Journal of Military History

Table of Contents

Vol. 72, No. 1

January 2008


In Memorium: Dr. Larry I. Bland (1940-2007): 9.

 

Articles:

Peter H. Wilson, "Defining Military Culture," The Journal of Military History 72 #1 (January 2008): 11-41.

Ronald F. Kingsley and Harvey J. Alexander, "The Failure of Abercromby's Attack on Fort Carillon, July 1758, and the Scapegoating of Matthew Clerk," The Journal of Military History 72 #1 (January 2008): 43-70.

Mark van de Logt, "'The Powers of the Heavens Shall Eat of My Smoke:' The Significance of Scalping in Pawnee Warfare," The Journal of Military History 72 #1 (January 2008): 71-104.

Xu Guoqi, "The Great War and China's Military Expedition Plan," The Journal of Military History 72 #1 (January 2008): 105-140.

Mary Glantz, "An Officer and a Diplomat? The Ambiguous Position of Philip R. Faymonville and United States-Soviet Relations, 1941-1943," The Journal of Military History 72 #1 (January 2008): 141-177.

Bradley Lynn Coleman, "Recovering the Korean War Dead, 1950-1958: Graves Registration, Forensic Anthropology, and Wartime Memorialization," The Journal of Military History 72 #1 (January 2008): 179-222.

 

Reviews:

Victory of the West: The Story of the Battle of Lepanto, by Niccolò Capponi, reviewed by Gábor Ágoston and by John F. Guilmartin, Jr., 223-225

When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty, by Hugh Kennedy, reviewed by Russ Rodgers, 226-227

The Knights of Islam: The Wars of the Mamluks, by James Waterson, reviewed by John Dunn, 227-228

The Artillery of the Dukes of Burgundy, 1363-1477, by Robert Douglas Smith and Kelly DeVries, reviewed by Albert D. McJoynt, 228-230

Three Armies in Britain: The Irish Campaign of Richard II and the Usurpation of Henry IV, 1397-1399, by Douglas Biggs, reviewed by Gwilym Dodd, 230-231

The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652, by Ian Gentles, reviewed by Charles Carlton, 232

The Diary of a Manchu Soldier in Seventeenth-Century China: "My Service in the Army," by Dzengseo, introduction, translation, and notes by Nicola de Cosmo, reviewed by Kenneth M. Swope, 233-234

John Stark: Maverick General, by Ben Z. Rose, reviewed by John Buchanan, 234-236

Militarium: Fonti archivisti e bibliografia per la storia militare della Repubblica di Genova (1528-1797), della Repubblica Ligure (1797-1805) e della Liguria napoleonica (1805-1814), by Paolo Giacomone Piana and Riccardo Dellepiane, reviewed by Frederick C. Schneid, 236-237

Once There Were Titans: Napoleon's Generals and Their Battles, 1800-1815, by Kevin F. Kiley, reviewed by Owen Connelly, 237-238

Architects of Empire: The Duke of Wellington and His Brothers, by John Severn, reviewed by Neville Thompson, 238-239

Fix Bayonets! A Royal Welch Fusilier at War, 1796-1815, by Donald E. Graves, reviewed by Huw Davies, 240-241

Through Water, Ice & Fire: Schooner Nancy of the War of 1812, by Barry Gough, reviewed by David Curtis Skaggs, 241-242

Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law: Nationalism, Civil Liberties, and Partisanship, by Matthew Warshauer, reviewed by Jeanne T. Heidler, 242-243

A Gallant Little Army: The Mexico City Campaign, by Timothy D. Johnson, reviewed by Samuel Watson, 243-244

Civil War to the Bloody End: The Life and Times of Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman, by Jerry Thompson, reviewed by Harry S. Laver, 245-246

Blue and Gray Navies: The Civil War Afloat, by Spencer C. Tucker, reviewed by William H. Roberts, 246-247

Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: The Mississippi Squadron, by Gary D. Joiner, reviewed by Spencer C. Tucker. 247-248

Civil War Weather in Virginia, by Robert K. Krick, reviewed by James I. Robertson, Jr., 248-249

A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America's Civil War, by Scott Nelson and Carol Sheriff, reviewed by Jennifer R. Green, 249-250

Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home, edited by Walter D. Kamphoefner and Wolfgang Helbich, reviewed by Stephen D. Engle, 251-252

Invisible Southerners: Ethnicity in the Civil War, by Anne J. Bailey, reviewed by Walter D. Kamphoefner, 252-253

The Jeune École: The Strategy of the Weak, by Arne Røksund, reviewed by Chalmers Hood, 253-254

The Great Naval Game: Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire, by Jan Rüger, reviewed by Eric C. Rust, 255-256

Spying for Empire: The Great Game in Central and South Asia, 1757-1947, by Robert Johnson, reviewed by John Brobst, 256-257

The Admirals: Canada's Senior Naval Leadership in the Twentieth Century, by Michael Whitby, Richard H. Gimblett, and Peter Haydon, reviewed by John B. Hattendorf, 257-258

World War I, by Jennifer D. Keene, reviewed by Brian Neumann, 258-259

French Strategic and Tactical Bombardment Forces of World War I, by René Martel, edited by Steven Suddaby, reviewed by François Le Roy, 259-260

Dangerous Liaisons: Collaboration and World War Two, by Peter Davies, reviewed by Judith Keene, 261-262

Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime, by Kenneth I. Helphand; Natural Enemy, Natural Ally: Toward An Environmental History of War, edited by Richard P. Tucker and Edmund Russell, reviewed by Bruce Vandervort, 262-265

MacArthur: A Biography, by Richard B. Frank, reviewed by Thomas A. Bruscino, Jr., 265-266

Odyssey of a Philippine Scout: Fighting, Escaping, and Evading the Japanese, 1941-1944, by Arthur Kendal Whitehead, reviewed by Richard Meixsel, 266-267

Confronting Captivity: Britain and the United States and their POWs in Nazi Germany, by Arieh J. Kochavi, reviewed by Hal Elliott Wert, 267-269

Cracking the Luftwaffe Codes: The Secrets of Bletchley Park, by Gwen Watkins, reviewed by David Alvarez, 269-270

Anzio: Italy and the Battle for Rome - 1944, by Lloyd Clark; They Fought at Anzio, by John S. D. Eisenhower, reviewed by Mannie Liscum, 271-272

The Interpreter, by Alice Kaplan, reviewed by Alan M. Osur, 272-273

Patton's Fighting Bridge Builders: Company B, 1303rd Engineer General Service Regiment, edited by Joseph C. Fitzharris, reviewed by Ron G. Prichard, 273-275

Red Partisan: The Memoir of a Soviet Resistance Fighter on the Eastern Front, by Nikolai I. Obryn'ba, reviewed by Walter S. Dunn, 275-276

Hitler, Dönitz, and the Baltic Sea: The Third Reich's Last Hope, 1944-45, by Howard D. Grier, reviewed by Aarni Lehti, 277-278

The Battle for the Ruhr: The German Army's Final Defeat in the West, by Derek S. Zumbro, reviewed by Jeff Demers, 278-279

Field of Spears: The Last Mission of the Jordan Crew, by Gregory Hadley, reviewed by Stanley L. Falk, 279-280

The Jet Race and the Second World War, by Sterling Michael Pavelec, reviewed by Kenneth P. Werrell, 280-281

The OSS and Ho Chi Minh: Unexpected Allies in the War Against Japan, by Dixee R. Bartholemew-Feis, reviewed by Glenn E. Helm, 281-282

Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War, by Michael D. Gordin, reviewed by Greg Herken, 282-284

After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation, by Giles MacDonogh, reviewed by Bianka J. Adams, 284-285

GIs and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in the 1950s West Germany, by Maria Höhn, reviewed by Erika Kuhlman, 285-286

Advising Indigenous Forces: American Advisors in Korea, Vietnam, and El Salvador, by Robert B. Ramsey III, reviewed by Donald Stoker, 287

Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam, by Kathryn C. Statler, reviewed by Marianna P. Sullivan, 288-289

Operation Passage to Freedom: The United States Navy in Vietnam, 1954-1955, by Ronald B. Frankum, Jr., reviewed by Dean C. Allard, 289-290

A Clash of Cultures: Civil-Military Relations During the Vietnam War, by Orrin Schwab, reviewed by Erik Riker-Coleman, 290-291

Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter & Vietnamese Communist Agent, by Larry Berman, reviewed by Steven S. Minniear, 291-292

Legitimizing Military Rule: Indonesian Armed Forces Ideology, 1958-2000, by Salim Said; Suharto's Armed Forces: Problems of Civil Military Relations in Indonesia, by Salim Said, reviewed by Patrick M. Mayerchak, 293-294

Australian Military Operations in Vietnam, by Albert Palazzo; The Western Desert Campaign 1940-41, by Glen Wahlert, reviewed by Allan Converse, 294-296

The Cambodian Campaign: The 1970 Offensive and America's Vietnam War, by John M. Shaw, reviewed by Jeffrey J. Clarke, 296-297

Chinese Military Strategy in the Third Indochina War: The Last Maoist War, by Edward C. O'Dowd, reviewed by Xiaoming Zhang, 297-299

John Warden and the Renaissance of American Air Power, by John Andreas Olsen, reviewed by Daniel L. Haulman, 299-300

Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad, by James Hughes, reviewed by Lester W. Grau, 300

Transforming European Militaries: Coalition Operations and the Technology Gap, by Gordon Adams and Guy Ben-Ari, reviewed by Theo Farrell, 300-302

Historical Dictionary of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare, by Benjamin C. Garrett and John Hart, reviewed by John E. van Courtland Moon, 302-303

Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win, by Jeffrey Record, reviewed by Joseph R. Fischer, 303-304

The Warrior Ethos: Military Culture and the War on Terror, by Christopher Coker, reviewed by Christopher Hamner, 304-305

Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy, by Colin S. Gray, reviewed by Dennis Showalter, 305-307

Other:

BOOKS RECEIVED, 309-317.

RECENT JOURNAL ARTICLES, 319-323.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, 325.

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