War & Defence Operations

Concerns for the lives of soldiers and innocent civilians have come to underpin Western, and particularly American, warfare. Yet this new mode of c...

Exploring Latin texts, as well as Old French, Castilian and Occitan songs and lyrics, Remembering the Crusades in Medieval Texts and Songs takes in...

In the early 1880s Muhammad Ahmed, the self-styled Mahdi, unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule in ...

The Battles for Cassino encompassed one of the few truly international conflicts of the Second World War. A strategic town on the road to Rome, the...

The Light Division is rightly regarded as the most famous force within Wellington's army in the Peninsular War. Often the first into every battle a...

The fierce battle to capture the French village of Tilly-la-Campagne was an exceptionally bloody episode in the story of the allied breakout from N...

Drawing on contemporary material from public and private sources as well as combatants and civilians, this book uses photographs and still frames i...

Besides being the only British territory occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, it is perhaps less generally known that the Channel Islan...

Published by the Memorial Museum Passchendaele in 2016 in Dutch as Bouwen aan het front, this book examines how the German army developed field for...

Through case studies of prominent cultural products, this book takes a longitudinal approach to the influence and conceptualization of the Civil Wa...

What role should national militaries play in an increasingly globalised and interdependent world? This book examines the often difficult transition...

This book explores domestic opposition to formal US military bases in Latin America, and provides evidence of a growing network of informal and sec...

Published in a new edition on the centenary of the seismic battle, this book provides the definitive account of the Somme and assigns responsibilit...

Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2017This casebook is the most extensive collection of documents ever assembled ...

This illuminating study describes the genesis of the contemporary doctrine of humanitarian intervention. It is the first comprehensive analysis of ...

For the past decade, the U.S. Marine Corps and its sister services have been engaged in what has been termed hybrid warfare, which ranges from acti...

This volume analyzes the cultural and intellectual impact of the war, considering how it reshaped Americans' spiritual, cultural, and intellectual ...