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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China’s Date Debate: How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II by Emily Matson (University of Michigan Press)
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Emily Matson
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University of Michigan Press
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This Hemisphere of Hell: The First Battalion, 24th Marines in World War II
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Geoffrey W. Roecker
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Casemate
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From U.S. Marine to Provincial Military Governor in Iraq with The 3rd Battalion, 23rd Marines
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David Wayne Couvillon with Miriam C. Davis
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Casemate
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Preparing for War: Strategy, Power, and Military Change
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Olivier Schmitt
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Hurst
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Ortiz’s War: The Allies’ Secrete Weapon Against the Nazis in France—The Remarkable True Story of OSS Saboteur Peter J. Ortiz
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Nicholas Reynolds and Katie S. Sanders
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Harper Horizon
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Marine Defense Battalions in World War II
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Marshall K. Snyder
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Naval Institute Press
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Best Beloved: The Wartime Letters of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz to His Wife, Catherine
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Tyler R. Bamford and Richard A. Hulver
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Naval History and Heritage Command
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Thucydides on Strategy: Grand Strategies in the Peloponnesian War and their Relevance Today, updated and expanded edition
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Athanasios Platias and Constantinos Koliopoulos
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Hurst
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Tanker War: Operation Earnest Will and Seapower in Practice
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Thomas Duffy
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Casemate
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Blood in the Argonne: The “Lost Battalion” of World War I
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Alan D. Gaff
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University of Oklahoma Press
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The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines
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Justin F. Jackson
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University of North Carolina 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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