and Bullets: The True Story of an American Doctor on the Eastern Front during World War I
By Joseph Breckinridge-Bayne
Ed. Ernest Latham. Las Vegas, NV: Histria Books, 2018. Pp. 308. ISBN 978-1-59211-018-6.
Filling the Ranks: Manpower in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918
By Richard Holt
Chicago: McGill- Queen's Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xvi, 347. ISBN 978-0-7735-4877-0.
The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers
By Elizabeth Cobbs
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. 370. ISBN 978-0-674-97147-9.
Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History
By Niamh Gallagher
New York: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp. xvii, 258. ISBN 978-1-78831-462-6.
Passchendaele: The Lost Victory of World War I
By Nick Lloyd
New York: Basic Books, 2017. Pp. xviii, 410. ISBN 978-0-465-09477-6.
The Politics of the First World War: A Course in Game Theory and International Security
By Scott Wolford
New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xxxi, 436. ISBN 978-1-108-44437-8.
Postcards from the Trenches: A German Soldier’s Testimony of the Great War
By Irene Guenther
New York: Bloomsbury, 2018. Pp. xiii, 232. ISBN 978-1-350-01575-3.
Rumors of the Great War: The British Press and Anglo-German Relations during the July Crisis
By Nathan N. Orgill
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. Pp. xix, 259. ISBN 978-1-4985-5972-0.
The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I
By Lynn Dumenil
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. xiv, 340. ISBN 978-1-4696-3121-9.

World War II

* 1939: A People's History of the Coming of the Second World War
By Frederick Taylor
New York: Norton, 2019. Pp. xi, 434. ISBN 978-1-324-00679-4.
Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter
By Robert Hutton
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2018. Pp. xiv, 313. ISBN 978-1-250-22176-6.
Avenging Angels: Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps
By Lyuba Vinogradova
New York: MacLehose Press, 2017. Trans. Arch Tait. Pp. 299. ISBN 978-1-68144-285-3.
The Battle of Leyte Gulf at 75: A Retrospective
Ed. Thomas J. Cutler
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2019. Pp. vii, 338. ISBN 978-1-68247-461-7.
Bold Venture: The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942–1945
By Steven K. Bailey
Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, 2019. Pp. x, 316. ISBN 978-1-64012-104-1 .
The Collapse of British Rule in Burma: The Civilian Evacuation and Independence
By Michael D. Leigh
New York: Bloomsbury, 2018. Pp. xx, 279. ISBN 978-1-4725-8973-6.
A Crime in the Family: A World War II Secret Buried in Silence—and My Search for the Truth
By Sacha Batthyany
New York: Da Capo Press, 2017. Pp. 213. ISBN 978-0-306-82582-8.
Drawing Fire: A Pawnee, Artist, and Thunderbird in World War II
By Brummett Echohawk and Mark R. Ellenbarger
Ed. Trent Riley. Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2018. Pp. xvi, 231. ISBN 978-0-7006-2703-5.
The Exit Visa: A Family's Flight from Nazi Europe
By Sheila Rosenberg
New York: I.B. Tauris, 2019. Pp. xiv, 289. ISBN 978-1-78831-495-4.
Exporting British Policing During the Second World War: Policing Soldiers and Civilians
By Clive Emsley
New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. xii, 256. ISBN 978-1-350-02501-1.
Fallout: Conspiracy, Cover-Up, and the Deceitful Case for the Atom Bomb
By Peter Watson
New York: PublicAffairs, 2018. Pp. 423. ISBN 978-1-61039-961-6.
Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943
By John C. McManus
New York: Caliber, 2019. Pp. xvi, 624. ISBN 978-0-451-47504-6.
Flying with the Fifteenth Air Force: A B-24 Pilot's Missions from Italy during World War II
By Tom Faulkner
Denton: Univ. of North Texas Press, 2018. Pp. xxiv, 240. ISBN 978-1-57441-731-9.
From Broken Glass: My Story of Finding Hope in Hitler's Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation
By Steve Ross, Glenn Frank, and Brian Wallace
New York: Hachette, 2018. Pp. xix, 266. ISBN 978-o-316-51304-3.
From Texas to Tinian and Tokyo Bay: The Memoirs of Captain J. R. Ritter, Seabee Commander during the Pacific War, 1942-1945
By Jonathan Templin Ritter
Denton: Univ. of North Texas Press, 2019. Pp. xi, 176. ISBN 978-1-57441-771-5.
Generals in the Making: How Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Their Peers Became the Commanders Who Won World War II
By Benjamin Runkle
Guilford, CT: Stackpole, 2019. Pp. xii, 435. ISBN 978-o-8117-3850-7.
German Ground Forces of World War II: Complete Orders of Battle for Army Groups, Armies, Army Corps, and Other Commands of the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS, September 1, 1939, to May 8, 1945
By William McCroden, Thomas Nutter
El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2019. Pp. xxii, 519. ISBN 978-1-61121-109-2.
Glenn Miller Declassified
By Dennis M. Spragg
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books, 2017. Pp. xviii, 386. ISBN 978-1-61234-895-7.
Guests of the Third Reich: The British Prisoner of War Experience in Germany 1939-1945
By Anthony Richards
London: Imperial War Museums, 2019. Pp. ix, 221. ISBN 978-1-912423-06-4.
Hebrew Women Join the Forces: Jewish Women from Palestine in the British Forces during the Second World War
By Anat Granit-Hacohen
Trans. Ora Cummings. Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2017. Pp. xv, 418. ISBN 978-1-910383-31-5.
Hitler: A Global Biography
By Brendan Simms
New York: Basic Books, 2019. Pp. xxv, 668. ISBN 978-0-465-02237-3.
Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich
By Peter Fritzsche
New York: Basic Books, 2020. Pp. v, 421. ISBN 978-1-5416-9743-0.
Kazakhstan in World War II: Mobilization and Ethnicity in the Soviet Empire
By Roberto J. Carmack
Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2019. Pp. x, 263. ISBN 978-0-7006-2825-4.
The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light
By Jean Edward Smith
New York: Simon and Schester, 2019. Pp. 242. ISBN 978-1-5011-6492-7.
The Lost Soldier: The Ordeal of a World War II GI from the Home Front to the Hürtgen Forest
By Chris J. Hartley
Lanham, MD: Stackpole, 2018. Pp. vi, 343. ISBN 978-0-8117-3779-1.
Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler's Bunker
By Elena Rzhevskaya
Barnsley, UK: Greenhill, 2018. Pp. xxi, 329. ISBN 978-1-78438-281-0.
Men of Air: The Courage and Sacrifice of Bomber Command in World War II
By Kevin Wilson
New York: Pegasus, 2019. Pp. x, 435. ISBN 978-1-64313-006-4.
Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front: The Memoir of Dr Hans Rehfeldt. Vol. 1: From the Moscow Winter Offensive to Operation Zitadelle
By Hans Heinz Rehfeld
Barnsley, UK: Greenhill Books, 2019. Pp. x, 341. ISBN 978-1-78438-361-9.
OSS Operation Black Mail: One Woman’s Covert War Against the Imperial Japanese Army
By Ann Todd
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2017. Pp. xviii, 258. ISBN 978-1-68247-150-0.
The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945
By Olivier Wieviorka
Trans. Jane Marie Todd. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2019 [2017]. Pp. xxi, 488. ISBN 978-0-231-18996-5.
Rocky Boyer's War: An Unvarnished History of the Air Blitz that Won the War in the Southwest Pacific
By Allen D. Boyer
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2017. Pp. xii, 426. ISBN 978-1-68247-096-1.
The Second World War and the "Other British Isles": Memory and Heritage in the Isle of Man, Orkney and the Channel Islands
By Daniel Travers
New York: Bloomsbury, 2018. Pp. x, 235. ISBN 978-1-350-00694-2.
Secret Alliances: Special Operations And Intelligence in Norway 1940-1945
By Tony Insall
London: Biteback Publ., 2019. Pp. viii, 422. ISBN 978-1-785-90477-6.
Sent by the Iron Sky: The Legacy of an American Parachute Battalion in World War II
By Ian Gardner
New York: Osprey Publ., 2019. Pp. 260. ISBN 978-1-4728-3738-7.
So Long for Now: A Sailor's Letters from the USS Franklin
By Jerry L. Rogers
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2017. Pp. xvi, 416. ISBN 978-0-8061-5632-3.
Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts
By Daniel Siemens
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xli, 459. ISBN 978-0-300-19681-8.
Strafbattalion: Hitler’s Penal Battalions
By J. Walter Zapotoczny Jr.
Stroud, UK: Fonthill, 2017. Pp. 224. ISBN 978-1-78155-647-4.
Their Backs against the Sea: The Battle of Saipan and the Largest Banzai Attack of World War II
By Bill Sloan
Boston: Da Capo Press, 2017. Pp. 278. ISBN 978-0-306-82471-5.
* Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937-May 1942
By Richard B. Frank
New York: Norton, 2020. Pp. 751. ISBN 978-1-324-00210-9.
Under a Darkening Sky: The American Experience in Nazi Europe: 1939-1941
By Robert Lyman
New York: Pegasus, 2018. Pp. xxvi, 309. ISBN 978-1-68177-736-8.
Vanguard: The True Stories of the Reconnaissance and Intelligence Missions behind D-Day
By David Abrutat
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2019. Pp. 400. ISBN 978-1-68247-454-9.
Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands: A Legitimate Heritage?
By Gilly Carr
New York: Bloomsbury, 2019. Pp. xii, 242. ISBN 978-1-4742-4565-4.
Women and Evacuation in the Second World War: Femininity, Domesticity and Motherhood
By Maggie Andrews
New York: Bloomsbury, 2019. Pp. ix, 222. ISBN 978-1-4411-4068-5.
Women of the Third Reich: From Camp Guards to Combatants
By Tim Heath
Philadelphia: Pen and Sword, 2019. Pp. viii, 250. ISBN 978-1-5267-3945-2.

Cold War

Bay of Pigs: CIA's Cuban Disaster, April 1961
By Phil Carradice
Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword, 2018. Pp. 127. 978-1-5267-2829-6.
A Rhetorical Crime: Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War
By Anton Weiss-Wendt
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xvi, 252. ISBN 978-0-8135-9465-1.
Truman, Franco's Spain, and the Cold War
By Wayne H. Bowen
Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press, 2017. Pp. viii, 197. ISBN 978-0-8262-2117-9.
Undersea Warriors: The Untold History of the Royal Navy's Secret Service
By Iain Ballantyne
New York: Pegasus, 2019. Pp. ix, 482. ISBN 978-1-64313-213-6.

Korean War

The Hijacked War: The Story of Chinese POWs in the Korean War
By David Cheng Chang
Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. xvii, 476. ISBN 978-1-5036-0460-5.

Vietnam War

Bait: The Battle of Kham Duc
By James McLeroy and Gregory Sanders
Philadelphia: Casemate, 2019. Pp. xx, 251. ISBN 978-1-61200-812-7.
Beyond the Quagmire: New Interpretations of the Vietnam War
Ed. Geoffrey W Jensen and Matthew M. Smith
Denton: Univ. of North Texas Press, 2019. Pp. xii, 425. ISBN 978-1-57441-748-7.
Combat at Close Quarters: An Illustrated History of the U.S. Navy in the Vietnam War
Ed. Edward J. Marolda
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2018. Pp. xi, 346. ISBN 978-1-68247-195-1.
Nine Days in May: The Battles of the 4th Infantry Division on the Cambodian Border, 1967
By Warren K. Wilkins
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2017. Pp. xiv, 412. ISBN 978-0-8061-5715-3.
Our Year of War: Two Brothers, Vietnam, and a Nation Divided
By Daniel P. Bolger
New York: Da Capo Press, 2017. Pp. xii, 336. ISBN 978-0-306-90326-7.
Phantom in the Sky: A Marine's Back Seat View of the Vietnam War
By Terry L. Thorsen
Denton: Univ. of North Texas Press, 2019. Pp. x, 329. ISBN 978-1-57441-75.
The Phantom Vietnam War: An F-4 Pilot's Combat over Laos
By David R. Honodel
Denton: Univ. of North Texas Press, 2018. Pp. xvi, 306. ISBN 978-1-57441-732-6.
Uncommon Valor: The Recon Company that Earned Five Medals of Honor and Included America's Most Decorated Green Beret
By Stephen L. Moore
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2018. Pp. x, 412. ISBN 978-1-59114-574-5.
Valley of the Shadow: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
By Kevin Boylan and Luc Olivier
New York: Osprey, 2018. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-1-4728-2441-7.
* The Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire: War, Remembrance, and an American Tragedy
By Steven Trout
Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2020. Pp. xiv, 239. ISBN 978-0-7006-2934-3.

20th Century - Other

The 1st Infantry Division and the U.S. Army Transformed: Road to Victory in Desert Storm, 1970-1991
By Gregory Fontenot
Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press, 2017. Pp. xxxiii, 526. ISBN 978-0-8262-2118-6.
Across an Angry Sea: The SAS in the Falklands War
By Cedric Delves
London: Hurst, 2018. Pp. xxxviii, 341. ISBN 978-1-78738-112-4.
The Arab Winter: A Tragedy
By Noah Feldman
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. xxiv, 192. ISBN 978-0-691-19492-9.
Crossing the River Kabul: An Afghan Family Odyssey
By Kevin McLean
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books, 2017. Pp. xvi, 257. ISBN 978-1-61234-897-1.
France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic
By Herrick Chapman
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. x, 405. ISBN 978-0-674-97641-2.
The Golden Fleece: High-Risk Adventure at West Point
By Tom Carhart
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books, 2017. Pp. xi, 211. ISBN 978-1-61234-910-7.
An Incipient Mutiny: The Story of the U.S. Army Signal Corps Pilot Revolt
By Dwight R. Messimer
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books, 2020. Pp. ix, 283. ISBN 978-1-64012-212-3.
India's Wars: A Military History, 1947-1971
By Arjun Subramaniam
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2017. Pp. xi, 562. ISBN 978-1-68247-241-5.
* Insurgency, Counter-insurgency and Policing in Centre-West Mexico, 1926-1929: Fighting Cristeros
By Mark Lawrence
New York: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp. viii, 196. ISBN 978-1-350-09545-8.
Intent to Deceive: Denying the Rwandan Genocide
By Linda Melvern
New York: Verso, 2020. Pp. vi, 264. ISBN 978-1-78873-328-1.
Lions and Lambs: Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany
By Noah Benezra Strote
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xii, 357. ISBN 978-0-300-21905-0.
Lords of the Desert: The Battle Between the United States and Great Britain for Supremacy in the Modern Middle East
By James Barr
New York: Basic Books, 2018. Pp. vi, 454. ISBN 978-0-465-05063-5.
Perpetrators: The World of the Holocaust Killers
By Guenter Lewy
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. ix, 195. ISBN 978-0-19-066113-7.
The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America’s Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919
By James Carl Nelson
New York: Morrow, 2019. Pp. viii, 309. ISBN 978-0-06-285277-9.
Radovan Karadžic: Architect of the Bosnian Genocide
By Robert J. Donia
New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015. Pp. xvi, 339. ISBN 978-1-107-42308-4.
Ranger: A Soldier's Life
By Ralph Puckett and D.K.R. Crossell
Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2017. Pp. 278. ISBN 978-0-8131-6931-6.
Red Crew: Fighting the War on Drugs with Reagan’s Coast Guard
By Jim Howe
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2018. Pp. xi, 288. ISBN 978-1-68247-301-6.
The Secret War for China: Espionage, Revolution and the Rise of Mao
By Brian D'Haeseleer
New York: I.B. Tauris, 2017. Pp. xii, 399. ISBN 978-1-78453-903-0.
Soldiers of a Different Cloth: Notre Dame Chaplains in World War II
By John F. Wukovits
Notre Dame, IN: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2018. Pp. xxv, 381. ISBN 978-0-268-10393-4.
Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine
By Lynne Viola
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xviii, 268. ISBN 978-0-19-067416-8.
The Struggle for Cooperation: Liberated France and the American Military, 1944–1946
By Robert L. Fuller
Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2019. Pp. vi, 252. ISBN 978-0-8131-7662-8.
Vanguard of the Revolution: The Global Idea of the Communist Party
By A. James McAdams
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xvii, 564. ISBN 978-0-691-16894-4.
Wars of Modern Babylon: A History of the Iraqi Army from 1921 to 2003
By Pesach Malovany
Trans. Ronna Englesberg. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2017. Pp. xxi, 931. ISBN 978-0-8131-6943-9.
Weapon of Choice: Small Arms and the Culture of Military Innovation
By Matthew Ford
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. 264. ISBN 978-0-19-062386-9.
Winning the Peace: The British in Occupied Germany, 1945-1948
By Christopher Knowles
New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. x, 278. ISBN 978-1-4742-6743-4.
Women, Warfare and Representation: American Servicewomen in the Twentieth Century
By Emerald M. Archer
New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. xiv, 238. ISBN 978-1-4742-3803-8.

21st Century

21st Century Power: Strategic Superiority for the Modern Era
Ed. Brent D. Ziarnick
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2018. Pp. xii, 192. ISBN 978-1-68247-313-9.
After the Wars: International Lessons From the U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Ed. John A. Gentry and William M. Nolte
Washington: National Intelligence Press, 2018. Pp. viii, 344. ISBN 978-1-932946-12-3.
Beyond the Call: Three Women on the Front Lines in Afghanistan
By Eileen Rivers
New York: Da Capo Press, 2018. Pp. xxix, 254. ISBN 978-0-306-90307-6.
Carrier Aviation in the 21st Century: Aircraft Carriers and Their Units in Detail
Ed. Thomas Newdick
Houston, TX: Harpia, 2017. Pp. 252. ISBN 978-0-9973092-2-5.
Cashing In on Cyberpower: How Interdependent Actors Seek Economic Outcomes in a Digital World
By Mark T. Peters II
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books, 2018. Pp. xii, 268. ISBN 978-1-64012-013-6.
The Chosen Few: A Company of Paratroopers and Its Heroic Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of Afghanistan
By Gregg Zoroya
Philadelphia: Da Capo Press, 2017. Pp. xii, 370. ISBN 978-0-306-82483-8
Compulsion in Religion: Saddam Hussein, Islam, and the Roots of Insurgencies in Iraq
By Samuel Helfont
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xii, 290. ISBN 978-0-19-084331-1
The First Space War: How the Patterns of History and the Principles of STEM Will Shape Its Form
By J. Furman Daniel III and T.K. Rogers
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019. Pp. xi, 244. ISBN 978-1-4985-8774-7
How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan: Two Years in the Pashtun Homeland
By Douglas Grindle
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books, 2017. Pp. xx, 250. ISBN 978-1-61234-954-1.
In the Warlords' Shadow: Special Operations Forces, the Afghans, and Their Fight against the Taliban
By Daniel R. Green
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2017. Pp. xxi, 256. ISBN 978-1-61251-815-2.
Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars
By Jessica Trisko Darden, Alexis Henshaw, and Ora Szekely
Washington: Georgetown Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. x, 102. ISBN 978-1-62616-666-0.
Iraq and the Politics of Oil: An Insider's Perspective
By Gary Vogler
Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2017. Pp. xxv, 302. ISBN 978-0-7006-2506-2
* The ISIS Reader: Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement
By Haroro J. Ingram, et al.
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. vii, 326. ISBN 978-0-19-750143-6
Landpower in the Long War: Projecting Force After 9/11
Ed. Jason W. Warren
Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2019. Pp. xii, 363. ISBN 978-0-8131-7757-1.
Military Justice in the Modern Age
Ed. Alison Duxbury and Matthew Groves
New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xxix, 415. ISBN 978-1-107-61592-2.
Quicksilver War: Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict
By William Harris
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xxi, 230. ISBN 978-0-19-087487-2.
The Sacking of Fallujah: A People's History
ByRoss Caputi, Richard Hil, and Donna Mulhearn
Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2019. Pp. viii, 209. ISBN 978-1-62534-438-0.
Shattered Minds: How the Pentagon Fails Our Troops with Faulty Helmets
By Robert H. Bauman and Dina Rasor
Lincoln, NW: Potomac Books, 2019. Pp. xxv, 304. ISBN 978-1-64012-036-5.
Shooting Ghosts: A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War
By Thomas J. Brennan and Finbarr O'Reilly
New York: Viking, 2017. Pp. x, 340. ISBN 978-0-399-56254-9.
The Struggle for Iraq: A View from the Ground Up
By Thomas M Renahan
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books, 2017. Pp. x, 520. ISBN 978-1-61234-882-7.
Taliban Safari: One Day in the Surkhagan Valley
By Paul Darling
Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2019. Pp. xii, 168. ISBN 978-0-7006-2784-4.
Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the West
By Gilles Kepe
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2017 [French orig. 2015]. Pp. xix, 217. ISBN 978-0-691-17484-6.
Tough Sell: Fighting the Media War in Iraq
By Tom Basile
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books, 2017. Pp. xii, 303. ISBN 978-1-61234-900-8.
War Flower: My Life after Iraq
By Brooke King
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books, 2019. Pp. xv, 255. ISBN 978-1-64012-118-8.

Multiple time periods

9 Rules of Engagement: A Military Brat's Guide to Life and Success
By Harris Faulkner
New York: HarperCollins, 2018. Pp. xiv, 233. ISBN 978-0-06-269752-3.
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
By Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang
New York: Norton, 2018. Pp. xiv, 576. ISBN 978-0-393-06444-5.
Airpower Applied: U.S., NATO, and Israeli Combat Experience
By John Andreas Olsen
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2017. Pp. xviii, 413. ISBN 978-1-68247-075-6.
Anatomy of Post-Communist European Defense Institutions: The Mirage of Military Modernity
By Thomas-Durell Young
New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. xv, 296. ISBN 978-1-350-01239-4.
Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness
By Kenneth M. Pollack
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xvi, 676. ISBN 978-0-19-090696-2.
Before Intelligence Failed: British Secret Intelligence on Chemical and Biological Weapons in the Soviet Union, South Africa and Libya
By Mark Wilkinson
London: Hurst, 2018. Pp. v, 229. ISBN 978-1-84904-300-7.
The Big Red One: America's Legendary 1st Infantry Division Centennial Edition, 1917-2017
By James Scott Wheeler
Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2017. Pp. xx, 682. ISBN 978-0-7006-2452-2.
Brotherhood in Combat: How African Americans Found Equality in Korea and Vietnam
By Jeremy P. Maxwell
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2018. Pp. xv, 207. ISBN 978-0-8061-6006-1.
The Civilianization of War: The Changing Civil-Military Divide, 1914-2014
Ed. Andrew Barros and Martin Thomas
New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. x, 334. ISBN 978-1-108-42965-8.
Curse on This Country: The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan
By Danny Orbach
Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. x, 367. ISBN 978-1-5017-0528-1.
The Day After: Why America Wins the War but Loses the Peace
By Brendan R. Gallagher
Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xi, 308. ISBN 978-1-5017-3962-0.
Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War
By Jason Lyall
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. xvii, 508. ISBN 978-0-691-19244-4.
* The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West
By David Kilcullen
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. 325. ISBN 978-0-19-256568-7.
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
By Walter Scheidel
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xviii, 670. ISBN 978-0-691-17218-7.
The Europe Illusion: Britain, France, Germany and the Long History of European Integration
By Stuart Sweeney
London: Reaktion Books, 2019. Pp. 384. ISBN 978-1-78914-060-6.
Feeding Victory: Innovative Military Logistics from Lake George to Khe Sanh
By Jobie Turner
Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2020. Pp. viii, 389. ISBN 978-0-7006-2914-5.
Fighting Sleep: The War for the Mind and the US Military
By Franny Nudelman
New York: Verso, 2019. Pp. 150. ISBN 978-1-78663-781-9.
* A Global History of Relocation in Counterinsurgency Warfare
By Edward J. Erickson
New York: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp. xii, 286. ISBN 978-1-350-06259-7.
Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea
By Jan Rüger
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. ix, 370. ISBN 978-0-19-967246-2.
How the Few Became the Proud: Crafting the Marine Corps Mystique 1874-1918
By Heather P. Venable
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2019. Pp. x, 334. ISBN 978-1-68247-468-6.
How Long Will Israel Survive? The Threat From Within
By Gregg Carlstrom
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xviii, 260. ISBN 978-0-19-084344-1.
In the Shadows of Victory II: America's Forgotten Military Leaders, The Spanish-American War to World War II
By Thomas D. Phillips
Philadelphia: Cademate, 2017. Pp. vi, 282. ISBN 978-1-61200-546-1.
Invisible Injured: Psychological Trauma in the Canadian Military from the First World War to Afghanistan
By Adam Montgomery
Chicago: McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xiv, 331. ISBN 978-0-7735-4995-1.
Israel's Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation Under Fire
By Raphael D. Marcus
Washington: Georgetown Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. viii, 330. ISBN 978-1-62616-611-0.
Israel’s Military Doctrine
By Ehud Eilam
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. Pp. xiii, 158. ISBN 978-1-4985-7563-8.
It's My Country Too: Women's Military Stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan
Ed. Jerri Bell and Tracy Crow
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books, 2017. Pp. xxi, 330. ISBN 978-1-61234-831-5.
Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs
By Peter Andreas
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. ix, 338. ISBN 978-0-19-046301-4.
L.M. Montgomery and War
Ed. Andrea McKenzie and Jane Ledwell
Chicago: McGill- Queen's Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. x, 269. ISBN 978-0-7735-4981-4.
Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History
By Andrew Roberts
New York: Viking, 2019. Pp. xiv, 239. ISBN 978-0-525-52238-6.
Lessons in Leadership: My Life in the US Army from World War II to Vietnam
By John R. Deane Jr.
Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2018. Pp. xiv, 261. ISBN 978-0-8131-7494-5.
The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order
By Hal Brands and Charles Edel
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. x, 200. ISBN 978-0-300-23824-2.
Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East
By Fawaz A. A. Gerges
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xx, 483. ISBN 978-0-691-16788-6.
Medal of Honor: The Evolution of America's Highest Military Decoration
By Dwight S. Mears
Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2018. Pp. viii, 312. ISBN 978-0-7006-2665-6.
* Military Strategy: A Global History
By Jeremy Black
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. xvii, 306. ISBN 978-0-300-21718-6.
Minding the Helm: An Unlikely Career in the U.S. Coast Guard
By Kevin P. Gilheany
Denton: Univ. of North Texas Press, 2019. Pp. viii, 269. ISBN 978-1-57441-750-0.
Neglected Skies: The Demise of British Naval Power in the Far East, 1922–42
By Angus Britts
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2017. Pp. xi, 242. ISBN 978-0-68247-157-9.
New Armies from Old: Merging Competing Military Forces after Civil Wars
Ed. Roy Licklider
Washington: Georgetown Univ. Press, 2014. Pp. xiv, 320. ISBN 978-1-62616-043-9.
Night Letters: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the Afghan Islamists Who Changed the World
By Chris Sands and Fazelminallah Qazizai
London: Hurst, 2019. Pp. xvi, 507. ISBN 978-1-78738-196-4.
Omar Nelson Bradley: America's GI General
By Steven L. Ossad
Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press, 2017. Pp. xxx, 460. ISBN 978-0-8262-2136-0.
On Tactics: A Theory of Victory in Battle
By B.A. Friedman
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2017. Pp. xi, 242. ISBN 978-1-68247-163-0.
Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America’s Special Operations Forces
By Mark Moyar
New York: Basic Books, 2017. Pp. xx, 402. ISBN 978-0-465-05393-3.
Patton's Way: A Radical Theory of War
By James Kelly Morningstar
Annapolis: Naval Inst. Press, 2017. Pp. xii, 374. ISBN 978-1-61251-979-1.
Policing Sex and Marriage in the American Military: The Court-Martial and the Construction of Gender and Sexual Deviance, 1950–2000
By Kellie Wilson-Buford
Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska, 2018. Pp. xviii, 316. ISBN 978-0-8032-9685-5.
* Post Wall, Post Square: How Bush, Gorbachev, Kohl, and Deng Shaped the World after 1989
ByKristina Spohr
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. xiv, 768. ISBN 978-0-300-23382-7.
* Scripts of Terror: The Stories Terrorists Tell Themselves
By Benedict Wilkinson
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. xv, 236. ISBN 978-0-19-752189-2.
* Sisters in Arms: Female warriors from antiquity to the new millennium
By Julie Wheelwright
New York: Osprey, 2020. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-4728-3800-1.
The Sniper Encyclopaedia: An A–Z Guide to World Sniping
By John Walter Hill
Havertown, PA: Casemate, 2019. Pp. xiv, 306. ISBN 978-1-61200-721-2.
Spies, Lies, and Citizenship: The Hunt for Nazi Criminals
By Mary Kathryn Barbier
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books, 2017. Pp. xiv, 328. ISBN 978-1-61234-727-1.
Sunnis and Shi'a: A Political History
By Laurence Louër
Trans. Ethan Rundell. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. 227. ISBN 978-0-691-18661-0.
The Top 100 Military Sites in America
By L. Douglas Keeney
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018. Pp. xv, 267. ISBN 978-1-4930-3228-0.
Traumatic Defeat: POWs, MIAs, and National Mythmaking
By Patrick Gallagher
Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2018. Pp. viii, 200. ISBN 978-0-7006-2644-1.
Waging Insurgent Warfare: Lessons from the Vietcong to the Islamic State
By Seth G. Jones
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. ix, 336. ISBN 978-0-19-060086-0.
War and Religion: Europe and the Mediterranean from the First through the Twenty-first Centuries
By Arnaud Blin
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2019. Pp. xvi, 335. ISBN 978-0-520-28663-4.
War by Numbers: Understanding Conventional Combat
By Christopher A. Lawrence
Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books, 2017. Pp. x, 374. ISBN 978-1-61234-886-5.
War Stories: From the Charge of the Light Brigade to the Battle of the Bulge and Beyond
By Ann MacMillan and Peter Snow
New York: Pegasus Books, 2018. Pp. 344. ISBN 978-1-68177-852-5.
Winston Churchill in British Art, 1900 to The Present Day: The Titan With Many Faces
By Jonathan Black
New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. xxiii, 287. ISBN 978-1-4725-9239-2.
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