Book Reviews

For an extensive range of reviews of books devoted to the First World War, see:
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Yiğit Akın. When the War Came Home: The Ottomans’ Great War and the Devastation of an Empire. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. x + 270 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0363-9; $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-0490-2.
Reviewed by Najwa Al-Qattan (Loyola Marymount University). Published on H-Diplo (November, 2018).

Kimberly J. Lamay Licursi. Remembering World War I in America. Studies in War, Society, and the Military Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. 294 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8032-9085-3.
Reviewed by Mark Folse (University of Alabama). Published on H-War (October, 2018).

James D. Startt. Woodrow Wilson, the Great War, and the Fourth Estate. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2017. 416 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62349-531-2.
Reviewed by Philip Glende (Indiana State University). Published on Jhistory (October, 2018).

Melanie S. Tanielian. The Charity of War: Famine, Humanitarian Aid, and World War I in the Middle East. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. 368 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-0352-3; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0240-3.
Reviewed by Conrad Allen (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Published on H-War (October, 2018).

Faiz Ahmed. Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. xiii + 430 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-97194-3.
Reviewed by Marya Hannun (Georgetown University). Published on H-Ideas (September, 2018).

David J. Bettez. Kentucky and the Great War: World War I on the Home Front. Topics in Kentucky History Series. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016. 440 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8131-6801-2.
Reviewed by Shane Peterson (Independent Scholar). Published on H-War (September, 2018).

Paul Fox. The Image of the Soldier in German Culture, 1871-1933. A Modern History of Politics and Violence Series. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Illustrations. xii + 225 pp. $114.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4742-2614-1.
Reviewed by Robert Mueller-Stahl (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Published on H-War (September, 2018).

Max Bergholz. Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. 464 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-0492-5.
Edin Hajdarpasic. Whose Bosnia? Nationalism and Political Imagination in the Balkans, 1840-1914. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. xii + 271 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-5371-7.
Reviewed by John Paul Newman (National University of Ireland). Published on H-Genocide (August, 2018).

Michael Kazin. War against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017. xix + 378 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4767-0590-3; $17.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4767-0591-0.
Reviewed by Alex Ryan. Published on H-FedHist (August, 2018).

Börries Kuzmany, Rita Garstenauer, eds. Aufnahmeland Österreich: Über den Umgang mit Massenflucht seit dem 18. Jahrhundert. Vienna: Mandelbaum Verlag, 2017. 262 pp. EUR 19.90 (paper), ISBN 978-3-85476-816-6.
Reviewed by Günter J. Bischof (University of New Orleans). Published on HABSBURG (August, 2018).

Michael Provence. The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 336 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-76117-8; $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-74751-6.
Reviewed by Lucien J. Frary (Rider Universiry). Published on H-War (August, 2018).

Heather Sharkey. A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 394 pp. $31.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-18687-2.
Reviewed by Jessica Marglin (University of Southern California). Published on H-Judaic (August, 2018).

Jamie Bisher. The Intelligence War in Latin America, 1914-1922. Jefferson: McFarland, 2016. 448 pp. $75.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-3350-6.
Reviewed by Michael R. Hall (Georgia Southern University – Armstrong Campus). Published on H-War (July, 2018).

Robert Blobaum. A Minor Apocalypse: Warsaw during the First World War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017. 320 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-0523-6.

Jesse Kauffman. Elusive Alliance: The German Occupation of Poland in World War I. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. 320 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-28601-6.
Reviewed by Jadwiga Biskupska (Sam Houston State University). Published on H-Poland (July, 2018).

Jeffrey LaMonica. American Tactical Advancement in World War I: The New Lessons of Combined Arms and Open Warfare. Jefferson: McFarland, 2017. 180 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-6419-4.
Reviewed by Brian North (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Published on H-War (July, 2018).

Dwight R. Messimer. Eleven Months to Freedom: A German POW’s Unlikely Escape from Siberia in 1915. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2016. Maps. 224 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-68247-065-7.
Reviewed by Aleksandra Pomiecko (University of Toronto). Published on H-War (July, 2018).

Edward Pearce. The Golden Talking-Shop: The Oxford Union Debates Empire, World War, Revolution, and Women. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xiv + 674 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-871723-2.
Reviewed by Anthony D’Agostino (San Francisco State University). Published on H-Diplo (July, 2018).

Raz Segal. Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914-1945. Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. 232 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-9666-8.
Reviewed by Tomasz Frydel (University of Toronto). Published on H-War (June, 2018).

R. Costello. Black Tommies: British Soldiers of African Descent in the First World War. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016. xiv + 216 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78138-018-5; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-78138-019-2.
Reviewed by Paul Brenard Chiudza Banda (University of West Virginia). Published on H-War (May, 2018).

Elizabeth Greenhalgh. The French Army and the First World War. Armies of the Great War Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xv + 469 pp. $88.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-01235-6; $30.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-107-60568-8.
Reviewed by Richard Fogarty (University at Albany, SUNY). Published on H-War (May, 2018).

Allan Kent Powell, ed. Utah and the Great War: The Beehive State and the World War I Experience. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016. Illustrations. x + 421 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-60781-510-5.
Reviewed by Michael Van Wagenen (Georgia Southern University). Published on H-War (May, 2018).

Stefan Rinke. Latin America and the First World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. XI, 302 S. $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-107-56606-4.
Heather Streets-Salter. World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. XII, 236 S. $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-50109-2; $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-13519-2.
Reviewed by Daniel Marc Segesser. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (May, 2018).

Andrzej Chwalba. 1914-1918: An Anatomy of Global Conflict. Trans. Teresa Bałuk-Ulewiczowa. Jagiellonian Studies of History Series. Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2014. 225 pp. $42.00 (paper), ISBN 978-83-233-3638-9.
Reviewed by Matthew Schwonek (Air University, Air Command and Staff College). Published on H-War (March, 2018).

Erik Sjoberg. The Making of the Greek Genocide: Contested Memories of the Ottoman Greek Catastrophe. New York: Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2016. 266 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78533-325-5.
Reviewed by Hervé Georgelin (National University of Athens). Published on H-Nationalism (March, 2018).

Durba Ghosh. Gentlemanly Terrorists Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 290 pp. $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-63738-8.
Reviewed by Heather Streets-Salter (Northeastern University). Published on H-Diplo (February, 2018).

Susan R. Grayzel, Tammy M. Proctor, eds. Gender & the Great War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 300 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-027107-7.
Reviewed by Margaret Darrow (Dartmouth College). Published on H-Diplo (February, 2018).

Brian Lavery. Churchill Warrior: How a Military Life Guided Winston’s Finest Hours. Oxford: Casemate, 2017. 448 pp. $32.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-910860-22-9.
Reviewed by Perry Colvin (Auburn University). Published on H-War (February, 2018).

Artur H. Boer. The Great War from the German Trenches: A Sapper’s Memoir, 1914-1918. Translated and edited by Bertil van Boer and Margaret L. Fast. Jefferson: McFarland, 2016. 200 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-6368-5.
Reviewed by Brian K. Feltman (Georgia Southern University). Published on H-War (January, 2018).

Nikolas Gardner. The Siege of Kut-al-Amara: At War in Mesopotamia, 1915-1916. Twentieth-Century Battles Series. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014. 224 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-01384-2.
Reviewed by Steven Wagner (Brunel University London). Published on H-War (January, 2018).

Heather Streets-Salter. World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 246 pp. $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-50109-2; $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-13519-2.
Reviewed by Xu Guoqi (University of Hong Kong). Published on H-Diplo (January, 2018).

Jan Vermeiren. The First World War and German National Identity: The Dual Alliance at War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 458 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-03167-8.
Reviewed by Jonathan Kwan (University of Nottingham). Published on H-Nationalism (January, 2018).

J. P. Clark. Preparing for War: The Emergence of the Modern U.S. Army, 1815-1917. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. 352 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-54573-1.
Reviewed by Dave Burford (Mississippi State). Published on H-War (December, 2017).

Rachel Duffett. The Stomach for Fighting: Food and the Soldiers of the Great War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. 304 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7190-9987-8.
Reviewed by Kaete O’Connell (Temple University). Published on H-War (December, 2017).

Victor Klemperer. Munich 1919: Diary of a Revolution. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017. 220 pp. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5095-1058-0.
Reviewed by Douglas Peifer (Air University, Air War College). Published on H-War (December, 2017).

David M. Lubin. Grand Illusions: American Art and the First World War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xii + 366 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-021861-4.
Reviewed by Shane Peterson (Independent Scholar). Published on H-War (December, 2017).

Sanders Marble, ed. King of Battle: Artillery in World War I. History of Warfare Series. Leiden: Brill, 2016. 382 pp. $199.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-30524-3.
Reviewed by Nicholas Sambaluk (Air University). Published on H-War (December, 2017).

Stephen H. Taber, ed. A Rainbow Division Lieutenant in France: The World War I Diary of John H. Taber. Jeffersonville: McFarland, 2015. 224 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-9990-8.
Reviewed by Michael McGuire (Salem State University). Published on H-War (December, 2017).

Jay Winter. War beyond Words: Languages of Remembrance from the Great War to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xxii + 234 pp. $29.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-87323-9.
Reviewed by David Clarke (University of Bath). Published on H-Diplo (December, 2017).

Suraiya Faroqhi. A Cultural History of the Ottomans: The Imperial Elite and Its Artefacts. London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2016. 288 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78453-096-9.
Reviewed by Gemma Masson (University of Birmingham). Published on H-Empire (November, 2017).

Dina Gusejnova. European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957. New Studies in European History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 360 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-12062-4.
Reviewed by Matthew G. Stanard (Berry College). Published on H-Empire (November, 2017).

Heather R. Perry. Recycling the Disabled: Army, Medicine and Modernity in WWI Germany. Disability History Series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014. Illustrations. 240 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7190-8924-4.
Reviewed by Emmeline Burdett (University College London). Published on H-Disability (November, 2017).

David Stevenson. 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 430 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-870238-2.
Reviewed by Donald Seablom (Air University, Air Command and Staff College). Published on H-War (November, 2017).

Jay Winter. War beyond Words: Languages of Remembrance from the Great War to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. XXII, 234 S., 80 Abb. 29.99 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-521-87323-9.
Reviewed by Markus Wahl. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (November, 2017).

Neil Faulkner. Lawrence of Arabia’s War: The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. xvii + 528 pp. Illustrations. $37.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-19683-2.
Reviewed by Ali Benek (Mississippi State); Published on H-War (October, 2017).

C. G. Sweeting. United States Army Aviators’ Clothing, 1917-1945. Jefferson: Mcfarland, 2015. Illustrations. 188 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-9396-8.
Reviewed by Rhonda Smith-Daugherty (Alice Lloyd College). Published on H-War (October, 2017).

Guoqi Xu. Asia and the Great War: A Shared History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xiii + 275 pages. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-965819-0.
Reviewed by Joseph Fonseca (University of Calgary). Published on H-War (October, 2017).

Paul Garson. African Colonial Prisoners of the Germans: A Pictorial History of Captive Soldiers in the World Wars. Jefferson: McFarland, 2016. 216 pp. $49.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-6545-0.
Reviewed by John Weigel (Carnegie Mellon University). Published on H-War (September, 2017).

Douglas Peifer. Choosing War: Presidential Decisions in the Maine, Lusitania, and Panay Incidents. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 344 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-026868-8.
Reviewed by Mark Montesclaros (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Gordon Satellite Campus). Published on H-War (September, 2017).

Jeremy Black. Air Power: A Global History. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. 386 pp. $38.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4422-5096-3.
Reviewed by Mike Hankins (Kansas State University). Published on H-War (August, 2017).

Paul M. Edwards. World War I on Film: English Language Releases through 2014. Jefferson: McFarland, 2016. 265 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-2063-3.
Reviewed by Nicholas Sambaluk (Air University). Published on H-War (August, 2017).

Chad R. Fulwider. German Propaganda and U.S. Neutrality in World War I. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2016. 288 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8262-2058-5.
Reviewed by Bradley Cesario (Texas A&M University). Published on H-War (August, 2017).

Richard S. Grayson, Fearghal McGarry, eds. Remembering 1916: The Easter Rising, the Somme and the Politics of Memory in Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 280 pp. $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-50927-2.
Reviewed by Kevin Braam (US Army). Published on H-War (August, 2017).

Edward J. Klekowski, Libby Klekowski. Americans in Occupied Belgium, 1914/1918: Accounts of the War from Journalists, Tourists, Troops and Medical staff. Jefferson: McFarland, 2014. 296 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-7255-0.
Reviewed by Kevin Braam (U.S. Army). Published on H-War (August, 2017).

Thomas W. Zeiler, David K. Ekbladh, Benjamin C. Montoya, eds. Beyond 1917: The United States and the Global Legacies of the Great War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 352 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-060401-1.
Reviewed by Lloyd Ambrosius (University of Nebraska). Published on H-Diplo (August, 2017).

Leila Tarazi Fawaz. A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. xiv + 384 pages. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-73549-1.
Reviewed by Nikolas Gardner (Royal Military College of Canada). Published on H-War (July, 2017).

Lewis L. Gould. The First Modern Clash over Federal Power: Wilson versus Hughes in the Presidential Election of 1916. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2016. xiv + 178 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2280-1.
Reviewed by Brian Kennedy (University of Hertfordshire). Published on H-USA (July, 2017).

Gerhard Paul Gross. The Myth and Reality of German Warfare: Operational Thinking from Moltke the Elder to Heusinger. Ed. David T. Zabecki. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016. 464 pp. $49.79 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8131-6837-1.
Reviewed by Robert Kirchubel (Purdue University). Published on H-War (July, 2017).

Robert E. Hannigan. The Great War and American Foreign Policy, 1914-24. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 368 pp. 69.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4859-3.
Reviewed by Ross Kennedy (Illinois State University). Published on H-Diplo (July, 2017).

Jan Mieszkowski. Watching War. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. 256 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8047-8240-1; $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-8239-5.
Reviewed by Kevin Braam (US Army). Published on H-War (July, 2017).

G. W. L. Nicholson. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919: Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. 676 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7735-4617-2.
Reviewed by Nicholas Sambaluk (Air University). Published on H-War (July, 2017).

Bedross Der Matossian. Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. 264 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-9147-2; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8047-9263-9.
Reviewed by James N. Tallon (Lewis University). Published on H-War (June, 2017).

Tudor Georgescu. The Eugenic Fortress: The Transylvanian Saxon Experiment in Interwar Romania. CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine Series. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2016. 240 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-963-386-139-4.
Reviewed by Sacha Davis (University of Newcastle). Published on H-Nationalism (June, 2017).

Edward A. Gutiérrez. Doughboys on the Great War: How American Soldiers Viewed Their Military Experience. Modern War Studies Series. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2014. 320 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-1990-0.
Reviewed by William Gorby (West Virginia University). Published on H-War (June, 2017).

Volker Prott. The Politics of Self-Determination: Remaking Territories and National Identities in Europe, 1917-1923. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 272 pp. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-877784-7.
Reviewed by Conan Fischer (University of St Andrews, School of History). Published on H-Nationalism (June, 2017).

Jennifer Wingate. Sculpting Doughboys: Memory, Gender, and Taste in America’s World War I Memorials. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2013. 244 pp. $153.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4094-0655-6.
Reviewed by Shane Peterson (Independent Scholar). Published on H-War (June, 2017).

Richard Bassett. For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. 616 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-17858-6; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-300-21967-8.
Reviewed by Matthew Lungerhausen (Winona State University). Published on H-War (May, 2017).

Vicken Cheterian. Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks, and a Century of Genocide. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xii + 393 pp. Images. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84904-458-5.
Reviewed by Yasar T. Cora (University of Michigan). Published on H-Nationalism (May, 2017).

Christoph Mick. Lemberg, Lwów, L’viv, 1914-1947: Violence and Ethnicity in a Contested City. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2015. 480 pp. $59.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-55753-671-6.
Reviewed by Dan Gashler (SUNY Delhi). Published on H-War (May, 2017).

Robert Gerwarth. The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016. 464 pp. $27.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-374-28245-5.
Reviewed by Richard Fulton (Washington State University). Published on H-War (April, 2017).
Reviewed by John Deak (University of Notre Dame). Published on H-Nationalism (August, 2017).

Patrick J. Houlihan. Catholicism and the Great War: Religion and Everyday Life in Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914–1922. Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 287 pp. $102.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-03514-0.
Reviewed by Markus Raasch (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz). Published on H-German (April, 2017).

Shrabani Basu. For King and Another Country: Indian Soldiers on the Western Front, 1914-18. New Delhi: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. 256 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-93-8405291-1.
Reviewed by Brett Bebber (Old Dominion University). Published on H-War (March, 2017).

Steven Burg, John Maietta, Peter Miele, Jennifer Ott, Mary Lee Shade, eds. Duty Calls at Home: Central Pennsylvania Responds to the Great War, 1914-1918. Shippensburg: Center for Applied History, Shippensburg University, 2014. 282 pp. $16.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-312-06925-1.
Reviewed by Michael Lynch (U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center). Published on H-Pennsylvania (March, 2017).

Robert C. Evans. Perspectives on World War I Poetry. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. vii + 230 pp. $94.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4725-1021-1; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4725-1310-6.
Reviewed by Jennifer Zoebelein (Kansas State University). Published on H-War (March, 2017).

Hans-Lukas Kieser, Kerem Öktem, Maurus Reimkowski, eds. World War I and the End of the Ottoman Empire: From the Balkan Wars to the Turkish Republic. Library of Ottoman Studies Series. London: I. B. Tauris, 2015. Illustrations. 288 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78453-246-8.
Reviewed by Hakan Gungor (Ordu University, Turkey). Published on H-War (March, 2017).

Michael A. Bonura. Under the Shadow of Napoleon: French Influence on the American Way of Warfare from Independence to the Eve of World War II. Warfare and Culture Series. New York: New York University Press, 2012. Maps. 318 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8147-0942-9.
Reviewed by Clifford Harmon (Bridgewater College). Published on H-War (February, 2017).

George B. Clark. The Fourth Marine Brigade in World War I: Battalion Histories Based on Official Documents. Jefferson: McFarland, 2015. 296 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-9699-0.
Reviewed by Heather P. Venable (Air Command and Staff College). Published on H-War (February, 2017).

W. Douglas Fisher, Joann H. Buckley. African American Doctors of World War I: The Lives of 104 Volunteers. Jefferson: McFarland, 2015. 285 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-6315-9.
Reviewed by Shane Peterson (Independent Scholar). Published on H-War (February, 2017).

James Fox. British Art and the First World War, 1914-1924. Studies in the Social and Culture History of Modern Warfare Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Illustrations. xii + 233 pp. $44.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-10587-4.
Reviewed by Shane Peterson (Independent Scholar). Published on H-War (February, 2017).

James Hamilton-Paterson. Marked for Death: The First War in the Air. New York: Pegasus Books, 2016. 416 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-68177-158-8.
Reviewed by John Abbatiello (USAF Academy). Published on H-War (February, 2017).
Reviewed by Robert Rennie (University of Tennessee, Knoxville). Published on H-German (September, 2017).

Michael S. Neiberg. The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 320 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-046496-7.
Reviewed by Donald Seablom (Air University, Air Command and Staff College). Published on H-War (February, 2017).

Kaushik Roy. The Indian Army in the Two World Wars. Boston: Brill, 2012. xxiv + 553 pp. $237.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-18550-0.
Reviewed by Gary Sheffield (University of Wolverhampton). Published on H-War (February, 2017).

Robert Beaken. The Church of England and the Home Front, 1914-1918: Civilians, Soldiers and Religion in Wartime Colchester. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2015. xvi + 272 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78327-051-4.
Reviewed by Martha Hanna (University of Colorado Boulder). Published on H-War (January, 2017).

Hans Gotthard Ehlert, Michael Epkenhans, Gerhard Paul Gross, David T. Zabecki, eds. The Schlieffen Plan: International Perspectives on the German Strategy for World War I. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014. 592 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8131-4746-8.
Reviewed by Adam R. Seipp (Texas A&M University). Published on H-War (January, 2017).

Marjorie Gehrhardt. The Men with Broken Faces: Gueules Cassées of the First World War. Cultural History and Literary Imagination Series. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2015. Illustrations. 304 pp. $64.95 (paper), ISBN 978-3-0343-1869-3.
Reviewed by Matthew Barrett (Queen’s University). Published on H-War (January, 2017).

Stephen Sheehi. The Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography, 1860-1910. Princeton University Press, 2016. pages cm. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-15132-8.
Reviewed by Tina Barouti (Boston University). Published on H-AMCA (January, 2017).

Sebastian Weinert. 100 Jahre Fürst Donnersmarck-Stiftung 1916–2016. Berlin: Selbstverlag, 2016. 288 pp. EUR. 10.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-00-052484-4.
Reviewed by Marion Schmidt (Johns Hopkins University). Published on H-Disability (December, 2016).

Geoffrey L. Rossano, Thomas Wildenberg. Striking the Hornets’ Nest: Naval Aviation and the Origins of Strategic Bombing in World War I. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2015. 304 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61251-390-4.
Reviewed by Laurence M. Burke (U.S. Naval Academy). Published on H-War (December, 2016).

Mark Cornwall, John Paul Newman. Sacrifice and Rebirth: The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016. 306 S., 20. Abb. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78238-848-7.
Reviewed by Rudolf Kucera. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (November, 2016).

William Walker. Betrayal at Little Gibraltar: A German Fortress, a Treacherous American General, and the Battle to End World War I. New York: Scribner, 2016. 464 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5011-1789-3.
Reviewed by Edmund Potter (Mary Baldwin College). Published on H-War (November, 2016).

Shrabani Basu. For King and Another Country: Indian Soldiers on the Western Front, 1914-18. New Delhi: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. 256 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-93-8405291-1.
Reviewed by Kate Imy (University of North Texas). Published on H-Asia (October, 2016).

Edin Hajdarpasic. Whose Bosnia? Nationalism and Political Imagination in the Balkans, 1840-1914. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. xii + 271 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-5371-7.
Reviewed by Azra Hromadzic (Syracuse University). Published on H-SAE (October, 2016).

Jesse Kauffman. Elusive Alliance: The German Occupation of Poland in World War I. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. 320 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-28601-6.
Reviewed by Nicholas Sambaluk (Air Command and Staff College). Published on H-War (October, 2016).

Christina M. Knopf. The Comic Art of War: A Critical Study of Military Cartoons, 1805-2014, with a Guide to Artists. Jefferson: McFarland, 2015. Illustrations. 252 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-9835-2.
Reviewed by Mike Hankins (Kansas State University). Published on H-War (October, 2016).

Christoph Kreutzmüller, Michael Wildt, Moshe Zimmermann. National Economies: Volks-Wirtschaft, Racism and Economy in Europe Between the Wars (1918–1939/45). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. 302 S. $47.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4438-7786-2.
Reviewed by Jürgen Kilian. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (October, 2016).

Kellen Kurschinski et al., eds. The Great War: From Memory to History. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015. 438 pp. $38.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-77112-050-0.
Reviewed by Alex Nordlund (University of Georgia). Published on H-War (October, 2016).

Edward G. Lengel. Thunder and Flames: Americans in the Crucible of Combat, 1917-1918. Modern War Series. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015. xii + 457 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2084-5.
Reviewed by Mark Folse (University of Alabama). Published on H-War (October, 2016).

Fearghal McGarry. The Rising. Ireland: Easter 1916. Centenary Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 400 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-873234-1.
Reviewed by Mandy Link (Eastern Oregon University). Published on H-War (October, 2016).

Carol Acton, Jane Potter. Working in a World of Hurt: Trauma and Resilience in the Narratives of Medical Personnel in Warzones. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. 266 S. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7190-9036-3.
Reviewed by Paul Ketley. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (September, 2016).

Louis Farshee. Safer Barlik: Famine in Mount Lebanon during World War I. Portland: Inkwater Press, 2015. 278 pp. $20.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62901-171-4.
Reviewed by John Walbridge (Indiana University). Published on H-War (September, 2016).

Peter E. Hodgkinson. British Infantry Battalion Commanders in the First World War. Ashgate Studies in First World War History Series. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, 2015. 264 pp. $124.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4724-3827-0; $124.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4724-3825-6.
Reviewed by Geoffrey Hayes (University of Waterloo). Published on H-War (September, 2016).

John C. Mitcham. Race and Imperial Defence in the British World, 1870–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 267 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-13899-5.
Reviewed by Stephen Jackson (University of Sioux Falls). Published on H-Diplo (September, 2016).

Paul O’Brien. A Question of Duty: The Curragh Incident 1914. Dublin: New Island Publishing, 2014. 176 pp. $17.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-84840-314-7.
Reviewed by Augustine Meaher (Air University, Air Command and Staff College). Published on H-War (September, 2016).

Adam P. Wilson. African American Army Officers of World War I: A Vanguard of Equality in War and Beyond. Jefferson: McFarland, 2015. 236 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-9512-2.
Reviewed by Shane Peterson (Independent Scholar). Published on H-War (September, 2016).

Peter Hart. Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 440 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-046493-6.
Reviewed by Julie Powell (Ohio State University). Published on H-War (August, 2016).

Nick Lloyd. Hundred Days: The Campaign That Ended World War I. New York: Basic Books, 2014. Illustrations. xxxiii + 350 pp. $29.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-07492-1.
Reviewed by Jason Szilagyi (Central Michigan University). Published on H-USA (August, 2016).

Jenny MacLeod. Gallipoli. Great Battles Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 256 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-964487-2.
Reviewed by Jennifer L. Paxton (Texas A&M Kingsville). Published on H-War (August, 2016).

Tancred Bradshaw. The Glubb Reports: Glubb Pasha and Britain’s Empire Project in the Middle East, 1920-1956. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 208 pp. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-137-38010-4.
Reviewed by Gregory Brew (Georgetown University). Published on H-War (July, 2016).

John Deak. Forging a Multi-National State: State Making in Imperial Austria from the Enlightenment to the First World War. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2015. XV, 355 S. ISBN 978-0-8047-9557-9.
Reviewed by Wolfgang Göderle. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (July, 2016).

Patrick J. Houlihan. Catholicism and the Great War: Religion and Everyday Life in Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914–1922. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 287 S. (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-107-03514-0.
Reviewed by Benjamin Schulte. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (July, 2016).

Christine Van Everbroeck, Pieter Verstraete. Verminkte stilte: De Belgische invalide soldaten van de Groote Oorlog. Namur, Belgium: Namur University Press, Namur, Belgium, 2014. 200 pp. EUR 35.00, ISBN 978-2-87037-786-4.
Reviewed by Nathanje Dijkstra (Utrecht University). Published on H-Disability (July, 2016).

Gregory W. Ball. They Called Them Soldier Boys: A Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2013. xv + 240 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57441-500-1.
Reviewed by Budd Jones (Air University, Air Command and Staff College). Published on H-War (June, 2016).

Ian F. W. Beckett. The Making of the First World War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. 280 pp. $28.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-16202-8.
Reviewed by Jason Engle (University of Southern Mississippi). Published on H-War (June, 2016).
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Julia Phillips Cohen. Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 256 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-934040-8.
Reviewed by Gemma Masson (University of Birmingham). Published on H-Empire (June, 2016).

Matthew P. Fitzpatrick. Purging the Empire: Mass Expulsions in Germany, 1871-1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 304 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-872578-7.
Reviewed by Annemarie Sammartino (Oberlin College). Published on H-Socialisms (June, 2016).

Darius Staliūnas. Enemies for a Day: Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence in Lithuania under the Tsars. Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia Series. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2015. 320 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-963-386-072-4; $39.99 (paper), ISBN 978-963-386-097-7.
Reviewed by Klaus Richter (University of Birmingham). Published on H-Nationalism (June, 2016).

David Stevens. In All Respects Ready: Australia’s Navy in World War One. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xiv + 469 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-557858-4.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Stice (Palm Beach Atlantic University). Published on H-Empire (June, 2016).

David Stevenson. With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2011. Maps, tables. 752 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-06226-9.
Reviewed by Edmund Potter (Mary Baldwin College). Published on H-War (June, 2016).

Ronald Grigor Suny. “They can live in the desert but nowhere else”: A History of the Armenian Genocide. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. xxiv + 490 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-14730-7.
Reviewed by Marc David Baer (LSE). Published on H-Nationalism (June, 2016).

Alexander Watson. Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914-1918. Westminster, Penguin, 2014, ISBN: 9781846142215; 816pp; Price: £18.10
Reviewed by Dr Jonathan Kwan (University of Nottingham). Published on Reviews in History (June 2016).
New York: Basic Books, 2014. 832 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-01872-7.
Reviewed by Matthew Lungerhausen (Winona State University). Published on H-War (June, 2018).

Frank Nägler, Jörg Hillmann, Michael Epkenhans, eds. Jutland: World War I’s Greatest Naval Battle. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015. 412 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8131-6605-6.
Reviewed by Douglas Peifer (Air University, Air War College). Published on H-War (May, 2016).

Kamran Rastegar. Surviving Images: Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 248 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-939017-5; $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-939016-8.
Reviewed by Lara Fresko (Cornell University). Published on H-AMCA (May, 2016).

David R. Stone. The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914-1918. Modern War Studies Series. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015. Illustrations. vii + 359 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2095-1.
Reviewed by Aleksandra Pomiecko (University of Toronto). Published on H-War (May, 2016).

Keith David Watenpaugh. Bread from Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. 272 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-27932-2; $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-27930-8.
Reviewed by Lori Allen (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London). Published on H-Levant (May, 2016).

Erik Larson. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. New York: Crown Publishers, 2015. 430 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-307-40886-0.
Reviewed by Edmund Potter (Mary Baldwin College). Published on H-War (April, 2016).

Jenny MacLeod. Gallipoli. Great Battles Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 256 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-964487-2.
Reviewed by Richard Fulton (Independent Scholar). Published on H-Empire (April, 2016).

Vanya Eftimova Bellinger. Marie von Clausewitz: The Woman behind the Making of On War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 312 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-022543-8.
Reviewed by Jill S. Russell (King’s College London). Published on H-War (March, 2016).

Robert Gerwarth, Erez Manela. Empires at War: 1911–1923. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 304 S. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-870251-1.
Reviewed by Michael Pesek. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (March, 2016).

Glen Jeansonne, David Luhrssen. War on the Silver Screen: Shaping America’s Perception of History. Lincoln: Potomac Books, 2014. 200 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-61234-641-0.
Reviewed by Anna Zuschlag (Western University, Canada). Published on H-War (March, 2016).

Brian K. Feltman. The Stigma of Surrender: German Prisoners, British Captors, and Manhood in the Great War and Beyond. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. 280 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-1993-4.
Reviewed by Bradley Cesario (Texas A&M University). Published on H-War (February, 2016).

Jonathan Marc Gribetz. Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter. Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. 312 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-15950-8.
Reviewed by Noah Haiduc-Dale (Centenary College). Published on H-Judaic (February, 2016).

John Gooch. The Italian Army and the First World War. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014. Pp. xiii, 386. ISBN 978–0–521–14937–2.
Reviewed by Paolo Morisi (New York City). Published on Michigan War Studies Review (February 2016).

Ross J. Wilson. New York and the First World War: Shaping an American City. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2014. 274 pp. $149.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4724-1949-1.
Reviewed by Shane Peterson (Independent Scholar). Published on H-War (February, 2016).

Holger Afflerbach. The Purpose of the First World War: War Aims and Military Strategies. Berlin: de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2015. X, 258 S. $77.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-11-034622-0.
Reviewed by Wolfgang Elz. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (January, 2016).

Agnieszka Pasieka. Hierarchy and Pluralism: Living Religious Difference in Catholic Poland. Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 284 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-137-50052-6.
Reviewed by Brian Porter-Szucs (University of Michigan). Published on H-Poland (January, 2016).

Sidney Tarrow. War, States, and Contention: A Comparative Historical Study. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. 328 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8014-7962-5.
Reviewed by Sam Lebovic (George Mason University). Published on H-Diplo (January, 2016).

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen. The First World War in the Middle East. London: Hurst & Co., 2014. xiii + 263 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84904-274-1.
Reviewed by Hakan Gungor (Florida State University). Published on H-War (January, 2016).

Steven Casey. When Soldiers Fall: How Americans Have Confronted Combat Losses from World War I to Afghanistan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 320 pp. $21.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-19-989039-2; $31.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-989038-5.
Reviewed by Paul Springer (Air Command and Staff College). Published on H-War (December, 2015).

Jonathan Haslam, Karina Urbach, eds. Secret Intelligence in the European States System, 1918-1989. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013. 256 pp. $54.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-8359-0.
Reviewed by Nicholas Sambaluk (Purdue University and the United States Military Academy). Published on H-War (December, 2015).

Eugene Rogan. The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East. New York: Basic Books, 2015. 512 pp. $32.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-02307-3.
Reviewed by Catalina Hunt (Denison University). Published on H-War (December, 2015).
Reviewed by Kevin Jones (University of Georgia). Published on H-Empire (September, 2017).

James Goldrick. Before Jutland: The Naval War in Northern European Waters, August 1914-February 1915. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2015. Illustrations, maps. 400 pp. $44.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-59114-349-9.
Reviewed by Tony Demchak (Kansas State). Published on H-War (November, 2015).

John H. Maurer, Christopher M. Bell, eds. At the Crossroads between Peace and War: The London Naval Conference in 1930. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2014. 288 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61251-326-3.
Reviewed by Tyler Bamford (Temple University). Published on H-War (November, 2015).

John Paul Newman. Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War: Veterans and the Limits of State Building, 1903–1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-316-38472-5; ISBN 978-1-107-70759-7; ISBN 978-1-316-36072-9.
Reviewed by Geoffrey Swain. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (November, 2015).

Peter C. Applebaum. Loyal Sons: Jewish Soldiers in the German Army in the Great War. Portland: Vallentine Mitchell, 2014. 382 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-85303-948-8; $37.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-85303-999-0.
Reviewed by Jesse Kauffman (Eastern Michigan). Published on H-War (October, 2015).

M. B. B. Biskupski. Independence Day: Myth, Symbol, and the Creation of Modern Poland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 224 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-965881-7.
Reviewed by Patrice M. Dabrowski. Published on H-Poland (October, 2015).

Max Egremont. Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. 352 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-374-28032-1; $16.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-374-53544-5.
Reviewed by Alex Nordlund (University of Georgia). Published on H-War (October, 2015).

Brian K. Feltman. The Stigma of Surrender: German Prisoners, British Captors, and Manhood in the Great War and Beyond. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. 280 S. (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-4696-1993-4.
Reviewed by Benjamin Ziemann. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (October, 2015).

Jason D. Hansen. Mapping the Germans. Statistical Science, Cartography, and the Visualization of the German Nation, 1848-1914. Corby: Oxford University Press, 2015. 232 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-871439-2.
Reviewed by Steven Seegel (University of Northern Colorado). Published on H-Nationalism (October, 2015).

Stefan Manz. Constructing a German Diaspora: The “Greater German Empire,” 1871–1914. Oxford: Routledge, 2014. 360 pp. $145.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-89226-1.
Reviewed by Sacha Davis (University of Newcastle). Published on H-Nationalism (October, 2015).

Sean McMeekin. July 1914: Countdown to War. New York: Basic Books, 2014. 480 pp. $29.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-03145-0; $17.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-465-06074-0.
Reviewed by Rian van Meeteren. Published on H-War (October, 2015).

Ingeborg Meyer-Palmedo, ed. Sigmund Freud – Anna Freud: Correspondence, 1904-1938. Translated by Nick Somers. Cambridge: Polity Books, 2014. xiii + 513 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7456-4149-2.
Reviewed by Hannah S. Decker (University of Houston). Published on HABSBURG (October, 2015).

David M. Lubin. Flags and Faces: The Visual Culture of America’s First World War. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. 124 S. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-28363-3.
Reviewed by Susana Rocha Teixeira. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (September, 2015).

Emily Mayhew. Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Illustrations. 275 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-932245-9.
Reviewed by Edmund Potter (Mary Baldwin College). Published on H-War (September, 2015).

Thomas I. Faith. Behind the Gas Mask: The U.S. Chemical Warfare Service in War and Peace. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014. 176 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08026-5; $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03868-6.
Reviewed by Albert Mauroni (USAF Center for Unconventional Weapons Studies). Published on H-War (August, 2015).

Ryan Floyd. Abandoning American Neutrality: Woodrow Wilson and the Beginning of the Great War, August 1914-December 1915. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, ISBN: 9781137334114; 262pp.; Price: £55.00.
Reviewed by Mr Moritz Pöllath (Jena University) on Reviews in History (August 2015).

Samuel Hynes. The Unsubstantial Air: American Fliers in the First World War. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014. 336 pp. $26.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-374-27800-7.
Reviewed by Laurence M. Burke (Carnegie Mellon). Published on H-War (August, 2015).

Ross Kennedy. The Will to Believe: Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and America’s Strategy for Peace and Security. Kent, OH, Kent University State Press, 2009, ISBN: 9780873389716; 312pp.; Price: £40.50.
Reviewed by Professor Kendrick Clements (University of South Carolina) on Reviews in History (August 2015).

Peter Yearwood. Guarantee of Peace: The League of Nations in British Policy 1914-1925. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009, ISBN: 9780199226733; 432pp.; Price: £65.00.
Reviewed by Dr Carolyn Kitching (Teesside University) on Reviews in History (August 2015).

Dirk Bönker. Militarism in a Global Age: Naval Amitions in Germany and the United States before World War I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012. 432 S. ISBN 978-0-8014-6388-4.
Heiko Herold. Reichsgewalt bedeutet Seegewalt: Die Kreuzergeschwader der Kaiserlichen Marine als Instrument der deutschen Kolonial- und Weltpolitik 1885 bis 1914. München: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2013. VIII, 472 S. ISBN 978-3-486-71297-1.
Reviewed by Susanne Kuß. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (July, 2015).

Ana Carden-Coyne. The Politics of Wounds: Military Patients and Medical Power in the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xii + 382 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-969826-4.
Reviewed by Jennifer Paxton (Texas Tech). Published on H-War (July, 2015).

Ariane de Ranitz. Louis Raemaekers ‘Armed with Pen and Pencil’: How a Dutch cartoonist became world famous during the First World War. Roermond: Louis Raemaekers, 2014. 296 S. ISBN 978-90-78074-19-9.
Jean-Claude Gardes. La guerre après la guerre: L’Echo de la grande guerre dans la caricature (1918–2014). Brest: Equipe interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur l’Image Satririque, 2013. 214 S.
Anton Kruft, Hans van Lith, Ralph Keuning, Rob Scholte. Jan Sluijters oorlogprenten, 1915–1919: Politieke oorlogsprenten uit de Nieuwe Amsterdammer. Zwolle: Waanders Verlag, 2014. 96 S. ISBN 978-946262008-7.
Reviewed by Ulrich Schnakenberg. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (July, 2015).

Victor Madeira. Britannia and the Bear: The Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars, 1917-1929. Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2014. 339 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84383-895-1.
Reviewed by Alex Nordlund (University of Georgia). Published on H-War (July, 2015).

Stefan Manz. Constructing a German Diaspora: The “Greater German Empire”: 1871–1914. Oxford: Routledge, 2014. 360 S. (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-415-89226-1.
Reviewed by Moritz Glaser. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (July, 2015).

Bradley Naranch, Geoff Eley, eds. German Colonialism in a Global Age. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. 432 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-5723-0.
Reviewed by Theodore Nitz (Gonzaga University). Published on H-Diplo (July, 2015).

Silvio Pons. The Global Revolution: A History of International Communism 1917-1991. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xx + 365 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-965762-9.
Reviewed by Padraic Kenney (Indiana University). Published on H-Diplo (July, 2015).

Brian Bond. Britain’s Two World Wars against Germany: Myth, Memory and the Distortions of Hindsight. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 199 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-00471-9; $27.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-107-65913-1.
Reviewed by Keith Dickson (National Defense University). Published on H-War (June, 2015).

David R. Dorondo. Riders of the Apocalypse: German Cavalry and Modern Warfare, 1870-1945. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2012. 352 pp. $36.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61251-086-6.
Reviewed by Kelly McFall. Published on H-German (June, 2015).

Rose Hayden-Smith. Sowing the Seeds of Victory: American Gardening Programs of World War I. Jefferson: McFarland, 2014. 264 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-1586-8.
Reviewed by Christopher Deutsch (University of Missouri). Published on H-War (May, 2015).

Peter Plowman. Voyage to Gallipoli. Dural, Australia: Rosenberg Publishing, 2013. Illustrations, tables. 304 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-922013-53-8.
Reviewed by Edward Erickson (US Marine Corps Command and Staff College). Published on H-War (May, 2015).

Matthias Strohn, ed. World War I Companion. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2013. 272 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78200-188-1.
Reviewed by Tony Demchak (Kansas State). Published on H-War (May, 2015).

Mary K. Trigg. Feminism as Life’s Work: Four Modern American Women through Two World Wars. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2014. xii + 266 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8135-6523-1; $28.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8135-6522-4.
Reviewed by Amy Green. Published on H-Socialisms (May, 2015).

Lawrence Sondhaus. The Great War at Sea: A Naval History of the First World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 417 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-03690-1.
Reviewed by Wladyslaw Roczniak (Bronx Community College). Published on H-Diplo (April, 2015).

David R. Woodward. The American Army and the First World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 484 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-01144-1; $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-107-64886-9.
Reviewed by Lon Strauss (Appalachian State University). Published on H-Diplo (March, 2015).

Annika Mombauer. The Origins of the First World War: Diplomatic and military documents. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. 592 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7190-7421-9; $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7190-7420-2.
Reviewed by Jason Engle (University of Southern Mississippi). Published on H-War (February, 2015).

Adam Kożuchowski. The Afterlife of Austria-Hungary: The Image of the Habsburg Monarchy in Interwar Europe. Russian and East European Studies Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013. 232 pp. $25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8229-6265-6.
Reviewed by John Fahey (Purdue University). Published on H-German (February, 2015).

Robert Gerwarth, Erez Manela, eds. Empires at War, 1911-1923. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Illustrations, maps. 256 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-870251-1.
Reviewed by Maureen Healy (Lewis and Clark College). Published on H-Diplo (February, 2015).

Peter C. Appelbaum, ed. Loyalty Betrayed: Jewish Chaplains in the German Army during the First World War. Portland: Vallentine Mitchell, 2014. 398 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-85303-847-4.
Reviewed by Jesse Kauffman (Eastern Michigan). Published on H-War (January, 2015).

Antonio S. Thompson, Christos Frentzos, eds. The Routledge Handbook of American Military and Diplomatic History: 1865 to the Present. New York: Routledge, 2013. xiv + 400 pp. $229.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-88847-9; $225.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-135-07099-1.
Reviewed by Tal Tovy (Bar Ilan University). Published on H-War (January, 2015).

Adrian Gilbert. Challenge of Battle: The Real Story of the British Army in 1914. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2014. 304 pp. $25.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84908-859-6.
Reviewed by Bruce D. Cohen (University of North Texas). Published on H-War (November, 2014).

Teresa Iacobelli. Death or Deliverance: Canadian Courts Martial in the Great War. Vancouver: University Of British Columbia Press, 2014. 192 pp. $35.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7748-2568-9.
Reviewed by Rachel Beard. Published on H-War (November, 2014).

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen. The First World War in the Middle East. London: Hurst & Co., 2014. XIII, 263 S. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84904-274-1.
Reviewed by Wilfried Loth. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (November, 2014).
Reviewed by Elizabeth F. Thompson (University of Virginia). Published on H-Diplo (October, 2014).

Isabel V. Hull. A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014. 384 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-5273-4.
Reviewed by Bruce D. Cohen (University of North Texas). Published on H-War (October, 2014).

Geoffrey Wawro. A Mad Catastrophe. New York: Basic Books, 2014. 471 pp. $29.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-02835-1.
Reviewed by Rian van Meeteren. Published on H-War (October, 2014).

Patrick Gariepy. Gardens of Hell: Battles of the Gallipoli Campaign. Dulles: Potomac Books, 2014. 344 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61234-683-0.
Reviewed by Joseph Moretz. Published on H-War (September, 2014).

Yücel Yanikdağ. Healing the Nation: Prisoners of War, Medicine and Nationalism in Turkey, 1914-1939. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. ix + 303 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7486-6578-5; $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7486-9589-8.
Reviewed by Mesut Uyar (University of New South Wales). Published on H-War (August, 2014).

Matthew S. Seligmann. The Royal Navy and the German Threat 1901–1914: Admiralty Plans to Protect British Trade in a War Against Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 208 S. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-957403-2.
Reviewed by Mark Jones. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (September, 2013).

Julie Anderson. War, Disability and Rehabilitation in Britain: ‘Soul of a Nation’. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. xii + 239 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7190-8250-4.
Reviewed by Dee Hoole (University of Aberdeen). Published on H-Disability (August, 2013).

John D. Grainger. The Battle for Syria, 1918-1920. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2013. 270 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84383-803-6.
Reviewed by Michael Neiberg. Published on H-War (August, 2013).

James Wood. Militia Myths: Ideas of the Canadian Citizen Soldier, 1896-1921. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2011. 368 pp. $35.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7748-1766-0.
Reviewed by William Pratt (University of Calgary). Published on H-War (December, 2012).

David R. Dorondo. Riders of the Apocalypse: German Cavalry and Modern Warfare, 1870-1945. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2012. 352 pp. $36.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61251-086-6.
Reviewed by Ian Johnson (The Ohio State University). Published on H-War (November, 2012).

Anthony D’Agostino. The Rise of Global Powers: International Politics in the Era of the World Wars. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. viii + 559 pp. $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-15424-6; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-19586-7.
Reviewed by Joshua Shifrinson (MIT). Published on H-Diplo (July, 2012).

Christine G. Krüger, Sonja Levsen. War Volunteering in Modern Times: From the French Revolution to the Second World War. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 297 S. $89.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-230-22805-4.
Reviewed by Niklas Frykman. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (July, 2012).

Jörg Muth. Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German Armed Forces, 1901-1940, and the Consequences for World War II. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2011. 368 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57441-303-8.
Reviewed by Dale Herspring (Kansas State). Published on H-War (May, 2012).

Karen Petrone. The Great War in Russian Memory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. 385 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-35617-8.
Reviewed by Kristiane Janeke. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (May, 2012).

Mary W. Schaller, ed. Deliver Us from Evil: A Southern Belle in Europe at the Outbreak of World War I. Women’s Diaries and Letters of the South Series. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2011. Illustrations. 192 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57003-950-8.
Reviewed by Julia Irwin (University of South Florida). Published on H-War (March, 2012).

Jeremy Black. The Great War and the Making of the Modern World. London: Continuum, 2011. xv + 337 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8264-4093-8.
Reviewed by Andrew Keating (University of California, Berkeley). Published on H-Empire (January, 2012).

Susan B. Whitney. Mobilizing Youth: Communists and Catholics in Interwar France. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. 318 S. $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-4595-4; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-4613-5.
Reviewed by Stefanie Middendorf. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (October, 2011).

Beth Linker. War’s Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 304 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-48253-8.
Reviewed by Susan Burch (Middlebury College). Published on H-Disability (September, 2011).

Peter Rees. Other Anzacs: Nurses at War 1914-1918. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2008. Illustrations. xviii + 363 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-74175-549-7.
Reviewed by Katherine Burger Johnson (University of Louisville). Published on H-Minerva (November, 2010).

Christine E. Hallett. Containing Trauma: Nursing Work in the First World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. xvii + 259 pp. $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7190-7958-0.
Reviewed by Charissa Threat (Northeastern University). Published on H-Minerva (September, 2010).

Kimberly Jensen. Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xvii + 244 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03237-0; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-07496-7.
Reviewed by Heather M. Stur (University of Southern Mississippi). Published on H-Minerva (April, 2009).