Military History: Post WW2 Conflicts

The first major English-language history of Ukraine from its emergence after the demise of the Soviet Union through the current Russian invasion A ...

The long buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war....

A detailed account of the war-winning role that a handful of Harrier squadrons played in the Falklands War. On 5 April 1982, the British aircraft...

Domicide = the systematic and deliberate killing of home. So much architectural response to war has focused on cultural heritage, the destruction ...

The Vietnam War is one of the longest and most controversial in US history. This book seeks to explore what lessons the US military took from that ...

As the most populous country in Eastern Europe as well as the birthplace of the largest anticommunist dissident movement, Poland is crucial in unde...

This book offers a new insight into the political, social, and religious conduct of religious-Zionism, whose consequences are evident in Israeli so...

This book offers an examination of the effectiveness of Western military interventions in the post-Cold War era. It constitutes a comprehensive, in...

The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. The two communist nations had seemed firm political and cultu...

This book sets out the major social scientific approaches to the study of Special Operations Forces. Despite consistent downsizing, over the past t...

The Chronicle of a People's War: The Military and Strategic History of the Cambodian Civil War, 19791991 narrates the military and strategic histor...

Remarkable insight and sensitivity ...deepen[s] our understanding of human resilience and how people rebuild their lives from tragic circumstances....

After four decades from the 1982 war between Britain and Argentina over possession of the Falklands/Malvinas islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, t...

In an effort to provide the US infantryman with more firepower to cover the range gap between the hand grenade and the light mortar, the 40mm M79 g...

The Long War tells the story of eight Generals (seven American, one British) who led the war against the Taliban in Afghanistana high profile, comp...

Burning the veil draws upon sources from newly-opened archives, exploring the emancipation of Muslim women from the veil, seclusion and perceived m...

In guerrilla warfare such as the Indonesian War of Independence, intelligence is critical for achieving military success. No wonder, then, that the...

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

In September 2022, at a grandiose ceremony in the Kremlin, President Putin announced the incorporation into the Russian Federation of four province...

In 21 short case studies, this short book examines the distinctive coincidental history of America, Britain, and various Asian countries during the...

At the height of the Greek Civil War in 1948, thirty-eight thousand children were evacuated from their homes in the mountains of northern Greece. T...

This is the story of Major Craig Wilson, combat leader, and the men and women of Bravo and Kiwi Companies. It starts in 2010 at Burnham army base a...

This is the story of West Malling airfield, from its earliest days through its role in the Second World War - when several dramatic and tragic even...

By 1959 the newly independent Kingdom of Laos was being transformed into a Cold War battleground for global superpower competition, having been bor...