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Author:

William Hogeland

Reviewer:

Michael H. Taint

Taint on Hogeland, 'Autumn of the Black Snake: The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion that Opened the West'

William Hogeland. Autumn of the Black Snake: The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion that Opened the West. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017. 464 pp. $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-374-90177-6.

Reviewed by Michael H. Taint (Independent Scholar and United States Air Force (ret)) Published on H-FedHist (June, 2019) Commissioned by Caryn E. Neumann (Miami University of Ohio Regionals)

Author:

Nina Silber

Reviewer:

Andrew Baker

Baker on Silber, 'This War Ain't Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America'

Nina Silber. This War Ain't Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 248 pp. $32.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-4654-1.

Reviewed by Andrew Baker (Auburn University) Published on H-CivWar (June, 2019) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)

Author:

Lillian Guerra

Reviewer:

Ilan Ehrlich

Ehrlich on Guerra, 'Heroes, Martyrs, and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba, 1946-1958'

Lillian Guerra. Heroes, Martyrs, and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba, 1946-1958. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. 370 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-17553-0.

Reviewed by Ilan Ehrlich (Bergen Community College) Published on H-LatAm (June, 2019) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)

Author:

Simon Levis Sullam

Reviewer:

Shira Klein

Klein on Levis Sullam, 'The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy'

Simon Levis Sullam. The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. 208 pp. $26.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-17905-6.

Reviewed by Shira Klein (Chapman University) Published on H-Judaic (June, 2019) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Author:

Józef Czapski

Reviewer:

Filip Mazurczak

Mazurczak on Czapski, 'Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp' and Czapski, 'Inhuman Land: Searching for the Truth in Soviet Russia, 1941-1942'

Józef Czapski. Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp. Translated by Eric Karpeles. NYRB Classics Series. New York: New York Review Books, 2018. Illustrations. 128 pp. $15.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-68137-258-7.Józef Czapski. Inhuman Land: Searching for the Truth in Soviet Russia, 1941-1942.

Author:

Megan Black

Reviewer:

Mary Ann Heiss

Heiss on Black, 'The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power'

Megan Black. The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. 360 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-98425-7.

Reviewed by Mary Ann Heiss (Kent State University) Published on H-Diplo (June, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Begüm Adalet

Reviewer:

Husik Ghulyan

Ghulyan on Adalet, 'Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey'

Begüm Adalet. Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. 304 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0429-2; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-0554-1.

Reviewed by Husik Ghulyan (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Socialisms (June, 2019) Commissioned by Gary Roth (Rutgers University - Newark)

Author:

Patricia O'Toole

Reviewer:

Ross Kennedy

Kennedy on O'Toole, 'The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made'

Patricia O'Toole. The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018. Illustrations. xviii + 636 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7432-9809-4; $20.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7432-9810-0.

Reviewed by Ross Kennedy (Illinois State University) Published on H-Diplo (June, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Sheldon Aaron Goldberg

Reviewer:

Dr. Thorsten Loch

Loch on Goldberg, 'From Disarmament to Rearmament: The Reversal of US Policy toward West Germany, 1946–1955'

Sheldon Aaron Goldberg. From Disarmament to Rearmament: The Reversal of US Policy toward West Germany, 1946–1955. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2017. 352 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8214-2300-4.

Reviewed by Dr. Thorsten Loch (Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr) Published on H-German (June, 2019) Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal

Author:

Ion Popa

Reviewer:

Gaëlle Fisher

Fisher on Popa, 'The Romanian Orthodox Church and the Holocaust'

Ion Popa. The Romanian Orthodox Church and the Holocaust. Studies in Antisemitism Series. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. Illustrations. 256 pp. $49.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-253-02989-8; $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-02956-0.

Reviewed by Gaëlle Fisher (Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin) Published on H-Nationalism (May, 2019) Commissioned by Cristian Cercel (Ruhr University Bochum)

Author:

Edyta Materka

Reviewer:

Peter Polak-Springer

Polak-Springer on Materka, 'Dystopia's Provocateurs: Peasants, State, and Informality in the Polish-German Borderlands'

Edyta Materka. Dystopia's Provocateurs: Peasants, State, and Informality in the Polish-German Borderlands. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. Illustrations, map. 257 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-02887-7; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-02896-9.

Reviewed by Peter Polak-Springer (Qatar University) Published on H-Poland (May, 2019) Commissioned by Anna Muller (University of Michigan - Dearborn)

Author:

Julia Anne Stephens

Reviewer:

David Gilmartin

Gilmartin on Stephens, 'Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in South Asia'

Julia Anne Stephens. Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in South Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xiii + 220 pp. $28.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-62628-3.

Reviewed by David Gilmartin (North Carolina State University) Published on H-Asia (May, 2019) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)

Author:

John Andreas Olsen, ed.

Reviewer:

Michael Weaver

Weaver on Olsen, 'Airpower Applied: U.S., NATO, and Israeli Combat Experience'

John Andreas Olsen, ed. Airpower Applied: U.S., NATO, and Israeli Combat Experience. History of Military Aviation Series. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2017. xviii + 413 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-68247-075-6.

Reviewed by Michael Weaver (Air University, Air Command and Staff College) Published on H-War (May, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author:

Larry M. Logue, Peter Blanck

Reviewer:

James Marten

Marten on Logue and Blanck, 'Heavy Laden: Union Veterans, Psychological Illness, and Suicide'

Larry M. Logue, Peter Blanck. Heavy Laden: Union Veterans, Psychological Illness, and Suicide. Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 278 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-13349-5.

Reviewed by James Marten (Marquette University) Published on H-Disability (May, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Author:

Ian Barnes

Reviewer:

Catherine Gibson

Gibson on Barnes, 'Restless Empire: A Historical Atlas of Russia'

Ian Barnes. Restless Empire: A Historical Atlas of Russia. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2015. xvii + 222 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-50467-7.

Reviewed by Catherine Gibson (European University Institute) Published on H-War (May, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

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Taint on Hogeland, 'Autumn of the Black Snake: The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion that Opened the West'

Baker on Silber, 'This War Ain't Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America'

Ehrlich on Guerra, 'Heroes, Martyrs, and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba, 1946-1958'

Klein on Levis Sullam, 'The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy'

Mazurczak on Czapski, 'Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp' and Czapski, 'Inhuman Land: Searching for the Truth in Soviet Russia, 1941-1942'

Heiss on Black, 'The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power'

Ghulyan on Adalet, 'Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey'

Kennedy on O'Toole, 'The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made'

Loch on Goldberg, 'From Disarmament to Rearmament: The Reversal of US Policy toward West Germany, 1946–1955'

Fisher on Popa, 'The Romanian Orthodox Church and the Holocaust'

Polak-Springer on Materka, 'Dystopia's Provocateurs: Peasants, State, and Informality in the Polish-German Borderlands'

Gilmartin on Stephens, 'Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in South Asia'

Weaver on Olsen, 'Airpower Applied: U.S., NATO, and Israeli Combat Experience'

Marten on Logue and Blanck, 'Heavy Laden: Union Veterans, Psychological Illness, and Suicide'

Gibson on Barnes, 'Restless Empire: A Historical Atlas of Russia'

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