Military History

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...