Military History

Albert of Aachens History of the Journey to Jerusalem presents the story of the First Crusade (1095-1099) and the early history of the crusader sta...

The 9/11 terrorist attacks prompted a new urgency in efforts to deal with chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear proliferati on. The potent...

The book analyses the renewed importance of the North Atlantic for NATO in the face of new security challenges This Whitehall Paper explores the re...

This Adelphi Paper is the first concise yet comprehensive analysis of the role of the G8 in international peace and security. It argues that the G7...

This major study is a comprehensive scholarly work on a key moment in the history of Europe, the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 145...

Over the past four decades, East and Southeast Asia have seen a proliferation of heritage sites and remembrance practices which commemorate the reg...

Strategic Survey 2020 The Annual Assessment of GeopoliticsThe worst pandemic in a century tested governments, strained societies and frayedinternat...

Image and Reality of Roman Imperial Power in the Third Century AD focuses on the wide range of available sources of Roman imperial power in the per...

This book offers a new insight into the political, social, and religious conduct of religious-Zionism, whose consequences are evident in Israeli so...

Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres ...

The Archaeology of the Spanish Civil War offers the first comprehensive account of the Spanish Civil War from an archaeological perspective, provid...

The War of 1812 was one of a cluster of events that left unsettled what is often referred to as the Revolutionary settlement. At once postcolonial ...

First published in 1919, this book traces the growth of War Debt during the First World War, examines the real meaning of the Debt and discusses th...

This book offers an examination of the effectiveness of Western military interventions in the post-Cold War era. It constitutes a comprehensive, in...

The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. The two communist nations had seemed firm political and cultu...

Devastated by two decades of war and ravaged by the spread of the plague, large parts of Italy fell quickly into the hands of a group known to hist...

When Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted several Southern states to secede, the North was sharply divided over how to respond. In this grou...

This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the future of US warfare, including its military practices and the domestic and global challeng...

This title was first published in 2002. When did Africa emerge as a continent in the European mind? This book aims to trace the origins of the idea...

The Army of Northern Virginia's chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed wes...

Originally published in 1988, The Burden of German History 1919-45 examines the vast literature surrounding Weimar years and the National Socialist...

This book offers diverse and original perspectives on South Asias imperial military history. Unlike prevailing studies, the chapters in the volume ...

When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through wa...

This essential companion provides a comprehensive study of the literature on the causes, course, and consequences of the Korean War, 1950-1953. Aim...

First published in 1922, this volume constitutes the first attempt yet made to trace the story of English intercourse with Burma from its origins i...

First published in 1935, in this volume E.L. Woodward reconstructs with his usual painstaking industry the various phases of Anglo-German naval rel...

First published in 1997, this volume responds to attention in recent years which has been belatedly directed towards reviving World War II issues i...

As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 186...

First published in 1997, this collection of articles, two of which hitherto only appeared in Dutch, examines the technical changes in shipbuilding,...

The majority of the articles assembled in this volume reflect social-historical methodology, which is used to show the relationship between the tsa...

Liberal peacebuilding too often builds neither peace nor Liberalism. In a growing number of cases, people arent rejecting and relegating democracy ...

Bringing together works by Salvador Espriu, Juan Goytisolo, Mercè Rodoreda, Esther Tusquets, and Juan Marsa that portray memory as a disorienting n...

Labouring Children (1980) is a study of child immigrants, based on numerous original sources, and presents new views on childhood, social work and ...

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 volume examines how both victims and perpetrators of terrorism are relevant to our understanding of political violence.While the perpetrators ...