Military Life & Institutions

In 1916, at the age of fifty four, a slight, short sighted, unassuming country vicar and local school master became an Army Chaplain. Theodore Bay...

For those providing homilies and prayers for those serving their Country, their families, friends and those who want to join in prayer with them. I...

This singular collection of articles, essays, poems, criticism and personal recollections by a Vietnam veteran documents the author's reflection...

Dozens of books about the Iraq War have been written by politicians, generals, snipers and Special Forces operatives. This war journal of an enl...

Having flunked out of college in the fall of 1965, the author enlisted in the U.S. Army. After basic training he was assigned to Officer Candida...

This hilarious and heart-breaking tale of life in the British Army charts soldier Ashley Topham''''s progress from scrawny troublemaker to Regiment...

Due to its partitions and dissolution in the late eighteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers enlisted in distinct units in the ar...

When Winston Churchill delivered his famous Iron Curtain speech in 1946, he mentioned two words now engrained in Anglo-American terminology - speci...

This is the first book ever to present the authentic ninja techniques in a highly accessible, illustrated 'how to' format. The shadowy figure of th...

A tense and layered true-crime story about an all-American soldier boy turned bank robber Alex Blum was a clean-cut all-American kid with...

The first African-American aircraft carrier commander, Rear Admiral Lawrence Cleveland Chambers (1929- ) played a prominent role as captain of t...

Fascinating . . . vividly recounts one of the most tragic true stories to emerge from the Iraq War . . . eloquent, disturbing, and haunting. Mark B...

The extraordinary story of British junior officers in the First World War, who led their men out of the trenches and faced a life expectancy of six...

Women make up almost half of the nation''''s workforce, yet research shows that they continue to hold a lower percentage of corporate board seats c...

Since the end of the Second World War, the role of women in the military has been evolving. Changes to laws and Department of Defense (DOD) policie...

Imperial Japanese soldiers were notorious for blindly following orders, and their enemies in the Pacific War derided them as cattle to the slaughte...

A heartwarming dog story like no other: Tuesday, a lovable golden retriever, changes a former soldier's life forever.A highly decorated captain in ...

From an illustrated paper published in Berlin in 1933, this book presents uniforms of different units and state and political agencies. It explores...

From the moment the Military Wives sang together on BBC Twos The Choir, their lives changed forever. Their journey entranced the nation, and their ...

Sexual harassment is a form of unlawful discrimination that can jeopardise the military''s combat readiness and mission accomplishment by weakening...

The Army of Tennessee was officially designated November 20, 1862. But that was not the beginning of the Confederate main fighting force in the Civ...

Caring for the wounded in the World War II Pacific Theater posed serious challenges to doctors and surgeons. The thick jungles, remote atolls and h...

The Boston Marine Barracks is one of the oldest in the United States: it stands within eyeshot of the USS Constitution. Lt. Col. John R. Yates, ...