Reviews

Author:

Alexander MacDonald

Reviewer:

Kristi Lowenthal

Lowenthal on MacDonald, 'The Long Space Age: The Economic Origins of Space Exploration from Colonial America to the Cold War'

Alexander MacDonald. The Long Space Age: The Economic Origins of Space Exploration from Colonial America to the Cold War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. 272 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-21932-6.

Reviewed by Kristi Lowenthal (School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Air University) Published on H-War (April, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

Uzal Johnson

Reviewer:

Ricardo A. Herrera

Herrera on Johnson, 'Captured at Kings Mountain: The Journal of Uzal Johnson, a Loyalist Surgeon'

Uzal Johnson. Captured at Kings Mountain: The Journal of Uzal Johnson, a Loyalist Surgeon. Edited by Wade S. Kolb III and Robert M. Weir. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2011. Maps. 248 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57003-961-4.

Reviewed by Ricardo A. Herrera (School of Advanced Military Studies) Published on H-War (April, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

Tom Faulkner

Reviewer:

Cory Hollon

Hollon on Faulkner, 'Flying with the Fifteenth Air Force: A B-24 Pilot's Missions from Italy during World War II'

Tom Faulkner. Flying with the Fifteenth Air Force: A B-24 Pilot's Missions from Italy during World War II. Edited by David L. Snead. North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2018. 336 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57441-731-9.

Reviewed by Cory Hollon (Air University, Air War College) Published on H-War (April, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

Antony Eastmond

Reviewer:

Karen Carr

Carr on Eastmond, 'Tamta's World: The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia'

Antony Eastmond. Tamta's World: The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 480 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-16756-8.

Reviewed by Karen Carr (Portland State University) Published on H-War (April, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

William G. Ross

Reviewer:

Edward Gutierrez

Gutierrez on Ross, 'World War I and the American Constitution'

William G. Ross. World War I and the American Constitution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 402 pp. $59.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-18164-8.

Reviewed by Edward Gutierrez (Boston College) Published on H-War (April, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

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Author:

Danny Orbach

Reviewer:

Mark Montesclaros

Montesclaros on Orbach, 'The Plots against Hitler'

Danny Orbach. The Plots against Hitler. Boston: Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. xvi + 406 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-544-71443-4.

Reviewed by Mark Montesclaros (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Gordon Satellite Campus) Published on H-War (April, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

Nicholas J. Schlosser

Reviewer:

John Aylesworth

Aylesworth on Schlosser, 'The Greene Papers: General Wallace M. Greene Jr. and the Escalation of the Vietnam War'

Nicholas J. Schlosser. The Greene Papers: General Wallace M. Greene Jr. and the Escalation of the Vietnam War. Quantico: History Division, United States Marine Corps, 2015. 404 pp. $59.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-9911588-9-8.

Reviewed by John Aylesworth (Texas Tech University) Published on H-War (April, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

John Bisbee, ed.

Reviewer:

Kelly D. Mezurek

Mezurek on Bisbee, 'Captaining the Corps d'Afrique: The Civil War Diaries and Letters of John Newton Chamberlin'

John Bisbee, ed. Captaining the Corps d'Afrique: The Civil War Diaries and Letters of John Newton Chamberlin. Jefferson: McFarland, 2016. 211 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-6449-1.

Reviewed by Kelly D. Mezurek (Walsh) Published on H-War (April, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

Vincent P. O'Hara, W. David Dickson, Richard Worth, eds.

Reviewer:

Ambjörn Adomeit

Adomeit on O'Hara and Dickson and Worth, 'To Crown the Waves: The Great Navies of the First World War'

Vincent P. O'Hara, W. David Dickson, Richard Worth, eds. To Crown the Waves: The Great Navies of the First World War. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2013. Maps, tables, illustrations. 360 pp. $37.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61251-082-8.

Reviewed by Ambjörn Adomeit (University of Western Ontario and the Royal Military College of Canada) Published on H-War (April, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

Denise I. Bossy, ed.

Reviewer:

Kristalyn M. Shefveland

Shefveland on Bossy, 'The Yamasee Indians: From Florida to South Carolina'

Denise I. Bossy, ed. The Yamasee Indians: From Florida to South Carolina. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. Illustrations. 372 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-0760-9.

Reviewed by Kristalyn M. Shefveland (University of Southern Indiana) Published on H-War (March, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

Jeremy P. Maxwell

Reviewer:

Geoffrey Jensen

Jensen on Maxwell, 'Brotherhood in Combat: How African Americans Found Equality in Korea and Vietnam'

Jeremy P. Maxwell. Brotherhood in Combat: How African Americans Found Equality in Korea and Vietnam. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. 224 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8061-6006-1.

Reviewed by Geoffrey Jensen (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, College of Security and Intelligence Studies) Published on H-War (March, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

Thomas F. Army Jr

Reviewer:

Joshua Camper

Camper on Army Jr, 'Engineering Victory: How Technology Won the Civil War'

Thomas F. Army Jr. Engineering Victory: How Technology Won the Civil War. Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Series. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. 392 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-1937-4.

Reviewed by Joshua Camper (University of Tennessee Martin) Published on H-War (March, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

Carol Berkin

Reviewer:

Elana Krischer

Krischer on Berkin, 'A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism'

Carol Berkin. A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism. New York: Basic Books, 2017. 320 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-06088-7.

Reviewed by Elana Krischer (University at Albany, SUNY) Published on H-War (March, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

Jonathan M. Steplyk

Reviewer:

John G. Selby

Selby on Steplyk, 'Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat'

Jonathan M. Steplyk. Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2018. 336 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2628-1.

Reviewed by John G. Selby (Roanoke College) Published on H-War (March, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author:

James O'Neill

Reviewer:

Edward Tenace

Tenace on O'Neill, 'The Nine Years War, 1593-1603: O'Neill, Mountjoy and the Military Revolution'

James O'Neill. The Nine Years War, 1593-1603: O'Neill, Mountjoy and the Military Revolution. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2017. 336 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84682-636-8.

Reviewed by Edward Tenace (Lyon College) Published on H-War (March, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

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Lowenthal on MacDonald, 'The Long Space Age: The Economic Origins of Space Exploration from Colonial America to the Cold War'

Herrera on Johnson, 'Captured at Kings Mountain: The Journal of Uzal Johnson, a Loyalist Surgeon'

Hollon on Faulkner, 'Flying with the Fifteenth Air Force: A B-24 Pilot's Missions from Italy during World War II'

Carr on Eastmond, 'Tamta's World: The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia'

Gutierrez on Ross, 'World War I and the American Constitution'

Montesclaros on Orbach, 'The Plots against Hitler'

Aylesworth on Schlosser, 'The Greene Papers: General Wallace M. Greene Jr. and the Escalation of the Vietnam War'

Mezurek on Bisbee, 'Captaining the Corps d'Afrique: The Civil War Diaries and Letters of John Newton Chamberlin'

Adomeit on O'Hara and Dickson and Worth, 'To Crown the Waves: The Great Navies of the First World War'

Shefveland on Bossy, 'The Yamasee Indians: From Florida to South Carolina'

Jensen on Maxwell, 'Brotherhood in Combat: How African Americans Found Equality in Korea and Vietnam'

Camper on Army Jr, 'Engineering Victory: How Technology Won the Civil War'

Krischer on Berkin, 'A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism'

Selby on Steplyk, 'Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat'

Tenace on O'Neill, 'The Nine Years War, 1593-1603: O'Neill, Mountjoy and the Military Revolution'

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