Other Warfare & Defence Issues

On April 28, 1789, a band of mutineers turned an ordinary voyage into an unforgettable legend. The conflict between Lieutenant William Bligh and...

In addition to concentration camps, World War II Germany was also home to 54 prisoner-of-war camps, the largest of which was Stalag IVB. Through...

This book takes offers a new perspective on the Medal of Honor, examining the historical facts and figures of its recipients. Provided within is a ...

On May 11, 1857, Hindu and Muslim sepoys massacred British residents and native Christians in Delhi, setting off both the whirlwind of similar viol...

Since the Nuremberg trials following World War II, there has been considerable debate about the nature and effects of war crimes with regard both t...

In January 1943, not long after his nineteenth birthday, Ralph Sirianni was drafted for active duty by the U.S. Army. Ordered to the European Th...

Within weeks of war being declared, Wolfgang Fischer had volunteered to join the Luftwaffe and spent nearly five of the succeeding six years of hos...

A True Story of Heroism in Nazi-Occupied Greece [Some of] the most dramatic use of secret intelligence in the Western Theater resulted from covert ...

The clarinetist Rebecca Rischin has written a captivating book.... Her research dispels several long-cherished myths about the 1941 premiere.... Ri...

Feb 22, 1944-July 21, 1944

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

Over 150,000 innocents died of starvation in Changchun, northeastern China, after the end of WW2 when Mao's army laid siege during the Chinese Civi...

Barbed Wire Diplomacy examines how the United Kingdom government went about protecting the interests, lives and well-being of its prisoners of war ...

Why is it that Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland have been in perpetual conflict for thirty years when they can live and prosper togeth...

In the middle of the most destructive conflict in human history, almost 40,000 Germans civilians and prisoners of war were detained in internment a...

"Shopping for Bombs" presents the first detailed account of the emergence of Pakistan's nuclear hero A.Q. Khan as the world's leading black market ...

This is the first full-length study of the behaviour of British civilians and their reactions to air raids during the Second World War. It unravels...

Though only one among hundreds of prison camps in which British servicemen were held between 1939 and 1945, Colditz enjoys unparalleled name recogn...

This is a book about how civilians suffer in war and why people decide that they should. Most civilian suffering in war is deliberate and always ha...

This book is the moving story of nine American soldiers and pilots who were captured and held prisoner for five years. It could only be told in the...

Journalist and broadcaster Robert Kee was an RAF bomber pilot in the Second World War. When his plane was shot down over Nazi-occupied Holland, he ...

No longer dogs of war running ragtag armies, the new breed of private soldiers operate their million-dollar contracts from executive boardrooms wor...

The compelling story of the life and conditions of prisoners of war working on the Burma-Siam railway during World War II.

On 6 April 1943, Ian Reid, an officer in the Black Watch, was wounded and captured in Tunisia and sent off to an Italian prisoner-of-war camp. Five...

2017 is the 100th anniversary of America’s declaration of war against Germany. Many historians take a diminutive stance regarding America’s involve...

In the fall of 2003, Iraqi prisoners were beaten, stripped naked, confined in small spaces, tortured, sexually humiliated, and abused by U.S. perso...

This remarkable book traces the quest for the truth about the Holocaust in Lithuania by two ostensible enemies: Rūta a descendant of the perpetrato...

The assumptions that military service helps candidates attract votes—while lacking it harms a candidate’s chances—has been an article of faith sinc...

This book will captivate readers interested in the legacy of the Civil War, the role of military veterans after they return to civilian life, and t...

_______________ ‘A gifted and brave reporter, who has personally hunted down those she believed responsible for the massacres' - The Times 'A gri...

The assumptions that military service helps candidates attract votes—while lacking it harms a candidate’s chances—has been an article of faith sinc...