War is the father of all and the king of all, and some he shows as gods, others as men;
some he makes slaves, others free
. -- Heracleitus



Editor: James P. Holoka                                                                                                                                                          ISSN: 1930-045x

The Michigan War Studies Review (reference abbreviation MWSR) publishes book reviews, literature surveys, original essays, commentary, and other material in the field of military studies, with a purview extending from antiquity to the present. Subscription is gratis. Publishers desiring to have books reviewed in MWSR should contact the editor. Those interested in writing for MWSR may see guidelines for reviews and a list of books currently available at our Submissions page. Many additional resources may be found at the publisher's website: Michigan War Studies Group.

 

 



 

2005 Volume
  2010.09.01

Nothing Less Than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History
By John David Lewis [Review by Grant W. Jones]

  2010.08.08

Barney Rosset: The "Publisher-hero" As Combat Photographer in China
Interview by Bob Bergin

  2010.08.07

Marathon and Salamis: The Battles That Defined the Western World
By Compton Mackenzie [Review by James P. Holoka]

  2010.08.06

How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower
By Adrian Goldsworthy [Review by Eugenia C. Kiesling]

  2010.08.05

If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy from the Revolution to the War of 1812
By George C. Daughan [Review by Bruce Zellers]

  2010.08.04

War Horse: A History of the Military Horse and Rider
By Louis A. DiMarco [Review by Gervase Phillips]

  2010.08.03

Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945
By Carlo D'Este [Review Geoffrey K. Krempa]

  2010.08.02

Whirlwind: The Air War against Japan, 1942-1945
By Barrett Tillman [Review by Jonathan Beard]

  2010.08.01

The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House Burning
By Allan R. Millett [Review by Jiu-Hwa Lo Upshur]

  2010.07.08

Hitler's Panzers: The Lightning Attacks That Revolutionized Warfare
By Dennis Showalter [Review by David Ian Hall]

  2010.07.07

Rebellion in the Ranks: Mutinies of the American Revolution
By John A. Nagy [Review by Steven G. Gimber]

  2010.07.06

A Close View of the Disaster at the Sittang Bridge
By E.R.B. Hudson [Interview by Bob Berginl]

  2010.07.05

On Braun on Bertrand Taithe, The Killer Trail: A Colonial Scandal in the Heart of Africa
[Response by Bertrand Taithe]

  2010.07.04

Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
By Karl Marlantes [Review by Jonathan Marwil]

  2010.07.03

1812: War with America
By Jon Latimer [Review by Steven E. Siry]

  2010.07.02

Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front, 1942-1945
By Boris Gorbachevsky [Review by Teddy J. Uldricks]

  2010.07.01

Pyrrhus of Epirus
By Jeff Champion [Review by Arthur M. Eckstein]

  2010.06.02

The Killer Trail: A Colonial Scandal in the Heart of Africa
By Bertrand Taithe [Review by Lindsay Frederick Braun]

  2010.06.01

Clausewitz's On War: A Biography
By Hew Strachan [Review by John Shy]

  2010.05.03

A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902
By David J. Sibley [Review by Jiu-Hwa Lo Upshur]

  2010.05.02

How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns
By Audrey Kurth Cronin [Review by Terence Parker]

  2010.05.01

A Companion to the Roman Army
Ed. Paul Erdkamp [Review by Lee W. Eysturlid]

  2010.04.01

Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground
By Robert D. Kaplan [Review by Ingo Trauschweizer]

  2010.03.05

Legionary: The Roman Soldier's (Unofficial) Manual
By Philip Matyszak [Review by Joshua Levithan]

  2010.03.04

Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945
By Randall Hansen [Review by Jonathan D. Beard]

  2010.03.03

Japanese Intelligence in World War II
By Ken Kotani [Review by Bob Bergin]

  2010.03.02

Remaking Memory or Getting It Right? Saving Private Ryan and the World War II Generation
By Thomas A. Bruscino, Jr.

  2010.03.01

On Upshur on Neil J. Diamant, Embattled Glory
[Response by Neil J. Diamant]

  2010.02.07

The Final Battle: Soldiers of the Western Front and the German Revolution of 1918
By Scott Stephenson [Review by Michael S. Neiberg]

  2010.02.06

Enduring the Great War: Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918
By Alexander Watson [Review by Robert Nelson]

  2010.02.05

Embattled Glory: Veterans, Military Families, and the Politics of Patriotism in China, 1949-2007
By Neil J. Diamant [Review by Jiu-Hwa Lo Upshur]

  2010.02.04

The Spartacus War
By Barry Strauss [Review by Arthur M. Eckstein]

  2010.02.03

From Stalingrad to Pillau: A Red Army Artillery Officer Remembers the Great Patriotic War
By Isaak Kobylyanskiy [Review by Walter G. Moss]

  2010.02.02

The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
By Niall Ferguson [Review by Jacob L. Hamric]

  2010.02.01

On Kiesling on Peter Paret, The Cognitive  Challenge of War
[Response by Peter Paret]

  2010.01.07

The Cognitive  Challenge of War: Prussia 1806
By Peter Paret [Review by Eugenia C. Kiesling]

  2010.01.06

Thutmose III: The Military Biography of Egypt's Greatest Warrior King
By Richard A. Gabriel [Review by Peter Nadig]

  2010.01.05

Samuel Adams: A Life
By Ira Stoll [Review by Bruce Zellers]

  2010.01.04

Jungle of Snakes: A Century of Counterinsurgency Warfare from the Philippines to Iraq
By James R. Arnold [Review by Bob Bergin]

  2010.01.03

Life and Death in the Third Reich
By Peter Fritzsche [Review by William J. Astore]

  2010.01.02

The Black Hawk War of 1832
By Patrick J. Jung [Review by Kathleen P. Chamberlain]

  2010.01.01

With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain
By Michael Korda [Review by Grant W. Jones]