Jasper M. Trautsch. The Genesis of America: US Foreign Policy and the Formation of National Identity, 1793-1815. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 328 pp. $49.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-42824-8.
Reviewed by Andy Forney (Texas Christian University/US Army) Published on H-War (July, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
M. Taylor Fravel. Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949. Princeton Studies in International History and Politics Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xv + 376 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-15213-4.
Reviewed by George Carter (Air University, Air War College) Published on H-War (July, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Tanya Anderson.
Gunpowder Girls: The True Stories of Three Civil War Tragedies.
Kansas City: Quindaro Press, 2016. Illustrations. 157 pp.
$16.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-9669258-7-6. 
Reviewed by Kathryn Angelica (University of Connecticut) Published on H-War (July, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Ellen N. La Motte.
The Backwash of War: An Extraordinary American Nurse in World War I.
Edited by Cynthia Wachtell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. 264 pp.
$24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4214-2671-6.
Reviewed by Sara Black (Christopher Newport University) Published on H-War (June, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Joanna Bellis.
The Hundred Years War in Literature, 1337-1600.
Rochester: D. S. Brewer, 2016. 296 pp.
$99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84384-428-0.
Reviewed by Brian R. Price (Air University, Air Command and Staff College) Published on H-War (June, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Thomas Grillot.
First Americans: U.S. Patriotism in Indian Country after World War I.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. ix + 298 pp.
$65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-22433-7.
Reviewed by Matthew Villeneuve (University of Michigan) Published on H-War (June, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
David Stahel. Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany's Winter Campaign, 1941-1942. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. 560 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-374-24952-6.
Reviewed by Mark Montesclaros (US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Gordon Satellite Campus) Published on H-War (June, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Andrew Futter.
Hacking the Bomb: Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons.
Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2018. xiii + 197 pp.
$29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62616-565-6.
Reviewed by Paul Springer (Air University, Air Command and Staff College) Published on H-War (June, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Stephen Brumwell.
Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. 384 pp.
$30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-21099-6.
Reviewed by Patrick E. Brady (University of Iowa) Published on H-War (June, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee, Frans Coetzee. Commitment and Sacrifice: Personal Diaries of the Great War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Illustrations. 352 pp. $36.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-933607-4.
Reviewed by Alex Nordlund (University of Georgia) Published on H-War (June, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Lenora Warren.
Fire on the Water: Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789-1886.
Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2019. 169 pp.
$34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-68448-017-3.
Reviewed by Sara Caputo (University of Cambridge) Published on H-War (June, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Noel Rae.
The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery.
New York: Overlook Press, 2018. Illustrations. 624 pp.
$40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4683-1513-4.
Reviewed by Evan A. Turiano (Graduate Center, City University of New York) Published on H-War (June, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Kenneth B. Moss.
Marque and Reprisal: The Spheres of Public and Private War.
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019. 464 pp.
$45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2775-2.
Reviewed by Christopher Weimar (Air University) Published on H-War (June, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Kara Dixon Vuic.
The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. Illustrations. viii + 382 pp.
$29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-98638-1.
Reviewed by Lisa Beckenbaugh (Air Command and Staff College) Published on H-War (June, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Simon Forty, Leo Marriott, George Forty.
The Normandy Battlefields: Bocage and Breakout: From the Beaches to the Falaise Gap.
Havermate: Casemate Books, 2016. 192 pp.
$29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61200-419-8.
Reviewed by Toby Clark (Independent Scholar) Published on H-War (June, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
