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This book explores Puritanism and its continuing influence on U.S. and military law in the Global War on Terror, exploring connections between Puri...

The role of military chaplains has changed over the past decade as Western militaries have deployed to highly religious environments such as East A...

An inspirational true story of a Marine who finds his calling empowering youth in one of the largest slums in Africa. 'The best book to land on my...

The book takes a hard hitting look at the drug wars taking place in Mexico between competing gangs, cartels, and mercenary factions; their insurgen...

The book takes a hard hitting look at the drug wars taking place in Mexico between competing gangs, cartels, and mercenary factions; their insurgen...

In Indirect Perpetrators Andrew Szanajda examines the administration of correctional and transitional justice in postwar Germany from 1945 to 1955....

This wide-ranging study is the outcome of the author's thirty-year quest to collect information about a neglected and almost forgotten field of his...

This new book illustrates how democracy cannot develop or endure unless military and security forces are under the full control of democratic insti...

Debate rages within the Catholic Church about the ethics of war and peace, but the simple question of why wars begin is too often neglected. Cathol...

World War II was--and remains--one of the bloodiest wars in history. Not only did millions of soldiers die in combat but millions of civilians l...

At a time of dramatic struggles over monuments around the world, this book examines monuments that have been erected in post-conflict Bosnia and He...

The sequence here shows Andy Deane and David Perry from the Royal Armouries Interpretation team demonstrating an armoured foot-combat display using...

As the initial US observer, David Rawson participated in the 1993 Rwandan peace talks at Arusha, Tanzania. Later, he served as US ambassador to Rwa...

The 1998 yearbook continues SIPRI's annual analyses of developments in global and regional major armed conflicts; in conflict prevention, managemen...

Profound changes are occurring in the structure of arms production in Western Europe. In this book, experts describe how the framework for producin...

The international reporting of military expenditure data for African states is poor in many respects. Figures that are published are often at varia...

As the initial US observer, David Rawson participated in the 1993 Rwandan peace talks at Arusha, Tanzania. Later, he served as US ambassador to Rwa...

Winner, Prix Littéraire Paris-Liège 2021 Winner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and Translation When we speak of mass killers, ...

Winner, Prix Littéraire Paris-Liège 2021 Winner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and Translation When we speak of mass killers, ...

This book is concerned with the connection between the formal structure of agency and the formal structure of genocide. The contributors employ phi...

After 1948, the 370,000 Jews of Romania who survived the Holocaust became one of the main sources of immigration for the new state of Israel as alm...

This book is a concise and accessible introduction to the problem of war crimes in modern history, emphasizing the development of laws aimed at reg...

People - laymen and practitioners alike - face serious difficulties in making sense of each other's feelings, behaviour, and discourse in everyday ...

Recent research has revised earlier views about the role of veterans of World War One in paramilitary formations, radical nationalism and politic...

Shortly after the Nazi government fell, a philosophy professor at Heidelberg University lectured on a subject that burned the consciousness and con...

This book is a concise and accessible introduction to the problem of war crimes in modern history, emphasizing the development of laws aimed at reg...

In the United States, the question of women in the armed services has been continuously and hotly debated. Among feminists, two fundamentally diffe...

Following their invasion of Java on March 1, 1942, the Japanese began a process of Japanization of the archipelago, banning every remnant of Dutch ...

Focusing on these and other thematic issues, Bohdan Kordan assesses the policy and practice of civilian internment in Canada during the Great War a...

This book is a tribute to the memory of Victor Zaslavsky (1937-2009), sociologist, emigre from the Soviet Union, Canadian citizen, public intellect...

In this moving memoir a young man comes of age in an age of violence, brutality, and war. Recounting his experiences during the Japanese occupation...

On graduating from West Point in 1940, Lieutenant John Wright was assigned to Corregidor, Philippine Islands. Captured there by the Japanese, he...

Colonel Donald Gilbert Cook was the first U.S. Marine captured in Vietnam, the first and only Marine in history to earn the Medal of Honor while...