Reviews

Author: 
Guy Perry
Reviewer: 
Joelle Koster

Koster on Perry, 'The Briennes: The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, c. 950-1356'

Guy Perry. The Briennes: The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, c. 950-1356. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 238 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-19690-2.

Reviewed by Joelle Koster (University of Rhode Island) Published on H-War (December, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author: 
Eyal Ginio
Reviewer: 
Denis Vovchenko

Vovchenko on Ginio, 'The Ottoman Culture of Defeat: The Balkan Wars and their Aftermath'

Eyal Ginio. The Ottoman Culture of Defeat: The Balkan Wars and their Aftermath. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xix + 377 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-026403-1.

Reviewed by Denis Vovchenko (Northeastern State University) Published on H-War (December, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author: 
David Pion-Berlin, Raphael Martinez
Reviewer: 
Justin Keye Campbell

Campbell on Pion-Berlin and Martinez, 'Soldiers, Politicians, and Civilians: Reforming Civil-Military Relations in Democratic Latin America'

David Pion-Berlin, Raphael Martinez. Soldiers, Politicians, and Civilians: Reforming Civil-Military Relations in Democratic Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xiv + 402 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-14997-7; $32.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-60443-4.

Reviewed by Justin Keye Campbell (University of Arizona) Published on H-War (December, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author: 
Kyle Longley
Reviewer: 
William T. Allison

Allison on Longley, 'LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval'

Kyle Longley. LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xv + 361 pp. $29.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-19303-1.

Reviewed by William T. Allison (Georgia Southern University) Published on H-War (December, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author: 
Thomas Rid
Reviewer: 
Paul Springer

Springer on Rid, 'Cyber War Will Not Take Place'

Thomas Rid. Cyber War Will Not Take Place. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 232 pp. $14.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-066071-0.

Reviewed by Paul Springer (Air University, Air Command and Staff College) Published on H-War (December, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author: 
Eric T. Jennings
Reviewer: 
Jorge Bayona

Bayona on Jennings, 'Escape from Vichy: The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean'

Eric T. Jennings. Escape from Vichy: The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. 320 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-98338-0.

Reviewed by Jorge Bayona (University of Washington) Published on H-War (November, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author: 
Kori N. Schake
Reviewer: 
Ryan Wadle

Wadle on Schake, 'Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony'

Kori N. Schake. Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. 389 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-97507-1.

Reviewed by Ryan Wadle (Air University eSchool of Graduate PME) Published on H-War (November, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author: 
Leslie Peirce
Reviewer: 
Gemma Masson

Masson on Peirce, 'Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire'

Leslie Peirce. Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire. New York: Basic Books, 2017. 368 pp. $32.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-03251-8.

Reviewed by Gemma Masson (University of Birmingham) Published on H-War (November, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author: 
John Pemble
Reviewer: 
Loren Cowdery

Cowdery on Pemble, 'The Rome We Have Lost'

John Pemble. The Rome We Have Lost. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 192 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-880396-6.

Reviewed by Loren Cowdery (University of Minnesota) Published on H-War (November, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

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Author: 
Philip Roessler, Harry Verhoeven
Reviewer: 
Kwaku Nti

Nti on Roessler and Verhoeven, 'Why Comrades Go to War: Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict'

Philip Roessler, Harry Verhoeven. Why Comrades Go to War: Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 512 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-061135-4.

Reviewed by Kwaku Nti (Georgia Southern University) Published on H-War (November, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author: 
John Robert Greene
Reviewer: 
Robert Dienesch

Dienesch on Greene, 'I Like Ike: The Presidential Election of 1952'

John Robert Greene. I Like Ike: The Presidential Election of 1952. American Presidential Elections Series. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2017. Illustrations. 224 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7006-2405-8; $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2404-1.

Reviewed by Robert Dienesch (University of Windsor) Published on H-War (November, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author: 
Jon Simons, John Louis Lucaites, eds.
Reviewer: 
Drew McKevitt

McKevitt on Simons and Lucaites, 'In/visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-First-Century America'

Jon Simons, John Louis Lucaites, eds. In/visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-First-Century America. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2017. 278 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8135-8537-6.

Reviewed by Drew McKevitt (Louisiana Tech) Published on H-War (November, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=52485

Author: 
Sarah Gristwood
Reviewer: 
Nikki Shepardson

Shepardson on Gristwood, 'Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe'

Sarah Gristwood. Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe. New York: Basic Books, 2016. Illustrations. 400 pp. $28.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-09678-7.

Reviewed by Nikki Shepardson (Rider University) Published on H-War (November, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

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