Reviews

Uri Ben-Eliezer. War over Peace: One Hundred Years of Israel's Militaristic Nationalism. Translated by Shaul Vardi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. 328 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-30434-5.

Reviewed by Boaz Atzili (American University) Published on H-Diplo (February, 2020) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

James Lockhart. Chile, the CIA and the Cold War: A Transatlantic Perspective. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. 282 pages. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4744-3561-1.

Reviewed by James Siekmeier (West Virginia University) Published on H-Diplo (January, 2020) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Rósa Magnúsdóttir. Enemy Number One: the United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 256 pp. $74.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-068149-4; ISBN 978-0-19-068147-0.

Reviewed by Margaret E. Peacock (The University of Alabama) Published on H-Diplo (January, 2020) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Phyllis Taoua. African Freedom: How Africa Responded to Independence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xi + 321 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-42741-8; $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-108-44616-7.

Reviewed by Emma Hunter (University of Edinburgh) Published on H-Diplo (January, 2020) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Jeremy A. Yellen. The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Series. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. 306 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-3554-7.

Reviewed by Michael Barnhart (Stony Brook University) Published on H-Diplo (December, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Rüdiger Graf. Oil and Sovereignty: Petro-Knowledge and Energy Policy in the United States and Western Europe in the 1970s. New York: Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2018. 474 pp. $130.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78533-806-9.

Reviewed by David S. Painter (Georgetown University) Published on H-Diplo (December, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Aurélie Basha i Novosejt. "I Made Mistakes": Robert McNamara's Vietnam War Policy, 1960-1968. Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Illustrations. 338 pp. $49.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-41553-8.

Reviewed by Terry Anderson (Texas A&M University) Published on H-Diplo (December, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)