Military History: Post WW2 Conflicts

The Fuerza Aérea Revolucionaria (FAR), one of the most powerful and little-publicised air forces in the Americas, had Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG) fighte...

As the proud son of one of the Few, Rick Peacock-Edwards was inspired to follow his father into the Royal Air Force and become a fighter pilot. In ...

'Andrew North has a deep empathy and understanding for Afghanistan and has seen sides of it - both good and horrifying - that very few internationa...

From Angola and Liberia to Iraq and the Congo, wars have taken place in resource rich countries full of poor people. In Wars of Plunder Philippe Le...

Russia's forceful reentry into the Middle Eastern arena, and the accentuated continuity of Soviet policy and methods of the 1960s and '70s, highlig...

In March 2011, NATO launched a mission hitherto entirely unthinkable: to protect civilians against Libya's ferocious regime, solely from the air. N...

In October 1996, a motley crew of ageing Marxists and unemployed youth coalesced to revolt against Mobutu Seso Seko, president of Zaire/Congo since...

This book explores the effects and consequences of major global power and major regional power status attribution on the foreign policies of states...

Secret Mission tells the tale of the secretive reconnaissance units assigned to the United States Air Forces in Europe that flew covert reconnaissa...

During the postwar era, the Soviet Union emerged as Americas sole threat, rendering the U.S. Army and Navy impotent against its vast military power...

October 1962, The Cuban Missile Crisis: the confrontation that brought the world closer to nuclear catastrophe than ever before or since. Drawing ...

The thrilling, edge-of-your-seat true story of one soldier's Special Forces operations in the Falklands War'BRILLIANT. A ROLLERCOASTER OF BLISTERIN...

Falklands War, this updated paperback edition of Memories of the Falklands pulls together the recollections of those deeply affected by the horrors...

The magnificent Douglas A-4 Skyhawk served with the Royal Australian Navy from 1968 until 1984 with two squadrons: VF805 and VC724. VF805 was the f...

The war on the Eastern Front during 1941-45 was an immense struggle, running from the Barents Sea to the Caucasus Mountains. The vast distances inv...

The book opens by setting the historic backdrop to The Troubles. In summer 1969 the annual Loyalist marching season sparked violence in Londonderr...

'Irresistible . . . My aviation title of the year' Rowland White'Stupendously brilliant . . . Completely addictive' James Holland'The most explosiv...

This is the first such study of Operation Banner, the British Armys campaign in Northern Ireland. Drawing upon extensive interviews with former sol...

A multifaceted portrait of the Hiroshima bombing and its many legaciesOn August 6, 1945, in the waning days of World War II, the United States drop...

This book assesses the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavias (ICTY) legacy and examines the conflicting intersection of law and po...

Haunting stories from the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - A new translation of Zinky Boys based on the revised...

Discover the exhilarating first-hand account of one man's white-knuckle life as a fighter pilot with the Royal Navy Sea Harriers'A wild ride . . . ...

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