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From:  Kristin Hoganson <hoganson@illinois.edu>

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Advisory Committee met in June to begin its two-year review of FOIA implementation.

In preparation for this meeting, the SHAFR representative to the National Coalition for History and the Chair of the SHAFR Historical Documentation Committee drafted a report on FOIA implementation, based on comments provided by SHAFR members and other scholars with an interest in U.S. foreign relations history.

Below is an edited list of H-Net reviews which would be of interest to H-Diplo subscribers and where posted to the H-Net web site between 04 Aug 2014 and 11 Aug 2014. For the complete list please subscribe to H-Announce.

Peter R. Mansoor. Surge: My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War. Yale Library of Military History Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. Illustrations. xxxii + 341 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-17235-5; $20.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-300-20937-2.

Reviewed by Robert Ehlers (Angelo State University)
Published on H-Diplo (August, 2014)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach

[This will be the final H-Diplo publication on the matter below. We thank all of the participants in this discussion – ed.]

[Due to the inclusion of multiple high-respolution images and Chinese language text, we are publishing this final response only as a PDF edition, available at the link below. Please be advised that this is a larger PDF file than our usual publications -ed.]