Recent Scholarship
Military
Bateman, Robert L., “The Army and Academic Culture,” Academic Questions, 21 (March 2008), 62–78.
Bland, Larry I., “Institutional Leadership: George C. Marshall,” in The Art of Command: Military Leadership fromGeorge Washington to Colin Powell, ed. Harry S. Laver and Jeffrey J. Matthews, 61–91. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 276 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2513-8.)
Bruscino, Thomas A., Jr., “A Troubled Past: The Army and Security on the Mexican Border, 1915–1917,” Military Review, 88 (July–Aug. 2008), 31–44.
Cumming, Anthony J., “We’ll Get By with a Little Help from Our Friends: The Battle of Britain and the Pilot in Anglo-American Relations, 1940–45,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 1, 2007), 11–26.
Flis, Krzysztof, “Misja generala Lawtona Collinsa w swietle ‘Trybuny Ludu’” (General Lawton Collins’s mission from the perspective of the Trybuna Ludu newspaper), Bialostockie Teki Historyczne (Bialystok) (no. 5, 2007), 181–98. In Polish.
Hoffman, Jon T., “Charismatic Leadership: Lewis B. ‘Chesty’ Puller,” in The Art of Command: Military Leadership fromGeorge Washington to Colin Powell, ed. Harry S. Laver and Jeffrey J. Matthews, 125–53. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 276 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2513-8.)
Irish, Kerry E., “Cross-Cultural Leadership: Dwight D. Eisenhower,” in The Art of Command: Military Leadership fromGeorge Washington to Colin Powell, ed. Harry S. Laver and Jeffrey J. Matthews, 93–124. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 276 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2513-8.)
Le Roy, François, and Drew Perkins, “Visionary Leadership: Henry H. ‘Hap’ Arnold,” in The Art of Command: Military Leadership fromGeorge Washington to Colin Powell, ed. Harry S. Laver and Jeffrey J. Matthews, 155–77. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 276 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2513-8.)
Levey, Zach, “Anatomy of an Airlift: United States Military Assistance to Israel during the 1973 War,” Cold War History (London), 8 (Nov. 2008), 481–501.
Linn, Brian McAllister, “The American Way of War,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (Oct. 2008), 19–23.
MacKinnon, William P., “Buchanan’s Thrust from the Pacific: The Utah War’s Ill-Fated Second Front,” Journal of Mormon History, 34 (Fall 2008), 226–60.
Marble, Sanders, “Professional Doctors but Amateur Soldiers: The U.S. Army’s Affiliated Hospitals Program, 1915–1955,” War & Society (Dunrooten), 27 (May 2008), 39–58.
Matthews, Jeffrey J., “Exemplary Followership: Colin L. Powell,” in The Art of Command: Military Leadership fromGeorge Washington to Colin Powell, ed. Harry S. Laver and Jeffrey J. Matthews, 231–64. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 276 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2513-8.)
Mawdsley, Evan, “Anti-German Insurgency and Allied Grand Strategy,” Journal of Strategic Studies (London), 31 (Oct. 2008), 695–719.
McMaster, H. R., “Adaptive Leadership: Harold G. ‘Hal’ Moore,” in The Art of Command: Military Leadership fromGeorge Washington to Colin Powell, ed. Harry S. Laver and Jeffrey J. Matthews, 209–29. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 276 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2513-8.)
Moyar, Mark, “Vietnam: Historians at War,” Academic Questions, 21 (March 2008), 37–51.
Reardon, Carol, “View from the Ranks: Social and Cultural History of the American Armed Forces,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (Oct. 2008), 11–16.
Rosen, Deborah A., “Wartime Prisoners and the Rule of Law: Andrew Jackson’s Military Tribunals during the First Seminole War,” Journal of the Early Republic, 28 (Winter 2008), 559–95.
Terry, James P., “The Vietnam War in Perspective: Lessons Learned in the Law of Wars as Applied in Subsequent Conflict,” Naval Law Review, 54 (2007), 79–103.
Wetta, Frank J., and Martin A. Novelli, “Good Bombing, Bad Bombing: Hollywood, Air Warfare, and Morality in World War I and World War II,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (Oct. 2008), 25–29.
Clark, Thaddeus J., “Perceptions of Sexual Harassment Training Received in the Military: An Exploratory Investigation of U.S. Army Reserve Attitudes” (Capella University, 2008). Order No. DA3297418.
Cox, Keith William, “Conflicts of Interest: Race, Class, Mexicanidad, and the Negotiation of Rule in U.S. Occupied Mexico, 1846–1848” (University of California, Riverside, 2007). Order No. DA3298211.
Faith, Thomas Iain, “Under a Green Sea: The U.S. Chemical Warfare Service, 1917–1929” (George Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3297069.
Froula, Anna Katherine, “Soldier Girls: Popular Representations of America’s Women in Uniform from World War II to the ‘War on Terror’” (University of Kentucky, 2007). Order No. DA3298826.
Kane, Joshua, “Infrastructures of Aggression: Military Expenditure during the British Industrial and American Informational Mode of Development Shifts” (University of Washington, 2008). Order No. DA3303376.
LoFaro, Guy Anthony, “The Sword of St. Michael: The 82nd Airborne Division in World War II” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2007). Order No. DA3302033.
Mercille, Julien, “The Radical Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of U.S. Military Spending: A Case Study of the John F. Kennedy Administration” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3302524.
Weller, Grant Thomas, “‘Come Hell, High Water, or Nazis’: The U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps Develops and Implements the First Motorized Logistics System, 1919–1945” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3300383.
Yoshitani, Gail E. S., “National Power and Military Force: The Origins of the Weinberger Doctrine, 1980–1984” (Duke University, 2008). Order No. DA3297728.
Allardice, Bruce S., Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xii, 436 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1809-4.)
Bartlett, Merrill L., and Jack Sweetman, Leathernecks: An Illustrated History of the U.S. Marine Corps. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2008. xxii, 479 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-1-59114-020-7.) Heavily illustrated.
Broadnax, Samuel L., Blue Skies, Black Wings: African American Pioneers of Aviation. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xiv, 180 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1774-4.)
Buhite, Russell D., Douglas MacArthur: Statecraft and Stagecraft in America’s East Asian Policy. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. xiv, 189 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-7425-4425-3. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-7425-4426-0.)
Colley, David P., Decision at Strasbourg: Ike’s Strategic Mistake to Halt the Sixth Army Group at the Rhine in 1944. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2008. xiv, 251 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-59114-133-4.)
Ericson, Steven, and Allen Hockley, eds., The Treaty of Portsmouth and Its Legacies. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2008. x, 249 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-58465-722-4.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Ferrell, Robert H., The Question of MacArthur’s Reputation: Côte de Châtillon, October 14–16, 1918. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xvi, 111 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1830-8.)
Fisher, Louis, The Constitution and 9/11: Recurring Threats to America’s Freedoms. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 394 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-0-7006-1600-8. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1601-5.)
Gole, Henry G., General William E. DePuy: Preparing the Army for Modern War. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xviii, 364 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2500-8.)
Hogge, Jeffery A., Norton Parker Chipman: A Biography of the Andersonville War Crimes Prosecutor. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2008. viii, 241 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-7864-3449-7.)
Jamieson, Perry D., Khobar Towers: Tragedy and Response. (Washington: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2008. xxii, 276 pp. Paper, $29.00, isbn 978-0-16-080701-5.)
Kennedy, Maxwell Taylor, Danger’s Hour: The Story of theuss Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. xii, 515 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-7432-6080-0.)
Laver, Harry S., and Jeffrey J. Matthews, eds., The Art of Command: Military Leadership fromGeorge Washington to Colin Powell. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 276 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2513-8.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Longley, Kyle, Grunts: The American Combat Soldier in Vietnam. (Armonk: Sharpe, 2008. xxii, 245 pp. Cloth, $64.95, isbn 978-0-7656-2285-3. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-7656-2286-0.)
Michno, Gregory F., and Susan J. Michno, Forgotten Fights: Little-Known Raids and Skirmishes on the Frontier, 1823 to 1890. (Missoula: Mountain, 2008. xxviii, 384 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-0-87842-549-5.)
Oliver, Kendrick, The My Lai Massacre in American History and Memory. (Manchester, Eng.: Manchester University Press, 2006. 328 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-7190-6890-4. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-7190-6891-1.)
Pullen, John J., The Twentieth Maine. (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole, 2008. xii, 338 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8117-3524-7.) Originally published in 1957.
Sears, David, At War with the Wind: The Epic Struggle with Japan’s World War II Suicide Bombers. (New York: Citadel, 2008. x, 502 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8065-2893-9.)
Simson, Jay W., Custer and the Front Royal Executions of 1864. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. viii, 204 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7864-3973-7.)
Spring, Matthew H., With Zeal and with Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xxiv, 381 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3947-0.)
Sumida, Jon Tetsuro, Decoding Clausewitz: A New Approach to On War. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xxii, 234 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1616-9.)
Toffey, John J., IV, Jack Toffey’s War: A Son’s Memoir. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. xx, 269 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8232-2979-6.)
Wachowicz, Barbara, ‘Nazwe Cie Kosciuszko!’: Szlakiem bitewnym Naczelnika w Ameryce (‘Let me call you Kosciuszko!’: To follow his battle track in America). (Warszawa: Rytm, 2008. 520 pp. zl. 50.50, isbn 978-83-73992-65-8.) In Polish.
Yates, Lawrence A., The U.S. Military Intervention in Panama: Origins, Planning, and Crisis Management, June 1987–December 1989. (Washington: Center of Military History, 2008. xviii, 313 pp. Paper, $36.00, isbn 978-0-16-079419-3.)
Bilder, Michael C., and James G. Bilder, A Foot Soldier for Patton: The Story of a “Red Diamond” Infantryman with the U.S. Third Army. (Drexel Hill, Pa.: Casemate, 2008. x, 294 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-1-932033-91-5.)
Bowers, William T., ed., The Line: Combat in Korea January–February 1951. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 324 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2508-4.)
Dinges, Bruce J., and Shirley A. Leckie, eds., A Just and Righteous Cause: Benjamin H. Grierson’s Civil War Memoir. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. xvi, 449 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2859-8.)
Gorbachevsky, Boris, Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier’s War on the Eastern Front, 1942–1945, trans. Stuart Britton. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xxii, 453 pp. $36.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1605-3.)
Hanyok, Robert J., and David P. Mowry, West Wind Clear: Cryptology and the Winds Message Controversy; A Documentary History. (Fort George G. Meade: National Security Agency, 2008. xxii, 327 pp. Paper.)
Miller, Richard F., In Words and Deeds: Battle Speeches in History. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2008. xiv, 424 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-1-58465-731-6.)
Mulligan, Timothy P., comp., World War II: Guide to Records Relating to U.S. Military Participation, ed. Rebecca L. Collier. (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2008. Vol. 1: xiv, 487 pp. Vol. 2: viii, 566 pp. $75.00/set, isbn 1-880875-09-8/set.)
Sloan, Kay, ed., Not Without Honor: The Nazi pow Journal of Steve Carano. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2008. xxii, 159 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-55728-884-4.)
Sylvan, William C., and Francis G. Smith Jr., Normandy to Victory: The War Diary of General Courtney H. Hodges and the First U.S. Army, ed. John T. Greenwood. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xii, 575 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2525-1.)
Trask, Roger R., and John P. Glennon, eds., The Department of Defense: Documents on Organization and Mission, 1978–2003. (Washington: Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2008. x, 252 pp. $23.00, isbn 978-0-16-081032-9.)
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