Journal of Military History

Table of Contents

Vol. 72, No. 2

April 2008


Articles:

Robert H. Larson, "Max Jähns and the Writing of Military History in Imperial Germany," The Journal of Military History 72 #2 (April 2008): 345-370.

Lisa M. Budreau, "The Politics of Remembrance: The Gold Star Mothers' Pilgrimage and America's Fading Memory of the Great War," The Journal of Military History 72 #2 (April 2008): 371-411.

Tami Davis Biddle, "Dresden 1945: Reality, History, and Memory," The Journal of Military History 72 #2 (April 2008): 413-449.

Kenneth P. Werrell, "Across the Yalu: Rules of Engagement and the Communist Air Sanctuary during the Korea War," The Journal of Military History 72 #2 (April 2008): 451-475.

Ingo Wolfgang Trauschweizer, "Learning with an Ally: The U.S. Army and the Bundeswehr in the Cold War," The Journal of Military History 72 #2 (April 2008): 477-508.

Uri Bar Joseph, "Strategic Surprise or Fundamental Flaws? The Source of Israel's Military Defeat at the Beginning of the 1973 War," The Journal of Military History 72 #2 (April 2008): 509-530.

 

Notes and Comments

George D. Salaita, "Embellishing Omaha Beach," The Journal of Military History 72 #2 (April 2008): 531-534.

 

Reviews:

Hiroshima in History: The Myths of Revisionism, edited with an Introduction by Robert James Maddox, reviewed by Thomas A. Julian and by Sean L. Malloy, 535-539

War Crimes and Just War, by Larry May, reviewed by Fred L. Borch, 540-541

Prisoners of War: A Reference Handbook, by Arnold Krammer, reviewed by Robert C. Doyle, 542-543

What is Military History? by Stephen Morillo with Michael F. Pavkovic, reviewed by Ronald L. Spiller, 543-544

A Military History of Modern China: From the Manchu Conquest to Tian'anmen Square, by Peter Worthing, reviewed by Bernard D. Cole, 544-545

The Archaeology of Warfare: Prehistories of Raiding and Conquest, edited by Elizabeth N. Arkush and Mark W. Allen, reviewed by Katherine M. Harrell, 546-547

Spies of the Bible: Espionage in Israel from the Exodus to the Bar Kokhba Revolt, by Rose Mary Sheldon, reviewed by Yoaz Hendel, 547-549


Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC: Holy Warriors at the Dawn of History, by William J. Hamblin, reviewed by Antonio Santosuosso, 549-550

Per La Storia Militare del Mondo Antico: Prospettive retrospettive, by Luigi Loreto, reviewed by Lee L. Brice, 550-551

Alexander the Great, by Paul Cartledge, reviewed by James Doyne Dawson, 551-552

Rome's Gothic Wars: From the Third Century to Alaric, by Michael Kulikowski, reviewed by Lawrence A. Tritle, 553-554

War in Late Antiquity: A Social History, by A.D. Lee, reviewed by Bernard S. Bachrach, 554-555

Guerra en _arq Al'andalus: Las batallas cidianas de Morella (1084) y Cuarte (1094), by Alberto Montaner Frutos and Alfonso Boix Jovaní, reviewed by Óscar Martín, 556-557

The Trial of Joan of Arc, translated by Daniel Hobbins, reviewed by Laurence W. Marvin, 557-558

Special Operations in the Age of Chivalry, 1100 1550, by Yuval Noah Harari; Medieval Mercenaries: The Business of War, by William Urban, reviewed by Niccolò Capponi, 559-560

North American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence, edited by Richard J. Chacon and Rubén G. Mendoza, reviewed by Mark van de Logt, 561-562

Politique, guerre et fortification au Grand Siècle. Lettres de Louvois à Louis XIV, reviewed by Jamel Ostwald, 562-563

Revolutionary War Almanac, by John C. Fredriksen, reviewed by John Buchanan, 563-565

"That Ever Loyal Island": Staten Island and the American Revolution, by Phillip Papas, reviewed by Ira D. Gruber, 565-566

Lewis & Clark and the Indian Country: The Native American Perspective, edited by Frederick E. Hoxie and Jay T. Nelson, reviewed by Rodger C. Henderson, 566-568

Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy, by David Curtis Skaggs, reviewed by Robert Malcomson, 568-569

1812: War with America, by Jon Latimer, reviewed by Richard V. Barbuto, 569-571

The Eagle's Last Triumph: Napoleon's Victory at Ligny, June 1815, by Andrew Uffindell, reviewed by James R. Arnold, 571-572

Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience, by Kevin Dougherty, reviewed by Timothy D. Johnson, 573-574


To Rescue My Native Land: The Civil War Letters of William T. Shepherd, First Illinois Light Artillery, edited by Kurt H. Hackemer, reviewed by Glenn W. LaFantasie, 575-576

"My Brave Mechanics": The First Michigan Engineers and Their Civil War, by Mark Hoffman, reviewed by David Fitzpatrick, 576-577

Jeb Stuart and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg, by Warren C. Robinson, reviewed by Steven E. Woodworth, 578-579

Trench Warfare Under Grant and Lee: Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign, by Earl J. Hess, reviewed by Philip Shiman, 579-580

Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875 1910, by Andrew R. Graybill, reviewed by Robert M. Utley, 581-582

Imagining Future War: The West's Technological Revolution and Visions of Wars to Come, 1880 1914, by Antulio J. Echevarria II, reviewed by John Ferris, 582-584

Russia and Iran in the Great Game: Travelogues and Orientalism, by Elena Andreeva, reviewed by Martin Leer, 584-586

Sea Power Ashore and in the Air, edited by David Stevens and John Reeve, reviewed by Kathleen Broome Williams, 586-587

A Companion to International History 1900 2001, edited by Gordon Martel, reviewed by Martin Horn, 587-588

Savage Century: Back to Barbarism, by Thérèse Delpech, translated by George Holoch, reviewed by Jeremy Black, 588-589

The Echo of Battle: The Army's Way of War, by Brian McAllister Linn, reviewed by Douglas V. Johnson II, 589-590

Amphibious Assault: Manoeuvre from the Sea. From Gallipoli to the Gulf A Definitive Analysis, edited by Tristan Lovering, reviewed by Christopher Mann, 590-591

Wars of Latin America, 1899 1941, by René de la Pedraja, reviewed by Jerry W. Cooney, 592-593

Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914, by Martin Thomas, reviewed by Matthew Hughes, 593-594

The Imperial War Museum Book of 1914: The Men Who Went to War, by Malcolm Brown; The World War I Reader, edited by Michael S. Neiberg, reviewed by Scott E. Belliveau , 595-596


The Good Soldier: The Biography of Douglas Haig, by Gary Mead, reviewed by Peter Simkins, 596-597

America and World War I: A Selected Annotated Bibliography of English Language Sources, by David R. Woodward, reviewed by Jennifer D. Keene, 597-598

Rehearsals: The German Army in Belgium, August 1914, by Jeff Lipkes, reviewed by Wim Klinkert, 598-599

To the Limits of Endurance: A Battalion of Marines in the Great War, by Peter F. Owen, reviewed by Daniel R. Beaver, 600

Friends Or Foes? The United States & Soviet Russia, 1921 1941, by Norman E. Saul, reviewed by Curtis S. King, 601-602

Midway Inquest: Why the Japanese Lost the Battle of Midway, by Dallas Woodbury Isom, reviewed by Anthony Tully, 602-604

Carrier Battles: Command Decision in Harm's Way, by Douglas V. Smith, reviewed by Stephen K. Stein, 604-605

Women of Valor: The Rochambelles on the WWII Front, by Ellen Hampton, reviewed by Rita Kramer, 605-606

The Normandy Campaign: Sixty Years On, edited by John Buckley, reviewed by Jeff Demers, 607-608

Taught to Kill: An American Boy's War from the Ardennes to Berlin, by John B. Babcock, reviewed by Christopher Hamner, 608-609

Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American Soldiers who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible, by John C. McManus, reviewed by Roger Cirillo, 609-610

Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace, by Mark Perry, reviewed by Daun van Ee, 610-611

Camus at Combat: Writing 1944 1947, edited by Jacqueline Lévi Valensi, reviewed by David A. Messenger, 611-612

The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Series, edited by Mark Atwood Lawrence and Fredrik Logevall, reviewed by Douglas Porch, 613-614

Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense, by Jonathan D. Moreno, reviewed by Mark F. Leep, 614-616


Learning to Love the Bomb: Canada's Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War, by Sean M. Maloney, reviewed by Alexander W.G. Herd, 616-617

The Korean War: The Essential Bibliography, by Allan Millett, reviewed by Paul M. Edwards, 618

The War That Never Ends: New Perspectives on the Vietnam War, edited by David L. Anderson and John Ernst, reviewed by Peter Maslowski, 619-620

US Special Forces and Counterinsurgency in Vietnam: Military Innovation and Institutional Failure, 1961 1963, by Christopher K. Ives, reviewed by Joseph R. Fischer, 620-622

Red Star Rogue: the Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S., by Kenneth Sewell and Clint Richmond, reviewed by Robert G. Smith, 622-623

Powerful and Brutal Weapons: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Easter Offensive, by Stephen P. Randolph, reviewed by Donald J. Mrozek, 623-624

From Détente to the Soviet Collapse: The Cold War from 1975 to 1991, edited by Malcolm Muir, Jr., reviewed by Jonathan N. House, 624-625

Malvinas: la odisea del submarino Santa Fe, by Jorge Bóveda, reviewed by Blair P. Turner, 625-626

Clausewitz & Contemporary War, by Antulio J. Echevarria II; Clausewitz's On War: A Biography, by Hew Strachan, reviewed by Daniel Moran, 627-628

Clausewitz and America: Strategic Thought and Practice from Vietnam to Iraq, by Stuart Kinross, reviewed by Richard M. Swain, 628-629

Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan, by Antonio Giustozzi, reviewed by Lester W. Grau, 630

300. Dir. Jack Snyder. Perf. Gerard Butler, Lena Headley, David Wenham, Rodrigo Santoro, Andrew Tiernan, Vincent Regan. DVD. Warner Bros Entertainment. 2007. Reviewed by Frank J. Wetta, 631-632




Other:

BOOKS RECEIVED, 634-640.

RECENT JOURNAL ARTICLES, 641-644.

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