Military History

Composed for King Henry VI in the middle of the Wars of the Roses, Of Knyghthode and Bataile adapts the most widely used military manual in the Mid...

The Second World War casts a long shadow, portrayed as a necessary and paradigmatic war that defeated fascism. During recent wars in Iraq, Afghanis...

As the first in a larger series of publications which preserve and make accessible primary sources from various archives and other materials relate...

Archery in Medieval England is an account of how archery developed amongst ordinary people in England and Wales after the Norman Conquest. In the 3...

Winner of the 2020 Ernst Fraenkel Prize from the Wiener Holocaust Library Jewish Childhood in Kraków is the first book to tell the history of Krakó...

The Wars of the French Revolution, 17921801 offers a comprehensive and jargon-free coverage of this turbulent period and unites political, social, ...

The Italian school of swordsmanship was highly influential amongst the major courts of Europe and produced scholarly writings that are still reprin...

The authors of all manuscripts in this monograph were specifically invited for papers that would provide new insights into the complex nature of m...

Ho Chi Minh explores the life of this globally important twentieth-century figure and offers new insights into his lengthy career, including his of...

On March 27, 1351, sixty armed men gathered in a field in Brittany, halfway between the two enemy castles of Josselin and Ploermel. Representing th...

In Why Texans Fought in the Civil War, Charles David Grear provides insights into what motivated Texans to fight for the Confederacy. Mining import...

From popular Pacific Theatre expert Jeffrey R. Cox comes this insightful new history of the critical Guadalcanal and Solomons campaign at the heigh...

This book examines the nature of the secret services and the role of the secret police in Britain, Russia, and Germany during the interwar years. I...

In the late summer of 1942, more than ten thousand members of the First Marine Division held a tenuous toehold on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal...

Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts, including mass-produced erotic fiction, cartes de visite, playin...

Few issues created greater consensus among Civil War-era northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason. But as William A...

During the winter of 1864, more than 3,000 Federal prisoners of war escaped from Confederate prison camps into South Carolina and North Carolina, o...

In 1513 the Portuguese became the first Europeans to establish a maritime route to China. Their motives were a combination of a quest for trade and...