New in MiWSR
A review of Matthew M. Oyos, In Command: Theodore Roosevelt and the American Military, by Michael Patrick Cullinane, University of Roehampton.
James P. Holoka, editor
The CERCLES team (University of Rouen, France) is pleased to announce its regular series of reviews of books on the English-speaking world.
http://www.cercles.com/review/reviews.html
Of particular interest to H-War subscribers in the January 2019 series :
Just an anecdote comment about Soouthern California and the WW II coastal defense; this volume quite expected focuses upon the overall, national history, but does not include reference to what was experienced necessarily on the spot of the local areas to So. Cal.
My parents used to tell me about hearing tanks rumbling down Long Beach Blvd., from LA area, to take up positions along the beach areas of Long Beach. They lived near the Blvd. then. This transit happened at nighttime.
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Ancient:
•British Museum Realises 'Vase' Is in Fact an Ancient Mace-Head Displayed Upside Down | the Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/british-museum-goes-belly-up
Catherine McArdle Kelleher, Peter Dombrowski, eds. Regional Missile Defense from a Global Perspective. Stanford Security Studies Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. 328 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8047-9635-4; $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-9064-2.
Reviewed by Jeremiah Burgess (Air University, Air War College) Published on H-War (January, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)
Eric McGeer, with photographs by Steve Douglas. Canada's Dream Shall Be of Them: Canadian Epitaphs of the Great War. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2017. 224 pp. $49.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-77112-310-5.
Reviewed by Teresa Iacobelli (Independent Scholar) Published on H-War (January, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)
Tom Hamilton. Pierre de L'Estoile and His World in the Wars of Religion. The Past and Present Book Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xviii + 237 pp. $98.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-880009-5.
Reviewed by Edward Tenace (Lyon College) Published on H-War (January, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)
Craig L. Symonds. World War II at Sea: A Global History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 792 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-024367-8.
Reviewed by Bill Cox (Air War College, Air University) Published on H-War (January, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53485
Eileen Rivers. Beyond the Call: Three Women on the Front Lines in Afghanistan. New York: Da Capo Press, 2018. 288 pp. $27.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-306-90307-6.
Reviewed by Tanya L. Roth (Independent Scholar) Published on H-War (January, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53208
