Other Warfare & Defence Issues

Hailed as Newby's 'masterpiece', Love and War in the Apennines is the gripping real-life story of Newby's imprisonment and escape from an Italian p...

Strategy is the power to shape the future. It is our ability to understand the game that is being played and then how to play it. We are all strate...

In the winter trenches and flak-filled skies of World War I, captured soldiers and pilots narrowly avoided death only to find themselves imprisoned...

The clinical and therapeutic experience, alongside with the research findings, which are presented in the book, demonstrate some advantages and sci...

Chapter 1 assesses (1) the status of the Army's near- and long-term modernisation efforts; and (2) the extent to which the Army has applied. Chapte...

Foreword by Sir Charles Huxtable KCB CBE, Commander in Chief, UK Land Forces, 1988-1990. In Great Britain today there are thousands of individuals ...

In response to concerns about access to medical care at many Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals and clinics across the country in Spring...

During the Civil War, each side accused the other of mistreating prisoners of war. Today, most historians believe that there was systemic and de...

None of Us Were Like This Before recounts the dark journey of a tank battalion as its focus switched from conventional military duties to guerilla ...

Roger Bushell was 'Big X', mastermind of the mass breakout from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, immortalised in the Hollywood film The Great Escape....

Today USS Pampanito is a tourist destination. During WWII the submarine earned six battle stars, sank six Japanese ships, damaged four others, and ...

A Canadian medical officer and prisoner of war returns from the Second World War a hero and a very different man.In August 1941, John Reid, a youn...

In this follow-up to the extremely successful Losing Small Wars, Frank Ledwidge analyses the cost - both financial and human - of Britain's involve...

Soon after the end of World War II, a majority of the nearly 7 million Japanese civilians and serviceman who had been posted overseas returned home...

In 1938 Johnny Sherwood was a young professional footballer on the brink of an England career, touring the world with the all-star British team the...