OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Improvising Language Capability: The British Army's Corps of Interpreters, 1914–1915	4
Book Review: When France Fell. The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance by Michael S. Neiberg	2
Britain and the Protection of the Gulf During the Second World War: The Ad hoc Defence of a Peripheral Theatre	1
Book Review: Before the Holocaust: Antisemitic Violence and the Reaction of German Elites and Institutions during the Nazi Takeover by Hermann Beck	1
Book Review: Dead Men Telling Tales: Napoleonic War Veterans and the Military Memoir Industry, 1808-1914 by Matilda Greig	1
Book Review: On the Edge of Democracy: Italy, 1943–1948 by Rosario Forlenza ForlenzaRosario, On the Edge of Democracy: Italy, 1943–1948. Oxford Universit	1
Book Review: How Finland Survived Stalin: From Winter War to Cold War by Kimmo Rentola (trans. Richard Robinson)	1
Book Review: The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam by Christopher Goscha	1
Book Review: India’s Wars: A Military History 1947 -1971 by Arjun Subramaniam	1
Criticism of Witness: Paul Fussell and the Rhetorical Irony of Modern Memory	1
Book Review: Forging the Border: Donegal and Derry in Times of Revolution, 1911-1925 by Christopher Magill	0
Book Review: The Art of Occupation: Crime and Governance in American-Controlled Germany, 1944–1949 by Thomas J. Kehoe	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: British Expeditionary Warfare and The Defeat of Napoleon, 1793–1815 by Robert K. Sutcliffe	0
Crucial but Overlooked: The Italian Naval Contribution to the Conquest of Sevastopol	0
Between Preventive Attack and Collaboration: British Military Planning on Spain, 1940–1944	0
Women and the Polish-Lithuanian Army: Between Legal Norms and Everyday Life	0
Au Contact: French Infantry Tactics in the Maginot Line Advance Posts During the Phoney War, 4 September 1939 to 10 May 1940	0
Book Review: Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare by Jacqueline L. HazeltonThe Unknown Enemy: Counterinsurgency and the Illusion of Control by Christian Tripodi	0
Book Review: On Contested Shores: The Evolving Role of Amphibious Operations in the History of Warfare by Timothy Heck and B.A. Friedman On Contested Shor	0
‘ Fâcher le Cœur des Blancs ’: Mboum/Pana Resistance During the War of Pacification in Colonial Ubangi-Shary (1929–1931)	0
‘Stop Altogether Talking of Rommel': Auchinleck’s Order, German Propaganda and the BBC	0
Book Review: Plotting for Peace: American Peacemakers, British Codebreakers and Britain at War, 1914–1917 by Daniel Larsen	0
Book Review: German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad by Nicole Eaton	0
Book Review: Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire by Erik Linstrum	0

Book Review: Churchill’s American Arsenal: The Partnership Behind the Innovations That Won World War Two by Larrie D. Ferreiro	0
Co-belligerency and Armament Policy: Britain, the United States and Italy, 1943–45	0
Innocent Victim or Hero?: Pigeons, Propaganda and the Conduct of War in Rostov (November 1941)	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
Book Review: Österreichs Kreuzzüge: Die Babenberger und der Glaubenskrieg 1096–1230 by Robert-Tarek Fischer FischerRobert-Tarek, Österreichs Kreuzzüge: Die Babenberger u	0
Insights Into the Impacts of Guerrilla Violence in Shaping War-Time Relationships in Rural Zimbabwe, 1966–1979	0
A Volatile American-Driven Relationship: The Republic of Vietnam and the Philippines During the Vietnam War (1964–1973)	0
Propaganda for an Ally: How the Anglo-Japanese Alliance Shaped British Propaganda in the First World War	0
Book Review: Assured Destruction: Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the U.S. Air Force by David W. Bath	0
Book Review: Violence in Defeat. The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-1945 by Bastiaan Willems	0
Stalin's Proxy War against Japan, 1937–45: One Principal and Two Agents	0
Book Review: Rain of Ruin. Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan by Richard Overy Richard Overy, Rain of Ruin. Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender	0
Massacre at Tambach: American War Criminals and the Limits of Military Justice, 1945	0
Book Review: A Question of Standing: The History of the CIA by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones	0
Book Review: Innovating Victory: Naval Technology in Three Wars by Vincent P. O’Hara and Leonard R. Heinz	0
Colonial Soldiering and le cafard : Boredom, Morale and Gender Dynamics in the French and Spanish Foreign Legions, 1907–1939	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: Fascist Italy at War. Men and Materiel by James J. Sadkovich SadkovichJames J., Fascist Italy at War. Men and Materiel, Brill, Leiden/Boston	0
Civil Wars: What Is Wrong with History?	0
Institutionalisation and Consequences of Wargaming in the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces and Government, 1868-1945	0
The Representation of the Rhodesian Security Forces in the Propaganda of ZANU and ZAPU, 1965–1980	0
Book Review: Hitler's Deserters: Breaking Ranks with the Wehrmacht by Douglas Carl Peifer PeiferDouglas Carl, Hitler's Deserters: Breaking Ranks with the	0
Re-examining the Truman Administration's Decision to Cross the 38th Parallel	0
The Dhofar War as a Documentary: An Analysis of ‘Britain's Other War’ (1972)	0
Discussing Maritime Defence Programmes During the Interwar Period: Argentine Navy Officers and the Lessons of the First World War (1919-1924)	0
Campaign Economy and Austerity Measures: Crisis Management in Ottoman Fiscal Policy During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	0
How the Allies’ Diplomatic Dialogue Influenced Franco's Foreign Policy in the Context of Operation Backbone (1942–1943)	0
Book Review: The Struggle for Liberation: A History of the Rwanda Civil War, 1990-1994 by John Burton Kegel KegelJohn Burton, The Struggle for Liberation	0
Book Review: Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII by Mary Louise Roberts	0
The Neglected Campaign: The Italian Navy Contribution to the Siege of Leningrad	0
Book Review: The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941–1944 by David A. Harrisville	0
Book Review: Extreme Violence and the ‘British Way’: Colonial Warfare in Perak, Sierra Leone and Sudan by Michelle Gordon	0
Book Review: America’s Wars: Interventions, Regime Change, and Insurgencies after the Cold War by Thomas H. Henriksen	0
Book Review: Holding Their Breath: How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II by M. Girard Dorsey	0
Developing Meteorology in Wartime China: The Chinese Southwest Observation Network and Its Application During the Second Sino-Japanese War	0
The Cold War Public Relations Campaign for the Atlas Missile and Nuclear Deterrent Strategy in the Great Plains, 1958–1962	0
Book Review: World War II and Southeast Asia: Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation by Gregg Huff	0
A Challenge to Traditional Tolerance? The British Police and the Anti-War Movement in the First World War	0
Book Review: Warfare in the Norman Mediterranean by Georgios Theotokis (ed)	0
Book Review: Hitler’s Fatal Miscalculation: Why Germany Declared War on the United States by Klaus H. Schmider	0
The Transformation of Cattle Feet to Torpedo Oil: A Case Study in Nazi German Wartime Recycling	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: Los Ultimos Tercios. El Ejercito de Carlos II by Davide Maffi	0
Book Review: The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II by Evan Mawdsley	0
Book Review: Secession and Separatist Conflicts in Postcolonial Africa by Charles G. Thomas and Toyin Falola	0
‘Enough to be Seen to be Onside but Hardly Substantial?’: RAF Bomber Command and Operation Husky	0
Book Review: The Day the Great War Ended, 24 July 1923: The Civilianization of War by Jay Winter WinterJay, The Day the Great War Ended, 24 July 1923: The Civilianizatio	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
The Road to the Winter Line in Italy: The Tale of Two Divisions	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

Endurance and Adaptation: Leadership Dynamics and Tactical Revisions in the Chinese Communist Party's Southern Guerrilla Warfare, 1934–1937	0
Through Artillery from Thrust to Fire: How Prussian Military Thinking Anticipated Emergent Warfare in 1870	0
Book Review: Contact Zones of the First World War: Cultural Encounters across the British Empire by Anna Maguire	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
Book Review: Women and the British Army, 1815–1880 by Lynn MacKay MacKayLynn, Women and the British Army, 1815–1880, The Boydell Press: Woodbridge, 2023, Britain’s Soldi	0
Contention on the Cotentin: Military-Medical Entrepreneurs and the French Contractor State During the Seven Years’ War	0
The Second Sino-Japanese War and Third-Country Mediation	0
Book Review: A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America by Olivier Burtin BurtinOlivier, A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and	0
The Army, the Great War, and the Belated Industrialisation of Shoemaking in the Czech Lands	0
Righteous Resistance: Clausewitz's Political Theory of Defence	0
‘When the Time comes, I Will go Like Every Brave Soldier’: The Military Identity of Belgian Recruits in the First World War	0
An ‘Elephant Trying to Chase a Rat’: Indian COIN in the Mizo Hills, 1967–1970	0
Book Review: Anzac Nations: The Legacy of Gallipoli in New Zealand and Australia, 1965–2015 by Rowan Light	0
Book Review: India in the Second World War: An Emotional History by Diya Gupta	0
Book reviews	0
National, Bilateral and Multinational: The Development of Royal Navy Tactical Doctrine in the Cold War	0
Book Review: Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War by Ian Ona Johnson	0
The Naval Rearmament Movement in Times of the Liberal Union: Public Opinion, Strategic Culture and Navalism in Spain (1858–1863)	0
Book Review: More Than Parcels: Wartime Aid for Jews in Nazi-Era Camps and Ghettos by Jan Láníček and Jan Lambertz (eds.)	0
What Makes an Elite Unit Elite? The Case of the British 2nd Independent Parachute Brigade, June 1944 to January 1945	0
Book Review: The Malayan Emergency: Revolution and Counterinsurgency at the End of Empire by Karl Hack	0
Book Review: War through Italian Eyes: Fighting for Mussolini, 1940-1943 by Alexander Henry	0
Book Review: Strangling the Axis: The Fight for Control of the Mediterranean during the Second World War. Cambridge Military Histories by Richard Hammond	0
Book Review: The Development of British Naval Aviation, 1914-1918 by Alexander Howlett	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: Renegotiating First World War Memory: The British and American Legions, 1938–1946 by Ashley Garber	0
The Workload of the Italian Military Health Service During the First World War: A Quantitative Assessment	0
Rethinking Lines of Operations: Jomini's Contribution to the Conceptualization of Strategy in the Early Nineteenth Century	0
“Extremely Depressed with a Hopeless Outlook”: The Experiences of Psychologically Traumatized Nursing Sisters During and After the First World War	0
How to Substitute Butter with Cod-Liver Oil? The Information Needs and Information Landscape of Norwegian Housewives During Second World War	0
Book Review: Indianization, the Officer Corps, and the Indian Army: The Forgotten Debate, 1817-1917 by Chandar S. Sundaram	0
Prussian Army in the Bureaucratic State. The Case of Quartering Troops in Breslau 1815–1848	0
French Military and Civil Deployment in Ottoman Istanbul During the Crimean War (1853–1856)	0
Not-so-Failing Junior PartnerRe-examining the AEF's Chemical Warfare Experience before and during the German Spring Offensives	0
Book Review: Military Strategy in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenge for NATO by Janne Haaland Matlary, Rob Johnson (eds)	0
Book Review: Postcolonial Security: Britain, France & West Africa’s Cold War by Marco Wyss	0
Book Review: Dear John: Love and Loyalty in Wartime America by Susan L. Carruthers	0
‘The Slight Effect of Little Bullets’: Challenges to Established Military and Medical Certainties During the ‘Lethality Panic’ of the 1890s	0
Book Review: For King and Country: The British Monarchy and the First World War by Heather Jones	0
Managing Emergencies for the Safeguarding of Cities of Art in Corrado Ricci's Correspondence: Ravenna, ‘Open City’ without Air Defences (1916–1918)	0
Book Review: Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History by Niamh Gallagher	0
Revisiting the Fall of Aq Masjid: Khoqand Instability and the Russian Conquest	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
Book Review: The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age by Hal Brands Edited by BrandsHal, The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the	0
Book Review: Delta of Power: The Military-Industrial Complex by Alex Roland	0
Book Review: Building the Army’s Backbone: Canadian Non-Commissioned Officers in the Second World War by Andrew L. Brown	0
Book Review: The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II by Jonathan Haslam	0
A Single Imperial Army? The Development of Australian Army Staff Training in an Imperial Context, 1919–1939	0
A Mutinous Disposition? Discipline and (Dis)order in the Fencible Regiments in Britain and Ireland, 1793–1802	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
Espionage, Counterintelligence, and Naval Observation in the Middle of the Atlantic: A Case Study of US Intelligence in the Canary Islands (1939–1945)	0
‘First Essentials of Survival’: Ensuring the Support and Compliance of Civilians in the Guerrilla Conflict with Japan on Panay, 1942–1945	0
‘Cabals and Intrigues’: British Intelligence Gathering in Europe During the Seven Years War	0
The German–Ottoman Alliance and Muslim Prisoners of War in Germany (1914–8)	0
Two Weeks in Summer Soldiers and Others in Occupied Hesse-Kassel, 14–28 July 1625	0
Book Review: Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War 1931–1945 by Richard Overy	0
Book Review: The Wiriyamu Massacre. An Oral History, 1960-1974 by Mustafah Dhada	0
Book Review: Christianity and War in Medieval East Central Europe and Scandinavia by Radosław Kotecki, Carsten Selch Jensen, and Stephen Bennett	0
An Imperial Army? Innovation and Adaptation in MiddleEast Command, 1941-1942	0
Book Review: For Russia With Hitler: White Russian Émigrés and the German-Soviet War by Oleg Beyda BeydaOleg, For Russia With Hitler: White Russian Émigr	0
Book Review: The Horrible Peace: British Veterans and the End of the Napoleonic Wars by Evan Wilson	0
Hermann von Boyen the Elder and his Impact on the Prussian Army After 1815	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
Book Review: The Crimean War and its Afterlife: Making Modern Britain by Lara Kriegel	0
Book Review: A Woman’s Place: US Counterterrorism since 9/11 by Joana Cook	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: George White and the Victorian Army in India and Africa: Serving the Empire by Stephen M. Miller MillerStephen M., George White and the Victorian Army in In	0
Book Review: Warfare in the Roman World. Key Themes in Ancient History by A. D Lee LeeA. D, Warfare in the Roman World. Key Themes in Ancient History. Cambridge Universi	0
Book Review: Geheimdienst und Propaganda im Ersten Weltkrieg. Die Aufzeichnungen von Oberst Walter Nicolai 1914–1918 by Michael Epkenhans, Gerhard P. Groß, Markus Pöhlma	0
Enslaved by the Uniform: Contemporary Descriptions of Eighteenth-Century Soldiering	0
A Military Reformation: Gender, Sexuality, and State Control in Early Modern German Armies	0
‘Untarnished Regiment’? Divergent Perspectives on the Wehrmacht's 9th Infantry, 1939–1941	0
Book Review: War in the Far East: Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943 by Peter Harmsen	0
A War of Information: Spanish Naval Intelligence During the American Revolutionary War (1775–83)	0
Book Review: Thanks for Your Service: The Causes and Consequences of Public Confidence in the US Military by Peter D. Feaver By FeaverPeter D., Thanks for Your Service:	0
Clausewitz and the Personality Characteristics of the Battlefield Commander in British and German Military Doctrine, 1918–1941	0
Effective Naval Diplomacy: German–Italian Submarine Cooperation in the Atlantic, 1939–41	0
Book Review: Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era by Frances M. Clarke and Rebecca Jo Plant	0
Book Review: The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War by Susan Grayzel	0
‘Imperial Germany's Push to the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean: A Strategic Imperative of Weltpolitik’	0

Biafrans Everywhere: Diaspora Voices and Activism During the Nigerian Civil War	0
Italy in the Era of Total War	0
Book Review: Kilmichael: The Life and Afterlife of An Ambush by Eve Morrison	0
A Policy of Deliberate Ambiguity: The Irish Provisional Government's Shifting Northern Ireland Policy, 1922	0
Book Review: Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace: The Rise, Demise, and Revival of Arms Control by Michael Krepon	0
Book Review: Russian-Arab Worlds. A Documentary History by Eileen Kane, Masha Kirasirova and Margaret Litvin (eds) Eileen Kane, Masha Kirasirova and Marg	0
Book Review: The Hidden Victims: Civilian Casualties of the Two World Wars by Cormac Ó Gráda GrádaCormac Ó, The Hidden Victims: Civilian Casualties of th	0
Book Review: Imagining Nuclear War in the British Army, 1945-1989 by Simon J. Moody	0
Book Review: The Vietnam War in the Pacific World by Brian Cuddy and Fredrik Logevall (eds.)	0
The Emergence of Maritime Polity in Goa (Tenth Century to Fifteenth Century CE)	0
Book Review: Deterrence, Coercion, and Appeasement: British Grand Strategy, 1919–1940 by David French	0
Book Review: The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain 1815–1945 by N. A. M. Rodger RodgerN. A. M., The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain 1815–1945, Al	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: Soviet-Polish War and Its Legacy: Lenin’s Defeat and the Rise of Stalinism by Peter Whitewood WhitewoodPeter, Soviet-Polish War and Its Lega	0
Book Review: Survivors: Warsaw under Nazi Occupation by Jadwiga Biskupska	0
Book Review: Return to Vietnam: An Oral History of American and Australian Veterans’ Journeys by Mia Martin Hobbs	0
‘It Certainly Will Help if That Stopped’: Politics of Wartime Military Assistance During the Civil War of Nigeria (1967–1970)	0
‘Our Frankenstein’? Spenser Wilkinson, Strategic Planning and the Creation of the British General Staff	0
Book Review: Cyprus and Its Regiment in the Second World War by Marios Siammas	0
Book Review: The Peoples’ War? The Second World War in Sociopolitical Perspective by Alexander Wilson, Richard Hammond, and Jonathan Fennell (eds.)	0
Book Review: The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the Battle for a National Strategy by Andrew Lambert	0
Book Review: Rational Fog: Science and Technology in Modern War by M. Susan Lindee	0
Book Review: Historia de un Triunfo. La Armada Espanola en el Siglo XVIII by Rafael Torres Sanchez	0
Book Review: Making Sense of the Great War. Crisis, Englishness and Morale on the Western Front by Alex Mayhew MayhewAlex, Making Sense of the Great War. Crisis, English	0
Book Review: The Viking Great Army and the Making of England by Dawn M. Hadley and Julian D. Richards HadleyDawn M. and RichardsJulian D., The Viking Great Army and the	0
Becoming Chilean: Hipólito Gutiérrez and the Construction of Chilean National Identity During the War of the Pacific (1879–1881)	0
‘Boys, Don’t Be Conscripted!’: Military Service and Cultural Perceptions of the Draftee in America, 1917–1918	0
Building an Air Force: The Management and Mismanagement of the Regia Aeronautica , 1923–1940	0
Book Review: Service Denied: Marginalized Veterans in Modern American History by John M. Kinder and Jason A. Higgins (eds.)	0
Book Review: Captive Fathers, Captive Children: Legacies of the War in the Far East by Terry Smyth	0
Book Review: Brutal War: Jungle Fighting in Papua New Guinea, 1942 by James Jay Carafano	0
Book Review: The Austro-Hungarian Army and the First World War by Graydon A. Tunstall	0
Book Review: Leaving the Fight: Surrender, Prisoners of War, and Detainees in Western Warfare by John A. Lynn LynnJohn A.II, Leaving the Fight: Surrender	0
Third World War in the Early Cold War Turkish Media	0
Absence, Agency and Empire: Desertion from the French Army During the First World War	0
Bismarck - Jekyll and Hyde? Reassessing Civil-Military Relations During the Franco-Prussian War	0
‘Infinite Trouble, Considerable Expense’: The British Adriatic Mission and the Evacuation of the Serbian Army, October 1915–February 1916	0
Book Review: Cinema on the Front Line: British Soldiers and Cinema in the First World War by Chris Grosvenor GrosvenorChris, Cinema on the Front Line: British Soldiers a	0
The 1942 Garmisch Conference: A Snapshot of Mid-War Axis Naval Strategy	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
Book Review: Revolutionary France’s War of Conquest in the Rhineland: Conquering the Natural Frontier, 1792-1797 by Jordan R. Hayworth	0
Book Review: Uncivil War: The British Army and the Troubles, 1966-1975 by Huw Bennett	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: Uniting Against the Reich – The American Air War in Europe by Luke W. Truxal TruxalLuke W., Uniting Against the Reich – The American Air War	0
Book Review: Internment in Switzerland during the First World War by Susan Barton	0