Irregular or Guerrilla Forces & Warfare

The persecution of the Yezidis, a religious community originating in Upper Mesopotamia, has been ongoing since at least the 10th century. On 3 Augu...

The thrilling new instalment in the action-packed Bernicia Chronicles from Matthew Harffy. Warlord Beobrand travels to holy Rome... but sinister pl...

Far from being an anachronism, much less a kit-bag of techniques, peoples war raises what has always been present in military history, irregular wa...

An illustrated account of the major colonial conflict of the 1920s, in which the occupying Spanish and French faced an armed uprising from the Berb...

A fascinating account of the last major Allied operation in the South-West Pacific, and the largest Australian military operation of World War II. ...

This book analyses the strategies and narratives of Non-State Armed Actors (NSAAs), principally relying on primary material and interviews conducte...

A detailed new account of the British military campaign in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014, based on the experiences of those who served.On 11 Septem...

Frequently surprising, sometimes bloody, and always absorbing, Behind Enemy Lines offers up tales of espionage, hit-and-run raids, and guerrilla wa...

Over two separate twelve-year periods, two opposing states governed in parallel in Angola (19791991) and Sudan (19902002), each with competing conc...

It Had to Be Tough tells the fascinating story of the origins of the Commandos (Britain's first Special Service troops and the forerunners of today...

Alarming levels of fear and suspicion developed in Australia following the German victories in Europe of 1940. It was believed the Nazis had prepar...

In late 1971, the People's Army of Vietnam launched Campaign 'Z' into northern Laos, escalating the war in Laos with the aim of defeating the last ...

America's wars after the 9/11 attacks were marked by a political obsession with terrorist 'sanctuaries' and 'safe havens'. From mountain redoubts i...

History is rife with tales of fighting women. More often than not, these stories prove more legend than history. Dating back to the Amazons of anci...

From the Paris Commune in 1871 to Hué, Cordoba and Detroit in our day, the history of of proletarian insurrections is largely uncharted-particularl...

In November 1918, as World War One was coming to a close and soldiers were returning home, a small group of Australian men signed up for more fight...

In November 1918, as World War One was coming to a close and soldiers were returning home, a small group of Australian men signed up for more fight...

The presence of women combatants on the battlefieldespecially in large numbersstrikes many observers as a notable departure from the historical nor...