Military History

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...

The Great War of 191418 was the first conflict in which aircraft played a significant role. It was dangerous and sometimes exciting, and it created...

In January 2000, the ban on LGBTQ servicemen and women being in the British Armed Forces was finally lifted after a fierce battle at the European C...

This book studies British cultural engagement with Napoleon Bonaparte from his 1815 surrender and time in British custody, until the return of his ...

A storied friendship between two of America's founders--one that endured for fifty years--and the roadtrip that forged it. Between May 21 and Jun...

CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF. Those words, scratched on parchment i...

The initial creation of the United States' ocean-going battlefleet otherwise known as the 'New Navy' was a result of the naval wars and arms race...

The initial creation of the United States' ocean-going battlefleet otherwise known as the 'New Navy' was a result of the naval wars and arms race...