Reviews

Author: 
Ralph Moffat
Reviewer: 
Brian R. Price

Price on Moffat, 'Medieval Arms and Armour: A Sourcebook'

Ralph Moffat. Medieval Arms and Armour: A Sourcebook. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2022. 352 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78327-676-9.

Reviewed by Brian R. Price (Air University) Published on H-War (January, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57761

Author: 
Robert E. Cray
Reviewer: 
Kathryn Angelica

Angelica on Cray, 'A Notable Bully: Colonel Billy Wilson, Masculinity, and the Pursuit of Violence in the Civil War Era (Interpreting the Civil War: Text and Contexts)'

Robert E. Cray. A Notable Bully: Colonel Billy Wilson, Masculinity, and the Pursuit of Violence in the Civil War Era (Interpreting the Civil War: Text and Contexts). Kent: Kent State University Press, 2021. xi + 308 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-60635-424-7

Author: 
Jeremy Hicks
Reviewer: 
Patrick McColgan

McColgan on Hicks, 'Victory Banner Over the Reichstag: Film, Document and Ritual in Russia's Contested Memory of World War II'

Jeremy Hicks. Victory Banner Over the Reichstag: Film, Document and Ritual in Russia's Contested Memory of World War II. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. 296 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4650-2.

Reviewed by Patrick McColgan (San Diego State University) Published on H-War (January, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Stephen P. Halbrook
Reviewer: 
Christina Chatzitheodorou

Chatzitheodorou on Halbrook, 'Gun Control in Nazi Occupied-France: Tyranny and Resistance'

Stephen P. Halbrook. Gun Control in Nazi Occupied-France: Tyranny and Resistance. Oakland: Independent Institute, 2018. 256 pp. $28.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-59813-307-3

Reviewed by Christina Chatzitheodorou (University of Glasgow) Published on H-War (January, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Jason Warner, Ryan O'Farrell, Héni Nsaibia, Ryan Cummings
Reviewer: 
Michael Cserkits

Cserkits on Warner and O'Farrell and Nsaibia and Cummings, 'The Islamic State in Africa: The Emergence, Evolution, and Future of the Next Jihadist Battlefront'

Jason Warner, Ryan O'Farrell, Héni Nsaibia, Ryan Cummings. The Islamic State in Africa: The Emergence, Evolution, and Future of the Next Jihadist Battlefront. London: Hurst Publishers, 2021. 288 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-1-78738-757-7; BPS 35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78738-390-6.

Reviewed by Michael Cserkits (University of Vienna) Published on H-War (January, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Arthur H. Mitchell, ed.
Reviewer: 
Marvin Dominguez

Dominguez on Mitchell, 'Fighting Irish in the American Civil War and the Invasion of Mexico: Essays'

Arthur H. Mitchell, ed. Fighting Irish in the American Civil War and the Invasion of Mexico: Essays. Jefferson: McFarland, 2017. 272 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-6480-4; $35.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4766-2726-7.

Reviewed by Marvin Dominguez (University of New Mexico) Published on H-War (January, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
William Alan Blair
Reviewer: 
Keith D. Dickson

Dickson on Blair, 'The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction (Civil War America)'

William Alan Blair. The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction (Civil War America). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 184 pp.

Author: 
Mike Conway
Reviewer: 
Megan Threlkeld

Threlkeld on Conway, 'Contested Ground: The Tunnel and the Struggle over Television News in Cold War America'

Mike Conway. Contested Ground: The Tunnel and the Struggle over Television News in Cold War America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019. 280 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62534-450-2.

Reviewed by Megan Threlkeld (Denison) Published on H-War (December, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57544

Author: 
Mark R. Anderson
Reviewer: 
John DeLee

DeLee on Anderson, 'Down the Warpath to the Cedars: Indians' First Battles in the Revolution'

Mark R. Anderson. Down the Warpath to the Cedars: Indians' First Battles in the Revolution. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. ix + 292 pp. $24.62 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8061-6859-3

Author: 
Gary W. Gallagher, Stephen Cushman, eds.
Reviewer: 
Chase H. McCarter

McCarter on Gallagher and Cushman, 'Civil War Witnesses and Their Books'

Gary W. Gallagher, Stephen Cushman, eds. Civil War Witnesses and Their Books. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War Series. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021. 314 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-7580-4.

Reviewed by Chase H. McCarter (University of New Mexico) Published on H-War (December, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Trevor Rowley
Reviewer: 
Sarah Davis-Secord

Davis-Secord on Rowley, 'The Normans: A History of Conquest'

Trevor Rowley. The Normans: A History of Conquest. New York: Pegasus Books, 2021. 224 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-64313-634-9

Reviewed by Sarah Davis-Secord (University of New Mexico) Published on H-War (December, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Bruno Cabanes, ed.
Reviewer: 
Jean-Michel Turcotte

Turcotte on Cabanes, 'Une histoire de la guerre: Du XIXe siècle à nos jours'

Bruno Cabanes, ed. Une histoire de la guerre: Du XIXe siècle à nos jours. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2018. 800 pp. 32.00 € (paper), ISBN 978-2-02-128722-6

Reviewed by Jean-Michel Turcotte (Leibniz Institute for European History) Published on H-War (December, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Thomas K. Robb, David James Gill
Reviewer: 
Paxton Stover

Stover on Robb and Gill, 'Divided Allies: Strategic Cooperation against the Communist Threat in the Asia-Pacific during the Early Cold War'

Thomas K. Robb, David James Gill. Divided Allies: Strategic Cooperation against the Communist Threat in the Asia-Pacific during the Early Cold War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. 288 pp. $35.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-5017-4185-2; $53.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-4184-5.

Reviewed by Paxton Stover (Kansas State University) Published on H-War (December, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

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