Michigan War Studies Review
Reviews, surveys, original essays, and commentary in the field of military studies.
2019 Volume
The Seventh West Virginia Infantry: An Embattled Union Regiment from the Civil War's Most Divided State 2019-105
The Seventh West Virginia Infantry: An Embattled Union Regiment from the Civil War's Most Divided State
By David W. Mellott and Mark A. Snell
A review by Scott A. MacKenzie
Athens Burning: The Persian Invasion of Greece and the Evacuation of Attica 2019-103
Athens Burning: The Persian Invasion of Greece and the Evacuation of Attica
By Robert Garland
A review by Nicholas D. Cross
Operation Diver: Guns, V1 Flying Bombs and Landscapes of Defence, 1944-45 2019-102
Operation Diver: Guns, V1 Flying Bombs and Landscapes of Defence, 1944-45
By Colin Dobinson
A review by Jonathan Beard
Mussolini and Hitler: The Forging of the Fascist Alliance 2019-101
Mussolini and Hitler: The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
By Christian Goeschel
A review by Richard Hammond
Aerial Warfare: The Battle for the Skies 2019-100
Aerial Warfare: The Battle for the Skies
By Frank Ledwidge
A review by Ryan Menath
Who Fights for Reputation: The Psychology of Leaders in International Conflict 2019-099
Who Fights for Reputation: The Psychology of Leaders in International Conflict
By Keren Yarhi-Milo
A review by Scott Wolford
Life in Jefferson Davis' Navy 2019-098
Life in Jefferson Davis' Navy
By Barbara Brooks Tomblin
A review by Neil P. Chatelain
Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security 2019-096
Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security
By Michael C. Desch
A review by Ralph M. Hitchens
Thermopylae: Great Battles 2019-095
Thermopylae: Great Battles
By Chris Carey
A review by Donald Lateiner
Code-Breakers 2019-094
Code-Breakers of the Second World War
A review by Jonathan Beard
The Great War in America: World War I and Its Aftermath 2019-092
The Great War in America: World War I and Its Aftermath
By Garrett Peck
A review by Ruth Truss
Blood in the Water: How the US and Israel Conspired to Ambush the USS Liberty 2019-091
Blood in the Water: How the US and Israel Conspired to Ambush the USS Liberty
By Joan Mellen
A review by Janice J. Terry
English Landed Society in the Great War: Defending the Realm 2019-090
English Landed Society in the Great War: Defending the Realm
By Edward Bujak
A review by Mark Klobas
Napoleon: A Life 2019-089
Napoleon: A Life
By Adam Zamoyski
A review by Lee W. Eysturlid
The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale, Moses Dunbar, and the American Revolution 2019-087
The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale, Moses Dunbar, and the American Revolution
By Virginia DeJohn Anderson
A review by Robert S. McPherson
The Story of War: Church and Propaganda in France and Sweden 1610-1710 2019-086
The Story of War: Church and Propaganda in France and Sweden 1610-1710
By Anna Maria Forssberg
A review by Christopher Gennari
German Soldiers and the Occupation of France, 1940-1944 2019-085
German Soldiers and the Occupation of France, 1940-1944
By Julia S. Torrie
A review by Sandra Ott
D-Day and the Normandy Campaign 2019-083
D-Day and the Normandy Campaign
Ed. David Reisch
A review by Donald Lateiner
Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History 2019-082
Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History
By Ethan Mark
A review by Lizzie Oliver
Courage and Grief: Women and Sweden's Thirty Years' War 2019-081
Courage and Grief: Women and Sweden's Thirty Years' War
By Mary Elizabeth Ailes
A review by Maria Agren
Lt. Spalding in Civil War Louisiana: A Union Officer's Humor, Privilege, and Ambition 2019-079
Lt. Spalding in Civil War Louisiana: A Union Officer's Humor, Privilege, and Ambition
By Michael D. Pierson
A review by Evan C. Rothera
Peace and Power in Cold War Britain: Media, Movements and Democracy, c. 1945-68 2019-078
Peace and Power in Cold War Britain: Media, Movements and Democracy, c. 1945-68
By Christopher R. Hill
A review by Nicholas J. Barnett
The First Soldier: Hitler as Military Leader 2019-076
The First Soldier: Hitler as Military Leader
By Stephen G. Fritz
A review by Carl Cavanagh Hodge
Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood 2019-075
Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood
By Deborah A. Rosen
A review by Richard Byington
1917: War, Peace, and Revolution 2019-074
1917: War, Peace, and Revolution
By David Stevenson
A review by Gregory J. Dehler
The Strategy of Victory: How General George Washington Won the American Revolution 2019-073
The Strategy of Victory: How General George Washington Won the American Revolution
By Thomas Fleming
A review by Samuel B. Hoff
Then They Came for Me: Martin Niemoeller, the Pastor Who Defied the Nazis 2019-072
Then They Came for Me: Martin Niemoeller, the Pastor Who Defied the Nazis
By Matthew D. Hockenos
A review by Mark Jantzen
The Locomotive of War: Money, Empire, Power, and Guilt 2019-071
The Locomotive of War: Money, Empire, Power, and Guilt
By Peter Clarke
A review by David Cullen
Thank You for Your Service: Collected Poems 2019-070
Thank You for Your Service: Collected Poems
By W.D. Ehrhart
A review by Thomas G. Palaima
Reckless: Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam 2019-069
Reckless: Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam
By Robert K. Brigham
A review by Bruce Zellers
A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War 2019-068
A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War
By Tim Grady
A review by Guillaume de Syon
From Victory to Stalemate: The Western Front, Summer 1944 2019-067
From Victory to Stalemate: The Western Front, Summer 1944
By Charles J. Dick
A review by Ralph M. Hitchens
Spies, Patriots, and Traitors: American Intelligence in the Revolutionary War 2019-066
Spies, Patriots, and Traitors: American Intelligence in the Revolutionary War
By Kenneth A. Daigler
A review by Robert S. McPherson
The Japanese and the War: Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory 2019-065
The Japanese and the War: Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory
By Michael Lucken
A review by William D. O'Neil
The Crusader Armies: 1099-1187 2019-064
The Crusader Armies: 1099-1187
By Steve Tibble
A review by Laurence W. Marvin
Desert Mementos: Stories of Iraq and Nevada 2019-063
Desert Mementos: Stories of Iraq and Nevada
By Caleb S. Cage
A review by David F. Eisler
Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em: The Rise and Fall of the Military Cigarette Ration 2019-062
Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em: The Rise and Fall of the Military Cigarette Ration
By Joel R. Bius
A review by Elizabeth A. Smith
Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front 2019-061
Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front
By Jonathan Boff
A review by Martin Samuels
The Listeners: U-boat Hunters during the Great War 2019-060
The Listeners: U-boat Hunters during the Great War
By Roy R. Manstan
A review by Alex Howlett
Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War 2019-059
Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War
By Peter Hart
A review by James R. Smither
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington 2019-057
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
By Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch
A review by Anita Porterfield
Stalin's Secret Weapon: The Origins of Soviet Biological Warfare 2019-056
Stalin's Secret Weapon: The Origins of Soviet Biological Warfare
By Anthony Rimmington
A review by Jonathan House
So Close to Freedom: A World War II Story of Peril and Betrayal in the Pyrenees 2019-055
So Close to Freedom: A World War II Story of Peril and Betrayal in the Pyrenees
By Jean-Luc E. Cartron
A review by Donald Lateiner
Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War 2019-053
Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War
By Miriam Gebhardt
A review by Adrian R. Lewis
World War II at Sea: A Global History 2019-052
World War II at Sea: A Global History
By Craig L. Symonds
A review by Vincent O'Hara
Divided on D-Day: How Conflicts and Rivalries Jeopardized the Allied Victory at Normandy 2019-048
Divided on D-Day: How Conflicts and Rivalries Jeopardized the Allied Victory at Normandy
By Edward E. Gordon and David Ramsay
A review by Thomas E. Hanson
Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare 2019-047
Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare
By James L. Hevia
A review by Gervase Phillips
Clash of Fleets: Naval Battles of the Great War, 1914-18 2019-045
Pershing's Tankers: Personal Accounts of the AEF Tank Corps in World War I
Ed. Lawrence M. Kaplan
A review by Douglas R. Cubbison
Clash of Fleets: Naval Battles of the Great War, 1914-18 2019-044
Clash of Fleets: Naval Battles of the Great War, 1914-18
By Vincent P. O'Hara and Leonard R. Heinz
A review by Jonathan Chavanne
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days on an Atomic Knife Edge, October 1962 2019-043
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days on an Atomic Knife Edge, October 1962
By Phil Carradice
A review by Robert Weisbrot
Rupert Brooke in the First World War 2019-042
Rupert Brooke in the First World War
By Alisa Miller
A review by Yann Tholoniat
The Finnish SS-Volunteers and Atrocities, 1941-1943 2019-040
The Finnish SS-Volunteers and Atrocities, 1941-1943
By Lars Westerlund
A review by Jonathan Beard
The Battle of Peach Tree Creek: Hood's First Effort to Save Atlanta 2019-039
The Battle of Peach Tree Creek: Hood's First Effort to Save Atlanta
By Earl J. Hess
A review by Robert L. Glaze
Unlikely General: 2019-038
Unlikely General: "Mad" Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America
By Mary Stockwell
A review by M.K. Beauchamp
Britain's Quest For Oil: The First World War and the Peace Conferences 2019-036
Britain's Quest For Oil: The First World War and the Peace Conferences
By Martin Gibson
A review by Anand Toprani
Reims on Fire: War and Reconciliation between France and Germany 2019-035
Reims on Fire: War and Reconciliation between France and Germany
By Thomas W. Gaehtgens
A review by Kevin S. Malmquist
The U.S. Intelligence Community 2019-034
The U.S. Intelligence Community
By Jeffrey T. Richelson
A review by Jan D. Galla
Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi 2019-032
Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi
By Thomas Weber
A review by Christopher Fischer
Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein 2019-031
Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein
By John Nixon
A review by Thomas G. Palaima
Words and the First World War: Language, Memory, Vocabulary 2019-030
Words and the First World War: Language, Memory, Vocabulary
By Julian Walker
A review by Marguerite Helmers
Bloody Sixteen: The USS Oriskany and Air Wing 16 during the Vietnam War 2019-029
Bloody Sixteen: The USS Oriskany and Air Wing 16 during the Vietnam War
By Peter Fey
A review by Michael Hankins
Eleven Months to Freedom: A German POW's Unlikely Escape from Siberia in 1915 2019-028
Eleven Months to Freedom: A German POW's Unlikely Escape from Siberia in 1915
By Dwight R. Messimer
A review by Jeff Schultz
In the Year of the Tiger: The War for Cochinchina, 1945-1951 2019-027
In the Year of the Tiger: The War for Cochinchina, 1945-1951
By William M. Waddell III
A review by Elie Tenenbaum
War, Law and Humanity: The Campaign to Control Warfare, 1853-1914 2019-026
War, Law and Humanity: The Campaign to Control Warfare, 1853-1914
By James Crossland
A review by Allan A. Ryan
The 'Stan 2019-024
The 'Stan
By Kevin Knodell and David Axe
A review by Robert J. Kodosky
The Commander: Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence, 1914-1948 2019-023
The Commander: Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence, 1914-1948
By Laila Parsons
A review by Robert L. Tignor
British Prisoners of War in First World War Germany 2019-022
British Prisoners of War in First World War Germany
By Oliver Wilkinson
A review by Clare Makepeace
The Control War: The Struggle for South Vietnam, 1968-1975 2019-021
The Control War: The Struggle for South Vietnam, 1968-1975
By Martin G. Clemis
A review by Tuan Hoang
Illusions of Victory: the Anbar Awakening and the Rise of the Islamic State 2019-019
Illusions of Victory: the Anbar Awakening and the Rise of the Islamic State
By Carter Malkasian
A review by Gates Brown
The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War 2019-017
The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War
By James McGrath Morris
A review by David Cullen
81 Days Below Zero: The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska's Frozen Wilderness 2019-016
81 Days Below Zero: The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska's Frozen Wilderness
By Brian Murphy with Toula Vlahou
A review by Jeff A. Bovarnick
Trading in War: London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson 2019-015
Trading in War: London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson
By Margarette Lincoln
A review by Gordon Bannerman
Bombs Away: Militarization, Conservation, and Ecological Restoration 2019-014
Bombs Away: Militarization, Conservation, and Ecological Restoration
By David G. Havlick
A review by Tom J. Arnold
My War, My Art 2019-013
My War, My Art
By Ovidio Garcia
A review by Thomas G. Palaima
Friendly Fire in the Literature of War 2019-012
Friendly Fire in the Literature of War
By Earl R. Anderson
A review by Donald Lateiner
British Flag Officers in the French Wars, 1793-1815: Admirals' Lives 2019-011
British Flag Officers in the French Wars, 1793-1815: Admirals' Lives
By John Morrow
A review by Ralph M. Hitchens
Civil War Clash of Ironclads 2019-010
Civil War Clash of Ironclads
A review by Jonathan Beard
The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace: But Will War Rebound? 2019-009
The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace: But Will War Rebound?
By Azar Gat
A review by Edmund F. Byrne
The English Armada: The Greatest Naval Disaster in English History 2019-008
The English Armada: The Greatest Naval Disaster in English History
By Luis Gorrochategui Santos
A review by Edward Shannon Tenace
Stalingrad 2019-007
Stalingrad
By David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House
A review by Carl Cavanagh Hodge
In Command: Theodore Roosevelt and the American Military 2019-004
In Command: Theodore Roosevelt and the American Military
By Matthew M. Oyos
A review by Michael Patrick Cullinane
Hitler's Wehrmacht, 1935–1945 2019-001
Hitler's Wehrmacht, 1935-1945
By Rolf-Dieter Muller
A review by Cathal J. Nolan
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