War & Defence Operations

The unimagined community proposes a reexamination of the Vietnam War from a perspective that has been largely excluded from historical accounts of ...

First came the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire following World War I; then, in the 1950s and '60s, the Nasser-inspired wave of Arab nationalis...

From 2005 to 2008, the United States and India negotiated a pathbreaking nuclear agreement that recognised India's nuclear status and lifted longst...

Designed to be either the primary anthology or textbook for the course, this best-selling title covers the Civil War's entire chronological span wi...

America's Revolutionary Mind is the first major reinterpretation of the American Revolution since the publication of Bernard Bailyn's The Ideologic...

This book is written as an attempt to understand what psycho-historical factors played a dominant role and undoubtly contributed to Afrikaners crea...

Written by one of the worlds leading experts on D-Day, Smashing Hitlers Guns is a ground-breaking new history of the legendary Rangers attack on Po...

This concise yet detailed overview gives a balanced account of this key Blitzkrieg campaign in the Balkans during the opening years of World War II...

The F-105D Thunderchief was originally designed as a low-altitude nuclear strike aircraft, but the outbreak of the Vietnam War led to it being used...

Grenadier Guards, An Account of Operations 1996-2015, covers Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. It provides a detailed narrati...

Despite over 20,000 published books on the Spanish civil war, it remains the case that the social and cultural dimensions of the conflict have been...

Vietnam War Army Helicopter Nose Art brings to light over 250 recently recovered Vietnam War photographs from Army aviation veterans. The vast majo...

For much of the First World War, the opposing armies on the Western Front were at a stalemate, with an unbroken line of fortified trenches stretchi...

American States of Nature transforms our understanding of the American Revolution and the early makings of the Constitution. The journey to an inde...