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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

To Fix a National Character: The United States in the First Barbary War, 1800–1805

Abigail Mullen

Johns Hopkins University Press; 2024

Run Through the Jungle: Military Assistance Command, Vietnam: Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG), 1964-1972, vol. 1

Shawn Fisher

Casemate; forthcoming November 2025

Vietnam Fire Mission: Fighting with the 1st 155mm Gun Battery (Self-Propelled), USMC

Larry Allen Hilton

Casemate; forthcoming October 2025

Guadalcanal’s Longest Fight: The Pivotal Battles of the Matanikau Front

Dave R. Holland

Casemate; forthcoming October 2025

SOG Kontum: Top Secret Missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, 1968-69

Joe Parnar and Robert Dumont

Casemate; paperback release forthcoming September 2025

Superspy: Hans Toffe, Intelligence Officer for SOE, OSS, and CIA

David A. Foy

Casemate; forthcoming September 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

A Violent Peace: A Global Military History of the Interwar Period 

Ian Ona Johnson and Robert Clemm

University Press of Kansas; forthcoming June 2025

Beyond Black Hawk Down: Intervention, Nation-building, and Insurgency in Somalia, 1992-1995

Jonathan Carroll

University Press of Kansas; forthcoming June 2025

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

Balloon Ace: The Life of an Early Airpower Visionary

Charles D. Dusch Jr.

University Press Kentucky; released February

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

When Presidents Fight the Last War: The Oval Office, Sunk Costs, and Wartime Decision-Making since Vietnam 

Bryan N. Groves

University Press of Kentucky; forthcoming Fall 2025

To Die with Such Men: Frontline Stories from Ukraine’s International Legion

Shannon Monaghan

Hurst, 2025

Military Theory and the Conduct of War: What Is Strategy All About?

Azar Gat

Hurst, forthcoming

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 First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century 

Barbara Emerson

Hurst, forthcoming

Part-Time Soldiers: Reserve Readiness Challenges in Modern Military History

Andrew Lewis Chadwick

University Press of Kansas, November 2024

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

Michael Knights

Profile Press

Marine Corps Heroes 1918: Toulon and Belleau Wood, vol. 5 of a Marine Corps Biographical Encyclopedia

Glenn M. Harned

independently published

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

Marine Corps Heroes 1918: Toulon and Belleau Wood, vol. 4 of a Marine Corps Biographical Encyclopedia

Glenn M. Harned

independently published

 

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