Military History: Post WW2 Conflicts

The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses i...

In 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong was sentenced to five years in the Seoul Detention Center upon his return to South Korea from...

Using new material unearthed in French archives, Vietnamese-language publications and the testimony of veterans, Valley of the Shadow offers a new ...

Tornado Boys is the latest in the ever-popular Boys series, and differs from earlier titles. With the introduction of female pilots to the RAF in 1...

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIA''s secret paramilitary units. Surprise . . . your t...

On October 3, 1993, Task Force Ranger was dispatched to seize two high-profile lieutenants of a Somali warlord. Special Forces troops were transpor...

The highly anticipated follow-up to Phantom Boys! Once again Richard Pike has brought together brilliant, hitherto unpublished, accounts across eig...

The Korean War, which began with an unprovoked attack by North Korea in 1950, went on for three long years. Over 100,000 soldiers of the United Na...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Be...

The scrapping of the Nimrod programme has been one of the most controversial events in the military aviation world for many a year. For most of its...

A fascinating account of Russia's Five-Day War against Georgia in 2008, notable for its strategic mistakes which prompted President Putin to undert...

Contact! is an enthralling set of recollections from ex-RAF pilot, instructor and test pilot Bob Tuxford. The book follows his twenty-year career w...

From World War Two to the present day, the aircraft carrier has been a potent display of the might of the US Navy. The nuclear-powered aircraft car...

An essential dimension of the Cold War took place in the realm of ideas and culture. While much work exists on cinema, relatively little research h...

In this vivid first-person narrative, a Special Operations Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) and his commanding general give fascinating and ...

On the same day the Japanese surrender ended World War II, Vietnamese nationalists declared independence from France. Within weeks, France sough...