War & Defence Operations

The New Deal era witnessed a surprising surge in popular engagement with the history and memory of the Civil War era. From the omnipresent book and...

Attempts to see the conflict from the perspectives of those who fought. History TodayThe Battle of Agincourt still rings down through the centurie...

In a campaign part sponsored by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915 remains one of the most resounding A...

This latest Images of War series book examines the controversial development of the Allied campaign in Normandy in the weeks after the D-Day landin...

Great War Land Girls were all very different individuals - they radiated vitality, resolve and determination. In this book, their sense of fun and ...

'A worthy addition to any bookshelf.', The Naval Review A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in ...

'Kershaws book is a welcome rebalancing; a thoughtful, well-researched and well-written contribution to a narrative that has long been too one-side...

This engrossing and meticulously researched volume reexamines the decisions made by Dwight D. Eisenhower and his staff in the crucial months leadin...

A compact study of one of the less well-known campaigns of the Pacific War, which featured complex Japanese and Allied operations, and included the...

SURVIVOR STORIES FROM DUNKIRK, NOW THE SUBJECT OF A MAJOR FILM FROM CHRISTOPHER NOLANWhen Britain declared war against Germany in September 1939, t...

The first international peace operation by the United Nations took place in 1948. Seventy-five years later, more than one hundred multilateral miss...

In Counterstrike, Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker of The New York Times take readers into a previously hidden theater of war, as U.S. ground troops, ...

Since the end of the Cold War, conflict prevention and resolution, peacekeeping and peacebuilding have risen to the top of the international agenda...

The Complete American Constitutionalism is designed to be the comprehensive treatment and source for debates on the American constitutional experie...

The Wehrmacht won a quick victory in the West in 1940, the Netherlands and Belgium capitulated in May, and France signed an armistice on June 22. ...

In this new short biography of Ulysses S. Grant, leading scholars provide an accessible introduction to Grant and his legacy. Grant led Federal for...

This is a comprehensive account of the epic struggle between Henry III and Simon de Montfort, a culmination of the tensions between crown and arist...

A dynamic history of the Battle of Sitka that recognizes the vital importance of the Tlingit people, their fight against Imperial Russia, and how i...