Warfare & Defence

Since its founding in 1987, the political and ideological dimensions of the terror organisation Hamas have been well discussed by scholars. In cont...

Benjamin Franklin was serious when he suggested the colonists arm themselves with the longbow. The American colonies were not logistically prepared...

The First World War was the first conflict in history to be fought in the air, as well as on land and at sea. Britains fledgling air arms, the Roya...

This book analyses how the European Union (EU) has dealt with crises and conflicts, including Russias invasion of Ukraine, Irans nuclear dispute, a...

By 1900, the British government and public had become gripped by a new and growing fear of invasion, not from traditional enemies such as France, b...

In a breathtaking moment lasting less than ten seconds, skimming the rooftops of Brussels, Jean de Selys Longchamps would etch his name into the an...

This new volume from Martin Bowman examines the first three years of the Second World War, consolidating first-hand accounts from German fighter pi...

This book explores why some episodes of mass political violence and genocide are so much deadlier than others and under what conditions perpetrator...

This book examines the role of French-German cooperation within European military cooperation and European defence, and particularly the CSDP (Comm...

In preparation for the liberation of the northern part of the Netherlands, Operation Amherst was launched on the night of 7 to 8 April 1945. This l...

The watery, heavily vegetated marshlands of the Mekong Delta served as a formidable natural defense for Viet Cong units in the region, and the wate...

The Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment was a Canadian armoured regiment attached to the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade which landed on the beaches of Norm...

Operation Detachment, the US invasion of Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945, was the first campaign on Japanese soil and resulted in some of the fiercest...

Okinawa is a tiny island of huge geopolitical importance. Located between the tip of Japans mainland and Taiwan, Okinawas sovereignty is contested ...

Okinawa is a tiny island of huge geopolitical importance. Located between the tip of Japans mainland and Taiwan, Okinawas sovereignty is contested ...

The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each bo...

This book provides a new analytical framework that investigates the way in which the EU changes its foreign policy after crisis. Adapting existing ...

Risk Communication and COVID-19 explores the risk communication responses by national governments to the outbreak and global spread of the COVID-19...