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)
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More Precious than Peace: A New History of America in World War I
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Justus D. Doenecke
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Notre Dame Press
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Lieutenants and Light: Mapping the US Army Heliograph Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New Mexico
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Robert E. C. Davis
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University of New Mexico Press
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The Marines’ Fight for Survival: War, Politics and Institutional Crisis, 1945-1952
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Rod Andrew Jr.
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University Press of Kansas; review copy requested; PDF copy on file
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Madam War Criminal: Biljana Plasvsic, Serbia’s Iron Lady
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Olivera Simic
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Hurst; November; request copy
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USMC Tank Markings in the Pacific
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Romain Cansiere
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Casemate, 2025
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Counting on Death: A Marine Infantryman’s Journey from the Front Lines of Combat to the Fight for Peace
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Joshua Shores
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Casemate; August 2025
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Guadalcanal’s Longest Fight: The Pivotal Battles of the Matanikau Front
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Dave R. Holland
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Casemate; forthcoming October 2025
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A Soldier’s Life: A Black Woman’s Rise from Army Brat to Six Triple Eight Champion
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Col Edna W. Cummings
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UVA Press; copy on desk
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The Battlin’ Bastards of Bravo: Bravo Company, 1/506th, 101st Airborne, in Vietnam and Beyond
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Melissa Ziobro
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Casemate; April 2025; request copy
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Born from War: A Soldier’s Quest to Understand Vietnam, Iraq, and the Generational Impact of Conflict
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Patrick Naughton Jr.
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Casemate; April 2025; request copy
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The U.S. Military and the Pacific Environment: The Making of an American Lake
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Andrew C. Eisenberg, Beth Bailey, and Paul Landsberg
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University Press of Kansas; forthcoming June 2025
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A Strange Whim of the Sea: The Wreck of the USS Macaw
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Tim Loughman
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University Press of Kentucky; forthcoming May 20 2025
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Fallen Tigers: The Fate of America’s Missing Airmen in China during World War II
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Daniel Jackson
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University Press of Kentucky; forthcoming May 20 2025
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Military Theory and the Conduct of War: What Is Strategy All About?
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Azar Gat
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Hurst, forthcoming
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Eight-Wheeled Warriors and Grunts: U.S. Marine LAV and Infantry Operations, Spring 2004
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LtCol David E. Kelley, USMC
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Casemate, forthcoming
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United States Military Justice in the Civil War: Court-Martial Practices and Administration
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R. Gregory Lande
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McFarland, forthcoming
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Part-Time Soldiers: Reserve Readiness Challenges in Modern Military History
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Andrew Lewis Chadwick
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University Press of Kansas, November 2024
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The Race for Mukalla: Arabian Elite Forces and the War Against Al-Qaida
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Michael Knights
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Profile Press
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Marine Corps Heroes 1918: Toulon and Belleau Wood, vol. 5 of a Marine Corps Biographical Encyclopedia
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Glenn M. Harned
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independently published
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American Traitor: General James Wilkinson’s Betrayal of the Republic and Escape from Justice
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Howard W. Cox
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Georgetown University Press, 2023
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The Flying Grunt: The Story of Lieutenant General Richard E. Carey
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Alan E. Mesches
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2023, Casemate
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First Fights in Fallujah: Marines During Operation Vigilant Resolve, in Iraq, April 2004
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LtCol David E. Kelly
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2023, Casemate
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Twelve Days: How the Union Nearly Lost Washington in the First Days of the Civil War
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Tony Silber
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2023, University of Nebraska Press
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Hell in the Streets of Husaybah: The April 2004 Fights of 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines in Husaybah, Iraq
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LtCol David E. Kelly, USMC
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2022, Casemate
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The Grammar of Civil War: A Mexican Case Study, 1857-61
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Will Fowler
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2022, University of Nebraska Press
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Into Helmand with the Walking Dead
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Miles Vining
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2020, Casemate
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Marine Corps Heroes 1918: Toulon and Belleau Wood, vol. 4 of a Marine Corps Biographical Encyclopedia
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Glenn M. Harned
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independently published
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