H-DIPLO PUBLICATIONS

Max Brooks, John Amble, ML Cavanaugh, Jaym Gates, Stanley A. McChrystal, eds. Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2018. xx + 246 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-64012-033-4.

Reviewed by Stephen Dyson (University of Connecticut) Published on H-Diplo (December, 2018) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

H-Diplo Publication Schedule, 17 to 21 December

The H-Diplo publication schedule for the period 17 to 21 December is as follows:

Week of 17 December:

H-Diplo Roundtable XX-16 on Yuri Slezkine. The House of Government. A Saga of the Russian Revolution

H-Diplo Article Review 815 on Peter Gill, Stephen Marrin, and Mark Pythian, eds. “Developing Intelligence Theory” Special Issue of Intelligence and National Security 33:4

Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (PCB-AHA) 2019 Panel: The Experiences of Minority Soldiers in Twentieth Century U.S. Wars

H-Diplo Article Review 814 on Susan McCall Perlman. “US Intelligence and Communist plots in Postwar France.”

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Announce: 3 December - 10 December

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Home Office Notices (Jobs, Reviews)

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December 10, 2018

H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable 10-20 on Rape During Civil War

H-Diplo | ISSF

Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS), Annual Conference 2019, Liverpool, UK

Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK, 12-14 June 2019

Plenary Speaker: Professor Donna Murch (Rutgers University)

H-Diplo Commentary by Philip Zelikow on “‘Documentary Evidence’ and Llewellyn Thompson’s Berlin/Cuba Assessment of Soviet Motives in the October 1962 Missile Crisis.”

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Recent Reviews

Author:

Max Brooks, John Amble, ML Cavanaugh, Jaym Gates, Stanley A. McChrystal, eds.

Reviewer:

Stephen Dyson

Dyson on Brooks and Amble and Cavanaugh and Gates and McChrystal and eds., 'Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict'

Reviewed by Stephen Dyson (University of Connecticut) Published on H-Diplo (December, 2018) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

Reviewer:

Jorge Díaz Ceballos

Díaz Ceballos on Cañizares-Esguerra, 'Entangled Empires: The Anglo-Iberian Atlantic, 1500-1830'

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. Entangled Empires: The Anglo-Iberian Atlantic, 1500-1830. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 344 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4983-5.

Reviewed by Jorge Díaz Ceballos (Universidad Pablo de Olavide) Published on H-Diplo (December, 2018) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Stefan Andersson, ed.

Reviewer:

Madelaine Chiam

Chiam on Andersson, 'Revisiting the Vietnam War and International Law: Views and Interpretations of Richard Falk'

Stefan Andersson, ed. Revisiting the Vietnam War and International Law: Views and Interpretations of Richard Falk. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 438 pp. $34.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-108-40996-4.

Reviewed by Madelaine Chiam (La Trobe University) Published on H-Diplo (December, 2018) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Matthew K. Shannon

Reviewer:

Roham Alvandi

Alvandi on Shannon, 'Losing Hearts and Minds: American-Iranian Relations and International Education during the Cold War'

Matthew K. Shannon. Losing Hearts and Minds: American-Iranian Relations and International Education during the Cold War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017. 256 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-1313-2.

Reviewed by Roham Alvandi (London School of Economics) Published on H-Diplo (December, 2018) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Jenny Thompson, Sherry Thompson

Reviewer:

David S. Foglesong

Foglesong on Thompson and Thompson, 'The Kremlinologist: Llewellyn E. Thompson, America's Man in Cold War Moscow'

Jenny Thompson, Sherry Thompson. The Kremlinologist: Llewellyn E. Thompson, America's Man in Cold War Moscow. Johns Hopkins Nuclear History and Contemporary Affairs Series. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2018. Illustrations. 600 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4214-2454-5; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-2409-5.

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