Reviews

Author: 
Francis Gary Powers Jr., Keith Dunnavant
Reviewer: 
Robert Dienesch

Dienesch on Powers Jr. and Dunnavant, 'Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy'

Francis Gary Powers Jr., Keith Dunnavant. Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy. Amherst: Prometheus, 2019. Illustrations. 312 pp. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-63388-468-7

Author: 
Vladimir Solonari
Reviewer: 
Grant Harward

Harward on Solonari, 'A Satellite Empire: Romanian Rule in Southwestern Ukraine, 1941-1944'

Vladimir Solonari. A Satellite Empire: Romanian Rule in Southwestern Ukraine, 1941-1944. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. Illustrations, maps. 328 pp. $38.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-5017-4320-7; $58.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-4318-4.

Reviewed by Grant Harward (US Army Center of Military History) Published on H-War (December, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Shahram Chubin, Charles Tripp
Reviewer: 
Eric Lob

Lob on Chubin and Tripp, 'Iran and Iraq at War'

Shahram Chubin, Charles Tripp. Iran and Iraq at War. Milton: Routledge, 2020. 336 pp. $39.96 (paper), ISBN 978-0-367-15305-2.

Reviewed by Eric Lob (Florida International University) Published on H-War (December, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

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Author: 
Graydon A. Tunstall
Reviewer: 
Nicholas Sambaluk

Sambaluk on Tunstall, 'The Austro-Hungarian Army and the First World War (Armies of the Great War)'

Graydon A. Tunstall. The Austro-Hungarian Army and the First World War (Armies of the Great War). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. x + 466 pp. $69.04 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-19934-6; $34.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-18124-2

Author: 
Dean A. Nowowiejski
Reviewer: 
Mark Reynolds

Reynolds on Nowowiejski, 'The American Army in Germany, 1918-1923: Success against the Odds'

Dean A. Nowowiejski. The American Army in Germany, 1918-1923: Success against the Odds. Modern War Studies Series. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2021. 376 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-3274-9

Author: 
Rush Doshi
Reviewer: 
Samuel Leiter

Leiter on Doshi, 'The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order'

Rush Doshi. The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order. Bridging the Gap Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 432 pp. $18.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-19-752787-0; $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-752791-7.

Reviewed by Samuel Leiter (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Published on H-War (November, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Sandra Moats
Reviewer: 
Andy Forney

Forney on Moats, 'Navigating Neutrality: Early American Governance in the Turbulent Atlantic'

Sandra Moats. Navigating Neutrality: Early American Governance in the Turbulent Atlantic. The Revolutionary Age Series. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021. Illustrations. 232 pp. $29.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8139-4756-3; $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-4644-3. 

Author: 
Paul A. Kennedy
Reviewer: 
Daniel Papadopoulos

Papadopoulos on Kennedy, 'Battlefield Surgeon: Life and Death on the Front Lines of World War II'

Paul A. Kennedy. Battlefield Surgeon: Life and Death on the Front Lines of World War II. Edited by Christopher B. Kennedy. American Warrior Series. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016. Illustrations. 288 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8131-6723-7.

Reviewed by Daniel Papadopoulos (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) Published on H-War (November, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Lisa Deutscher, Mirjam Kaiser, Sixt Wetzler, eds.
Reviewer: 
John Chamberlin

Chamberlin on Deutscher and Kaiser and Wetzler, 'The Sword: Form and Thought'

Lisa Deutscher, Mirjam Kaiser, Sixt Wetzler, eds. The Sword: Form and Thought. Armour and Weapons Series. Melton: Boydell & Brewer, 2019. Illustrations. 294 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78327-427-7.

Reviewed by John Chamberlin (Air University, Air Command and Staff College) Published on H-War (November, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt
Reviewer: 
Philippe Atallah

Atallah on Wolfe-Hunnicutt, 'The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq'

Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt. The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq. Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. 332 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-1382-9; $26.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-2791-8.

Reviewed by Philippe Atallah (University of Pennsylvania) Published on H-War (November, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Timothy V. Dugan
Reviewer: 
Tyler Creer

Creer on Dugan, 'The Many Lives of Ajax: The Trojan War Hero from Antiquity to Modern Times'

Timothy V. Dugan. The Many Lives of Ajax: The Trojan War Hero from Antiquity to Modern Times. Jefferson: McFarland, 2018. 430 pp. $49.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-6396-8

Reviewed by Tyler Creer (Brigham Young University) Published on H-War (November, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
James Schwoch
Reviewer: 
Michael Feagan

Feagan on Schwoch, 'Wired into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier'

James Schwoch. Wired into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier. History of Communication Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. Illustrations. 288 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08340-2; $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-04177-8; $14.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-252-05045-9.

Reviewed by Michael Feagan (Western University) Published on H-War (November, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Michael S. Neiberg
Reviewer: 
Richard Fogarty

Fogarty on Neiberg, 'When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance'

Michael S. Neiberg. When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. 320 pp. $28.88 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-25856-3.

Reviewed by Richard Fogarty (University at Albany, SUNY) Published on H-War (November, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Mia Bloom, Sophia Moskalenko
Reviewer: 
Stephanie J. Richmond

Richmond on Bloom and Moskalenko, 'Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon'

Mia Bloom, Sophia Moskalenko. Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon. Stanford: Redwood Press, 2021. ix + 243 pp. $20.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-3029-1

Reviewed by Stephanie J. Richmond (Norfolk State University) Published on H-War (November, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Arve Hansen, Andrei Rogatchevski, Yngvar Bordewich Steinholt, David-Emil Wickström
Reviewer: 
Yan Vuks

Vuks on Hansen and Rogatchevski and Steinholt and Wickström, 'A War of Songs: Popular Music and Recent Russia-Ukraine Relations'

Arve Hansen, Andrei Rogatchevski, Yngvar Bordewich Steinholt, David-Emil Wickström. A War of Songs: Popular Music and Recent Russia-Ukraine Relations. Stuttgart: ibidem Press, 2019. 250 pp. $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-8382-1173-2

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