Military History: Post WW2 Conflicts

The post-9/11 War on Terror has spectacularly failed and this book argues that we now need a radically new approach to dealing with international t...

'Uplifting and utterly defiant' Matt Nixson, Daily Express 'Immediate and important ... This is an insider's account of how an ordinary life became...

Why do human beings fight one another?In this exhilarating and bracing book, we learn the common logic driving vainglorious monarchs, dictators, mo...

Mary Kaldor's New and Old Wars has fundamentally changed the way both scholars and policy-makers understand contemporary war and conflict. In the...

Decades of Pakistani resentment over India's stance on Kashmir, and its subsequent attempt to force a military solution on the issue, led to the 19...

Philip Gourevitch returns, twenty years after the genoicide, to Rwanda and the eastern Congo April 2014 marks the twentieth anniversary of perhaps...

The battle is for a city. The war is for history. In autumn 2016, Iraqi forces began operations to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State. Millenn...

In early summer 1982--winter in the South Atlantic--Argentina's military junta invades the Falklands. Within days, a Royal Navy Task Force is assem...

First published in 1956, but still relevant and thought-provoking today, this book is an absolute revelation on test flying with the British aircra...

Focusing on television media reporting of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and its aftermath, this book explores how African states directly involved in...

A great upheaval in tank construction took place in the 1970s, as new combat techniques, helicopters, weaponry and new types of ammunition reduced ...

When the world held its breath It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last sho...

Vienna 1954, nine years after the end of World War II and the victorious allies occupy the whole of Austria. Newly commissioned national serviceman...

This book tells the story of an incredibly capable naval aircraft, based primarily on the words of those who flew and maintained it. Beginning with...

To counter the Soviet threat and that of their client States during the Cold War years 1949-1991, the American military deployed an impressive rang...

The author, a veteran, is professor and chief of general surgery for the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Details the struggles at five...

*By the historical consultant to the major motion picture Entebbe*'The definitive work on the subject....This is the achievement of a masterly, fir...

Howard Hughes, the movie mogul, aviation pioneer and political hound dog, has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lif...