New Books in Military History
Episodes
Wayne Soon, "Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History" (Stanford UP, 2020)
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Wayne Soon about his book Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History (Stanford UP, 2020). In 1938, one year into the Second Si...
Vladyslav Besedovskyy, "Uniforms and History of the Soviet Airborne in Afghanistan" (Safar, 2023)
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The central focus of Vladyslav Besedovskyy's book Uniforms and History of the Soviet Airborne in Afghanistan (Safar, 2023) is a massive collection...
Gary J. Bass, "Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia" (Knopf, 2023)
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia (Knopf, 2023), a book ten years in the making, is the definitive account of t...
Ronald C. White, "On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain" (Random House, 2023)
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdo...
Troels Burchall Henningsen, "Western Intervention and Informal Politics: Simulated Statebuilding and Failed Reforms" (Routledge, 2021)
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Western Intervention and Informal Politics: Simulated Statebuilding and Failed Reforms (Routledge, 2021) by Dr. Troels Burchall Henningsen examines t...
Jonathan Sumption, "Triumph and Illusion: The Hundred Years War, Vol. 5" (Faber & Faber, 2023)
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Triumph and Illusion (Faber & Faber, 2023) is the final volume of Jonathan Sumption's epic history of the Hundred Years War. It tells the story of...
Louis-Alexandre Berg, "Governing Security After War: The Politics of Institutional Change in the Security Sector" (Oxford UP, 2022)
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Security assistance has become the largest component of international peacebuilding and stabilisation efforts, and a primary tool for responding to ci...
Martin C. Dean, "Investigating Babyn Yar: Shadows from the Valley of Death" (Lexington Books, 2023)
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Investigating Babyn Yar: Shadows from the Valley of Death (Lexington Books, 2023) pieces together the story of the destruction of Kyiv's Jews using ...
Alexandra Kitty, "A Different Track: Hospital Trains of the Second World War" (Heritage House, 2023)
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Railroads played an integral role in the Second World War. Trains brought food, munitions, and essential supplies. They transported troops. They were ...
Katharine M. Millar, "Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community" (Oxford UP, 2022)
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the past, it was assumed that men, as good citizens, would serve in the armed forces in wartime. In the present, however, liberal democratic states...
Burkhard Bilger, "Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets" (Random House, 2023)
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A New Yorker staff writer investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this “unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration ...
Ibrahim Fraihat and Isak Svensson, "Conflict Mediation in the Arab World" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Isak Svensson (editor) and Laurie Nathan (contributor) about Conflict Mediation in the Arab World (Syracuse UP, 2023), a very im...
Timothy G. Heck and Walker D. Mills, "Armies in Retreat: Chaos, Cohesion, and Consequences" (Army UP, 2023)
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Timothy G. Heck and Walker D. Mills edited volume Armies in Retreat: Chaos, Cohesion, and Consequences (Army UP, 2023) is an extensive collection of...
Sima Saigal, "The Second World War and North East India: Shadows of Yesteryears" (Routledge, 2022)
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sima Saigal's The Second World War and North East India: Shadows of Yesteryears (Routledge, 2022) discusses the untold story of North East India's r...
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation
02 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The “barbarian” nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. T...
Andrew Pettegree, "The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict" (Basic Books, 2023)
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chairman Mao was a librarian. Stalin was a published poet. Evelyn Waugh served as a commando - before leaving to write Brideshead Revisited. Since the...
Andrekos Varnava, "British Cyprus and the Long Great War, 1914-1925: Empire, Loyalties and Democratic Deficit" (Routledge, 2020)
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Most of the Cypriot population, especially the lower classes, remained loyal to the British cause during the Great War and the island contributed sign...
Ran Zwigenberg, "Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ran Zwigenberg’s Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (U Chicago Press, 2023) explores early ...
G. H. Bennett, "The War for England's Shores: S-Boats and the Fight Against British Coastal Convoys" (US Naval Institute Press, 2023)
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The War for England's Shores: S-Boats and the Fight Against British Coastal Convoys (US Naval Institute Press, 2023) by Dr. G. H. Bennett examines th...
Brian D. Blankenship, "The Burden-Sharing Dilemma: Coercive Diplomacy in US Alliance Politics" (Cornell UP, 2023)
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Burden-Sharing Dilemma: Coercive Diplomacy in US Alliance Politics (Cornell UP, 2023) examines the conditions under which the United States is wi...
Peter Samsonov, "IS-2: Development, Design, and Production of Stalin's Warhammer" (Military History Group, 2022)
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The IS-2 is the quintessential Soviet heavy tank from World War 2. Heavily armored and boasting a fearsome 122mm gun, this tank matched the German pan...
Edward L. Ayers, "American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860" (Norton, 2023)
25 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860 (Norton, 2023) is a revealing history of the formative period when voices of dissent and innovation d...
Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel, "Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States" (Polity, 2023)
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Russia and Ukraine have alternative histories and alternative destinies. After the Soviet Union collapsed - depending on who you spoke to – they wer...
Jenny Benham, "International Law in Europe, 700–1200" (Manchester UP, 2022)
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Was there international law in the Middle Ages? Using treaties as its main source, International Law in Europe, 700-1200 (Manchester University Pres...
William S. Kiser, "Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The 19th-century Mexican-American borderlands were a complicated place. By the 1860s, Confederates, Americans, Mexicans, French, and various Native so...
Andrew Monaghan and Richard Connolly. "The Sea in Russian Strategy" (Manchester UP, 2023)
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The common perception of Russia's status as a great power is often portrayed as being based largely on land power. Being the largest country in the wo...
Ina Rupprecht, ed., "Persecution, Collaboration, Resistance: Music in the ‘Reichskommissariat Norwegen’ (1940–45)" (Waxmann Verlag, 2020)
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Germany invaded Norway on 9 April 1940, the long lasting bilateral relations changed fundamentally. Immediately, the administration of the ‘Rei...
Marika Sosnowski, "Redefining Ceasefires: Wartime Order and Statebuilding in Syria" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2012, ceasefires have been used in Syria to halt violence and facilitate peace agreements. However, in Redefining Ceasefires: Wartime Order and...
Nicole Eaton, "German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad" (Cornell UP, 2023)
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad (Cornell UP, 2023) reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentiet...
Anthony Tucker-Jones, "Battle of the Cities: Urban Warfare on the Eastern Front" (Pen & Sword Military, 2023)
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The common image of World War II (1939-1945) is that of swift armored maneuver advances supported by combined arms, especially overwhelming air suppor...
Bálint Madlovics and Bálint Magyar, "The Russia-Ukraine War, Volumes 1-2" (CEU Press, 2023)
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast Series, host Bálint Madlovics sat down for a fascinating discussion on the impact of the war on Ukraine’s ...
Matthew F. Jordan, "Danger Sound Klaxon!: The Horn That Changed History" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Danger Sound Klaxon!:The Horn That Changed History (University of Virginia Press, 2023) reveals the untold story of the Klaxon automobile horn, one o...
Ernest R. Zimmermann, "The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior: A History of Canadian Internment Camp R" (U Alberta Press, 2015)
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For eighteen months during the Second World War, the Canadian military interned 1,145 prisoners of war in Red Rock, Ontario (about 100 kilometres nort...
Don Hollway, "Battle for the Island Kingdom: The Struggle for England's Destiny 1000-1066" (Osprey, 2023)
12 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a saga reminiscent of Game of Thrones and Battle for the Island Kingdom: The Struggle for England's Destiny 1000-1066 (Osprey, 2023) reveals t...
Steven Simon, "Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East" (Penguin, 2023)
11 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A longtime American foreign policy insider’s penetrating and definitive reckoning with this country’s involvement in the Middle East The culminati...
Helen Fry, "Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars" (Yale UP, 2023)
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the conventions of their time. Across both w...
Shannon McKenna Schmidt, "The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt's Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back" (Sourcebooks, 2023)
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shannon McKenna Schmidt's The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt's Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back (Sourcebooks, 2023) is the f...
Hamas, Iran and Israel: The Perils of Overreaction
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of International Horizons, Colin Clarke, director of research at the Soufan Center, discusses the possible trajectories of the Israel...
Roger R. Reese, "Russia's Army: A History from the Napoleonic Wars to the War in Ukraine" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
05 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Czar Alexander III (1845-1894) is reported to have stated that "Russia only has two allies: the army and the navy." Military power has always been imp...
Peter Layton, "Grand Strategy" (2018)
04 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With the revival of great power competition in international relations, the term "grand strategy" has also encountered a considerable revival from its...
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale, "Why Men?: A Human History of Violence and Inequality" (Hurst, 2023)
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How did humans, a species that evolved to be cooperative and egalitarian, develop societies of enforced inequality? Why did our ancestors create patri...
Michael Custodis, "Music and Resistance: Cultural Defense During the German Occupation of Norway 1940-45" (Waxmann Verlag, 2021)
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The role of music during the German occupation of Norway (1940-45) proves to be an exceptional case for cultural opposition in a dictatorship. Few fam...
Richard Carrier, "Mussolini's Army Against Greece: October 1940-April 1941" (Routledge, 2021)
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Carrier's book Mussolini's Army Against Greece: October 1940-April 1941 (Routledge, 2021) analyses why the Italian army failed to defeat its...
On Wars: A Discussion with Michael Mann
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Irrationality rules” in war, Michael Mann writes in his magisterial 2023 book, On Wars (Yale UP, 2023), a history that begins with the Roman R...
Tom Burbage et al., "F-35: The Inside Story of the Lightning II" (Skyhorse, 2023)
29 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The inside story of the most expensive and controversial military program in history, as told by those who lived it. The F-35 has changed allied com...
Norman Solomon, "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine" (New Press, 2023)
28 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
More than twenty years ago, 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan set into motion a hugely consequential shift in America’s foreign policy: a perpetual st...
Luke Moffett, "Reparations and War: Finding Balance in Repairing the Past" (Oxford UP, 2023)
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For thousands of years, reparations have been used to secure the end of war and to alleviate its deleterious consequences. While human rights law esta...
Linda Kinstler, "Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back to South America to kill another fu...
Owen Matthews, "Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine" (Mudlark, 2022)
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An astonishing deep dive into the war in Ukraine - from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol. The Russo-Ukrainian War is the most ...
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF)'s Ethical Code
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the past week, the entire world has been focusing on the murderous attack by the Hamas organization against the State of Israel and Israel's respon...
Sparta, Athens, Ukraine, Israel: A Conversation with Paul Rahe on Proxy Wars
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Proxy wars like those in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and now Ukraine have played major roles in military history. Historian Paul Rahe takes us back to one o...
Sebastian Huebel, "Fighter, Worker, and Family Man: German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933–1941" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When the Nazis came to power, they used various strategies to expel German Jews from social, cultural, and economic life. Fighter, Worker, and Family...
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (Vintage, 2006)
21 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s major motion picture, Oppenheimer, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography explores the life and times of J. ...
Christopher Phillips, "Civilian Specialists at War: Britain's Transport Experts and the First World War" (U London Press, 2020)
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
World War I was the first great general conflict to be fought between highly industrial societies able to manufacture and transport immense quantities...
Michael A. Robinson, "Dangerous Instrument: Political Polarization and US Civil-Military Relations" (Oxford UP, 2022)
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As increasingly contentious politics in the United States raise concerns over the "politicization" of traditionally non-partisan institutions, many ha...
The Gaza War in Military-Historical Perspective
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview military historian Jeremy Black examines ongoing Israeli-Hamas conflict in Israel and the Gaza Strip in historical perspective. Blac...
Parks M. Coble, "The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
14 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Parks M. Coble's book The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War (Cambridge UP, 2023) revisits one of the most st...
Peter Stark, "Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation" (Random House, 2023)
14 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The conquest of Indigenous land in the eastern United States through corrupt treaties and genocidal violence laid the groundwork for the conquest of t...
C. J. Wagevier, "Fighting for Napoleon's Army in Russia: A POW's Memoir" (Pen and Sword, 2023)
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1812 the French emperor Napoleon decided to invade Russia. For this purpose, he gathered an army of half a million men and women, consisting of sol...
Rory Finnin, "Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity (U Toronto Press, 2022) offers a cultural history of Crimea and the Black Se...
Evan C. Rothera, "Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas: The United States, Mexico, and Argentina, 1860–1880" (LSU Press, 2022)
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the latter half of the nineteenth century, three violent national conflicts rocked the Americas: the Wars of Unification in Argentina, the War of t...
Tariq D. Khan, "The Republic Shall be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Republic Will Be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression (University of Illinois Press, 2023) by Dr. Tariq D. Khan e...
Harriet E. H. Earle, "Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War" (UP of Mississippi, 2017)
08 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Conflict and trauma remain among the most prevalent themes in film and literature. Comics has never avoided such narratives, and comics artists are wr...
Harriet Murav and Gennady Estraikh, "Soviet Jews in World War II: Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering" (Academic Studies Press, 2018)
07 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Harriet Murav and Gennady Estraikh's book Soviet Jews in World War II: Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering (Academic Studies Press, 2018) discusses th...
Nan Turner, "Clothing Goes to War: Creativity Inspired by Scarcity in World War II" (Intellect Books, 2022)
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Clothing Goes to War: Creativity Inspired by Scarcity in World War II (Intellect, 2022) by Nan Turner is the story of clothing use when manufacturing...
Robert P. Watson, "When Washington Burned: The British Invasion of the Capital and a Nation's Rise from the Ashes" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Perhaps no other single day in US history was as threatening to the survival of the nation as August 24, 1814, when British forces captured Washington...
Ole Kristian Grimnes, "Norway in the Second World War: Politics, Society and Conflict" (Bloombury, 2022)
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Covering political, military, economic and social history, Norway in the Second World War: Politics, Society and Conflict (Bloombury, 2020) is the m...
Janet Somerville, "Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949" (Firefly Books, 2022)
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Before email, when long distance telephone calls were difficult and expensive, people wrote letters, often several each day. Today, those letters prov...
Kristin Semmens, "Under the Swastika in Nazi Germany" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Under the Swastika in Nazi Germany (Bloomsbury, 2023) begins in flames in 1933 with Adolf Hitler taking power and ends in the ashes of total defeat i...
Isaac McKean Scarborough, "Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2023)
01 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Dr. Isaac Mckean Scarborough tells the story of the colla...
Derk Venema, "Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
01 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Derk Venema's edited volume Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation (Amsterdam UP, 2022) is the first extensive treatment of leading judicial institut...
Joo Ok Kim, "Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War" (Temple UP, 2022)
30 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“[W]hat is our relationship to the Korean War and to the affinities” of different institutions that produce knowledge about the Korean War? (130) ...
Gwendolyn Sasse, "Russia's War Against Ukraine" (Polity, 2023)
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nineteen months since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the books are coming thick and fast. Fortunately, each tells a different and compell...
Series Spotlight: Perpetrators of Organized Violence
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 4 of the CEU Press Podcast Series introduces one of the Press’s new series, entitled Perpetrators of Organized Violence: Eastern, Central an...
Debra Ramsay, "Archives of War: Technology, Emotion, and History" (Routledge, 2023)
24 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Archives of War: Technology, Emotion and History (Routledge, 2023) offers a comparative analysis of British Army Unit War Diaries in the two World W...
Megan MacKenzie, "Good Soldiers Don't Rape: The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
24 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sexual violence is a significant problem within many Western militaries. Despite international attention to the issue and global #MeToo and #TimesUp m...
Aaron Skabelund, "Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan's Self-Defense Force During the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2022)
24 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan's Self-Defense Force During the Cold War (Cornell UP, 2022), Aaron Herald Skabelund examines how the Self-Def...
Ruth Schwertfeger, "A Nazi Camp Near Danzig: Perspectives on Shame and on the Holocaust from Stutthof" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Within the vast network of Nazi camps, Stutthof may be the least known beyond Poland. This book is the first scholarly publication in English to break...
Katarzyna Person and Johannes-Dieter Steinert, "Przemysłowa Concentration Camp: The Camp, the Children, the Trials" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Katarzyna Person and Johannes-Dieter Steinert's book Przemysłowa Concentration Camp: The Camp, the Children, the Trials (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023) ...
Erik Linstrum, "Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire" (Oxford UP, 2023)
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When uprisings against colonial rule broke out across the world after 1945, Britain responded with overwhelming and brutal force. Although this period...
Chris Murray, "Unknown Conflicts of the Second World War: Forgotten Fronts" (Routledge, 2019)
17 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Murray's book Unknown Conflicts of the Second World War: Forgotten Fronts (Routledge, 2019) is a collection of chapters dealing with various ...
Rachel Chrastil, "Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe" (Basic Book, 2023)
17 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Among the conflicts that convulsed Europe during the nineteenth century, none was more startling and consequential than the Franco-Prussian War of 187...
John O'Donovan, "An Introduction to the Irish Civil War" (Mercier Press, 2022)
16 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
During the Irish Civil War, events of late 1922 and early 1923 together with waves of 'dishonourable' killings created poisoned relations between Repu...
Avigdor Hameiri, "Under a Bloodred Sky: Avigdor Hameiri’s War Stories and Poetry" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Under a Bloodred Sky: Avigdor Hameiri’s War Stories and Poetry (Academic Studies Press, 2023) represents an anthology of Avigdor Hameiri’s ten mo...
Prit Buttar, "To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941-42" (Osprey, 2023)
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The city of St. Petersburg held great significance to the Russian Empire when Peter the Great first built the city in 1703. It was intended to be Russ...
The Shadow War between America and Russia
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Western analysts and media often assess the prospect that Moscow might use nuclear weapons as the war in Ukraine grinds on, possibly to a flailing Rus...
A Better Way to Buy Books
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has alre...
Alistair Moffat, "War Paths: Walking in the Shadows of the Clans" (Birlinn, 2023)
10 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In War Paths: Walking in the Shadows of the Clans (Birlinn, 2023), acclaimed historian Alistair Moffat sets off in the footsteps of the Highland cla...
Tylor Brand, "Famine Worlds: Life at the Edge of Suffering in Lebanon's Great War" (Stanford UP, 2023)
09 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
World War I was a catastrophe for the lands that would become Lebanon. With war came famine, and with famine came unspeakable suffering, starvation, a...
Teresa Michals, "Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers in Nelson's Navy" (U Virginia Press, 2021)
09 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The well-known Admiral Horatio Nelson fought all of his most historically significant battles after he lost his right arm and the sight in one eye. Wi...
Jonathan Sandler, "The English GI: World War II Graphic Memoir of a Yorkshire Schoolboy's Adventures in the United States and Europe" (2022)
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Sandler’s The English GI: World War II Graphic Memoir of a Yorkshire Schoolboy’s Adventures in the United States and Europe, is an adapt...
Gennifer Weisenfeld, "Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Airplanes, gas masks, and bombs were common images in wartime Japan. Yet amid these emblems of anxiety, tasty caramels were offered to children with p...
Salar Abdoh, "Out of Mesopotamia" (Akashic Books, 2020)
03 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Saleh, the narrator of Out of Mesopotamia (Akashic Books, 2020), is a middle-aged Iranian journalist who moonlights as a writer for one of Iran's m...
Kimberly Mair, "The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
03 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
During the crisis of the Second World War in Britain, official Air Raid Precautions made the management of daily life a moral obligation of civil defe...
Brooke L. Blower, "Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper" (Oxford UP, 2023)
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On February 21, 1943, Pan American Airways’ celebrated seaplane—the Yankee Clipper—took off from New York and island-hopped its way across the A...
Mikkel Dack, "Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany: The Fragebogen Questionnaire and Political Screening During the Allied Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the Second World War, the victorious Allied armies implemented a radical program to purge Nazism from Germany and preserve peace in Eur...
Julian Jackson, "France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain" (Harvard UP, 2023)
27 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There was a time when French people put up picture of Marshal Philippe Petain on their walls. He is a figure of immeasurable stature to the country of...
Anna Wylegała et al., "No Neighbors’ Lands in Postwar Europe: Vanishing Others" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Wylegala, Sabine Rutar, and Malgorzata Lukianow's edited volume No Neighbors’ Lands in Postwar Europe: Vanishing Others (Palgrave MacMillan, ...
Isadore Ryan, "No Way Out: The Irish in Wartime France, 1939–1945" (Mercier Press, 2018)
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The experiences of the Irish in France during the war were overshadowed by the threat of internment or destitution. Up to 2,000 Irish people were stuc...
Samuel Ramani, "Putin's War on Ukraine: Russia’s Campaign for Global Counter-Revolution" (Hurst, 2023)
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eight years after annexing Crimea, Russia embarked on a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine in February 2022. For Vladimir Putin, this was a le...