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Chipman, Donald E., and Luis López Elizondo, “New Light on Felipe de Rábago y Terán,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 111 (Oct. 2007), 161–81.

Coleman, Bradley Lynn, “Recovering the Korean War Dead, 1950–1958: Graves Registration, Forensic Anthropology, and Wartime Memorialization,” Journal of Military History, 72 (Jan. 2008), 179–222.

Cox, Marcus, “‘We Are All Louisianians and by That Sign All Americans’: Negro Defense Training, Leadership, and War Activities at Southern University during World War II,” Louisiana History, 48 (Fall 2007), 413–40.

Cumings, Bruce, “A ‘Forgotten War’ That Remade the United States and the Cold War,” New England Journal of History, 64 (Fall 2007), 49–66.

Girard, Philippe R., “Rêves d’Empire: French Revolutionary Doctrine and Military Interventions in the Southern United States and the Caribbean, 1789–1809,” Louisiana History, 48 (Fall 2007), 389–412.

Work, David K., “An Utter Failure: Colonel William C. Brown, General John J. Pershing, and the Punitive Expedition, 1916,” Military History of the West, 37 (2007), 29–54.

 

Fullerton, Dan C., “Bright Prospects, Bleak Realities: The U.S. Army’s Interwar Modernization Program for the Coming of the Second World War” (University of Kansas, 2007). Order No. DA3261025.

Kuehn, John Trost, “The Influence of Naval Arms Limitation on U.S. Naval Innovation during the Interwar Period, 1921–1937” (Kansas State University, 2007). Order No. DA3259301.

Mitchener, Donald Keith, “The American Doctrine for the Use of Naval Gunfire in Support of Amphibious Landings: Myth vs. Reality in the Central Pacific of World War II” (University of North Texas, 2006). Order No. DA3254205.

Plating, John D., “Keeping China in the War: The Trans-Himalayan ‘Hump’ Airlift and Sino-U.S. Strategy in World War II” (Ohio State University, 2007). Order No. DA3262108.

Ramírez, José A., “‘To the line of fire, Mexican-Texans!’: The Tejano Community and World War I” (Southern Methodist University, 2007). Order No. DA3258673.

Smith, Christopher J., “American Rebels: Soldier Protests in the Early American Military, 1754–1815” (University of Houston, 2007). Order No. DA3261576.

Ulbrich, David J., “Managing Marine Mobilization: Thomas Holcomb and the U.S. Marine Corps, 1936–1943” (Temple University, 2007). Order No. DA3255157.

 

Agnew, Jeremy, Life of a Soldier on the Western Frontier. (Missoula: Mountain, 2008. xiv, 266 pp. Paper, $16.00, isbn 978-0-87842-541-9.)

Barrett, Michèle, Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War. (London: Verso, 2007. xiv, 174 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-84467-230-1.)

Cosmas, Graham A., macv: The Joint Command in the Years of Withdrawal, 1968–1973. (Washington: Center of Military History, 2007. xx, 466 pp. Cloth, $43.00, isbn 978-0-16-077118-7. Paper, $43.00, isbn 978-0-16-077118-7.)

Davies, Norman, No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939–1945. (New York: Viking, 2007. xvi, 544 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-670-01832-1.)

Duncan, Bob, Historic Photos of World War II: North Africa to Germany. (Nashville: Turner, 2007. x, 205 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-59652-398-2.) Heavily illustrated.

Duncan, Bob, Historic Photos of World War II: Pearl Harbor to Japan. (Nashville: Turner, 2008. x, 204 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-59652-422-4.) Heavily illustrated.

Hart, Peter, Aces Falling: War above the Trenches, 1918. (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007. xiv, 386 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-297-84653-6.)

Hotta, Eri, Pan-Asianism and Japan’s War, 1931–1945. (New York: Palgrave, 2007. xiv, 290 pp. $79.95, isbn 978-0-2306-0103-1.)

Jersey, Stanley Coleman, Hell’s Islands: The Untold Story of Guadalcanal. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xxii, 514 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-1-58544-616-2.)

Krohn, Charles A., The Lost Battalion of Tet: Breakout of the 2/12th Cavalry at Hue. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2008. xvi, 168 pp. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-1-59114-434-2.) Originally published in 1993.

Mason, Herbert A., Jr., Randy G. Bergeron, and James A. Renfrow Jr., Operation Thursday: Birth of the Air Commandos. (Washington: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2007. 45 pp. Paper, $14.50, isbn 978-1410214829.) Originally published in 1994.

Michno, Gregory, The Mystery of E Troop: Custer’s Gray Horse Company at the Little Bighorn. (Missoula: Mountain, 2005. xvi, 349 pp. Paper, $18.00, isbn 0-87842-304-4.) Originally published in 1994.

Starr, Stephen Z., The Union Cavalry in the Civil War, vol. 1: From Fort Sumter to Gettysburg, 1861–1863. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xiv, 507 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 978-0-8071-0484-2. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3291-3.) Originally published in 1979.

Starr, Stephen Z., The Union Cavalry in the Civil War, vol. 2: The War in the East from Gettysburg to Appomattox, 1863–1865. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xviii, 526 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 978-0-8071-0859-8. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3292-0.) Originally published in 1981.

Starr, Stephen Z., The Union Cavalry in the Civil War, vol. 3: The War in the West, 1861–1865. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xviii, 616 pp. Cloth, $77.95, isbn 978-0-8071-1209-0. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-8071-1209-0.) Originally published in 1985.

Sturma, Michael, The uss Flier: Death and Survival on a World War II Submarine. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. x, 209 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8131-2481-0.)

Sutherland, Jon, and Diane Canwell, The Berlin Airlift: The Salvation of a City. (Gretna: Pelican, 2008. 215 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-58980-550-7.)

Woodward, C. Vann, The Battle for Leyte Gulf: The Incredible Story of World War II’s Largest Naval Battle. (New York: Skyhorse, 2007. xiv, 223 pp. Paper, $12.95, isbn 978-1-60239-194-9.) Originally published in 1989.

 

Hughes, Christopher P., War on Two Fronts: An Infantry Commander’s War in Iraq and the Pentagon. (Drexel Hill, Pa.: Casemate, 2007. xiv, 306 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-932033-81-6.)

Kelly, Carol Adele, ed., Voices of My Comrades: America’s Reserve Officers Remember World War II. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007. xxxiv, 547 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8232-2823-2.)

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