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MCH Book Reviews

The editor of the Marine Corps History journal is interested in books reviews, review essays, and historiographical essays for the coming publishing year.

The typical single-title review is approximately 750 words. Multiple-title review essays are usually longer at approximately 1,250 words and can be footnoted. Historiographical essays are typically at least 3,000 words and footnoted. MCUP's in-house style guide is based on rules for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization found in the current edition of Chicago Manual of Style and your work should be formatted accordingly prior to submission.

To request a review copy, email your name, address, and title(s) of interest to mcu_press@usmcu.edu.

 

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Historiographical Essay Topics (download)

 

CURRENTLY AVAILABLE

 TITLE

AUTHOR/EDITOR

YEAR/PUBLISHER

U.S. Marines at the Battle for Sangin: Operation Enduring Freedom 

Landon Longgrear

Pen & Sword

Best Beloved: The Wartime Letters of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz to His Wife, Catherine

Tyler R. Bamford and Richard A. Hulver

Naval History and Heritage Command

Rhino Tanks and Sticky Bombs: GI Ingenuity in World War II

Y Robert P. Wettemann Jr.

University of Oklahoma Press

A Military History of the New World Order, 1989-2022

Jonathan M. House

University of Oklahoma Press

Thucydides on Strategy: Grand Strategies in the Peloponnesian War and their Relevance Today, updated and expanded edition

Athanasios Platias and Constantinos Koliopoulos

Hurst

Closing the Ring: George Washington’s War in the North, 1778-1781 

Jeffrey A. Denman

Casemate

Tanker War: Operation Earnest Will and Seapower in Practice 

Thomas Duffy

Casemate

Blood in the Argonne: The “Lost Battalion” of World War I 

Alan D. Gaff

University of Oklahoma Press

The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines 

Justin F. Jackson

University of North Carolina Press

More Precious than Peace: A New History of America in World War I 

Justus D. Doenecke

Notre Dame Press

Lieutenants and Light: Mapping the US Army Heliograph Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New Mexico 

Robert E. C. Davis

University of New Mexico Press

Madam War Criminal: Biljana Plasvsic, Serbia’s Iron Lady 

Olivera Simic

Hurst; November; request copy

USMC Tank Markings in the Pacific

Romain Cansiere

Casemate, 2025

Counting on Death: A Marine Infantryman’s Journey from the Front Lines of Combat to the Fight for Peace 

Joshua Shores

Casemate; August 2025

A Soldier’s Life: A Black Woman’s Rise from Army Brat to Six Triple Eight Champion

Col Edna W. Cummings

UVA Press; copy on desk

The Battlin’ Bastards of Bravo: Bravo Company, 1/506th, 101st Airborne, in Vietnam and Beyond

Melissa Ziobro

Casemate; April 2025; request copy

Born from War: A Soldier’s Quest to Understand Vietnam, Iraq, and the Generational Impact of Conflict

Patrick Naughton Jr.

Casemate; April 2025; request copy

The U.S. Military and the Pacific Environment: The Making of an American Lake 

Andrew C. Eisenberg, Beth Bailey, and Paul Landsberg

University Press of Kansas; forthcoming June 2025

A Strange Whim of the Sea: The Wreck of the USS Macaw 

Tim Loughman

University Press of Kentucky; forthcoming May 20 2025

Fallen Tigers: The Fate of America’s Missing Airmen in China during World War II

Daniel Jackson

University Press of Kentucky; forthcoming May 20 2025

Eight-Wheeled Warriors and Grunts: U.S. Marine LAV and Infantry Operations, Spring 2004

LtCol David E. Kelley, USMC

Casemate, forthcoming

United States Military Justice in the Civil War: Court-Martial Practices and Administration

R. Gregory Lande

McFarland, forthcoming

The Race for Mukalla: Arabian Elite Forces and the War Against Al-Qaida

Michael Knights

Profile Press

American Traitor: General James Wilkinson’s Betrayal of the Republic and Escape from Justice

Howard W. Cox

Georgetown University Press, 2023

The Flying Grunt: The Story of Lieutenant General Richard E. Carey

Alan E. Mesches

2023, Casemate

First Fights in Fallujah: Marines During Operation Vigilant Resolve, in Iraq, April 2004

LtCol David E. Kelly

2023, Casemate

Twelve Days: How the Union Nearly Lost Washington in the First Days of the Civil War

Tony Silber

2023, University of Nebraska Press

Hell in the Streets of Husaybah: The April 2004 Fights of 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines in Husaybah, Iraq

LtCol David E. Kelly, USMC

2022, Casemate

The Grammar of Civil War: A Mexican Case Study, 1857-61

Will Fowler

2022, University of Nebraska Press

Into Helmand with the Walking Dead

Miles Vining

2020, Casemate

 

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