Thomas G. Mahnken.
Learning the Lessons of Modern War.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. 344 pp.
$35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-1226-6. 
Reviewed by Ryan Typolt (Air University, Air War College) Published on H-War (January, 2021) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Richard Bessel, Dorothee Wierling, eds.
Inside World War One? The First World War and Its Witnesses.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Illustrations. ix + 346 pp.
$104.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-882059-8.
Reviewed by Gary Girod (Chapman University) Published on H-War (January, 2021) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Mike Giglio.
Shatter the Nations: ISIS and the War for the Caliphate.
New York: PublicAffairs, 2019. xiii + 303 pp.
$28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5417-4235-2.
Reviewed by Shawn Young (Air University, Air War College) Published on H-War (January, 2021) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Michael Walsh.
Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2020. 368 pp.
$28.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-250-21708-0.
Reviewed by Jonathan Abel (Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth) Published on H-War (January, 2021) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Patrick Porter. Blunder: Britain's War in Iraq. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 254 pp. $41.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-880796-4.
Reviewed by Michael McInerney (Air University, Air War College) Published on H-War (January, 2021) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55982
Paul D'Anieri.
Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Maps, tables. 296 pp.
$29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-108-71395-5; $84.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-48609-5.
Reviewed by Shawn Conroy (The Ohio State University) Published on H-War (January, 2021) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Yehuda Z. Blum. Will "Justice" Bring Peace? International Law - Selected Articles and Legal Opinions. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. 504 pp. $198.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-90-04-23395-9; $198.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-23394-2.
Reviewed by Brian D. Green (Space Operations Command) Published on H-War (January, 2021) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Fred Kaplan.
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020. 384 pp.
$30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-982107-29-1.
Reviewed by David Hadley (Ashland University) Published on H-War (January, 2021) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
David Abrutat.
Vanguard: The True Stories of the Reconnaissance and Intelligence Missions behind D-Day.
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2019. 368 pp.
$46.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-68247-454-9.
Reviewed by Toby Clark (Independent Scholar) Published on H-War (January, 2021) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Noah Weisbord. Crime of Aggression: The Quest for Justice in an Age of Drones, Cyberattacks, Insurgents, and Autocrats. Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. 272 pp. $35.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-691-19135-5; $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-16987-3.
Reviewed by Nicholas Sambaluk (Air University) Published on H-War (December, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
James G. Patterson.
In the Wake of the Great Rebellion: Republicanism, Agrarianism and Banditry in Ireland after 1798.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008. vi + 202 pp.
$84.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7190-7693-0.
Reviewed by Matt Zembo (Hudson Valley Community College) Published on H-War (December, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
John A. Gentry, Joseph S. Gordon. Strategic Warning Intelligence: History, Challenges, and Prospects. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2019. 274 pp. $36.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62616-655-4.
Reviewed by Scott Moseman (Kansas State University) Published on H-War (December, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Alan Rems. South Pacific Cauldron: World War II's Great Forgotten Battlegrounds. Washington, DC: Naval Institute Press, 2014. 312 pp. $38.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61251-471-0; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-61251-944-9.
Reviewed by Luke Truxal (Columbia State Community College) Published on H-War (December, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Anna Fifield.
The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un.
New York: Hachette Book Group, 2020. 336 pp.
$17.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5293-8725-4.
Reviewed by Paul Moreshead (Air University, Air War College) Published on H-War (December, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Nikolay Antov. The Ottoman "Wild West": The Balkan Frontier in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 342 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-18263-9.
Reviewed by Nathan Michalewicz (George Mason University) Published on H-War (December, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
