Michigan War Studies Review
Reviews, surveys, original essays, and commentary in the field of military studies.
2022 Volume
The Road to The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam 2022-114
The Road to The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam
By Christopher Goscha
A review by Daniel R. Hart
Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War 2022-112
Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
By S.C. Gwynne
A review by Benjamin J. Lyman
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War 2022-111
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
By Malcolm Gladwell
A review by Thomas G. Palaima and Al Martinich
The Islamic State in Africa: The Emergence, Evolution, and Future of the Next Jihadist Battlefront 2022-110
The Islamic State in Africa: The Emergence, Evolution, and Future of the Next Jihadist Battlefront
By Jason Warner, Ryan O'Farrell, Heni Nsabia, and Ryan Cummings
A review by Christopher Griffin
Animal Histories of the Civil War Era 2022-108
Animal Histories of the Civil War Era
Ed. Earl J. Hess
A review by Michael Burns
Engineering in the Confederate Heartland 2022-107
Engineering in the Confederate Heartland
By Larry J. Daniel
A review by Jonathan Beard
Autumn of Our Discontent: Fall 1949 and the Crises in American National Securityf 2022-105
Autumn of Our Discontent: Fall 1949 and the Crises in American National Security
By John M. Curatola
A review by Richard M. Filipink
A Nazi Camp near Danzig: Perspectives on Shame and on the Holocaust from Stutthof 2022-104
A Nazi Camp near Danzig: Perspectives on Shame and on the Holocaust from Stutthof
By Ruth Schwertfeger
A review by Catherine Epstein
Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II 2022-103
Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II
By Paul M. Kennedy
A review by Ryan David Wadle
Northern Ireland, the United States, and the Second World War 2022-102
Northern Ireland, the United States, and the Second World War
By Simon Topping
A review by Ciaran Jones
Beyond the Quagmire: New Interpretations of the Vietnam War 2022-101
Beyond the Quagmire: New Interpretations of the Vietnam War
Ed. Geoffrey W. Jensen and Mathew M. Stith
A review by Steven J. Brady
The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front, 1941-1945: War, Occupation, Memory 2022-099
The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front, 1941-1945: War, Occupation, Memory
By Xose Nunez Seixas
A review by Grant T. Harward
Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II 2022-098
Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II
By Catherine Musemeche
A review by Jonathan Beard
Rise of the War Machines: The Birth of Precision Bombing in World War II 2022-097
Rise of the War Machines: The Birth of Precision Bombing in World War II
By Raymond P. O'Mara
A review by William D. O'Neil
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War 2022-096
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
By Samuel Moyn
A review by Armin Krishnan
Radical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter 2022-095
Radical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter
By William Marvel
A review by Ralph M. Hitchens
Stalin's War: A New History of World War II 2022-094
Stalin's War: A New History of World War II
By Sean McMeekin
A review by J.- Guy Lalande
How the Few Became the Proud: Crafting the Marine Corps Mystique, 1874-1918 2022-093
How the Few Became the Proud: Crafting the Marine Corps Mystique, 1874-1918
By Heather Venable
A review by Stuart R. Lockhart
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse: 1935–1943 2022-092
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse: 1935-1943
By John Gooch
A review by Jonathan Beard
Warfare and Logistics along the US-Canadian Border during the War of 1812 2022-091
Warfare and Logistics along the US-Canadian Border during the War of 1812
By Christopher D. Dishman
A review by Thomas Malcomson
The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan 2022-090
The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan
By David Kilcullen and Greg Mills
A review by Gates Brown
A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma and Britain 1941-1945 2022-089
A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma and Britain 1941-1945
By Robert Lyman
A review by James Campbell
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity 2022-088
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
By Walter Scheidel
A review by Michael J. Taylor
An American Brothel: Sex and Diplomacy during the Vietnam War 2022-087
An American Brothel: Sex and Diplomacy during the Vietnam War
By Amanda Boczar
A review by Brenda M. Boyle
The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 2022-086
The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
By Nick Lloyd
A review by Karen S. Wilhelm
Soldiers and Silver: Mobilizing Resources in the Age of Roman Conquest 2022-085
Soldiers and Silver: Mobilizing Resources in the Age of Roman Conquest
By Michael J. Taylor
A review by Sally Mubarak
Ends of Wars: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox 2022-083
Ends of Wars: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox
By Caroline E. Janney
A review by Robert L. Glaze
Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness 2022-081
Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness
By Kenneth M. Pollack
A review by Scott C. Buchanan
The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and its Wars in Europe 2022-080
The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and its Wars in Europe
By Gabor Agoston
A review by Wayne H. Bowen
Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet Home Front during World War II 2022-079
Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet Home Front during World War II
By Wendy Z. Goldman and Donald Filtzer
A review by J.- Guy Lalande
The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War 2022-078
The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War
By Mark Galeotti
A review by Heather Venable
A Short History of the American Civil War 2022-077
A Short History of the American Civil War
By Paul C. Anderson
A review by Corbin Williamson
How the Army Made Britain a Global Power: 1688-1815 2022-076
How the Army Made Britain a Global Power: 1688-1815
By Jeremy Black
A review by Douglas M. Peers
When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance 2022-075
When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance
By Michael S. Neiberg
A review by Carl Cavanagh Hodge
Battleship Commander: The Life of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr. 2022-074
Battleship Commander: The Life of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr.
By Paul Stillwell
A review by Joel I. Holwitt
American-Iranian Dialogues: From Constitution to White Revolution, c. 1890s-1960s 2022-072
American-Iranian Dialogues: From Constitution to White Revolution, c. 1890s-1960s
Ed. Matthew K. Shannon
A review by Steven Hurst
Brotherhood in Combat: How African Americans Found Equality in Korea and Vietnam 2022-071
Brotherhood in Combat: How African Americans Found Equality in Korea and Vietnam
By Jeremy P. Maxwell
A review by Thomas E. Hanson
Sisters in Arms: Female Warriors from Antiquity to the New Millennium 2022-070
Sisters in Arms: Female Warriors from Antiquity to the New Millennium
By Julie Wheelwright
A review by Kristen Williams
The Folly of Generals: How Eisenhower's Broad Front Strategy Lengthened World War II 2022-068
The Folly of Generals: How Eisenhower's Broad Front Strategy Lengthened World War II
By David P. Colley
A review by Matt Marfongelli
Flying Camelot: The F-15, The F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia 2022-067
Flying Camelot: The F-15, The F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia
By Michael W. Hankins
A review by Steven A. Fino
Romania's Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust 2022-066
Romania's Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust
By Grant T. Harward
A review by John M. Jennings
Sites of Violence and Memory in Modern Spain 2022-064
Sites of Violence and Memory in Modern Spain
Ed. Antonio Miguez Macho
A review by Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez
Counterinsurgency: Theory and Reality 2022-063
Counterinsurgency: Theory and Reality
By Daniel Whittingham and Stuart Mitchell
A review by Lee Eysturlid
Practical Liberators: Union Officers in the Western Theater during the Civil War 2022-062
Practical Liberators: Union Officers in the Western Theater during the Civil War
By Kristopher A. Teters
A review by Aaron D. Dilday
Revolt in the Netherlands: The Eighty Years War, 1568-1648 2022-060
Revolt in the Netherlands: The Eighty Years War, 1568-1648
By Anton van der Lem
A review by Caleb Karges
American Women Report World War I: An Anthology of Their Journalism 2022-058
American Women Report World War I: An Anthology of Their Journalism
Ed. Chris Dubbs
A review by Sarah Lonsdale
The Big Picture: The Cold War on the Small Screen 2022-057
The Big Picture: The Cold War on the Small Screen
By John W. Lemza
A review by Kevin M. Flanagan
Narvik: The Struggle of Battle Group Dietl in the Spring of 1940 2022-054
Narvik: The Struggle of Battle Group Dietl in the Spring of 1940
By Alex Buchner
A review by Lance R. Blyth
Nature's Army: When Soldiers Fought for Yosemite 2022-052
Nature's Army: When Soldiers Fought for Yosemite
By Harvey Meyerson
A review by Rolf Diamant
Strategy Shelved: The Collapse of Cold War Naval Strategic Planning 2022-050
Strategy Shelved: The Collapse of Cold War Naval Strategic Planning
By Steven T. Wills
A review by John T. Kuehn
Terror Flyers: The Lynching of American Airmen in Nazi Germany 2022-049
Terror Flyers: The Lynching of American Airmen in Nazi Germany
By Kevin T. Hall
A review by Thomas Saylor
Operation Barbarossa: the History of a Cataclysm 2022-048
Operation Barbarossa: the History of a Cataclysm
By Jonathan Dimbleby
A review by David Sutton
Desertion: Trust and Mistrust in Civil Wars 2022-047
Desertion: Trust and Mistrust in Civil Wars
By Theodore McLauchlin
A review by Robert M. Sandow
Dying to Learn: Wartime Lessons from the Western Front 2022-046
Dying to Learn: Wartime Lessons from the Western Front
By Michael A. Hunzeker
A review by Carl Cavanagh Hodge
The Great Partnership: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the Fate of the Confederacy 2022-044
The Great Partnership: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the Fate of the Confederacy
By Christian B. Keller
A review by John J. Deeney IV
Oil and the Great Powers: Britain and Germany, 1914–1945 2022-043
Oil and the Great Powers: Britain and Germany, 1914-1945
By Anand Toprani
A review by Mark Klobas
Arming the Irish Revolution: Gunrunning and Arms Smuggling, 1911–1922 2022-042
Arming the Irish Revolution: Gunrunning and Arms Smuggling, 1911-1922
By W.H. Kautt
A review by Daniel Ford
The Making of a King: Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greek 2022-041
The Making of a King: Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greek
By Robin Waterfield
A review by Ciaran Jones
Grey Wars: A Contemporary History of U.S. Special Operations 2022-040
Grey Wars: A Contemporary History of U.S. Special Operations
By Nancy W. Collins
A review by Iver Johansen
The 2022-039
The "Landmark" Xenophon's Anabasis
Ed. Shane Brennan and David Thomas
A review by Donald Lateiner
Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter 2022-038
Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter
By Robert Hutton
A review by Carl Cavanagh Hodge
Drawn Swords in a Distant Land: South Vietnam's Shattered Dreams 2022-037
Drawn Swords in a Distant Land: South Vietnam's Shattered Dreams
By George J. Veith
A review by Arrigo Velicogna
Future War and the Defence of Europe 2022-036
Future War and the Defence of Europe
By John R. Allen, Frederick Ben Hodges, and Julian Lindley-French
A review by Jeremy Black
Physical Control, Transformation and Damage in the First World War: War Bodies 2022-035
Physical Control, Transformation and Damage in the First World War: War Bodies
By Simon Harold Walker
A review by Garrett Gatzemeyer
The 4th Marine Brigade at Belleau Wood and Soissons: History and Battlefield Guide 2022-034
The 4th Marine Brigade at Belleau Wood and Soissons: History and Battlefield Guide
By J. Michael Miller
A review by Stuart R. Lockhart
Emergency Deep: Cold War Missions of a Submarine Commander 2022-033
Emergency Deep: Cold War Missions of a Submarine Commander
By Alfred Scott McLaren
A review by Joel I. Holwitt
Air Power's Lost Cause: The American Air Wars of Vietnam 2022-032
Air Power's Lost Cause: The American Air Wars of Vietnam
By Brian D. Laslie
A review by James R. Smither
A Rhetorical Crime: Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War 2022-031
A Rhetorical Crime: Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War
By Anton Weiss-Wendt
A review by Simone Paoli
Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II 2022-030
Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II
By Mark Edele
A review by J. Otto Pohl
Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WW II 2022-029
Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WW II
By Mary Louise Roberts
A review by Teddy J. Uldricks
Art, Propaganda and Aerial Warfare in Britain during the Second World War 2022-028
Art, Propaganda and Aerial Warfare in Britain during the Second World War
By Rebecca Searle
A review by S.P. MacKenzie
The Day After: Why America Wins the War but Loses the Peace 2022-025
The Day After: Why America Wins the War but Loses the Peace
By Brendan R. Gallagher
A review by Gates Brown
Quicksilver War: Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict 2022-024
Quicksilver War: Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict
By William Harris
A review by Jonathan M. House
From Horses to Horsepower: The Mechanization and Demise of the U.S. Cavalry 1916–1950 2022-023
From Horses to Horsepower: The Mechanization and Demise of the U.S. Cavalry 1916-1950
By Alexander Bielakowski
A review by Jeremy Black
Civil War Places: Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians 2022-022
Civil War Places: Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians
Ed. Gary W. Gallagher and J. Matthew Gallman
A review by Bill Backus
The American Military: A Concise History 2022-020
The American Military: A Concise History
By Joseph T. Glatthaar
A review by Jared Dockery
Bitskrieg: The New Challenge of Cyberwarfare 2022-018
Bitskrieg: The New Challenge of Cyberwarfare
By John Arquilla
A review by Matthew Ford
War Junk: Munitions Disposal and Postwar Reconstruction in Canada 2022-017
War Junk: Munitions Disposal and Postwar Reconstruction in Canada
By Alex Souchen
A review by Gregory J. Dehler
The War Beat, Pacific: The American Media at War against Japan 2022-016
The War Beat, Pacific: The American Media at War against Japan
By Steven Casey
A review by Richard Fine
Pearl Harbor: Japan's Attack and America's Entry into World War II 2022-015
Pearl Harbor: Japan's Attack and America's Entry into World War II
By Takuma Melber
A review by James P. Levy
Tank Combat in Spain: Armored Warfare during the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 2022-014
Tank Combat in Spain: Armored Warfare during the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
By Anthony J. Candil
A review by Jose Vicente Herrero
The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order 2022-013
The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order
By Hal Brands and Charles N. Edel
A review by Jordan Becker
Ambitious Honor: George Armstrong Custer's Life of Service and Lust for Fame 2022-012
Ambitious Honor: George Armstrong Custer's Life of Service and Lust for Fame
By James E. Mueller
A review by William Katerberg
Fighting for Time: Rhodesia's Military and Zimbabwe's Independence 2022-011
Fighting for Time: Rhodesia's Military and Zimbabwe's Independence
By Charles D. Melson
A review by Blake Whitaker
Sons of Freedom: The Forgotten American Soldiers Who Defeated Germany in World War I 2022-010
Sons of Freedom: The Forgotten American Soldiers Who Defeated Germany in World War I
By Geoffrey Wawro
A review by Michael A. Boden
Missionaries: A Novel 2022-009
Missionaries: A Novel
By Phil Klay
A review by Caleb Cage
Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War 2022-008
Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War
By Elizabeth R. Varon
A review by Cathal J. Nolan
Moral Imperative: 1972, Combat Rescue, and the End of America's War in Vietnam 2022-007
Moral Imperative: 1972, Combat Rescue, and the End of America's War in Vietnam
By Darrel D. Whitcomb
A review by Samuel B. Hoff
Courage above All Things: General John Ellis Wool and the U.S. Military, 1812-1863 2022-006
Courage above All Things: General John Ellis Wool and the U.S. Military, 1812-1863
Ed. Harwood P. Hinton and Jerry Thompson
A review by Evan C. Rothera
Negotiating Survival: Civilian-Insurgent Relations in Afghanistan 2022-004
Negotiating Survival: Civilian-Insurgent Relations in Afghanistan
By Ashley Jackson
A review by Scott C. Buchanan
After D-Day: The U.S. Army Encounters the French 2022-003
After D-Day: The U.S. Army Encounters the French
By Robert Lynn Fuller
A review by Andrew Orr
Blood, Metal and Dust: How Victory Turned into Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq 2022-002
Blood, Metal and Dust: How Victory Turned into Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq
By Ben Barry
A review by Jonathan M. House
Surviving the Winters: Housing Washington's Army during the American Revolution 2022-001
Surviving the Winters: Housing Washington's Army during the American Revolution
By Steven Elliott
A review by John G. McCurdy
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