Jasper M. Trautsch. The Genesis of America: US Foreign Policy and the Formation of National Identity, 1793-1815. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 328 pp. $49.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-42824-8.
Reviewed by Andy Forney (Texas Christian University/US Army) Published on H-War (July, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
M. Taylor Fravel. Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949. Princeton Studies in International History and Politics Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xv + 376 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-15213-4.
Reviewed by George Carter (Air University, Air War College) Published on H-War (July, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Tanya Anderson.
Gunpowder Girls: The True Stories of Three Civil War Tragedies.
Kansas City: Quindaro Press, 2016. Illustrations. 157 pp.
$16.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-9669258-7-6. 
Reviewed by Kathryn Angelica (University of Connecticut) Published on H-War (July, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
