Military History

By 1943, confronted by heavier enemy tanks in increasing numbers, German field commanders were asking for a more potent tank destroyer, building on...

This is a comprehensive reference to the structure, operation, aircraft and men of the 1st Tactical Air Force, or Desert Air Force as it became kno...

First published in 1898, and following on from Volume 1, this second volume charts the history of medieval warfare from 1278 to 1485. Written by Si...

How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S...

Previous biographies of Abraham Lincolnuniversally acknowledged as one of Americas greatest presidentshave typically focused on his experiences in ...

Thorough examination of the antebellum fortifications that formed the backbone of U.S. military defense during the National Period The system of co...

On the 20th of January 1526, the Santiago left Lisbon bound for Africa with a cargo of brass and tin bracelets, round bells, barber basins and clot...

From Napoleon's invasion of Portugal in 1807 to his final defeat at Waterloo, the English theatres played a crucial role in the mediation of the Pe...

The Vietnam War remains one of the most contentious events in American history. This book is a collection of essays that seeks to examine the curre...

This collection of essays sets out to present a sample of the rich diversity of writings on naval history in this period. The collection covers sub...

Against the background of its problematic human-rights record and the military regime's continued extra-constitutional rule, Myanmar has faced moun...

Within the span of a generation, Nazi Germanys former capital, Berlin, found a new role as a symbol of freedom and resilient democracy in the Cold ...

Few historians have argued so forcefully or persuasively as Bernard S. Bachrach for the study of warfare as not only worthy of scholarly attention,...

This volume celebrates Peter Edburys career by bringing together seventeen essays by colleagues, former students and friends which focus on three o...

From the first interactions between European and native peoples to the recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, military issues have always played...

First published in 1904, this volume began what was to be the magnum opus of the highly regarded Classical scholar, A.H.J. Greenidge. Though publis...

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 ...

Material objects lie at the crux of understanding individual and social relationships in history, and the Civil War era is no exception. Before, du...

Isaac Johnson was born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in 1844. His father, Richard Yeager, was a white farmer and his mother, Jane Johnson, was an ens...

Thomas Stukeley was one of the most colourful characters of the Elizabethan age, whose exploits brought him fame and notoriety throughout Europe. ...

Modern Conflict and the Senses investigates the sensual worlds created by modern war, focusing on the sensorial responses embodied in and provoked ...

Historians often view early modern Ireland as a testing ground for subsequent British colonial adventures further afield. McGrath argues against th...

Published in 1999. On the basis of leading theoretical work on civil-military relations, the authors elaborate their own model, emphasising the con...

The Wendish Crusade of 1147, one of the Northern Crusades and a part of the Second Crusade, took place at a critical phase in the evolution of crus...

To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War-a personal war waged by ...

Originally published in 1933, and written by Americas historian, James Truslow Adams, this volume tells the story of the rise of the American natio...

During the first fifteen months of the Civil War, the policies and attitudes of Union officers toward emancipation in the western theater were, at ...

This is the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic'...

As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like sea power derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive b...

Twentieth-century war is a unique cultural phenomenon and the last two decades have seen significant advances in our ability to conceptualize and u...

1927. CHINA IS IN TURMOIL.The Communist Party and the Kuomintang government, long at each others throats, are now locked into a conflict set to cla...

This unprecedented compilation provides the fullest examination anywhere available of the crucial social-political and strategic and policy-level i...

Scholars have tended to underrate the importance of war in the period 1650-1792, as there is a feeling that periods before and after were more cons...

This volume discusses the relationship between economics, geopolitics and regional institutional growth and development in the Asia-Pacific region....

Published in 1997, this volume is a collection of seminal articles on a theme of central importance in the study of transport history, selected fro...

The story of Fort McHenry's defense during the War of 1812 is well known, but Lion in the Bay is an intimate look at the events leading up to the b...

First published in 1999, this edition of Walter the Chancellors account of the wars of the Antiochenes against the Muslims in the early twelfth cen...

World War I directly and indirectly caused events and social and political trends which defined the history of the world for the rest of the centur...

This book was published in 2003. Thomas Stukeley was one of the most colourful characters of the Elizabethan age, whose exploits brought him fame a...