War is the father of all and the king of all, and some he shows as gods, others as men;
some he makes slaves, others free
. -- Heracleitus



Editor: James P. Holoka                                                                                                                                                          ISSN: 1930-045x

The Michigan War Studies Review (reference abbreviation MWSR) publishes book reviews, literature surveys, original essays, commentary, and other material in the field of military studies, with a purview extending from antiquity to the present. Subscription is gratis. Publishers desiring to have books reviewed in MWSR should contact the editor. Those interested in writing for MWSR may see guidelines for reviews and a list of books currently available at our Submissions page. Many additional resources may be found at the publisher's website: Michigan War Studies Group.

 

 



 

2005 Volume
  2008.11.03

Surviving the Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese in the Far East, 1942-45
By Brian MacArthur [Review by Eugenia C. Kiesling]

  2008.11.02

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
By Michael Dobbs [Review by David J. Fitzpatrick]

  2008.11.01

A Violent Century--The Public Response
By Walter G. Moss

  2008.10.03

Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia and the End of the Golden Age
By Robin Waterfield  [Review by Donald Lateiner]

  2008.10.02

The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
By Andrew J. Bacevich  [Review by James Magee]

  2008.10.01

What Can America Expect from President Obama in Foreign Policy?
By Keith T. Bukovich

  2008.09.03

Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein
By Niall J.A. Barr [Review by William B. Boardman]

  2008.09.02

The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare. Vol. 2: Rome from the Late
Republic to the Late Empire

By Philip Sabin et al. [Review by Rose Mary Sheldon]

  2008.09.01

Die Chronik des Gettos Lodz/Litzmannstadt
By Sascha Feuchert et al. [Review by Carla A. Damiano]

  2008.08.03

Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy
By Andrew Cockburn [Review by Bruce Zellers]

  2008.08.02

The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army
Ed. Jane Portal [with the assistance of Hiromi Kinoshita] [Review by Jiu-Hwa Lo Upshur]

  2008.08.01

The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945--The Last Epic Struggle of World War II
By Bill Sloan [Review by John C. Binkley]

  2008.07.10

War Stories of the Tankers: American Armored Combat, 1918 to Today
By Michael Green [Review by Nathaniel R. Helms]

  2008.07.09

Lost Battles: Reconstructing the Great Clashes of the Ancient World
By Philip Sabin [Review by John David Lewis]

  2008.07.08

Collateral Damage: America's War against Iraqi Civilians
By Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian [Review by Thomas W. Collier]

  2008.07.07

Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of
SEAL Team 10

By Marcus Luttrell, with Patrick Robinson [Review by Grant W. Jones]

  2008.07.06

Hell's Islands: The Untold Story of Guadalcanal
By Stanley Coleman Jersey [Review by Travis J. Hardy]

  2008.07.05

Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
By Max Hastings [Review by William J. Astore]

  2008.07.04

Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq
By Jonathan Steele [Review by Thomas W. Collier]

  2008.07.03

1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War
By Benny Morris [Review by Janice J. Terry]

  2008.07.02

Classics Revisited: Leo Tolstoy's Sevastopol Stories
By Walter G. Moss

  2008.07.01

Heroes Among Us: Firsthand Accounts of Combat from America's Most Decorated
Warriors in Iraq and Afghanistan

By Chuck Larson [Review by Jeffrey S. Perry]

  2008.06.03

The Fighting 69th: One Remarkable National Guard Unit's Journey from Ground
Zero to Baghdad

By Sean Michael Flynn [Review by Sanford R. Silverburg]

  2008.06.02

Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942
By Robert M. Citino [Review by Lee W. Eysturlid]

  2008.06.01

The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America
By Walter R. Borneman [Review by Matt J. Schumann]

  2008.05.04

Killing Civilians: Method, Madness, and Morality in War
By Hugo Slim [Review by William J. Astore]

  2008.05.03

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
By Drew Gilpin Faust [Review by Steven J. Ramold]

  2008.05.02

Julius Caesar's Art of War: A Graphic Portfolio of Battlefields and Tactics in the Commentarii de Bello Gallico
By Antonio Salinas

  2008.05.01

The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust
By Jeffrey Herf [Review by Jacob L. Hamric]

  2008.04.03

War: Ends and Means
By Angelo Codevilla and Paul Seabury [Review by John David Lewis]

  2008.04.02

Commander in Chief: How Truman, Johnson, and Bush Turned a Presidential Power
into a Threat to America's Future

By Geoffrey Perret [Review by David J. Fitzpatrick]

  2008.04.01

What Can America Expect from President McCain in Foreign Policy?
By Keith T. Bukovich

  2008.03.01

The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo
By Roy Adkins and Lesley Adkins [Review by Hal M. Friedman]

  2008.02.02

Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
By John Ferling [Review by John Shy]

  2008.02.01

The Faces of World War I: The Great War in Words and Pictures
By Max Arthur [Review by Dan Dimancescu]

  2008.01.02

Air Combat: An Oral History of Fighter Pilots
By Robert F. Dorr [Review by Nathaniel R. Helms]

  2008.01.01

The Trojan War: A New History
By Barry Strauss [Review by Christoph Ulf]