Reviews

Author: 
Christopher M. Bonin
Reviewer: 
Kevin Malmquist

Malmquist on Bonin, 'Virginia in the War of 1812'

Christopher M. Bonin. Virginia in the War of 1812. Jefferson: McFarland, 2018. Illustrations, maps. 185 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-7108-6.

Reviewed by Kevin Malmquist (West Point) Published on H-War (August, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57584

Author: 
Thomas Fischer
Reviewer: 
Michael A. D'Amato

D'Amato on Fischer, 'Army of the Roman Emperors'

Thomas Fischer. Army of the Roman Emperors. Translated by M. C. Bishop. Havertown: Casemate Publishers, 2019. Illustrations. 464 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61200-810-3.

Reviewed by Michael A. D'Amato (University of California Riverside) Published on H-War (August, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=56067

Author: 
Laura B. Rosenzweig
Reviewer: 
Brian Masaru Hayashi

Hayashi on Rosenzweig, 'Hollywood’s Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles'

Laura B. Rosenzweig. Hollywood’s Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles. Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History Series. New York: New York University Press, 2017. xiii + 285 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4798-5517-9

Author: 
Rebecca A. Adelman
Reviewer: 
Darrell Fawley

Fawley on Adelman, 'Figuring Violence: Affective Investments in Perpetual War'

Rebecca A. Adelman. Figuring Violence: Affective Investments in Perpetual War. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018. Illustrations. xi + 336 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8232-8168-8; $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8232-8167-1; $29.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8232-8169-5. 

Author: 
Tony Banham
Reviewer: 
Elizabeth Dillenburg

Dillenburg on Banham, 'Reduced to a Symbolical Scale: The Evacuation of British Women and Children from Hong Kong to Australia in 1940'

Tony Banham. Reduced to a Symbolical Scale: The Evacuation of British Women and Children from Hong Kong to Australia in 1940. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2017. 324 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-988-8390-87-8.

Reviewed by Elizabeth Dillenburg (The Ohio State University at Newark) Published on H-War (August, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Gregory A. Daddis
Reviewer: 
Han Wos

Wos on Daddis, 'Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men's Adventure Magazines'

Gregory A. Daddis. Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men's Adventure Magazines. Military, War, and Society in Modern American History Series. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Illustrations. 358 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-49350-5

Author: 
Donald Anderson, ed.
Reviewer: 
Matthew Brand

Brand on Anderson, 'Quagmire: Personal Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan'

Donald Anderson, ed. Quagmire: Personal Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan. Lincoln: Potomac Books, 2021. 258 pp. $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-64012-452-3.

Reviewed by Matthew Brand (Global College of PME, Air University) Published on H-War (August, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57096

Author: 
Conrad C. Crane
Reviewer: 
Brian R. Price

Price on Crane, 'Cassandra in Oz: Counterinsurgency and Future War'

Conrad C. Crane. Cassandra in Oz: Counterinsurgency and Future War. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2016. 320. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-68247-007-7

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

Author: 
Simon Miles
Reviewer: 
Paxton Stover

Stover on Miles, 'Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War'

Simon Miles. Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. 248 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-5169-1.

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

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57291

Author: 
Salvatore R. Mercogliano
Reviewer: 
Jobie Turner

Turner on Mercogliano, 'Fourth Arm of Defense: Sealift and Maritime Logistics in the Vietnam War'

Salvatore R. Mercogliano. Fourth Arm of Defense: Sealift and Maritime Logistics in the Vietnam War. The U.S. Navy and Vietnam War Series. Washington, DC: Naval History and Heritage Command, 2017. Illustrations. 78 pp. n.p. (paper), ISBN 978-0-945274-96-4; free (pdf), ISBN 978-0-945274-97-1.

Reviewed by Jobie Turner (Air University) Published on H-War (August, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Nancy Ruth Reagin
Reviewer: 
Patrick Dempsey

Dempsey on Reagin, 'Re-living the American Frontier: Western Fandoms, Reenactment, and Historical Hobbyists in Germany and America Since 1900'

Nancy Ruth Reagin. Re-living the American Frontier: Western Fandoms, Reenactment, and Historical Hobbyists in Germany and America Since 1900. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2021. 272 pp. $90.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-60938-790-7; $90.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-60938-791-4.

Reviewed by Patrick Dempsey (Northern Illinios) Published on H-War (August, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Geoffrey Hayes
Reviewer: 
Matthew Barrett

Barrett on Hayes, 'Crerar's Lieutenants: Inventing the Canadian Junior Army Officer, 1939-45 (Studies in Canadian Military History)'

Geoffrey Hayes. Crerar's Lieutenants: Inventing the Canadian Junior Army Officer, 1939-45 (Studies in Canadian Military History). Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017. 312 pp. $95.85 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7748-3483-4.

Reviewed by Matthew Barrett (Canadian War Museum) Published on H-War (August, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Daniel P. Bolger
Reviewer: 
Jason Kirby

Kirby on Bolger, 'Our Year of War: Two Brothers, Vietnam, and a Nation Divided'

Daniel P. Bolger. Our Year of War: Two Brothers, Vietnam, and a Nation Divided. New York: Da Capo Press, 2017. Maps. 368 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-306-90326-7

Reviewed by Jason Kirby (Francis Marion University) Published on H-War (August, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Mischa Honeck, James Marten, eds.
Reviewer: 
Hannah Tomlin

Tomlin on Honeck and Marten, 'War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars'

Mischa Honeck, James Marten, eds. War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 410 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-47853-3.

Reviewed by Hannah Tomlin (Independent Scholar) Published on H-War (July, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57195

Author: 
Michael Lucken
Reviewer: 
Christian McCall

McCall on Lucken, 'The Japanese and the War: Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory'

Michael Lucken. The Japanese and the War: Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory. Translated by Karen Grimwade. Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. Illustrations. 376 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-17702-3

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