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The Price of Truth: The Journalist Who Defied Military Censors to Report the Fall of Nazi Germany
Fine, Richard. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 312 pp., ISBN 978-1-50-176594-0. Publication Date: April 2023
Michael A. Krysko
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 25 Dec 2023
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Taming the Revolution in Nineteenth Century Spain: Jaime Balmes and Juan Donoso Cortes
Acle-Kreysing, Andrea. Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag, 230 pp., £36/44 euros, ISBN 978-3-59351-598-4. Publication Date: February 2023
Christopher Storrs
Pages: 2-4
Published online: 25 Dec 2023
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Nothing is Beyond our Reach: America’s Techno-spy Empire
Makrakis, Kristie. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. 280 pp., $29.95, ISBN 978-1-64712-323-9. Publication Date: April 2023
David C. S. Albanese
Pages: 4-6
Published online: 25 Dec 2023
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Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era
Clarke, Frances M., and Rebecca Jo Plant. New York: Oxford University Press, 434 pp., $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19760-104-4. Publication Date: December 2022
James J. Broomall
Pages: 6-7
Published online: 25 Dec 2023
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The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalization of Women’s Aging: A History
Downham Moore, Alison M. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 512 pp., $150.00, ISBN 978-0-19284-291-6. Publication Date: January 2023
Sara Black
Pages: 7-9
Published online: 25 Dec 2023
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Reports of cases in the Court of Chancery in the Time of Queen Anne (1702–1714)
Bryson,W. H., ed. Tempe, AZ: ACMRS press 736 pp., $125.00, ISBN 9780866986410 Publication Date: December 2021
Melissa Schoenberger
Pages: 9-11
Published online: 25 Dec 2023
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Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Zwigenberg, Ran. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 304 pp., $105.00, ISBN 978-0-22682-591-5. Publication Date: July 2023
Annika A. Culver
Pages: 11-12
Published online: 25 Dec 2023
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Coffee with Hitler: The Untold Story of the Amateur Spies Who Tried to Civilize the Nazis
Spicer, Charles. New York: Pegasus Books, 520 pp., $29.95, ISBN 978-1-63936-226-4. Publication Date: September 2022
David Valladares
Pages: 13-14
Published online: 25 Dec 2023
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Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision
Winston, Diane. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 256 pp., $35.00, ISBN 978-0-22682-452-9
Austin Steelman
Pages: 14-15
Published online: 25 Dec 2023
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