Reviews

Author: 
Geoffrey Stewart
Reviewer: 
Mark Schell

Schell on Stewart, 'Vietnam's Lost Revolution: Ngô Đình Diệm's Failure to Build an Independent Nation, 1955-1963'

Geoffrey Stewart. Vietnam's Lost Revolution: Ngô Đình Diệm's Failure to Build an Independent Nation, 1955-1963. Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Illustrations, maps. 278 pp. $109.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-09788-9

Author: 
Matthew C. Hulbert, Matthew E. Stanley, eds.
Reviewer: 
Frank Sobchak

Sobchak on Hulbert and Stanley, 'Martial Culture, Silver Screen: War Movies and the Construction of American Identity'

Matthew C. Hulbert, Matthew E. Stanley, eds. Martial Culture, Silver Screen: War Movies and the Construction of American Identity. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020. 312 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8071-7472-2.

Reviewed by Frank Sobchak (Fletcher School, Tufts University) Published on H-War (November, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Andrew Tait Jarboe
Reviewer: 
Tamala Malerk

Malerk on Jarboe, 'Indian Soldiers in World War I: Race and Representation in an Imperial War'

Andrew Tait Jarboe. Indian Soldiers in World War I: Race and Representation in an Imperial War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 334 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-0678-7.

Reviewed by Tamala Malerk (University of South Florida) Published on H-War (November, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Phillip S. Meilinger
Reviewer: 
Brian R. Price

Price on Meilinger, 'Thoughts on War'

Phillip S. Meilinger. Thoughts on War. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2020. 308 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8131-7889-9.

Reviewed by Brian R. Price (Air University) Published on H-War (November, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

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Author: 
John Dickson
Reviewer: 
Michael Falcone

Falcone on Dickson, 'History Shock: When History Collides with Foreign Relations'

John Dickson. History Shock: When History Collides with Foreign Relations. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2021. 256 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-3202-2

Reviewed by Michael Falcone (Yale University) Published on H-War (October, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
John Pomfret
Reviewer: 
Anna Mazurkiewicz

Mazurkiewicz on Pomfret, 'From Warsaw with Love: Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance'

John Pomfret. From Warsaw with Love: Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2021. xii + 273 pp. $29.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-250-29605-4

Author: 
Lindsey Fitzharris
Reviewer: 
Evan Sullivan

Sullivan on Fitzharris, 'The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I'

Lindsey Fitzharris. The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. 336 pp. $23.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-374-28230-1

Author: 
Amy B. Zegart
Reviewer: 
Mark Stout

Stout on Zegart, 'Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence'

Amy B. Zegart. Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. Illustrations, tables. 424 pp. $29.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-691-22308-7; $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-14713-0.

Reviewed by Mark Stout (Johns Hopkins University) Published on H-War (October, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Pierre Asselin
Reviewer: 
Dan Hart

Hart on Asselin, 'Vietnam's American War: A History'

Pierre Asselin. Vietnam's American War: A History. Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Illustrations, maps. 316 pp. $27.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-107-51050-0.

Reviewed by Dan Hart (Harvard University) Published on H-War (October, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
C. J. Dick
Reviewer: 
Bradley Podliska

Podliska on Dick, 'From Defeat to Victory: The Eastern Front, Summer 1944, volume 2 of Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations'

C. J. Dick. From Defeat to Victory: The Eastern Front, Summer 1944, volume 2 of Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations. Modern War Studies Series. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2016. Maps, tables. 368 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2295-5

Author: 
Xiaobing Li
Reviewer: 
John Aylesworth

Aylesworth on Li, 'The Dragon in the Jungle: The Chinese Army in the Vietnam War'

Xiaobing Li. The Dragon in the Jungle: The Chinese Army in the Vietnam War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xv + 320 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-068161-6

Reviewed by John Aylesworth (Texas Tech University) Published on H-War (October, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Carl von Clausewitz
Reviewer: 
Jonathan Abel

Abel on Clausewitz, 'Napoleon Absent, Coalition Ascendant: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 1' and Clausewitz, 'The Coalition Crumbles, Napoleon Returns: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland Volume 2'

Carl von Clausewitz. Napoleon Absent, Coalition Ascendant: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 1. Translated and edited by Nicholas Murray and Christopher Pringle. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020. 440 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7006-3025-7Carl von Clausewitz.

Author: 
Garren Mulloy
Reviewer: 
Yee Kuang Heng

Heng on Mulloy, 'Defenders of Japan: The Post-Imperial Armed Forces 1946-2016, A History'

Garren Mulloy. Defenders of Japan: The Post-Imperial Armed Forces 1946-2016, A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 440 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-760615-5

Reviewed by Yee Kuang Heng (University of Tokyo) Published on H-War (October, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Ingvild Bode, Hendrik Huelss
Reviewer: 
Elliott Hurwitz

Hurwitz on Bode and Huelss, 'Autonomous Weapons Systems and International Norms'

Ingvild Bode, Hendrik Huelss. Autonomous Weapons Systems and International Norms. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. xii + 281 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-00809-5; (cloth), ISBN 978-0-228-00808-8

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