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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

The Airborne Mafia: The Paratroopers Who Shaped America’s Cold War Army

Robert F. Williams 

Cornell University Press, forthcoming

Ground Combat: Puncturing the Myths of Modern War

Ben Connable

Georgetown University Press, forthcoming

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

Valhalla Boys: Marine Recon Sniper in Iraq

Brennan Morton

Casemate, forthcoming

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

R. Gregory Lande

McFarland, forthcoming

The Eighth Air Force in World War II: Ira Eaker, Hap Arnold, and Building American Air Power, 1942 – 1943

William J. Daugherty

University of North Texas Press

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

Barbara Emerson

Hurst, forthcoming

My Darling Boys: A Family at War, 1941 – 1947

Fred H. Allison

University of North Texas Press, 2023

Contested Valor: African American Marines in the Age of Power, Protest, and Tokensim

Cameron D. McCoy

University Press of Kansas, November 2024

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

The Brown Water War at 50: A Retrospective on the Coastal and Riverine Conflict in Vietnam

Thomas J. Cutler and Edward J. Marolda

Naval Institute Press

The Pen and the Sword: The US Naval Institute 1873-2023

A. Denis Clift

Naval Institute Press

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

Glenn M. Harned

independently published

Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest 

Robert Chesney and Max Smeets

Georgetown University Press, 2023

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

Mother of the Company: Sgt. Percy M. Smith’s World War II Reflections

Philip M. Smith

2022, Texas A&M University Press

Operation Utah: The Die is Cast

Hubert Yoshida

2022, Luna Blue

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

The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings Into Space

Michelle Evans

2021, University of Nebraska Press

A Navy Admiral's Bronze Rules: Managing Risk and Leadership

Rear Admiral Dave Oliver, USN (Ret)

Naval Institute Press

First In Last Out: The Post-War Organisation, Employment and Training of Royal Marines Commandos

Paul Winter

2021, Casemate

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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