Lois K. Merry. Women Military Pilots of World War II: A History with Biographies of American, British, Russian, and German Aviators. Jefferson: Mcfarland, 2010. 220 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-4441-0.
Reviewed by Therese Strohmer
Published on H-Minerva (February, 2011)
Commissioned by Heather M. Stur
Mollie Weinstein Schaffer. Mollie's War: The Letters of a World War II WAC in Europe. Edited by Cyndee Schaffer. Jefferson: McFarland, 2010. x + 281 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-4791-6.
Reviewed by Lia Winfield
Published on H-Minerva (December, 2010)
Commissioned by Heather M. Stur
GI Jane: Both Here and Abroad
Peter Rees. Other Anzacs: Nurses at War 1914-1918. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2008. Illustrations. xviii + 363 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-74175-549-7.
Reviewed by Katherine Burger Johnson (University of Louisville)
Published on H-Minerva (November, 2010)
Commissioned by Heather M. Stur
Nurses from Down Under go to the Front in World War I
Christine E. Hallett. Containing Trauma: Nursing Work in the First World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. xvii + 259 pp. $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7190-7958-0.
Reviewed by Charissa Threat (Northeastern University)
Published on H-Minerva (September, 2010)
Commissioned by Heather M. Stur
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian. Militarization and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: A Palestinian Case-Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xiv + 231 pp. $108.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-88222-4; $39.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-70879-1.
Reviewed by Stephanie Chaban
Published on H-Minerva (July, 2010)
Commissioned by Heather M. Stur
James H. Madison. Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys: An American Woman in World War II. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. xviii + 300 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-35047-3.
Reviewed by Joan E. Denman (Institute on World War II & the Human Experience)
Published on H-Minerva (March, 2010)
Commissioned by Kara Dixon Vuic
Carol Ogg. Fields of Fire. Bloomington: Xlibris, 2007. 167 pp. $20.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4134-8645-2.
Reviewed by Gioia Grasso
Published on H-Minerva (February, 2010)
Commissioned by Kara Dixon Vuic
Searing Memories
John A. Lynn II. Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. XII, 239 S. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-89765-5; $24.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-72237-7.
Reviewed by Eugenia Kiesling (U.S. Military Academy)
Published on H-Minerva (February, 2010)
Commissioned by Kara Dixon Vuic
Kara Dixon Vuic. Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. xii + 271 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8018-9391-9.
Reviewed by Tanya L. Roth (Washington University in St. Louis)
Published on H-Minerva (February, 2010)
Commissioned by Heather M. Stur
Hilary Kaiser. French War Brides in America: An Oral History. Westport: Praeger, 2008. Illustrations. lii + 177 pp. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-275-99398-6.
Reviewed by Kirstin Steele (The Citadel)
Published on H-Minerva (December, 2009)
Commissioned by Kara Dixon Vuic
Wives across the Pond
Marina Larsson. Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. 320 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-921410-55-0.
Reviewed by Sandra Dawson (northern Illinois Univ.)
Published on H-Minerva (December, 2009)
Commissioned by Kara Dixon Vuic
Public Commemoration, Private Pain: Families and Wounded Warriors
Mary Hershberger. Jane Fonda's War: A Political Biography of an Antiwar Icon. New York: New Press, 2005. 256 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-56584-988-4.
Reviewed by Tanya L. Roth (Washington University in St. Louis)
Published on H-Minerva (December, 2009)
Commissioned by Kara Dixon Vuic
Undermining the Myth of Jane Fonda as Un-American Activist
Richard Vinen. The Unfree French: Life under the Occupation. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. 496 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-12132-2.
Reviewed by Jennifer Duncan (Montana State University Billings)
Published on H-Minerva (December, 2009)
Commissioned by Kara Dixon Vuic
Jane Mersky Leder. Thanks for the Memories: Love, Sex, and World War II. Portsmouth: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006. 240 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-275-98879-1.
Reviewed by Donna Knaff (University of New Mexico)
Published on H-Minerva (June, 2009)
Commissioned by Kara Dixon Vuic
Some Love, Some Sex: A Sampling of Cultural History of WWII
Kimberly Jensen. Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xvii + 244 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03237-0; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-07496-7.
Reviewed by Heather M. Stur (University of Southern Mississippi)
Published on H-Minerva (April, 2009)
Commissioned by Kara Dixon Vuic
