War & Defence Operations

The notion of counter-insurgency has become a dominant paradigm in American and British thinking about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This volum...

Based on dramatic first-hand evidence, Deadly Betrayal uncovers why and how a cabal of Pentagon Advisors in the George W. Bush Administration creat...

The Second World War was not fought by Britain alone. India produced the largest volunteer army in world history: over 2 million men. But, until no...

Reading crusader fiction against the backdrop of Mediterranean history, this book explains how Iberian authors reimagined the idea of crusade throu...

Two decades after the Dayton Peace Agreement came into force, Bosnia is not at war. However, the absence of war is not peace. Bosnia has failed to ...

Excellent Antony Beevor Saul David is a brilliant historian In shocking and jaw-dropping detail, he...

Two decades after the Dayton Peace Agreement came into force, Bosnia is not at war. However, the absence of war is not peace. Bosnia has failed to ...

Mosaic Fictions is the first book-length critical analysis of Canadian Spanish Civil War literature. Exploring published and archival writings, the...

The arrival of the aerostatic balloon at the end of the nineteenth century ushered in a new perspective on the battlefield, taking over from the mo...

The arrival of the aerostatic balloon at the end of the nineteenth century ushered in a new perspective on the battlefield, taking over from the mo...

While historians of medieval Spain have been unanimous in acknowledging the significance of Infante Manuels impact on the reign of his brother, Alf...

Although we often think of friendship today as an indisputable value of human social life, for thinkers and writers across late medieval Christian ...

From the end of the thirteenth century to the first decades of the sixteenth century, Guyart des Moulinss Bible historiale was the predominant Fren...

Across the nine thematic chapters of Experiencing Medieval Art, renowned art historian Herbert L. Kessler considers functional objects as well as p...

The Akunin Project is the first book to study the fiction and popular history of Grigorii Chkhartishvili, one of the most successful writers in pos...

The 9/11 attacks fundamentally transformed how the U.S. approached terrorism, and led to the unprecedented expansion of counterterrorism strategies...

The Akunin Project is the first book to study the fiction and popular history of Grigorii Chkhartishvili, one of the most successful writers in pos...

Cybersecurity is a complex and contested issue in international politics. By focusing on the 'great powers'--the US, the EU, Russia and China--stud...

When the first Balkan War broke out in October 1912, few Ottomans anticipated that it would prove to be a watershed moment for the Empire, ending i...

Our Boy tells the factual and tragic, yet incredulous story of a Coldstream Guardsman in World War Two. From the discovery of a bundle of old lette...