Military Life & Institutions

For hundreds of years, the Scottish soldier has been recording his experiences. From the War of the Spanish Succession until the deployment of regi...

During the Second World War, thousands of American servicemen were uprooted from the US and deposited in rural England and immediately thrust uncer...

The Call Up or National Service existed in Britain from 1947 until the 1960s. It was the only time that young men were expected to serve in the Arm...

Just out of high school in 1977, her personal life already a mess, Tracy Crow thought the Marines might straighten her out. And sure enough, in the...

Imagine Wayne Rooney, Andy Murray and Mo Farah exchanging the glamour of their careers for the brutality and bloodshed of war - and quietly giving ...

Glimpsing Modernity is a collection of papers presented at the US Army Medical Museum-sponsored conference on medical aspects of the First World Wa...

A TLS and a Prospect Book of the Year A revelatory, explosive new analysis of the military today. Over the first two decades of the twenty-first ce...

In the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, recent technological developments in music listening enabled troops to carry with them vast amounts of music a...

A G.I. In the Ardennes focuses on the human experience during wartime. What was life like for a regular American soldier who gave his life to comba...

In 1945 it was announced that Allied airmen who had taken part in the Battle of Britain in 1940 would be entitled to the immediate award of the 193...

Several months after a 2014 operation in the Gaza Strip, fifty-three Israeli Defense Forces combatants and combat-support soldiers were awarded mil...

This candid memoir recounts the author's nearly four years in the 3rd United States Infantry Regiment--a.k.a. The Old Guard or Escort to the Pre...

From hallucinogenic mushrooms and LSD, to coca and cocaine; from Homeric warriors and the Assassins to the first Gulf War and today's global insurg...

This compelling and timely collaboration between photographer/writer Jim Lommasson and American veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars presents ...

Struck with the desire to see and do more with her life, a young South Dakota woman left the family home in Redfield to go to work for Senator Pete...

Army chaplains have long played an integral part in Americas armed forces. In addition to conducting chapel activities on military installations an...

Japan's invasion of Manchuria in September of 1931 initiated a new phase of brutal occupation and warfare in Asia and the Pacific. It forwarded the...

Napoleon Bonaparte entered the World stage in 1793 at the siege of Toulon. This book covers the period of 1796 to 1815, from Napoleon's classic vic...

This book is a detailed history of the 27th Waffen-SS Division Langemarck, the Flemish volunteer SS combat formation. Langemarck was employed chief...

Any scholar of history will have recognised the similarities between Ancient Rome and the National Socialist movement of the 20th century. Aside fr...

Japan's invasion of Manchuria in September of 1931 initiated a new phase of brutal occupation and warfare in Asia and the Pacific. It forwarded the...

A mass movement, propaganda, and physical and psychological terror were the components that Hitler believed to be necessary to gain control over a ...

Permission to speak, Sah!In the aftermath of the Second World War, over two million men were conscripted to serve in Britain's armed services. Some...