Military Life & Institutions

Level Zero Heroes, the bestselling account of Marine Special Operations Team 8222 in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan, was just the beginning for these no...

While headline writers in the ETO were naturally focused on events in Normandy and the Bulge in the north, equally ferocious combats were taking pl...

Covering the period from the Armistice to 1939, the book examines the experiences of Irish soldiers who had fought in the British army in the First...

This study explores the organization, history and uniforms of the Soviet Red Army during the 20 years between its victory in the Civil War and the ...

Meticulously researched, this book examines the evidence for the post-Roman military forces of France and Britain during the 'Dark Ages', reconstru...

Chaplaincy highlights the need for faith and society to re-engage with vital moral questions. Military chaplains continue to operate within the dyn...

Cartography describes Katherine Schifanis time deployed in Iraq as a counterterrorism advisor with U.S. Special Forces in 2011. It is the story of ...

'Thick with rolls of gleaming new wire, the obstacle was designed to prevent a suicide bomber driving into the compound's thick mud walls. Today, h...

On Courage is a collection of twenty-eight moving and inspirational stories of valour displayed by recipients of the Victoria Cross and George Cros...

The military history of the ancient peoples of the Middle East encompasses the rise, the rule and the decline and fall of a succession of great emp...

The 2d Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) was the first and only all-black Ranger unit in the history of the United States Army. Its ten-month life...

Step through the iron gates of one of London's most spectacular Victorian cemeteries on the hunt for the lost poets of Nunhead.Literary investigato...

In November of 1942, the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa, were killed when a Japanese torpedo sank their ship during the most ferocious ...

This title explores and illustrates the armies of France, and six countries allied against Louis XIV, in a wide-ranging Continental conflict that u...

In 1998 Teresa Fazio signed up for the Marine Corps ROTC program to pay her way through MIT. After the United States was attacked on September 11, ...

When the U.S. military repealed Dont Ask, Dont Tell, its official policy on homosexuality in the services, Capt. Stephen Snyder-Hill was serving in...

The story of arms in Western Europe from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution. A treasury of information based on solid scholarship, anyon...

For more than half of its existence, members of the Marine Corps largely self-identified as soldiers. It did not yet mean something distinct to be ...

A detailed history of the commemorations of US activist involvement in the Spanish Civil War, based on a combination of archival and ethnographic e...

Globally, where faith and political processes share the public space with indigenous populations, religious leaders of tolerant voice, who desire t...

Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939-45 explores the queer dynamics of war across Australia and forward bases in the south seas. It examines r...

Honorable Mention recipient for the American Journalism Historians Association Book of the Year Award, this book outlines the rich history of more ...

When Americans declared independence in 1776, they cited King George III for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us. In Quarters, John Gi...

In this important new contribution to the historical literature, Amy Fluker offers a history of Civil War commemoration in Missouri, shifting focus...

This detailed case study of a part of London shows how both the survivors and the bereaved sought to come to terms with the losses and implications...

Every gravestone in every graveyard has the potential to frame a story far more complex than the dates found upon its surface. It's common for spou...

'Absorbing, poignant and often shocking' Irish Times'Clear-eyed and unsentimental ... a sobering and timely testament' RTÉ Guide'A reporter once as...