H-War Content

CfA: USHMM International Research Workshop: Black Lives Under Nazism (due March 31, 2023)

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum invites applications for the 2023 Jacob and Yetta Gelman International Research Workshop entitled Black Lives under Nazism. The Mandel Center will co-convene this workshop with Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College, and Sarah Phillips Casteel, Department of English, Carleton  University. The workshop is scheduled for Wednesday, June 7 through Friday, June 16, 2023, and will take place at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

 

Archives Portal Europe archival research grant

Archives Portal Europe supports archival research for historical research projects with grants up to 500 EUR to assist scholars (with a special focus on early career researcher, but not exclusively) with research in archives that are APE content providers, that is, listed in the Directory of Archives Portal Europe:

https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/find-an-institution/

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-War: 6 March - 13 March

The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
6 March 2023 to 13 March 2023.  These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-War.  See the H-Net Job Guide website at
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information.  To contact the Job Guide,
write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.

MILITARY HISTORY

H-War Book Reviews

Author: 
Terry L. Thorsen
Reviewer: 
Brian Washam II

Washam II on Thorsen, 'Phantom in the Sky: A Marine's Back Seat View of the Vietnam War'

Terry L. Thorsen. Phantom in the Sky: A Marine's Back Seat View of the Vietnam War. North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2019. 400 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57441-754-8.

Reviewed by Brian Washam II (University of Southern Mississippi) Published on H-War (March, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Roberto J. Carmack
Reviewer: 
Jonathon Dreeze

Dreeze on Carmack, 'Kazakhstan in World War II: Mobilization and Ethnicity in the Soviet Empire'

Roberto J. Carmack. Kazakhstan in World War II: Mobilization and Ethnicity in the Soviet Empire. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019. x + 263 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2825-4

Author: 
Philip MacDougall
Reviewer: 
Kiri Raber

Raber on MacDougall, 'The Great Anglo-Russian Naval Alliance of the Eighteenth Century and Beyond'

Philip MacDougall. The Great Anglo-Russian Naval Alliance of the Eighteenth Century and Beyond. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2022. xv + 215 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78327-668-4

Reviewed by Kiri Raber (Florida State University) Published on H-War (March, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Sonia Purnell
Reviewer: 
Danielle Wirsansky

Wirsansky on Purnell, 'A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II'

Sonia Purnell. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II. New York: Penguin Books, 2020. 352 pp. $16.20 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7352-2531-2

Author: 
Frank A. Stengel
Reviewer: 
William G. Gray

Gray on Stengel, 'The Politics of Military Force'

Frank A. Stengel. The Politics of Military Force. Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics Series. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. xvi + 269 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-472-13221-8.

Reviewed by William G. Gray (Purdue University) Published on H-War (March, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)