| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

Unofficial Ambassadors: American Military Families Overseas and the Cold War, 1946–1965. By Donna Alvah. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. xii, 291 pp. $42.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-0501-8.)

In this excellent monograph, Donna Alvah combines gender history and political history to produce a comprehensive and engaging examination of the role, experience, and significance of American service families based overseas during the first twenty years of the Cold War. Alvah sets out to understand why the U.S. government decided to allow large numbers of military families to live at American bases overseas and examine how far the individuals involved acted as "unofficial ambassadors" for the American way of life.

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