Military History

The First Crusade was arguably one of the most significant events of the Middle Ages. It was the only event to generate its own epic cycle, the Old...

Crucible of a Generation tells the story of the fifteen days surrounding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor through the pages of eight leading Ame...

This memoir recalls Yervant Alexanian’s death-defying experiences in the center of the Armenian Genocide. Like other Armenians of his generation, h...

During the Second World War, the British government established the Special Operations Executive (SOE) for the purpose of coordinating ‘all action,...

British Generals in Blair's Wars is based on a series of high profile seminars held in Oxford in which senior British officers, predominantly from ...

This book examines the moral choices faced by U.S. political and military leaders in deciding when and how to employ force, from the American Revol...

Strange Allies examines three intersecting themes of fundamental importance to the international history of the period between the two world wars. ...

Preaching was an integral part of the crusade movement. This book focuses on the efforts of the first four Avignon popes to organize crusade preach...

The struggle between Islam and the Crusaders comprised a dialogue of cultures on a broad geographic scale and a wide expanse of time, a perennial s...

Founded in 1927, the Society of Friends of Defense and Aviation- Chemical Construction, or "Osoaviakhim," became the largest mass voluntary associa...

Military history is an essential component of wartime diplomatic history, Jonathan R. Dull contends, and this belief shapes his account of the Fren...

This book, first published in 1986, examines the wartime evacuation of children in Britain from their homes in cities to safety in the countryside....

This book explores the contradictions in Britain’s humanitarian and military intervention in Libya and Syria, beginning with the Arab spring in 201...

War and such crises are seen as aberrations in the history and development of democracy – a time when otherwise unacceptable constraints can be imp...

This book, first published in 1942, covers the whole field of wartime life and organization. Is the private ownership and control of industry holdi...

In this full account of the Geneva Accords of 1954, Dr. Randle assesses the Eisenhower-Dulles policies in the critical months leading up to the con...

In essays that illuminate not only the recent past but shortcomings in today's intelligence assessments, sixteen experts show how prospective antag...

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...

"Not only a just appraisal of the campaigns waged by Marines in World War II; it is a documentation of the Marine struggle to prove the feasibility...

European Navies and the Conduct of War considers the different contexts within which European navies operated over a period of 500 years culminatin...