War & Defence Operations

Studies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this aspect of wartime conduct ...

From the Seminole Wars to the Little Big Horn, the history of America's native peoples and their contacts with those seeking to settle or claim ...

From thunderous broadsides traded between wooden sailing ships on Lake Erie, to the carrier battles of World War II, to the devastating high-tech a...

Fighting for Peace in Somalia provides the first comprehensive analysis of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), an operation deployed in ...

In the English language, World War I has largely been analysed and understood through the lens of the Western Front. This book addresses this imbal...

The Falklands War is an ideal showcase for how British policy evolved in the 1970s and 1980s. The background of the dispute over the island grou...

Noting that the documents pertaining to the Battle of the Little Big Horn are often garbled in editing and quoted out of context, Loyd J. Overfield...

This book is an attempt to capture, in their own words, the experiences of British front line soldiers on the Western Front in World War I and what...

This text is a graphic account of gallant British soldiers struggling for survival and brave Zulu natives fighting to overpower them in the defence...

We live together under the thick canopy, each searching for the other; the same leeches and mosquitoes that feed on our blood feed on his blood. Jo...

World War II's naval battles between the United States and Japan have been the subject of many books, popular movies, and documentaries, but the ve...

On Friday, August 7, 1942, at 1300, after a furious cannonading by the Navy fighting vessels slamming salvo after salvo into the shores, 36-year...

Ray Hill was a cook and machine gunner who survived the sinking of a PT boat by a kamikaze attack. German forces in the middle of the Siegfried def...

Like most foreign troops stationed in China, the United States Marines' mission was to protect the American embassy and American consulates, mis...

From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following...

The Normans originally came to Italy and Sicily in the 11th and 12th centuries looking for adventure or a livelihood, but once there, found oppo...

Perspectives on Strategy examines in depth five aspects of strategy. Strategic thought and behaviour are explored and explained from the perspectiv...