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Papers

(The median citation count of War in History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Book reviews: Mobilizing Memory: The Great War and the Language of Politics in Colonial Algeria, 1918-1939	2
Criticism of Witness: Paul Fussell and the Rhetorical Irony of Modern Memory	2
Book Review: When France Fell. The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance by Michael S. Neiberg	2
The Nation in Arms? Opposition, resistance, and survival: The sociopolitical diversity of the Insurgent Army in the Spanish Civil War	1
Book Review: Dead Men Telling Tales: Napoleonic War Veterans and the Military Memoir Industry, 1808-1914 by Matilda Greig	1
Bismarck - Jekyll and Hyde? Reassessing Civil-Military Relations During the Franco-Prussian War	1
Book Review: Dear John: Love and Loyalty in Wartime America by Susan L. Carruthers	1
Book Review: France’s Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa by Nathaniel K. Powell	1
Book Review: The Peoples’ War? The Second World War in Sociopolitical Perspective by Alexander Wilson, Richard Hammond, and Jonathan Fennell (eds.)	1
Book Review: Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare by Jacqueline L. HazeltonThe Unknown Enemy: Counterinsurgency and the Illusion of Control by Christian Tripodi	1
Book Review: Service Denied: Marginalized Veterans in Modern American History by John M. Kinder and Jason A. Higgins (eds.)	1
A summer on Hounslow Heath: Combined army operations in late-seventeenth-century England	1
Through Artillery from Thrust to Fire: How Prussian Military Thinking Anticipated Emergent Warfare in 1870	0
National, Bilateral and Multinational: The Development of Royal Navy Tactical Doctrine in the Cold War	0
Absence, Agency and Empire: Desertion from the French Army During the First World War	0
Book reviews: The First Day on the Eastern Front. Germany Invades the Soviet Union, June 22, 1941 Kursk 1943. Hitler’s Bitter Harvest	0
Book Review: Another Kind of War: The Nature and History of Terrorism by John A. Lynn II	0
Book Review: The Long Shadow of World War II. The Legacy of the War and its Impact on Political and Military Thinking since 1945 by Matthias Strohn	0
Developing Meteorology in Wartime China: The Chinese Southwest Observation Network and Its Application During the Second Sino-Japanese War	0
Book Review: India, Empire and First World War Culture by Santanu Das	0
Book Review: Forging the Border: Donegal and Derry in Times of Revolution, 1911-1925 by Christopher Magill	0
Espionage, Counterintelligence, and Naval Observation in the Middle of the Atlantic: A Case Study of US Intelligence in the Canary Islands (1939–1945)	0
‘Imperial Germany's Push to the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean: A Strategic Imperative of Weltpolitik’	0
Book Review: Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present by Donald Stoker	0
‘Our Frankenstein’? Spenser Wilkinson, Strategic Planning and the Creation of the British General Staff	0

Dennis Showalter and the history of armour during Second World War	0
Book Review: Exiting War. The British Empire and the 1918–20 moment by Romain Fathi, Margaret Hutchison, Andrekos Varnava, and Michael J. K. Walsh	0
Book Review: The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941–1944 by David A. Harrisville	0
Becoming Chilean: Hipólito Gutiérrez and the Construction of Chilean National Identity During the War of the Pacific (1879–1881)	0
Courage under fire: Re-evaluating Black Hawk Down and the Battle of Mogadishu	0
Book Review: Fighting the People’s War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War	0
Book Review: Indianization, the Officer Corps, and the Indian Army: The Forgotten Debate, 1817-1917 by Chandar S. Sundaram	0
Book Review: Renegotiating First World War Memory: The British and American Legions, 1938–1946 by Ashley Garber	0
Book Review: Allied Communication to the Public during the Second World War by Simon Eliot and Marc Wiggam	0
Continental Naval Doctrines Between the Wars. The Impact of German Naval Experience on the Italian Navy (1919-1943)	0
Book Review: The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II by Jonathan Haslam	0
Book Review: Holding Their Breath: How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II by M. Girard Dorsey	0
The Transformation of Cattle Feet to Torpedo Oil: A Case Study in Nazi German Wartime Recycling	0
Book Review: Out of Line, Out of Place. A Global and Local History of World War I Internments by Rotem Kowner and Iris Rachamimov	0
Book Review: War through Italian Eyes: Fighting for Mussolini, 1940-1943 by Alexander Henry	0
‘Infinite Trouble, Considerable Expense’: The British Adriatic Mission and the Evacuation of the Serbian Army, October 1915–February 1916	0
Book reviews: Someone Else’s War. Fighting for the British Empire in World War I	0
Book Review: India in the Second World War: An Emotional History by Diya Gupta	0
Book Review: The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam by Christopher Goscha	0
Book Review: Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War 1931–1945 by Richard Overy	0
Book Review: British Battles 493–937. Mount Badon to Brunanburh by Andrew Breeze	0
Book Review: Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History by Niamh Gallagher	0
Operation Devon, Termoli 1943: ‘A catalogue of errors’?	0
Defending the Dardanelles: Cevat Paşa, ‘The Hero of 18 March’	0
Franco-British military co-operation in the Great Gas War 1915-1918	0
A Volatile American-Driven Relationship: The Republic of Vietnam and the Philippines During the Vietnam War (1964–1973)	0
Book Review: British Expeditionary Warfare and The Defeat of Napoleon, 1793–1815 by Robert K. Sutcliffe	0
Book Review: The Coolie's Great War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict, 1914-1921 by Radhika Singha	0
‘Moral Factors’ in British military thought and doctrine, 1856–1899	0
‘Fuzzy Wuzzy’ soldiers: Race and Papua New Guinean soldiers in the Australian Army, 1940–60	0
‘A kind of useless man’? An evaluation of AIF cooks and cookery, 1914–1918	0
Book Review: Return to Vietnam: An Oral History of American and Australian Veterans’ Journeys by Mia Martin Hobbs	0
Biafrans Everywhere: Diaspora Voices and Activism During the Nigerian Civil War	0
Book Review: Warfare in the Norman Mediterranean by Georgios Theotokis (ed)	0
Book Review: The Horrible Peace: British Veterans and the End of the Napoleonic Wars by Evan Wilson	0
Homeward bound: mapping Clandestine transportation into France during the Second World War	0
Book Review: Charles XII: Warrior King by John B. Hattendorf, Åsa Karlsson, Margriet Lacy-Bruijn, Augustus J. Veenendaal Jr., and Rolof van Hövell tot Westerflier	0
Book Review: Clear, Hold, and Destroy: Pacification in Phú Yên and the American War in Vietnam by Robert J. Thompson III	0
Book Review: Survivors: Warsaw under Nazi Occupation by Jadwiga Biskupska	0
Book Review: Anzac Nations: The Legacy of Gallipoli in New Zealand and Australia, 1965–2015 by Rowan Light	0
Book Review: Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century by Anthony King	0
Discussing Maritime Defence Programmes During the Interwar Period: Argentine Navy Officers and the Lessons of the First World War (1919-1924)	0
Co-belligerency and Armament Policy: Britain, the United States and Italy, 1943–45	0
Transnational Soldiers vs Resistance National Accounts: The Legend of la Nueve and the “Spanish” Liberation of Paris	0
Book Review: The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the Battle for a National Strategy by Andrew Lambert	0
Book Review: Churchill’s American Arsenal: The Partnership Behind the Innovations That Won World War Two by Larrie D. Ferreiro	0
What Makes an Elite Unit Elite? The Case of the British 2nd Independent Parachute Brigade, June 1944 to January 1945	0
The Navy and Newport News: A Case Study of a Monopoly-Monopsony Duet	0
Book Review: Imagining Nuclear War in the British Army, 1945-1989 by Simon J. Moody	0
A Policy of Deliberate Ambiguity: The Irish Provisional Government's Shifting Northern Ireland Policy, 1922	0

Book Review: The Austro-Hungarian Army and the First World War by Graydon A. Tunstall	0
Book Review: German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad by Nicole Eaton	0
Book Review: Rough Draft: Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance by Amy J. Rutenberg	0
Book Review: The Macedonian Front, 1915-1918 Politics, Society and Culture in Time of War by Basil C. Gounaris, Michael Llewellyn-Smith, Ioannis Stefanidis (eds)	0
Where does theory go in military history?	0
Civil Wars: What Is Wrong with History?	0
The Naval Rearmament Movement in Times of the Liberal Union: Public Opinion, Strategic Culture and Navalism in Spain (1858–1863)	0
Book Review: The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II by Evan Mawdsley	0
Book Review: The World Aflame: The Long War 1914–1945, The Battle of Prokhorovka: The Tank Battle at Kursk, the Largest Clash of Armor in History and Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggl	0
‘Foreigners are said to be wise and honest but they teach us false things’: ‘On Military Tactics’ (1700/1701) by Ivan Pososhkov and Western military tradition	0
Book Review: Military Strategy in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenge for NATO by Janne Haaland Matlary, Rob Johnson (eds)	0
“Extremely Depressed with a Hopeless Outlook”: The Experiences of Psychologically Traumatized Nursing Sisters During and After the First World War	0
Book Review: Delta of Power: The Military-Industrial Complex by Alex Roland	0
Book reviews	0
The Workload of the Italian Military Health Service During the First World War: A Quantitative Assessment	0
Book Review: Full Spectrum Dominance: Irregular Warfare and the War on Terror by Maria Ryan	0
Interpreters as Japanese War Criminals	0
Book Review: Strange Allies: Britain, France and the Dilemmas of Disarmament and Security, 1929–1933 by Andrew Webster	0
Improvising Language Capability: The British Army's Corps of Interpreters, 1914–1915	0
Book Review: Hitler’s Fatal Miscalculation: Why Germany Declared War on the United States by Klaus H. Schmider	0
The direction, planning, and implementation of the Operation Iraqi Freedom air campaign, 19 March–2 May 2003	0
Book Review: For King and Country: The British Monarchy and the First World War by Heather Jones	0
Missing persons and World War II: Between personal and national loss	0
Book Review: Captive Fathers, Captive Children: Legacies of the War in the Far East by Terry Smyth	0
Book Review: More Than Parcels: Wartime Aid for Jews in Nazi-Era Camps and Ghettos by Jan Láníček and Jan Lambertz (eds.)	0
‘First Essentials of Survival’: Ensuring the Support and Compliance of Civilians in the Guerrilla Conflict with Japan on Panay, 1942–1945	0
Book Review: Divided Armies: Inequality & Battlefield Performance in Modern War by Jason Lyall	0
A Single Imperial Army? The Development of Australian Army Staff Training in an Imperial Context, 1919–1939	0
Book Review: On the Edges of Whiteness. Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War by Jochen Lingelbach	0
Book Review: The Art of Occupation: Crime and Governance in American-Controlled Germany, 1944–1949 by Thomas J. Kehoe	0
Book Review: Heavy Laden: Union Veterans, Psychological Illness, and Suicide	0
Book Review: The Wiriyamu Massacre. An Oral History, 1960-1974 by Mustafah Dhada	0
Book Review: The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814-1914 by Alexander Morrison	0
Book Review: Innovating Victory: Naval Technology in Three Wars by Vincent P. O’Hara and Leonard R. Heinz	0
Book Review: Postcolonial Security: Britain, France & West Africa’s Cold War by Marco Wyss	0
‘The Slight Effect of Little Bullets’: Challenges to Established Military and Medical Certainties During the ‘Lethality Panic’ of the 1890s	0
‘Enough to be Seen to be Onside but Hardly Substantial?’: RAF Bomber Command and Operation Husky	0
Book Review: The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire by A. Wess Mitchell	0
Book Review: The Development of British Naval Aviation, 1914-1918 by Alexander Howlett	0
Book Review: Scandinavia and the Great Powers in the First World War	0
Book Review: Historia de un Triunfo. La Armada Espanola en el Siglo XVIII by Rafael Torres Sanchez	0
Book Review: Los Ultimos Tercios. El Ejercito de Carlos II by Davide Maffi	0
Managing Emergencies for the Safeguarding of Cities of Art in Corrado Ricci's Correspondence: Ravenna, ‘Open City’ without Air Defences (1916–1918)	0
‘Boys, Don’t Be Conscripted!’: Military Service and Cultural Perceptions of the Draftee in America, 1917–1918	0
Book reviews: The Church at War	0
‘Untarnished Regiment’? Divergent Perspectives on the Wehrmacht's 9th Infantry, 1939–1941	0
Book Review: Saigon at War: South Vietnam and the Global Sixties by Heather Marie Stur	0
The Emergence of Maritime Polity in Goa (Tenth Century to Fifteenth Century CE)	0
Insights Into the Impacts of Guerrilla Violence in Shaping War-Time Relationships in Rural Zimbabwe, 1966–1979	0
‘ Fâcher le Cœur des Blancs ’: Mboum/Pana Resistance During the War of Pacification in Colonial Ubangi-Shary (1929–1931)	0
Far from Armageddon: Austria-Hungary’s officers and their visions of a general European War before 1914	0
Know Thy Enemy and Know Yourself – The Role of Operational Data in Managing the Mines and Booby Trap Threat in Vietnam, 1965–73	0
An unfinished battle: George C. Marshall and intelligence in the early Cold War	0
Book reviews: Admiral John S. McCain and the Triumph of Naval Air Power	0
Book Review: Christianity and War in Medieval East Central Europe and Scandinavia by Radosław Kotecki, Carsten Selch Jensen, and Stephen Bennett	0
Book Review: Kilmichael: The Life and Afterlife of An Ambush by Eve Morrison	0
Book Review: Napoleon on War	0
French Military and Civil Deployment in Ottoman Istanbul During the Crimean War (1853–1856)	0
Book Review: The United States Army and the Making of America: From Confederation to Empire, 1775–1903 by Robert Wooster	0
Book Review: Building the Army’s Backbone: Canadian Non-Commissioned Officers in the Second World War by Andrew L. Brown	0
Book Review: World War II and Southeast Asia: Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation by Gregg Huff	0
Book reviews: World War II in Global Perspective, 1931-1953: A Short History	0
Book Review: Empire’s Violent End: Comparing Dutch, British, and French Wars of Decolonization, 1945–1962 by Thijs Brocades Zaalberg, Bart Luttikhuis (eds)	0
A War of Information: Spanish Naval Intelligence During the American Revolutionary War (1775–83)	0
Book Review: Plotting for Peace: American Peacemakers, British Codebreakers and Britain at War, 1914–1917 by Daniel Larsen	0
Book Review: The Zulu-Boer War, 1837-40 by Michał Leśniewski	0
Book Review: Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace: The Rise, Demise, and Revival of Arms Control by Michael Krepon	0
Building an Air Force: The Management and Mismanagement of the Regia Aeronautica, 1923–1940	0
Book reviews: Hezbollah: Mobilization and Power	0
Consequences of failure: How France’s rejection of the Franco-British union undermined Australian wartime security	0
Book Review: Brutal War: Jungle Fighting in Papua New Guinea, 1942 by James Jay Carafano	0
Book Review: The Malayan Emergency: Revolution and Counterinsurgency at the End of Empire by Karl Hack	0
Scharnhorst and Showalter: A tale of two enlightened scholars	0
Book Review: How Finland Survived Stalin: From Winter War to Cold War by Kimmo Rentola (trans. Richard Robinson)	0
Book Review: The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army by Raymond A. Callahan and Daniel Marston	0
An ‘Elephant Trying to Chase a Rat’: Indian COIN in the Mizo Hills, 1967–1970	0
Book Review: Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War by Ian Ona Johnson	0
Book Review: The EOKA Cause. Nationalism and the Failure of Cypriot Enosis by Andrew R. Novo	0
The trench of death: What’s in a name, 1914-1918	0
Book Review: Deterrence, Coercion, and Appeasement: British Grand Strategy, 1919–1940 by David French	0

Introduction to special issue honouring Dennis Showalter	0
Book Review: Cyprus and Its Regiment in the Second World War by Marios Siammas	0
‘The place for such business’: The business of war in the city of Genoa, 1701-1714	0
The Road to the Winter Line in Italy: The Tale of Two Divisions	0
Book Review: Dying for the Nation: Death, Grief and Bereavement in Second World War Britain	0
Book Review: Rethinking American Grand Strategy by Elizabeth Borgwardt, Christopher McKnight Nichols, and Andrew Preston	0
Book Review: Internment in Switzerland during the First World War by Susan Barton	0
Crucial but Overlooked: The Italian Naval Contribution to the Conquest of Sevastopol	0
A transitory phenomenon: German commanders and chiefs of staff, 1866–1918	0
Book Review: Revolutionary France’s War of Conquest in the Rhineland: Conquering the Natural Frontier, 1792-1797 by Jordan R. Hayworth	0
Women and the Polish-Lithuanian Army: Between Legal Norms and Everyday Life	0
Book Review: Violence in Defeat. The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-1945 by Bastiaan Willems	0
Book Review: Women’s Experiences of the Second World War: Exile, Occupation and Everyday Life by Mark J. Crowley and Sandra Trudgen Dawson	0
Book Review: The Quest for Security: Sovereignty, Race, and the Defense of the British Empire, 1898-1931 by Jesse Tumblin	0
A Challenge to Traditional Tolerance? The British Police and the Anti-War Movement in the First World War	0
Book Review: The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War by Susan Grayzel	0
Book Review: Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII by Mary Louise Roberts	0
Encountering ‘the Most Remarkable Army of All Times’: Inter-Allied Relations and Military Hierarchies in Macedonia During the First World War	0
Book Review: A Military History of India Since 1972: Full Spectrum Operations and the Changing Contours of Modern Conflict by Arjun Subramaniam	0
Book Review: Secession and Separatist Conflicts in Postcolonial Africa by Charles G. Thomas and Toyin Falola	0
The Army, the Great War, and the Belated Industrialisation of Shoemaking in the Czech Lands	0
Clausewitz and the Personality Characteristics of the Battlefield Commander in British and German Military Doctrine, 1918–1941	0
Britain and the Protection of the Gulf During the Second World War: The Ad hoc Defence of a Peripheral Theatre	0
Book Review: A Question of Standing: The History of the CIA by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones	0
Book Review: Before the Holocaust: Antisemitic Violence and the Reaction of German Elites and Institutions during the Nazi Takeover by Hermann Beck	0
Book Review: Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire by Erik Linstrum	0
In search of sepoys: Indian soldiers and the Dutch East India Company in India and Sri Lanka, 1760–1795	0
Book Review: America’s Wars: Interventions, Regime Change, and Insurgencies after the Cold War by Thomas H. Henriksen	0
Battleships, D-Day, and naval strategy	0
How Did China Project Military Resources Across the Taiwan Strait? Institutions, Agents and Knowledge During the Sino-French War of 1884–1885	0
Book Review: The Crimean War and its Afterlife: Making Modern Britain by Lara Kriegel	0
Book Review: Charles E. Callwell and the British Way in Warfare by Daniel Whittingham	0
Book Review: Israel’s Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation Under Fire	0
Book Review: Environmental Histories of the First World War by Richard P. Tucker, Tait Keller, J.R. McNeill, and Martin Schmid	0
Winged Victory: How the Great War Ended: The evolution of Giulio Douhet’s theory of strategic bombing	0
Book Review: Contact Zones of the First World War: Cultural Encounters across the British Empire by Anna Maguire	0
Hermann von Boyen the Elder and his Impact on the Prussian Army After 1815	0
Book Review: India’s Wars: A Military History 1947 -1971 by Arjun Subramaniam	0
The Neglected Campaign: The Italian Navy Contribution to the Siege of Leningrad	0
Book Review: Extreme Violence and the ‘British Way’: Colonial Warfare in Perak, Sierra Leone and Sudan by Michelle Gordon	0
Book Review: The Italian War on the Eastern Front, 1941-1943, Operations, Myths and Memories by Bastian Matteo Scianna	0
The Representation of the Rhodesian Security Forces in the Propaganda of ZANU and ZAPU, 1965–1980	0
Un-Silencing ‘The Most Silent Section of “The Silent Service”’: The Portrayal of Royal Navy Submarines and Submariners in the Illustrated London News, 1939–1945	0
‘When the Time comes, I Will go Like Every Brave Soldier’: The Military Identity of Belgian Recruits in the First World War	0
Book Review: War in the Far East: Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943 by Peter Harmsen	0
Book Review: Rational Fog: Science and Technology in Modern War by M. Susan Lindee	0
‘Mass Anywhere on Sea or Land’: Catholicism and the Royal Navy, 1901–1906	0
The Cold War Public Relations Campaign for the Atlas Missile and Nuclear Deterrent Strategy in the Great Plains, 1958–1962	0
Book Review: Uncivil War: The British Army and the Troubles, 1966-1975 by Huw Bennett	0
Italy in the Era of Total War	0
Book Review: Footprints of War: Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam	0
Book Review: Stalin’s War by Sean McMeekin	0
Book Review: Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era by Frances M. Clarke and Rebecca Jo Plant	0
Two Weeks in Summer Soldiers and Others in Occupied Hesse-Kassel, 14–28 July 1625	0
Rethinking Lines of Operations: Jomini's Contribution to the Conceptualization of Strategy in the Early Nineteenth Century	0
Effective Naval Diplomacy: German–Italian Submarine Cooperation in the Atlantic, 1939–41	0
Au Contact: French Infantry Tactics in the Maginot Line Advance Posts During the Phoney War, 4 September 1939 to 10 May 1940	0
Dennis Showalter and the study of the First World War	0
Revisiting the Fall of Aq Masjid: Khoqand Instability and the Russian Conquest	0
The 1942 Garmisch Conference: A Snapshot of Mid-War Axis Naval Strategy	0
Book Review: Total War: An Emotional History by Claire Langhamer, Lucy Noakes, and Claudia Siebrecht	0
‘The termination of the long immunity from air raids’: The bombing of Berlin under Operation Tannenberg, August 1942–March 1943	0
Enslaved by the Uniform: Contemporary Descriptions of Eighteenth-Century Soldiering	0
Book Review: The Vietnam War in the Pacific World by Brian Cuddy and Fredrik Logevall (eds.)	0
Book Review: Assured Destruction: Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the U.S. Air Force by David W. Bath	0
A Mutinous Disposition? Discipline and (Dis)order in the Fencible Regiments in Britain and Ireland, 1793–1802	0
Between Preventive Attack and Collaboration: British Military Planning on Spain, 1940–1944	0
Massacre at Tambach: American War Criminals and the Limits of Military Justice, 1945	0
Perplexities Between Enemy Aliens and Their Motherland: The UK Government's Measures for British Civilians Stranded in the Far East, 1941–2011	0
Book Review: A Woman’s Place: US Counterterrorism since 9/11 by Joana Cook	0
The Germans and Air Power at Dieppe: The Raid and its Lessons from the ‘Other Side of the Hill’	0