Recent Scholarship
Military
Carter, Donald Alan, “Eisenhower versus the Generals,” Journal of Military History, 71 (Oct. 2007), 1169–99.
Gelpi, Paul D., Jr., “Mr. Jefferson’s Creoles: The Battalion d’Orléans and the Americanization of Creole Louisiana, 1803–1815,” Louisiana History, 48 (Summer 2007), 295–316.
Hannah, Eleanor, “Soldiers under the Skin: Diversity of Race, Ethnicity, and Class in the Illinois National Guard, 1870–1916,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 8 (Sept. 2007), 293–323.
Hayashi, Hirofumi, “Higashi ajia no beigun kichi to sei-baibai/sei-hanzai” (The sex trade and sexual offenses related to the U.S. military in East Asia), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 29 (2006), 18–35. In Japanese.
Hoyt, Edward A., and Ronald F. Kingsley, “The Pawlet Expedition, September 1777,” Vermont History, 75 (Summer–Fall 2007), 69–100.
MacGregor, Doug, “The Shot Not Heard around the World: Trent’s Fort and the Opening of the War for Empire,” Pennsylvania History, 74 (Summer 2007), 354–73.
Preston, David L., “‘Make Indians of Our White Men’: British Soldiers and Indian Warriors from Braddock’s to Forbes’s Campaigns, 1755–1758,” Pennsylvania History, 74 (Summer 2007), 280–306.
Ward, Matthew C., “The ‘Peaceable Kingdom’ Destroyed: The Seven Years’ War and the Transformation of the Pennsylvania Backcountry,” Pennsylvania History, 74 (Summer 2007), 247–79.
Fautua, David T., “An Army for the ‘American Century’: The Origins of the Cold War U.S. Army, 1949–1959” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006). Order No. DA3247669.
Michel, Marshall L., “The Revolt of the Majors: How the Air Force Changed after Vietnam” (Auburn University, 2006). Order No. DA3245490.
Bourque, Stephen A., and John W. Burdan III, The Road to Safwan: The 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2007. xii, 312 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-1-57441-232-1.)
Call, Steve, Danger Close: Tactical Air Controllers in Afghanistan and Iraq. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xxii, 250 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-58544-624-7.)
Heimann, Judith M., The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen, and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II. (New York: Harcourt, 2007. 289 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-0-15-101434-7.)
Henderson, Bruce, Down to the Sea: An Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in World War II. (New York: Collins, 2007. xiv, 368 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-06-117316-5.)
Kennedy, David M., ed., with Margaret E. Wagner, et. al. World War II Companion. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. xxvi, 982 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-7432-5219-5.) Heavily illustrated.
Kershaw, Alex, The Few: The American “Knights of the Air” Who Risked Everything to Save Britain in the Summer of 1940. (Cambridge: Da Capo, 2006. xviii, 305 pp. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-0-306-81572-0.)
Kinnard, Douglas, The War Managers. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2007. xii, 216 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-59114-437-3.) Originally published in 1977.
Metzgen, Humphrey, and John Graham, Caribbean Wars Untold: A Salute to the British West Indies. (Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2007. xvi, 256 pp. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-976-640-203-7.)
Millett, Allan R., The Korean War. (Dulles: Potomac, 2007. xii, 235 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-1-57488-976-5.)
Owen, Peter F., To the Limits of Endurance: A Battalion of Marines in the Great War. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xvi, 248 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-1-58544-599-8.)
Rottman, Gordon L., Mobile Strike Forces in Vietnam, 1966–70. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2007. 96 pp. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-184603-139-7.) Heavily illustrated.
Sloan, Bill, The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945; The Last Epic Struggle of World War II. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. x, 405 pp. $27.00, isbn 978-0-7432-9246-7.)
Ward, Geoffrey C., and Ken Burns, The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945. (New York: Knopf, 2007. xxvi, 451 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-307-26283-7.) Heavily illustrated.
Wheeler, James Scott, The Big Red One: America’s Legendary 1st Infantry Division from World War I to Desert Storm. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xiv, 594 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1552-0.)
Whitlock, Flint, and Ron Smith, The Depths of Courage: American Submariners at War with Japan, 1941–1945. (New York: Berkley Caliber, 2007. xx, 428 pp. $23.95, isbn 978-0-425-21743-6.)
Caruso, Patrick F., Nightmare on Iwo Jima: A Marine in Combat. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. xiv, 168 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8173-5448-0.)
Dorr, Robert F., Air Combat: An Oral History of Fighter Pilots. (New York: Caliber Books, 2007. viii, 343 pp. Paper, $16.00, isbn 978-0-425-21741-2.)
Gargus, John, The Son Tay Raid: American pows in Vietnam Were Not Forgotten. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xviii, 332 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-58544-622-3.)
Knudsen, John James, Off I Went into the Wild Blue Yonder. (Gretna: Pelican, 2007. 328 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-58980-494-4.)
Lebenson, Len, Surrounded by Heroes: Six Campaigns with Division Headquarters, 82nd Airborne Division, 1942–1945. (Drexel Hill, Pa.: Casemate, 2007. x, 213 pp. $32.95, isbn 1-932033-58-8.)
MacGregor, Doug, and Melissah Pawlikowski, eds., “‘This Wretched World’: The Journal of John Michael Lindenmuth,” Pennsylvania History, 74 (Summer 2007), 374–93.
McGarrah, Jim, A Temporary Sort of Peace: A Memoir of Vietnam. (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2007. x, 251 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-0-87195-258-5.)
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