Military History

Even as the great siege began it was understood by both sides to be an epic a potentially decisive encounter between an uneasy assortment of soldi...

**AWARDED THE GERMAN NON-FICTION PRIZE 2022**Stephan Malinowski's brilliant book strikes a balance between the forensic analysis of individual beha...

The reasons behind the USA's involvement in Vietnam remain a subject of extensive debate. Initially, America supported the French until their defea...

In his short life, Liverpool-born Alexander Foote went from being a volunteer in the International Brigade in Spain to becoming an agent of Soviet ...

The area of Hispania, this being the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula and its provinces, had a great influence on the development of the histor...

An authoritative account of the rise and fall of American sea power between 1897 and 1947 and the definitive biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. K...

A revised and expanded new edition of this classic biography of a legendary American fighter pilot.  Frank Luke was the first American airman ...

This book will interest historians of the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles, 1919. It reconsiders them against Keynes' verdict in...

This book describes momentous events in the American and French Revolutions. The American revolutionaries were nationalist patriots, who wanted ind...

Drawing on historiography of the Japanese occupation in the Chinese, Japanese, and English languages, this book examines the politics of the Manchu...

I Am Andre is an amazing real-life story of espionage, of courage and resistance, and of friendship and love. It pulls back the veil on the hidden ...

What does Australia's military history reveal about us?In Beyond The Broken Years fifty years after The Broken Years, Bill Gammage's classic on Wo...

Homosexuals were mustered out of military service in the Bundeswehr until 1979, after which homosexuality alone was no longer considered grounds fo...

This book explores the why and the how of womens participation in armed struggle, and challenges preconceived assertions about women and violence, ...

This collection is published in the Crusades Subsidia series in honour of Professor Adrian J. Boas, an archaeologist, historian and scholar who has...

This collection is published in the Crusades Subsidia series in honour of Professor Adrian J. Boas, an archaeologist, historian and scholar who has...

This book offers an international reading of the Polish socialist regimes history in the 1970s, and its opening up to the West.It bridges Polands s...

'This disturbing book is timely, relevant and important' Sir Ian KershawFrom the bestselling author of THE HOLOCAUST, a groundbreaking narrative hi...

In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again led Europe...

This book uses an empathic reading of Yiddish diarists feelings, evaluations, and assessments about persecutors in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna ghet...

This book explores SovietNorth Korean relations during the Cold War (19451991). Based on many primary documents and sources (including Russian and ...

Memory in Hungarian Fascism: A Cultural History argues that fascist memory had a key role in the historical formation and later return of fascism. ...

The book presents various investigation into 20th-century European dictatorships, with its focus on Franco`s dictatorship and the Spanish Civil War...

WHEELS OF COURAGE reveals the never-before-told story of the world's first wheelchair athletes: U.S. soldiers, sailors, and Marines who were paraly...

This book shows how international trade was a key part of the classic Western policy of containment towards the Soviet Union in the Cold War in the...

To disentangle the National Socialists path to power in Germany, one must attend to the discursive strategies and liturgical practices employed by ...

This book explores unit cohesion in ancient armies, and how this contributed to the making of war in the Mediterranean world. It takes a varied app...