Military History

A multifaceted portrait of the Hiroshima bombing and its many legaciesOn August 6, 1945, in the waning days of World War II, the United States drop...

Airpower Applied reviews the evolution of airpower and its impact on the history of warfare. Through a critical examination of twenty-nine case stu...

Airpower Reborn offers a conceptual approach to warfare that emphasizes airpower’s unique capability to achieve strategic effects. Six world-leadin...

This book analyzes the development of the Lost Generation narrative following the First World War. The author examines narratives that illustrate t...

Harry Wray and Seishiro Sugihara transcend the one-sided Tokyo Trial view of the war in an effort to conduct a balanced exchange on historical perc...

To understand wars and armed conflicts, we need to understand the inner logic of military institutions and warrior culture. Making Warriors in a Gl...

Among the more improbable events of the Asia-Pacific Theater in World War II was the creation in Singapore in 1943 of a corps of female Indian comb...

This book uses the 21st Century Foundations series format to re-introduce to the military community the writings of General Thomas S. Power, the th...

A veteran of both world wars and the Korean War, Gen. Gerald C. Thomas helped change the Marine Corps in the twentieth century. Though not as well-...

This documentary history is intended for specialist and non-specialist alike. The introductions to the book’s sections, together with introductions...

The Imjin War (1592–1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The involvement of Chinese,...

Collusion by British state forces in killings perpetrated by loyalist paramilitaries was a dubious hallmark of the 'dirty war' in the north of Irel...

"It was just like flying into the void." --Stanley "Swede" VejtasaThis riveting biography details how Stanley "Swede" Vejtasa became a World War II...

Combat at Close Quarters presents the work of five renowned historians who describe and interpret the U.S. Navy's major combat operations in Southe...

Why do some governments and societies attach great significance to a particular anniversary year whereas others seem less inclined to do so? What m...

Between 1941 and 1944, the Germans and the Italians imposed a brutal occupation of Greece. This, as well as the outbreak of famine, drove many Gree...

In Holocaust Graphic Narratives, Victoria Aarons demonstrates the range and fluidity of this richly figured genre. Employing memory as her controll...

For the Honor of Our Fatherland: German Jews on the Eastern Front during the Great War focuses on the German Jews’ role in reconstructing Poland’s ...

During World War II 51,000 Italian prisoners of war were detained in the United States. When Italy signed an armistice with the Allies in September...