Mercenaries

The Middle Ages were a turbulent and violent time, when the fate of nations was most often decided on the battlefield, and strength of arms was key...

Privatization of Americas Public Institutions describes the transformation of the military, K12 public schools, public universities and colleges, a...

Since it was first published in 1980, Terry Jones's study of Geoffrey Chaucer's Knight has proved to be one of the most enduringly popular and cont...

_The Lost Samurai_ reveals the greatest untold story of Japan''s legendary warrior class, which is that for almost a hundred years Japanese samurai...

The Maori economy is often defined simply by the contributions of Maori in New Zealand in the areas of farming, fisheries and forestry. This book e...

In a world dominated by nation-states, expressions of private violence have generally been neglected: either as relics of a more disorganised world...

On 7 March 2004, former SAS soldier and mercenary Simon Mann prepared to take off from Harare International Airport with an aeroplane full of heavy...

The Ismaili Assassins were an underground group of political killers who were ready to kill Christians and Muslims alike with complete disregard fo...

In October 1935 Fascist Italy invaded independent Ethiopia. The Italians had planes, high explosive, and mustard gas. The Ethiopians had swords and...

Andrew Thomson rethinks the history of US imperialism, from the Cold War to today, to reveal how paramilitaries, militias, mercenaries, private arm...

In 1775 the British Empire was in crisis. While buried in debt from years of combat against the French, revolution was stirring in its wealthiest N...