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theses/ dissertations
PhD dissertation: “Limited Skies: Women and Aviation in World War II (A Comparative Study of Women Aviators in the USA and USSR, 1941-1945)" University of South Carolina (2000) order here
MA thesis: “Wings, Women and War: Soviet Women’s Military Aviation Regiments in the Second World War,” University of South Carolina (1993)
books
Amazons to Fighter Pilots: A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women, Reina Pennington, editor; Robin Higham, advisory editor; foreword by Gerhard Weinberg, Greenwood Press (2003)
Wings, Women and War: Soviet Airwomen in World War II Combat, foreword by John Erickson, University Press of Kansas, Modern War Studies Series (2001)
books in progress
What Russia Can Teach Us About War
refereed articles/ book chapters
"The Red Army, 1922-1945," in The Impact of Military Organizational Culture on Security in the Modern World, ed. Pete Mansoor and Williamson Murray, Cambridge University Press (2019)
“Offensive Women: Women in Combat in the Red Army” in the Journal of Military History, vol 74 no 3 (July 2010) download PDF
“Our Women Know the Price of War and Peace,” in The Soviet Union at War, 1941-1945, ed. David R. Stone, Pen & Sword Press (2010)
“Minerva—The Past, the Present and the Future,” Minerva Journal of Women and War, Volume 1, Number 1 (Summer 2007) (co-authored with Jennifer G. Mathers And Caroline Kennedy-Pipe)
“Women and the Battle of Stalingrad,” in Russia: War, Peace and Diplomacy, Essays in Honour of John Erickson (Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, 2005)
“‘Do not speak of the services you rendered:’ Women Veterans of Aviation in the Soviet Union,” Journal of Slavic Military Studies (1996) reprinted in A Soldier and A Woman: Women in the Military, ed. Gerard J. DeGroot, Longman (2001)
“From Chaos to the Eve of the Great Patriotic War,” in Russian Aviation & Air Power in the Twentieth Century, ed. Robin Higham, Frank Cass Publishers (1998)
“Offensive Women: Women in Combat in the Red Army” in Time to Kill: The Soldier's Experience of War in the West, ed. Paul Addison and Angus Calder, Pimlico Press (1997)
"Stalin’s Falcons: the 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment," MINERVA: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military Volume XVIII, Numbers 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2000)
“The Propaganda Factor and Soviet Women Pilots in World War II,” MINERVA: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military (Summer 1997)
“Prophets, Heretics, and Peculiar Evils,” Airpower Journal vol 10 no 2 (Summer 1996) read the article
“Pilot Initiative in the Soviet Air Forces,” in The Soviet Air Forces, ed. Paul J. Murphy, McFarland & Company (1984)
additional publications
"Was The Russian Military A Steamroller? From World War II To Today," for
War on the Rocks (2016) read the essay
“More than Just Night Witches,” Air Force Magazine (October 2014) download PDF
"Reaching for the Sky," MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History (Autumn 2009) download PDF
“The FLY Chromosome,” Air & Space/Smithsonian (April/May 1999) download PDF
“Tankers!” Air & Space/Smithsonian (October/November 1997) download PDF
“Grounded: The Aggressor Squadrons,” Air & Space/Smithsonian (February/March 1995) download PDF
“Wings, Women and War,” Air & Space/Smithsonian (December 1993/January 1994) download PDF
“Eagles Over the Icecap,” Air Force Magazine (July 1987)
“Yukon Lightning,” Air Force Magazine (March 1987)
“Another Look at the Soviet Pilot,” Air Force Magazine (April 1985) download PDF
“Closing the Tactics Gap,” Air Force Magazine (March 1984) (reprinted in Signal, Journal of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, vol 39. no 4, December 1984)
“Behind the Green Door,” USAF Fighter Weapons Review (Summer/Fall 1983)
“A Soviet View of Air Combat,” USAF Fighter Weapons Review (Spring 1981)
reference contributions
"The Battle for Moscow," for Russia at War: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO (2014)
“Russian Military History,” “Women in Military History,” and “Battle of Stalingrad,” for Oxford Bibliographies Online (2011)
“Military, Modern Militaries and Warfare” and “Military, Overview,” in
Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Oxford University Press (2008)
“Polina Gelman,” “Liliia Litviak,” “Caterina Sforza,” “Women in Siege Warfare,” “Valentina Tereshkova,” in Women in World History: A Biographic Encyclopedia, eds. Anne Commire and Deborah Klezmer, Gale Group (1999-2002)
“Aviation, Soviet Military” in The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet, and Eurasian History, vol. 2, ed. Edward Lazzerini, Academic International Press (1997)
book reviews
Review of Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War by Roger Markwick and Euridice Cardona (Slavic Review 2014: vol 73 no 1)
Review of The Damned and the Dead: The Eastern Front through the Eyes of Soviet and Russian Novelists by Frank Ellis (The Journal of Military History 2013: vol 77 no 1)
Review of Little Soldiers: How Soviet Children Went to War 1941-1945 by Olga Kucherenko (Slavic Review 2012: vol 71 no 3)
Review of Soviet Women in Combat by Anna Krylova (The Journal of Military History 2012: vol 76 no 1)
Review of Red Sky, Black Death: A Soviet Woman Pilot's Memoir of the Eastern Front by Anna Timofeeva-Egorova (The Journal of Military History 2010: vol. 74 no 4)
Review of To the Gates of Stalingrad: Soviet-German Combat Operations, April-August 1942 by David M. Glantz with Jonathan M. House (Slavic Review 2010: vol. 69 no. 4)
Review of Dragons on Bird Wings: The Combat History of the 812th Fighter Regiment by Vladislav Antipov and Igor Utkin (The Journal of Military History 2010: vol. 74 no 2)
Review of Dictatorship of the Air by Scott Palmer (Slavic Review 2008: vol. 67 no. 3)
Review essay, “Women and War and related books,” Journal of Military History (vo. 71 no 4 October 2007)
Review of Clipped Wings: The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II, Molly Merryman ( H-Minerva, May 1998 and Air & Space/Smithsonian October/November 1998) read the review
Review of Women and the Military, by John P. and Maria C. Dever ( H-Minerva, 1998)
Review of Female Tars: Women Aboard Ship in the Age of Sail, by Suzanne J. Stark (HMGS Military and Naval History Forum Proceedings 1998)
Review of Hitler’s Nemesis: The Red Army, 1930-1945 by Walter S. Dunn (originally published in HMGS Military and Naval History Forum Proceedings, No 2. 1995; reprinted on History Reviews On-Line)
Review of The Sorcerer As Apprentice: Stalin As Commissar of Nationalities, 1917-1924 by Stephen Blank (originally published in HMGS Military and Naval History Forum Proceedings, No 2. 1995; reprinted on History Reviews On-Line)
Review of Tailspin: Women At War In The Wake Of Tailhook by Jean Zimmerman (Air & Space/Smithsonian (June/July 1995)
reviews of my work
Reviews of The Soviet Union at War, 1941-1945
Jonathan M House, The Journal of Military History (July 2011)
T. Kunikov, WWII and other Book Reviews Blog
Reviews of Amazons to Fighter Pilots: A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women:
Lance Janda, The Journal of Military History (Jan 2004)
Hayden Peake, Studies in Intelligence 47.4 (2003) read the full review
Jenny Kiesling, H-Net Reviews (May 2005) read the full review
Reviews of Wings, Women, and War: Soviet Airwomen in World War II Combat:
Richard R. Muller, Air & Space Power Journal (Winter 2003) read the full review
Sally W. Stoecker, The Slavic Review 62.1 (Spring 2003)
Roger Reese, American Historical Review (Feb 2003)
Denise J. Youngblood, The Journal of Military History (July 2002)
Kathryn Spurling, H-Minerva, H-Net Reviews (July 2002) read the full review
Nameeta Mathur, History: Reviews of New Books (Summer 2002)
Ben Shephard, The Times Literary Supplement (24 May 2002)
Julie Dear, The Washington Post Book World (13 Jan 2002)
Review of Time to Kill: The Soldier's Experience of War in the West, ed. Paul Addison and Angus Calder:
The Journal of Military History (1998)
Reviews of The Soviet Air Forces:
David R. Jones, Slavic Review vol. 44 no. 4 (Winter 1985)
Ralph S. Clem, Air University Review (1985)