Military History

The eleven-year civil war in Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002 was incomprehensibly brutal—it is estimated that half of all female refugees were raped...

This book challenges narratives of one-directional cultural flows from Europe to the Americas. The essays’ varied topics and methods map a richly i...

During the Second World War, the Congress of Industrial Organizations in Canada grew from a handful of members to more than a quarter-million and f...

In this new and expanded third edition of Unburdened by Conscience, Anthony W. Neal forcefully argues that influential historians have been unable ...

The story of Eugene Ely’s life is the stuff of myth and legend. Much of what has been written about him relies on sensationalized newspaper account...

Despite a wealth of books on the campaigns of the American Civil War, the subject of combined or joint operations has been largely neglected. This ...

This book examines the intrusion of imperialist modes of thought into the domestic politics of the Edwardian period and the war years. The author a...

There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the archite...

African Americans have long used the military for gaining legitimacy and as the ultimate path to citizenship. Blacks in the Military and Beyond tho...

The book draws on letters, diaries, recent books and articles in History, but also relies on multi-disciplinary sources in politics and literature,...

War Wisdom: A Cross Cultural Sampling is a unique combination of directory and analysis. It provides a relevant “universe” of quotations, together ...

Coming shortly after the British occupation of Iraq and the German invasion of Russia, the Anglo-Russian occupation of Iran secured a vital route f...

Louis Trezevant Wigfall was a violent, mercurial man. He participated in multiple duels, wounding one opponent and killing another. In an outburst ...