War & Defence Operations

Arms and Influence explores the complex relationship between technology, policymaking, and international norms. Modern technological innovations su...

Historian Michael Enright provides a close-up account of Australian servicemen on the Western Front during WWI. Using many previously unpublished, ...

The Great War was so devastating eight million lives were lost globally that in its aftermath a horrified world expected it to be the final chapt...

Nearly 100 years ago, on October 4, 1918, on a muddy, poison gas-soaked hillside in France, the U.S. 26th Infantry Regiment jumped-off amidst a hai...

During the times German soldiers werent involved in combat operations, they felt some return to a normal existence and a temporary break from the h...

From the top ten bestselling author of Normandy 44 and Sicily 43The Second World War is the most cataclysmic and violent sequence of events in rece...

Over sixty female agents were sent out by Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. These women - as well as othe...

From journalistic accounts like Fiasco and Imperial Life in the Emerald City to insider memoirs like Jawbreaker and Three Cups of Tea , the books a...

This second volume focuses on the daily life of the German soldier when they werent involved in combat operations. It was during these breaks in th...

This two volume series serves as a unique window to view the U.S. Armys entry onto the world stage. Faced with entry into the Great War, the countr...

This two-volume series serves as a unique window to view the U.S. Armys entry onto the world stage. Faced with entry into the Great War, the countr...

150 years after the Norman Conquest, history came within a hairs breadth of repeating itself. In 1216, taking advantage of the turmoil created in E...

Bastogne will live forever in the annals of American military history. From the resounding 'Nuts', in response to the German demand for surrender, ...

With decades of research to draw from Philip Jowett explores this extraordinary David-and-Goliath conflict, where the rag-tag Igbo tribal army of s...

A decade of exhausting wars, punishing economic setbacks, fast-rising rivals and unrealized global aspirations has called America's global role int...

Two years before the action in Lone Survivor, a Green Berets A Team conducted a very different, successful mission in Afghanistan's notorious Pech ...

World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandab...

Although it was first published in 1931, Endless Story remains the only comprehensive account of the services of the Navy's small craft - destroyer...

The Committee on an Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives set forth to provid...

WINNER OF THE TEMPLER MEDAL BOOK PRIZE 2020A SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020''A stunning achievement'' Max Has...

Controversy continues over the appropriate role that Congress should play in regulating U.S. military operations against foreign entities. U.S. act...