Reviews

Author: 
Harry Raffal
Reviewer: 
Nicholas Sambaluk

Sambaluk on Raffal, 'Air Power and the Evacuation of Dunkirk: The RAF and Luftwaffe during Operation Dynamo, 26 May - 4 June 1940'

Harry Raffal. Air Power and the Evacuation of Dunkirk: The RAF and Luftwaffe during Operation Dynamo, 26 May - 4 June 1940. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 352 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-18049-9.

Reviewed by Nicholas Sambaluk (Air University) Published on H-War (February, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Ronald Allen Goldberg
Reviewer: 
Richard M. Filipink, Jr.

Filipink, Jr. on Goldberg, 'Bystanders to the Vietnam War: The Role of the United States Senate, 1950-1965'

Ronald Allen Goldberg. Bystanders to the Vietnam War: The Role of the United States Senate, 1950-1965. Jefferson: McFarland, 2018. Illustrations. 159 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-6891-8.

Reviewed by Richard M. Filipink, Jr. (Western Illinois University) Published on H-War (February, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Erik Jensen
Reviewer: 
Joshua Nudell

Nudell on Jensen, 'The Greco-Persian Wars: A Short History with Documents'

Erik Jensen. The Greco-Persian Wars: A Short History with Documents. Passages: Key Moments in History Series. Cambridge: Hackett Publishing, 2021. Maps. 232 pp. $18.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62466-954-5; $49.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62466-955-2.

Reviewed by Joshua Nudell (Truman State University) Published on H-War (February, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Joana Cook
Reviewer: 
Crystal Whetstone

Whetstone on Cook, 'A Woman's Place: US Counterterrorism since 9/11'

Joana Cook. A Woman's Place: US Counterterrorism since 9/11. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xvi + 564 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-750655-4

Reviewed by Crystal Whetstone (Sam Houston State) Published on H-War (February, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
J. E. Kaufmann, H. W. Kaufmann
Reviewer: 
Gwyn Davies

Davies on Kaufmann and Kaufmann, 'Castrum to Castle: Classical to Medieval Fortifications in the Lands of the Western Roman Empire'

J. E. Kaufmann, H. W. Kaufmann. Castrum to Castle: Classical to Medieval Fortifications in the Lands of the Western Roman Empire. Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military, 2018. 288 pp. ISBN 978-1-4738-9582-9; $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4738-9580-5.

Reviewed by Gwyn Davies (Florida International University) Published on H-War (February, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
William Stuart Nance
Reviewer: 
Daniel Driss

Driss on Nance, 'Sabers through the Reich: World War II Corps Cavalry from Normandy to the Elbe'

William Stuart Nance. Sabers through the Reich: World War II Corps Cavalry from Normandy to the Elbe. Battles and Campaigns Series. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2017. Illustrations, maps. 366 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8131-6960-6.

Reviewed by Daniel Driss (University of Southern Mississippi) Published on H-War (February, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Laurien Crump, Susanna Erlandsson, eds.
Reviewer: 
Felicitas Hartung

Hartung on Crump and Erlandsson, 'Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe: The Influence of Smaller Powers'

Laurien Crump, Susanna Erlandsson, eds. Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe: The Influence of Smaller Powers. Routledge Studies in Modern European History Series. London: Routledge, 2019. xiii + 250 pp. $170.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-138-38837-6.

Reviewed by Felicitas Hartung (University of California, San Diego) Published on H-War (February, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Hugh R. Slotten
Reviewer: 
Aaron Bateman

Bateman on Slotten, 'Beyond Sputnik and the Space Race: The Origins of Global Satellite Communications'

Hugh R. Slotten. Beyond Sputnik and the Space Race: The Origins of Global Satellite Communications. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. Illustrations. 256 pp. $55.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4214-4123-8; $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-4122-1.

Reviewed by Aaron Bateman (George Washington University) Published on H-War (February, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
James Tharin Bradford
Reviewer: 
Robert Beach

Beach on Bradford, 'Poppies, Politics, and Power: Afghanistan and the Global History of Drugs and Diplomacy'

James Tharin Bradford. Poppies, Politics, and Power: Afghanistan and the Global History of Drugs and Diplomacy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. 300 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-3976-7

Author: 
Marvin Pokrant
Reviewer: 
Joseph Carignan

Carignan on Pokrant, 'New Principles of War: Enduring Truths with Timeless Examples'

Marvin Pokrant. New Principles of War: Enduring Truths with Timeless Examples. Lincoln: Potomac Books, An imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 376 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-64012-222-2.

Reviewed by Joseph Carignan (Air University, Air War College) Published on H-War (January, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Mark Wilde-Ramsing, Linda F. Carnes-McNaughton
Reviewer: 
Jess Cragg

Cragg on Wilde-Ramsing and Carnes-McNaughton, 'Blackbeard's Sunken Prize: The 300-Year Voyage of Queen Anne's Revenge'

Mark Wilde-Ramsing, Linda F. Carnes-McNaughton. Blackbeard's Sunken Prize: The 300-Year Voyage of Queen Anne's Revenge. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 224 pp. $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-4052-5

Author: 
Susan Jeffords, Fahed Yahya Al-Sumait, eds.
Reviewer: 
Reagan Fancher

Fancher on Jeffords and Al-Sumait, 'Covering bin Laden: Global Media and the World's Most Wanted Man'

Susan Jeffords, Fahed Yahya Al-Sumait, eds. Covering bin Laden: Global Media and the World's Most Wanted Man. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. 304 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08040-1

Author: 
John Beeler, ed.
Reviewer: 
Bradley Cesario

Cesario on Beeler, 'The Milne Papers: The Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milne, Bt., K.C.B. (1806-1896), vol. 2, The Royal Navy and the Outbreak of the American Civil War, 1860-1862'

John Beeler, ed. The Milne Papers: The Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milne, Bt., K.C.B. (1806-1896), vol. 2, The Royal Navy and the Outbreak of the American Civil War, 1860-1862. Publications of the Navy Records Society Series. London: Routledge, 2016. 760 pp. $160.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4094-4686-6; $54.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-911423-91-1. 

Author: 
Jason Crouthamel
Reviewer: 
Elizabeth Stice

Stice on Crouthamel, 'Trauma, Religion and Spirituality in Germany during the First World War'

Jason Crouthamel. Trauma, Religion and Spirituality in Germany during the First World War. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Illustrations. 272 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-08370-7

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